Update for Movie suggestions

Not a movie. The Curse (showtime/paramount+). Wow. Only seen 1 ep. Already calling it. Masterpiece!

 

This is fun if you like movies about "gypsies" putting curses on people - think Thinner.

Drag Me to Hell (2009) ⭐ 6.6 | Horror

A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.

 

Rented this new release last night. Exactly what you'd expect. Nothing earth-shattering but recommend if you're in the mood for some revenge action.

Muzzle (2023) ⭐ 5.4 | Action, Crime, Thriller

After his dog is killed in Skid Row, Jake Rosser plummets deep into a sinister underworld to uncover the truth about who may be responsible.

 

Anything with Nathan Fielder is a masterpiece

 

I didnt find anything confusing, just far fetched even for a run of the mill slasher movie... I wouldnt call it a horror since the only thing scary was the price of my wife's popcorn.

 

according to a coworker, the movie is better to understand if you're familiar with the video game. I had never heard of the video game before. I thought it would be a horror movie since the previews kind of implied that but knew I would be disappointed right at the beginning when I saw it was only rated PG-13.

 

My nerves were on edge the whole time watching this movie, so I don’t want to watch it everyday, but I love this movie. Great acting and a perfect setup leading that chilling final reel.

I didn’t hear the problems with the music either, but it seems clear to me that such a dude would certainly make up problems if he couldn’t find any real ones to increase motivation.

 

Ok, here goes. Regrettably, yes I did watch it with my wife. Each Halloween I’m allowed to subject her to “fright week” where I curate a list of horror films that seem entertaining or thoughtful. The problem is that I hate knowing almost anything about films before I watch them. I get most of my impressions from rotten tomatoes consensuses, eg “Smart, darkly humorous, and above all scary, Barbarian offers a chilling and consistently unpredictable thrill ride for horror fans.”, so I occasionally misfire on film acceptability. As happened here.

As for the movie, it did not hide its feminist intentions, which was ok. The “main” movie guy is no doubt a person that really exists, except for the most extreme actions he takes. I liked the woman, and I liked the more conventional beginning in the Airbnb. Then the second stage of the film brought us the, um, new characters, which I’m not as sold on in retrospect. The scares were good, but these characters don’t seem to line up with reality as much. And much of the action was pretty messed up. I definitely felt for the “daughter”, I’ll call her. Definitely an unexpected plot, I’ll give it that!

 

Oh no, you definitely didn’t recommend it as one to watch with the wife. You just recommended broadly. The wife part was all on me. She did get over it in a few days. Lol.

We also watched M3GAN which was not bad, rather entertaining. And The Old Dark House, which I liked, but you have to ok with really old movies. Zombie For Sale was pretty good, but it’s Korean, so you’ve got to be ok with subtitles. And we watched Let the Right One In, which is one of my faves (also subtitles).

 

I watched Barbarian tonight based on y’all’s posts. Will think about it a bit before reading reviews but definitely liked it.

 

Awesome. I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts.

 

Okay, few thoughts in the spoiler link!

Spoiler: Spoiler

I thought it was very, very good from the writing and casting to the acting.

I've thought through and read about some of the more obvious themes to include gender (Tess says early on that women have to be cautious and men do not); sexual abuse (its consequences and how men who don't see themselves as bad often rationalize it); gentrification/white flight (made evident by the flashback); policing issues (the victims wanting and needing police help but the police not believing Tess and also having higher, more immediate priorities). There's probably also some commentary about modern consumerism and peoples' attenuated connections to a set place and trusted networks of people (e.g., the rental agency being strikingly indifferent about whether there might be holdover tenants still at the property). So all that was great and fun to dissect.

It's not uncommon for me with horror movies to wonder when they seem to be purposefully vague about whether there's something supernatural or super-human going on or not. The villains here (other than the accused actor) were portrayed as real people: the perverted old man and his children. We're told that these people were the result of many years of incest upon incest. That's all disturbing enough, of course. But how did the "mother" have the super-human strength to rip an adult man's arm completely off? It's just not humanly possible. Are we to take that as some sort of genetic mutation? A supernatural element in play, which was launched the pure evil of what had occurred? Are we supposed to just chalk up her super human strength to artistic license and not worry about that distinction too much?

The titles of the VHS tapes were probably the most chilling part to me.

 

Spoiler: Spoiler

If you can fall off a water tower and survive in this world, maybe severed limbs can be deadly weapons

 

Good thoughts. And I definitely feel your thoughts with the tapes.

 

I started this last night. Was sad to learn they're not letting us binge it, lol. Pretty solid start for me.

 

Godzilla fans will be happy soon.

 

Yes awesomely cringe worthy. Also I just re-upped Netflix and binged “Bodies”. I can’t begin to describe it in detail but it’s about the same murder in the same place in London in 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053. Time travel is involved. I watched one episode while pleasantly high and had to rewatch the next day. You have to pay close attention.

This thread should be expanded to TV series. It’s where the best story telling is taking place.

 

Not if they don’t have Apple TV