Rewatched Scream 1 & 2 for the first time in a while. they still rule. I forgot how bad Ulrich, Lillard, and Olyphant are though. LIke, somehow Jamie Kennedy is not the most annoying performance in either movie. quite an accomplishment.
David Arquette is a fucking genius, though.
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
FourLegsGood wrote:Did anyone see the Black Christmas reimagining? Not really scary but it was a lot more fun than it had any right to be.
I saw it on christmas eve. I thought it was pretty bad but appreciated sophia takal & april wolfe's fresh spin on the material (college slasher flick as commentary on rape cultureToggle Spoiler). I read afterward that they were purposefully making the film for a younger audience in mind, hence the pg-13. I'm afraid that doesn't excuse how shoddy it is technically though
yesterday I saw a double feature of the color out of space + underwater. perfect combo. both highly recommended!
did anyone see the grudge? excited to catch that on video
The Turning is a shit-looking Turn of the Screw adaptation/remake of The Innocents with Deborah Kerr, which is fucking awesome, came out in the 60s and hasn't aged a day. scary as hell.
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
goofjan wrote:The Turning is a shit-looking Turn of the Screw adaptation/remake of The Innocents with Deborah Kerr, which is fucking awesome, came out in the 60s and hasn't aged a day. scary as hell.
what do you wanna bet the new movie drops all underscoring of the incest implicationsToggle Spoiler that was in the near 60 year old The Innocents?
the grudge and the turning are both bad. the grudge tries but flaps around and falls flat on its face. the turning isn't even trying. just a bunch of jump scares strung randomly together. i walked out about 10 minutes before the end. still, i've probably seen worse!
The Nest of the Cuckoo Bird is streaming for free on Refn's bynwr site (just requires e-mail signup). Apparently he's also responsible for funding the restoration.
just watched the the blackcoats daughter. it was pretty cheesy overall but all horror films dealing with the intersection between femininity and the occult are extremely my jam so i had a blast with it
The director of Be My Cat just randomly added me on Letterboxd. That was a pretty delightful surprise.
Watched all four Hatchet movies over the weekend. They’re entertaining but I wish I liked them more. I always enjoy seeing Tony Todd pop up in movies though.
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I've seen one or two hatchet movies but didn't like them enough to watch the rest of them
finally watched color out of space last weekend. not perfect but I liked it. I found the cronenbergy bit near the end to be genuinely upsetting tbh. the mother's role was odd. her job as some sort of stock-broker with clients seemed completely unnecessary and tacked on, but I really liked how her character seemed, from what I've read, to be very obviously inspired my stanley's own mother, and her battle with cancer, and her enthusiasm for lovecraft. and what happens to the mother and the son in the movie is a lot more affective in that light.
watched the recent black christmas movie the other day, fully prepared to go along with a dumb, mass-produced horror movie (which I am often a fan of) but man, I was just irritated throughout it
the movie cheats, constantly. there's a scene where a character is searching a room and then walks out of the room into a hallway, with a dramatic shot of the killer suddenly being right behind her. wait, so where was he? and a scene of a character chilling in her apartment, then opening the front door and looking for the source of a noise, and then goes back inside and of course the killer is right there. or a character running through a neighborhood banging on multiple doors and finally when a porch light comes on, the door is opened by the killer. or when a character abruptly leaves a party and goes to an upstairs junk room to contemplate, and the killer is there waiting for her. how did he know she'd come into that room? and since we learn at the end that there's multiple killers dressed in the same scary costume, it makes me wonder, was there also a killer waiting in the basement or in the upstairs bathroom waiting for something to happen and instead had to spend hours on their phone killing time? and how psyched was the killer in the junk room when the character walked in. "holy shit! I'm on!"Toggle Spoiler
I watched Sweetheart and I mostly liked it but I think they kinda fumbled the ball. it's the movie said, "hey would you like to see the last 20 minutes of Predator stretched out to 80 minutes and with Kiersey Clemons?" and I was like, "uh... sure! that sounds great." and it was! but then they introduced the two most annoying characters I've seen in a while and it all kinda falls apart. the movie was doing just fine without dialogue but once everyone starts talking, everything that's subtle becomes unbearably obvious and it's just boring.Toggle Spoiler
cool creature design though. and good scares.
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
jalapeño ranch wrote:The director of Be My Cat just randomly added me on Letterboxd. That was a pretty delightful surprise.
Watched all four Hatchet movies over the weekend. They’re entertaining but I wish I liked them more. I always enjoy seeing Tony Todd pop up in movies though.
funny you brought up Hatchet after that director comment, Joe Lynch is a regular at the same rental place I'm a member of so I've seen him before. seems like a ice guy.
I know Pattinson also goes there so I'm crossing my fingers that our paths cross one day
jack wrote:i went to see the lodge tonight and it was very bad.
jfc I agree. total piece of shit, makes a strong case for Rotten Tomatoes updating their scoring metrics (it's currently certified fresh for some godawful reason).
it felt very badly like NEON wanted to have their won A24 horror hit and snatched this up at Sundance as soon as they saw that it had good cinematography, slow pacing and the main IT kid. but it's such a fucking snoozefest with one of the stupidest, hard-to-take-seriously twists I've ever seen. and not in the fun way like Serenity.