Really enjoyed 'Sick'. Great realistic fight sequences and tension. Characters who seemed to be making some smart decisions and looked like they were actually running for their lives. I admit the motive was a bit 'odd' but how some people behaved online during COVID, it felt like a dig. Any ridiculous claim had people triggered.
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I thought it was garbage. The telephone toy was the only thing that got me. A load of wankery! Reminded me of films like It Follows that are just pretentious garbage with no real scares.
I honestly don’t think the film is about ‘scares’ but more about creating a sense of gradually building terror. While it didn’t make me jump the way The Conjuring-verse might, it made me feel unrelentingly tense throughout. It really is a hard slog to watch and requires a lot of buy-in and imagination from the viewer - my boyfriend was SO unbothered by it because he was bored by how little the film actually gives you.
Maybe pretentious is a word you could use for it, but it just felt so far experimental and left-field that I can’t help but be wowed.
I watched The Mutilator on Shudder (UK). It was crap but good. It starts off a bit weird and the credits even make out that it's called Fall Break, with a big song all about fall break as our ageing teens drive to the coast in a convertible. There was some shockingly bad acting from the shopkeeper bit-parters in the shop scene where they get discounted beer, and the man who played Mike was pretty wooden (no surprises that he only has this sole acting credit on iMDB!). But on the whole I enjoyed it as a typical 80s stalker/slasher film. I was screaming at them when the remaining 3 characters who are really concerned that the other 3 have gone off and not come back, decide to split up to go off searching, rather than stick together. Like, they know something is wrong and their friends have disappeared, so possibly there is something bad going on, so you'd think safety in numbers would be a good idea! I know it's a standard horror cliché, but with that mentality you are just asking to be gutted by a psychopathic killer.
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Last night I watched The Brain from 1988, about an insidious TV channel being run by a big gelatinous monster that brainwashed people into committing horrific acts, and to be honest it snatched Dan Wootton’s wig.
It was called ‘Fall Break’ but was renamed as a film named ‘Spring Break’ was also in production - directed by Sean Cunningham no less.
I’ve only ever seen it once and didn’t like it much. The sequel looks pretty good though.
That explains it - but they could have changed the on screen caption!!
Possibly the same I guy I mentioned with just the one acting credit!
That’s the one! He’s pretty fucking useless, then again most men are in horror. Watching these old 70s and 80s horrors is quite funny that we see so much tit when the fan base is largely The Gays.
He/They
Really? You really don't mind a shot-on-video looking cheapie do you