Ogdred Weary
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Simple and somewhat cliched but effective short:
I've not heard of those, no. I've just looked them up, they sound a like The Blair Witch Project if I understand correctly?Has anyone seen The Blackwell Ghost series of films? They seem to have good ratings for films that I don't think are particularly well-known.
Thanks for the recommendation, I see episode 6 (or 7) is up for free view on youtube.Yes I think so. Mockumentary sort of things.
OMG what happened to Bill Murray??Bill Murray spotted in London where the next movie is being filmed! (2 days ago)
Credit: https://instagram.com/londonsfinestdrive?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbi...pSk9nu2S62BuuPUoGsrKkj1jekkx1y0Ku&__tn__=EH-R
I didn't know a new Ghostbusters is being filmed? ..
edit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21235248/
That's Dr Peter Venkman to you young lady.OMG what happened to Bill Murray??
He looks like he's 90!
Is this a remake of the 1980 Boogeyman?The Boogeyman has some jump scares but a lot of the horror is also psychological, about how our fears may summon up a physical reality. sort of a tulpa that has been around for millennia. Maybe first summoned up when humans discovered fire and feared what hid in the daek beyond. Not just fear but grief may bring about the onset of the conditions which create The Boogeyman. High school student Sadie Harper (Sophie Thatcher) and her little sister Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair) are distraught after the recent death of their mother. Their father Will (Chris Messina), a therapist by profession, gives them neither the support nor the affection that they need. He tries but is crippled by his own pain and dense of loss which he refuses to verbalise.. A disturbed patient shows up unexpectedly at their house asking for help, ends up committing suicide and brings in a strange entity that preys on the family and like a psychic vampire leeches off their greatest suffering. The monster when it appears is quite effective, even terrifying but on prior scenes the dark corners where it lurks beforehand, barely glimpsed also work well. This film is based on a classic Stephen King story and carries more depth than such a trope normally would. The lives of the children, their father and the disturbed patient are explored, no cardboard characters here, Good performances all round. Directed by Rob Savage from a screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods and Mark Heyman. 8/10
In cinemas.
Is this a remake of the 1980 Boogeyman?
Reading the plot on wiki, I now remember the story. I usually remember SK's stories as I have read most of them, except the last ten years. I like King's earlier works and particularly his short stories better. The supernatural element rather than psychological. Though Misery and Dolores Claiborne were good.No. This is based on the 1973 short story by Stephen King,.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boogeyman_(short_story)
Not reading the post yet coz I wanna go in cold. Loved both of Aster’s films thus far and Phoenix is a genius. Combo to draw me in. Going Wednesday.Beau Is Afraid: Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) has good reasons to be afraid, he was setting off to visit his mother (Patti LuPone) when everything started to go wrong. The night before he gets notes shoved under his door accusing him of making noise when neighbours are actually doing so. He sleeps in, rushes to catch his flight but his his keys and luggage are stolen. A mob of street people invade his apartment and he is then stabbed and chased by a naked serial killer and is struck by a vehicle. All of this occurs in the opening 15 minutes of the film and is not without it;s comic moments, Beau awakens in the home of the family who knocked him down, the pater familias being a surgeon he's on a drip. Shades of Misery ensue.
Beau's onward journey is convoluted as he encounters an travelling actors troupe in a forest along with crazed pursuers. His sanity as well as his life is at stake. People die horribly, commit suicide by drinking paint. Through flashbacks we learn how Beau became the man he is, still controlled by his distant mother. There are literally heart breaking scenes scattered throughout the movie. There is a story here but the moral of it is difficult to figure out as he Beau wanders through animated scenes and longs for a lost love from his childhood. His mother gradually begins to emerge as the domineering parent from Hell whilst his father is missing due to a fatal on the job accident. What is reality here and what is fantasy, drug induced visions or psychosis is open to question but the narrative somehow hangs together. Totally different in tone, imagery and influences from Hereditary and Midsommar, Beau will likely disappoint those who expect to see a film of the Folk Horror genre. But it's worth sticking with even if I may have to watch it a second time to figure everything out. Written, Directed, and Produced by Ari Aster. 8/10.
In cinemas.
Kaufman meets Lynch, yet it hasn't even got the stuff either would edit out. It was crap. Aster could have done this as a 9 minute short and impressed me more.Beau Is Afraid: Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) has good reasons to be afraid, he was setting off to visit his mother (Patti LuPone) when everything started to go wrong. The night before he gets notes shoved under his door accusing him of making noise when neighbours are actually doing so. He sleeps in, rushes to catch his flight but his his keys and luggage are stolen. A mob of street people invade his apartment and he is then stabbed and chased by a naked serial killer and is struck by a vehicle. All of this occurs in the opening 15 minutes of the film and is not without it;s comic moments, Beau awakens in the home of the family who knocked him down, the pater familias being a surgeon he's on a drip. Shades of Misery ensue.
Beau's onward journey is convoluted as he encounters an travelling actors troupe in a forest along with crazed pursuers. His sanity as well as his life is at stake. People die horribly, commit suicide by drinking paint. Through flashbacks we learn how Beau became the man he is, still controlled by his distant mother. There are literally heart breaking scenes scattered throughout the movie. There is a story here but the moral of it is difficult to figure out as he Beau wanders through animated scenes and longs for a lost love from his childhood. His mother gradually begins to emerge as the domineering parent from Hell whilst his father is missing due to a fatal on the job accident. What is reality here and what is fantasy, drug induced visions or psychosis is open to question but the narrative somehow hangs together. Totally different in tone, imagery and influences from Hereditary and Midsommar, Beau will likely disappoint those who expect to see a film of the Folk Horror genre. But it's worth sticking with even if I may have to watch it a second time to figure everything out. Written, Directed, and Produced by Ari Aster. 8/10.
In cinemas.
Kaufman meets Lynch, yet it hasn't even got the stuff either would edit out. It was crap. Aster could have done this as a 9 minute short and impressed me more.
I saw Cold Skin the other night. Actually not a bad film, it reminded me a little of that lighthouse keeper film starring Willem Dafoe.
Some pretty good CGI and stunning location. It looked like a real lighthouse on a volcanic island.
Decent acting as well.
Would I recommend it? It's probably a 5 out of 10.
Perhaps I was unduly harsh. But it is an excellent film visually. Sad that it lost so much money at the box office.I liked it a but better, gave it 8/10. My review: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/horror-films.59441/page-49#post-1790588
I’m sure you’re not alone in that. It was one of the most irredeemably awful viewing experiences I’ve had in a long time. I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for some kind of payoff, some resolution to all the relentless negative, but it never happened. Phoenix held it together like a trooper. He hasn’t had a bum performance, but it was a bummer of a role. I got a good laugh or two. I just didn’t get the joke. Maybe i just wasn’t in the mood or something.Well. I liked it!