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FFA Official Horror Movie Thread Catching up on Shudder and Various Streaming Platforms (3 Viewers)
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Scoresman
Footballguy
Yes and no. I'm luke warm on it.
You wouldn't otherwise know it was an omen movie until the last 10 minutes or so. Only then does the iconic soundtrack and creepiness kick in. The Omen series is known for it's creative death scenes, and this one does not really deliver on that front. Sure, there are gruesome deaths, but nothing super original or over the top like the first two omen movies have.
That said, it's not a bad movie or anything. Just doesn't really have the feel of a movie from this franchise.
The Gator
Footballguy
Tick
Footballguy
Cemetery Man (Tubi): 1994 Italian horror movie that felt like it was from 1978. I made it 31 minutes in before bailing - slow zombies, comedy wasn’t funny, horror wasn’t horror, dubbing was annoying… the actress was stunningly beautiful and had a pretty exposed lovemaking scene, but this movie blew.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Interesting take on Greek mythology
When boarding the cruiser, the group finds that the ship is called Aeolus, who is the father of Sisyphus in Greek mythology. Sisyphus, as explained, broke a promise with death. He was punished with a task where he would have to push a boulder on top of a hill. However, every day the boulder would roll back, making him doomed to be stuck doing the task forever. This foreshadows Jess promising the taxi driver to return, only to break her promise and go on a sail trip. She subsequently gets stuck in an endless series of time loops from which there is no solution.
Tick
Footballguy
Yeah, that was mentioned twice in the movie. I didn’t make the connection to that promise being the trigger.
Courtjester
The Town Drunk
We saw The Watchers in the theater. It was just okay. Slow moving and an odd concept. The Shyamalans seem to always find these obscure folklore ideas (see Lady in the Water), but just because it interests them, doesn't mean it translates to an interesting film. The other thing his daughter seems to have inherited from her father is the inability to close a movie. This movie had a couple of pretty obvious ending spots and one direction that would have led to an amazing sequel, but instead they introduce a new story arc right at the end to try and explain things, which ultimately fell completely flat.
I would say 2.5 out of 5.
I would say 2.5 out of 5.
Tick
Footballguy
Don’t do this.
Tick
Footballguy
Hell House LLC (Prime): found footage about a haunted house business in a haunted house. Perfect creepiness with the camera panning past freaky stuff all movie, often without anyone noticing. I like it. The ending was a bit of a surprise to me.
A couple of criticisms:
- a bit too chaotic at the crux of the movie for me to understand what happened (watched a recap video that showed me what I missed).
- pisses me off that nobody rewatched footage when weird stuff happened on camera to prove what was going on.
Good movie.
A couple of criticisms:
- a bit too chaotic at the crux of the movie for me to understand what happened (watched a recap video that showed me what I missed).
- pisses me off that nobody rewatched footage when weird stuff happened on camera to prove what was going on.
Good movie.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Watched this in October, loved it! Haven't watched part2 yet
WVU Alum
Footballguy
I think that there are 4 of them. I liked them all.
Tick
Footballguy
Pearl: I liked X, and the story of how Pearl was made is cool (written while bored in quarantine before filming X in New Zealand, filmed back to back with X). Pearl wasn’t as good for me. Mia Goth had an incredible monologue near the end, but the movie felt very paint-by-numbers. Things just happened as expected right on through the movie.
I appreciate a prequel that doesn’t try to explain everything the first movie was based on (Solo syndrome), but the thing I most wanted to know (what happened in the basement just before X occurred) wasn’t covered. I think we needed a little bit of movie after Howard returned. Not all the way up to X necessarily, but some sense of what rhythm those two fell into that would lead to the basement years later.
Probably worth watching just for Goth’s monologue, but this was a letdown for me.
I appreciate a prequel that doesn’t try to explain everything the first movie was based on (Solo syndrome), but the thing I most wanted to know (what happened in the basement just before X occurred) wasn’t covered. I think we needed a little bit of movie after Howard returned. Not all the way up to X necessarily, but some sense of what rhythm those two fell into that would lead to the basement years later.
Probably worth watching just for Goth’s monologue, but this was a letdown for me.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
The trailer for MaXXXine is so good that I finally checked out X on Netflix. Not at all what I expected in a very good way. Really gnarly flick bit also really enjoyable. I'll probably skip Pearl and go right to MaXXXine when it's in theaters.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Late Night with the Devil was pretty good. I feel like it pulls a few too many punches to be great, but it's certainly good.
jamny
Footballguy
I haven't seen either. Which should you watch first?
Tick
Footballguy
I always answer in the order they were made for any series. So X first.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Great timing. I had today off and was looking for something to watch, so I watched X last night and Pearl today. I had seen X before, but I had never gotten around to Pearl.
I liked both. They fit into the standard A24 "elevated horror" bucket, and I mean that in a good way. They both look great, and they feature pretty well-developed characters considering that they're horror movies. Mia Goth is fantastic in Pearl. She was fine in X, but her performance in Pearl was just otherworldly IMO. I'll be curious to see if others agree.
My one complaint, and it's admittedly a weird one, is that there's just too much sex in X. I'm all for a little gratuitous T&A in horror and comedy, but the first half of this movie would have been right at home on late-night Cinemax. If I wanted to watch porn, I'd just watch porn. Sheesh.
I liked both. They fit into the standard A24 "elevated horror" bucket, and I mean that in a good way. They both look great, and they feature pretty well-developed characters considering that they're horror movies. Mia Goth is fantastic in Pearl. She was fine in X, but her performance in Pearl was just otherworldly IMO. I'll be curious to see if others agree.
My one complaint, and it's admittedly a weird one, is that there's just too much sex in X. I'm all for a little gratuitous T&A in horror and comedy, but the first half of this movie would have been right at home on late-night Cinemax. If I wanted to watch porn, I'd just watch porn. Sheesh.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
In fact, as I think about it, Mia Goth is to Pearl as Robert DeNiro is to Taxi Driver. In both cases, that one actor is strapping this film to their back and carrying it.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
I think
All things considered, I think it's a reflection of the increased prevalence of porn in society over the past two decades. Pushing the envelope used to involve things like showing a little bush - now that barely registers. We've become desensitized to bourgeois T&A.
Well, the movie does involve characters who are making porn films...
All things considered, I think it's a reflection of the increased prevalence of porn in society over the past two decades. Pushing the envelope used to involve things like showing a little bush - now that barely registers. We've become desensitized to bourgeois T&A.
Tick
Footballguy
Huh - I find the opposite. X went pretty hard, but remember that every comedy had at least topless scenes in the 80s? It seems like there's less nudity just thrown in for no reason, but when they do it, they really do it. I prefer this combo than the 10 seconds of boobs in every 80s movie.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I intend on watching Pearl but boy did I dislike X.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
They're totally different films, which is a cool thing in its own right.
They share a common character and a common actress, but that feels almost incidental. They only things they really have in common, IMO, are that they both draw a ton of inspiration from other films and practically beg the audience to look for connections. Within the first five minutes of X, you know that it wants to be compared to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Likewise, Pearl wants to be compared to The Wizard of Oz -- the scarecrow is right there, and you can map several of the characters from this movie back to that one. And both movies are, themselves, about movies and movie-making, and wanting to escape the tedium of normal life for the more exciting world of motion pictures.
Even though I didn't care that much for X originally, I appreciate it more now that I feel like I know what Ti West is trying to do. The idea of an 80 year-old woman posing a physical threat to a group of healthy 20-somethings pushes my suspension of disbelief a little too far, but I like the vision.
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In total agreement, IK, Goth brings the tension big time in Pearl and you can sense the family trying to not believe what they know in their hearts. I like your comparison to Deniro in Taxi and would also add Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Goth is that good. Frankly I think she's the new IT girl for horror and look forward to whatever she's in.
Pyewacket: "A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother."
On Shudder, it's a slooww burn low budget occult creepfest. There's a few moments that grabbed me and overall glad I watched. Here's a hint though, don't summon a witch to kill your mom if you don't really mean it.
On Shudder, it's a slooww burn low budget occult creepfest. There's a few moments that grabbed me and overall glad I watched. Here's a hint though, don't summon a witch to kill your mom if you don't really mean it.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Good nostalgic feel to it. We watched House of the Devil last night had the same kind of vibe
I think both of those leave you in a constant feeling of dread, even though not much happens until the end
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Think I’ll post more glaring omissions from the countdown tomorrow
The Gator
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Don’t Look Now - meh. It was ok, wife was bored out of her mind
Scoresman
Footballguy
It’s very rare when a movie’s title gives the movie an apt review of itself.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Seated for Longlegs
I am going tomorrow. Cannot wait.
foxco
Footballguy
Buddy of mine directed a low budget horror film called "Dismal." Perfect description.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Just saw it last night. It had some problems (didn't need the jump scares) but the lighting and photography were excellent.
I felt it was above average at best. All the hype about Cages face was far overblown.
The 3rd act didn't do it for me.
This movie isn't in the same ballpark as Silence of the Lambs, Se7en or Zodiac. Not even close.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
...or Late Night With the Devil.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Agree with everything you said. Third act was pretty weak.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
...or It Follows.
The Gator
Footballguy
Watching this tonight. Don't let me down,,,
Tick
Footballguy
A Quiet Place: Day One: I liked the first two movies and was happy to go see this one in the theater. I thought the acting was great - Lupita Nyongo seems to always be good, even in Little Monsters. I didn't know the male actor but thought he did a good job. It was odd seeing this in the theater - it was just so quiet, with no mood sounds or music, very little dialogue, just some clicks from aliens and everyone in the theater scrunching up hoping that the footfalls don't kick a can or something. Definitely a different vibe, but it reminded me some of Cast Away, which also had no music or mood sounds for most of the movie, and little dialogue.
The plot was exactly the opposite of what you would think. Day 1 of an alien invasion in NYC should be Cloverfield, but this was something completely different. It's classified as a horror movie, and there were jump scares and dread of making a sound, but nothing gross or gory. Wifey isn't a horror fan (and was nervous based on the previews we saw before the movie) but enjoyed it. I liked the movie a lot.
The plot was exactly the opposite of what you would think. Day 1 of an alien invasion in NYC should be Cloverfield, but this was something completely different. It's classified as a horror movie, and there were jump scares and dread of making a sound, but nothing gross or gory. Wifey isn't a horror fan (and was nervous based on the previews we saw before the movie) but enjoyed it. I liked the movie a lot.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Does Lisa Frankenstein count?
Tick
Footballguy
Audition (Kanopy): Japanese horror movie from 2000, IMDB 7.1. Odd movie - it doesn't get to the horror except for some little flashes until very far into the movie. When it does, it goes further than I expected. A guy's wife dies, he raises his son, then he decides to finally remarry, and uses a buddy's film audition to audition women he's considering dating. The one he picks is a bit off. There are a couple of hallucination/dream sequences well into the movie that mess with the audience a bit, I liked how they were done.
A reddit thread helped - this is based on a book, and a couple of bullet points cleared up some ambiguous things from the film for me.
A reddit thread helped - this is based on a book, and a couple of bullet points cleared up some ambiguous things from the film for me.
Tick
Footballguy
Having some trouble with The Taking of Deborah Logan - I'm about halfway through and something was just about to mess me up a bit... I'll see if I can get back to it. Very well done so far, just a type of movie that I have trouble with.
A daughter gets upset when her mother with Alzheimer's gets diagnosed with much less time to live. Whooo, that's a hard thing to parse - we live next door to our inlaws, and my mother in law died of Alzheimer's, and a diagnosis like that is the sort of thing that can make you fell relieved, then guilty about it.
ETA: I'm getting back to this, and something I really like is that the setting is a documentary, and every time something freaky happens, the people watch the tape to try to figure it out and show each other that something freaky is happening. This is what I'm always asking for in any found footage type of movie!
A daughter gets upset when her mother with Alzheimer's gets diagnosed with much less time to live. Whooo, that's a hard thing to parse - we live next door to our inlaws, and my mother in law died of Alzheimer's, and a diagnosis like that is the sort of thing that can make you fell relieved, then guilty about it.
ETA: I'm getting back to this, and something I really like is that the setting is a documentary, and every time something freaky happens, the people watch the tape to try to figure it out and show each other that something freaky is happening. This is what I'm always asking for in any found footage type of movie!
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Scoresman
Footballguy
I first watched this while my grandmother was in late stages of dementia. The movie hit particularly hard and it might be why it's so memorable for me. You dont usually see great acting in found footage, but the lady in this is really good.
This movie is on my Mt. Rushmore of Found Footage. It does everything right.
