We watched The Menu last night and it was really good. I was glad to see Judith Light in it too. The no bread was hilarious.
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She was excellent. Verging on the edge of madness but very controlled.Agreed Joy, Hoult and Fiennes were excellent, but also when it comes to Menu praise we must not forget Hong Chau! Such a subtle but unnerving performance!
I watched The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane the other day, and really enjoyed it. I don’t think I’d ever heard of it before. It all felt so claustrophobic and enclosed. Jodie Foster was just brilliant and she was only 13 at the time - what a talent at such a young age. Her interactions with Martin Sheen and Alexis Smith were fascinating. Martin Sheen was also brilliant and very menacing - that poor hamster. The ending was fantastic too, and very satisfying!
I hate that hamster scene. So effective.
Yeah it was uncomfortable viewing.
I loved Sick. The final act wasn't as good as the stuff before it but that stuff was excellent so hard to top. The chase stuff was very well directed. I do wish
Highly recommend.
they had let Jane Adams go full on camp because I know she would have sold the hell out of it ala Pamela Voorhees which was clearly a reference anyway
Highly recommend.
I had highish expectations for Sick and I'm satisfied. Fun characters, excellent chase scenes, and some good Williamson quips. The killer's outfit is a boot though.
Between Scream 5 and Pearl, I'm generally bored of seeing killers/antagonists set on fire in slasher movies, but that shot of a flaming Jane Adams sprinting down the road was eerily beautiful.
I just got back from the theater watching Friday the 13th and what a fun film! I feel like I unfairly judge it because I lump all the sequels together and I actually don’t think I’ve even watched this in years because I didn’t remember much of it.
The score was so good and it was such a fun, campy ride. It had a good amount of gore which I wasn’t expecting since it was the first one. I also love how they perfectly set up Jason and a sequel. Alice was a great final girl, but the whole cast was a ton of fun.
This got me excited for the Peacock series.
The score was so good and it was such a fun, campy ride. It had a good amount of gore which I wasn’t expecting since it was the first one. I also love how they perfectly set up Jason and a sequel. Alice was a great final girl, but the whole cast was a ton of fun.
This got me excited for the Peacock series.
I really enjoyed Sick and found it quite tense up until the last act.
That said…
That said…
I did think the Killer’s motives were little silly. And they literally caused their oldest son to be killed, whilst attempting to avenge the death of their youngest son. I don’t know, the motive and the killers were a bit underwritten.
I always considered the original to be one of the weakest entries. I think a mix of me seeing it when I was really young, there being no Jason and getting little rewatches compared to the other entires… I never gave it the time of day. But when I saw it in the cinema last year, I loved it. It was so fun and exciting, a completely different experience. I’d love to get the opportunity to see some other classics on the big screen to really get new life from them as well.
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Sick was so amazing! I loved the entire film, including the final act which I've seen get mixed reviews. It's a shame Kevin Williamson has been away from slashers for so long because he really knows how to write younger characters and he's a master of this genre. This film had everything I wanted from Scream 4 and 5. Bigger set pieces which gives them more create options for the action and wonderful, tense chase scenes. I've never seen a slasher with such a heavy pace.
Sick deserved a big screen release, but I read the reason it went to Peacock is because it lacked a star. If that's true, I feel like it would've been worth the risk since the film was relatively cheap and still excellent. It would've done well enough for a sequel based on word of mouth alone.
As for that last act,
Sick deserved a big screen release, but I read the reason it went to Peacock is because it lacked a star. If that's true, I feel like it would've been worth the risk since the film was relatively cheap and still excellent. It would've done well enough for a sequel based on word of mouth alone.
As for that last act,
I found the killers motive to be ridiculous, but I thought it was supposed to be ridiculous so I liked it. This was set in the early days of Covid when people were buying all the toilet paper they could find and washing their groceries. So much of that time period was chaotic and ridiculous and we made many mistakes as we learned what worked. Obviously if you're killing a bunch of kids your reasoning is bad, but I get how these people could exist based on how Americans were acting at the time.
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I guess Skinamarink is in theaters now and I'm low-key thinking about going. That trailer!
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This evening The Killer Reserved 9 Seats (1974).
More a proto-slasher than most gialli, about a group of people being murdered one by one after being locked in an old theatre.
Rather sleazy (it features an absolutely jaw-dropping murder), but tension filled, and a lot of fun. I hollered at one of the trapees popping some pills and proceeding to dance topless infront of a mirror dressed like Kylie in the Can't Get You Out Of My Head video.
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More a proto-slasher than most gialli, about a group of people being murdered one by one after being locked in an old theatre.
Rather sleazy (it features an absolutely jaw-dropping murder), but tension filled, and a lot of fun. I hollered at one of the trapees popping some pills and proceeding to dance topless infront of a mirror dressed like Kylie in the Can't Get You Out Of My Head video.
The Killers mask is also something...
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It was an experience(!) in the cinema! Every breath was held, and people legit screamed aloud at points. The buzz as everyone was leaving was incredible also! I feel like it benefitted from only hardcore horror fans going to see it, with no casual spur-of-the-moment cinema-goers.
I saw Sick. It was tense and creepy. It's been a while since I've seen a straight ahead slasher/home invasion thriller so I enjoyed that aspect a lot but the motive... girls the motive was dumb. It fell apart for me there.
Bonus points for calling the killer Pamela though although I did wonder, does his intended audience even know Jason Voorhees at this point?
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