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Quiet Place Day One reminds me of what I don't like about apocalypse movies or zombie films where the horror isn't even the focus but bullshit attempts at character drama.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Quiet Place Day One reminds me of what I don't like about apocalypse movies or zombie films where the horror isn't even the focus but bullshit attempts at character drama.
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Same reason I don't enjoy most of those movies. Speaking about A Quiet Place specifically, I found it rather boring, and immediately checked out when that nail showed up in the middle of a step on the staircase. Why the fuck was that nail even there?! Oh right, to make the climax more suspenseful.

No idea how they planned to keep a baby quiet, either. Were they going to keep it in a soundproof room for the first 6 years of its life?
 
BrunoMattei said:
In A Violent Nature.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WyXuRmXbS7U
I give this an 8 out of 10. Really loved it. It's a Friday the 13th movie as directed by Terrence Malick. That is exactly what it is. There's a few dry kills but the wet ones live up to hype. The deal breaker will probably be the ending which is one of those "That's it?" Kind of endings. I get what the director was doing but sometimes you have to please the audience or they turn on you like for example: Haute Tension.

Despite the last few years being shit, horror is thriving now. It reminds me of something Stuart Gordon said where horror was in decline in the 90's (which is true) but after 9/11 it suddenly roared in popularity and he theorized that it's society's way of coping with real life horror.
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Yeah I just recently saw the movie, and it was pretty fantastic. I actually liked the dry kills since it really adds to the horror of how horrifying the situation is when you remove the dramatic stuff like music and the scenes that build up the main cast to attempt to care for them or hate them.

The ending was definitely weak, and I think it should've at least been shortened a little. But it was an enjoyable film.

Samhain said:
Same reason I don't enjoy most of those movies. Speaking about A Quiet Place specifically, I found it rather boring, and immediately checked out when that nail showed up in the middle of a step on the staircase. Why the fuck was that nail even there?! Oh right, to make the climax more suspenseful.

No idea how they planned to keep a baby quiet, either. Were they going to keep it in a soundproof room for the first 6 years of its life?
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A Quiet Place also adds these ridiculous weaknesses towards the creatures like how they can't swim and high frequencies make them expose themselves which big cities have a lot of high frequencies used or sound weapons.

I wouldn't mind but the Quiet Place movies take themselves extremely seriously and like to boast how smart they are.
 
apparently Quiet Place is getting a thing at Halloween Horror Nights this year, featuring the most scary-fying of all
American Sign Language
 
ironically NOT based on the Ring where Sadako was naked and had big tits
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5mmFV9G8A4ironically NOT based on the Ring where Sadako was naked and had big tits
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And which ring was that? I like naked girls with big tits.
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It's a film he cooked up to stave off the COVID lockdown insanity, so in that context I forgive some of its shortcomings. I think it's decent. I maintain Wheatley's masterpiece is A Field in England, though.
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I finally found In The Earth in my jellyfin playlist again and watched it last night, I thought it was great. All four of the main cast did a great job, but Reece Shearsmith stole the show, he is a very compelling crazy man. Once again Wheatley makes trip sequences that are aggressively disorienting (and very authentic) but also good at advancing the story.

I want to slap everyone who wrote the reviews I saw that said nothing happens in it, those people clearly haven't watched any a24 movies. That's what I expect when you tell me nothing happens - a bunch of overly long shots of scenery, scenes where two people sit in a room and stare at each other, occasionally mumbling a sentence or two. An Oz Perkins film. In the Earth is practically action packed compared to that kind of movie. Actually thinking about it, I'd say Kill List is slower, if only a bit.

I also saw bitching about current year infection, and it does have a bit, but I found it tolerable - the eco themes some people bitch about were in particular exaggerated, in reality they are confined to the philosophy of one character. In short, if you like existential horror and don't mind a bit of an anti climactic end (there is some pay off, but a bit more would have been nice) I thoroughly recommend In The Earth.
 
I just got back from longlegs. its a 5-6/10. Not awful, but not great or amazing. Its trying to be like a Kubrick or Lynch film. But it explains too much. Kubrick in the shining didn't do that. Nor has lynch in most of his films.I enjoyed the acting. idk about cage though. I liked the atmosphere and cinematography.
 
I saw Longlegs last night and I really liked it. Highlights were the acting and the cinematography/atmosphere were really good that made you feel uncomfortable.

I also enjoyed the religious horror angle it took.
 
Have to say, as somewhat of a fan of X and Pearl, Maxxxine was not good at all. It has that "1980s VHS horror fan nostalgia" filter over it that's been too used and abused in recent years, plus we have the (probably gay) black horror fan friend who knows everything, wears heavy metal shirts, and is the only character who does not get all hornt up over the porn actress, and a horror movie director who sees herself as a great artist whose mission is to show how rotten it was under the facade of 1950s suburbia.

The movie starts with a montage of Ronald Reagan and the Parents Music Resource Center hearings but guess what--the Satanic murders happening around town are actually being done by evil Christians who think Hollywood is Satanic. Plus the porn star's dad turns out to be some sort of Evangelical preacher but he dresses up in a cassock. What, as they say, is up with that?
 
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a horror movie director who sees herself as a great artist whose mission it show how rotten it was under the facade of 1950s suburbia.
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Wouldn't it be a twist if they made a movie where a drug-addicted homosexual who participates in orgies with strangers at truckstops turned out to be secretly unhappy and dysfunctional despite his cheerful, normal exterior
 
Commander X said:
Have to say, as somewhat of a fan of X and Pearl, Maxxxine was not good at all. It has that "1980s VHS horror fan nostalgia" filter over it that's been too used and abused in recent years, plus we have the (probably gay) black horror fan friend who knows everything, wears heavy metal shirts, and is the only character who does not get all hornt up over the porn actress, and a horror movie director who sees herself as a great artist whose mission it show how rotten it was under the facade of 1950s suburbia.

The movie starts with a montage of Ronald Reagan and the Parents Music Resource Center hearings but guess what--the Satanic murders happening around town are actually being done by evil Christians who think Hollywood is Satanic. Plus the porn star's dad turns out to be some sort of Evangelical preacher but he dresses up in a cassock. What, as they say, is up with that?
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Ti West is a faggot. Only good film he did is Cabin Fever 2 and he disowned that one.
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Wouldn't it be a twist if they made a movie where a drug-addicted homosexual who participates in orgies with strangers at truckstops turned out to be secretly unhappy and dysfunctional despite his cheerful, normal exterior
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Pretty sure that was the premise of the final movie starring Robin Williams.
 
Just saw Longlegs and I really didn't like it.
Imagine a Nior flick but there is literally no tension.
It fills all the cliche nior tropes.
1. Partner gets killed and gets transfered.
2. Is part of a new case
3. gets to know her superior and his family (FOR NO FUCKING REASON)
4. gets transfered to a case she is related to (FOR NO FUCKING REASON)
5. And to still make this a "Horror Nior" movie, they add satan in there for the last 20 minutes and voodoo shit /SPOILER]
 
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