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| Topic | Board 8 Ranks 2010s Horror Movies - Chapter 2 - *THE RANKINGS* |
| Snake5555555555 05/19/22 5:50:45 PM #13: | Suprak - C- This was, to me, the holy shit what the fuck movie on the list. We didnt have anything truly deranged like Human Centipede or anything like that, but this is the one that came closest for me. This isnt a movie I watched before, but I had heard mostly positive things from friends so it was one I was definitely interested in watching. Im now reevaluating those friendships. It doesnt waste much time getting started, and the three heroes find themselves in this house relatively quickly. It was at this point that I found myself wondering wow how is this movie going to stretch things out another hour. The answer I soon found was well, not very well if were being completely honest and you are stuck with another hour and a half or so as three (and very soon two) characters must try and find their way out of this house that they had wrongfully assumed would be lightly protected. Whats interesting is that I unintentionally watched this after A Quiet Place which I OPINION REDACTED. But it was weird comparing the creatures in that to the monster in this, who is quite literally an old blind man. Hes a super jacked old blind man, dont get me wrong, but hes just an old blind man who seems to be doing some sort of Bane impression (and who I was shocked to find out wasnt actually Donald Sutherland). I had assumed from the title that he was going to possess these amazing super senses, but the film is a lot more grounded than that. His whole thing seems to be that he knows the layout to his house really well and he can smell the intruders nasty dirty shoes they left by the back doorway. Other than that, hes not doing anything all that crazy. He walks right past Clay from 13 Reasons Why even though he wasnt exactly breathing quietly. He accidentally stabs the corpse on top of Clay instead of Clay himself. And in order to actually cause damage he has to get super close and even then he sometimes winds up missing you. I dont know, but I feel like if I was going to rank the monsters or bad guys in this list in terms of most intimidating to least, hed somehow not rank because I wouldnt put old man with a disability sticker on his car as something I was particularly afraid of unless I had a deathly allergy to Werthers candy. So thats your bad guy here, and I feel like they thought of this to film one scene and one scene only. Like they had a concept for one scene and built a movie around it as best as they could. Im talking about the chase in the basement. Dont get me wrong its a great scene. When the one character is getting closer and closer with their arm out, and the old man slowly comes into focus and hes just inches away before he hears another noise and moves on thats fantastic. Really good film making there, and some great tension as you want to shout out NO DONT DO THAT HES RIGHT THERE! I mean, sure it sort of takes away some points as to how much of a threat this guy is as he cant hear them walking towards him in a completely silent basement, but it looked really interesting and was the closest I came to actually liking this movie. The whole basement scene is really well done, as he deftly makes his way through this familiar space and the two remaining characters are just sort of blindly fumbling around. I really liked the contrast to what you would assume it would be, and suddenly finding themselves in the pitch dark and completely helpless while the old man is now right in his element is a really clever twist on what the normal dichotomy would be. I almost bumped this movie up a few spots for that alone, because it truly is a great sequence. One of the biggest struggles this film has is coming up with ways to make you cheer on the protagonists. I mean, a crucial component to a horror film like this is making it so Im not actively rooting for the monster to kill all the kids at the campground, and Dont Breathe spends like half of the movie trying to justify this. I mean, the set up is bonkers insane. The good guys are a group of three burglars that break into peoples houses and steal their stuff and wear their clothes and pee on their carpet, and the bad guy is a disabled war hero mourning the recent death of his daughter. Like, before we find out dude has turkey basters full of semen waiting for us in his basement, all we know about him is that he lives in this horrendous house that has no neighbors for like three blocks in any direction because of how much the city is falling apart and the only reason he has money for them to steal is because his daughter died in a tragic accident and he got some big settlement from a rich family. This group of goons is going to a blind mans house to steal his sorry your daughter is dead money. Like holy shit what the fuck? This sounds like the script to a terrible late 2000s Clint Eastwood movie where the old guy is supposed to be the hero , only someone had to try and rewrite the script to make him the bad guy on a dare and this was the movie that came out of it. --- 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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