Wow! I hope you enjoyed this classic without major spoilers. It's still as today one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
I've seen people call it the best horror movie ever, and it's hard to disagree.
The prequel is a fun watch too. Not as good, but fun to see the monster with more modern special effects and CGI.
The prequel lacked many "things", but most of all the studio decided at the last moment to replace all the analog special effect and monsters bodies with shitty CGI.
I watched Oculus. It was a fun watch! I love Mike Flanagan and I'm going to watch more of his stuff. I'm actually also watching Midnight Mass which is a miniseries that he made with Netflix.
I also watched Terrified not to long ago. Really fun watch. I watched if because I found the director of When Evil Lurks made it. It was in my mind last years best movie.
All of Mike Flannigan's stuff scratch that intrigue itch for me, Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, all fantastic, the Haunting of Hill House probably the best of those listed.
Haunter (2013) - Modest but fun shoestring indie with some good ideas & atmosphere and solid performances.
Started watching Terrifier but had to take a break. Lately I'm finding it more difficult to watch too much cruelty at once. I'll watch the trilogy because I do love practical effects and the filmmakers accomplish a lot with a smaller budget, but I'll probably ingest them 20 minutes at a time.
Want to watch Hatching. Body horror used to skeeve me out but with the shift in my tolerance for slashers, I'm finding it easier to deal with overly stylised genres.
Lately I’m finding it more difficult to watch too much cruelty at once.
Huh interesting - I've also developed an aversion to sadism in the last years. Not just with horror but with certain mainstream TV shows as well. Kinda triggering even though my life is very safe, as if the sadism is too real and no longer safely in the realm of fiction.
I nearly added that very observation in my post, so I would have to agree that could be a contributing factor.
I agree with you on Terrifier , I personally watched the first movie and was quite shocked. And I'm not going to watch the rest as I don't want to watch movies that is violence just for the sake of violence.
I'm finding I like suspense and thrillers more these days, though I do still enjoy black comedy (Ready or Not was tremendous fun, but I think that's because it was over-the-top just enough). It helps to look up behind-the-scenes footage of the Terrifier films, as the team genuinely seem to have fun making them. It's just that the final product is so grueling with not much else to balance it out.
There are a lot of excellent indie horror shorts on YouTube as well, from some clever 10-second-horror contests to Kane Pixels' The Oldest View series. The clever and innovative stuff really appeals to me, especially when it's a film that builds slowly and moves in unpredictable ways. Slashers all have the same vibe, so cranking up the violence is kinda all they've got.
You know whats fucked up? I cant remember. I guess maybe Quiet Place Zero but that was more like a thriller/disaster movie.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Been on a rewatch of the series. It’s not good, but it was fun. I think it may actually be the installment I watched most as a child because we had it on VHS.
Glad to see an opinion about this movie I agree with for once. It really started to meander and then ended up being so lame and anticlimactic.
I was 10 different kinds of excited for a newer, more darker take on a Silence of the Lambs type Horror/Thriller. It started off like that PERFECTLY, then around the 1/2 way mark, it steadily turned into stupid, boring, horror shit.
I actually watched Daniel Isn't Real (2019) after reading the plot in this group and was quite a good movie. It begin as a psychological thriller but soon turn into a pure madness paranormal cosmic horror. Quite the trip.
It was one of those movies that I always heard was good but I never got a chance to see it. I was glad I did.
Suspiria 2018, different from the original but very good in its own right.
Great performances, lots of creepy and disgusting body horror
I also watched Cold Fish. Wow what a gore fest. I really love Asian and especially Japanese horror. They are amazing at atmosphere and making it grounded in reality, something I feel western movies struggles with at times. Anyway this movie is about a family that is truly dysfunctional. The teen in this family is caught stealing from a local grocery store and the parents are confronted about this. While this happens a stranger enters and stops the owner of the store from reporting to the police. This starts a whole chain reaction for the family that ends in tragedy. I really enjoyed it but wow. The gore and sexual violence in this movies is really something. That's also something you wouldn't necessarily see in an western movie with good reason. The sexual scenes are uncomfortable as hell.
Anyway a great watch for gore fans.
I saw a very weird horror, that is really much more a thriller than a horror but anyway: Greatful Dead
It's about this girl that is totally ignored by her parents and everyone around her. She get this weird hobby of watching people from a distance (voyeurism), people that are also weird and acts up around other people. It's really a very sad movie and I wonder if some of it is personal for the people behind it. Being weird and lonely is not uncommon unfortunately. Anyway a fun watch. I enjoy weird movies but as noted I don't think it fits horror, it's definitely a thriller.
