The Horror Thread 2U • Page 880

Heretic was fun

It was cool how they played with formula by having Sister Barnes be final girl coded and the whole time you think Hugh Grant is gonna give a big monologue about how his childhood trauma or whatever is responsible but no he's just a sadist

 

Hugh Grant was sooo good in Heretic! Being from Utah, that movie (at least the first half) was a lot funnier than it probably was to other people. I thought it was great.

 

I mean...

 

Like @Contender said, a Scream movie cosplaying Scooby Doo on a movie set soundtracked my Incubus? What's not to love

 

Heretic was great

The scariest part was Hugh reminded me of like every early 20s philosophy major bro in undergrad that I had to interact with. I'd totally forgotten about them but then when he seemed to love hearing himself talk I was like wait why is this so eerily familiar lol

 

Random thought I think Melissa Barrera and Ella Purnell would go great together as like, sisters, or in a horror/buddy cop movie, or dare I say, lovers? I haven't seen Sweetpea but from Fallout (and Arcane!) I think Ella can bring the same energy as Melissa in Abigail and Your Monster

 

Idk how it'd go, but I'd love to see it.

 

i got Maxxxine for $20 instead of $30 at Target, "repackaged." i asked them what that means and they said since they don't sell movies anymore it was either a return or a shipment they just don't have a display for. probably the latter because there were like five of them there.

tldr Target stopped selling movies but you might still find some that are marked down

 

Yeah I was in Target a few days ago, didn't see a movie section and got pretty bummed out lol. Don't kill physical media!!!

 

Overall, I'm pretty meh on Heretic after a few days on it. I was captivated during, but a few things I didn't like..

I felt that there was going to be a less ambiguous and more concrete reason for why Mr Reed was like he was. Some others probably loved it, but I wanted a backstory for his 'religious' studies and a little more background on who he had already preformed the 'tests' on and why
I thought the whole 3rd act was clunky and it was a major personality shift for the sister to have figured out everything that was going on and then speak it in such a calm way. I also don't like that trope in general when handled in that particular way - the lightbulb over the head, and the flashback that shows a prior event in a new light.
I felt the cutaways didn't mesh all that well and I'm not sure it added the tension they were intended to add.

What I did like:
- the dialogue
- the sound design - absolutely top notch with the music, the ticking, footsteps etc.
- the set design of the house
- the slow burn 1st act and the beginning of the 2nd act.

 

Late to the party but holy shit does smile 2 fuck. Love this shit and the first one was whatever for me

 

I think Smile 2 might be a top 5 movie of the year for me.

 

It legit has half a dozen of the coolest sequences I’ve seen in modern mainstream horror

 

I hated that final monster reveal though :/ can’t win em all

 

this looks kinda sick

 

Saw the trailer for Y2K when I saw Heretic, and I feel like I'm already disappointed in it because Hell 99 should be on the soundtrack and I assume it isn't

 

idk the logistics of the transfer and whether it would work, but it would've been nice to see Second Sight offer a region-free UHD (i know their standard Blu-rays are locked to B) for those of us without region-free players.

 

Smile 2 hits digital on 11/19

 

Not quite horror (more dark comedy/psychological thriller by way of body horror), but A Different Man is incredible and probably my third favorite film of the year after I Saw the TV Glow and The Substance. Saw someone on Letterboxd call it "Substance for boys" and that's actually somewhat accurate lmao

 

I'm right there with you

 

The Substance, Anora, Lisa Frankenstein, Humanist Vampire, and Smile 2 for me.

 

Heretic was good !

 

If we're talking just horror what would you replace Anora with?