The Last Movie You Saw?

[cestmagique]

I'm watching Fatal Attraction... This movie is insane!

 

[cottonmouth13]

Alive. A South Korean zombie film.

 

[lauralynn025]

The Evil Dead (2013)

I saw it before, but I went to a cabin with my sister & mom for the weekend a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was a great movie to end the night with lmao.

anyway, I love that movie.. it’s so good. Haven’t seen the original yet, it’s on my list though.

 

[cestmagique]

Thelma

 

[cestmagique]

It Follows

 

[MissMagAddict]

A documentary on Pauline Kael.

 

[wickedcrazyness]

Doctor Sleep (2019)

 

[Phuel]

... ( we watch every Rob Zombie film that comes about ASAP)!!

God, Rob Zombie is so desperate to be a Tobe Hopper heir— and I can see the popcorn(y) fun in his 70s-aesthetic; I even appreciate that he’s so dedicated to the genre. Just that his movies are so instantly forgettable and all blur into one another. And one of the reasons for that, and the weakest link in them all, is his wife as the lead. There’s no way around it: She’s awful and annoying.

Have you seen 1976’s OG The Omen, 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby and 1980’s The Shining? Such mood pieces with so much intoxicating creepiness and deep dread. It’s not about jumpscares, gross-out gore and nightmare monsters. It’s the dead dread of empty, quiet hallways, sinister shadows in the corners of your very own home, with the most important people in your life slowly revealed as the monsters.

 

[lauralynn025]

God, Rob Zombie is so desperate to be a Tobe Hopper heir— and I can see the popcorn(y) fun in his 70s-aesthetic; I even appreciate that he’s so dedicated to the genre. Just that his movies are so instantly forgettable and all blur into one another. And one of the reasons for that, and the weakest link in them all, is his wife as the lead. There’s no way around it: She’s awful and annoying.

Have you seen 1976’s OG The Omen, 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby and 1980’s The Shining? Such mood pieces with so much intoxicating creepiness and deep dread. It’s not about jumpscares, gross-out gore and nightmare monsters. It’s the dead dread of empty, quiet hallways, sinister shadows in the corners of your very own home, with the most important people in your life slowly revealed as the monsters.

oh yes, I love those older films for the exact reasons you described! Rosemary’s Baby is one of my favorites. The way it builds up to the final scene is so great. It’s not a fast paced movie, but each scene gives a little hint to what may be happening.

with that being said, sometimes I just love a good jump scare movie with gore and all of that stuff. Nothing too serious or deep, but it’s still entertaining for me to watch. I love all types of horror films, but I guess sometimes it depends on my mindset to be able to enjoy and appreciate certain ones.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Absolutely. Tobe’s OG Chainsaw and even the remake with Jessica was good fun (and Mike Vogel was worth the watch even if the remake had been really bad— and it wasn’t at all…). It's the best of that OTT gross horror genre. Maybe not considered horror, but I even dig Eli’s Green Inferno… Terrible, campy acting throughout but such good fun (still hopeful there will be a sequel LOL). Cannibal Holocaust was just too much with the actual killing off animals shown on screen, although a superior offering to Eli’s.

Offerings like The VVitch, Hereditary and the Suspiria remake are good signs that stylish, mood horrors aren’t gone. I never could suffer the 100th sequel of Prom Night/Friday the 13th/Halloween…

 

[dior_couture1245]

^^I loved The VVitch. Really well done. I saw it several times in theaters, I loved it so much.

I found Hereditary quite dull, and a lot of slow burn only to arrive at a fizzle. I don't believe it lived up to the hype. And Midsommar was kind of insufferable...even though conceptually, I think it could have worked...it's just the trope of the backpacking college students was handled so poorly and Florence Pugh was absolutely horrible in it. I don't think Ari Aster is half as talented as The VVitch's Robert Eggers.

Have you seen his movie The Lighthouse?, @Phuel ? Fantastic!! Eggers is so good at creating such an rich and immersive and convincing world. Big fan.

My favorite Halloween movie though, by far, is Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. It's absolutely stunning. Perfection. Gorgeous mix of historicism, high style, camp, drama and spooks. The soundtrack is magnificent, the production design is masterful, the casting is genius...Johnny's hair was amazing, Christina Ricci was stunning with her blonde hair and bleached brows, and Miranda Richardson - in that black and white dress - is a thing of dreams.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Ralph Ineson is so grizzly masculine and awkwardly handsome, and reminds me of Stafano Pilati, he makes the slowburn of that film worth it. Hereditary can be very jarring— and it’s more disturbing than terrifying, frankly. (… When I was in junior high, these twins that lived on my street both died in a car accident similar to how the sister died, and that’s what got to me.) And some scenes were even unintentionally hilarious: Toni’s non-stop bawling— from the moment she found her dead daughter to the funeral; the son’s weird, cartoony way of crying LOL

Sleepy Hollow is visually exquisite— like a Flemish painting come to life. Wished he still made such visually gorgeous films steeped in a stylized gothy fairytale mood. The ending however, felt rushed and too lazily straightup exposition. Everything else conjured such a romantic and equally creepy Americana fairytale. And God— Lisa Marie, even in a brief role is always such a tease: She’s such a ethereal muse. I always escape into Sleepy Hollow/The Fearless Vampire Killers/Coppola’s Dracula around autumn since they always set the mood for the cold of the witching season.

I’ve got The Lighthouse in one of my drives… As soon as I saw the screen ratio, it turned me off, I’ve yet to watch it. And no way will I suffer Midsommar LOL That Florence person just looks so unappealing; sheltered 20something and as insufferable as her character: Needy, clingy, annoyingly over-emotional, cries at everything and anything. There are enough of these types IRL— don’t wish to suffer them in films.

 

[lauralynn025]

^^^ Absolutely. Tobe’s OG Chainsaw and even the remake with Jessica was good fun (and Mike Vogel was worth the watch even if the remake had been really bad— and it wasn’t at all…). It's the best of that OTT gross horror genre. Maybe not considered horror, but I even dig Eli’s Green Inferno… Terrible, campy acting throughout but such good fun (still hopeful there will be a sequel LOL). Cannibal Holocaust was just too much with the actual killing off animals shown on screen, although a superior offering to Eli’s.

Offerings like The VVitch, Hereditary and the Suspiria remake are good signs that stylish, mood horrors aren’t gone. I never could suffer the 100th sequel of Prom Night/Friday the 13th/Halloween…

I have seen all the ones mentioned here except Cannibal Holocaust! Did you end up watching the whole thing? I really can get through most movies knowing that they are fake, but I knew this one involved actual animals being murdered. I just could not bring myself to watch it.

I can watch movies where people die, and it’s not that big of a deal.. but with animals, it always makes me sad! Lol. So knowing that the animals really were being killed.. I was like, “okay I will pass on this one”, and honestly, I don’t really pass on many horror films lol

It’s a shame though, because you wrote that it was superior to Green Inferno, which sounds like something I would usually want to watch!

 

[Phuel]

^^^ It is a very solid film if given a chance. But the extreme sensationalism and notoriety that surrounds the film’s reputation has it dismissed as p*rn/snuff/trash— and maybe even because the main character is portrayed by a famous p*rn actor of the time, is what critics will use to diminish the film. It really was the first to incorporate mockumentary elements. And if nothing else— there’s a lot of worthy dick and bare man derrière LOL The docs produced about the film’s release is just as interesting as the film itself. Worth watching it first before deciding if it’s worth it for you to experiencing this film. And it’s an experience for sure. Just search “cannibal holocaust review” on youtube.

The killing of animals shown isn’t gratuitous torture nor unnecessary sensationalism: The characters had to eat— so they captured and killed animals. This is how people in the wilderness kill animals for food (maybe they don’t treat the animals as humanely as they shoulde, but that’s the reality of people that see animals as either beasts of burden or food…). The theme of how humans treat one another in such a brutal, dark manner is probably the real horror of this film. The sunny soundtrack is probably more eerie within the context of the subject matter than anything else, frankly. I’d rate this film alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo.

 

[RedSmokeRise]

That Netflix adaptation of Rebecca ....

 

[Ed..]

Network (1976). Still relevant in 2020. Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch

 

[sixtdaily]

"Druk" with Mads M.
Loved it!!

 

[MissMagAddict]

Reds

 

[Colette_B]

the beguiled (2017)

 

[Belowen]

Four Christmases (currently in a Christmas movie phase... I was not a fan of this one though )