The Horror Thread: Part 3D • Page 203

idk I’m on the first episode and they just made it very clear that there’s only one nice restaurant on the island. That’s no way to live imo.

 

I’m a simple man, Meetch

 

We know

 

Obsession goes so hard omg

 

It really does. I’ve kind of landed on “not for me” simply because it bummed me out in a way I find unpleasant, but it is good and I’m really excited for people I know to watch it.

 

I’ve been thinking about it a lot and I’ll likely see it again.

Part of it not being for me is I think my tolerance for nihilistic movies has dropped just because of everything. Similar to me checking out of shows that use rape as a plot device for a character being damaged, I butt up against horror movies that seem to (and I understand this is very woke of me) revel in violence that happens to women and use suicide as an ultimate solution. Again, those are all personal pet peeves and if you can past those, I’m sure this is a minimum four-star movie.

Also, I felt like it took some huge leaps with character choices in the middle with the lunch or two things the side characters did towards the end that make zero sense, given all that’s going on with Nikki.

Honestly, I would love a Halloween: Season of the Witch-type movie with whoever is making One Wish Willow. That’s something worth exploring.

 

100% agree with all of this

 

Completely respect all of those points and preferences.

I’ll be honest, I was unsure of how this was gonna land for me at around the first quarter to halfway mark - the tone was real tough to pin down and some of it wasn’t really working for me but I think it really came together nicely as it went on. Agree that some of it took a more surprisingly mean spirited approach than I was ready for but overall, I found it fascinating and honestly awesome, especially considering the performances and directorial debut

 

Halfway through the second episode of Widow’s Bay and I’m really enjoying this show. It is very funny.

edit: BJ!!!!

 

Obsession whipped so much ass. Adored it. Lead actress looks like a young Fran Drescher

 

Started Widow’s Bay, very funny concept to have the mayor from Jaws dealing with a cursed island

 

So beyond hyped for Obsession. Watched all of his available horror stuff last weekend and loved it.

Hoping for a good theater experience. Usually have fantastic luck but there was an older lady in our screening of Hokum that was literally just saying out loud exactly what was happening on the screen and i was constantly being taken out of the movie. (still loved it tho)

 

Hokum > Obsession > Backrooms in the same month! horror fans are eatin good

 

Passenger next week as well. Cautiously optimistic on that one after the full trailer.

 

I liked obsession. After reading some of the comments in here beforehand I was expecting it to be more mean spirited? It definitely was just not in the way I thought it would be maybe?

 

Might depend on what kind of mean spiritedness you were expecting.

 

I guess it felt like the tone of the trailer so I wasn’t surprised by it.

 

That’s fair

 

Nikki's silly little walks in the shadows made me laugh

 

I will say it was funnier than I expected but some people were laughing at everything, even stuff that wasn’t being played for laughs. Weird crowd.

 

That performance was incredible. Her voices, her smiles. She nailed it.

 

this is my main draw for wanting to watch, but ppl saying the film is a bit mean spirited makes me a little wary. what are your thoughts?

 

The party scene was insane. Reminded me of the best parts of “Smile.”

 

I may have audibly said "oh fuck" on the brick scene because of the woman jumping out of her seat next to me lmao

 

woman next to me had both her hands covering her mouth in shock at multiples scenes