Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Monster is genuinely unsettling. Movie actually made me wonder how fucked up the kid in it was going to be, but then I read that they took a lot of precautions to ensure he didn't really understand what was going on.

see i have to say that, seeing babadook in the theaters, i didn't find it scary at all and thought the monster design was quite poor but i can see how ymmv

Horror movies in general are way scarier on your couch.

You all must be kidding. There's nothing scary about babadook unless you're 13 years old.

xxxpost I was so relieved to read that! all the yelling at the kid scenes they shot with the mum yelling at a kneeling down adult standin, and his parents were on set at all times

xpost there's nothing scary about babadook unless you had an emotionally abusive mother prone to fits of rage and/or terror of closet monsters as a kid, yeah totes not scary at all O_O

i still haven't seen let the right one in.

you should. ending is obliquely referenced in "It Follows"
Both american and original are quite good!

Babadook is the best/creepiest/scariest horror movie I've seen this year, but yknow, I don't watch a lot of horror movies so what do I know.

It's decent but I don't really understand why people think it's like this spectacular thing.

Being a parent helps

I mean maybe you are I have no idea, that def created an effect with me

viewing it from a child's pov or a parent's def helps?...also looking at it as a psychological horror rather than standard monster/creepy house movie

Chef's Table series from the guy who directed Jiro Dreams of Sushi available today. First episode pretty good so far.

this is like catnip for me but i srsly cannot ~deal~ with that woman's stupid fucking glasses

The Italy porn is strong.

Yeah I was gonna say I can't see Babadook being scary for non-parents

my interest in horror movies in general went waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down after i had kids. it was weird. i love horror movies. now i really have to be in the mood. cuz yeah before i had kids what did i care about death and carnage? didn't care at all. i did recently watch an indie horror movie about two guys and a woman hiking in the woods and getting attacked by masked teens. pretty good. survival of the fittest kinda thing. can't remember what it's called. on netflix.

it's not the kind of movie i would normally watch, since i scare way too easily, but all the chatter about it got me intrigued so i watched yesterday (during the day, just to be on the safe side).

imo it came across pretty unambiguously as a story about trauma, child abuse and mental illness. the rendering of the boogeyman is so sort of deliberately cliched and childish, that it seemed like a big glaring signpost that this wasn't really a horror movie in the normal sense.

i've been watching on Allegiance on Hulu...than i might get to Legit on Netflix.

zombies don't count of course. everyone has to watch the walking dead. plus, it's a family show.

I'm a parent and was not blown away by The Babadook. Above average but not as great as I expected after hearing all the praise (and I saw it in the theater).

i don't know WHAT to think about that movie now. great title though.

Will finish watching it tonight I think

savage.

i hate being scared and i had no problems w/ Babadook, aside from it turning into a boilerplate horror film after the first hour.

Not a parent, enjoyed Babadook but was not deeply affected by it. Enjoyed the grey house and the actors' faces a lot.

Piece about films that parents might want to avoid
http://www.fright.com/edge/KillingKids.htm
I've definitely seen people like that on imdb who freak out at any amount of child suffering in films. People on imdb making death threats to the long deceased Shuji Terayama for Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

As I said on the new horror films thread, Kotoko is a really unpleasant film for parents and the two stars had their own children in the film. I highly recommend it.

Badabook was disappointing for me but more than anything it seemed a promising debut with solid work on far too familiar elements.

i was not warned about the dog or dental violence either

"Charlie Victor Romeo" is pretty good and tense-making: basically a series of claustrophobic little plays which are re-enactments of black-box recordings from aircraft in trouble.

i remember seeing a news story on the play. definitely plays on my worst fears as someone who hates to fly.

yeah The Babadook just kind of bummed me out more than anything else. felt less like a horror movie than a heightened depiction of misery, with characters that only existed to be miserable.

just like real life!
more movies need to reflect the misery of raising children

A claim jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.

story of my life...

i highly recommend The Homesman.

the pilot of halt and catch fire was one of the worst, most cliched and poorly written things I have ever seen.

Charlie Victor Romeo was made in 3D! They're showing it that way in Brooklyn next week.

wasn't the tomlin/fonda show starting today? read the nyt thing on it.

i agree on halt and catch fire, i can't imagine watching more
tomlin/fonda show has an amazing cast and a trailer that turned me off completely

the nyt thing was all yay old people but the trailer does look pretty lame.

plz tell me dolly parton guests in one episode...

June Diane Raphael is in it, she's funny.

Patiently waiting on Scott's review of Legit

ha, i watched two episodes. i like it. i'll go back to it. i have to say though i've kinda had my fill of men behaving badly shows. can't even bring myself to watch the seasons of workaholics on hulu that i haven't seen. (though the one later episode i saw where all three of the workaholics masturbate in a car together might be the uhhhhhhh height of this form as far as overthetopness goes.)

jesus christ, veronika decides to die is so so terrible

The Short Game was pretty great. Amazing to see a 7 year old swinging a little golf club and making a hole-in-one. Some of the parent-child stuff takes me back to Little League.

i loved the mail order bride documentary ("Love Me"), but then of course i would.

did you guys watch Rectify? finishing season 2 now. very very watchable! and its even from the Sundance channel, and Sundance is my favorite genre to make fun of, but i really like how this show is written. and its not typical. in a good way. there was a thread on the show but not many people saw the show. third season is starting this summer. i also like that i don't recognize a lot of the people who are on the show. i mean i sorta do, but i can't really place them.

i've been watching the Fonda/Tomlin show, Grace And Frankie, and enjoying it way more than i thought i would

sell me? the promo made it look very much like WHOOPS WE MARRIED GAY MEN AND NOW WE ARE WACKY BEST FRIENDS

yeah the trailer was the worst thing.