movies

[jim]

BTW ... there are two Oscar nominated films this year that I just ... don't ... get. Descendants and Tree of Life. Am I the only one that thought these were both [expletive]? Descendants was just mind boggling bad, I don't get what everyone else is getting out of that movie. My wife and son liked it, and they tried to explain it to me, and I just kept pointing out all of the dumb [expletive] and corny lines.

[go birds]

I did a screener of The Woman in Black last night and enjoyed it. It's everything you'd hope for from a Hammer movie- just a good ol' creepy haunted house movie with a ton of jump scares.

This intrigued me but I figured it would be MTV-lame.

Confirm deny?

[JL21]

Not sure what you mean by "MTV" but it didn't strike me as anything MTV would put out.

Think of it this way- the British do ghost stories well because they understand the importance of atmospherics (this film is from the UK), and it's from the Hammer studios. Hammer is legendary and usually provides good-to-great content.

I'd rate it 3.5 out of 5. Like just about all horror, it reaches a point where it could completely derail but ends up rescuing itself.

That said, there are two haunted house/ghost stories hitting theaters this weekend. The Woman in Black is one and the other is The Innkeepers. I preferred The Innkeepers.

[go birds]

Well it was being advertised on MTV so I immediately dismissed it as being a lame teenybopper ghost story. Thanks for clarifying.

I haven't heard if the innkeepers. I'll have to check that out as well.

[JL21]

If you've seen House of the Devil, it's directed by the same guy- Ti West. And it has the same sort of slow burn, and a pretty nice dose of humor in it as well.

[G. Keenan]

I did a screener of The Woman in Black last night and enjoyed it. It's everything you'd hope for from a Hammer movie- just a good ol' creepy haunted house movie with a ton of jump scares.

Are you getting sent screeners because of TDYLF?

[docellis]

watched "Bellflower" tonight. I really liked it but me/bf disagreed with what actually happened in the movie. The ending is pretty ambiguous.


very slanted movie. hazy camera work, grimy video, sex, violence, 20 something misanthropy

[JL21]

I did a screener of The Woman in Black last night and enjoyed it. It's everything you'd hope for from a Hammer movie- just a good ol' creepy haunted house movie with a ton of jump scares.

Are you getting sent screeners because of TDYLF?

I should clarify- it was a free screening, mostly through various movie sites who had passes. Here in STL, We Are Movie Geeks has lots of passes. Nationally, I think gofobo is a good resource.

[Freed Roger]

Oldie but goodie "Witness for the Prosecution"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/

Fun to watch.
Charles Laughton, what a hoot.

[Richie Allen]

Oldie but goodie "Witness for the Prosecution"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/

Fun to watch.
Charles Laughton, what a hoot.

Great movie. Everyone involved was fantastic. You probably know it but Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester were married since 1929.