A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers

Also, guys, I read like 20 pages of a book for children and it gave me the worst nightmares I can remember having in decades. I just wanted to read a whimsical fantasy book about mice!

Mrs. Brisby?!

The Dark Portal. I'm auditing my class library collection and reading some books I'm not familiar with to make sure they are interesting and appropriate enough to keep around.

It all starts very "Albert the mouse was generally a timid fellow . . . " and very twee, and then not twenty pages later his screams are echoing through the sewer as a rat god "peels" him alive.

Dear Lord!

Take Shelter is pretty great, and I feel we don't talk about it enough (it's more horror-adjacent than straight-up horror though). That it remains ambiguous about the nature of the visions (are they hallucinations, premonitions, schizophrenia, biblical prophecy in the modern age) works to its benefit and matches Curtis's inability to make sense of them. That said, I do think the final scene erases a bit of the ambiguity, so it might've been better to remove that. Not sure how I would've ended the film though.

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I did not like Smile. I thought it was an overlong and absurdly predictable allegory for real-life bummers, full of bad dialogue, and maybe the most reliant on exposition and jump-scares (which I am actually not against in general) of almost any Horror movie I've ever seen.
That said... is Smile 2 any good?

Gonna point out we had a Movie Club thread about Take Shelter, and recorded a podcast delving into it with a couple of users (direct MP3 download here).

Thanks, I'll give it a watch.

i haven't seen the first one but i loved smile 2. that said everything you mentioned is present to maybe a lesser degree? those things didn't bother me much but maybe they wouldn't in the first one either idk.

You should all watch She is Conann so we can talk about it. Many many nods to other films. One scene that made me feel a bit ill. Fantastic concept. A slightly disappointing (but unexpected) repeat of undercutting its own sense of transgression by struggling to frame as desirable any bodies that aren't of the expected shapes. The character of Rainer (and the actress who plays him) are a ton of fun. This director loves the idea of unexpected/dangerous things coming out of nipples.

Been on my watchlist forever. One day...

Is this the greatest zombie movie theme song?
You be the judge.

I mean, I'm definitely feeling all macabre and living-deady now.

I mean, today is one day . . .

Maybe after this zombie movie, if I'm not too tired from all the dancing.

*********, they're remaking The Return Of The Living Dead.
This is a bridge too far.

Hollywood really needs to chill with the remakes, in general.

Saw Day of the Dead (1985) last night, which was decently entertaining but it lacked any subtlety and the near nuclear heat between Military and the scientists from the get go made it just a bit to obvious where the movie was going and the Military characters got on my nerve pretty quick. Still I did like it and the moments with bub and the decent into madness of the main scientist was a cool reveal.



Deadly Friend just felt so frustrating. I read that the film was intended to be more a drama but the studio insisted on it being a horror film and adding gore scenes. Those scenes really felt out of touch with a film that was clearly trying to treat a story about domestic abuse with some seriousness. It's not bad per se it just feels like 2 films fighting against each other and neither really comes out the winner.

Which do you think is more misguided? That or the Possession remake there's been chatter about?