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FFA Official Horror Movie Thread (1 Viewer)
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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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