This is one of my favorite types of horror movie -- almost like a processional. No real 'twists'. There is a threatening force, the threatening force overwhelms all, the end.
Serious recommendation - if you haven't seen Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem, do.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
otm. i was thinking afterwards that LoS had some sort of similar ~vibe~
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
currently streaming on amazong primehttps://www.amazon.com/Witch-Anya-Taylor-Joy/dp/B01BT3SEHM/
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Anyone else notice the figure in the background in the woods?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
whaaaaat
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
time for a rewatch!
btw my wife read an article online somewhere that talked about how the goat who played black phillip was super naughty and intractable
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah the special features on the bluray had some interviews where the director said they had way more scenes planned for black phillip but he was a nightmare basically
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
hahaha
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
i love the scene in the closed-up shed where BP is just looking into the middle distance and breathing super heavily, I bet he was working up to a tantrum
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
There are like a dozen levels upon which I thought this was masterfully done but I think one of the most effective elements was the film's adherence to naturally-lit scenes. The quality of the light always felt appropriate to a setting in the woods with no electricity. Seems like a no-brainer for this type of story but Hollywood often has no brains.
― Suddenly...Soup! (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 September 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
good movie. my only criticism is guy from the office's voice was so gravelly that i could barely make out wtf he was saying. sounded like he was just angrily gargling at people
― flopson, Monday, 26 September 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
i turned on closed captioning from the getgo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
ha ha i didn't realize it was finchy from the office. amazing. i just thought he looked like graham chapman.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
i did not clock him at all either! wow
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Finchy was the only thing that pulled me out of this movie a bit, because I think I'd only ever seen him in The Office and he'd done such a good job of convincing me that he was a disgusting human being that I was a little taken aback to see him playing something other than a disgusting human being.
Recently at the theater, I saw the main girl from this in two and possibly even three trailers before the movie. Good to see she's getting work.
― Suddenly...Soup! (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
I like his voice a lot, I appreciate that non-brits and some brits might find his accent hard to understand but I wouldn't change it. Thought he'd be more recognised from Game Of Thrones and Harry Potter. Apparently he's in Guardians Of The Galaxy.
I don't think there's a lot of good folk horror films. There's obviously Wicker Man and I've never been as into that as most people but it's still unique. Blood On Satan's Claw just isn't very good. Can't think of much that slots in that neatly.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 26 September 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
guys, i'm seriously getting worried my family room and/or apple tv is haunted because apparently no one else out there has seen this figure in the woods.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
I never watched The Office so...who was he playing? The dad?
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
yes the dad
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
he play the dad
When does the figure in the woods show up?
― jmm, Monday, 26 September 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
the scene when Caleb is in the woods on his own. pans into the shot on the right as he's walking.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
or the figure is standing alone in a dark corner of my living room. waiting for me.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Wow, yeah, I just spotted it. That is creepy.
― jmm, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
oh thank god.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
i didn't go back to check – but there's also the scene where the mother is in her bed praying/sobbing, and you see her through the gap in the curtains – I noticed something moving above her, just barely in the shot. thought maybe it was a mic or some other slip-up; but now i'm not sure – am going to check when i get home.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
this was amazing
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
re-watched this last night, still incredible. what a film.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 September 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
the final sequence is so masterful and beautifully shot, it makes the payoff ("yes, everything that has been implied IS TRUE") so much more impactful. I don't think it diminishes all the ambiguities - about the nature of sin/redemption, family lies and dissembling, puritan repression/oppression, "wicked" children - at all.
Anything involving the death of children or evil children is hard for my wife to take (altho she agrees this film is great), but I told her hey, she had to kill the entire family otherwise she would never be free of all that puritan bullshit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 September 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
Had to turn on the subtitles in order figure what the dang was being said, but yeah it was good.
― brownie, Friday, 7 September 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
in order to figure out
damn, now I need subtitles
― brownie, Friday, 7 September 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
best horror film in recent memory, and it's not really even close
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 September 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
i was hoping the revive would have some news about what eggers has been up to but i had to go look it up myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(upcoming_film)
agree the final sequence of the vvitch is just about perfect.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
this shit was terrifying and unnerving. I watched it right after watching Hereditary. What a nice night I had.
― akm, Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
Willem Dafoe as Old
bit harsh
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 8 September 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 September 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
the kid in the possession scene was acting so well I was terrified for him in real life
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 8 September 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
i wanna watch this again for Halloweenlove everything abt this movie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link
AND i’m going to watch Lords of Salem
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2018 06:09 (five years ago) link
Now on Netflix, thinking about revvatching it soon.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link