Does anyone here still
have problems with embedding links, posting images, and my smileys aren’t showing up. In fact, all of the features are disappeared for me. I can’t @ anyone either. I’m thinking it might be part of the update process but just checking to see if it’s not just a problem on my end?
Oh man...the horror drought's so strong, I might check it just to have something new to chat about in this thread. Cultish/black magic stuff usually creeps me out, but I see Hereditary's fingerprints on 90% of 'em these days.
I've got Dual and Slapface queued up too horror fam!
Does anyone here still
have problems with embedding links, posting images, and my smileys aren’t showing up. In fact, all of the features are disappeared for me. I can’t @ anyone either. I’m thinking it might be part of the update process but just checking to see if it’s not just a problem on my end?
So, I peeped Slapface and Dual to gun for the ones with decent reviews. Some thoughts on both...
Dual: This gotta be some of the most gallows humor I've seen in a minute. It's got a premise out of a horror movie but plays like a dark comedy. I genuinely cringe-laughed at a bunch of interactions. For my plot obsessed ass, it was cool to see genuine arcs for the main character, her clone, and even Aaron Paul. But man was the ending bittersweet frustration. It's got a money callback, but also kinda confused me initially...But I think I've figured a way to square it with my main takeaway theme from the plot ("we are inevitably who we are" would be the theme that I took from it).
Her clone is basically a less experienced version of herself. She hits it off with the mother and BF, because they're reliving the honeymoon phases of their relationships. But as time goes on, she inevitably feels exactly the same way that her original does about these people. When she poisons the original, it's a reflection of the way her original was clinging to her old life in the beginning. That makes it extra sad, because the original found a new way to live. She'd been depressed and fine with dying in her old life; which is why she only cried after she replaced herself with a seemingly better version. But the clone killed off that chance at a more fulfilling life and ends up stuck in the same depressed state as the original...a really cynical "we are inevitably who we are" reinforcement, with a sarcastic chuckle at the end.
Slapface: I think this one's equally cryptic, but with a clearer message about bullying, isolation, abuse and trauma. I was NOT READY for how heavy this joint is. I mean that in a good way. It grabbed me from the opening scene and I had to see how things would unfold. My only complaint would be with the witch design. But she still manages to be imposing and threatening throughout the experience. But the scary of this movie is pretty much all about the interpersonal relationships and the ways that communication breaks down. There was one part that made me second-guess my initial take on the story:
I felt very strongly that the kid was behind the stuff that went down. The animal abuse, one bullet, happening upon hidden bodies, and the tragic backstory of familial abuse all point to him doing this stuff and imagining a witch in his place. But the witch did frame someone in the past and there's no way that kid broke out of the prison by himself. There's also no blood from the brother's gf dying. So it's possible that the witch is real and genuinely framed the kid.
And I actually the witch being real is a better version. Whether she's real or not, the movie's hitting on self-fulfilling prophecies that society imposes on people. The brother is viewed an abusive, drunk and everyone but the kid understands it that way. The kid is equally misunderstood by everyone but his brother. In the end, though, they older brother is killed by the witch and the younger brother is an imprisoned murderer. The witch has framed another poor soul and society is quick to accept it because they had rejected those boys well before anyone died.
These were both fun as hell! They were just cryptic enough to have fun with the themes and storytelling goals. Now I'm off to sift through Shudder's selections for any gems we might not have discussed (Home with a view of the Monster looks promising).
So, I peeped Slapface and Dual to gun for the ones with decent reviews. Some thoughts on both...
Dual: This gotta be some of the most gallows humor I've seen in a minute. It's got a premise out of a horror movie but plays like a dark comedy. I genuinely cringe-laughed at a bunch of interactions. For my plot obsessed ass, it was cool to see genuine arcs for the main character, her clone, and even Aaron Paul. But man was the ending bittersweet frustration. It's got a money callback, but also kinda confused me initially...But I think I've figured a way to square it with my main takeaway theme from the plot ("we are inevitably who we are" would be the theme that I took from it).
Her clone is basically a less experienced version of herself. She hits it off with the mother and BF, because they're reliving the honeymoon phases of their relationships. But as time goes on, she inevitably feels exactly the same way that her original does about these people. When she poisons the original, it's a reflection of the way her original was clinging to her old life in the beginning. That makes it extra sad, because the original found a new way to live. She'd been depressed and fine with dying in her old life; which is why she only cried after she replaced herself with a seemingly better version. But the clone killed off that chance at a more fulfilling life and ends up stuck in the same depressed state as the original...a really cynical "we are inevitably who we are" reinforcement, with a sarcastic chuckle at the end.
Slapface: I think this one's equally cryptic, but with a clearer message about bullying, isolation, abuse and trauma. I was NOT READY for how heavy this joint is. I mean that in a good way. It grabbed me from the opening scene and I had to see how things would unfold. My only complaint would be with the witch design. But she still manages to be imposing and threatening throughout the experience. But the scary of this movie is pretty much all about the interpersonal relationships and the ways that communication breaks down. There was one part that made me second-guess my initial take on the story:
I felt very strongly that the kid was behind the stuff that went down. The animal abuse, one bullet, happening upon hidden bodies, and the tragic backstory of familial abuse all point to him doing this stuff and imagining a witch in his place. But the witch did frame someone in the past and there's no way that kid broke out of the prison by himself. There's also no blood from the brother's gf dying. So it's possible that the witch is real and genuinely framed the kid.
And I actually the witch being real is a better version. Whether she's real or not, the movie's hitting on self-fulfilling prophecies that society imposes on people. The brother is viewed an abusive, drunk and everyone but the kid understands it that way. The kid is equally misunderstood by everyone but his brother. In the end, though, they older brother is killed by the witch and the younger brother is an imprisoned murderer. The witch has framed another poor soul and society is quick to accept it because they had rejected those boys well before anyone died.
These were both fun as hell! They were just cryptic enough to have fun with the themes and storytelling goals. Now I'm off to sift through Shudder's selections for any gems we might not have discussed (Home with a view of the Monster looks promising).
This movie is a 8/10 for me. Entertaining - I liked this movie ALOT. Go into cold, no reviews, pleasantly surprised. (But I will preface this by saying that it has a relatability for women’s emotional issues and day to day struggles with underlying social commentary so to speak, so y’all dudes may not like it for the same reasons that I did). Not scary but more of a thriller with like 3 plot twists in this one movie. Combination of “US” with the evil tether/evil clone + “Predestination” with a little Pet Sematary-ish concepts built in.
Builds on the “what if you knew that you were going to die but had a “chance” to live again” - as usual it goes horrorbly wrong .. fukkery commences
Of course- it has the angsty depressed monotone “
“Daria” white girl trope, the main actor talks And acts just like this.
I will definitely watch this because I have a fondness for bad shark movies but I always wonder why people without the budget to do good (or even decent) shark effects try to make shark movies.
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