Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[ToxicAdam]

The Lighthouse feels like one of those movies you shouldn't be sober for. The more inebriated the better.

[Ghoul]

watching Hex petty good horror film, lots of hot titties. 7/10

""

Is this based on the book about a Witch who wanders around a small town?

Nah standard backpacker meets hot fellow backpacker female (not a euphemism)  they fuck, madness ensues, with spooky sexy results.

Tonight I'm watching the child's play remake.

Aubrey Plaza 

[team filler]

the shucky remake was ok, but I wouldn't recommend it. it's pretty much jason x but with shucky and not in space

[Ghoul]

the shucky remake was ok, but I wouldn't recommend it. it's pretty much jason x but with shucky and not in space

Just finished it, not that bad, I've seen remakes far more butchered than that, *cough Blair Witch*

I feel they could have done a lot more to make it about smart homes etc, could have even not used the licence.

But eh, just use popular pre existing universes so people go watch it...

[Coax]

New Suspiria 4K restoration getting a release in a limited-ish run. Color correction overseen by the original DP and featuring HDR. Just a heads-up for any interested.

[chronovore]

[team filler]

I wrote a gretel and hansel story when I was in high school 

in my version the kids were evil and they terrorized the old lady

[Tasty]

I wrote a gretel and hansel story when I was in high school 

in my version the kids were evil and they terrorized the old lady

Damn... actually why has no one done this?

[Ghoul]

weird titling it gretel and hansel, I expect the quatering to say *checks notes* "Go woke, Go broke, SJW madness"

It's probably because there was that Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters shit film, which I would also try and avoid association with.

[Don Rumata]

Looks like a solid horror, probably gonna be just alright, but it has a bit of those VVitch vibes, so i'll give it a shot once it's on VOD.

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

The first still of Kung Fury 2

[D3RANG3D]

[MMaRsu]

kung fury 2?> can such a dream become reality

[D3RANG3D]

No Kung-Fuhrer no sale.

[EchoRin]

Took me a good Google Translate and then fumbling around where the hell the name of the movie is...

For those who weren't gonna bother themselves, the movie is called Hell Girl.

I know nothing about the anime it's based on. Is this supposed to be good? The trailer made me think it's just some cheepo anime live action crap.

[Joe Molotov]

I know nothing about the anime it's based on. Is this supposed to be good? The trailer made me think it's just some cheepo anime live action crap.

It's a live-action movie based on an anime, so cheepo anime live action crap sounds about right.

[EchoRin]

My favorite Japanese actress of the past few years who I have immense hope for is Suzu Hirose. She has been part of a few amazing movies like Our Little Sister and Rage. She even won best supporting actress in The Third Murder, but I found that movie to be rather average compared to the two previously mentioned. But she is an incredible talent and I'm always on the lookout when a movie with her is announced. Not everything she takes part is is meant to be a winner (some of the movies I noticed are just mega popular popcorn flicks), but when she is part of something that is out to be true art (ok yeah that sounds pretentious) I am eager to see it. Sky is the limit with her.

Edit: Stupid Rotten Tomatoes didn't even add her into the cast for Rage (under the name Ikari). 





Oh yeah, Ryuichi Sakamoto composed for Rage (Ikari). Man is a treasure.

[Nintex]

Watched Zodiac.

Hadn't seen it in a while but this is one of Finchers' finest. Tense and well acted from start to finish and an amazing level of detail.
Was Leigh Allen the Zodiac? Kinda weird that a guy so obsessed with press and publicity probably died along with his most well kept secret.
Even now with DNA and everything we still don't have conclusive evidence on the identity of the Zodiac. Committing not 1 but possibly 5 or more 'perfect murders'.
Or as he or she claimed, 37.

[Don Rumata]

I believe he was exonerated via DNA and finger prints. The amount of circumstantial evidence is crazy/creepy as hell, though.

https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Leigh_Allen

I guess fingerprints could be manipulated/faked somehow, but the DNA one makes it more doubtful that he was.
The handwriting thing, always sounded like bullshit pseudoscience in the first place.

The list against him, compiled like that, is crazy, although you could easily dismiss all the testimony about what he did or did not say, as just Don Cheney lying.

The movie really makes you think it was him though. 

[nudemacusers]

What I really liked about that movie is it was about the process, not the outcome. It wound you into the mentality of someone obsessed. One of my favorites.

[Tasty]

Basement scene tensest scene

[VomKriege]

I'm not an expert but was there any proper DNA sample collection by police at this point of time (I would imagine not) ? IIRC digital fingerprints evidence is a lot less reliable in real life than what is commonly presented in fiction, relies a lot as well on the quality of what was sampled.

[Bebpo]

Did Universal Studios Horror Night last night and one of the mazes was Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses which I'd never bothered watching since all the Rob Zombie movies have reviewed pretty poorly in the last 20 years. But the maze was fucking goofy in a grindhouse fun way so it got me interested in watching the movie.

Was actually pretty fun in that it's silly and over the top and often nonsensical. Feels very self-aware retro grindhouse throwback with some great performances by the psychos like the main Sid Haig Captain Spaulding clown guy. The direction is a mess and amazingly inconsistent and it's not really a good movie, but it's a fun cheesy ride for horror fans. I've heard the sequel The Devil's Rejects is a better film but also drops the cheesy retro charm so idk if I'll like just a badly directed psychos going psycho serious film. But I guess I'll check it out. The 3rd film comes out in a few days in theaters and on streaming next month.

[VomKriege]

Devil's Rejects is fun and I think it's a good movie. Still plenty of retro feels though it's not charming... It's a lot better and focused than the House of...

[Tasty]

Did Universal Studios Horror Night last night and one of the mazes was Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses which I'd never bothered watching since all the Rob Zombie movies have reviewed pretty poorly in the last 20 years. But the maze was fucking goofy in a grindhouse fun way so it got me interested in watching the movie.

Was actually pretty fun in that it's silly and over the top and often nonsensical. Feels very self-aware retro grindhouse throwback with some great performances by the psychos like the main Sid Haig Captain Spaulding clown guy. The direction is a mess and amazingly inconsistent and it's not really a good movie, but it's a fun cheesy ride for horror fans. I've heard the sequel The Devil's Rejects is a better film but also drops the cheesy retro charm so idk if I'll like just a badly directed psychos going psycho serious film. But I guess I'll check it out. The 3rd film comes out in a few days in theaters and on streaming next month.

I don't think reviews really apply to Zombie, at least in my case. I initially let reviews dissuade me from his filmography, but there's some true horror brilliance in his works (underneath the mountains of schlock, which can be appreciated in their own right.)

Lords of Salem remains one of my all-time favorites.

[Tasty]

His insistence on putting his wife front and center into everything he does and highly sexualizing her borders on Kevin Smith tier "can you believe I get to FUCK this person" pathetic bullshit, but it might actually be sadder since Rob Zombie is a very successful rock star aggro dude and not an obese comic nerd who probably should be thankful someone is letting them fuck her.

Who's sadder, him or Paul W.S. Anderson?

[nudemacusers]

His insistence on putting his wife front and center into everything he does and highly sexualizing her borders on Kevin Smith tier "can you believe I get to FUCK this person" pathetic bullshit, but it might actually be sadder since Rob Zombie is a very successful rock star aggro dude and not an obese comic nerd who probably should be thankful someone is letting them fuck her.

Who's sadder, him or Paul W.S. Anderson?

Milla Jovovich is a top ten of all time bae so I completely understand him putting her in starring action roles so she stays in prime shape



On the subject of zombie, his particular schlock aesthetic (incl music) does nothing for me at all; which is fine, his output is meant to be polarizing.

[VomKriege]

Small tittied thin women. 

But yeah shoe horning her everywhere is

[VomKriege]

Maybe she wants to do it?

Oh sure. They probably have a lot of fun as a couple. But she doesn't have the greatest of ranges.
For better or for worse that's his style.

[Nintex]

What I really liked about that movie is it was about the process, not the outcome. It wound you into the mentality of someone obsessed. One of my favorites.

I also like how it doesn't give you all the answers. You're sort of forced to actively participate in the different thinking of the characters.
One such strong moment is when Graysmith confronts Toschi about Rick Marshall and he finds out that this 'big discovery' he made was already investigated and ruled out.

The movie plays with feelings of 'reward/disappointment' quite a bit.

Basement scene tensest scene

When he says he made the poster

[Don Rumata]

I don't think reviews really apply to Zombie, at least in my case. I initially let reviews dissuade me from his filmography, but there's some true horror brilliance in his works (underneath the mountains of schlock, which can be appreciated in their own right.)

Lords of Salem remains one of my all-time favorites.

It's the only other Rob Zombie movie i watched (the other being "31"), but that one was great, and his wife was pretty hot in both, so i'm cool with him plastering her everywhere. 

[team filler]

rob needs to direct some BBC porn 

[nudemacusers]

Husbands and wives enjoying their company together

[team filler]

I bet she sucks cock for all her acting jobs 

[team filler]

I was thinking more the casting director 

[team filler]

 

[nudemacusers]

Wait I thought being the top meant you weren’t gay

Oh god 

[team filler]

it's never gay unless you're gay 

[Tasty]

it's never gay unless you're gay 

This sounds like a joke but it's the truth.

[Transhuman]

Can someone please watch this so I don't have to?

[team filler]

it's never gay unless you're gay 

This sounds like a joke but it's the truth.

it's never gay until you're gay, fake it til you make it!

[BlueTsunami]

Can someone please watch this so I don't have to?

I bet I could easily stuff my whole arm right up to my elbow straight into vajoo

[Don Rumata]

Can someone please watch this so I don't have to?

Basically: Manlets annihilated, the movie.

[EchoRin]

Wat da fuk? She is supposed to be 6'1? Why the hell is every guy in the movie like 5'2? I can't even say "haha short 'Muricans". Like no. Plenty of dudes out there who are 6 foot and taller even by age 16. Stupid movie.

Grrrrl just move to the Netherlands where you will almost seem short.

[Transhuman]

The weird part is her sister is supposed to be "perfect", but no-one mentions the Eugene Levy eyebrows.

[bluemax]

I saw IT Chapter 2 on Friday with friends. I have never seen part 1 nor read the book.

It was kinda weird how much people laughed during this movie. Also I didn't know that McAvoy or Chastain we in it because commercials seemed to only hype up Bill Hader.

[EchoRin]

I saw IT Chapter 2 on Friday with friends. I have never seen part 1 nor read the book.

It was kinda weird how much people laughed during this movie. Also I didn't know that McAvoy or Chastain we in it because commercials seemed to only hype up Bill Hader.

Chastain was used heavily in trailers when they first started using previews for the movie in theaters. Then they moved onto the guy who plays a young Professor X in X-Men. I think they also did some trailers that were specific for Bill Hader's character. It was kinda cool they did that. The Chastain trailer certainly grabbed my attention having not read the books or seen any IT anything. In the end I passed on the movie for the time being due to not seeing the first. Wonder if I should watch the old short series from the 90s even though that wouldn't be necessary for these 2 movies.

[Bebpo]

I saw IT Chapter 2 on Friday with friends. I have never seen part 1 nor read the book.

It was kinda weird how much people laughed during this movie. Also I didn't know that McAvoy or Chastain we in it because commercials seemed to only hype up Bill Hader.

How was it without seeing pt.1?

[chronovore]

I wrote a gretel and hansel story when I was in high school 

in my version the kids were evil and they terrorized the old lady

Damn... actually why has no one done this?

It's been done several times. It's an automatic move in deconstruction to simply reverse the roles. It maybe was handled in Willingham's FABLES comic or ancillary prose.

[Bebpo]

I don’t know if I can make it through The Devil’s Rejects. 70 mins in, 40 left. It is

So

Boring


All the fun of 1,0000 corpses goofy ass random monster and fishboy stuff is gone and it’s just lots and lots of boring talking. Sometimes there’s some funny lines but otherwise this is dull as hell and really tame.

The cinematography though is about 100x better than House, it looks great. But zzz

[bluemax]

I saw IT Chapter 2 on Friday with friends. I have never seen part 1 nor read the book.

It was kinda weird how much people laughed during this movie. Also I didn't know that McAvoy or Chastain we in it because commercials seemed to only hype up Bill Hader.

How was it without seeing pt.1?

It was fine, they do a quick recap of sorts at the start and aside from the side villain not really being explained there's nothing too confusing plot wise. Going back to the characters pasts is a central part of the movie and story telling, so it mostly works as a stand alone.

It's also long as fuck because of this. Seriously I had no idea it was three hours long until I got there and one of my friends kept mentioning it. The movie kind jumps around a lot tonally, like its a movie about getting older! Reuniting with lost friends! Finding lost love! Remembering hard times and how they made you who you are! FUCKING SCARY CLOWN MONSTERS! It's a funny movie now! Its like Goonies but theyre grown ups! WAIT ITS SCARY! Wait there's cosmic magic shit? ITS A COMEDY!

It wasn't particularly gory and felt more like some kind of Evil Dead type thing at points.

[Bebpo]

Ok. finished The Devil's Rejects aka Rob Zombie watched Stone's Natural Born Killers and tried to copy it without any of the social commentary or writing/directing skill of that film. Is Devil's Rejects even a horror movie? Outside of them doing a mini-hotel invasion scene at the start, the rest of the movie is just a drama action movie of the trio running from the law and the sheriff out to catch them.

It's very talky and the dialogue wasn't particularly good. Also I felt like Sid Haig who was great as the Captain in 1,000 Corpses only has a few scenes in this and it's basically just the other two. The sheriff plotline is so boring.

The cinematography and scene by scene direction was pretty well done. Like who knew Rob Zombie could actually direct style scenes? I would not have guessed that from House of 1,000 Corpses. But the overall direction of the film and its pacing and its story which is kinda aimless is just bad. It's almost 2 hours long! And yet there's only like 3-4 sequences in the movie! It's just kinda of boring.

I watched the trailer for the 3rd one, given the 14% RT and it being straight to video and not liking The Devil's Rejects I don't even think I'm gonna bother checking it out.


The only other Rob Zombie movie people talk about is Lords of Salem and I'm slightly curious because I'd like to see this good stylish scene directing Rob Zombie of The Devil's Rejects applied to an actual horror movie, but idk

[Madrun Badrun]

[Mr. Nobody]

The Seventh Continent

 

[team filler]

Shucky ducky quack quack

https://twitter.com/FavoriteHorror/status/1174373647189868545

[Don Rumata]

The Seventh Continent

 

One of my favorite movies.

[EchoRin]

The Seventh Continent

 

I like this bit in the wikipedia article. Very #LateStageCapitalism

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Michael Haneke said that the film is based on a news article[2] he read about a family who committed suicide in this manner; police discovered that their money was flushed because bits of currency were found in the plumbing. Haneke claims to have correctly predicted to the producer that audiences would be upset with that scene, and remarked that in today's society the idea of destroying money is more taboo than parents killing their child and themselves[3].

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[thisismyusername]

John Wick: Chapter 3 -

"Winston! Winston! I need more firepower." *Charon proceeds to walk in and grab a shotgun with no lines*

I think this is what 2 should've been. Had the contact quickly done, all hell breaks loose. But then we wouldn't have had Hallie and the dogs for a combat scene.

I do like that Fishburne is setting up for Chapter 4.
 

[Joe Molotov]

Who'd hyped for Ad Astra?