Film Thread

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Watched All Good Things the other night. It fell flat in a few places and just kind of plodded along.
Some lovely camerawork and editing in parts, but it was one of those films that I expected more from.

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Also the Midsommar director’s cut is fucking brilliant (minus one of the scenes, and one of the added lines)

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Sick, did they cut it down to five minutes?

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Blasphemy!

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I’d looked forward to that so much. Seemed right up my street, and I’m a massive Wicker Man fan.

It was on par with the Wicker Man remake for me. Just didn’t seem very clever. Maybe I went into hoping for too much but it felt pretty dumb, it was really predictable (occult/folkloric movies really need a fucked up twist, I think) and the cast were incredibly annoying.

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Where’s this on at?

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I’m an Ari Aster fanboy, so I am biased/have clouded judgement. It’s a pretty straightforward story, and you can see what’s going to happen before it even happens.
The very opening frame is a painting of the entire story!

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I got it for Xmas, I think it was purchased on the A24 site.

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Dang I can only see it on ‘hard media’.
My brother still buys and only watches films on blu-ray.
I don’t even have any form of player.
Looks like I’m popping round yours then.

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Can anyone reccommend me a good/weird/existential/arthouse horror-or-thriller film?
examples of horrors I’ve watched over lockdown and really liked:

  • The Shining
  • Carnival of Souls
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • Mandy
  • Misery
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Rosemary’s Baby
  • Don’t Look Now
  • The Wicker Man
  • Carrie
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Babadook
  • The Lighthouse
  • The VVitch
  • The Thing
  • Onibaba
  • David Lynch

ones that were interesting to see but I liked less:

  • Hereditary (loved the harrowing family stuff. ending was a bit too daft for me)
  • Midsommar (not believable in the slightest, is that meant to be the point?? the only way I can buy any of it is that the whole trip is a kind of trauma response/psychosis experienced by the girlfriend in the bathroom near the beginning. She never goes on the trip and has a proper breakdown + just imagines a revenge fantasy/healing process instead. V daft otherwise)
  • Get Out (shoehorned metaphors, fake Heath-Ledger-as-Joker brother, daftness towards the end)
  • Suspiria (nice colours but a bit dull. they liked that Goblin theme, didn’t they?)

ps. I love how the recurring motif of this thread is buildafire saying how shit Midsommar is.

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Brawl in Cell Block 99 was good, guess more action rather than thriller if I have to label it, but well worth a watch.

Am yet to watch Bone Tomahawk or Dragged Across Concrete but those are by the same director so hopefully as good.

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Thought Eden Lake was brilliant, and could be up your street.

The “loutish youths” are genuinely believable, which is a great change for a film. They’re not monsters, just horrible, believable people.

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I recommend you watch Zootropolis or something after all that.

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Yes and yes.

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Really enjoyed both of those, hadn’t heard of the one you mentioned. Nice.

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Recently watched the excellent The Terror on iplayer and it reminded me of this film from ages ago. Cannibalism thriller/dark comedy, that rarest of breed.

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It Follows, The Cube, Manhunter, The Wailing, Raw, Cache, Benny’s Video all fit the bill if you’ve not seen them

It Follows is especially good

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Cheers for all of these recommendations! Loads of stuff I’ve not seen :slight_smile:
Will obvs be spacing all of this out with Trailer Park Boys and Pixar stuff, I’m not a total nutter. Ace suggestions though, thanks.