Topic: The Movie Thread

@jacobia lol seems both films need to be approached similarly then

@jacobia Cheers for the recommendations, yeah I sub to Netflix. Not totally crazy about found footage stuff, but I'm willing to give anything a go really (unless it is a musical or rom com). It did like Cloverfield, that could be classed as a guilty pleasure though, I know some people thought it was trash. As for recommendations from myself, ones of the top of my head are Annihilation - something to get you thinking and some scenes really freaked me out. And not strictly a horror and more in the vein of Seven is Wind River. I had pretty low expectations but I was really impressed with it and Jeremy Renner gives a career best imo with a very understated performance. Both are on Netflix.

@kyleforrester87 A Quiet Place is a really effective horror. Weird seeing in the Cinema too. Split is awesome, I believe the sequel is out soon in the cinemas. Same actress as The Witch too.

@kyleforrester87 Oh my lord! What a burk! I honestly thought you were commenting on me saying that I’d watched Hereditary! Hence why I quoted your whole post, because I was thinking “well that’s silly, mr kyleforrester87, you’ve not mentioned what movie your talking about...”. BUT, you were replying to me mentioning that Mandy is coming to Shudder.....nothing to do with Hereditary 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️😳🥵😝

@jacobia too late to try and make sense of that one but okay haha 😂😂

@JohnnyShoulder Loved Cloverfield! Funny story: I knew it was found footage, was super hyped for it, so said to the hubby ‘let’s go see it at the cinema!’. This was the first time we’d watched a found footage film together.....it was also the last! I had no idea that he’d experience severe motion sickness when watching it. He was only in there with me for about 20 minutes tops before he had to quick march it to the toilets to puke 🤮. He went home and I stayed in the cinema.
Watched Annihilation, great movie with a great ending. The oil-on-water look that the shimmer had was a cool looking effect too. I’ve not seen Wind River, so I’ll add it to my list. Thanks 👍

@kyleforrester87 Go on! Enter my mindmaze........swirlwhirlywoo!!!

Just make sure you bring a big ball of string, my dear Theseus 🤪

@jacobia @JohnnyShoulder only good thing about Annihilation was the music IMO, especially during the final confrontation, which made that scene a lot cooler. I really didn't like the rest of that film at all!

Midnight Special is a good film.

@Rudy_Manchego. Have you watched The Outlaws, yet? Ma Dong-seok has a another new movie releasing this month called Unstoppable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh3gcsP-Ars

Watched Carnival of Souls. Bizarre little indie horror movie from the early '60's. Very Bergman-esque cinematography, and it's much dreamier and more psychological than the majority of older horror films, but the pacing is utterly glacial and, to be honest, nothing much of interest happens. The acting is odd... kind of amateurish and stilted.

@WanderingBullet Nope but will keep an eye on it. Am in the mood for something a little different this week.

I saw Overlord in the cinema quite recently. It's a horror movie set in WWII, with nazi scientists doing supernatural crazy evil stuff. The trailer pretty much spoils everything, ... is it just me or does that happen with lots of trailers these days? Often when I watch a trailer today, I feel they reveal far too much of the plot, or finalé even.

Anyway, Overlord reminded me of the latest Wolfenstein games for some reason (especially the 2009 one), perhaps it was the mood of the movie that brought this on. It offers nothing ground-breaking in terms of concept, but has a good and strong set of characters I would argue, especially the lead, Jovan Adepo. Not sure I would recommend it for a cinema viewing, which is quite expensive these days, but it's worth a look if it shows up on Netflix and you like horror movies.

@Bonbonetti Yeah, I definitely want to see Overlord, and I think I’m going to enjoy it as I get exactly that it’s going for a great horror-adventure feel. And yep, a lot of trailers do guff up and reveal far too much of a movie, although I was super delighted that the Hereditary trailer just gave you the dread feeling of the movie rather than any specific plot development. Looking forward to seeing the new Suspiria! 👍

So I’m watching the new Transformers. I loved Age of Excinctuon, but this one is too complicated and going off the deep end. It’s funny though because it mirrors the original series. When Prime is removed for a long period of time the original series also went off the deep end and got too complicated. I’ll say more once I finish it.

@jacobia I'm half way through hereditary right now... lol

@Rudy_Manchego Ah, ok. It's really good and personally it's one of my favourite Korean movies.

@kyleforrester87 😱😱😱.....sooo, did you like it?

A PG-13 version of Deadpool. Wth?! lol

@jacobia honestly I didn't love it in the end, which is a shame, because i really thought I would - especially just before the halfway point where things took an unexpected turn, but then I kind of enjoyed it less and less as it progressed.

What didn't I really like about it.. I'm not completely sure.

Overall I didn't dislike it by any stretch, but even going in with my expectations in check I didn't come away feeling completely satisfied.

I have to say the final scene was pretty memorable, nicely shot and nice dialogue and music.

So, I watched Overlord. It's fun. Not the most original concept in history, especially if you play a lot of Western video games, but I liked it for what it was.

I wouldn't call it horror, though.

@kyleforrester87 Sorry for butting in. Anyway, about your first question about Hereditary...