Titans_fan
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It Follows gets a lot of praise, but it just wasn't for me. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
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FFA Official Horror Movie Thread Catching up on Shudder and Various Streaming Platforms (5 Viewers)
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It Follows gets a lot of praise, but it just wasn't for me. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I've seen it before and loved it. I was just looking for re-watch last month during my 31 in 31.
ETA: Based on the one watch, I'd rank it one of the better horror movies in the last decade or so for me. Not quite to the level of Hereditary, The VVitch, etc, but I liked it more than Get Out and others I usually see highly rated.
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Osaurus
Footballguy
Demonic
This movie was kind of interesting. It’s a different play on demonic possession with lots of technological elements. 3.5/5
The Deep House
I knew going into this movie that it was bad, but it was still pretty stupid. Kind of reminded me parts of Hell House LLC II, but underwater. It’s not good. It’s only saving grace is the ending which does not end predictably. 2/5
This movie was kind of interesting. It’s a different play on demonic possession with lots of technological elements. 3.5/5
The Deep House
I knew going into this movie that it was bad, but it was still pretty stupid. Kind of reminded me parts of Hell House LLC II, but underwater. It’s not good. It’s only saving grace is the ending which does not end predictably. 2/5
Keith R
The Don
I also made it to 31, not counting short films but counting rewatches. Of the ones that were new to me, here are the top 5;
Scream 4 - Had never seen the final (for a long time, at least) Scream, but it was pretty entertaining. (SyFy)
The First Purge - Not really scary, but it had a good story as to the origin of the purging, which went a long way with me. (FX)
Hush - Very good execution of the home invasion trope. (Netflix)
Horror Hotel - A compelling black-and-white film from the 1960's about a student who goes to a small Massachusetts town supposedly populated with witches. (TCM)
Antlers - Meshes two horror subgenres (which I won't name here) in focusing on a poor family and the older kid's teacher in a dying town. Subtext definitely added to the end result (Theater)
Scream 4 - Had never seen the final (for a long time, at least) Scream, but it was pretty entertaining. (SyFy)
The First Purge - Not really scary, but it had a good story as to the origin of the purging, which went a long way with me. (FX)
Hush - Very good execution of the home invasion trope. (Netflix)
Horror Hotel - A compelling black-and-white film from the 1960's about a student who goes to a small Massachusetts town supposedly populated with witches. (TCM)
Antlers - Meshes two horror subgenres (which I won't name here) in focusing on a poor family and the older kid's teacher in a dying town. Subtext definitely added to the end result (Theater)
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prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
I need to re watch it. I did not like it but it could have been my mood at the time.
foxco
Footballguy
Keith R
The Don
Borderline. I knew very little about it beforehand so I was taking a chance. I enjoyed it, but would stop short of saying it's a must-see in a theater
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
My wife and I just absorbed Shyamalan's "OLD". We both found it great, thought provoking, scary, and had us on the edge of our comfort seats. I told her we should have watched it on our pre-Halloween scary movie watch-down.
It is more like a Twilight Zone episode than a horror movie but it packs punch...
When I went to research locations as the beach scenes are incredible I discovered most of the flick was shot in the DR. I also saw where the Sham Man's working on a sequel...
SPOILER ALERT- scroll down if you want my thoughts on the sequel.
So near the end there was a lab grunt who said, "we should have separated the terminals from the schizos". We know now that this is totally true after the Hippocratic doc (schizo) carved up a few innocents with his pocket knife.
So sequel #2 needs to have 2 beaches- Manson Beach for the psychos and Einstein Beach for the pointy heads. Both sides of the island striving to get out in their own ways. Slashing or brainstorming.
Ok, next?
It is more like a Twilight Zone episode than a horror movie but it packs punch...
When I went to research locations as the beach scenes are incredible I discovered most of the flick was shot in the DR. I also saw where the Sham Man's working on a sequel...
SPOILER ALERT- scroll down if you want my thoughts on the sequel.
So near the end there was a lab grunt who said, "we should have separated the terminals from the schizos". We know now that this is totally true after the Hippocratic doc (schizo) carved up a few innocents with his pocket knife.
So sequel #2 needs to have 2 beaches- Manson Beach for the psychos and Einstein Beach for the pointy heads. Both sides of the island striving to get out in their own ways. Slashing or brainstorming.
Ok, next?
Osaurus
Footballguy
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
Also watched Old. I like MKS movies for the "guess the twist" factor, and that was the only redeeming thing about this one. The dialog was some of the worst I've seen recently.
"The dog is dead!"
"But it was just alive!!!"
Mid-sized sedan
Osaurus
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Seems like a lot of posts that should be here are in another thread, but I digress.
Veronica
This take on possession/demons is not overly original, but there are some twists and turns that make this movies pretty intense at points. This is loosely based on an actual incident in Spain where a girl died in a hospital shortly after playing with a Ouija board. 3.75/5
It’s a Spanish language film with subtitles.
Veronica
This take on possession/demons is not overly original, but there are some twists and turns that make this movies pretty intense at points. This is loosely based on an actual incident in Spain where a girl died in a hospital shortly after playing with a Ouija board. 3.75/5
It’s a Spanish language film with subtitles.
Todem
Footballguy
Todem
Footballguy
What I loved most was the cast, the music and atmosphere. It felt like a true old school early 80’s Carpenter movie in many ways. Unknown actors who had characters you ended up caring about. It was a unique horror movie with some real terrifying moments and again great sound and music.
foxco
Footballguy
Really liked this one. It's fairly long but never boring. Cool atmosphere throughout.
Recently re-watched The Apostle & The Ritual on Neftlix, enjoyed them both a 2nd time. Nothing original about The Ritual, guys lost in woods stalked by.... something. But thought it was well done. The Apostle was a fun, creepy ride.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
LOL. I had to look up wtf we were even talking about here. I watched it again since that post, and it still creeped me the hell out. Like you said, the atmosphere was great and add to the mounting tension.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I really need to watch The Wailing.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
I watched the French film Irreversible last night. I had heard it was disturbing and they weren't wrong. The film starts with the aftermath of a very violent scene and works backwards to show how the characters got there. At first I found some of the transitions to be almost nausea inducing but I did get used to it. During each transition they were moving the camera in many different ways including just slowly spinning the image on screen. I would totally understand people complaining of motion sickness due to this.
The movie itself was just as disturbing as advertised. Almost to brutal for me. What is going on in France that they make these messed up films? Not as disturbing as Martyr but pretty close. I saw it on Shudder. Shudder is featuring all of your favorite ####ed up movies from France this month.
Has anyone else seen this? I felt bad for watching it after. Much like Martyr I don't think I could watch it again.
The movie itself was just as disturbing as advertised. Almost to brutal for me. What is going on in France that they make these messed up films? Not as disturbing as Martyr but pretty close. I saw it on Shudder. Shudder is featuring all of your favorite ####ed up movies from France this month.
Has anyone else seen this? I felt bad for watching it after. Much like Martyr I don't think I could watch it again.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
i know this was not directed to me, but the thread was bumped, so here i am ...
It Follows is perhaps my second favorite horror sit atm, only behind the original TCM - the way that movie sucks you in, and filets your senses is nothing short of remarkable.
i talked in another thread about pairing it up with "Let The Right One In" for the ultimate latter day horror double feature - ya know, for a genre that has seen it's brakes beaten right the #### off so many times, by so many exhausted tropes, those two managed to shine such a refreshing light on the craft ... the atmosphere is so intense in both, i get totally immersed in those worlds, and i really don't wanna leave, no matter how cataclysmic they both are.
if LTROI is bleak in it's setting (second only to "The Thing" in conveying that foreboding dread of wintery landscape), then IF is nothing short of desolate, even though the air swirling about it is so dense - i described it as the "Shoegaze" of horror, and it's overwhelming sense of total pathos and futility are like nothing i've ever seen.
the cast is so pitch perfect ... the sallowness, the ennui - yeah, it's borderline emo/angst, but i love the depiction of this gaggle of teens more than any that came before them ... their existence rings truer to the day to day mundaneness than the usual Hollywood treatment, which is pandering - if not condescending - especially during these times. if somebody told me this was an amateur found footage doc i'd cede full plausibility - can't praise it's authenticity enough on those levels.
it's cliched to call it surreal or otherworldly, right? ok. #### that. it IS surreal and otherworldly, all while staying grounded by the impeccable ambiance the production lends the cast.
when posting about Blair Witch Project in the 90s countdown, i praised it for it's implied horror, inasmuch that it hit on so many levels without relying on a body count clicker ... and IF does the same - the terror of never being able to escape this shape-shifting entity is so COTdamn palpable, and "scarier" than watching some dime store CGI gore splatter.
i will seek this flick out to watch every coupla months .. it has wormed deep inside my horror sweet spot, and, much like it's source content, i'll never escape it.
... unless i pass it on.
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Todem
Footballguy
I love It Follows. Indeed a modern day horror classic. Also love...love it’s retro 80’s feels and you can feel and hear it’s Carpenter roots. The music is brilliant. Also it never really let’s you know what the time period is. Old crappy back and white TV’s, no cells phones except for that Shell Reader. So it really keeps you wondering “when the hell is taking place”?
I did watch the new Texas Chainsaw flick on Netflix.......1/5 87 minutes of my life I will never get back. Just awful. Some great kills.....that was it. Everything else was total hot garbage.
This weekend we are renting the new Scream.
I did watch the new Texas Chainsaw flick on Netflix.......1/5 87 minutes of my life I will never get back. Just awful. Some great kills.....that was it. Everything else was total hot garbage.
This weekend we are renting the new Scream.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
yeah, it does emit Halloween vibes, no doubt - though awash in a sepia tone, then wrapped in gauze - and that's not to say the film is difficult to look at, because it's not - the cinematography is outstanding ... it just feels like a 100 minute sequence of flipped polaroids, and i really appreciate that tone for this particular story.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
my review from the Netflix thread, after last week's viewing:
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - 2022
anybody else?
i've praised the '74 original as a top 5 flick of all-time for me, across all genres - it's remarkable. still.
anywhoooo ... this Netflix 'sequel' (yep, it discounts any rendition that followed the OG) is looooong on the splatter, very short on the ambiance - in other words, direct opposite of the first.
this is set present day, which would have ol' Leatherface in his mid 70s, at least.
see how stooopit already?
and his bounty here are all young folk ... not like they have him hacking up the likes of Livia and co. up at Garden Grove.
so, yeah - an angry senior citizen laying waste to people 2/3 his age - now, most of them are twee millenials, so, it's got that going for it on the plausibility front.
i spoke a few years ago with KP about the "wokeness" factor in the "Black Christmas" remake ... and this here sequel to TCM starts off hinting that it may just wander sooooo far down that path that it will become unwatchable.
but it didn't, and i give credit to the producers for allowing the only sledgehammer swung here be in the hands of Gramps Sawyer (Learherface).
they lead you right up to the "SUPER WOKE!!!! SJW!!!!" trough, but then you realize that it's bone dry - the premise goes thirsty! THANK GOD!
did i mention it's bloody and gorey and nasty as #### in spots? the kills are more akin to the likes of Jason Vorhees - this is pure splatter, with very little tension, and totally bereft of the suffocating claustrophobia of the OG.
the premise is that a gaggle of influencers pooled some coin, and purchased the abandoned town of Harlow, Texas (where the original #### all went down).
i don't wanna divulge too many spoilers (seriously, is anybody else gonna watch this dreck?), but a busful of eager investors pulls up, and the shennanigans begin.
prior to the above, we deal with an old timer who insists that she did not sell her property (an orphanage), and the ensuing ####show sets the whole thing in motion.
this also features a standoff with the Confederate flag, which she has flying (a tattered one, her memory from her grand dad) ... the main investor chap is a chef named Daunte, a black dude, so ... you know where this is going.
but, again, they address it, make their point(s) then let it ####### go. well played.
there are two sisters along for this town buying extravaganza, the youngest being the survivor of a massive school shooting/slaughter - it's touched on, in flashbacks ... and the way she percieves, then kinda understands, guns is pretty surreal. again, they made the point without getting overly preachy.
she (younger sister) takes a shine to the token "redneck" they encounter in the beginning of the flick, as he resurfaces as the townskeeper, and the cat doing all the reno work for Daunte & co. let's just say he's a big player here, i'll leave it at that - except to add that they did actually give him some depth, and exploded the "dumb ### hillbilly" trope.
we get an appearance from the lone survivor of TCM, who became a Texas Ranger, and dedicated her life to avenging her brother & friends (same as "Lefty", Dennis Hopper, in TCM2, but that doesn't exist any longer).
she has a pristine 50 yr old polaroid up in her truck's sun visor - i mean, it looks like it was taken 5 minutes ago. dafuq?
she's worthless here, especially considering that the original Sally (and original "final girl"), Marilyn Burns, passed some 8 years ago ... now, had she been alive to play this role, it would've made all the difference.
so, there it is - the setup/thumbnail ... if you just want a bloody good popcorn sit, by all means, do it - it delivers, and there are some very delicious and inventive kills.
but, if you desire anything even remotely close to the OG, run far, far, FAR away.
btw, it clocks in at roughly 80 mins., so it's short enough.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
watched it last night ... take everything you said about TCM'22 and apply it here - it may actually have been worse, imo - in a race to the bottom it's a foto-finish.
Scoresman
Footballguy
Todem
Footballguy
steelerfan1
Footballguy
Dot
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Scoresman
Footballguy
It's an absolute classic IMO, but I'm always hesitant to recommend it because of how effed up it is.
ghostguy123
Footballguy
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Todem
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
djmich
Footballguy
Lol I just read the reviews…not sure I’ve ever seen a set of reviews like that. I’m intrigued…and frightened.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
Up above I talk about the French film Irreversible which is also on Shudder. I would put that in the same class. Movies I am glad I saw but will never watch again. The French are some crazy movie making people. I am a little tentative to watch any of the other French movies they have.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I recommend Inside, Frontiers, Raw, and High Tension for a similar experience as the others being talked about.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think Martyrs is the worst of the bunch as far as gore goes, so anybody who survived that one can get through these.
Courtjester
The Town Drunk
We saw 'X' in the theaters a few weeks ago.
I get the critics are all excited about how the picture was filmed (kind of an homage to Texas Chainsaw and other 70's horror flicks), but the plot line was really thread bare and frankly confusing..
There is a ton of nudity and sex in this movie so that is a plus, but the movie takes forever to get going. The kills were pretty well done and very graphic, but there are zero scary moments in this movie (well, there is one scene that is downright disturbing --if you see this movie, you will know what I mean).There is a rumor they are going to make another one--sort of an origin story slant, but I can't see there would be much interest..
I would give it a six out of ten.
Here you go folks--you have to see this one though....Link
I get the critics are all excited about how the picture was filmed (kind of an homage to Texas Chainsaw and other 70's horror flicks), but the plot line was really thread bare and frankly confusing..
There is a ton of nudity and sex in this movie so that is a plus, but the movie takes forever to get going. The kills were pretty well done and very graphic, but there are zero scary moments in this movie (well, there is one scene that is downright disturbing --if you see this movie, you will know what I mean).There is a rumor they are going to make another one--sort of an origin story slant, but I can't see there would be much interest..
I would give it a six out of ten.
Here you go folks--you have to see this one though....Link
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Martyrs was a buncha hype for what turned out to be a very pedestrian, wannabe snuff (WITH MEANING!!!1!1) knockoff.
i got the premise, and the complete nihilism of the entire journey to the "message", so to speak - don't wanna dance around the reveal, so that's where i'll leave it.
pretty boring, frankly.
