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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: THE COFFEE TABLE (no spoilers)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:27:00 -0500
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On 1/22/2025 1:29 PM, Pluted Pup wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:31:12 -0800, moviePig wrote:
> 
>>
>> To celebrate their new baby, a middle-aged couple purchases some elegant
>> furniture. THE COFFEE TABLE (Tubi, Ama$on) is a pitch-black horror
>> comedy from Spain. Disappointingly, its under-90 minutes delivers far
>> more chutzpah than invention ...seemingly satisfied that a hellishly
>> shocking context makes any subsequent unawareness of it automatically
>> funny. I waited for payoffs that never came. Not recommended.
> 
> Is it a comedy? I can't find any unvarnished clips of it on youtube.
> wikipedia gives the plot, why not give spoilers? It sounds like
> gross out stuff.
> 
> I like to know "spoilers" because plots are cheap anyway,
> it's how a movie is directed and produced, not what the plot is.

Spoilers are always readily available, just not from me.  Yeah, IMDb 
confirms that this is pretty clearly a comedy, though I've mentioned my 
struggles to appreciate that aspect.  And fwiw I'm fine with gross-out 
gore (...though there's actually not tons of it here).