Who else here thought that a prequel to a FIFTY year old movie was gonna end up terrible? And who was shocked they were proven wrong?!
So I read an interview Nell Tiger Free did about THAT scene in the street, and she talked about how crew would have to walk off set after the takes. Yea, I completely get why because that scene was FUCKED. I genuinely couldn’t watch it completely. Props to her.
The plot was definitely predictable especially with the “twist”, but that doesn’t take away from the fact there’s so much good in this movie. The one element I didn’t expect was Luz, the roommate being in on it, I was thinking she’d try to help Margaret and die that way but nope.
The two birth scenes…….CHRIST ALMIGHTY. I remember a few weeks ago when someone posted an article about how this film almost got NC-17 rating before they had to edit it down, and lots of people here kinda rolled our eyes thinking it was a publicity thing to get people interested in the film.
And after seeing it….im shocked they STILL didn’t get NC-17 because just the first birth scene alone was disturbing in a way I haven’t seen in any recent horror film. The camera work in the whole movie was great but the way they filmed that scene in particular was chilling. I kinda want them to release an unrated cut because I am curious what was cut out.
What an absolute waste of potential. It's essentially the Wish version of the original, with the two most unlikeable main characters making the worst decisions possible over and over again. Everything that made the original memorable was stripped out of the remake and replaced with... nothing. Well, cliches. Lots and lots of them. Giving Night Swim a run for worst horror movie of '24.
Scenes that stood out to me as the most ridiculous: The girl is alone in the cabin after the second knock incident and clearly hears footsteps and noises INSIDE THE CABIN. What does she do? Sets her phone down, smokes a joint, and turns her back on the entire room to play the piano. What?! Then when she's buried in the leaves and the doll face doesn't see her, she decides to get up and make more noise, instead of, you know, STAYING HIDDEN. Boyfriend has a freaking shotgun to the back of dollface's head and does nothing but get knocked out. Also, how many trips/falls/sprained ankles can you have in one movie?
Saint Maude and now Love Lies Bleeding? Rose Glass got the juice! I’m gonna watch anything she does from here till the end.
This movie was an experience. I love the vibe, two souls with a lightning connection that just create chaos around them. This is going to be re-watched again and again.
That touch of horror with the bad acid/steroid trip was beautifully executed.
Saint Maude and now Love Lies Bleeding? Rose Glass got the juice! I’m gonna watch anything she does from here till the end.
This movie was an experience. I love the vibe, two souls with a lightning connection that just create chaos around them. This is going to be re-watched again and again.
That touch of horror with the bad acid/steroid trip was beautifully executed.
Saint Maude and now Love Lies Bleeding? Rose Glass got the juice! I’m gonna watch anything she does from here till the end.
This movie was a fucking experience. I love the vibe, two souls with a lightning connection that just create chaos around them. This is going to be re-watched again and again.
That touch of horror with the bad acid/steroid trip was beautifully executed.
Saint Maude and now Love Lies Bleeding? Rose Glass got the juice! I’m gonna watch anything she does from here till the end.
This movie was a fucking experience. I love the vibe, two souls with a lightning connection that just create chaos around them. This is going to be re-watched again and again.
That touch of horror with the bad acid/steroid trip was beautifully executed.
The part with Jesse Plemons was one of the most nerve-wracking scenes I’ve seen in a long time
Also want to give props to the sound design. In my theater every single bullet was LOUD and impactful. I honestly jumped in my seat a few times just from getting startled by the gunshots after more quiet moments.
I think people complaining about the choice not to elaborate on the politics behind the civil war are kind of missing the point. War on the ground is not political. It's people killing people trying to kill them (and often killing anyone they happen to run across, combatant or not). No ideology can rationalize slaughter. This isn't a film about why a war breaks out. It's about life and death in a war zone, but instead of a third-world country we can feel superior to, it's the formerly United States of America.
The Wolf Behind the Door is a sensational film in every way I can think of. Starting with the great performances, which will mark the career of the entire cast (especially Leandra Leal, here she is spectacular), which was brilliantly directed by Fernando Coimbra. I recommend that you read as little as possible about the film, especially because it is based on real events, but that you don't forget to watch this impactful work of Brazilian cinema.
This movie feels more like a slow burn horror movie than a drama. The last 30 minutes are absolutely horrifying.
A film dealing with a dramatic subject that is unfortunately still relevant today, which shows us in an intelligent and fair way the difficulty of human and family relationships through violence.
It is an incredibly nothing movie.
The entire set-up was so pointless I thought I missed something.
So they're on Earth, 65 million years ago. Adam Driver is a space man. There are no humans on Earth.
So you just KNOW that this movie is going to be some silly "first man" story and will lead to the advent of human life on Earth.
NOPE. It doesn't matter. At all. They escape Earth, The End. I guess we just evolved independently, even though there are other humans already out in space?
This aspect just kind of blew my mind. Just... why?
There is basically no story, there's no character, there isn't really much anything. I'd love to see a real copy of the script because I imagine it's like 5 pages.
It feels like a weirdly big budget adaptation of a forgotten mid-budget video game from like 2005.
I don't know how they talked Driver into this. I'm guessing they managed some trickery by only having to pay basically one real actor in the whole movie and everything else be CG, letting them spend a relatively large percentage of their budget on him.
I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, obviously, but it was just such a waste of time.
Really solid crime story here. Very smartly written; all the performances were great. Especially Elizabeth Olsen. Probably her best performance since Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Taylor Sheridan has written three great movies and this was a very strong directorial debut. I can't wait to see what's next for him, because thus far he's been killing it.
I'm really glad they didn't go the serial killer route. It was just a terrible set of circumstances and some downright evil decisions made by some drunk guys. Nothing premeditated, no connection to the death of Jeremy Renner's daughter, no super creepy killer who stalks the police, just a really sad and fucked up situation. And that really speaks to the nature of the problem in the rez- it's not there are some particularly evil Indians killing the women - it's that there are just a litany of problems that are stacked against the population every single day, and they often combine to create deadly situations.
I REALLY wanted to like this one, but it was aggressively mid for me. It felt like a very boiler plate demon movie but it had a good creature design and a thoughtful metaphor for the conflict between traditional culture and the pressure to assimilate.
Reminded me more of Under the Shadow, or even Drag Me to Hell, in that it was a fun way to teach people about demons from cultures underrepresented in Western media.
Really bummed out because I am always rooting for horror movies that aren’t part of a franchise with diverse casts/cultural backgrounds.
Impressively boring for a film about a killer swimming pool. It had some nice shots in the pool and the acting was decent but the script was just so lame.
I think the biggest issue is that it took itself way too seriously. The concept is so absurd that it should've been campy and fun, like M3GAN or Malignant, but this was clearly trying to be a Real Horror Movie for the most part.
It's also padded to shit. This could've lost 20 minutes and been a tight 80 minute movie and been all the better for it. By the time Kerry Condon is googling the past of the house I was just totally checked out.
PG-13 rating also made it feel very tame. The pool party scene should've been like the climax of Piranha 3D with just a bunch of gory kills in the pool with people unable to escape, or even PG-13 it would've been interesting if the pool just disappeared a shit ton of people at once and the surviving families were left to make sense of it, but that's probably a totally different movie.
Also the Marco Polo scene was laughable. Girl, the second the music cuts out and the pool starts flickering (she would've been able to see that through her eyelids), I would've opened my eyes.
Some short films should just stay short films.
An Irish horror film about a group of young outcasts trapped together as part of a sinister medical trial.
It's a great concept and reminded me of a JG Ballard short story I read once. It's a little uneven in its pacing and characterization, but also has some great visuals and creative moments as everything descends into madness.
If anything, I'd have liked to see it take a trippier, darker and more experimental approach, and perhaps do more interesting things with the soundtrack, but is a solid horror.
I'd give it a solid 6/10.
I enjoyed it enough! I liked the pretentious dialogue and thought it was fitting for the characters, the sets were gorgeous, and the whole scene where Martin Freeman drives to Jenna Ortega’s house in the rain while “Lover You Should’ve Come Over” plays was ethereal. The main things I didn’t like were how the character of Miller’s wife is truly awful from the start but there’s little indication he or anyone else has a problem with her behavior (I felt gaslit until the end when he finally calls her vile lol), how the coach friend acted like he was innocent and didn’t cross boundaries with Winnie despite the fact that he totally did, and the abruptness of the ending. I would’ve much preferred an ending with deeper moral reflection and clearer resolution.
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