The Horror Thread [Archived] Movie • Page 27

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My roommates made me watch the movie "Hush" the other night. It made me very uncomfortable.

 

Did her parents ever come in or did she just stay there as you left? So creepy

 

I once had a kid at work recite the entire plot of Insidious to me which was actually pretty helpful cause I always get it mixed up with the conjuring. And I taught him what insidious meant so it was educational!

 

damn, pretty disappointed by You're Next. I went into it expecting "schlocky horror," got super excited at the interesting tensions that the family introduced and the first few kills that were super well put together, and then when the killers actually showed up it just got real boring, predictable, and action-y. all of the twists felt telegraphed a mile away, all of the clever possible dramatic dynamics in the family disappeared, and the movie stopped even really making sense. the two brothers being in on it, i was like, "am i really expected to believe this?" the logic fell apart even further as the hitmen vacillated wildly between competent and incompetent and the family between stupid and smart, and it just kinda got to the point where i didn't feel like it was as smart as I had been briefly lured into thinking it would be, let alone having anything really stimulating or intriguing to say.
it was real stylish and cinematically satisfying, but it's like i put on beer goggles or something fifteen minutes in. i'm more frustrated by the glimpse of greatness I saw that than the inherent shallowness itself, because had i not fooled myself into thinking it was gonna be something more than it was, it still would have been average - just not a letdown.

 

This might be the first time I've ever seen this opinion.

 

my flatmate said he didn't like it cause it was "mean" and that actually meant that I would probably like it, but at the same time i had tempered expectations. then my opinion flipped three or four times over the course of the film itself. frustrating dawg

 

I love You're Next but the ppl I saw it with at the theater hated it cause they expected something else completely. I think they expected like a traditional slasher and they found it too weird so I was alone in my love there

 

I went into You're Next with similar lack of expectations and stilled enjoyed it compared to most modern horror.

 

In a good way right?

 

I can't get agree with you there @Spencer Control , You're Next is fantastic

 

idk even as a "smart slasher" i feel like it missed because it really ended up feeling like an action flick for me. didn't the protagonist, like, kill as many people as the antagonists did? certainly at least more than a traditional slasher victim would. and i liked the style and atmosphere, but she was so in control that that undercut it imo. and the presence of the twists just kinda felt like they were insulting the intelligence the movie had hinted it might have had haha. frustrating.

 

That was kind of the point! She killed the attackers because she was a badass. It was like if Die Hard was a home invasion movie where Bruce Willis a young Australian lady

 

yeah and i didn't necessarily dislike that on its own merit! but it wasn't what i expected what the movie would be based on its atmosphere (not in a good way) and it definitely didn't capitalize effectively (imo) on the interesting, unique-to-horror dynamics it seemed to frontload.

 

But it capitalized in every which way.

I don't get the argument, honestly. It's okay if you didn't like it, but disliking it because it wasn't what you expected just doesn't make sense.

 

Based on what I'd previously seen from Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin), when I went to go see Green Room a few weeks back, I was expecting sort of a hybrid between a claustrophobic, psychological thriller and action film...what I got was something that evolved into a true horror film in my opinion. Setting expectations going into a film can limit the experience if you let them.

 

i mean i think it's perfectly valid to dislike something because it wasn't what you expected, but it wasn't just that for me anyway.

it's the fact that the movie started out with a half hour of interesting ideas and a fine premise - dysfunctional family is stuck in a house together and barely pretending they don't hate each other, and their home is being invaded by random, ruthless killers who are predicting their actions and skillfully picking them off - and then devolves into an (admittedly enjoyable and generally solid) action flick inconsistent with the tone it set up (tense family drama is contrasted and tested with senseless violence was a great setup presented with a good control of atmosphere and characterization - and then it gets less and less tense, scary, and believable by the scene), predictable with its twists (the fact that the Crispian was in on it was telegraphed a mile away, the movie spent way too long pretending to ignore the fact that Erin was completely capable), and ludicrous with its plot (clever to a point, but way too on-the-nose to call it satirical), that I ended up feeling like I got suckered into it somehow. that's not automatically the movie's fault - perhaps the argument could be made that I put too much thought into the first thirty minutes or so, but i don't think that's my fault either.

basically, i expected [generic and stupid horror]. movie starts, and i see [thoughtful horror] for thirty minutes, followed by [unique but stupid horror + fun action] for the remainder of the film. my expectation wasn't what made me dislike the movie, it just set me up for disappointment and then the movie's weaknesses were all the more glaring imo. most of the tension dissipated because the killers weren't scary in the slightest and actually turned out to be real dumb - making it feel more like an action film than a slasher film - and none of the believable character development went anyway because the family tension was literally reduced to "1-2 of the family snapped and decided to kill the rest" which isn't really unique, thoughtful, or satisfying for me to watch when i had hoped the movie would actually be those things like it seemed to indicate it would be.

 

I thought You're Next was boring. Also, Ti West sucks as an actor, although he's not much better as a director.

 

I really enjoyed You're Next. My only defense of the killers seemingly descent into stupidity is that at the start they had a plan and were in complete in control, thus allowing them to act accordingly. Once Erin showed herself to be a capable survivor, it threw a wrench in their plan and they weren't able to adjust. Totally human reaction for a lot of people who don't respond well to the unexpected. Silly application considering they are trying to kill off their family, but still holds true.
I realize that that is rather minor compared to your dislike of the tonal shifts of the movie. I think I need to rewatch it, because it don't remember it having such swings.

 

I just bought it last week, so I'll probably rewatch soon.

 

Speaking of strange tonal shifts, I just watched Ava's Possesion. Anyone else check this out yet? On Netflix. Entertaining to a degree, but I feel like it was almost setting up to be a comedy, then it started taking itself seriously and became more of a mystery.

 

Yeah it was scary as fuck if that's what you mean, haha.

 

Her parents never came in, she stayed there the whole movie

 

I know I am late to the party...

but I watched Baskin yesterday.

Wow. Just wow.

 

this thread is goin downnnnnhill!!!!