This is a movie that is more confident in what it is trying to be. Barbairan plays off horror tropes and expectations and subverts them in a satisfying way and works emotion and reaction of the characters as a commentary.
I’d say Weapons makes POV as almost a character itself to where you see a scene from one perspective and when you see it another way it ratchets up the tension to where you may know the results the journey is a mystery in itself
Dude is a very good screenwriter. I highly reccomend both but this is a more refined film. Less jump scares, more mystery, and much more confident the audience can follow along
I didnt love Barbarian. That was iddling at best to me honestly. Way over rated. that said, have good hopes for this one.
Word of mouth all seems good. (but wordof mouth on Barbarian was also stellar.)
guess for the plot is, kind of a "drag me to hell" scenario. schoolteacher mildly inconvenienced a witch, who is now attacking the teacher, by destroying everything around her to hurt her, and make the town hate her.
Barbarian was ok. Like many horror movies it was hyped up and ended up falling extremely short of that hype, as mentioned earlier. It's not a bad horror movie but it wasn't great either.
I cut this video short, long before they even got to a "spoilers" section. I felt like they were dropping to many hints and spoilers even in the opening discussion.
After praising how much the Trailer doesn't give anything away, they themselves were a bit too loose with their tongues if felt like, as they dropped statements of things happening much later in the movie.. now, I haven't seen it yet, so maybe thats being overcautious. but it felt glaring.
I would probably recommend NOT watching the RLM video on it, until after seeing it.
One thing I may have missed but was it ever eluded to the Aunt being in some sort of coven? I went to see this with my sister who seems to think she was one of many, but I didn't really get that? Minor detail, but I thought I'd just missed where that was discussed?
One thing I may have missed but was it ever eluded to the Aunt being in some sort of coven? I went to see this with my sister who seems to think she was one of many, but I didn't really get that? Minor detail, but I thought I'd just missed where that was discussed?
No, there's nowhere in the film that says she's part of a coven or one of many witches. She clearly uses dark magic to siphon the life of others to stay alive but nothing suggesting she's part of a larger coven or cult or network.
Most definitely. With $10 million ahead of expectations, taking the weekend No. 1 spot with $42.5 million, and winning over both critics and audiences, this will likely be pushed back at least a month, with a PVOD estimate of early/mid October.
Most definitely. With $10 million ahead of expectations, taking the weekend No. 1 spot with $42.5 million, and winning over both critics and audiences, this will likely be pushed back at least a month, with a PVOD estimate of early/mid October.
40, it made 72 WW this weekend, so its looking at a 200+ box office run. The big deal for the trackers is the A- cinema score which is absurd for a horror, they never get A's so this one will have legs.
saw this today and i'm not a horror afficionado so its probably just not my jam but I thought it was just ok. I appreciate the style and direction and extremely simple story but felt the story was maybe a little too simple. I don't really see any need to see this in theaters, no crazy wild spectacles on screen. I honestly don't get why so many people are saying this is the best movie of the year or a 9.5/10 horror movie. I thought Nosferatu (scary) or Final Destination Bloodlines (goofy/gory) were better.
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I was expecting the teacher to be targeted by the witch, Thanos mentioned she was involved in a DUI so I thought maybe she killed the witches kid or something. Nope, just turns out this rando witch blows into a town, sucks the life force out of 20 kids/people for a month, then bounces? This bitch cannot survive in the 21st century, already ring cams and phones make the witch life tough for her, whats gonna happen when she tries to possess some dude who streams all the time and his followers watch him turn into a zombie lol.
I do appreciate how simple the story was but it felt maybe way too simple. I like how depowered the witch is, she seems to have very little actual power and is rightly portrayed as half scared much of the time, but its hard to really then be scared of her. Not much gore or jump scares which I appreciated, but I dunno it just didn't feel supernatural enough, which I think is a feature of this director, I didn't watch Barbarian but I think that also is more grounded horror which I guess I don't really like.
not super scary, 2-3 gory moments and maybe 2-3 tense-scary scenes but on the level of Final Destination, Get Out, etc. Pretty tame by Terrifier / Hellraiser / etc levels
i almost never watch horror movies and i wasn't really scared at all by this movie, just one squeamish scene near the end
kids are in danger and some women can't handle that though. no animals are hurt
saw this today and i'm not a horror afficionado so its probably just not my jam but I thought it was just ok. I appreciate the style and direction and extremely simple story but felt the story was maybe a little too simple. I don't really see any need to see this in theaters, no crazy wild spectacles on screen. I honestly don't get why so many people are saying this is the best movie of the year or a 9.5/10 horror movie. I thought Nosferatu (scary) or Final Destination Bloodlines (goofy/gory) were better.
big spoilers so dont open until you've seen
I was expecting the teacher to be targeted by the witch, Thanos mentioned she was involved in a DUI so I thought maybe she killed the witches kid or something. Nope, just turns out this rando witch blows into a town, sucks the life force out of 20 kids/people for a month, then bounces? This bitch cannot survive in the 21st century, already ring cams and phones make the witch life tough for her, whats gonna happen when she tries to possess some dude who streams all the time and his followers watch him turn into a zombie lol.
I do appreciate how simple the story was but it felt maybe way too simple. I like how depowered the witch is, she seems to have very little actual power and is rightly portrayed as half scared much of the time, but its hard to really then be scared of her. Not much gore or jump scares which I appreciated, but I dunno it just didn't feel supernatural enough, which I think is a feature of this director, I didn't watch Barbarian but I think that also is more grounded horror which I guess I don't really like.
Yea this wasn't popcorn horror, even though via word of mouth it will be as popular as a popcorn horror film (Nosferatu is not popcorn but Eggers is in his own genre). Theres nothing wrong with those, I actually enjoyed the recent Final Destination and I adore shit like Evil Dead Rise, but those aren't really scary (to me), they are kinda like thrill rides that have timed scares and excitement and maybe even a few laughs.
This was more cerebral horror. Almost no jump scares, steady cameras that catch the action, and a natural flow. You know where the story will go from almost 1/2 way in but the journey along the way is the fun of it. Its exceptionally well shot and framed, the actors performances are nuanced and believable, and the story structure worked with the story and gave the audience a differentiating perspective to keep it fresh. The director cited Magnolia as an influence and boy is it ever and I liked that take for a horror film. Hell the end made me laugh. Like a good bit, but then it undercuts it with the final shot.
I love horror as a genre, and yea I think this is the best one to come out this year and likely to be my best film of the year. Won't be true for everyone. Nothing wrong with that, but for what I wanted this movie to be, it was, and I really am surprised the general audience bought in so hard. Its slow and quiet and not overtly exciting except when it wanted to be, which great, but even the teens in the showing I was in were engaged and not on their phones. Its a pretty special flick for me anyways.
Loved it. The ending was hilarious and awesome. Minor complaints:
So I get there was a difference between the trance-puppeteering and the branch-snap-murder-machine spell, but when Gladys puppeteers Alex's mom to get the lock of Justine's hair... why didn't she just kill Justine with the scissors? Could've sent her out there with a knife. Can she not make them hurt others, just themselves (such as the fork scene)?
The giant dream rifle seemed out of place and unnecessary. Was it just supposed to connect to Archer describing the children as weapons? He said homing missile didn't he? Why not dream about a big missile instead of a gun (not that it would've been much better)? Usually when movies have some bizarre dream imagery that's focused on as much as that gun was, you see a call-back to it later and think "ooohhh that's what that was about" and that dialogue in the truck with Justine didn't seem fitting. All Archer really needed was for that dream to set him on track towards the tower and mapping out where the kids were. Maybe I missed something.
