More Horror Movies
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singedsunI hope you like these updates/mini-reviews on the movies as I watch them. It's definitely helping me reflect back on what I've watched, I have a hard time sometimes remembering things after the fact if I don't write them down and plot details often just pass on through me after a few days, so it's nice to have a record to look back on.
I did watch a NEW-ish movie this weekend, Underwater which came out just last fall I think and is now available to rent, which we did. Underwater stars Kirsten Stewart as an Engineer on an underground mining rig that explodes after what the crew assumes was a series of earthquakes due to some mining incident. A small group of survivors from their station suit up to cross the ocean floor to another station hoping to find escape pods back to the surface. But something is tracking this group as they try to make it to the other station. Since I'm including this in my horror movie round-up one can assume that strange things abound. This movie gave me very strong Lovecraftian mixed with Alien vibes in addition to the video game SOMA. I really liked this move though, despite some stilted dialogue, if I nit-pick. The tension is strong from the start and carries through.
Resolution
Okay, so I did finish this movie finally. And I STILL can't tell you if I've seen it before. The whole movie is very similar to a subplot in a movie called The Endless and I'm not sure if I've confused them or if I'd seen both. Or if Resolution is just that unmemorable. The basic plot is that a guy goes to this shack in the woods where his friend is living because he's strung out on meth. He ties him up in order to help his friend go cold turkey. But while he stays there strange video and audio records appear in or around this cabin their in. It's like someone is watching them. This movie makes no sense, the ending makes no sense and I only finished it hoping that I'd finally remember watching it before. I didn't... but still feel like maybe I had? So that was a waste of my time and maybe a waste of my time twice. FUN!
The Crazies
Timothy Olyphant as a Sheriff in a small town with a competent Doctor for a wife whom he adores, played by Radha Mitchell. Townspeople start to go a little off, killing people, like zombies but not -- like mind-controlled almost. And it's affecting everyone, passing from person to person like a virus, airborne even. The military step in, picking up townspeople, including our dear Sheriff's wife. Which is really when the movie takes off. From this point we get a small group of survivors trying to get out of town, hoping whatever this thing is doesn't take them next. This movie shows it's age a little bit, it is ten years old. But it's decent. Maybe watching a movie about an airborne virus right now isn't the best timing, but I didn't mind it too much. And I enjoy Timothy Olyphant in these adoring husband roles. I probably wouldn't have watched this on my own, and I might not watch it again but it was fun for an hour and a half.
Ginger Snaps
This teenage Canadian werewolf movie is so 90s it is actively painful to watch. I mean... will I watch the sequel? Yes, 100% I will. But oh my god, it's A LOT. If you don't know, this movie is about two sisters who are like death obsessed living in the suburbs, one of whom is bitten by some creature we as the audience know is obviously a werewolf. As does her sister. Ginger, the newly bitten wolf however spends the first half of the movie both aggressively denying the possibility while experiencing all these strong metamorphic changes representative of both lycanthropy and what are clearly stand-ins for cis-female puberty/menstration. It really doesn't hold up well. But I'm so interested to know where (based on the ending) they took a second movie.
That's it for now, but there's definitely more to come and tomorrow is bad movie night with my friends, provided my migraine subsides. Also, The National Theater has put up their version of Frankenstein with Johnny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch for this next week and I'm planning to watch that at some point. I have heard that the original staging of this had an on scene graphic scene of sexual assault, but I've also heard that this upload has had that removed and it's maybe only referred to? I'm not sure, but I want to mention it for anyone that might be interested in it too.
I did watch a NEW-ish movie this weekend, Underwater which came out just last fall I think and is now available to rent, which we did. Underwater stars Kirsten Stewart as an Engineer on an underground mining rig that explodes after what the crew assumes was a series of earthquakes due to some mining incident. A small group of survivors from their station suit up to cross the ocean floor to another station hoping to find escape pods back to the surface. But something is tracking this group as they try to make it to the other station. Since I'm including this in my horror movie round-up one can assume that strange things abound. This movie gave me very strong Lovecraftian mixed with Alien vibes in addition to the video game SOMA. I really liked this move though, despite some stilted dialogue, if I nit-pick. The tension is strong from the start and carries through.
Resolution
Okay, so I did finish this movie finally. And I STILL can't tell you if I've seen it before. The whole movie is very similar to a subplot in a movie called The Endless and I'm not sure if I've confused them or if I'd seen both. Or if Resolution is just that unmemorable. The basic plot is that a guy goes to this shack in the woods where his friend is living because he's strung out on meth. He ties him up in order to help his friend go cold turkey. But while he stays there strange video and audio records appear in or around this cabin their in. It's like someone is watching them. This movie makes no sense, the ending makes no sense and I only finished it hoping that I'd finally remember watching it before. I didn't... but still feel like maybe I had? So that was a waste of my time and maybe a waste of my time twice. FUN!
The Crazies
Timothy Olyphant as a Sheriff in a small town with a competent Doctor for a wife whom he adores, played by Radha Mitchell. Townspeople start to go a little off, killing people, like zombies but not -- like mind-controlled almost. And it's affecting everyone, passing from person to person like a virus, airborne even. The military step in, picking up townspeople, including our dear Sheriff's wife. Which is really when the movie takes off. From this point we get a small group of survivors trying to get out of town, hoping whatever this thing is doesn't take them next. This movie shows it's age a little bit, it is ten years old. But it's decent. Maybe watching a movie about an airborne virus right now isn't the best timing, but I didn't mind it too much. And I enjoy Timothy Olyphant in these adoring husband roles. I probably wouldn't have watched this on my own, and I might not watch it again but it was fun for an hour and a half.
Ginger Snaps
This teenage Canadian werewolf movie is so 90s it is actively painful to watch. I mean... will I watch the sequel? Yes, 100% I will. But oh my god, it's A LOT. If you don't know, this movie is about two sisters who are like death obsessed living in the suburbs, one of whom is bitten by some creature we as the audience know is obviously a werewolf. As does her sister. Ginger, the newly bitten wolf however spends the first half of the movie both aggressively denying the possibility while experiencing all these strong metamorphic changes representative of both lycanthropy and what are clearly stand-ins for cis-female puberty/menstration. It really doesn't hold up well. But I'm so interested to know where (based on the ending) they took a second movie.
That's it for now, but there's definitely more to come and tomorrow is bad movie night with my friends, provided my migraine subsides. Also, The National Theater has put up their version of Frankenstein with Johnny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch for this next week and I'm planning to watch that at some point. I have heard that the original staging of this had an on scene graphic scene of sexual assault, but I've also heard that this upload has had that removed and it's maybe only referred to? I'm not sure, but I want to mention it for anyone that might be interested in it too.
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