Fucking hell. That's one of my absolute favourite books! I hope they've made a good job of it..The only scary thing about this next one will be if they don't all have enough prosseco, gin and canapes for the premier after party by the looks of this trailer .. .. it looks like a dull attempt at trying to be The Haunting mixed with Downton Abbey with a sprinkle of Borley Rectory ..
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/80184
That's a great film and yes The Little Stranger puts me in mind of that when I read it.Weirdly enough, the Little Stranger reminds me alot of the great Rebecca Hall's film The Awakening:
Tonight/Thursday early hours on Film4 at 1.25 am, Baskin, my comments:
Shades of Hellraiser. Not for the squeamish.
Baskin: Turkish horror film, 5 cops have a series of misadventures, culminating in them knocking someone down and driving into a river. They all survive but are on a call out to an old building with an odd reputation. In the building they find another cop, injured and raving. They descend to the basement and literally enter the Gates of Hell. People are being tortured, eaten alive, dismembered.
Shades of Hellraiser. Not for the squeamish. 7/10.
Not much of a plot, but considering it was made for peanuts on various free nights it looks fantastic. Sad the director's follow-up was scuppered by his choice to make it in English, which seems to piss off everyone who catches it.
Hereditary on Thursday. Really looking forward to it.
I thought it was excellent... 9.5/10
In fact, I may go back for a second helping.
Genuinely disturbing, in lots of places. How this is considered safe content for 15yr olds, I have no idea. So saying, Milly Shapiro was outstanding (as were the entire cast)
Seriously...there were confident iconic streaks woven across this movie that seen once, will never leave you, for the rest of your life. An instantaneous classic, that was only just short of perfection.
It sucks you in, totally, does not patronise you for a second, and will have your brain buzzing like a ham-slicer by the end.
The end was odd...but (allegedly) on purpose.
http://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/06/explaining-the-end-of-hereditary.html
I would strongly recommend you go and see it. Take a friend. You will need each-other.
It demands dissection, and yet of course we cannot do that (here or yet anywhere) in deference to those who have yet to witness it themselves. Yet ironically the 'jury' is not out on this....Rotten Tomatoes scores it a 91% (I had no idea what they placed it at, prior to seeing it.....and their commentI would agree, maybe even 10/10. I'm seeing it again on Tuesday.
...is absolutely on the money.Critic Consensus:Hereditary uses its classic setup as the framework for a harrowing, uncommonly unsettling horror film whose cold touch lingers long beyond the closing credits
It demands dissection, and yet of course we cannot do that (here or yet anywhere) in deference to those who have yet to witness it themselves. Yet ironically the 'jury' is not out on this....Rotten Tomatoes scores it a 91% (I had no idea what they placed it at, prior to seeing it.....and their comment
Please, please do.I think I can do a review without spoilers, giving the feel of the film.
Ooh. I was meant to see this last night but it would have meant going alone. Next Thursday with a couple of friends instead.
Although, your review, Ermintruder, has made me a bit anxious. Are we talking 'A Serbian Film' type of experience? I'm trying to get an idea of where in the genre it sits so I can be prepared!
Nope! Nothing like that...Are we talking 'A Serbian Film' type of experience?
What, seriously...she didn't scare you? She'd scare me if I met her, now!!I'm a bit annoyed Hereditary didn't work for me...... never got scary
Nope! Nothing like that...
I'm a bit annoyed Hereditary didn't work for me... couldn't get into the style of it, and despite an excellent surround mix, never got scary 4/10
Yeah, he didn't bother including it at all in his BBC News 24 segment, which actually surprised me.Just been listening to Mark Kermode's podcast and he was disappointed in it too - too derivative and too much exposition in it, were his chief complaints.
Yeah, he didn't bother including it at all in his BBC News 24 segment, which actually surprised me.
Other genre critics like Alan Jones and Nigel Floyd didn't care for it either. (Not heard Kim Newman's take yet!)
Cheers - he actually liked it quite a bit!Here are Mr Newman's thoughts:
https://johnnyalucard.com/2018/06/13/film-review-hereditary/
well i was suckered in by the exorcist comparisons, what rot ... poorly told mess of a story, no better than all the endless paranormal activities annabelles and insidiouses/sinisters etc ...
and, hard to believe i find myself saying this from the trailers etc, but the USP of this movie went sadly underexploited ...
yeah because it definitely wasnt thoroughly derivative ! you could literally unpick each setpiece and point to the movie it was drawn from ... the whole tied together with sloppy LOST-style storytelling, not that i saw LOST