actually pretty decent. script was definitely your standard Lights Out/Conjuringcore but creature design and acting lifted it up a bit. Sophie Thatcher and David Dastalmachian elevate everything they show up in
Don't really think (?) it's horror but local bar movie club is showing Jawbreaker tonight. A first time watch for me.
Didn't realize this was the guy that did Host and Dashcam, definitely makes me interested. We had a downpour the other night and I wanted to match the vibe, so I did The Fog. And vibes were definitely matched.
a character from Host actually makes a quick cameo which I thought was cool. so quick I had to google it to make sure which is when I realised it was the same director haven't seen Dashcam, is that the one with the lady who was on Pink Cellphone by Deftones? I've heard rumours lol
It is lol. She is an insane person. She pretty much plays a caricature of herself in the movie as I believe she is an anti-vax nutjob irl, and it's pretty insufferable, but also weirdly intriguing enough that I've been interested in rewatching? I think it's worth the watch regardless even if it's frustrating or uncomfortable to engage with just because her character is very clearly not sympathetic lol.
I do like horror about absolutely insufferable people (shoutout Deadstream) so maybe I'll give it a whirl
Really love the 28 Days/Years music, that Godspeed! track is an all-timer and all of the triumphant stuff in Years adds so much dissonance when paired with what's actually happening on screen. Really ingenious and effective stuff imo
Agreed ^ Also, Young Fathers absolutely rule. Some of the music in Years reminded me of Jaws in a weird way. Not comparatively speaking to what John Williams did there, but that clash between some of the music seeming more upbeat against what is happening onscreen. That intended dissonance is clearly well thought out and effective, I agree.
random 2am thought but man I wish Donald Sutherland had done more horror. absolutely goated in Don't Look Now and Body Snatchers and he... certainly showed up in Buffy lol, just a shame he didn't stick around in the genre after that. RIP king
it’s been too long since I’ve seen 28 Days so I don’t remember the score but yeah I also absolutely loved the juxtaposition of the music in Years with what was actually happening. i’m really dying to rewatch this
this shit goes crazy. my friends and I used to throw it on while playing hide and seek/ghost in the graveyard in middle school lol
love seeing the Young Fathers love here. Dead was an album that changed my life the first time i heard it, and i'm glad they've continued working with Danny Boyle (after providing a lot of music for the Trainspotting sequel).
The "boots" song with the Rudyard Kipling poem in that scene from 28 Years Later shook me to my core. Amazing piece of editing.
I think my top three is still Companion, 28 Years Later, and Sinners, but Bring Her Back definitely slides in the #4 or #5 spot. I like Talk to Me, but I think this one is even better. Definitely dark though, even if the ending is somewhat optimistic. Poor Andy.
28 weeks has a great opening and it's an entertaining movie but I get annoyed when I think about the plot longer than a few minutes. They have a carrier they don't know anything about but don't have guards stationed at the doors or really many precautions at all. Husband is able to just go in with his access cards and nobody is alerted until it's too late. Then their quarantine protocol is to trap everyone in a big containment area?? So then they all get infected? That also seems dumb. Seems like it would've been safer for folks to shelter in place in their apartments. Also the fact that two kids got out in the first place is kinda bonkers. If it hadn't been these two kids it would've been someone eventually. I know Jeremy renner saw them leaving but it should've sounded all the alarms asap. Tbh I'm not sure if they should've even sent the helicopters and all those men for two kids who chose to leave. Like bye you're a liability. And tbh I know Idris elba's character is framed as sorta heartless but I feel like that's the attitude you have to have with the situation. And then in the end they learn nothing and basically set it up for this scenario to happen all over again with the kid. The dad following the kids was weird but I can see how maybe he got a different mutation of the virus from his wife and maybe it gave him some form of a sense of self/familiarity with his kids? I mean I guess it's all not terribly unrealistic. Seeing how bad COVID was bungled makes every bad response to a zombie quarantine situation that much more believable. And maybe the message is that humans will always be doomed in this sorta situation due to our nature