Your favorite Horror films

Dr. Delight

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I couldn’t even stay focused on THE NUN. 

Just a bunch of nuns and some worn down church

Was awful. Wan needs to get ahold of The Conjuring universe because its deteriorating despite being a cash cow. Outside of both Conjuring movies the only other movie in that universe that I liked was Annabelle 2 surprisingly.

MayDay10

I watched It Follows last night.  I liked it.  Good and original.  Didnt have jump scares but at times had the suspense for one.  Good use of sound and instrumental atmosphere.  

*some spoiling

I do think the story ran out of gas and the last 20 minutes or so were disappointing. I felt like the premise had a lot more potential in the "sandbox" the plot created.  Attempts to try to avoid "it", public meltdowns in front of others, attempts to pass "it" up a chain and subsequent destruction of the chain, etc.  

I also thought the movie was 10x more intense going by the original warning of "dont let it touch you".  Once we see that this thing starts off by pulling hair and you can engage it in battle, friends can hit it with chairs, struggle away from, shoot it with guns, etc, the threat was diminished greatly.

Spiritual_Chaos

MayDay10 said:

I watched It Follows last night.  I liked it.  Good and original.  Didnt have jump scares but at times had the suspense for one.  Good use of sound and instrumental atmosphere.  

*some spoiling

I do think the story ran out of gas and the last 20 minutes or so were disappointing. I felt like the premise had a lot more potential in the "sandbox" the plot created.  Attempts to try to avoid "it", public meltdowns in front of others, attempts to pass "it" up a chain and subsequent destruction of the chain, etc.  

I also thought the movie was 10x more intense going by the original warning of "dont let it touch you".  Once we see that this thing starts off by pulling hair and you can engage it in battle, friends can hit it with chairs, struggle away from, shoot it with guns, etc, the threat was diminished greatly.

I need to re-visit It Follows - I have only seen it once but felt it was a breath of fresh air and that one-shot start (like Halloween) hooked me. 

But I have problems remember the end of it, they were in a swimming pool for some reason...

And I didn't like that they made it be so linked to a STD. Like not a clever metaphor for STD but an actual STD... I didn't see the point of that at all. Cheapened the idea. Like midichlorians in Star Wars. 

But the basic premise of something unstoppable coming after you and it doesn't look different from any other person is scary - just like T-1000. And it was executed really well.

MayDay10

Spiritual_Chaos said:

MayDay10 said:

I watched It Follows last night.  I liked it.  Good and original.  Didnt have jump scares but at times had the suspense for one.  Good use of sound and instrumental atmosphere.  

*some spoiling

I do think the story ran out of gas and the last 20 minutes or so were disappointing. I felt like the premise had a lot more potential in the "sandbox" the plot created.  Attempts to try to avoid "it", public meltdowns in front of others, attempts to pass "it" up a chain and subsequent destruction of the chain, etc.  

I also thought the movie was 10x more intense going by the original warning of "dont let it touch you".  Once we see that this thing starts off by pulling hair and you can engage it in battle, friends can hit it with chairs, struggle away from, shoot it with guns, etc, the threat was diminished greatly.

I need to re-visit It Follows - I have only seen it once but felt it was a breath of fresh air and that one-shot start (like Halloween) hooked me. 

But I have problems remember the end of it, they were in a swimming pool for some reason...

And I didn't like that they made it be so linked to a STD. Like not a clever metaphor for STD but an actual STD... I didn't see the point of that at all. Cheapened the idea. Like midichlorians in Star Wars. 

But the basic premise of something unstoppable coming after you and it doesn't look different from any other person is scary - just like T-1000. And it was executed really well.

I agree with the last part.  I liked the movie, as i said, but feel like it failed to reach a potential.  The movie was well done, simple, and good atmosphere.

The most tense shot was when they were at the beach and the viewer sees "it" approaching from behind the girl, unbeknownst to the girl. 

Then all that happens is it pulls her hair and her friend hits it with a chair and they run away.  It stole a lot of the tension away when we thought that a touch meant the victim would be twisted into a pretzel like the 1st scene.  Now we see it is possible to engage this thing in some sort of combat.


Much of the movie was just evasion by this group of friends hunkering down.  The sister and that girl with glasses were completely pointless.  The dorky guy getting all jealous of the cool guy throughout the movie was a bit of a waste too.

They should have had more attempts at evasion.  In the water, on an island, in a building, in an airplane, etc.  Also could have played up the "false positive" type of thing in public where she thinks some people are "it" and is going mental.  Have the cool guy go to an orgy or something after sleeping with the main character and find horrific results.  

Who knows.  Its like they built a real cool configuration of dominoes, but didnt knock them down.  

PJ_Soul

Spiritual_Chaos said:

MayDay10 said:

I watched Hereditary last night

  

Worth watching?

2-3 of my friends who enjoy horror said they were disappointed in the directors follow up Midsommar.

I liked it. The acting is super intense.

Spiritual_Chaos

Watching HAPPY DEATH DAY now. On my birthday and all.

Boring so far.

PJ_Soul

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Watching HAPPY DEATH DAY now. On my birthday and all.

Boring so far.

It seemed like many people liked this, but I really really did not. It's so unoriginal. At least they have the decency to acknowledge they ripped off the story (you'll see that at the end).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Spiritual_Chaos

PJ_Soul said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Watching HAPPY DEATH DAY now. On my birthday and all.

Boring so far.

It seemed like many people liked this, but I really really did not. It's so unoriginal. At least they have the decency to acknowledge they ripped off the story (you'll see that at the end).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Will Bill Murray show up? :O

Hehe. Thank you

PJ_Soul

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Watching HAPPY DEATH DAY now. On my birthday and all.

Boring so far.

It seemed like many people liked this, but I really really did not. It's so unoriginal. At least they have the decency to acknowledge they ripped off the story (you'll see that at the end).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Will Bill Murray show up? :O

Hehe. Thank you

LOL! They didn't quite go that far - I wish.

Spiritual_Chaos

Haha. So the dude buys into her re-living the same day and getting killed... man... at least Nancy had to work a bit with Glen.

Spiritual_Chaos

Interested enough to watch the sequel. And It had a Nice throwback to the Dawsons Creek-era of horror feel. But wasnt really good...

Worse than Urban Legends. I put it on the Valentines Day-tier. 

gimmesometruth27

Creepshow!!

Spiritual_Chaos

Crawl. There are some things I would have changed to spruce up the status quo of the terror. But it’s worth a trip to the cinema if you are into alligators. 

Spiritual_Chaos

Put on MAMA. Man this is the ugliest movie I have ever watched.

Spiritual_Chaos

https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status/1154875872224018433

Spiritual_Chaos

Watching The Invitation with not-Tom Hardy.

green_girl

dankind said:

https://youtu.be/ZtYTwUxhAoI

Isn't it usually a bad sign when they show the entire plot in the trailer? That being said.. I still want to see it.

Spiritual_Chaos

Gonna go watch Scary computer generated stories to tell in the Dark tomorrow. Or I'll catch Booksmart. But I think Ill pick Scary not practical effects to tell in the Dark.

Spiritual_Chaos

It wasnt all that good. 

Spiritual_Chaos

Have you seen it @PJ_Soul ?