u/Freddy-Philmore

I love all types horror... all eras... A list to Z.

This was really good. It's more old school... so that's a warning. It does the whole building of characters and story first before they get to the good stuff. But if you like that kind of thing this is for you.

They never make clear what era. There are hints and no cell phones.

Really shot well. Mike P Nelson is really good. I liked his remake of Silent Night Deadly Night.

Cast is terrific.

High kill count.

And some great icky squirmy slimy stuff.

If you like giant snake in a rain forest horror that looks really good that takes a while to get going then I recommend it.

If you just want snake action from beginning to end with less character development or story this might not be for you.

This was terrific. Non-stop action horror.

If you like such things... highly recommended.

3 days in a row saw Onslaught, Buddy now this... been a busy horror weekend.

I don't get it. How am I supposed to ride with the world coming to an end and the sky falling?

I went in really knowing almost nothing. I have a faint memory of the trailer and it did nothing for me.

But as soon as the movie started and heard the John Carpenter style score... I thought ok this might be fun. It's not subtle either. VERY JC.

And the movie went on to be some batcrap weird fast paced shoot em up violent 80s 90s b-movie John Carpenter style lunacy... from the score to many shots and the core idea feeling like a little Assault on Precinct 13 meets Universal Soldier.

Edit: Oh Dan Stevens is hilarious as the gonzo German nazi sex pervert senior citizen scientist lol. And has Michael Biehn sadly wasted but a great turn by Die Hard/Family Matters guy Regninald VelJohnson.

Not elevated. Not smart. Not precious. Not pretentious. (I love all horror including modern horror)

Just characters reacting to maniacs. Kink bad guys. Weird scifi Universal Soldier stuff.

Does it all make perfect sense? Maybe. That's what I love about genre scifi action horror movies.

Afterwards I looked it up and it was made for just 15m. From a director who just made 200 million dollar movies. I wish more big budget guys would drop to these levels sometimes. I like that Sam Raimi does this now and then.

My one complaint could have used more onslaughting once the core premise kicks in... but still fun movie.

• Halloween 2: Michael blows up and becomes an overcooked French fry? Dead dead dead.
• Halloween H20: Laurie decapitates Michael... I mean there's no way to come back from that one.
• Halloween Ends: Michael ceremoniously dumped into a shredding machine cut into mulchy bloody bits.
• Rob Zombie's Halloween 2: Laurie stabs him to death or the cops shoot him to death.

I like that the three Jamie Lee Curtis ones are all different from one another. And they all legit meant to kill Michael.

Deadline today seems to be very kind to it. "Mubi’s Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma grossed $708k in week 4 on 579 screens for a cume to date of $5.4 million for the Jane Schoenbrun edgy horror starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder. It’s passed the total domestic gross of Schoenbrun’s popular 2024 film *I Saw The TV Glow"

This likely needs to make like 30 million to break even right?

It's only the second wide weekend and dropped 60 plus percent.

TV Glow was popular ? But had a similar 10 million budget and made 5m. A24 who released Glow dropped Miasma and it went to Mubi.

I liked both movies but it looks like everyone's taking a bath here.. Maybe I'm wrong. Can someone just explain the math here. I constantly see deadline and hear pointing out flops based on budget and ad campaigns.

Why is this one immune?

(I notice it's unpopular to like bad Jason Stratham movies because people who hate him dont like that I enjoy the movies and people who like him dont like that I think they're bad) lol.

TBH C (nicely directed, awful script, looked good)

My enjoyment... B+

Man... JS really knows how to deliver the formula. This seriously could have been structured by AI. Claude please write me a Jason Statham movie... 90 minutes... him as ex military or something vs baddies saving victims of the world.

Seems like each movie just streamlines and whittles it down to the bare necessities. This one just 90 minutes... last 45 minutes is the last act.

JS vs scammers I mean assassins I mean giant shark I mean human traffickers again (Working Man)

They add an actress who is actually good but literally has almost no impact with the plot.

There's not really a Mutiny... better title: Stowaway.

The bad guys are cartoon bad guys like dripping with evil drool.

The BEST thing in this (and the audience was laughing) was every time he needed a weapon he just turns and finds something laying around, axe, hook, gun, wrench... like wish fulfillment.

I had a blast because I was in the mood for something inane, ridiculous, well shot and short.

I feel like we're building to a Statham multiverse.

I NEEDED this...

Cute sweet funny little comedy. Not gonna change the world but just puts a smile on your face.

Not A-level but a good solid B... extremely likable talented cast.

Runtime is a nice 90 something minutes... it's tight, no filler, follows typical structure, you're not gonna be surprised at anything and you're not really supposed to. It's comfort food. And everyone did a good job.

One thing I noticed and appreciated... opening credits were like BAM writer/directors listed then movie starts. Like they knew... let's do this.

The Lizzie Borden story is actually a fascinating case to me... very horror territory... bloody murder, oh yes, lots of blood, but also what hits is the legal process and how the same evidence can cut both ways when you're studying an unsolved case. As well as how women were treated back in the 1800s.

The murders happened in August 1892. Nearly 134 years ago to this day. Lizzie and the maid were the only ones in the house. The stepmother was killed first doing chores in an upstairs bedroom, then about 90 minutes later the very frugal dad comes home, takes a nap, and gets hatcheted to death. Lizzie, moments later, had no blood on her. The murder weapon was never found.

The case is interesting not just because she was found not guilty, or because of the similarities to another celebrated murder case... OJ, 100 years later... but because of how much of the evidence truly can go both ways.

There's a moment when the mom is upstairs dead, the maid has trouble opening the door to let dad in... the maid testifies she hears laughing upstairs. Lizzie. But is she laughing at the maid struggling to open the door? Or is she laughing at her dead step mom's corpse not far away?

There's an absolutely great TV movie, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring, of all people, Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) as Lizzie. It plays things right down the middle and stays very fact-based, until the end when it guesses at what could have happened. It's a great performance by Montgomery and a creepy movie.

Based on Murphy's track record, he's going to make stuff up, turn rumors into facts, connect dots, and tell the audience THIS happened when he's making it up. And it's not even a mystery what direction he's going: it's Season 4 of his Monster anthology, the co-creators are calling it "women-driven, feminist, lesbian, dirty, unapologetic," and the official logline says the two women "escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge." It bothers me that a case so interesting all by itself is going to made into a pretend soap opera. They might be upfront it's not real but people will think it is.

I totally recommend the '70s TV movie. It's easy to find.

I like all kinds of movies... popcorn blockbusters, indie films, horror, silly, Oscar contenders... but I had never done a broadway show on screen before. And I had never seen Hadestown.

What a great show. It's all music like the whole thing. I guess it's considered a folk/New Orleans-style jazz opera because it's continuous music.

André De Shields as Hermes is a blast to watch. Like you know youre seeing something special. He won the Tony as did the musical and they got a bunch of other.

Hades bass voice is stunningly and hilariously low.

I had to wait to see this because after the first 5 days it extended but to 8am or afternoon showings and I couldn't do those. Finally there was a 1030 showing last night.

I've got the A-List pass, I love it. I just go and take my chances. Great, good, bad... honestly they're usually the top 2 and even if bad I kind of enjoy the experience. But I skip the trailers, I barely know the plot, I know genre and often that's it.

I've got a friend with a pass too, but he can't just go on a whim... no joke he needs days before committing. He has to watch the trailers, read reviews, study the reactions on social media, all to freaking decide if a movie's "worth his time." And I keep telling him: if you just go with popular opinion, you're gonna miss out on stuff you'd love. When something's 50/50, he only looks at the 50 that hated it and ignores the 50 that liked it.

I like a lot of movies the internet tells me I should hate.

I sometimes miss the before times. We just went to movies before we knew we were supposed to hate them.

Do you overthink it sometimes?

I'm not even sure what this was but one thing for sure... this movie is not for everyone. Might be for me though. Or not.

The first 10 minutes I was like wow this is pretentious shit, but the longer it went on I realized (IMO) this wasn't accidental pretentiousness... this was satire. Totally intentional. I was the only one laughing.

Reminded me a bit of the soapy drama of Twin Peaks seasons 1 and 2... some people got into the drama while others saw it as the joke it was meant to be.

But then the second half hour goes all violent, bloody, and twisted, like it rebooted itself into a different movie with different characters that will eventually meet up. That's more my brand. Then we go back to self-seriousness. It was fun while it lasted.

And then there's the score. I'm sitting there thinking this is so Brian DePalma... the overwrought romanticized pounding over intimate scenes and bloody action, this HAS to be an homage. End credits roll, I see Pino Donaggio, and I'm like OH SHIT he's still alive. The score might be the best thing in it (Pino scored DePalma's best: Carrie, Blow Out, Body Double, Dressed to Kill).

Summary: Too long, pretentious x100... a great score, beautifully shot. Like a fan boy's wet dream mixing Lynch / DePalma / Argento in an absolutely insane slow twisted attempt at a Giallo/scifi wanna-be nightmare. I think. Maybe.

I can't even rate it but I enjoyed the experience... If you hate it I get it. If you liked it I get it.

When I was a kid the poster freaked me out. Funny thing is I had always thought this was liked by critics and had been a hit. Probably just from seeing ads and not like today how everyone is tuned into every aspect of a release.

But looking into it was shocked to see it was the opposite. Divisive is what I kept reading. I get it.

So last night finally saw it... was the last of 5 Terry Gilliam movies for the month of July from a local theater. And... I see why it was hated by many back then but I freaking LOVED it. Wow... walked out just thinking this was basically an acid trip. No plot. Pure energy. Insane performances.

And the no-plot thing isn't a flaw... it was the point. From what I read, the book is plotless and situational too, just these 2 trips Thompson did to Vegas, and reading afterwards that's exactly what Gilliam was going for.

It took decades to get someone to make this and Gilliam was a good choice... and what blew me away, the other films I saw of his this month that showcased his whole journey... Holy Grail > Brazil > Fisher King > 12 Monkeys... Fear and Loathing felt more GROUNDED than any of them. His baseline is so warped that Vegas on ether is his most realistic setting.

Depp and Del Toro are just top notch great. It's basically the two of them, and everyone else is a small part or a cameo, but it's not filler, every one is a vibrant piece of a mind-warping puzzle. Michael Jeter's paranoid rant, Cameron Diaz, Gary Busey's cop, Tobey Maguire's terrified hitchhiker, Katherine Helmond (from Brazil!), Tim Thomerson, Flea, Harry Dean Stanton, Christina Ricci. Each one flickers in and out like something you'd half remember from a bad trip.

Then there's the Ellen Barkin scene in the diner... I think it is misinterpreted by some... it's horrific and it's SUPPOSED to be. She's so good even just standing there. It's brutal, and that's the point. It's the one moment the movie stops the party and shows the actual cruelty everyone else is seeing, a real person on the receiving end of their behavior.

I read that Gilliam specifically fought to keep it because it showed the real, sober results of their behavior.

Just my take... I'm guessing it's still divisive but probably has gained fans over the years.

I think it's moot for AMC A-listers since I doubt it's playing after tonight but...

I caught the last showing I think out of pure happenstance. Was supposed to go see Hadestown but got delayed.

Believe it or not... I thought it was sort of cute and kinda fun. C+

The plot revolves around 4 old high school friends and a dagger (the maguffin) that they are trying to find. But other than looking for this dagger for like a minute and in the most nonchalant way possible... they forget about it until the last 5 minutes.

Also they don't enter the house until 15 minutes in. The first 15 was spent introducing everyone which I admit was kind of fun.

The budget for this had to be small. This wasn't Haunted Mansion (either of them)... probably didn't have the catering budget of them as well.

And based on the trailer it didn't look funny and I was mostly right. But not unfunny... just not that funny.

Cast is actually very good. Pros who are a lot better than the script.

Limited budget means limited locations so in the house there's no big comedy set pieces in the hallways, basement, dungeon, dining hall, library... that type of thing... but where they did set up looked pretty good.

The set dressing and props were quite nice. Better than I expected.

Needed a bunch more funny in it. It eventually dissolves into some maudlin character relationships. Odd choice.

It's a very short runtime and clearly they cut scenes or never shot them because there's a lot of moments they just shortcut to the next one. It was an 18 day shoot. The fewer days means fewer locations.

The movie does run out of steam by the end and seems like everyone involved was like "lets just end this"

So if you like silly comedy horrors like Haunted Mansion but with 1 percent of the budget and are cool with a handful of funny things and a lot of characters sitting around talking... you might like it.

The suspiciously gay assistant though... geeze... felt like something out of the homophobic 90s. It's a very lazy thing to do. Odd choice.

So if you know you know... and maybe you all know but I didn't know.

I never saw a trailer, heard nothing, I don't do reviews before the movie, I don't like to be influenced...so I didn't know the concept.

So I'm not gonna say what it is but it took a few minutes to clue in.

A- or (B+) for me I just liked it a lot.

Really well done, good job, so well shot, soundtrack awesome, just a fun ride, but I can see why some don't like it or would get frustrated... my answer to that is not every movie needs to be the same and doing something different should be a good thing.

July has been a bust IMO for the amount of new movies released... So strange... but this weekend with no major releases I'm actually excited for these 4 smaller ones. I'm gonna try to see them all.

Hadestown

Haunted Heist

Motor City

Pinocchio Unstrung

• gory af.. though I wish it was a little tad more camp... just a little... like if the same gore happened under Raimi it would have had a more fun vibe as opposed to this more serious one (Raimi produced)
• muted colors... seriously the colors are drained...I don't know why they chose that
• great pacing... enjoyed more than the last one which had a serious middle act lill
• doesn't make complete sense but I dont think any of them are air tight