If we don't follow you on Letterboxd or whatever, that's fine, we have a thread for that.

But if you're doing a deep dive, or reminiscing, or have genre thoughts, let's do it.

Do I like you? I don't know, probably not. But if you watched Audition (1999) or Teorema (1968) or The Virgin Spring (1960) or even Evil Dead Trap (1980) (don't do that, actually), I want to hear it.

It's a lot of bad criticism that wobbles between seriousness and farce, and it's annoying, but it's a few good minds on here and I always want to hear it, because I am a cultural addict.

Anyway it feels like I owe it to start with something, so Weapons (2025) was upsetting and also one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

Yes, the vampire witch is a problem, but also no one in this town can keep a handle on themselves, which is why you are targeting a meek schoolteacher, who also kind of sucks, but more eminently is a reminder of actual witch trials, where you just ruin a woman's life because they're weird and don't need you.

I think there's an important distinction between Horror For Comedy's Sake and horror that makes you laugh. One requires that you be outside of it, and the other wants you to breathe and embrace absurdity for what it is.

Others have complained about the pacing and structure, but I think that's a critical part of it, because Cregger said that he wrote about fifty pages before he had any idea where it was going. Which, given the end product, with the overlapping and intertwined character-based stories, is astounding. It's like you're learning along with the creation of it. Not necessarily collaboration, but revelation.

Anyway, yeah. Love it. There's a undercurrent of frustration and violence running throughout and if I were a life-draining entity I'd be like, okay.

I don't believe in ten-point scales but 3.5/4.

People who disliked the storytelling structure of Weapons will have any future opinions ignored.

It's incredible.

Oh cool a Marvel movies thread

I'm actually going to preemptively b

I hate horror movies and yet I loved Weapons.

People who disliked the storytelling structure of Weapons will have any future opinions ignored.

I mean, it was "experimental", if not new.
But Cregger did say that the episodic style came from him writing about people that he has lost in his life,
So it's not just fragmented, but confessional.
I don't know, it's a lot.

welcome to the dollhouse
an incredibly nostalgic film

There was an extended period where I kept trying to find Dolls (1987) and I kept thinking it was Valley of the Dolls (1967) or Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) and I Just ended up confused.
Dolls is awful, by the way, but there are a couple iconic scenes.

I think Weapons was overall my favorite movie last year.

I think barbarian is better

MODS!?

Barbarian came out in 2021 you dork.

I was going to mention Flow, but didn't realize it was 2024.

Man weapons was corny as hell at the end sorry

mods, delete this man

Sinners without the

Spoiler

vampire

stuff would have been a much better movie

mods, delete this man

You didn't have to Thom Yorke on me.

And also spare me the whole Irish were the real slaves shit shut the fuck up

Also I have to disagree, Weapons was about inexplicable and ridiculous terror and violence and the only people that everyone hated figuring out how to turn it the actual villain to culminate in her crashing through their windows and screaming chased by children who tore her to pieces ruled.

Cregger tried to make sense of the many tragedies in his life and managed to turn it into a story.

And also spare me the whole Irish were the real slaves shit shut the fuck up

Is that what you think Sinners was doing?

No just the that one guy I feel like I can talk about parts of it without being scolded here

Maybe I just didn’t like remick

Okay because I feel like Coogler made it pretty clear about vampirism being cultural power for the dispossessed and superceding and absorbing people. If you let it in, it will go all the way up.

The fight scene still sucked tho

Maybe I just didn’t like remick

I don't get the fascination with him, like wanting backstory and all that. Motherfucker had Roman gold, how much time do you think you have.
I guess he has a reason for existing as he does but that doesn't make him anything to like.

The fight scene still sucked tho

I don't think it was supposed to be a good fight scene.
After the musical long take, it was essentially, "Well, we got to do it once, and now we have to die."
Like Slim saying "Yeah you pay twenty bucks tonight, but what about next night?"
But for three hours it was the best time.

i didn't like his long vampire fingers.

vampires should not have long fingers, it's gross and weird
they should have normal fingers.

Michael A. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan

vampires should not have long fingers, it's gross and weird
they should have normal fingers

You're a little late on that, you're going to have take it back about a hundred years..

hubert cumberdale

does that twenty bucks get me 24 hrs on there starting now until tomorrow at this time on there or is it midnight to midnight? just trying to force multiply every dollar i can these days, if that makes sense

What in the fuck is you talking about.

"Oh, he busy, huh?" cracks me up every time.

My daughter and I just watched Hereditary and I thought the blurred lines between mental illness and demonic phenomena were brilliant, all the way to the end when you find out what's real.
I'll put it up there among my favorite horror movies along with The Witch and idk what else. I probably have some other favorite horror movies. Oh, X was unexpectedly great. I'm glad I saw Pearl first.

Yeah, it's a masterclass in "Well you're not great people and maybe your brains are busted oh shit now there's a demon."
Also we regularly do Toni Collette with our dogs saying "Sitting there with that face on your face" and "Do NOT swear at me, I am your MOTHER" and they're like that's from the movie they have to give us treats to make us feel better.

I still haven't seen The Witch. Hereditary feels like a timeless, classic horror to me.

Yeah, it's about a family who can't deal with a horrific tragedy but it was all their fault before and after and then whoops someone else did it on purpose.

VVitch is kind of similar but it draws back to folk horror but more like hey sometimes your values and purity are more than you can handle and you just have to watch your household fall to pieces.

Yeah we stopped halfway through last night so my daughter could go to bed, then before we continued tonight, she started a conversation about whose fault the accident was, and it was a good talk, then welp.

M is so smart, I love that.
And I think it's part of why horror gets the shoulder,
Because it's not necessarily about technique ore legacy,
But wrestles with questions that are like "That's not great, but is it in me? Is it here?"
Vampires are the plague, Can someone keep me enslaved beyond death, Am I possessed or did something happen to me, Is grief haunting my doors, What will people be like when society collapses, Can I be a good person or did someone already ruin it for me?
And people who most want to celebrate each other and not grapple with those things.