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| Topic | ***The 31 Days/31 Horror Movies Challenge 2022 Topic*** |
| IShall_Run_Amok 10/07/22 11:05:36 AM #67: | A Quiet Place, dir. John Krasinski, 2018 If anything, the success of this movie proves audiences are, in theory, growing more sophisticated, because its hard to imagine a concept like this becoming a highly successful franchise 20 years ago - and this one is definitely gearing up to being the horror franchise of our time. So that's pretty cool. Or maybe I'm just a jaded, out of touch misanthrope, over-and-under-estimating the intelligence of my fellow man as I die because I forget to breathe. Anyway, I like the movie well enough, and beyond minor nitpicks that don't really matter, my biggest criticisms are that the monster design is rather generic (but still better than some, I guess - I dig the detail in the creature's earholes, and I found myself asking "what if someone jammed a stick of dynamite in there?"), and in our day of thematically meaningful (or ambitious) horror films like Get Out and Midsommer, it feels kinda basic, and it otherwise lacks the kineticism that makes really great horror movies so effective that you don't notice their social message or lack thereof. But it's still good. I'll watch the sequel next week, probably. 7/10 --- I'd like to go on the Dark Web, and look at a picture of a skeleton. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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