That actually is my main point of criticism too. (Both the 30 minutes too long and the villain I guess, so 2 points.)
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
The crowd scenes where it was actual extras and not cg were enough to make me on the balance happy with it though.
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
For totally unoriginal, disposable boilerplate, "Life" is surprisingly well made, from cast to direction to FX.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
Kuso, the body horror film directed by Flying Lotus, is going to be on Shudder from the 21st of July. Looks completely ridiculous.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 24 June 2017 07:26 (six years ago) link
Gina Philips just popped into my head. Then I realised I knew her from Ally McBeal. Totally forgot she was the same person as the girl in Jeepers Creepers. She has a cameo in the third film coming out this year (she hasn't been in anything since 2012). Salva is still directing, kind of amazed his career has survived. I was never huge on the first film but it was a little different from what else was going on at the time.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Started The Void, it's pretty shlocky.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
Finally saw "The Witch," which I thought was great and which totally helped (further) erase the half-assed stupidity that was "The Void" from memory.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
For a change I feel about The Void exactly the consensus: uninteresting story but worth seeing for the visual effects and I hope their next film is more original because they show promise.
Also saw The White God recently. Again, impressive achievement in some ways but not a good script. Impressive achievement being the dog coordination. Highlights are seeing dogs waiting for a guy in his home and the timeless comedy of dogs making angry faces.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
I was so bummed about The Void, but yeah, how it looked was the least of its myriad problems. Also some absolutely incredible boneheadery at work in the script. My favorites may be a guy stumbling into an emergency room with a knife wound and the doctor telling the nurse to "put pressure on it!" Well, duh. It's a hospital, she's a nurse! The other was a bad guy with a scalpel, and the doctor says "put the knife down." It's a scalpel, you're a doctor!
Anyway, "The Void" was like first draft of a very poor man's "Event Horizon" crossed with "Hellraiser." Which is just bad. It was so incoherent for a second I thought a missed a few minutes. Maybe I did? Who knows, who cares.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
The most clear inspiration is Prince Of Darkness, with other Carpenter bits.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
I thought of Prince of Darkness, and Mouth if Madness, but at least the former I had some inkling what was going on and why, and the latter kind of creepy and cool. This one was like hour-and-a-half of bad actor villain just pontificating about his power.Unburden yourself of your flimsy Earthly vessel and become all that you can be! Infinity calls to you with the promise of immortality and endless power. Be born again my child, rise up and blah blah blah blah blah blah.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Indeed
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
Has anyone seen "The Transfiguration"? I really liked it. It featured at Cannes which is unusual for a horror movie. It's quite a low key slowburn horror, all filmed in Rockaway, Queens which lends it a gritty feel too. Reminiscent of movies like Martin and Let The Right One In
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Sold
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
I watched this film Creep the other night. Only two characters, all done with handheld camera. I don't really know horror that well but it certainly creeped me out.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
That's the one with the wolf mask right? I like that and I'll say no more
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
xps Yeah, I thought The Transfiguration was pretty cool and interesting. The kids were excellent.
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 June 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
I thought Creep was really, well, creepy.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
'the transfiguration' to the wishlist.
quite liked 'the void' even w/ all the explicit reference cartography - barker, lovecraft, anderson, fulci at the end - and extreme carpenter worship.
you were all right about 'XX' - kusama's was the only one that left some mark. and clark's was basically 'weekend at bernie's' turning into a videoclip imho.
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Not strictly horror (although horrifying) but I wanted to note with pride that my great friend's debut feature KILLING GROUND opens in the US soon. Bias aside, it's absolutely brilliant. https://youtu.be/d3ePiwb0NxQ
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
I wanted to like the recent Irish rural horror Without Name a bit more than I did as thematically it's catnip for me. It's still pretty solid tho and really well shot
― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Ooh!
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani have a new film! It's called Laissez bronzer les cadavres! (Let the Corpses Tan!) Here's the gorgeous poster pic.twitter.com/0cMVFtDbKy— James Gracey (@jamesgracey) July 18, 2017
New Cattet / Forzani.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/202034757
NOVEMBER by Rainer Sarnet. Might not be totally horrory but looks like a must see to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
It stains the sand red was pretty good. Horror/comedy involving a woman trekking across the desert to avoid a zombie. Don't want to spoil much, but the main character's ability to positively approach the situation was refreshing and brought some levity. One scene in particular was hard to watch and brutal though.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 29 July 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
Huh, intriguing, this is the "Grave Encounters" guys. Reviews I just read make it seem like a miss, unfortunately. Variety review brings up this, though, which I've never heard of: Richard Gale’s cult-favorite $600 wonder “The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 July 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/07/28/when-authors-talk-on-twitter-slasher-movie-edition/
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 July 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
haha that was good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
hah yeah
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 July 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Annabelle: Creation = more mediocrity from the overrated Conjuring universe. I think I'm just done w/ the resurgence of Catholic-guilt devil horror cos these films are just fucking interchangeable at this point.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Split was just a hot mess - m. Night simply can not deliver dialogue or performances that don't number among the most wooden and embarrassing on screen. Unfortunately unlike the happening, where his ineptitude is magical and hilarious, this one is just dull and awful.
― jjjusten, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
November is showing 22 October 2017 at Chicago International Film Festival. Hope it comes to UK in some form soon. I'll probably have to wait for the disc release.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
did that last Rob Zombie movie even get released?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 October 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Yea Split sucked. No idea why people were gaga over it, it was only slightly less clumsy than the rest of his ouevre
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
cosign
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
It was alright, nothing particularly special. People are over-/underrating it because of who made it.
Y'all know there's a sequel in production, right? And yes, it is also officially and explicitly a sequel to the other movie.
― the scarest move i ever seen is scary move 4 (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
the only M Night film I've seen that I liked was The Visit
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
Split was fine, but the surprise connection to *spoiler* and the upcoming sequel automatically bumped it up in my estimation
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
It Stains the Sand Red was ... I don't know. Better than I expected? Worse? I know at some point I looked at the time and thought, jeez, there's an hour left? How will they pad that out? And then they ... pad it out. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Ultimately felt like a slightly above average midnight movie, both more ambitious than it had to be but also still sort of disappointingly slight/lazy, especially the way it kept relying on stupid behavior to stretch out the solid premise. Also, for not committing one way or another to comedy or drama, with one foot in each but neither terribly convincing. I dunno, worth 90 minutes, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
Happy Death Day wasn't much, had good humor and was more a drama than horror really. seemed to think it could get away with its shameless Groundhog Day pillaging simply cos it acknowledged it later in the film.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
aw. gonna see it tomorrow
― Nhex, Sunday, 15 October 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
I mean it's not bad or anything....
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 October 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
heh i figured it couldn't possibly be as good as that premise was
― Nhex, Sunday, 15 October 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
It Comes At Night was really well made. Not necessarily horror, though close enough, and definitely pretty grim. I think I might prefer The Survivalist, which almost works as a sequel, or at least a companion.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 October 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
I did eventually go see Happy Death Day, really liked it. Low expectations, but it did what I hoped it would do
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 October 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
WE ARE THE FLESH
Haven't seen anything gross and nasty in a while because I've drifted away from that a bit, but this looked very very pretty so I gave in. It helps that Arrow gave it a kind of modern classic packaging (which the very good Villainess also got).
I was bracing myself a little bit, but actually it wasn't hard to watch at all, much sexier than I thought it would be too.
You might feel it doesn't really go anywhere but the two great performances, the sheer gorgeousness of the visuals and the hotness made it very much worth my time.
In the credits, all of Minter's influences for the film are named and it's a lot of the people you'd expect for an arty taboo lover. This is like a modern revival of the panic movement. I was surprised Cuaron and Inarritu were big supporters of this film.
Looking forward to anything else Minter does.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 November 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Watched Split - the Shyamalan movie - last night. It was surprisingly good; a tense thriller with a very early-Cronenberg (Brood, Scanners) vibe (lots of wood paneling and therapists with wild theories that prove to be horrifyingly correct).
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 4 November 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
I watched “Them” last week - first half great, second half same as the first half zzzz there’s only so much running away i can stand
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
that opening though was legit scary
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/9e/Top10_1950s_them.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20141129103318
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
First 10 minutes are good but the rest were not, for me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link