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venomwolvesI am back with more horror movies! I additionally watched some new ones recently--
Like Hereditary (2018), which. This film was absolutely traumatizing! She's not like other girls...... it was a little too well done, things got too real. Like trouble-sleeping-for-the-next-couple-nights real. Feeling-the-need-to-tell-your-family-you-love-them real. Yikes! Not for the fainthearted!
I also watched the first season of The Midnight Club, a very very good thriller/mystery Netflix show-- though I will say it's a bit heavy handed on the jump-scares at first, jfc. It's centered around a group of young people with terminal illness all staying at a hospice of shorts, so it gets quite sad, but there's a lot of fun filler with ghost stories and the driving mystery of the history of the building they're staying at is incredibly suspenseful, I strongly recommend... I also need that next season like. right now.
Anyway! On with the reviews.
11. The Evil Dead (1981) *
I'm gonna be real, I.... did not like this much at all. Classic or no, I just found this distasteful in many ways. Namely the tree rape scene, that was just ridiculous and incredibly insulting to women. I can tolerate a lot of bullshit with how women are treated in horror, but this crossed a line for me. I also hated how instead of a final girl, there was a "final guy" who I personally didn't really care for as a character, like he was kind of stupid... and he didn't make it out anyway! Booo. Plus, very misleading title, sounds like it should be about zombies.
I think about the only thing I liked was some of the original score and there were some pretty cool special effects.
12. The VVitch (2015) ****
I actually really liked this. Very disturbing, but doesn't overdo it and it was filmed in a really visually captivating fashion. Also a very thought provoking plot... I really can't blame the girl at the end, like damn might as well. The fact that she was never targeted leads me to believe the coven's plan was to recruit her all along, which is interesting to think about. I also find it interesting we didn't get a straight answer on what happened to the twins.
13. As Above, So Below (2014) ***
Here we have our first documentary/found footage type movie. Though I really liked this, I must say I don't feel the filming style was working in its favor. To me, this just wasn't realistic enough for that to really work-- the characters were too archtypical and the plot was very national treasure-esque... it just wasn't believable. I found it was incredibly unnecessary to have it filmed like it was for real. BUT, besides that it was a really cool movie and I do recommend.
14. The Conjuring franchise (2013-2021) ***
This is the only one on my list I know of that's based on real life events apparently with decent accuracy, so that's pretty cool. It's also connected to a few other films, namely Annabelle, which I haven't dug into yet. I think something that's particularly fun about these is that they're not really scary. They definitely try! But frankly they try too hard imo-- which works out for me, cause then I can just chill with these films no problem and enjoy the mystery solving and stuff.
15. The Blair Witch Project (1999) *****
God, I fucking love this movie. It's another found footage type, but does is better than everyone else, I swear to god. I remember having a moment of "wait, is this actual found footage??" and had to fact check, it felt so un-staged. The acting is phenomenal. The way the characters interact with each other is so realistic, and the stress and fear of the situation is palpable. I also found the filming style added so much to this. "Less is more" really works it's magic here-- throughout many key parts of the film you never see anything, you just hear. Fucking power move. No special effects or cg in the world could ever top the horror of leaving it up to imagination-- or even beyond the viewer's comprehension. Genius.
This has a very cheesy looking sequel that I don't plan to waste my time on, however there's also a mockumentary on the "found footage" that I might actually watch tonight... we'll see.
Anyway, next up is Disturbing Behavior, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, Studio 666, and Bodies Bodies Bodies!
Like Hereditary (2018), which. This film was absolutely traumatizing! She's not like other girls...... it was a little too well done, things got too real. Like trouble-sleeping-for-the-next-couple-nights real. Feeling-the-need-to-tell-your-family-you-love-them real. Yikes! Not for the fainthearted!
I also watched the first season of The Midnight Club, a very very good thriller/mystery Netflix show-- though I will say it's a bit heavy handed on the jump-scares at first, jfc. It's centered around a group of young people with terminal illness all staying at a hospice of shorts, so it gets quite sad, but there's a lot of fun filler with ghost stories and the driving mystery of the history of the building they're staying at is incredibly suspenseful, I strongly recommend... I also need that next season like. right now.
Anyway! On with the reviews.
11. The Evil Dead (1981) *
I'm gonna be real, I.... did not like this much at all. Classic or no, I just found this distasteful in many ways. Namely the tree rape scene, that was just ridiculous and incredibly insulting to women. I can tolerate a lot of bullshit with how women are treated in horror, but this crossed a line for me. I also hated how instead of a final girl, there was a "final guy" who I personally didn't really care for as a character, like he was kind of stupid... and he didn't make it out anyway! Booo. Plus, very misleading title, sounds like it should be about zombies.
I think about the only thing I liked was some of the original score and there were some pretty cool special effects.
12. The VVitch (2015) ****
I actually really liked this. Very disturbing, but doesn't overdo it and it was filmed in a really visually captivating fashion. Also a very thought provoking plot... I really can't blame the girl at the end, like damn might as well. The fact that she was never targeted leads me to believe the coven's plan was to recruit her all along, which is interesting to think about. I also find it interesting we didn't get a straight answer on what happened to the twins.
13. As Above, So Below (2014) ***
Here we have our first documentary/found footage type movie. Though I really liked this, I must say I don't feel the filming style was working in its favor. To me, this just wasn't realistic enough for that to really work-- the characters were too archtypical and the plot was very national treasure-esque... it just wasn't believable. I found it was incredibly unnecessary to have it filmed like it was for real. BUT, besides that it was a really cool movie and I do recommend.
14. The Conjuring franchise (2013-2021) ***
This is the only one on my list I know of that's based on real life events apparently with decent accuracy, so that's pretty cool. It's also connected to a few other films, namely Annabelle, which I haven't dug into yet. I think something that's particularly fun about these is that they're not really scary. They definitely try! But frankly they try too hard imo-- which works out for me, cause then I can just chill with these films no problem and enjoy the mystery solving and stuff.
15. The Blair Witch Project (1999) *****
God, I fucking love this movie. It's another found footage type, but does is better than everyone else, I swear to god. I remember having a moment of "wait, is this actual found footage??" and had to fact check, it felt so un-staged. The acting is phenomenal. The way the characters interact with each other is so realistic, and the stress and fear of the situation is palpable. I also found the filming style added so much to this. "Less is more" really works it's magic here-- throughout many key parts of the film you never see anything, you just hear. Fucking power move. No special effects or cg in the world could ever top the horror of leaving it up to imagination-- or even beyond the viewer's comprehension. Genius.
This has a very cheesy looking sequel that I don't plan to waste my time on, however there's also a mockumentary on the "found footage" that I might actually watch tonight... we'll see.
Anyway, next up is Disturbing Behavior, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, Studio 666, and Bodies Bodies Bodies!
