My partner and I found Beezel better than we were expecting based on reviews, so that was nice.
It’s What’s Inside was a lot of fun.
Aberrance says 2022 or 2024, so maybe it’s new somewhere. It was a decent twisty horror attempt from Mongolia, so if you like the off the beaten path, check it out.
And it’s not even the first horror movie named Director’s Cut.
but it is never too early to get on the radar
Eh… We have tons of movies we can actually see, and heaps of movies we can see very soon (especially as we enter October). Movies we cannot see for a long and indeterminate time don’t do any good. When hype pushes too far ahead, it’s just waiting and distraction from things that actually are relevant. It’s just more noise we need to filter through, and there’s so much noise.
The Demon Disorder has some fun bits, though it requires When Evil Lurks levels of tolerance for nonsensical authorial hand puppeteering. Once you get past that characters just can’t do anything that makes sense, it’s a trip.
Too early for news about this, unless you’re going to theaters in Taiwan.
It was enjoyable, but that review is waaaaay overselling it. Especially as comedy.
If you want a Korean horror comedy, try Night of the Undead (2020), but don’t go in expecting zombies ;) Horror Stories 2 (2013) also had a pretty fun hor-com for one of its segments.
Yeah, but I mean, we’re over 40 now, plus some shows. Such a long and random list is not really useful to anyone. Here’s some season-so-far notables instead:
In a world where no one speaks
Another one? Eesh, these are always such painfully contrived and badly done conceits.
We start our horrorfest movie plowing in mid August, so the September list is quite long already. Way too many for a post per movie :(
Probably Ouija: Origin of Evil. Others we’d note in particular:
Probably Ouija: Origin of Evil. Others we’d note in particular:
Here’s a couple of lists for people to use:
Depends on your horror tastes, of course. We have no interest in Martyrs or A Serbian Film type stuff even if Baskin was pretty redeemable on general weirdness, and we all know there’s plenty worse than any of those out there.
Maybe most people who watch Baskin tend to venture even further out, but it seems like a notable watershed point to me.
We paid attention to films that paved the way for the genre and for filmmaking as a whole, as well as to modern classics that bring something new and brilliant to the canon today.
Right there is the end of my interest. As soon as it starts being about what someone considers important rather than actually great, it’s a list for history and not for utility or sharing what’s good in the present. I really wish people looking for quality and greatness weren’t always getting directed to historical footnotes, and nostalgia.
I think they’re sad, creatively bankrupt exercises that generally shouldn’t get made, but on the other hand, it’s good when they at least do different things or bring real ideas to the table. Tons of horror movies really aren’t very good, so you’d expect doing a good thing better to be a slam-dunk, but it’s rare for a remake to actually take that and execute. Even a frame-by-frame remake has the potential to do better and bring out the best in a proven idea, or even fix something that wasn’t appreciated from the many limitations a lot of old horror worked under. That’s one aspect more specific to horror that makes remakes potentially a lot more useful to do, but it’s still an issue that people making remakes happen are usually doing it because they don’t have something better.
Friday the 13th (2009) did a great job mixing polish, old ideas, and tongue-in-cheek series self awareness that all make it a fun way to enjoy what was good as well as what was bad about the early F13 movies. Then you have things like Shutter, where the remake is basically the same but still manages to be worse at every opportunity on top of the weird and pathetic jingoism. That was just ugly all around, and pollutes the movie space, so now we have to be forever careful to clarify Shutter (2004) instead of Shutter (2008), because the only thing seeing the remake does is reduce the impact of seeing the better movie.
For my partner and I, it’d surely have to be Baskin. I’m actually surprised to see a thread like this without it.
They’re Inside comes to mind next, but for more story reasons than just the freaky goings on.
Get a controller with underside buttons. I also consider stick-clicks an abomination, but it’s great now that there are under-buttons we can hard-remap to L3 and R3.
8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth controller has some awful ergonomics on several things, but the underbuttons are excellent examples.
The slightly more bulbous wings on the 360 controller actually do a lot for ergonomics, but it’s very hand-sized based. For me, the 360 is almost perfect in how the wings tuck into my palms. With the controller about 6 or so inches in front of me, my arms are at a natural angle with wrists straight and the controller is securely held without even a finger on it, and I can press any button without even having to brace it. Take even a little of those wings away, and that gets lost, and edges instead of the smooth roundness get annoying. My partner on the other hand, would need a smaller controller to get that same feel or to cross-thumb the dpad as easily as I do. As much as I originally preferred the symmetry of the playstation layout, I have to give the nod to the xbox layout for being able to dpad with the right thumb.
We desperately need controller makers to stop acting like controllers are one size fits all, when that’s not even close to true.
Jeez, the laziness of reviewing it based just on the store page. It’s been in early access for like five years, getting better every update, and not one person there can even bother to actually play the game they recommend to others?
Week 1
Week 2
Thoughts
You’ll Never Find Me, A Wounded Fawn, Post Mortem, and Beezel were unexpected finds. It’s What’s Inside was expected to be good, and was still quite fun. Luz… was notably weird but probably workable. We’ll keep that around.
Strange Darling was awful. Big disappointment there, based on talk. We didn’t expect much from VHS Beyond, especially with the alien theme, but one always hopes for anthologies to pull some surprises. Like most of VHS 2 and on, at least it wasn’t worse.