[horror] the good stuff - film | Other Media (2025)

Looking at it's preview page of selections some of my opinions:

House At The End of the Street: Not great, not horrible. One of those twist movies where the straight forward concept it looked like it was before the convoluted twist was more interesting than the twist. But I didn't feel it was a waste of time.

The Awakening: Very well acted and directed. Mediocre scripting. Doesn't really know what it wants to be and goes in fifteen directions. But it's a very beautiful film.

Scream 4: I'd call it the best Scream since the first one. It really runs with the idea of a bizarre 'horror remake as reality' metanarrative thing and has some great funny lines.

Hansel & Gretel: Badbadbadbad. Don't watch.

-Naxuul

TechnocratJT said:

if you have not seen Kill List yet its the biggest deal recently added to steaming.

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Aight. I'll queue that up. Keep other recommendations coming, since it's a long night ahead.

Naxuul said:

Looking at it's preview page of selections some of my opinions:

House At The End of the Street: Not great, not horrible. One of those twist movies where the straight forward concept it looked like it was before the convoluted twist was more interesting than the twist. But I didn't feel it was a waste of time.

The Awakening: Very well acted and directed. Mediocre scripting. Doesn't really know what it wants to be and goes in fifteen directions. But it's a very beautiful film.

Scream 4: I'd call it the best Scream since the first one. It really runs with the idea of a bizarre 'horror remake as reality' metanarrative thing and has some great funny lines.

Hansel & Gretel: Badbadbadbad. Don't watch.

-Naxuul

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I've seen the first two. Scream 4 might be worth a shot. I'd expect it to be a little too wholesome, but I may give it a look.

TechnocratJT said:

And it turns out this is good horror. It's actually a film about class, social condemnation and shame. It's got a shockingly smart undercurrent by the end - if a rather bleak one. It's not a kind film, and what it has to say about the impact of shame and its relation to expectations might bet a little muddled when we realize who the ... lets say narrative winner ... is. I'm not sure yet.

But it's good and it's streaming in the US.

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Eh, the final act felt more to me like it gestured in the direction of saying something than that it actually said anything. And none of the characters had more than about two thirds of a trait.

It was better than I expected given the premise, but I wouldn't call it good.

Okay, saw AM 1200, by buying it. (Try tracking down a film by that name on Amazon or something. I dare you.)

It's very effective.

Also short, but that's a real positive-- It starts the story, gets to the end, and then stops. Full of lots of subtle touches, too.

coeli feels that perhaps it would be more effective if we

but it bothered me less, for whatever reason.

Also, the protagonist isn't an idiot. He panics at a few points, but he never does anything utterly stupid that you can't understand why he'd do it.

...Am I the only person who's seen this?

You can buy the DVD from Dreamlogic's website.

Also, teasers:

[video=youtube;16ol-m58Dt4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ol-m58Dt4[/video]
[video=youtube;3p6AsxC0t5U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p6AsxC0t5U[/video]

Kill List is definitely worth watching, and while it does take a while to get where it's going, the ride is wonderfully distressing at points.

It's also very difficult to talk about without spoiling. Except to say Tyres from Spaced is in it and he's great.

*RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE HORROR MOVIE THREAD*

Anyways, just finished watching Grave Encounters 2.

I can kind of see why people were comparing it to Blair Witch 2, and while I can see it, I would call that an unfair comparison.

See, both Blair Witch 2 Book of Shadows (More like book of stupid, heh.) and Grave Encounters 2 both focus on fans of the first movie going out to where the first take place, and encountering the horrors that the first movie victims suffered. But that isn't why Blair Witch 2 sucked.

No, Blair Witch 2 sucked because it broke away from the cheap, minimalist and, lets be honest here, clever first movie, a movie which more or less invented the found footage genre, and instead made a bloated, special effects laden mess with stupid unlikeable characters and a twist at the end so profoundly stupid and insulting that M. Night Shaymalan is mad he didn't think of it himself.

Grave Encounters 2 actually stays true to the original movie in that its a found footage movie like the original. It keeps a lot of the beats from the original, features callbacks from the first movie, and you actually believe these took place in the same universe.

So yeah, liked Grave Encounters 2, does not deserve the bad rep it has.