Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid (trailer)

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Postby Dead_Wizard » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:40 pm

I just saw this and loved it. Loved the build up to full on goetic insanity. Seance scene was so masterful; that guttural Goblin moan as the dad looked under the table was just primo.

The novel interpretation of the bornless ritual and other Crowleyian bits were great too. Sound design of the very final scene was so glorious. Weird to see movies with Lustmord and Colin Stetson doing soundtracks back to back.
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Postby ashtrayheart » Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:20 pm

it was awesome watching this movie in theaters
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Postby shacky » Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:53 am

i rewatched this w the fam and enjoyed it a lot more but i think it's pacing and tonal control is off after the first hour or so

second hour is overstuffed with obligatory overwrought 'scary scenes' that are at odds with the subtlety and dread of the first half, they feel borrowed from a dumber, cheaper film and crammed into a potentially perfect 90 minute movie just to fill a quota

side note: i sold my mother on this, whose last seen horror movie was probably the sixth sense and before that probably a nightmare on elm st. in theatres as a teen, by describing it as "the new toni collette film, not so much a horror movie as a very intense and suspensful meditation on family, grief and mental illness"

by the end she's all THEN WHY ARE THERE HEADLESS DEMON PEOPLE CRAWLING ON THE CEILING
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Postby shacky » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:07 am

also noticed during the gasoline dream there's this part w rapid cutting and collette doing this insane gaping wide eyed silent scream that's a nice lil nod to

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Postby buttre » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:14 am

This movie is incredible, but I honestly wish I had never seen it.
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Postby Shalabi » Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:19 pm

i'm just glad this movie had a happy ending
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Postby nautical hyperblast » Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:34 pm

butter wrote:This movie is incredible, but I honestly wish I had never seen it.

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Postby easy » Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:40 am

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Postby mellowgold » Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:47 am

very here for this lol
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Postby easy » Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:48 am

is this about the plague
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Postby deadwolfbones » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:40 pm

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Postby warmjets » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:41 pm

no clue what that is, but im scared
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:49 pm

I like that this dude is just gonna churn out nasty little genre flicks every summer
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Postby jack » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:49 pm

i'm gonna see this. i don't need to know any more about it. it looks like some wicker man shit.
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Postby odilon redon » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:54 pm

hell yeah

btw that should definitely be the official trailer that plays in theaters
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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:56 pm

have a friend who says she's never been scared by a horror movie, gonna watch this for the first time with her this week. i probably can't watch it myself cause i'm a wimp so that seems like a good person to have with me lol, plus seems like a good test if she's actually scareable lol
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Postby scurrydog » Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:02 pm

I’m still right about this mess of a movie.
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Postby surly » Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:04 pm

you absolute moron
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Postby mellowgold » Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:05 am

wimbledon, strawberries, bubbles, please protect me. happy midsumma, hope you spend it in your heart, everyone is there. bitch.
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Postby Mesh » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:16 am

Some Wicker Man shit, I'm down.
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Postby odilon redon » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:25 am

this marketing rules
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Postby Mesh » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:47 am

Guys, I somehow missed this thread entirely and this movie was my #1 of 2018 so I hope you'll indulge if I cross post what I said in the Horror thread right after I saw it:

100% for sure the best in the genre I've seen since The Witch. I watched this alone in an empty house in my basement last night, and you know what: I am looking hard into every corner of my home after every crossing of every door threshold and all the lights are emphatically on. Halfway through, I wanted to turn it off and drive to my family and hold them. And then I physically flinched at a *cluck* that attacked my left ear, hard-panned to a satellite speaker in 5.1. Throughout, I related to these people so; I paced; I put fingers between my eyes and my TV. Everyone is right that Hereditary is a remix of immense power, being Rosemary's Baby in its written bones, and being largely Wan in its picture execution—but I'm here to tell you that sonically it is screaming The Exorcist, and it brilliantly martials all the aural weapons that won the reigning scariest movie an Oscar 45 years ago. Scritchy scratched drawings lead us into kid bedrooms; fires arc percussive out of haunted candles; dogs mutter and complain; flies harass our periphery; and the very very strong Stetson score pulses hypertensive and pregnant and subliminal. This movie borrows so freely but always from such strength—picking dream and literature out of Elm Street's classrooms, lifting meticulous art-obsession from the Overlook—that the heredity of its title and the heritage of its genre fuse and warp and erect a true monument to our current, horrific pace of change—political, familial, personal—a threshing reality that, as a parent, I daily feel the guilt of exposing fresh new hopeful humans to, humans I couldn't love more or be more closely related to. This movie is deeply its genre forebears and enacts the horror of that, the guilt of being so, the terror. A haunted house built on haunted houses with haunted houses stacked on other haunted houses in its foyer. Landmark movie.

edit: I like Mark Kermode largely because of his passion for The Exorcist and I sympathize with his view that exposition konks some on the head in Hereditary but I see it as a feature of the remix rather than a bug. Unlike The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby, it's trading on the horror of being all things at once, i.e. it's both a serious psychodrama and a portrait of a satanic conspiracy and must be both at once to match the complexity of our era. There might be an age threshold for embracing remix horror like Hereditary that he's crossed and I haven't yet. Anyway, enjoyed the debate above.
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Postby Viz » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:54 am

Thanks for that, Mesh.

I always tell myself I want to revisit this, but why would I put myself through that again?
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Postby Beautiful Jugdish » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:54 am

man this movie is so good. wanna rewatch it.
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Postby manvstrees » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:03 pm

one of the few times i dragged my ass to a theater thank god
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Postby Mesh » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:07 pm

Also, just donned me that the Paimon symbol has four little family members in it.

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Postby groupb » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:09 pm

cool, you just summoned him
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Postby groupb » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:14 pm

mellowgold wrote:

are there any "Birde Box" jokes yet?
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Postby blurst of times » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:16 pm

nice post, mesh

i saw this once in theaters by myself (and thought it was fantastic). i keep trying to convince friends to watch it with me, and they'll agree initially, but eventually back out. lol. i guess it doesn't help that i always talk about how scary it is.
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Postby mellowgold » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:15 am

wimbledon, strawberries, bubbles, please protect me. happy midsumma, hope you spend it in your heart, everyone is there. bitch.
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