Board 8 > All-Purpose Horror Topic #3: It's Exactly What You Think It Is!

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I've obviously played it many times but she had only played it up until just after you first encounter Mendez and right before you encounter Salvador the second time.
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Oh yeah that's not very far at all. She's got an amazing experience ahead.
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Finally watched Clown. Dumb but enjoyable movie.

Also saw Abbatoir, which is meh. Carried by the characters, surprisingly.

And then I saw The Watcher the day before which was actually decent. But nothing more than decent.

Yay for the Netflix roulette.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

I'm going to write horror reviews to get some new life into this topic!

10 Cloverfield Lane
Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
Release Date: March 11, 2016 (Wide Release)
Length: 103 Minutes
Category: Sci-Fi, Thriller

10 Cloverfield Lane is a near perfect horror thriller. It was a film that snuck up on us this year, with a frankly bizarre campaign that had people questioning; was this a Cloverfield sequel, spin-off, something tangentially related, or just coincidentally named? And after seeing it I think the answer is all of them.

The set-up here is simple. The film wastes little time with backstory; our film's lead Michelle leaves her fiancé behind after an argument and within the first 10 minutes of the film Michelle is in that bunker with our other enigmatic lead, Howard. He claims the world above is contaminated, throwing out theories like a Russian invasion or alien attack, and he seems helpful enough despite his large temper. Michelle of course thinks he sounds completely nutso. There's another character in the bunker too, Emmett, a could-have-been track star who alleviates Michelle's fears with friendship and the fact that he WANTS to be in Howard's bunker and was not kidnapped. The film eternally leaves the question of whether or not there is an actual apocalypse happening dangling over our heads for a majority of the film's runtime and leaving you in the dark increases film immersion greatly.

John Goodman's Howard is the best part of the film, a true psychopathic performance that ranks among the greats. His towering girth, outbursts followed by soft-spoken reassurance, and monstrous-sounding movement make him one of the scariest human threats since Patrick Bateman. And yet somehow, it's hard to call Howard a villain. He's done some bad stuff and is hiding secrets galore, but it's true that he's done nothing but help Emmet and Michelle survive despite some insane anger issues. Howard keeps film tension high and will keep you wondering if he really is a necessary evil for survival.

As Dan Trachtenberg's directorial debut, he proves himself a genre master. There are some terrific shots in this, one scene late in the film lit only by a car's flashing alarm lights stood out to me, along with the initial scenes of Michelle in her bunker room that show a sense of claustrophobia and danger. I can't wait to see what he does next.

10 Cloverfield Lane does fumble a bit in its final act. As Michelle eventually escapes the bunker in the last 20 minutes, and sees that there is indeed an alien threat, Howard and the bunker become something of an afterthought with Howard definitely not getting any sort of satisfying end to his story. The alien scenes are fun and actually pretty scary, but the cliche ending of "attacking the alien's weak point for massive damage" had me groaning. Howard was scary enough, I don't think we needed the overblown alien spectacle ending.

Despite some tonally wrong fumbling towards the end, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a film I highly recommend. It's a master thriller throughout, and the final scenes are still well shot and scary. A pleasant surprise that almost anybody will enjoy.

Rating: 9/10

I think this movie is supremely overrated.
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Oh my god, I just watched Intruder.

I'm not putting anything in spoiler tags. It's a home invasion movie. Except the whole time, you have a theory of like, four people it can be just hanging out in this girl's home. But it's super obvious which person it is. But the whole movie is just creepy dumb home invasion bullshit until he kills the girl's boyfriend and hides him. Nothing happens until literally up until the last second of the film where she suddenly realizes that THERE'S BEEN A DUDE IN HER HOUSE THE WHOLE TIME! Then there's a recap of all the hints the movie gave us.

And then guess what happens. Guess what happens.

Credits







But wait! Twenty seconds of credits later, it shows us a scene of her in this stalker's basement where he murders her and then creeps on a barista.

This movie is honestly just so baffling. It does all the home invasion stuff pretty well, especially for a genre that is so played out, but then it's just... like, negative payoff in the end. And halfway through the movie you realize "Oh, we're getting another 45 minutes of this, aren't we?" And then why is the minuscule amount of payoff we get MID-CREDITS? Like did the dude who make this seriously go "Yo, they're going to LOSE THEIR MINDS" when this dude finally reveals himself nonchalantly! And then it goes black and we hit them with the INTRUDER screen card! And then we show twenty seconds of credits... AND THEN WE COME BACK TO REALLY HIT THEM WITH IT! He locks her up in the basement and kills her! They're going to lose their minds!" I want to kick this guy in the head.
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Ugh that sounds horrid.
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Oh, it was truly awful. But you don't even get how bad it is until you sit through the whole thing, because it's just a dude who wanted to do the home invasion genre but did not think about anything else.

Watched Lavender last night though. You know that story where somebody has amnesia as a result of a deeply tragic event that happens during their childhood but seeing memories and triggers from their past reveals a dark truth of what happened? You've seen Lavender then. It was fine for what it was. Just another played out idea.
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http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3440105/tnts-tales-crypt-officially-dead/

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"It Comes At Night" with an early 83% on RT. Promising.
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It's gonna be good.
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Oh btw, did anybody check out the Friday the 13th game? I'm personally waiting to some of the bugs are ironed out.
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I am not letting one of thelast posts in this topic be about what a ridiculous movie The Secrets of Emily Blair turned out to be.
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