Horror films

I re-watched Revenge because I'm still obsessed with The Substance. Great film overall but I still struggle with the pacing. Very sluggish. The Substance is like a half hour longer yet flies by for me. Still it's so well directed by legend Coralie Fargeat, the score is incredible, the cinematography, the performances, the cringe inducing practical gore effects(that fucking foot scene!) and that EXTENSIVE male nudity was the cherry on top.

Also those earrings are everything. The way the pink popped in the dark ass night scenes!

The first thing I think of when I think of Revenge is that foot scene, and it makes my right foot hurt. Every time.
 
To go back to the Conjuring talk, I definitely preferred 2 over 1. I've never really found the first on scary and the only moment I probably would have found scary was in the trailer. And I class myself as a wimp when it comes to horror, but I remember being so calm throughout most of it. The Conjuring 2 on the other hand did scare me. I kind of agree that it didn't need the Crooked Man in there, although I did like the subplot with The Nun. I just wish her first solo film was better, I've not seen the sequel.

I keep forgetting about The Devil Made Me Do It. I really need to check that out soon.
 
The Conjuring 2 was genuinely terrifying and had a gripping story. I’d hesitate to call The Nun “a subplot” considering it turns out it’s the one orchestrating the entire thing. The [villain] was utilized perfectly though, unlike in the first one (and the third one).
 
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Decided to watch Cutting Class for the first time. She's mildly iconic but Jill Schoelen is such a wooden actress, she's already made me chuckle twice for her completely awkward delivery.

How dare you shame one my favorite 80's scream queens. She was good in When a Stranger Calls Back minus one of the worst haircuts until Scream 3

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Kind of iconic she left Brad Pitt in the 80's for the director of Halloween 4 and the Phantom of the Opera she was shooting at the time with Robert Englund which I want to see yet can't track down.
 
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Blood Sisters for me this morning... as badly paced as many an 80's slsaher (first post credit murder a whole hour in), the abandoned old whore house being bigger on the inside than the out, a slightly creepy killer outfit and a wild final ten minutes.
3/5
 
Went to the theater to watch Companion this past weekend and altough I was expecting to like it a tiny bit more than I actually did, still thought it was really fun. It didn't really bother me that I knew about the main 'twist' going in after all, because there's a lot of very on-the-nose hints at it from the very beginning anyway + there were enough little twists and turns in the rest of the movie to keep me entertained. And as far as the cast is concerned, would live for Sophie Thatcher following Maika Monroe's steps and becoming a horror it-girl. (and I need Jack Quaid in a gay rom-com or something)
 
Blood Sisters for me this morning... as badly paced as many an 80's slsaher (first post credit murder a whole hour in), the abandoned old whore house being bigger on the inside than the out, a slightly creepy killer outfit and a wild final ten minutes.
3/5
And that little pre-Scream meta moment when the sarky one comments that vans never start in horror films
 
Cutting Class has so many great lines in the final act. Donovan Leitch > Brad Pitt any day.

I almost said last night that I didn't want to sound like I was "not like the other girls" but Donovan over Brad any day for me! The film itself was absolutely ridiculous. Why even introduce Roddy's character other than to insert a scene of him being a pervert?! How were Martin Mull's powdered donuts not sopping wet and soggy after days of laying in a swamp?! The gag of the cut break line killing a certain character in the final moment would have been such a fun ending, why whimp out?!
 

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