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| Topic | Board 8 Ranks 2010s Horror Movies - Chapter 2 - *THE RANKINGS* |
| Snake5555555555 05/19/22 5:49:26 PM #12: | Lightning Strikes - Its kind of messed up to rob a blind guy, isnt it? I really enjoy when a film really makes you feel the weather and the season of the time it is taking place. In Dont Breathe, unlike most horror films which tend to favour cold, chilly nights, this one is drenched in heat and long days, the film released in August and you can truly feel the late summer energy. I like that about it quite a lot. I also feel that the film plays out the stalker thriller idea in quite a fun way in that both the apparent victim at first turns out to be the monster of the piece and the protagonists are largely shown to be pretty bad people indeed. This adds something of a moral ambiguity to the early parts of the film, and then it wrongfoots you when it turns up the nastiness and makes it very clear that this guy is no good even if he is the supposed victim at the start. Overall there is a sense that the film is making a point that extending your own suffering to others is ultimately wrong. This aspect is where the film does falter a bit, the sequence with the other women in the house does seem misjudged, it is getting into some territory that I dont quite think the film was equipped to handle. It feels a little bit too nasty when I feel like the film was already nasty enough. That sequence aside there is a really effective villain in Stephen Lang, the leads are all well played and there are effectively suspenseful scenes throughout. On the whole this is a very good thriller with a fun concept (What if Daredevil was the bad guy?) and a great atmosphere to it all. I really enjoyed it on the whole. I have to question however, why anybody thought the sequel to this film was a good idea. Making the villain here, after everything he does, the protagonist has to be one of the most magnificently misjudged story moves I have ever seen. That isnt this film though, which I like! 4/5 Biggest scare: The dog somehow manages to be scarier than the man. Red13n - Honestly this would have been a really cool movie if it was just about a heist gone wrong and a blind dude turning their day into a horrible nightmare. But then we have to go off the rails and because the blind can can't just be this terrifying death machine but also has to be evil, we throw in this weird kidnapping and impregnation plot, then toss in this weird moral code of the blind guy not being a rapist but then because it isn't plot convenient just decide to turn him into a rapist. Also I'm pretty sure the title of the movie was a dropped concept, as while the blind guy has heightened senses for the most part you never feel like he can track anyone just by them breathing, which really feels like the intention you thought they might go for early on. PrinceKaro - So this trio of professional thieves get the incredibly stupid idea of trying to burglarize the home of a reclusive military veteran WHILE HE'S STILL IN THE HOUSE. Remember, they made the decision to do this job before they even found out he was blind. Forget not breathing, this film should be called 'Don't Think'. There is some excellent cinematography, but it starts to get very silly as time goes on as the scenario is forced upon the movie with the strength of a brazilian jujitsu hold, as increasingly stupid reasons why they just cant leave the house start occurring. It feels like they needed to stack the deck absurdly in favor of the blind guy in order to make him seem threatening. I mean he literally can't see, just toss something to the other side of the room and thwack him in the back of the head when he goes to check it out. The story is just a tired scenario that they try to inject some freshness into by making everyone play blindman's bluff, but if you think this will be any good don't hold your breath. FFDragon - The better of the "blind" movies, with questionable morality all around. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. https://www.instagram.com/horror_obscurities/ ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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