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| Snake5555555555 05/27/22 12:50:30 AM #169: | I also think this is just supremely effective as a scary movie. It gets horror, or at least for me it gets horror, and it knows what kind of stuff is frightening and what isnt. There arent jump scares here. You dont have to worry about the monster going BOOGIE BOOGIE BOO! and jumping in front of the camera at any point. And that slow burn I mentioned earlier somehow makes the conclusion all the more frightening because the whole movie is spent bulding towards it. Sure, you have little scares along the way and that nagging sense that something is awfully, terribly wrong and very bad things are about to happen. But that payoff is one of the best payoffs on any film on this list and the last twenty minutes or so are just nonstop with its relentlessness. From Peter banging his head on the desk until the very end of the film, you just dont really have time to catch your breath. You have the dad bursting into flames and Annie hidden behind Peter literally climbing on the wall and then floating out of the room and then disturbing naked people just chilling there. And then, to top it all off, the insane head banging scene which for some reason was one of the scariest parts of any movie on this list. I dont know why, but that stuck with me so much more than any number of the movies I have later on this list that just have scary thing pop up behind someone at the prescheduled time. Oh, and then piano wire taken to the neck and more naked creeps. It is just such a fantastic conclusion, and I actually like the way the mystery of the film was almost perfectly resolved. Everything here was just so good that I almost wanted to watch it again a second time a couple of days later just to see if there was other stuff I mightve missed on the first viewing. If I had any small complaint at all, it would be that the plot is probably a bit too convoluted and they dont always manage to explain things as well as they should. Im still a bit confused by some of the plot points here. Like it looks like they orchestrated (or at least tried to orchestrate) the death of Charlie to get a new host for the body. Buthow? I guess I dont know exactly how witchcraft works here, but they made a pretty clear point that the grandmothers original son just straight up killed himself because she had been trying to put people inside of him". So if that doesnt work, how can they manage to plan out a series of things (including a group of teenagers baking a cake with an absolutely hilarious amount of nuts in it and the son swerving to a telephone post that doesnt cause a head on collision (killing him) but instead hits the daughter character. Andif he is already in her body then why the whole resistance to things? Why does she need to be forced to go to the party? Forced to eat the cake? Isnt she in on it? That wasnt the only example I noticed, but it was the most glaring and I feel like this is a plot with a lot of moving pieces and sometimes theres a bit too many of them and things get confusing. Overall though, that really is just a minor concern. What really pushes Hereditary to the top of my list is that I feel like it might be the best example of a movie that is both a great horror movie and a great movie in general. There are movies on this list that I thought did the horror really, really well but sort of stumbled when connecting it in terms of an actual film. And then there were others that I thought were genuinely good movies but that just werent really all that scary. Hereditary does a good job of nailing both parts here, and this is a really great movie that also manages to be creepy as hell (particularly in the fantastic final act). Im currently going back and forth as to weather this or a couple of other movies will really get the number one spot, but regardless of where it finally ends up, it was strongly considered. It is a great movie on top of a really, really good list of horror films, and really serves as a great encapsulation of where horror in general went in the late 2010s. I dont know where everyone else is going to rank it, but I would be really surprised if it doesnt manage to crack the top 10. Jcgamer107 - Ari Asters first feature film is a little more traditional horror than Midsommar, but also contains some really raw and intense family drama. Charlies death is one of the most shocking I have ever seen in cinema - I went into the movie assuming (like most) that this was more or less a creepy kid movie and that the girl would last most of the movie as the main antagonist. Well we were all kinda half-right, but holy lord I certainly did not expect her head to be taken clean off before the halfway point. Making that whole sequence even more disturbing is the possibility that it was based on a real event: https://archive.triblive.com/news/driver-keeps-going-after-buddy-loses-head/ The movie builds perfectly, from the subtle scare of the grandmas ghost faintly appearing in a darkened corner, to the absolutely batshit-insane ending. I think Annies headless body floating up into the treehouse is one of the creepier surreal horror shots Ive seen - just being moved around by Paimon like Annie herself posing one of her miniatures. Once again Ari is a genius when it comes to human interaction - the way Peters high school friends are entirely useless is so funny to me, particularly when Peter is being contorted by Paimon in class and his one friend just says Peter what are you doin man. Also contains the most mundane shot of a girls butt ever put to film. There are a lot of parallels between this and Midsommar - May Queen/Hell King, dissolving of traditional family, cult/unseen forces manipulating main characters off screen - yet the stories and settings are completely unique. For anyone who liked both, I highly recommend checking out Ari Asters short films - theyre all very different but as fascinating as his features. Plasmabeam - Masterpiece. Its original, unsettling, mysterious, bold, and so much more. I love the emotions Hereditary takes me through. It has the balls to decapitate a child and the heart to explore the aftermath of what that means to the mother whos left behind. Bonus points for the bizarre ending that leaves me disturbed, confused, and curious to this day. Thesmark - I remember being deeply unsettled by this movie when I saw it in the theater, and I still think its great on re-watch in spite of a few flaws. To be succinct, its beautifully shot, the production design on the house/models is excellent, and the supporting cast is very strong, but of course the biggest draw here is Toni Collettes phenomenal performance. Her bitterness about her mother, her wails of grief, and her inability to process that grief, its all very intense and big, but its exactly what the movie calls for and it works well playing off of a restrained performance like Gabriel Byrnes. The film also does one of the best executed turn the whole movie on a dime moments in recent memory about 30 minutes in, with everything following from there (and that damn click is great every time it pops up afterwards). Finally, the themes on hereditary mental illness struck a chord with me given my family history of Alzheimers. With that saidit kind of drops the ball on this aspect towards the end when the horror becomes much more concrete. That barrage of scares and confirmation of whats really happening is viscerally effective, it just doesnt exactly link up with the movie was about thematically up to that point (heck, its the title). Still, what works about it works extremely well and the overall package is stellar. --- 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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