What was the last movie you saw?

I've been binging on horror movies - hoping against hope that I'll find a good one post-1970s.

The search goes on....
 
Newest one: Kristy (2013)

Another failure. Why?

There are four - count 'em, 4 - Jason Vorheeves going after one victim. Three men (who wear masks), one woman (who shows her face often). you remember Jason - the guy who walks as his victims run - yet always manages to know where they're going and gets in front of them. This is that, times four. Until the victim's boyfriend, who inexplicably comes back after going away to his family - is killed.

Suddenly, the victim becomes the Jason - she knows where the others will be, and manages to kill them all!

A totally unbelievable story, that actually started out promising. If you watch it, you might as well turn it off after the first murder - the rest is not worth it.
 
Despicable M3

What can I say ?

Could use the minions a bit more (although their take on Gilbert and Sullivan is pure gold).

Lucy's attempts to be a mum to the three girls, range from the interesting to the hilarious, Agnes' obsession with unicorns reaches a whole new level, Margo is the glue that holds them together, and Edith is just Edith, only more so.

The introduction of Gru's twin brother, Dru, is about as tastefully handled as we've come to expect, and the whole thing is one glorious romp.

Throw in a new super villain, and we have a winner !
 
Cathbad said:
I've been binging on horror movies - hoping against hope that I'll find a good one post-1970s.

The search goes on....
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Try: Session 9 if you haven't already. It's outstanding... and the last line!!

Absentia
Banshee Chapter
Creep (new one)
The Innkeepers (Ti West)
House of the Devil (Ti West)
Mr Jones (very flawed but a compelling premise)
The Sacrament

I always go for indies when looking at horror.

pH
 
Hey Cathbad! My favorite new horror film of at least the last five+ years is It Follows. I wonder if you've seen it? I really love this movie.
 
Yay! (Watch it again, perhaps? I must have seen it 5 times by now; still works...)

Hmm... here are a few others - you've likely seen some, but maybe there's something new to you that might appeal? How about The Descent? It was pretty good. The Witch (2015) has gotten really good reviews. My wife and I thought it looked great, and had some effective scenes, but it missed the target a bit for us.

We thought Drag Me to Hell was good. There's a smallish independent film named The Invitation that is fairly effective. The Babadook is very good. I love The Host, a Korean movie. I liked Oculus. A guilty pleasure amongst guilty pleasures: The Last Exorcism.

Another indie film... it's sort of SF, sort of horror: Coherence. It's an odd movie (with a very slow pace), but I enjoyed it.

Hope you find something you like!
 
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The Disappointments Room (2017)

I was all set to tell everyone what a good ghost story this was...

Then, I discover they forgot to add an ending to the movie!! Nothing - absolutely nothing was resolved. At the very end, the family got in the car - quite calmly - and started driving away from their new country home. Where they just going to town? Leaving for good? But they'd not taken even a suitcase, or prepared in any way; and they certainly didn't look frightened.

Was the little girl really buired where the roofer dug up the tiny box? (it was empty for him, but there was skeletal remains when the wife -prone to hallucinations - looked)? Would the father do anything after finding mom nearly murdering her son (she thought she saw the ghost-man)? Did the roofer really commit suicide/was murdered, or was that another hallucination? Ugh.

Even though it was indeed a fine story until the finish, I have to give this one yet another FAIL, for such a frustrating non-ending.
 
The Invisible Boy (1957)

Odd combination of light domestic comedy and serious science fiction drama. A mathematician has his supercomputer (which takes up nine underground stories) teach chess to his ten-year-old son. The kid becomes a super-genius. Meanwhile, it seems that a recently deceased scientist managed to bring back a disassembled artifact from the future. The kid gets it working again. It turns out to be Robby the Robot, so this is actually a bizarre sequel to Forbidden Planet. Together they spend the first half of the movie getting into wacky hi-jinks, including the invisibility which gives the film its title, but is actually a very minor part of the plot. The story really gets going when we find out the supercomputer has a plan of its own. Things get very dark indeed, in the style of Colossus: The Forbin Project. Despite an evident low budget and some silliness, this movie is full of imaginative ideas.
 
Wacky hi-jinks indeed. Between The Solarnauts, Capt. Z-Ro, and Avenger X.... I'm looking at Lo-Jinks,,, except that, in Avenger X, a master of a million disguises is so good at what he does, that the movie ends and you aren't sure who he was. Mind, I fell asleep for part of it.*
 
Mulholland Drive

I was in the middle of watching the complete Twin Peaks, so I decided to watch David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. After I watched it, I had no idea what it was about, but there are a few good explanations online. And after reading them, it makes perfect sense.
 
Atomic Blonde.

I genuinely enjoyed it. It was a far smarter film than I'd expected it to be, requiring actual attention from the audience. Plus points for having a bang on target soundtrack (unlike Guardians of the Galaxy's rather lameass soundtrack full of boring Eighties tunes). I got chills listening to Cat People at cinema volume.

Cinematography was beautiful, even though a lot of the East Berlin stuff looked nothing like Germany due to being shot in places like Hungary. Phenomenally accurate reproduction of the Berlin Wall, though. I honestly got a little bit weepy when they interspersed news coverage of the wall coming down, the bravery of the East German people standing up to the Stasi and walking across the border en masse. It brought back a lot of memories, so I'd say it was accurate enough!

It also gets plus points for showing women's bodies without pandering to sexualisation. We open on a naked Charlize Theron, but there's nothing vulnerable or sexy about it: we're shown her strength. Her muscles, her injuries, her fearlessness. Whenever we see women naked in Atomic Blonde we aren't seeing soft things to leer at, we're seeing machines in motion and it's very well done.

Will absolutely grab it on Blu-Ray when it comes out.
 
Play It As It Lays (1972)

Joan Didion's novel adapted by herself and husband John Gregory Dunne. Tuesday Weld stars as an actress descending into existential apathy. Anthony Perkins has the second lead as her friend, a producer who is already there. Features a brain-damaged child, an illegal abortion, and suicide. Can be summed up by the film's last two lines. "Why?" "Why not?"
 
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