numberthirty wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:53 pm

Spent some time yesterday actively trying to avoid the trailer but I gave in to bits and pieces. Finally watched a "sneak peek" where the one stranger asks about Tamara being home (spoiler alert: she's never home). I get where you're coming from especially from that specific setup, but I'd be lying if I didn't state that I'm looking forward to it. I'm not super familiar with Renny Harlin's movies but remember the opening to Cliffhanger being intense and suspenseful. Fingers crossed.

Speaking of Bryan Bertino, who is tops in my book, he's got a new one coming out next year called Vicious. From reading the synopsis it looks like it has nothing to do with Oliver Park's effective short film carrying the same name, but I'm interested nonetheless! That horror short is some scary shit.

Finally took the chance to have a sit and experience Ghostwatch. Not bad, but I scared myself more from what I was imagining than what was unfolding onscreen. I had heard and read so much about it there was an imagined version playing along with what I was actually watching. Weird!

Resurrection featuring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth starts out really really great, but I'm not sure how I feel about the ending yet. Ending a story must be so difficult. Hall, Roth, and Grace Kaufmann all are fantastic, but Hall definitely steals the show.

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:28 am Rebecca Hall

Loved Resurrection. The Night House is also rad. Passing is on the list.

That was one of a small number of newer films I watched in the past year. Rebecca Hall was indeed great in it. Great like, now-I-should-see-every-film-she's-acted-in great. There are those overly mannered English thespian types who assail the viewer/theatergoer with a thick fog of their actorly instincts; it can get stuffy real quick. But there are also many trained professionals who can bring it and then some, who know how to ride the line, when less is more.

Anyway, I--like FM enframed--thought the ending of Resurrection was disappointing. They had a good enough central conceit, mounting tension, enough atmosphere, credible performances, but then it amounted to something less interesting than I'd imagined.

For me, the suspension of disbelief was less a problem than the conclusion being so literal. Like, *spoiler alert*: the baby has literally been inside of him this whole time? That's the crux of this, that she has to carve her estranged kid out of her asshole ex-husband's stomach? Okay, then.

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DaveA wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:11 pm Anyway, I--like FM enframed--thought the ending of Resurrection was disappointing. They had a good enough central conceit, mounting tension, enough atmosphere, credible performances, but then it amounted to something less interesting than I'd imagined.

For me, the suspension of disbelief was less a problem than the conclusion being so literal. Like, *spoiler alert*: the baby has literally been inside of him this whole time? That's the crux of this, that she has to carve her estranged kid out of her asshole ex-husband's stomach? Okay, then.

Spoiler:

Well see I dunno if it was literal, (in fact I don't see how it possibly could be), or if the ending was her realizing she had been firmly planted in madness, which her final gasp at the end might signify. If that is the case, I like it better.

That's possible. But if it was imagined/a hallucination spurred on by madness or some sort of motherly abandonment issues, then I think the film should've conveyed that better.

The scene itself--whether intended to be taken at face value or not--was kind of hard to accept as the outcome of all that build up. I didn't buy it.

mrcancelled wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:27 pm It's a fairly formulaic teen slasher movie but I thought Thanksgiving was a fun watch. I've become pretty desensitized to horror movie gore but some of the scenes in this had me wincing.

GNAR!

Very entertaining and disturbingly gruesome. Kept me guessing (I'm still not positive it was a one-person operation). Never watched the trailer so every single moment was a nice surprise. Bring on the sequel.

If you are not a fan of found footage this won't change yr mind. I'm a fan and I found it so-so, but it does have a cool-lookin' frogman so there's that.

EDIT: Looks like the new Salem's Lot is going right to streaming on Max next year. What a turbulent rollout this film has seen. Hope springs eternal. The original '79 miniseries was one of the earliest horror offerings to scare the wits out of me. Kurt Barlow is up there with Count Orlok as one of cinema's most terrifying draculas. Speaking of: Alexander Ward is supposedly tapped to be the new Kurt Barlow. I'm unfamiliar, but he appears to look like he can pull it off. A boy can dream. Or have nightmares.

Krev wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:52 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2023 10:50 pmSolaris.

The Tarkovsky movie? That wasn't horror.

I don't know, dead love ones coming back to life.Sounds like a nightmare to me. I feel it is but that's just an opinion.
To point of the thread I guess it isn't lees known.