yeah i’m with you. loved how mia goth grew more and more unglued as the movie went along
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
kind of annoyed i haven’t gotten to infinity pool yet! just wasn’t feeling like heading out to the movies recently but i’ve enjoyed what i’ve seen from brandon cronenberg so far
― mh, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 01:34 (one year ago) link
Well I went to see Baby Ruby so you don’t have to. So don’t.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
Aw, my friend directed Baby Ruby
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:48 (one year ago) link
I'm familiar with her theater work which is what got me in the door.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 04:01 (one year ago) link
She Came from the Woods was an incoherent mess.
Chief son being the piecemeal telling of the baddie's origins on three separate occasions, the longest of which occurs as people are actively being slaughtered in the woods, as if this is the right moment for story time.
Lol also at casting a marble mouthed male lead who mushes his words so bad you lose entire chunks of dialogue.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
*sin
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
We haven't talked about this one, yet, I don't think? Could be shit, but it's been getting good reviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Du7TvNqvY
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
That was the other one I considered seeing yesterday (theatre had both). Might be my next attempt
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
i saw the trailer for the outwaters before terrifier 2, looks dope
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
The first time I heard of that movie was on Bloody Disgusting, which is a pretty run of the mill horror/genre site that often has news or trailers or whatever. Lately, though, they've really blurred the line between editorial and promotion as they've dipped into distribution. For example, they were among the first places I started hearing about "Terrifier 2." Lots of stories, lots of raves, but of course ... they distributed it, lol. Same with "The Outwaters." Bloody Disgusting was the first place I heard of it, and heard positive reviews, but Bloody Disgusting is now owned by Cinedigm, who ... distributed "The Outwaters."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
fwiw other places have also given it good reviews, not sure why this sort of inside baseball is shocking to anyone
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
yeah the aggregate is pretty good for it.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Speaking of trailers seen on that site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2z3kasg0g
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Oh, and responding to the inside baseball stuff, I don't find it shocking, but I expect at least a little transparency when the site is literally invested in what it's promoting, whether or not the movie actually turns out to be good.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
I watched The Night House. Eh, it was fine. The central premise was muddled and essentially unfilmable but the direction meant this didn't really become an issue until the final act. It was genuinely creepy in places and Rebecca Hall was really great.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 March 2023 10:09 (one year ago) link
My wife and daughter are out of town tonight, so I need to watch a horror movie they won't watch. I've only seen Pearl and X out of movies released over the past year (enjoyed both). What do I watch? Thought about Prey, but I'm much of a Predator fan. What about that new one Cronenberg's kid did? That's supposed to be good, right?
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(film)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 03:30 (one year ago) link
Totally forgot about that one. Thank you!
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 03:41 (one year ago) link
I watched Barbarian and Ultrasound over a single weekend and they both went well together.
both start with 'a stranger knocks on a house at night and gets invited in' and then they both goes off in very different directions.
Barbarian was more straight up Horror,
Ultrasound was more like a Momento/Primer like thriller.
really liked them both, but Ultrasound edged it for me, haven't seen much talk of this film here or elsewhere.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
I liked Pearl quite a bit, Mia's facial expressions were amazing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 March 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
scream vi was ok, which is better than 5cream. ladder scene, convenience store scene, subway scene: all really good. still looks like utter shit and is very stupid in its (mercifully brief) attempts at social commentary. “franchise rules” way cooler and more fun than the “requel” shit. still suffers from one of the most boring main characters of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 March 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
Infinity Pool reminded me a lot of that episode of Mad Men where Don is on business/holiday and he winds up with these rich eccentrics and faints by the poolside and there's a really sickly feeling about it all. Except this is way more nightmarish.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
New A24 - shit, this almost looks too scary for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLAKJu9aJys
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
renfield fuckin sucks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 April 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link
the new Evil Dead is getting suspiciously good reviews
― Number None, Monday, 17 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
i thought evil dead rise was pretty wonderful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 21 April 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
felt like getting bathed in a bath of blood
Yeah it was glorious. Going to go again
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 April 2023 04:53 (one year ago) link
Intrigued! Couldn't take the last one, for lots of reasons, but this one seems to have righted the ship, as it were.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 April 2023 11:53 (one year ago) link
the 2013 remake was pretty awesome imo, probably even gnarlier than this one
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
I just don't recall it being any fun, which is why I (and apparently others) got torture porn vibes from it, even though it wasn't.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 April 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
Can someone help me remember a film I know I saw, maybe over ten years ago, so my memory is super foggy. I think it was set either in South Asia, the Middle East or Eastern Europe (apologies, it literally only popped into my head and I'm almost wondering if it was real). It was set almost entirely at night, a lot of red lighting, urban setting, and it involved a group of five or six men with some prominent scenes outside cafes and in cars. That's pretty much all I have. I know that's really vague but if anyone has a clue, please say.
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
do you remember the shadings of the storyline, even if just a tiny fragment?
only one I can think of is Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
I've done a bit of digging and I'm guessing it's probably the Turkish film Baskin. Weird, I haven't given this film a second thought since I watched it and just as I was falling asleep, it popped into my head
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
Aaaand going back through this thread it seems I did watch it, 7 years ago, and thought it was quite good.
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:51 (one year ago) link
Baskin is on Tubi now; I started watching it about a week ago but bailed when the serious torture began. Creepy as fuck until that point, though. Was thinking about recommending it to a fellow of Turkish background that I know; I don't know if he's a horror guy, though.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah from what I remember it was a decent movie till it got to the torture pr0n, which was well on its way out as a thing by then
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Friday, 12 May 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
renfield fuckin sucks― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, April 16, 2023 9:33 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, April 16, 2023 9:33 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I thought it was entertaining, if not really worth a second watch. I mean, maybe if I was doing laundry or something though. It was aspiring to something higher than its reach, but it had heart. Some good laughs throughout (although definitely some misses). The gore and action were fun - memorable dismemberments. Awkwafina's performance was pretty stilted - she was obviously trying to do a "tough-guy emotionally-damaged cop" but it kinda ended up slowing things down. Ben Schwarz was a little distracting and over the top, but also delivered some great lines. Nicholas Hoult was great, Nic Cage was insane.
― peace, man, Monday, 15 May 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
that's about how I felt. honestly felt that Cage was the least entertaining thing about it, which is...weird.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
the two leads are great but the movie lost me instantly when awkwafina started acting (sitcom level acting and double takes in a movie! get outta here) and then renfield had a pinterest-ass apartment decorating montage (obv meant to be hilarious but just kinda hammered home how ugly and empty the movie is for me)
fights felt unimaginative except in the degree of (cgi, shitty-looking) gore. movie’s sense of humor peaked with ska jokes
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
think i might’ve been more forgiving if i half-paid attention to it on streaming but i went to the theater
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
it felt a little like one of those 90s piss take comedies where most of the energy was sunk into creating ridiculous set pieces for the leads and then everything else was filler. which is why it was 'good' but not 'great' for me.
I think it's more accepted by audiences due to the Family Guy-ification of comedy where only jokes/gags matter and not how you got there. heard the "who cares about the story, you're here for the JOKES" defense too many times, as if actually earning the humor through an engaging story is a bad thing.
that said, they did do that in some places here, I did like the support group angle and how they were grounded and not merely a setpiece for mockery. and Hoult does a very nice job of selling the 'familiar finally enforcing boundaries after many centuries of abuse' motif. but so many of the smaller details were stupid, like every single cop and FBI member openly supporting the mob family to where they let a mobster walk free after they try to murder a cop in broad daylight with multiple eyewitnesses. or every cop actively trying to gun down a NOLA cop in broad daylight in an apartment complex.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
but that said I still laughed a lot, which is a testament to my ability to find just about anything funny
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
found the boogeyman very effective. creepy, great lead performance by sophie turner, great kid performance, great use of elliptical light, pretty creative from shot to shot, would double feature well with smile which it is much kinder and gentler than but i was super down for that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 June 2023 22:57 (eleven months ago) link
great lead performance by sophie thatcher* (not turner) (i'm so good at remembering the names of actors)
sophie thatcher aka young natalie from yellowjackets
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 June 2023 00:04 (eleven months ago) link
I did enjoy Boogeyman. I liked the way it dealt with familial trauma, and the chemistry between the actors was great.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:12 (eleven months ago) link
I found "Evil Dead Rise" really disappointing for a lot of reasons, annoying or boring for others, but I think what bugged me most of all is that it's set in a tall apartment complex, yet does absolutely nothing with its vertical setting, and populates it with, like, five people. Like, why bother? They could have just set on a farm in Oklahoma or some shit. Hell, they filmed it in New Zealand, just set it in New Zealand. "We haven't heard from mom/dad/cousin/anyone in months, but I just got this weird message to meet them in Wellington, and these first class one-way plane tickets arrived in the mail ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:23 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, it's supposed to be unpopulated because it's being torn down or something, right? And there was one set of neighbors. I think being trapped in a high-rise that you can't get out of is a good premise.
My complaint is that it just should have been more over-the-top. There was plenty of great, squicky, gory violence, but insufficient insanity.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, there's a line about it getting torn down, but either it would be empty by then or there'd still be more than five people in the whole building, let alone part of that handful being a single mother with three kids. Hell, that woman from the (lame) bookend shows up to the garage in full-on vacation mode at the end! I'm happy to nitpick about that setting (which would have been great, if used well, or really at all) all day. Like the way the generic horror movie dark 'n' green look made it just as dim when the power went out as when the lights were on. Or the way lots of stuff still seemed to work with the power out. Or the way it was set in "Los Angeles," yet poured rain non-stop ...
I agree, though, being not insane enough was its biggest problem. I think that's because it took itself too seriously. Too many shots of scared shaking kids muttering "www ... wwhat's wrong with mmm ... mom ... !?" Imagine how much fun it might have been if it was like "The Raid" or something, or maybe "The Raid" meets "Poltergeist 3." This one reminded me of a more po-faced "The Gate."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link