I wasn't too interested until the very last moments which frankly took me by surprise. The story is odd. The footage wasn't particularly compelling save for a few sequences.
Interesting that they threw half the footage away and reshot the replacement footage without the original director BUT this movie didn't really work for me. Terrible ending.
Same sort of reboot as the recent Scream. A new story, similar to the old one, which also incorporates characters from the original. Not great. Basically fine.
Some interesting shots thanks to taking the point of view of the dog. Overall, this felt a bit gimmicky. The story was not very strong and would not stand on its own without the dog focus.
This one is pretty fun. I like how they fold time in on itself during the astral projection or whatever so that stuff later on in the movie explains mysteries that happened earlier. The monster design is fun. Good tension.
It was fine. Ti West brought a nice attention to detail, as per usual. Jonestown is an interesting setting. Would have liked more time spent on the brainwashing element.
Hard to decide if this qualifies as horror, but I think it does. It's a creature feature which is sort of in good company with Ready or Not (2019). Good fun.
Watched via The Last Drive-in. Very bad. Borderline unwatchable. Joe Bob had some generous things to say but it was painful for me to stick to the end.
It's an interesting combination of different types of movies, a sub-genre mashup. There's sort of a ghost story vibe while supernatural cops try to understand the cause of a curse, there are vampire politics, witches pulling capers. All sorts of stuff. Sadly it didn't quite hold my interest. I felt like the plot was all over the place and might have been better if simplified a bit.
I don't know why, but the original 1997 version just felt much more tense than this one. Maybe the fact everyone was speaking English instead of German took away some of the tension for me?
Good tension throughout. It ends up feeling like a sort of reverse home invasion type story. Features a cultist who Winnie the Pooh's the protag early on.
Very bad performances in a boring story. At least they didn't have to hire a camera operator. Thye just let the video roll on a single camera on a tripod until they captured as much dogshit as it takes to call it a feature.
It honsetly makes me mad. It make me mad when I walked out of the theater, and it made me mad today. The casting seems bad. The overall production design feels empty. Audio stings, stupid jumpscares (mostly via audio stings). It just feels sort of lazy.
Just very bad. Delia, Damien's daughter is adopted and then apparently carried her own twin's embryo which was implanted in her adoptive mother so that the next Anti-Christ could be born. What the fuck?
Fine, but really this was just more of the same and not in a great way. They tried to double down on there being secret Damien supporters and using their reveals as shocks/twists. Not very effective.
One of the greats. The kills feel almost like Final Destination in how they are summoned up out of nowhere. Love the spirit photography thing. It's all for you Damien!!
Solid. Really feels like a more modern version of one of the classics like Amityville. Good performances and production design. Regular audio stings and jumpscares, but still pretty good.
It's amazing how much I disliked this one. It's a supernatural thriller with a living serial killer who lives in the crawlspace of a home and it all feels like it's just one big mashup of movies that themselves are not that great.
I love the way this one works, specifically how the central characters become so protective (re: looters) to the space they claimed, and eventually realize they've trapped themselves in a tomb of the way the world used to be. The muzak in the mall is also a lot of fun.
This was just incredibly funny. Indirectly this shares some small overlap with Final Destination in that the editing is extremely tight and the setup for (some of) the kills tends to be Rube Goldbergesque.
It's hard to explain how incomprehensible this one is. Jeffery Donovan is usually fun but he can't save such a sloppy script. Feels like made for tv, but I don't think it was. Very bad.
Very well done found footage. The performances feel mostly authentic and the camera work/blocking were spot on. A fun conclusion after a very satisfying ramp up in tension.
Interesting family dynamics, but mostly a pedestrian haunted house thing. Telegraphed the direction of the plot, but came with a small twist to keep things satisfying somewhat.
Overall an interesting concept, but not actually interesting to watch in practice. Many of the VFX shots felt bad. Sequences meant to make us uncomfortable fall flat. Just doesn't do it for me.
Very good but not that satisfying. George C Scott gives a great performance, but the story is sort of boring. Some nice sequences. Nothing that makes me swoon.
Classic De Palma. Lots of fun shots, some split screen. Soundtrack is way over the top, but still fun. It's sort of like Psycho and Basket Case at the same time.
Sort of interesting but I took issue with it being hard to follow to even know what was going on towards the end. So much pitch dark footage with barely any light. Creature feature, even more than Horror in the High Desert.
It's not up to much, but there are some funny bits. I really don't like 3D movies, but this one actually works better than most because it is over the top in a "3D is the point" way.
Very confusing in terms of what the movie was trying to achieve. It's like an escape room movie, but the room is a giant corn field and also there's sci-fi drugs to make people rage out and there's a slasher guy in a corn stalk ghille suit, but also the whole elaborate setup was done by some shadow government agency reminiscent of Umbrella from the Resident Evil franchise.
All the qualities I expect from an Eggers film, but still I found this lacking compared to his earlier movies. It might be the most pedestrian of his works. That said, it was still quite good.
Wonderfully playful in the way it was shot. Very fun, exciting, and at times bewildering. I agree with Ti West's take, "a scary story told from the POV of a child."
I honestly don't know how to describe this but it's really fucking great. Top notch performances across the board. Interesting story. Super weird tone.
Fun, well done, but a little weak. "It was all just a dream" or stories with proximity to this device tend to undercut any satisfaction they might bring otherwise. This one delivers in spite of this.
I had several problems with the plot overall and had to work overtime to look past them. While I did manage to do it, this one was just a bunch of fun. Kudos to the practical effects team.
Lots of fun. This didn't feel incredibly derivative but still evocative of movies like Scream. Could fit as a part of a double feature with Black Christmas just as easily as with Uncle Sam. Great kills. Good writing.
Not bad. Pretty good performances from Anna Kendrick and whoever that serial killer dude was played by. He was very good at showing the mask and the mask being dropped. At times, the production design was overboard with 70s pastiche.
Just very weird. Sort of Stepford Wives adjacent. There's a demon sending people into a pit and bad versions of them are sent back out into the world and this dude saves his family from the pit in a high-tech spacesuit he made for a Venus mission. What the hell?
Very fun. The cinematography takes cues from Kubric. Lots of great shots. Centered framing throughout with nice push-ins. Some very nice camera moves. Nic Cage.
Really felt weak. The interview segments all felt inauthentic and goofy, while the rest seemed like they really just started with some ideas for torture scenes and wanted to string them all together.
It's fine really. It does some interesting stuff and takes the story in a different direction, but I find the big finale sequence (the red room) to be a total eyesore.
Comedy/Horror is hard to pull off but this struck a nice balance. Loveed the twist. Twist made up for all the time I spent disliking most of the characters.
Very effective. At times, it felt like it pulled a page from the Giallo greats with the unrealted search for a missing girl there to just maintain baseline levels of tension.
It's fine, but mostly felt lacking. There's just enough "secret society" Wicker Man type closed community magic to make it interesting but woof I'd rather not see that guy's face all the time.
Cat sounds. I really don't care for it. The mystery/investigation part is boring. The jump scares are boring. The lighting for some reason seems to match that of The Ring, lots of cool tones. Why?
Just too far from the original plot for me. The supernatural twist was not very welcome. Really forced-feeling incorporation of metoo/incel nonsense stacked on top of supernatural nonsense. Would probably rate higher if it wasn't billed as a remake of anything. As a completely separate thing, it'd work better.
Really odd. Felt like a longer-than-welcome-Outer-Limits episode. Jarring conclusion that didn't really seem to answer questions as much as raise more perplexing ones, like "what did you mean by this?"
Yeah, not good. Very convoluted story laid on top of a very straightforward plot. A painfully obvious whodunnit is sort of like a joke without a punchline.
They got a different guy to play Gerald this time, and they tried to give him the name "Slumlord" like he's Pinhead or Freddy or something. They added a bunch of story. It didn't work as well as the more straightforward "people watched then terrorized" earlier installments. Not good.
AKA Bigfoot Creek. Mostly unwatchable. Poor sound, lights, editing, script, performances, special effects, the whole thing was bad and also very short.
Pretty fucking dumb. Some sort of riff on Final Destination but not really. A board game causes animals to magically appear and kill people. There's a witch behind it all.
Not as good as Blair Witch. Annoying cast, but still fairly decent as these go. Some liberties taken with the found footage format in terms of multi-camera shots, edits, etc.
Pretty good fictional documentary, a la Lake Mungo. The interview footage felt authentic. The found footage was well done. The story was slow burn (as expected given the format) but had a decent payoff.
Not bad. A novel version of a found footage deal where people investigate an abandoned (haunted) house, but entirely underwater at the bottom of a lake. Weak ending.
Has to be the worst found footage ghost story I've seen in a very long time. Acting is bad. Writing is very bad. Effects are bad. The whole thing barely makes any sense at all.
Not great. Not even a tiny bit horror, but I'm logging it because I logged Split the night before. It was okay for a while but then threw all my goodwill away during the wrap-up.
On the fence about whether to log this. Netflix called it "suspense horror" so here it is. Thoughtfully made, and better than I expected. Good editing, color, and I liked Casey's story coming out in tandem with Kevin's.
Basically fine. Good editing and pacing overall. This is another I lump in with Species and Splice for some reason. Much better than the former, but not as fun as the latter.
There have been serveral similar films to this, but this one is set apart by a nice layering of tension unrelated to the main thrust. Additionally, the pacing is great. Slow burn, medium burn, then crazy fast burn.
Decent. I don't think this needed Brad Pitt, but I bet the studio had to attach someone like that to justify the VFX budget. Could have done more with less, probably.
I rated this an 8 on the first viewing, but the 2nd time around some of the shine has worn off. The editing (specifically wipes, etc) cheapens the entire thing. Still solid performances from Crampton and Graham.
Most would not call this horror, I don't think. Still, I do and it's wonderful. To some, hauntings are just our stresses and anxieties given physical manifestation, and that's basically the gist of Solaris.
Big budget, weak story. That's a poor combination. Like a big budget and much much worse Basket Case mixed with The Evil Within (1 or 2) and possibly Indigo Prophecy.
Very weak found footage. University of Oregon students retrace steps of a group of hikers in Russia to find a magic hole in a bunker that teleports them outside and transforms them into ghouls which are then captured and studied by Russian military types.
Actually pretty good. You'll find yourself thinking of many other, more successful, sci-fi or sci-fi-horror movies while watching this, but still it was fun. Way to go, New World.
Barbara Crampton can't save this. Yet another pandemic indie. Annoying. Script works backwards from "put one person in a place and have them interact with nobody." Lots of facetime/zoom though.
I need to give this a 2nd look as I was watching on my phone, on flights and in airports. Wasn't spectacular, but David Gale gave his usual great Mad Scientist performance.
I love that the soundtrack is almost verbatim what's in the game. Many shots feel authentically as the game did too. Plot was not really a match, but that's fine.
I like this one. Unusual for Coppola. Many sequences remind me of Sam Raimi's work. Lots of psychological space and weird multi-plate shots with a mix of forward and reverse footage.
Fair to call this a "love letter" to 80s slashers, but it's shot so well and the soundtrack works so well and the story works very well. More than just a love letter.
Some really great camera work and a really wild story. The Goblin soundtrack is great, though I don't care for the heavy metal songs sprinkled in there.
Honestly, I still find this lacking compared to the GDT movies. Mostly I think I just loved GDTs style applied to the subject. This one is growing on me with repeat viewings, though.
US Teens fly to Serbia and one girl is offered to satan as a wife, but then she fucks an ancient monk and foils this plan. Weird. Train kills people by jumping off then back on the rails.
Pretty good. Not the best. This is the xbox one. Breaks the trend by using footage from the POV of laptops randomly when they aren't even doing video chats or anything.
