Frankenstein was really good, seen so many great horrors in cinemas this year. you love to see it folks
Seeing Shelby Oaks tonight. The reviews are all over the place for this one, but I’m still excited to check it out. Been a fan of Chris for a long time and it’s pretty cool to see him get such a cool opportunity.
Black Phone 2 was rough. Some really cool segments , pretty much was on board whenever it was being an actual horror flick, but the character stuff and dialogue was all a slog. It’s also interesting that the grabber is just Freddy now. I guess they aren’t making actual Freddy movies so, go for it.
a puppet combo movie? that’s..unexpected. night shift is a creepy game, although nun massacre turned me off of horror games for like an entire year lol
Watched the “The Ring” trilogy because I’d never seen The Ring Two and so had also never watched Rings. Wow, hmm. The Ring definitely still holds up and the atmospheric dread and ticking clock work in tandem and that video tape itself is still unsettling all these years later. The Ring Two though…what happened there? I’m actually really curious about it because there were aspects of it I kind of loved and I can tell that Hideo Nakata agreed to sign on to it for a reason, but whew what a strange swerve. I appreciated that they were trying to do something a little deeper with a whole allegory about postpartum depression and its impact on mothers and children, but when you remove the original conceit of the tape, and the seven day countdown, and instead lean on a possession movie in its place you end up with something that doesn’t even really feel like The Ring. I mostly just found the whole thing sort of curious. Rings, however, just…exists. Man, what a whiff. Not sure what they were thinking. The movie starts like three different times and by the time it actually gets going I’m not sure why the Johnny Galecki storyline with the college kids even exists. The ending (maybe even the whole movie actually) felt weirdly like Smile 2. Almost felt like the Producers of Smile 2 watched the ending of Rings and thought, “what if we made this, but good?” Pretty wild swing to make Samara go viral in the denouement and then just never return to the franchise again lol. And you know, removing the VHS tape format sort of takes away from the aesthetic. Part of the unsettling effect of the original tape is tied to the analog tracking, low quality, and degradation that a digital file just kind of removes. Watching them right click and copy a quicktime file is just, like…okay. Made me sad.
I’ve never really been one to be scared of movies. Every time someone says a movie is scary and I see it I’m like really? One of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had in my life was watching The Ring opening weekend in theaters. Even though looking back I don’t find the movie particularly scary, that night you could feel everyone’s fear in that room. It was almost suffocating and I’ve never felt anything like that feeling since.
I was pleased to still feel that creeping dread throughout my rewatch of that first film. I haven’t seen it since it first went to video so seeing the “tape” again legitimately got under my skin.