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I watched this a couple years ago. I remember it being pretty decent.

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Dark was amazing but I couldn’t finish it. I was so lost in the last season. I need to rewatch and not be distracted while watching.

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Well I gotta say I was really looking forward to this since it’s supposed to be a spiritual successor to Re-Animator and From Beyond, but I was extremely disappointed. It’s more weird 90s low budget softcore TV movie than 80s campy body horror. A lot of it had “filmed in the directors house” vibes, which is fine, but the acting is atrocious. I don’t know if they were going for that or not but it was distracting how bad it was. Heather Graham, who isn’t Meryl Streep by any means, but is usually pretty good, had the same expression and tone the entire movie. Even when she was “possessed” by the other entity. She sounded like she was reading off cue cards the whole time.

The premise was decent, based of a Lovecraft story, but I found it pretty boring. I was hoping having Barbara Crampton in it would be a highlight but she was just…there. I’m usually pretty forgiving about character actions in movies. I’m a big believer in that people don’t make smart decisions in stressful situations and can often do incredibly stupid things. That being said, no one in this movie acts like a human. They just go along with things when people wouldn’t and they argue against things that they can plainly see.

The biggest thing for me, and this is probably a very biased opinion because I am a staunch supporter of therapy and have been in different kinds of treatment for a long time, but the way Heather Graham’s character is shown as a psychiatrist was so behind the times and ridiculous that it just infuriated me. Early in the movie she meets a potential patient and talks to him for all of 5 minutes, then goes home and tells her husband all about him and give him a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. She also hypnotizes a patient to try to help him overcome violent outbursts but she’s able to put him under in seconds and he gets stuck that way while she talks to another person and it’s just too over the top for me. I know the movie is supposed to be campy and silly at times but it just left a super bad taste in my mouth the way they portrayed psychiatry and therapy. But like I said my personal experiences are probably making me take it more personal than I should.

But overall it was pretty generic and disappointing and I wouldn’t recommend it. I really wanted to love it especially seeing it have such a high rotten tomatoes score and lots of critics loving it but it feels like another moment where I’m watching a different movie than everybody else watched.

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OMG that was just awful. Not the film, it was great, but just everything that happened. It was so simple but so visceral as well. I could just feel it everything that happened. Wow, thanks for that, great short!

‘Alien: Romulus’: Ridley Scott Says Fede Álvarez’s Movie Is “F***ing Great” (deadline.com)

Of course he’s going to say that, but somehow this is the first I’ve heard that Fede Álvarez is directing an Alien movie. It’s hard to be optimistic about a new Alien announcement lately, but I’m hoping this gets a treatment similar to Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey. It’s also a Hulu release so we’ll see.

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I don’t think either have been a breakout hit in the way 10 Cloverfield Lane was, but you’re certainly right about experience.

I dunno if you’re just letting your preferred movies cloud what you consider success but while the Evil Dead remake didn’t do too well, Don’t Breathe made $157M worldwide, compared to 10 Cloverfield Lane’s $110M. Evil Dead did worse, but not by much ($97M). None of them have been these runaway successes.

Look, I absolutely love Dan Trachtenberg and for more than even directing, and I think his movies blow Fede’s out of the water, but this picture you’re painting of 10CL being this breakout hit, especially compared to Fede’s movies are just not supported by facts. Not trying to bust your balls, but I believe it’s important to form opinions based on evidence and not just feeling.

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I just rewatched the original and was going to check this out but it is universally panned. Every opinion I’ve watched/read/listened to says it’s terrible. David Gordon Green just seems to want to ruin all these classic horror franchises. What’s next?

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Yes, I heard she is barely in the movie. And the other cameo I heard about is nothing.

Yeah, I can’t believe it’s a planned trilogy. It does seem that DGG may not be returning to direct though, so that’s promising. From what I’ve heard about the story of this and based on how Haloween went, he seems to be obsessed with the community banding together to fight. And that just doesn’t make sense for an exorcism. I will watch it at some point just for curiosity sake, but I don’t think I will be spending money on it.

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ugh, so disappointing. The only positive I’ve heard from this movie is Ellen Burstyn demanded that instead of her pay, they set up a scholarship for young actors. That’s awesome.

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Yup, there should be a reason for a cameo, not just a “hey remember this person”

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I’d definitely put it in a similar vein.

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Us I liked a lot if I don’t try to logic it out.

Us is the very epitome of explaining “suspension of disbelief” IMO. I enjoyed it but if you think about the logistics AT ALL, it all falls apart.

On this Thursday we’re watching Ready or Not and From Beyond, both I haven’t seen before.

Love both of these. Ready or not is more slasher/thriller, but it’s a fun ride. From Beyond is just weird, but I love it. It’s silly horror effects and 80s weirdness in a perfect package.

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