lol NA
― circa1916, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
nothing against you Simon, but why do people always bring up the "it's not really a horror movie" argument. even for HEREDITARY! horror can be a lot of things
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
The Witch and The Invitation are both movies I loved that I want to see again with my wife just to watch her reactions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
The VVitch isn't really horror it's historical fiction with some horror elements
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
thanking u for screen name
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
the VVitch is definitely horror I'd say.
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
I wasn't trying to classify it, just explain why it didn't occur to me to throw it in that ranking. It feels too tonally different to compare to those other movies.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
I'm not at all into genre purism either
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
we've probably discussed A Quiet Place but I can't load up the whole thread to see. did ILX enjoy it? despite a few VERY OBVIOUS bits of exposition I did like it
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
planning on renting it but didn't get to see it in the theater
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
i didn't enjoy it much. it was too heavily reliant on traditional family values and monsters. i'm sure it was well made but the ideas themselves seemed pretty obvious (must protect my family!) and not interesting to me personally. comparatively, as far as family-themed horror, Hereditary is deeper/more interesting than A Quiet Place. they did both have weird looking girl characters though! i won a bet with my husband that they were not the same girl (before we saw Hereditary)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
it was entertaining enough in the theater but it's not great - way more one-dimensional and not as well thought-out as the other movies we're discussing rn
― na (NA), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
i dug A Quiet Place a lot. very simple, low budget, b-movie type premise, super well executed imo. not much more than that, but for traditional jump scare/apocalypse land it got an A from me
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff, but I think I'd have Kill List as my benchmark for horror this decade.
Get Out felt like a bit of a Robert Aickmann love letter to me, so definitely horror.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:16 (six years ago) link
Yes Kill List is how more horrors / creepy films should be
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:58 (six years ago) link
Loved The Witch, agree that Kill List is by far Wheatley's best film, and also thought Babadook was massively overrated and bad.
Avoided Quiet Place at the cinema because I was worried it was the kind of film that could easily be ruined by a chatty audience.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 08:00 (six years ago) link
i think A Quiet Place kind of has to be seen at the cinema (unless you've got a great home system). Unfortunately, yes there was a couple right at the back having a full-on loud voice chat during one of the most intense scenes which is not only annoying but kind of unheard of in a UK cinema
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 10:04 (six years ago) link
Said it before, but The Quiet Place, despite its name, is the movie equivalent of having someone sneak up behind you and yell in your ear, again and again. That's not scary, that's annoying. The movie's not incompetent at least.
The Witch is so not historical fiction, it's totally horror, at least as much as Rosemary's Baby and, ultimately, more so. It's just got a novel historical-esque setting.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
i usually hate jump scares. didn't feel like this about Quiet Place. it was the scene with the steps that irked me the most out of the whole thing
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
yeah, fix that nail, you dopes! still think it would have been funny if every character stepped on it at least once, ending with a monster, who died of tetanus.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
i liked Kill List but to me A Field in England crushes it utterly
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
Kill List vs Field in England = Wicker Man vs Blood on Satan's Claw
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
fix the nail indeed! I'd couldn't bear it.
just thought Field in England was a bit of a mess (and I get that that's the idea) whereas Kill List had everything in it I like about the 'Folk Horror' genre
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
IDK if I have seen Kill List yet? I love all of these movies and it's the only one of the 4 I don't remember.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Kill List = mercenaries get caught up in weird cult bizness
The scene w/ the hammer in Kill List is p unforgettable imho, whatever you think of the movie itself.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Kill List is the one I'd watch again tomorrow but aye, A Field in England has something otherworldly about it. I remember like a trip. nb Michael Smiley frightens the shit out of me. nnbb I hope Wheatley doesn't fuck off to Hollywood forever.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah, The VVitch is great. I want to see Hereditary and Upgrade but will have to wait for Amazon Prime in both cases.
moviepass is cheaper than amazon btw
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Kill List has so much replay value. Lots of little clues and symbolism innocuously buried in it that you simply don't notice first time round
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
love Wheatley & Jump, Kill List and A Field in England are definitely their best but idk if I could pick one over the other. They do very different things.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
xp if you are writing in an internet message board about movies you should have Moviepass. really, everyone should have Moviepass before the company dies a horrible death
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
not available in Canada, alas
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
I fucking loved hereditary
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Hereditary was great. Touched on so many of my childhood fears (& adult too I guess?), if I saw it as a kid I'd never sleep again
― badg, Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
was gabriel byrne meant to be american in it?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
I couldn’t figure that either. By the end of the film I’d decided no
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
I don't know, but I appreciated him as the most clueless/ineffectual/checked-out horror-movie dad since Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Lol yeah. I really liked his performance in this, & even tho he was deliberately sidelined as someone outside of the hereditary mess looking in they gave him the breakdown moment in the car which I found really moving
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Someone really should make a thread
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
the familial trauma chiller HEREDITARY
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
it was too heavily reliant on traditional family values and monsters. i'm sure it was well made but the ideas themselves seemed pretty obvious (must protect my family!) and not interesting to me personally.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:13
As soon as I see a trailer to one of these things I think "fuck your family, I'll kill them myself".
A Field In England>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Kill List
Still haven't seen a lot of these films but I'm mostly not bothered.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
saw hereditary. a straight 7/10.
was gabriel byrne meant to be american in it?― Philip Nunez, Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:22 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:22 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was very confused by this too because there was a scene where Toni's chatting to some Irish guy on the phone and it took me a while to work out it was her up-til-then American husband
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
The First Purge is really an action film with some horror beats and aesthetic tics, but worth seeing just for the weight of some of its imagery. Too bad about the stiff acting, likely a result of a rushed production. Timeliness can have a price.
― Simon H., Monday, 16 July 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
Upgrade was quite entertaining. Reviewers that seemed to focus on movie being “dumb” giving most of its influences much more credit for intelligence than I would. Definitely kind of movie I could stand more of being made.
A Quiet Place OTOH was well made but straight to fist pumping ending kind of left me cold. Also the kind of movie where stupid things happen (or people make stupid choices) to accelerate the plot and you are just supposed to accept them as occurring.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Nu (new nu?) Halloween reviews pretty solid.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Who recommended Lords of Salem here? That was some silly ass shit, a few cool images/setpieces aside
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
i remember enjoying it more or less. is that the one with the "freebird" scene? that scene was good.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
i dug it. it had a good vibe imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 September 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
It's been a while since I've seen it, but I liked it at the time. Freebird was in Devil's Rejects though.
― how's life, Friday, 14 September 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link
ah, i get them confused. i loved that freebird scene!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 14 September 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
LoS is the only Rob Zombie joint I like lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 14 September 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link