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I watched The Midnight Swim (2014) recently after someone recc'd it in the horror thread, and its a pretty fitting film for this thread too. People tend to compare its tone with Picnic at Hanging Rock and Lake Mungo, so if that's your poo poo definitely check it out. Anyway I loved it. Comparing it with Lake Mungo and PaHR is pretty strong praise imo, but I think it''s definitely warranted. The only thing that really threw me off about it was the name Spirit Lake. It's so weirdly on the nose that it's jarring. Also the ending's kinda funny. Kinda like if the weird secret ending to Picnic at Hanging Rock was actually included in the book after all. I don't know if I needed that last little reveal, but still, I dug it.
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Has anybody seen Crimson Peak yet? It's definitely really cheesy at times (and the big "reveal" is so obvious it hurts) but I really enjoyed it despite its flaws. I'm a huge production design nerd and the costuming, staging, and lighting in the film are just insane. There was this one sequence involving snow, clay, and a staircase that was so evocative it made me gasp in the theater. The lighting and imagery feel like something out of a Dario Argento film when the movie is at its best. The atmosphere of dread and decaying splendor is so well done, and the costuming seriously deserves an oscar nom imo. I'm warming up to some of the awkwardness of the plot upon thinking about how it's supposed to be a literal revival of old gothic hammer horror stories, with all the melodrama and dubious characterization that comes with them. That being said, the continued needless cuts back to America (which RUINS the mood every time) and the complete one-sidedness of some of the characters is definitely a little frustrating. I'd say it's 100% still worth a look though if you're a fan of Edward Gorey-esque imagery and really indulgent, lush stories that are more about passion than logic. See it in a theater if you can because the thematic imagery (aside from a few overdone CG ghosts) of the house and characters is just wonderful.
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I saw it. It was really pretty. I also like that it was kind of a feminist story. I posted in the genchat thread that I think it would have been better without 90% of the ghosts. They were by far the weakest part of the movie. The acting is super-good. Jessica Chastain has a great scene where she's talking and doing something with her hands at the same time and it's captivating. Lots of great details like that in the movie. Kate Hawley's costume design is amazing and is tied into the color direction.
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I loved how it continuously defied expectations - not contradicted, just defied. For instance, the thing which is referred to as an "infernal machine" by its creator, and is the major set piece in the finale, and is activated in the final fight ... Kills no one. I loved it.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:58
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Also loved the femme-fight at the end. No descent into action-heroism and one-liners, just two stressed gentlewomen, metal implements, and life-or-death stakes.
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Oct 21, 2015 08:04
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Paolomania posted:Also loved the femme-fight at the end. No descent into action-heroism and one-liners, just two stressed gentlewomen, metal implements, and life-or-death stakes. Actually there was a one-liner, and it was great. I liked how Hunnam's character showed up like a savior, but then immediately needed saving. Like the expectation was maybe that Hiddleston and Hunnam would fight. But then that's not even close to what happens.
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Crimson Peak was very pretty but also boring to me. I felt like the audience was several steps ahead of the plot sometimes and other times some of the exposition just felt unnatural to me like when the main character finds the devices that contain the audio journals of the previous women who the siblings killed. Surely there was a better way to reveal that kind of information. I also agree that the scenes in America were a detriment to the tempo and atmosphere of the movie. It was very Sean Bean in Silent Hill-esque.
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Ehud posted:I finally watched Lake Mungo this weekend and I've felt kind of depressed ever since. That's the first movie in a while that has really stuck with me. It may have hit a little too close to home as I had a sister who passed away about 15 years ago and the way the family dealt with their grief was very, very real.
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i am only on page 16 of this thread, but so far i have been recommended some great movies so I will continue to read through all replies. that being said, was Session 9 recommended here? I thought somebody here said it was worth watching but after just finishing it I found it a waste of time. As far as I can tell the entire plot was left unanswered, and it wasn't very scary either.
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amosni posted:i am only on page 16 of this thread, but so far i have been recommended some great movies so I will continue to read through all replies. that being said, GyverMac fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Nov 15, 2015 12:33
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Crimson Peak really did feel like a 19th century gothic novel in film form. Slow but a very likeable and pretty film. The descent into cliched horror movie gore in the last fifteen minutes was a bit weird though.
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So, I got to see Goodnight Mommy as part of an independent film festival last night, and I have to say I was unimpressed. It seemed to tackle a lot of the same themes as The Babadook, like grief, loss, an inability to accept those first two, but with a great deal less careful contemplation and followthrough. I also can't help but feel that the trailer for the film was kind of misrepresentative, as a huge chunk of the scary things that happen in the trailer are just part of nightmare sequences, particularly the Jacob's Ladder-eque head shaking. The big twist of the film, that the second twin isn't actually real, was fairly obvious by the halfway point, though it definitely could have been handled more poorly. A lot of the movie was very beautifully shot, it's bleak and depressing in an interesting way, but it really wasn't scary, and just devolves into child on parent torture porn, which really wasn't something I wanted out of an Austrian artsy horror movie.
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This one's pretty artsy fartsy, but I'm into that. Eye's Without A Face is really good. That trailer get's a little spoilery around :46, but check it out.
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GyverMac posted:Yeah it's been mentioned a couple of times, but in my opinion its such a good movie it deserves every mention it gets. Its a shame you felt it was a waste of time though. I personally love that movie. I guess I got tricked into thinking it was a supernatural film and I was disappointed that it wasn't.
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amosni posted:I guess I got tricked into thinking it was a supernatural film and I was disappointed that it wasn't. It actually can be, depending on how you interpret it. The ending is meant to evoke the idea that Simon possessed both the girl and Gordon. I actually had pretty much the opposite reaction to you; I went in expecting, based on what I'd heard, that it was a non-supernatural horror film, and was surprised by the ending (although I still liked it). Again, it's really up to individual interpretation.
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Love it or hate it (I didn't really do either) you gotta applaud Session 9 for giving us a great reaction .gif Jesus Caruso what the hell happened man
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amosni posted:I guess I got tricked into thinking it was a supernatural film and I was disappointed that it wasn't. Nah stick to your guns: it's a dull, unimaginative film.
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DeimosRising posted:Nah stick to your guns: it's a dull, unimaginative film. I haven't seen it in mad long but I've always kind of felt this.
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Session 9 is great. i really love Brad Anderson's directorial style, he's got a few extremely solid films under his belt, lotta good TV work too (including one of the best Wire episodes)
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Nomad175 posted:The ending is meant to evoke the idea that Simon possessed both the girl and Gordon. not ashamed to say I didn't catch that. I didn't know Caruso was in the film prior to watching it. I'm just glad he didn't overact his part.
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Session 9: The voicework in the creepy tapes is really well done. I don't think I've heard a voice just plain creep me out so much until the baby monitor scene in Insidious. Indrid Cold from the Mothman Prophesies creeped me out too.
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I've always thought that Session 9 is a much better Silent Hill movie than any of the actual Silent Hill movies, for whatever that's worth. I know that's not the highest hurdle to clear, but it was a decent substitute after those movies turned out so poorly.
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I like Session 9 a lot less than I did when it came out, but the soundtrack by Climax Golden Twins remains a terrific haunted afternoon album.
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Session 9 was pretty great despite it's number of glaring flaws. It's SO effective at creating dread/bad juju feelings by using really creative scanarios: - The guy thinking he's struck it rich after knocking a brick loose and finding a cache of old valuables, not realizing that he was essentially grave-robbing the crematorium - The lobotomy that inspired the "what are you doing here" alive-zombie man - The hallway sequence after the lights started to go off in the access tunnels after the generator failed - Eyeball murder amongst the decontamination poly - Multiple descents into madness; not being able to discern what's real... Much more truly "scary" than anything I can think of Serious Party Gods fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 19:55
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mysterious frankie posted:I like Session 9 a lot less than I did when it came out, but the soundtrack by Climax Golden Twins remains a terrific haunted afternoon album. And yeah... that creep-a-zoid twinking piano bit. I think CGT actually pulled that from another 50-60's Avant Garde composer?
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Heavy Petting posted:And yeah... that creep-a-zoid twinking piano bit. I think CGT actually pulled that from another 50-60's Avant Garde composer? yep yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47Zk8riCO4
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Just for clarification, I still really enjoy Session 9, but I was obsessed with it on release.
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mysterious frankie posted:yep yep Big up - listen to this if you like creepy music/scores
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just watched 'under the skin'. i liked it but wish there was more to the ending. has anyone read the novel it was based off of? e: recently watched Kristy off Netflix. Not sure if it qualifies for this thread but I thought I'd mention it. It's about a group of satanists terrorizing a student at an abandoned college. Nothing too special, but entertaining. also on netflix was Let Us Prey, which I would recommend. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3148348/ drunk dog fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Yeah, it's a pretty good 21st-century revisit of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It's supposed to make you not want to eat meat because what if it was the sheep that were eating people, what then huh, but quite frankly the descriptions of human meat in the novel were so mouthwatering I kinda wanted to take a bite out of my arm to see if we taste as good to us as we do to the sheep. Quite frankly anybody who is fooled by a shaved sheep with fake tits and a Scarlett Johansson mask deserves to get ate anyway.
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amosni posted:also on netflix was Let Us Prey, which I would recommend. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3148348/ Watched this and, what the hell. So (entire movie summation/spoiler) He's Lucifer, the town is full of absolutely terrible people/psychopaths, she's a bit nutty from being kidnapped and raped a bunch as a kid and they fall in love at the end? Not bad, but the end is just like "Well, we couldn't think of any other way to end this so here you go". It does have a bit of gore, but nothing too bad.
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Coffeehitler posted:Watched this and, what the hell. So (entire movie summation/spoiler) He's Lucifer, the town is full of absolutely terrible people/psychopaths, she's a bit nutty from being kidnapped and raped a bunch as a kid and they fall in love at the end? I think she was supposed to represent god, or an angel. sort of because of her innocence as the new girl (or from the time of her kidnapping, when she was saved by him). and with him as a representation of the devil/demon, the ending kind of tied together with duality which I thought was cool.
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Great stuff for weeks here. I recommend Thesis by Pedro Amenabar who also did The Others and Regression. IMDb posted:While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... The gore is handled in such way that you know horrible things are done but you don't actually see it.
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Tesis is rough stuff.
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Coffeehitler posted:Watched this and, what the hell. So (entire movie summation/spoiler) He's Lucifer, the town is full of absolutely terrible people/psychopaths, she's a bit nutty from being kidnapped and raped a bunch as a kid and they fall in love at the end? I'm just happy to see Davos get a happy ending.
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did Session 9 get taken off of like everything? i couldn't find it on netflix, hulu, or itunes, but i could find it on youtube. wanted to watch it again after reading this thread and it was just gone. sorry if this has already been asked. i swear it was on netflix not too long ago... oh i watched Thesis, thanks for the recommendation, that was very good! i liked that they kept most things hidden, as other posters have said. it made it scarier for me. i don't know if this quiiiiite fits in the thread, but I watched Pretty Dead this week and thought it was a fantastic approach on the traditional zombie film great! i've heard very good things about The Witch and am super stoked for that to come out, i bet it's gonna' be a blast! A Spider Covets fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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So i'm hosting a horror double bill night for my friends soon and i'm looking for some good ideas on genuinely scary films. Like, personally, i've never really found supernatural films to be that scary but i'd be happy to put one on that fits the psychological horror aspect. I was thinking of Ghostwatch (the clever filming techniques are amazing) and maybe something like Eden Lake or The Others but it would be good to get some other suggestions. Basically, i want people to walk out feeling unnerved but not in a "man i wasted my time watching that" kind of way.
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Kin posted:So i'm hosting a horror double bill night for my friends soon and i'm looking for some good ideas on genuinely scary films. Sounds like you're asking for some top "scary" picks. If I had to pick one that unnerved me the most, I'm goint to go with Session 9.
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Kin posted:So i'm hosting a horror double bill night for my friends soon and i'm looking for some good ideas on genuinely scary films. Would people consider Kill List a psychological horror movie?
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Skyscraper posted:Would people consider Kill List a psychological horror movie? There's no way I'd show Kill List to a decent sized group of friends, at least a few are pretty much guaranteed to hate it. Its really not for everyone.
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