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Post by Smilla on Jan 20, 2016 3:46:58 GMT -4
We just saw The Forest, which was decently written/acted. Not a lot of gore, nothing exploitive of women and very suspenseful. Plus, I got to see some decent trailers for horror/action films I might actually want to see for once. (The Conjuring 2! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!)
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Post by lea1977 on Jan 20, 2016 4:58:36 GMT -4
PP & Z is at the top of my list and it comes out in a few weeks. The unmarried and the undead, sounds like a great combination.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on May 31, 2016 18:58:26 GMT -4
I finally saw The Witch. Highly recommended if you're into the Puritans. Everything from the costumes to the dialect is spot-on in terms of historical accuracy. I wouldn't call it the scariest movie ever, but there are some genuinely frightening moments. I know some people had issues with the ending, but I didn't mind it.
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Post by Smilla on Jun 2, 2016 15:44:00 GMT -4
The Witch was...interesting. Despite being utterly spoiled for its twists, (and primarily wanting to see it so I could mock it) it managed to get under my skin. I have some issues with the blatantly historically inaccurate (and hateful) portrayal of "witchcraft" (and witches) in it, but it was, you know, a horror film. So I wasn't demanding the feminist slant there. The director managed to pull off some really fear inducing moments through that rarity in the genré--understatement. Also made me feel sympathy for Thomasin's tortured family by the end. You know the villain is scary when you actually feel bad for his Puritan victims.
A lot of silence in the car on the way home, let me tell you.
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Post by GirlyGhoul on Jun 2, 2016 16:22:36 GMT -4
What scared me most about the Witch was the utter isolation and desperate situation the family got themselves into and their complete and total helplessness about it. I mean, you got a kid puking up apples whole in the 17th century, you can't exactly call 911. Nor do you have a whole lot of say if you're a child or a female or both and the adult male gets butthurt in your safe-ish gated community and decides to march everyone out to the wilderness- and then decides maybe selling you will help the fam's financial situation. Yeah, that talking goat might turn out to be your best ally.
I won't say it was the scariest movie I'd ever seen, but I felt complete dread throughout the entire run time and haunted by the f*'ed upness of it all at the end. The ending was abrupt and not what I was expecting. Most of the folks in the audience I was in actively revolted-- but I was in a theater that usually shows sold out Kirk Cameron/ Pure Flicks type faire so this was not unexpected. Personally, I found the complete lack of the usual Hollywood and mainstream tropes refreshing. I'm glad such an original movie got made and that I got to see it. But I haven't felt the need to watch it again so far.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jun 8, 2016 11:12:31 GMT -4
The Witch was...interesting. Despite being utterly spoiled for its twists, (and primarily wanting to see it so I could mock it) it managed to get under my skin. I have some issues with the blatantly historically inaccurate (and hateful) portrayal of "witchcraft" (and witches) in it, but it was, you know, a horror film. So I wasn't demanding the feminist slant there. The way I understood the film is that it portrays witchcraft exactly as the Puritans imagined it. It wasn't meant to be historically accurate from a 21st century perspective, but rather a "what if the Puritans were right??" kind of thing. As a history major, I thought the portrayal of the Puritans' world view was spot-on. Religion dominated and superstition was everywhere. |
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Post by Smilla on Jun 8, 2016 16:17:17 GMT -4
Yeah.
I also think it's possible to read the film as a story in which a nebulous evil exploits the superstition and fear as a means of destroying the family. So the "witches" and their "devil" take the form they do because that's what the family would have been most afraid of and vulnerable to.
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