Saw this on Shudder. It was aight.
damn never saw thisSam Jack was wilding… rewatching this on tubi and I don’t remember half of this movie but seeing him play a mass murdering psychopath is crazy
the beyond (1981)
Jut watched for about the 10th time
A Fulci flick -The Godfather of Gore
I saw an interview with Quentin Tarantino and he said this was one of his favorite movies
I saw this years ago and did not appreciate it, but as i have gotten older , i like this more and more
Go watch this- it’s on tubi and it’s oddly entertaining to me for some reason, Sam Jack murking and violating everyone on sight - I guess bc it’s Monday night and my work week starts tomm so I’m having one last escapism binge before the stress level beginsdamn never saw this
very busy with work and to be honest a lot of online discourse is just terrible. In most cases I'd rather watch a baby seal clubbing. Seriously despite my username even evil has standardsGo watch this- it’s on tubi and it’s oddly entertaining to me for some reason, Sam Jack murking and violating everyone on sight - I guess bc it’s Monday night and my work week starts tomm so I’m having one last escapism binge before the stress level begins
Side note - Where have you been, sir??!!! you disappeared from this thread for like the past 2 years
Project wolf hunting
Dont know if youve seen it, but it is
It like the Raid Redemption meets Friday the 13th
This is the only recent thing I can think of
the beyond (1981)
Jut watched for about the 10th time
A Fulci flick -The Godfather of Gore
I saw an interview with Quentin Tarantino and he said this was one of his favorite movies
I saw this years ago and did not appreciate it, but as i have gotten older , i like this more and more
Saw this on Shudder. It was aight.
I got a couple of first-time watches to hit yall with. One movie is actually around 10 years old, a found footage joint called Final Prayer (or Borderlands in the UK where it was made). I really don't know how I slept on it for so long, because I really liked it. The other is an Arrow movie called Two Witches, which has good and bad elements but is worth peeping.
I'll start with Two Witches since that's the one you're less likely to have seen.
Notes:
On the good side, this feels like Indy horror done right. You can tell there were constraints in the budget, so there's a bit of fast editing to avoid having to show us too much. But the director puts in work. There are some incredible shots and individual frames that are just plain freaky. While the actresses' and actors' performances are uneven, the leads do really well, particularly the girl who plays Masha. The movie doesn't really kick into gear until Masha's creepiness enters, and she kinda steals it.
Plotwise, this thing almost feels like it was meant to be an anthology. The narrative is linear, but it skips from one group of characters to a new set in ways that feel disjointed. But it does enough to connect things by the end that it all works (sort of). The beauty of the jumping around is that they basically said "screw all the midpoints, let's just go from scare to scare" so that you're never waiting too long for things to pick up or get creepy.
On the downside, the Masha plotline doesn't begin until close to halfway through. The weaker story starts things off a bit slow. I mentioned the plot feeling disjointed, and that never goes away. Until the post-credit scenes, I still didn't really piece everything together. It makes just enough sense not to break immersion, but they cut it close. I'd say the directing >>> the writing. This is Indy too, so while there's some solid gore and scares, the effects are mid at some keypoints (one scene at the end that's played up for drama wound up making me laugh out loud).
But, with slim options lately...this was good enough to throw on and give a shot. For top-notch witch horror, I'd go with Hellbringer instead. But Two Witches falls firmly in my "not bad" range.