Post by theravenking on Jun 20, 2018 11:52:04 GMT
Well, The Babadook wasn't really a horror movie. It was a drama about a depressed mother masquerading as a scary movie. I can't believe Friedkin called it the scariest movie he had ever seen. I thought it was tedious, boring, at times unintentionally funny. Essie Davis' acting was so over-the-top I wasn't sure whether I was watching a parody. This is the sort of movie that only gets made so film students can have hour-long discussions about it afterwards.
The Witch had some great cinematopgraphy, but I was disappointed they didn't take us deeper into the woods. Almost the whole movie took place around the house and I really wanted them to explore the haunted forest.
It Follows was interesting, eerie, dreamlike, unsettling. I'm not sure whether the characters were deliberately kept so flat and vague, you barely got to know them, and I thought this took away from the effectiveness of the movie.
If you look at some horror classics like Rosemary's Baby or The Changeling, those really gave you food for thought and were genuinely scary as well, and I don't think any of these new critical darlings are on the same level. They are weird and slow and a bit too artsy for their own good. I think audiences can sense it, when the filmmakers have this elitist, intellectual air about them. It seems they are more interested in pleasing critics than the average audience member.
The Witch had some great cinematopgraphy, but I was disappointed they didn't take us deeper into the woods. Almost the whole movie took place around the house and I really wanted them to explore the haunted forest.
It Follows was interesting, eerie, dreamlike, unsettling. I'm not sure whether the characters were deliberately kept so flat and vague, you barely got to know them, and I thought this took away from the effectiveness of the movie.
If you look at some horror classics like Rosemary's Baby or The Changeling, those really gave you food for thought and were genuinely scary as well, and I don't think any of these new critical darlings are on the same level. They are weird and slow and a bit too artsy for their own good. I think audiences can sense it, when the filmmakers have this elitist, intellectual air about them. It seems they are more interested in pleasing critics than the average audience member.