So without muddying the water with all the decades of classics - what horror movies did it for you (so far) this year? It's almost halloween, and we all need some new stuff rather than watching Suspiria for the fourteenth time, right?
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the fourteenth time high? it really makes a difference
― What the hell is hamster love (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
well yeah
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
My surprise nominee (and none of these are going to be academy greats duh) is The Haunting In Connecticut which will not go down in history or anything, but was a totally capable jump scare flick. I have no idea why they promoted the movie the way that they did, the initial theatrical release campaign made it look like some sort of slow yawn slightly creepy snoozefest, when in fact it is 100% cut from the flash of CREEPY DUDE in the mirror/corner/behind the kid school of filmmaking.
plot holes? well yeah, duh, but who cares
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This is prob a good place for me to fly my challop flag and say that as great as Let the Right One In is, it isn't really a horror film IMO.
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda want to see paranormal activity.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah me too! although i fear the possibility that it might be a hype triumph and disappoint.
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Drag Me to Hell!
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
man, still haven't seen that. or even zombieland (which doesn't sound like horror).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
all i've really seen in 2009 is drag me to hell and zombieland, which isn't really a horror movie either
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i just watched drag me to hell last night, and as a old school Raimi fanboy it was a ton of fun (srsly sam it is amazing how much mileage you can get out of the power of people/corpses/demonwhatevers vomiting on other people). Curious to find out how it worked for people that weren't kind of the target audience, esp the classic moments of Raimi complete set up nonsense (the best of which had to be the "well duh why not use these ice skates i was about to pawn on my suspended anvil" idiot lunacy).
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody see any of the big remakes (last house on the left, whichever one rob zombie did this year, etc)?
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
drag me to hell was so great -- just rewatched but seeing it in the theatre was amazing what with everyone laughing & screaming simultaneously
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the only nasty cut-em-up flicks i like anymore come from france or asia, though the first 'hostel' and the first 'saw' were good. i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
no desire to see the halloween remake, but the trailer was fucking terrifying (i've long held that horror movie trailers are usually way scarier than the actual movie, you just get a succession of jumps and creepy images without any context or warning).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
loved drag me... anyone seen paranormal activity yet?
or left bank?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the french stuff is just brutal, but its been some of my favorite stuff as well, im sure a bunch of the usual whiners are going to lump it into the totally dumb invented "torture porn" genre but it just has such a deep sense of misanthropic malice and self-loathing xpost
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://tcmmoviemorlocks.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/famous-monsters-speak2.jpg
^^^ omar's friends
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
considering using my mod cheat powers to edit the title to include 2008 because so much great unheralded stuff came out last year
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
'inside' was just as rough thematically as it was in terms of gore imo, i.e. it's one of my favorite films of the past few years.
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
id make it the whole decade but i think that the hostel/saw/ring/rob zombie non remake stuff would just take over and we've talked about that a billion times already (i love all three of the originals, and will go to bat for hostel 2 as well)
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
me too hostel 2 is so underrated
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
really felt roth didn't want to cheap out with an easy sequel on that one
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the saw series has turned into a joke imo
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah saw 3 was particularly awful
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
never seen a saw movie (i am okay w this)
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't really feel Hostel when I watched it - though that might've been because I'd watched Wolf Creek the night before which ten times more brutal and believable. Still haven't seen any of the Saws.
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
martyrs was the best horror movie I've seen in years. it's french torture porn, and then again, it's not... which is what makes it so great. it totally transcends the genre and I can guarantee you won't guess where it's going.
eden park was pretty good. not the greatest film ever made but a nice patch on the "hunted by locals in the woods" genre.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Eden Lake you mean? I liked that a lot, some bits haunted me for a few days. Such a dark ending!
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
duh, yeah eden lake
there are a lot of recent horror films I wanted to see that I haven't gotten around to. off the top of my head: teeth, the uninvited, embodiment of evil, dead snow... and I guess the haunting in ct now...
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody repping for inside in this thread needs to see martyrs stat
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.
― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I wanna see nightmare, too. it's an older film that just got released on DVD, kind of low budget but looks promising.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455983/
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh hey btw for the french horror heads, if you haven't seen frontier(s), thats pretty essential
Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore (top recs would be Severance and Shrooms)
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked Drag me to Hell. Also liked Jennifer's Body actually. I think a lot of good recent US horror has been genre pastiche/comedy (I'd include Hostel ii). The French/Asian stuff is nice because it still does well playing the eeriness/bone-gristle straight. I've only seen the first 2 Saws but had to stop because why bother when there's stuff like Martyrs out there.
― xcixxorx, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh
theres a foreign language film that is a great companion piece to Eden Lake that i can't remember the name of right now and it is killing me.
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore
Yep, it's British. Not many laughs though.
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?
Combat ShockDementedDon't Go In The HouseNight of the Demon
― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah wait, Ils (or Them) is the Eden Lake parallel. creeeeepy
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yeah Eden Lake is def not chock full o' laughs
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Because...
SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS ...it is pretty much just a Blair Witch clone and more fun than scary. For me, the experience was ruining by a theatre of 500 groaning teens.SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSSSPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS
― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
*ruined
combat shock is fucked up. also pretty interesting and pretty good.
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
thread title edit for the purposes of why not
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
In light of the new title I will mention Wolf Creek again.
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it looks totally cheeseball but I'm a huge shock waves fan so...
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of which, the aussies have def had a horror boom this decade as well xpost
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it felt a little like one of those 90s piss take comedies where most of the energy was sunk into creating ridiculous set pieces for the leads and then everything else was filler. which is why it was 'good' but not 'great' for me.
I think it's more accepted by audiences due to the Family Guy-ification of comedy where only jokes/gags matter and not how you got there. heard the "who cares about the story, you're here for the JOKES" defense too many times, as if actually earning the humor through an engaging story is a bad thing.
that said, they did do that in some places here, I did like the support group angle and how they were grounded and not merely a setpiece for mockery. and Hoult does a very nice job of selling the 'familiar finally enforcing boundaries after many centuries of abuse' motif. but so many of the smaller details were stupid, like every single cop and FBI member openly supporting the mob family to where they let a mobster walk free after they try to murder a cop in broad daylight with multiple eyewitnesses. or every cop actively trying to gun down a NOLA cop in broad daylight in an apartment complex.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:50 (ten months ago) link
but that said I still laughed a lot, which is a testament to my ability to find just about anything funny
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 May 2023 14:51 (ten months ago) link
found the boogeyman very effective. creepy, great lead performance by sophie turner, great kid performance, great use of elliptical light, pretty creative from shot to shot, would double feature well with smile which it is much kinder and gentler than but i was super down for that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 June 2023 22:57 (nine months ago) link
great lead performance by sophie thatcher* (not turner) (i'm so good at remembering the names of actors)
sophie thatcher aka young natalie from yellowjackets
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 June 2023 00:04 (nine months ago) link
I did enjoy Boogeyman. I liked the way it dealt with familial trauma, and the chemistry between the actors was great.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:12 (nine months ago) link
I found "Evil Dead Rise" really disappointing for a lot of reasons, annoying or boring for others, but I think what bugged me most of all is that it's set in a tall apartment complex, yet does absolutely nothing with its vertical setting, and populates it with, like, five people. Like, why bother? They could have just set on a farm in Oklahoma or some shit. Hell, they filmed it in New Zealand, just set it in New Zealand. "We haven't heard from mom/dad/cousin/anyone in months, but I just got this weird message to meet them in Wellington, and these first class one-way plane tickets arrived in the mail ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:23 (nine months ago) link
I mean, it's supposed to be unpopulated because it's being torn down or something, right? And there was one set of neighbors. I think being trapped in a high-rise that you can't get out of is a good premise.
My complaint is that it just should have been more over-the-top. There was plenty of great, squicky, gory violence, but insufficient insanity.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, there's a line about it getting torn down, but either it would be empty by then or there'd still be more than five people in the whole building, let alone part of that handful being a single mother with three kids. Hell, that woman from the (lame) bookend shows up to the garage in full-on vacation mode at the end! I'm happy to nitpick about that setting (which would have been great, if used well, or really at all) all day. Like the way the generic horror movie dark 'n' green look made it just as dim when the power went out as when the lights were on. Or the way lots of stuff still seemed to work with the power out. Or the way it was set in "Los Angeles," yet poured rain non-stop ...
I agree, though, being not insane enough was its biggest problem. I think that's because it took itself too seriously. Too many shots of scared shaking kids muttering "www ... wwhat's wrong with mmm ... mom ... !?" Imagine how much fun it might have been if it was like "The Raid" or something, or maybe "The Raid" meets "Poltergeist 3." This one reminded me of a more po-faced "The Gate."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
how you gonna do a blood elevator climax in something that's not a tall building
― ivy (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 18:03 (nine months ago) link
Fair enough, that is the most ott bit in the movie, they probably started with that and worked backwards.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 18:05 (nine months ago) link
I could have sworn I heard that the latest "Scream" movie wasn't that bad, but it pretty much was, and was boring, too. "Infinity Pool," on the other hand, was incredible.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 03:22 (eight months ago) link
talk to me was EXCELLENT. was so pleased with every decision it made
― ivy., Saturday, 29 July 2023 02:14 (eight months ago) link
dammit now you're making me want to leave the house again tonight.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 July 2023 02:23 (eight months ago) link
Against all reason I watched the new Texas Chainsaw on Netflix. So unbelievably stupid and bad, gory but never once suspenseful or scary. Avoid.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 29 July 2023 02:42 (eight months ago) link
I almost did, I started trying to watch em all for completist purposes and god, after 2 anything interesting about this franchise just disappeared
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 July 2023 03:19 (eight months ago) link
loved Birth/Rebirth
it's psychological, more of a prolonged discomfort. it takes swings at a lot of things - the sacrifices that American society regularly forces single mothers to make, a labor culture that is increasingly anti-worker, and how struggling civilians are forced to acquire what they have by stepping on the backs of other people. particularly how society pits women against each other as well and expects them to be at their best without regard for their wellbeing. moreso though it's pretty grounded in the way it presents the premise (resurrection), one which has been done to death in horror, but nicely avoids almost all of the usual cliches.
ending is pretty devastating.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 05:46 (seven months ago) link
Earwig by Lucile Hadžihalilović. This is really good, I liked Evolution a lot and Innocence is pretty good too. Brian Catling (writer of the novel) said she could change as much as she liked so I'm not sure if the novel will help me understand the film more. Very quiet film.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:31 (six months ago) link
I'll check it out.. I thought Evolution was fantastic, I often forget if I've seen a film but not that one.. it was very singular
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:53 (six months ago) link
The film removes a lot of the context and specificity found in Catling's novel, especially around the title character and his history - probably in the interest of making everything more ambiguous - but otherwise hews pretty close to the overall plot. Would say the novel is quite a bit more coherent than the film, which has a fabulous atmosphere but seems just a bit too shapeless.
Catling was a really interesting person, would hope that as this film continues to make the rounds more people will check out his work.
― atonar, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:12 (six months ago) link
Finally saw Resurrection. Didn't like it at all. Thought Roth completely phoned it in.
Always love Rebecca Hall but this story was too bonkers even for me
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 01:28 (five months ago) link
"Totally Killer" was so bad from the start we watched the whole thing convinced it was in on the joke and there would be some smart twist but no, it was just bad.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 October 2023 02:00 (five months ago) link
Bout to watch Slotherhouse
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 October 2023 02:04 (five months ago) link
when evil lurks very creepy and perverse argentinian horror from the guy who made terrified. will be on shudder soon afaik
― ivy., Sunday, 22 October 2023 02:07 (five months ago) link
saw x was also super entertaining
argentinian horror
Read this as algorithm horror, lol, which is a good way to describe a lot of dreck that pops up on streaming services.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 October 2023 02:14 (five months ago) link
I really enjoyed the Shelley Duvall-esque mom character in When Evil Lurks. Good movie!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 22 October 2023 15:43 (five months ago) link
Some very small talk upthread but I watched The Outwaters last weekend..
really enjoyed it, as a good Cosmic Horror/found footage experience.
more like that please...
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 22 October 2023 19:53 (five months ago) link
Slotherhouse showed some promise as a horror comedy for the first 40 minutes but then they completely half-assed the rest of it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 October 2023 21:33 (five months ago) link
Not sure where to slot it, but I thought "No One Will Save You" was really well done. Very ambiguous, which can be risky, since people like answers, but I appreciated the ambition.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:22 (five months ago) link
THANKSGIVING!!!!! god. it gave thanks. five stars
― ivy., Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:28 (four months ago) link
Fucking loved it
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:39 (four months ago) link
Felt like a love letter to the off-brand slasher flick thread
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:40 (four months ago) link
Watched TALK TO ME last night (rentable on Amazon), thought it was well made and the cast was strong — Sophie Wilde in particular. Not a feel-good movie lol. Some plotting problems and even with necessary disbelief suspension some things were hard to buy. Reminded me at various points of Hereditary and It Follows, though not as stylistically striking as either.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:13 (three months ago) link
I highly recommend Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor if you want to experience your heart stopping multiple times.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:23 (three months ago) link
Really? Cool!
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:28 (three months ago) link
It's great, matches the original. I skipped the two middle sequels based on reviews.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:55 (three months ago) link
Loved the original so will check this out
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:17 (three months ago) link
Hmmm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY9AthRUCQ
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 December 2023 13:40 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_J3-DmiS0
rose glass (saint maud) returns!!! this looks like a riot
― ivy., Friday, 22 December 2023 06:07 (three months ago) link
Evil Dead Rise - better than I expected. Has there been a movie based on the inevitable lifetime of therapy the young girl who survives would be forced to go through? Like a rom com about 20-somethings but our protagonist’s entire family was slaughtered 20 years ago.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:22 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcrNh9XSSw
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:05 (one month ago) link
whoa
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:25 (one month ago) link
Enjoyed Suitable Flesh a lot, but then I'm a sucker for Stuart Gordon films so that might not be surprising. Barbara Crompton is great in it.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 3 February 2024 11:53 (one month ago) link
It was not bad but I think it could have looked a bit better and maybe a slightly better script but performances were fine.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:50 (one month ago) link
Had to go to a cinema I've never been to before in the Phoenix chain. I think my brother said it was the only cinema in scotland showing it, oddly
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 5 February 2024 15:46 (one month ago) link
I just seen The Vourdalak. It's not like many other horror comedies I've ever seen because the sensibilities are very different. There's a corpse character created completely through puppetry and I don't think it works completely but it's a bold choice. Based on the same Tolstoy story that was in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. It's pretty good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOltHm9cloY
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 4 March 2024 01:35 (three weeks ago) link
immaculate was imo the first great horror movie of the year and the best catholic horror in who knows how long. mean and nasty and bloody and screaming. plethora of jump scares but i think jump scares are value neutral, they can be good or bad depending on execution, and when they are good they make you feel as trapped in the movie as the main character is, and this movie has very good ones. thought sydney sweeney was great
― ivy., Saturday, 23 March 2024 02:13 (six days ago) link
Can't wait to see that one next. I'm at Late Night with the Devil RN but Immaculate is next. Glad to hear it's solid
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 March 2024 02:18 (six days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-uiy20_zM
Infested, coming on Shudder. Watched this teaser yesterday and dreamt about it that night. Ugh.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 23 March 2024 03:03 (six days ago) link
So, Late Night with The Devil.
To say "Satanic panic horror" is shopworn at this point is stating the pathetically obvious. the margin for error is very small because it's been done so much that it only takes little mistakes for a jaded aficionado to say "meh - I've ridden this ride before". Or filmmakers simply turn it into a CGI fest of jump scares and endlessly twisting heads.
This one succeeds using a novel setting (a late night 70s talk show), dry humor, and a young actress who knows how to leer at a camera in unsettling fashion.
it doesn't have anything new to say, per se. But it goes refreshingly lean on exposition, has a persistently unsettling atmosphere, and goes big at the right times. Recommended - it's a lot of fun
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:20 (six days ago) link