Bezulsqy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:35 pm
Does anyone have any tips for something I can watch this weekend?
As recent as possible and can be horror, thriller or action sci-fi. Fun or scary.
Recent films (aherm - I'm sure a man of your talents can 'find' them Bez...) that I very much enjoyed/would recommend:
VIVARIUM (incredible - made my skin crawl. my kind of surreal, existential horror jam. Like Bunuel meets Charlie Kaufman in the Twilight Zone!) A
HOST (good, clean jump scare quarantine/zoom-filming fun - was way better than it had any right to be!) B+
AMULET (weird, feminist downbeat British horror) B+
GRETEL AND HANSEL (if you haven't seen it yet - astonishing and beautiful) A
THE BEACH HOUSE (solid Lovecraftian-horror - starts off a bit meh/characters aren't great, but gets properly dark as it goes on and quite eerie) B+
BODY CAM (it didn't quite land the ending but I really enjoyed this black female cop-led urban horror - think End of Watch meets 90s supernatural monster action!) A-
YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (David Koepp psychological spooky reuniting him with Kevin Bacon - not anywhere near as good as Stir of Echoes but I did still get some thrills from it. Not a great ending tho) B+
RELIC (really good horror drama, very realistic though quite sad/slow-paced/downbeat - the last act is full on) A-
WITHOUT NAME (same director as Vivarium, earlier Irish horror film set in a forest - weird shit ensues! has a bit of a Field in England experimental folk horror vibe) B+
THE RENTAL (Blumhouse type high-concept murder mystery horror - Air B n B goes very wrong! Not bad, gets quite grisly, directed by Dave Franco) B+
ALWAYS SHINE (directed by actor Sophie Takal, excellent dark character horror about two actors/friends who go away for weekend and shit gets weird. Loved this. Think Queen of Earth/The Invitation - starring the amazing Mckenzie Davis from Halt and Catch Fire/Blade Runner 2049 etc) A
SEA FEVER (not entirely successful but very watchable 'weird shit out at sea' Lovecraftian type horror - some have said 'The Thing At Sea' but it's nowhere near that level really, but very well done low-budget British horror which has it's moments/good cast) B+
And while I'm here - Season 3 of Netflix's
THE SINNER with Bill Pullman returning as the troubled detective was fantastic. I started with this season and was knocked out, went back and watched the previous two which were equally excellent so I rec'd those too!
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