onetwothree
Sigils, Prosecco and crying are my main talents.
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sounds up my street, shame its netflix onlyThe Maus: Confused and confusing film about a couple. a Bosnian woman and her German boyfriend, whose car breaks down on a road on the midst of a Bosnian forest. They appear to wander into a minefield but the woman's dog who isn't actually with them is blown up. They encounter two Serbian men who attack them but this appears (along with the dog incident) to be the woman hallucinating about past events when her family were murdered in the 1990s. Then they really seem to be attacked by two Serbs.
The woman also has an amulet which has the power to summon up a spirit to help her. Or is she just imagining all of this? Is she suffering from PTSD? I don't know and I don't think the screenwriter or the director did either. Some very disturbing scenes but an absence of shocks. 5/10. On Netflix.
sounds up my street, shame its netflix only
When you do find out who's Leatherface, your credibility may be stretched...
...as much as the stretching machine that Jed obviously fell into after the events of this prequel.
It's good horror fun though.
I guessed who it was straight away.
Anybody see Juan Of The Dead? Cuban Zombie film, I gave up after 20 minutes, even the satire was plodding.
You seem to like family orientated horrors Ramon, I think I've already mention PARENTS in this thread but that's a good 'un for you to check out (unless you've already seen it), made in the 80's, set in the 50's and starring Randy Quiad. A young boy suspects his parents have a secret, he's especially scared of his Dad and he's not wrong in being so.The Secret Of Marrowbone: A family flees to the US leaving behind a dark past. They arrive at Marrowbone, the isolated ancestral home of the mother. The mother dies shortly afterwards and her death must be kept secret until Jack (George MacKay) is 21 or the family will be split up. Sam (Matthew Stagg) who is 8, sees ghosts, Billy (Charlie Heaton) 17, undertakes dangerous tasks and Jane (Mia Goth) 16 mediates between Jack and Billy on what to do as well as tutoring Sam; Jack goes to the local town for supplies.
There are several secrets of Marrowbone, the past the family fled, the walled up room in the attic, the stain on the ceiling, the strange noises. The house itself is a star of this Gothic Horror/Mystery, in a state of partial dereliction, creaky boards, rats and raccoons in the walls. A strange mansion which was just made to contain dark secrets. The mirrors are covered so that Sam won't see ghosts, they have a makeshift hide to which they retreat when ghosts appear. Jack has fallen in love with Allie (Anya Taylor-Joy) a librarian who lives on a nearby farm. A local lawyer, Tom (Kyle Soller) is also interested in Allie and things get complicated as he handles the family's legal affairs.
Some great shots especially of Billy on the roof and of the eerie interior of the house, filmed largely in washed out tones for internal shots. A complicated script by director Sergio G. Sánchez with some flashbacks and plot twists demands careful attention but in the end supplies a coherent narrative. The Secret Of Marrowbone mixes several Horror styles and tropes and is up to the standard of The Orphanage, also written bt Sánchez. 8.5/10
You seem to like family orientated horrors Ramon, I think I've already mention PARENTS in this thread but that's a good 'un for you to check out (unless you've already seen it), made in the 80's, set in the 50's and starring Randy Quiad. A young boy suspects his parents have a secret, he's especially scared of his Dad and he's not wrong in being so.
Parents is weird .. it's a slow, pondering paced film viewed through the eyes of the wary child .. sort of how blatant it is when his parents over smile about everything when he knows he's being fobbed off .. a creepy film with only token gore but also some surreal set pieces .. I think it was made to make viewers uneasy.Looked it up and Parents sounds interesting, I'll seek it out. Ta!
I won tickets to a preview of Marrowbone, it's opening on Friday the 13th.
Parents is weird .. it's a slow, pondering paced film viewed through the eyes of the wary child .. sort of how blatant it is when his parents over smile about everything when he knows he's being fobbed off .. a creepy film with only token gore but also some surreal set pieces .. I think it was made to make viewers uneasy.
There was dark humour in it, quirky purple people eater music, his girl friend of sorts who was eccentric and those fast comedy cuts from memory .. then those slow motion nightmare scenes between Michael and his parents bedroom .. I'm still confused by the whole film tbh ... the traditional punchline ending was a nice touch .. I wouldn't change a thing about it tbh, it's the sort of horror John Waters would have made if he'd ever tried to make a psychological horror IMO.It's also a comedy! Bob Balaban directed it, and looked to have a promising career away from his acting, but his follow-up was My Boyfriend's Back which was messed about by the studio to make it less of a horror movie. It's OK, but you can see a better film struggling to get out.
Courtesy of the New Wave of Russian horror comes Mermaid: Lake of the Dead.Interestingly, this trailer seems to have been dubbed into English (well, American) - which is a rare situation.
This is from the makers of Queen of Spades and The Bride from the last few years. (The latter, I believe is getting the dubious honour of be given a Hollywood remake). Both were impressive but, ultimately overblown I thought. Russian horror tends towards mythic dark fantasy - and it all gets very grand guignol. They could do with applying the `less is more` principle - but that's just my own taste.
It's already being described as `Shape of Water` meets `The Ring` (Haven's seen either). Anyway the promo poster is a work of art in its own right:View attachment 10612
Anyhoo it comes out here mid-next week, and your Russia correpondent here will be first in the queue.
Pffft! An everyday occurrence round these parts.The monster - the rusalka -is a dripping wet raunchy woman who needs an assurance of love and morphs into a multi-fanged reptipian harpy type thing at the drop of a hat. Hell hath no fury, etc.
Section of it is based around Christmas yes. Why?
I hadn't realised it was at all Christmas focused until it was on..