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This was fucking awesome.
7/10 for me. Things start getting a bit silly in the third act and the CG just kind of enhances the silliness. Not bad though.
IT'S TIME WE CUT OUT THE CANCER
I mean, it’s not a bad movie. But I just wasn’t feeling it. I chuckle a bit at the gonzo craziness at the end, but I’m not totally feeling it. I’ll give it a mild yay, but not something that will be added to the collection.
Is this free with HBO Max or are you all paying to rent it?
I hate living in Canada and only having Crave.
When is a pastiche just pastiche and when is it just another stupid horror movie?
Posted elsewhere, but:
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I've seen plenty of lame 80s horror movies.
How dare you, sir. (*glove slap*)
That said, yeah this is basically [] with millions of dollars behind it. I'm just shocked Wan was able to convince WB to go through with it.
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Mostly terrible acting across the board as well.
Somebody remind me .... (X-Files and Malignant):
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Yes. It was the freak episode in Season 2 "Humbug"
ahhhh very cool
i think i will dig that one up and re-watch it
This seemingly distills James Wan's overall career path -- initial grungy gory phase, classical horror filmmaking, dip into blockbuster's maximalism -- into one single package, then adds a dash of giallo before heightens the whole thing into delirious stratosphere. The last aspect of giallo is why this just misses being truly great in its own way to me. The too-long running time, especially in the set-up act, just highlights the (maybe intentional?) choppiness in writing and acting of that genre too much, so instead of blending into part of the charm, it comes off just too modern-horror inept at times. But once the film hits that reveal (whoo boy), it truly takes off as an escalating gonzo trip and never look back. And throughout even the rough patch, Wan's style in both old-school horror and bloody kineticism remain on point. 7/10
It definitely focuses less on scaring. I mean.. I was laughing out loud towards teh end and enjoying every second of it.
I'm about 30 min in to this and I fucking hate it.
Not because its bad or anything, because its scaring the fucking shit outta me. I hate the ghosty shadowy shit, then my jet black labradoodle moves through the room and I almost shit myself.
Picking back up...
OH WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
Thumbs up.
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There's nothing special about this. It gets wacky but never as truly weird as it could be like any damn movie from the 80s would be. The set up is pretty mediocre (oh so her husband is abusive... and thats it), so I never cared about the characters nor the developments. Meh.
What the goddamn fuck?!
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excuse me, nothing but respect for MY Olympics-level chair-throwing monster
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Dude. I'm the king of nitpicks, but this takes it to another level. First, this is almost exactly what happened in the Ring, which is universally praised. And second, you're questioning THIS when the main premise is []
Not gonna lie, I did notice the drive up to the building was day and when she got there it was night. And to uber-nit pick...she parked about 6 inches from the edge of a cliff :D