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Xiahou Dun posted:Re : Out of Darkness. The showings for this one were pretty consistently packed tonight.
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it is with a heavy heart that I must report Out of Darkness is not particularly good. solid 2.5/5, great first film, but not singularly great itself.quote:An absolute triumph of a first feature, Andrew Cumming definitely has my attention for his next piece. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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Shrecknet posted:it is with a heavy heart that I must report Out of Darkness is not particularly good. solid 2.5/5, great first film, but not singularly great itself. Disappointed to hear this. Did they leave room for a sequel?
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Disappointed to hear this. Did they leave room for a sequel?
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I don’t think they know what the ending is
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I rewatched X this weekend. Still kicks rear end and there are some small bits that have a bit more meaning after seeing Pearl, too. I still go with House of the Devil as my favorite Ti West movie but X is real close and is probably, objectively, the "better" movie in a lot of ways.
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Yeah I watched X recently and was surprised. I hated Ti West's earlier stuff with the Innkeepers and all the direct to dvd movies he made so I was blowing this one off. drat good acting across the board. Jenny Ortega discovering the body is top 10 facial acting. Kid Cudi, Britney Snow, and Martin Henderson were all great too. Mia Goth as Maxine wasn't great but when she acted as Pearl it was an impressive switch. She's a bit of an overactor and her inflection kills me sometimes but it was pretty decent. I watched the Dead Meat episode on it after and didn't realize at all that they foreshadowed every death but on reflection it was solid and not forced in there like other horror directors that shall rename nameless because people worship him.
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Shrecknet posted:Are the husband and wife of this new world really named Ad(a)m and Ev(e)? That would have been a little clunky, sure, but by the end they're very much not I feel like they fleshed out Adem and his band enough that the lack of any sort of plan on their part other than "this land will be bountiful and Adem will get everything he wants" felt pretty natural. Dialogue makes it clear that their tribe was in dire straits anyway, he fled with a handful of people and some of what would already have been short supplies, he hosed up and landed in Bleakness: The Country, and he was on the back foot the entire time they were there. Honestly I think that mostly went the way I was expecting it to, once I realized that at "45000 years" Neanderthals were on the table. Wasn't expecting quite that bleak of an ending but I suppose "man's inhumanity to man" is as good a theme as any. I'm interested to see what archaeologists and anthropologists think about how the setting was handled.
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Good 80s horror that's just chill
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Doltos posted:Yeah I watched X recently and was surprised. I hated Ti West's earlier stuff with the Innkeepers and all the direct to dvd movies he made so I was blowing this one off. please, terrible opinions are valued here. continue
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DeimosRising posted:please, terrible opinions are valued here. continue Ari Aster's foreshadowing is hamfisted and worthless to the story. People should ask why Florence Pugh's character has a bear painting above her bed, not that it was there. It's lazy and bad. Also I'm glad your team played horrible and lost the Super Bowl on their own merit
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Hollismason posted:Good 80s horror that's just chill The Fog
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Ti West is a very stylish director who excels at nailing whatever era/sub-genre he wants to evoke, but until X/Pearl the only film of his that really came together for me was The House of the Devil, which I just love and may still be my favorite. But X/Pearl was the first time his movies had really excellent character writing, especially put over the top by having Mia Goth partner up with him for the screenplay for Pearl. I can pretty much take or leave the rest. I've seen The Sacrament (found footage Jonestown), In the Valley of Violence (an OK Western) and The Innkeepers (I remember nothing about this film).
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Crescent Wrench posted:Ti West is a very stylish director who excels at nailing whatever era/sub-genre he wants to evoke, but until X/Pearl the only film of his that really came together for me was The House of the Devil, which I just love and may still be my favorite. But X/Pearl was the first time his movies had really excellent character writing, especially put over the top by having Mia Goth partner up with him for the screenplay for Pearl. I can pretty much take or leave the rest. I've seen The Sacrament (found footage Jonestown), In the Valley of Violence (an OK Western) and The Innkeepers (I remember nothing about this film). this is pretty much where i'm at too. House of the Devil kind of was setup to succeed as soon as it cast Tom Noonan
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Crescent Wrench posted:Ti West is a very stylish director who excels at nailing whatever era/sub-genre he wants to evoke, but until X/Pearl the only film of his that really came together for me was The House of the Devil, which I just love and may still be my favorite. But X/Pearl was the first time his movies had really excellent character writing, especially put over the top by having Mia Goth partner up with him for the screenplay for Pearl. I can pretty much take or leave the rest. I've seen The Sacrament (found footage Jonestown), In the Valley of Violence (an OK Western) and The Innkeepers (I remember nothing about this film). House of the Devil was a solid film and I love the brutal pistol kill that sets the tone for that movie. The main actress, Jocelin Donahue, got more work in Dr. Sleep but she was also in a pretty decent FMV game called Immortality. The Innkeepers was a borefest that didn't age well at all. The two main characters talk in l33t speak and are pretty annoying/bland. He also spent way too much time developing the characters because the film is about a hotel ghost that I don't think would be that scary if it was shown for the majority of the film. You can see shades of the methodical developing in X which is done much better. Definitely a director that's trending up through his career.
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Doltos posted:House of the Devil was a solid film and I love the brutal pistol kill that sets the tone for that movie. I was watching the movie with my family and my dad got up to run to the kitchen about 10 seconds before that was about to happen and I had to frantically pause. "No, I'll be right back, you can just let it play." "Uhhhh no, I uhhh... I need to take a break too?"
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Football is over and if you're anywhere near me you're preparing to be buried by snow so if you need some horror movies to watch under a comfy blanket or something Bracketology has got ya. Where’ We’re At: 1. (Samfucius’ I Ain't Never Seen This Before) Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink vs. 8. (Goat’s Lewton Bus) Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim vs. 9. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse 7. (Goat’s Bracketology Redux) Steve Beck’s Thir13en Ghosts vs. 15. (Darth’s Team Fresh Styles) Bigas Luna’s Anguish You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Feb 19th (or when I get to it) Next Week! Elvira's 16 Seed Play In: Team Drowning in Atmosphere vs. The Return of the Bride of the Remake's Ghost! vs. Undying Love Elvira's 15 Seed Play In: M. Night Shyamalan vs. Life affirming Austrians vs. Álex de la Iglesia Thread / Spreadsheet / Letterboxd List
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Doltos posted:Ari Aster's foreshadowing is hamfisted and worthless to the story. People should ask why Florence Pugh's character has a bear painting above her bed, not that it was there. It's lazy and bad. how rude i don't like ari aster at all
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Hollismason posted:Good 80s horror that's just chill Doesn't get more chill than The Thing.
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Jedit posted:Doesn't get more chill than The Thing. 
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Doltos posted:House of the Devil was a solid film and I love the brutal pistol kill that sets the tone for that movie. The main actress, Jocelin Donahue, got more work in Dr. Sleep but she was also in a pretty decent FMV game called Immortality. Innkeepers was hyped up for me a lot before I saw it and it didn't really live up to they hype. I enjoyed the setting and the characters quite a bit, but it was a lotta buildup for a payoff that kinda fell flat for me. I also watched The Roost at some point, I didn't really dig the main story BUT I loved the framing device of Tom Noonan being a horror movie host who actually lives in some kind of haunted castle and has a 'master' that shows up at the end. I feel like that framing device has legs, I actually wouldn't mind him revisiting this at some point.
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It's called Chiller, not Chillest. Checkmate.
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I preferred Innkeepers over House of the Devil mostly because the characters were so well done, and they worked incredibly well off each other through the entire flick. HotD was a good skeleton of a movie, but it was the opposite of Innkeepers, the characters had nothing to them, so they weren't really captivating. That's usually not an issue, but when the movie is such a slow burn, you gotta do something. The payoff in HotD was better than Innkeepers, but the characters won me over in Innkeepers along with the build up of mystery and dread that was also well done.
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I thought Innkeepers had a few good moments, the ghost in the bed was pretty great, but all the shock cuts, especially near the end, were pretty awful. Less of a vibe than HotD, and vibes are that movie's whole thing so it ends up kinda paltry without that.
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I think for me the boost that Tom Noonan gives to House of the Devil is what elevates it over The Innkeepers. And I know he's not even in the movie all that much but Innkeepers just doesn't have anything that can match up with Noonan's presence.
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That's true, Noonan's fuckin GOAT and adds an incredible presence to anything he's in.
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Jedit posted:It's called Chiller, not Chillest. Checkmate. to be Chiller, there must be a Thing you are more chill than.
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Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) is officially on Shudder today Also there today: The Psychic, Vamp, and Bad Girl Boogey
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Baron von Eevl posted:That's true, Noonan's fuckin GOAT and adds an incredible presence to anything he's in. I thought Anomalisa was a relatively weak effort from Charlie Kaufman, but Tom Noonan was an inspired choice to be the uniform speaking voice of everyone in the world.
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Chris James 2 posted:Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) is officially on Shudder today strong contender for best horror film of the '90s Chris James 2 posted:Also there today: The Psychic could this be the best Fulci giallo? are Fulci's giallos overall stronger than Argento's? food for thought
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Out of Darkness was mediocre. It was mostly boring in that the director doesn't seem to understand if you try to maintain tension too long it just dissipates. Scenes of the characters surrounded by darkness and noises going on for 5+ minutes at a time. The theater had about 8 people in it. Two left around the midpoint out of what I assume was boredom. One person left immediately at the twist, which was quite dumb. I was really excited about Paleolithic horror, but this ain't it.
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I kinda hate when a movie teases that there might be a supernatural or weird element to it and then comes in with a relatively grounded answer. I can't really list examples here without it being spoilers but I'm at the point where if I think it might happen and I'm at all on the fence about seeing a movie I'll look up the ending.
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DeimosRising posted:how rude Ditto.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I kinda hate when a movie teases that there might be a supernatural or weird element to it and then comes in with a relatively grounded answer. I can't really list examples here without it being spoilers but I'm at the point where if I think it might happen and I'm at all on the fence about seeing a movie I'll look up the ending. I’m trying to think of examples but my brain is fixed firmly on Scooby Doo
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bitterandtwisted posted:I’m trying to think of examples but my brain is fixed firmly on Scooby Doo Night Creatures aka Captain Clegg is often described as a Scooby Doo movie. I guess that's a spoiler but oh well, the movie is 60 years old.
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I like X and Pearl, but my favorite Ti West movie is when he gets skulled by an arrow in You're Next.
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Basebf555 posted:Night Creatures aka Captain Clegg is often described as a Scooby Doo movie. that movie kicks rear end. Peter Cushing and Oliver Reed as pirates!
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bitterandtwisted posted:I’m trying to think of examples but my brain is fixed firmly on Scooby Doo It's fairly common in 50s/early 60s stuff. House on Haunted Hill is my favorite of these because yeah, we want ghosts, but instead we get Vincent Price being an amazing prankster and that's just as good.
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bitterandtwisted posted:I’m trying to think of examples but my brain is fixed firmly on Scooby Doo SPOILERS for two movies The Boy Housebound I generally get annoyed at this trope too, but I actually liked both of these movies.
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