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Watched a double feature of Late Night with the Devil and Infested last night. Late Night is loving fantastic.... up until the ending. Someone above nailed it, it's found footage then it goes into Jack's hallucinations? What? I'm super disappointed the titular Devil wasn't the skeptic psychic, I kept hoping there was going to be some horrible loving reveal that he'd hypnotized everyone to start killing each other or worshipping him or etc. When the hypnosis part happened I thought FOR loving SURE that's where we were going and instead we got... the end. The opposite of sticking the landing imo, they did a 9.5 gymnastics routine and then ended it by throwing a javelin at the judges. I'm the guy Infested was made for. I wrote an entire book about a serial killer who uses swarms of insects to kill his victims. So I was fired up about this one, been talking about it for a month. Well, Infested is loving stupid. It's got a great setup but about the last 30 min or so is just loving ridiculous trash. The main character is an unlikable rear end. Nothing about the poo poo with the spiders make any sense whatsoever. They're aggressive and instantly deadly but people in Afghanistan (?) risk their lives to capture them because they sell for the huge huge price of... 50 euro? The cops showed up to a spider infestation with riot armor and machine guns? You're going to machine gun a loving spider? The first half of the movie was pretty good, especially the "swarmed by baby spiders" part that got Moussa. But man... the rest of this thing is a loving mess, when the cop-spider firefight starts we all just started laughing and then the loving firefight goes on for like 20+ minutes as background for what our heroes are doing. How many cops did they bring? Just bleh. Slot this one in next to Crawl in "good setup, descends into farce." I can believe someone shrugging off multiple 9-foot gator bites quicker than I can believe in car-sized spiders the cops show up to have a firefight with. I kinda understand why Sam Raimi wanted the Infested guy to do Evil Dead, there were a couple of genuinely skin-crawling moments and a good payoff to all that sneaker box setup but it's a Tale of Two Movies, a suspenseful first half and then all of a sudden we're in loving Spider All Quiet on the Western Front. Shoulda been "*REC with spiders" instead of "Arachnophobia played straight."
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JonathonSpectre posted:Watched a double feature of Late Night with the Devil and Infested last night. My take on it was demonic manipulation . Much like the hypnosis bit, this was the entity's effecting things. Only evidence I've got is at the end, the end transmission text glitches.
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Apr 28, 2024 15:17
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We saw what the demon wanted us to see yeah
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Apr 28, 2024 15:31
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Infested rocked. Wish it had gotten a theater run because that camera work and lighting deserved a gigantic screen.
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Apr 28, 2024 16:13
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Red Letter Media covered Late Night With The Devil and had some good points that the 70's aesthetic wasn't followed fully. It'd be cool if Jay does his project and washes out the footage a few times to achieve the grainy look of old talk shows. They also pointed out that the wide angle shots break the conceit that we're watching something being filmed on a set. It would have been cool if the shots were done from giant 70's cameras with stiff angles rather than panning out and showing us everything.
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Apr 28, 2024 17:12
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dorium posted:Infested rocked. Wish it had gotten a theater run because that camera work and lighting deserved a gigantic screen. There were definitely parts I really, really liked, which is what made the parts I didn't so disappointing. I especially loved the scene where he puts the spider in the shoebox in his room for the first time. The way it keeps cutting back to the tanks and the animals moving, that was some seriously excellent 'oh gently caress what is this spider' tension. I also thought the walk out of the parking garage was first rate, my skin was crawling the entire time. And the already mentioned scene where Moussa gets bit on the toe and then just swarmed by almost-invisibly small baby spiders, that was loving dreadful. Just don't follow that up with a line of cops shooting at a doorway as spiders pour out of it screeching and clicking. And DO NOT set up a sequence where your highly-unlikeable main character can be eaten by a spider the size of a loving motorcycle and then let him walk away! Deep Blue Sea knew! When some dumbshit gets a bunch of people killed they get eaten at the end of the movie. Come on now, just eat him. Maybe that's the alternate ending for the director's cut. "I've got to go raise the gate." >steps outside< >even bigger spider jumps him from behind and rips poo poo up< >girls gun it and smash through the gate< DEEP BLUE SPIDER
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