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morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
This was pretty good but I thought it was a lot stronger before the supernatural angle gets introduced. I get what he was going for but the strained and awkward conversations up top were a lot more interesting and unnerving than the actual horror stuff

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morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

HellCopter posted:

Having the plot hinge on something impossible makes the movie a little less...relateable? I'm scared of weird tightly-knit cult communities but I'm not afraid of getting my brain stolen.

Though it obviously works better for what the movie was trying to say.


Yeah, this basically. (Freezing people with mind powers seems like it falls pretty comfortably under "supernatural" but you can argue the semantics.) The commentary is interesting but it's a lot less effective as a horror movie in the back half. I think part of the issue is the cross-cutting with Lil Rel Howery's bit – it's funny and I wouldn't want to axe it completely, but it kills a lot of the tension the first 45 minutes has.

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

Franchescanado posted:

I still want to see the ghost deer scene from the trailer

I watched it to see what you were talking about, and it's a cool-looking shot — but holy poo poo does the trailer basically condense the entire movie into two minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ

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