Anybody seent Heriditary yet? Hearing good things about it. Think I’m going Friday to watch it.
It’s out today in the UK, I’m going to try and see it this evening
Cool, let me know what you think.
This movie is overhyped, I’ve not watched the Exorcist so I can’t tell you if it’s comparable. So the movie overall is good which suprised me because I’m not a horror movie fan. Whether you like it or not really depends on what you want out of a horror movie. Firstly, Oscars inbound, Toni Collette is absolutely amazing in this movie, she’s this year’s Frances McDormand.
As I left the screening, there were a few vocal people saying that was shit not worth 5stars that the papers were giving it. The lady behind me was saying it sucked because it didn’t have many jump scares so she wasn’t scared. I had to bite my tongue because I detest horror flicks were the horror comes from quick cuts and loud bangs, that’s not fear.
First half of the movie which I enjoyed is all character development and psychological horror, they develop the family characters so well it makes what happens to each of them so stomach turning.
This movie is a slow burner, which I didn’t mind at all because I was never bored. The only issues come in the final act where things happen and they are unintentionally comedic. The entire movie feels like it’s building up to this big reveal but it doesn’t, there’s some fucked up shit going on but it’s very anti-climatic.
RedLetterMedia’s Mike covers a lot of my feelings …I think I did like it though, but it won’t be a movie I will be watching again.
edit: Kermode shares my exact views
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Word up, I’ve got tix to check it out this evening. I’m glad it’s not just a bunch of jump scares and I’ll temper my expectations and not go in thinking it’s going to be the best movie in world.
Some trailers…
Filmmaker James Wan, director of the record-setting horror hits “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2,” explores another dark corner of that universe with “The Nun.” Directed by Corin Hardy (“The Hallow”), the new fright-fest is produced by Wan and by Peter Safran, who has produced all the films in “The Conjuring” franchise. When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2,” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.
“The Nun” stars Oscar nominated Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, and Jonas Bloquet (“Elle”) as local villager Frenchie. The cast also includes Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria, Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, and Bonnie Aarons, reprising her “Conjuring 2” role as the title character. Hardy directs “The Nun” from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman (“It”), story by James Wan & Gary Dauberman. Dauberman, Todd Williams and Michael Clear are the executive producers. Joining Hardy behind the scenes are director of photography Maxime Alexandre (“The Voices,” “Annabelle: Creation”), production designer Jennifer Spence (“Annabelle: Creation,” “Lights Out,” the “Insidious” films), editors Michel Aller (“Lights Out,” “Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension”) and Ken Blackwell ( “Ouija” “Friday the 13th”), and costume designer Sharon Gilham (TV’s “Black Mirror”). The music is by Abel Korzeniowski (“Nocturnal Animals”). New Line Cinema presents an Atomic Monster / Safran Company production, “The Nun.” Opening in theaters on September 7, 2018, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present The Grinch, based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous holiday spirit. Funny, heartwarming and visually stunning, it’s a universal story about the spirit of Christmas and the indomitable power of optimism. Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the infamous Grinch, who lives a solitary life inside a cave on Mt. Crumpet with only his loyal dog, Max, for company. With a cave rigged with inventions and contraptions for his day-to-day needs, the Grinch only sees his neighbors in Who-ville when he runs out of food. Each year at Christmas they disrupt his tranquil solitude with their increasingly bigger, brighter and louder celebrations. When the Whos declare they are going to make Christmas three times bigger this year, the Grinch realizes there is only one way for him to gain some peace and quiet: he must steal Christmas. To do so, he decides he will pose as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, even going so far as to trap a lackadaisical misfit reindeer to pull his sleigh. Meanwhile, down in Who-ville, Cindy-Lou Who—a young girl overflowing with holiday cheer—plots with her gang of friends to trap Santa Claus as he makes his Christmas Eve rounds so that she can thank him for help for her overworked single mother. As Christmas approaches, however, her good-natured scheme threatens to collide with the Grinch’s more nefarious one. Will Cindy-Lou achieve her goal of finally meeting Santa Claus? Will the Grinch succeed in silencing the Whos’ holiday cheer once and for all? Find out, Christmas season 2018.
Death wants some Face Time. From the Producer of Get Out, The Purge, and Happy Death Day comes Unfriended: Dark Web. in theaters July 20. #BewareDarkWeb
How did Unfriended warranted a sequel?
Did you manage to see it?
Yeah dude- I had to process it for a minute before posting what I thought about it.
It’s definitely not in the same vein of horror movies like The Conjuring (which I actually like for what it was because of the children acting terrified is so believable), and was more along the lines of The Exorcist in terms of relying on slow tension-building with acting and imagery to build the suspense instead of jump scares, even if the subject matter turned out to be very similar in a way. Hereditary is fucked up. It’s got some of the most unnerving scenes in any modern horror movie.
Spoilers below:
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When Peter decapitates his sister and just sits there in the car, freshly stoned and in shock of what just happened. I could feel him trying to process it, and when he tries to mumble, “are you ok…,” and then just trails off, unable to really put a sentence together. God damn, that whole scene, including the mother’s reaction and him hearing her discover the body in the car and the shot of the head along the highway. Fuck, that was some excellent horror/terror/disturbed-feelings-of-doom building. I also like the way the whole concept of conjuring spirits is introduced. It just kind of happens and the movie accepts it instead of making a big show of it. Like, that whole concept is not even hinted at in the trailer I saw.
I thought the very ending was a little weak, and along the same lines as The Witch. In The Witch, the movie could have ended with the goat-demon taking the girl to the woods. It didn’t need the whole scene with a bunch of naked witches dancing around a fire. Likewise, I thought Hereditary could have ended when Peter opened his eyes after his sister’s/Paimon’s spirit entered his body. He could have made the clicking noise she made and ended the film right there. The headless mom’s body floating up into the tree house was a little too campy, although I did like the imagery of dead headless bodies bowed down before the statue with his siter’s head on it. That and the music was creepy as fuck. But all that kind of felt tacked on after such and intense buildup.[/spoiler]
I feel it is definitely one of the better modern horror movies. The directing was excellent, the acting was top notch, music was creepy, and, besides the somewhat weak ending, most of the story was good (even if it was basically a retelling of the same kind of stuff James Wan covers with the Ed and Lorraine Warren demon possession that seems to be popular these days. Hereditary does it way better). I’ll definitely add it to the “Scary Movies to Watch in October” list my wife and I have.
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So I saw the trailer for Bumblebee during the trailers before Tag (side note: tag is a lot better than it has any right to be. It has some great moments. Very funny) and all I got out of it was a girl falls in love with her car and John Cena Shows up to stop their forbidden love. Oh, and Starscream is there too.
@chadouken I have a little sis so the scene with the brother and sis hit me the hardest out of the whole movie. In some ways the unintentional laugh at the end was a huge relief, I didn’t realize how much that movie wore me until then.
@StuartHayden can’t deny it looks a whole lot more promising than any of the Bayformers movies.
Listening to the director talk about the movie and his love for Speilberg coming of age movies fills me with some hope.
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I’m just glad Bumblebee is a beetle bug again and not whatever car he was in Bayformers.
also its not hard to look better than a bayformers film. at all.
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Creed 2 Trailer
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TMNT getting another movie reboot…
I have no idea why they feel the need to ruin childhoods…
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Fuck your childhood.
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I enjoyed the reboot and out of the shadows movies they made. Were they the best tmnt movies? No. But were they fun? Yes. Did I enjoy them? Yes. Is that all that matters? Yes.
I don’t feel they need to reboot the series again. Give us more of Kraang. He was awesome in out of the shadows. Also give us less of Casey. I still can’t remember the actor that played him but he was an awful Casey Jones.
TMNT movie should be like the 1980s:
Just watched Jurassic World. My favorite part was when.
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The solder guy got in the cage with the murderous dragon and it ate him 
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Hyped for Equalizer 2…
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Agreed. It makes 0 sense that a movie released in 2018 can ruin childhood when you haven’t been a child in at least 10 years. The only movie (in my experience) that honestly can make that claim is the 1986 Transformers movie.
and they did it for profit LOL
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