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Maybe "most American horror movies I see lately" is more fair to say
Here are some recent ones I was which I thought were not good:
The Nun II
The Boogeyman
Cobweb
Insidious: The Red Door
The Pope's Exorcist
The Offering
The Inhabitant
Smile
Evil Dead Rise (the opening title sequence was good, I'll give it that)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - this last one is a bit different than these others I guess but disappointing in its own way.
I find it rare that I really like a horror movie, especially the way the endings fall apart.
According to my tracking list on IMDB, as of today I have watched 160 movies with a release date of 2020 or later that are categorized under 'horror'.
Would you share some of those post 2020 titles that you liked? I would like to find some that I may not have seen.
That is what I took from it, yes. <spoiler>The town people are going to look the other way and not resent him anymore for his actions which caused them financial ruins, and sweep the murders under the rug</spoiler>
Looks like a younger Zachary Levi (Shazam, Chuck)
There was a "was it magic or was it imagination" argument theme running through the film as they discussed the bowling ball incident. The end scene was a vague "leave it to the viewer" trick, the way I saw it. The final message I got from it was: if you have hope, you can affect the outcome. So they are leaving some room for hope of survival.
People who speak another language might give a rat's ass.
Americans who spent time in Afghanistan over the last couple of decades might have noticed.
If you're watching the Godfather and everyone in Sicily spoke Portuguese, and you can't tell or don't care - good for you.
People who can understand more than one language.
She must have tied him so he couldn't
And was the cop from China a portly/chunky guy?
This sounds vaguely familiar, did it star Chow Yun Fat, or perhaps Danny Lee ? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497097/
older than the time frame, but The Ruins? (2008)
That is nice to hear.
Yeah, I was hoping for "so bad it's good" and it was mostly just lame. However, I have seen worse. I think it did not need too much that could have improved it to acceptable cult horror comedy.
But that ending, I was literally staring at the screen and spoke out loud to myself: "that's the end?"
In the original Swedish movie, the character (former student of the wife) is gay with a disapproving father (I think they were from a conservative middle eastern culture, Lebanese maybe - can't remember exactly). So this was an adaptation of that for an American setting. Similarly, the immigrant neighbor was Iranian, her character was changed to Mexican.
The purpose of these characters was to show you that a typical "grumpy old man" could find empathy for people who you would expect he would not care for.
Thank you, I like this ending better. It's more interesting. Sad that US movies have to be warm-and-fuzzified for audiences.
I thought maybe it is an easy way to establish this is taking place pre-pandemic without explicitly telling us the year.
It was the <spoiler>cake</spoiler> that shook me at first, then it got darker and scarier.
Movies usually have one or the other
Yeah I got that, and I did identify with it in that context. It reminded me of actual childhood nightmares and fears. But I guess I expected some resolution or explanation. Like, what was the entity? Was the whole terror caused by some kind of child entity that had power over the house? What actually happened to the parents? What happened to the kids?
There's some of that and some surprisingly insightful takes as well, particularly from Matt Smith's character. Also a bit of character development on the part of the Fiennes character near the end.