Watched Run Sweetheart Run last night and was marginally into some elements of it, but the depiction of domestic violence against women was too much for me. I get that most horror works this tired trope, but most horror is also pretty bad.

kmc wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 5:37 am Episode 4 of Cabinet of Curiosities "The Outside" directed by Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and The Bad Batch) is really terrific, gross, and hilarious horror...though unlikely lesser known. Recommended

Great episode. Great acting

Watched Joko Anwar's Satan's Slaves 2: Communion. It wasn't as measured in its scares as the first Satan's Slaves, pretty much barrels in and keeps right on going. So if you like it quick and non-stop you should enjoy it. Some things didn't work for me and others did, but for the ones that did they worked perfectly. Top scares and tragic moments. Recommended but not as good as the first imo. You can tell the director is building a world with this story.

oh shit

Guillermo Del Toro released test footage from his long-planned At the Mountains of Madness adaptation. Dude's movies have never creeped me out, but they are a treat to look at in wonder.

Yo Murph, you watch Hellhole on Netflix yet?

kmc wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:09 am

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:11 am

kmc wrote:How was Resurrection? It's next on my list and folks are raving, so I'm a little skeptical...

Resurrection is a fantastic slow burn weird-as-hell psychological thriller. If you're looking for spooky-Rebecca Hall I strongly recommend The Night House, but she shines in this weirdo thriller as well. She's brilliant.

I tried Del Toro's new anthology. First two were kinda meh, and I stopped halfway through "The Autopsy" because I was getting sleepy. Maybe I should've started with that one, but I plan on bingeing the first season this afternoon especially because I'm interested in watching how they decide to handle Lovecraft's stories Pickman's Model and Dreams in the Witch House. I find everything GdT touches visually arresting, but never scary. Maybe it's me!

CoC is a mixed bag, some eps are solidly entertaining like 3 and 4 - though none of it, like most Del Toro produced work, is scary…more like creepy and compelling to look at. Some almost work, like 1, 7, and 8. Ep 6 was just not good.

I really liked Resurrection and Hall, in general. I didn’t care much for The Night House when it came out, but she was her typical unhinged-great in it.

Anyone see Spring? There is a good movie in there somewhere, but the dude in it pretty much ruined it.

Resurrection was good. Recommended.

Cabinet of Curiosities is definitely not scary. But I found most of the stories pretty compelling in one way or another. Way better than most anthologies I've seen in recent years.

Spring is great. It's actually my fav of their films.

Just watched Terrifier 2 and cannot for the life of me figure out why it is rated so much higher than Terrifier, which I enjoyed. I might have to rewatch. This one had more plot (which surprisingly I don't think did it any favors). Ultimately I enjoyed it, but not like I did the other one. This time around it seemed even lower budget. Some truly horrific kill scenes and a whole lot of WTF.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:45 am oh shit

Guillermo Del Toro released test footage from his long-planned At the Mountains of Madness adaptation. Dude's movies have never creeped me out, but they are a treat to look at in wonder.

IIRC the Lovecraft book was from an age where Antarctica wasn't really mapped out and the premise was there were these massively tall mountains, which IMO added to a lot of the mystery. Still would be down to see this adaptation though.

Tree wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:48 am Yo Murph, you watch Hellhole on Netflix yet?

Started it on your recommendation but soon fell asleep because I was a very sleepy boy. Hope to start it again soon!

Tommy wrote:Just watched Terrifier 2

Looking forward to finally sitting down with this one. I hear it's pretty long-winded but eventually paying-off with what it does best.

twelvepoint wrote:IIRC the Lovecraft book was from an age where Antarctica wasn't really mapped out and the premise was there were these massively tall mountains, which IMO added to a lot of the mystery. Still would be down to see this adaptation though.

There is a MoM movie that I've watched a part of on YT but the name of its director escapes me and I can't seem to locate it anymore. It was wonderful to look at with a set design out of a long-lost Robert Wiene film with impossible lines, curves, and other geometrical angles. So curious-looking. Hope it comes back to me.

A Wounded Fawn on Shudder is a feminist revenge trip wrapped in the Greek mythological tale of the Furies. Divided into two acts, the first act follows the exploits of a serial killer, and the second act shows his comeuppance replete with 16mm scratches, giallo-esque lighting, and psychedelic horror. It gets super weird, but I did leave thinking it could've been so much weirder. Possibly it's just my desensitization to such things. Still a good watch! Directed by Travis Stevens who did Jakob's Wife which I thought was fun, and Girl on the Third Floor which was ok. It stars the super handsome Josh Ruben who directed Scare Me, another movie I thought was fun. He brings the same type of theatrical energy in Scare Me to the gravitas of A Wounded Fawn. Fantastic and unique ending. It's not a spoiler to reveal that he dies because what actually happens is so much more worse than death, and rightfully merited.

Excited by this following trailer for a film out in 2023 called Skinimarink. This feels totally my jam. An experimental stream of foreboding and evil atmospherics playing on your childhood fears.

I know you have all been chomping at the bit to cast a gaze from your beady li'l eyes upon my 2022 horror listicle

Speak No Evil
*uncomfortable Danish film about the limits one will take in order to be polite. Genuinely fucked-up ending.

The Sadness
*Deliciously violent, disgusting, and taboo-destroying flick out of Taiwan about a pandemic turning people into homicidal maniacs. Get some.

Satan's Slaves 2: Communion
*didn't enjoy it as much as the first Satan's Slaves, but this Indonesian take on genealogical occultish bloodlines has authentically freakish and terrifying sequences. There's one where someone is hiding in a trash chute and a couple of demons are talking in a gleefully sadistic high-pitched girlish tone about how they are about to get sent to hell to be tormented forever just because. Infernal.

The Innocents
*movies about scary kids or kids with powers aren't usually my go-to, but this Norwegian chiller has phenomenal acting from its very young stars, as well as a horrific take on what can be loosely based on superhero contexts...and I don't care much for superhero contexts. Not for cat-lovers

Mad God
*surreal stop-motion horror from Phil Tippett. No plot, just scene after scene of nightmarish scenarios.

Moloch
*another entry about bloodlines, family curses, and destinies. Depressing!

A Wounded Fawn
*late-entry starring the criminally adorable Josh Ruben as a serial killer who receives his comeuppance via the three furies in Greek mythology. Weird, psychedelic, and freakish feminist horror with a truly wtf-ending for the ages.

Watcher
*Paranoid and suspenseful flick starring Maika Monroe being stalked in a new, foreign city.

Resurrection
*what can't Rebecca Hall do? I love her, especially in this supremely strange film about psychologically abusive relationships, power dynamics, and baby-eating.

EDIT: Forgot about Deadstream. Horror-comedy that's unabashedly cheesy during it's first half but has more than a few creepout moments. Second half had me howling with laughter as well as nervous laughter from being scared in a fun way. A cancelled influencer tries to win back his audience by live-streaming one night in a haunted house.

If you're looking for light-entertainment that mocks the social-media-online blogosphere, then put this in your pen and vape it.