For tonight’s Sunday Slop Night, 9PM EST on Hextube, first up is Seconds (1966), a thriller directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) about an organization that surgically alters rich people’s faces to look like another, younger person of the customer’s choice, after which the org kills and replaces said person. The premise sounds cool, and reviews are excellent, so let’s watch. After that is Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), a comedy from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar about a lady whose suicide attempt is interrupted, at which point everything goes haywire. Another very well-reviewed film, so we’re checking it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Seconds: https://letterboxd.com/film/seconds/
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: https://letterboxd.com/film/women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Seconds: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/44675
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/29381

CWs for Seconds:

• Dead animals.
• Slaughterhouse scene.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Implied (but not depicted) sexual assault.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Unconsciousness.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Death of parent.
• Hospital scene.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Shaky cam.
• “Sexual content”. It’s from the 60s, though, so there’s nothing explicit here.
• Brief nudity.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown:

• Domestic violence.
• Drug use.
• Unconsciousness.
• Suicide attempt.
• Cheating.
• “Sexual content”. Looks pretty tame from what I can tell.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Seconds: https://vimeo.com/811458338
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: https://vimeo.com/802312510