September 8 - Ms. 45
Rape-revenge movies are generally uninteresting and derivative, but Ms. 45 possesses a strange feeling of magical realism (or perhaps urban fairy tale) that elevates it head-and-shoulders above other similar offerings.
Sept. 9 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
This one has me bewildered. The purposefully stilted acting and inhuman dialog should illicit an automatic groan from me, but somehow this one defies its pretensions. But did I like it? No, not really.
Sept. 10 - The Lodgers
This had many of the things I'm a sucker for: Gothic horror, creaky haunted mansions, and deep-cut Irish history lurking in the background.
Sept. 11 - It Comes At Night
It Comes at Night is like an episode of The Walking Dead they forgot to put the zombies in.
Sept. 12 - Mausoleum
I love that the husband only begins to believe that his wife is possessed when she brings home a painting that is ~too surreal~
Sept. 13 - The Evil Within
A friend summed this one up better than I ever could: "Intensely weird entirely non-engaging."
Sept. 14 - Evilspeak
Carrie but with boys, and also with nothing that made Carrie interesting.
Sept. 15 - Angelica
While not perfect (dodgy cgi, dodgy merkin), this marriage of Henry James and Henrik Ibsen serves up psycho-sexual Gothic in Victorian garb. Not really horror, but I too favorable to the other elements of this to judge it on that merit alone.
BONUS CONTENT
Castle Rock
The only way the ending could have been more disappointing was if it were ~all a dream~
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Decent, but bland, supernatural thriller that needed more Gothic to really shine at what it was trying to do.
This had many of the things I'm a sucker for: Gothic horror, creaky haunted mansions, and deep-cut Irish history lurking in the background.
It Comes at Night is like an episode of The Walking Dead they forgot to put the zombies in.
I love that the husband only begins to believe that his wife is possessed when she brings home a painting that is ~too surreal~
A friend summed this one up better than I ever could: "Intensely weird entirely non-engaging."
Carrie but with boys, and also with nothing that made Carrie interesting.
While not perfect (dodgy cgi, dodgy merkin), this marriage of Henry James and Henrik Ibsen serves up psycho-sexual Gothic in Victorian garb. Not really horror, but I too favorable to the other elements of this to judge it on that merit alone.
BONUS CONTENT
The only way the ending could have been more disappointing was if it were ~all a dream~
Decent, but bland, supernatural thriller that needed more Gothic to really shine at what it was trying to do.
