More of a vibe piece than I wanted it to be...idk probably a me problem. Liked what KStew was doing.
Deserves a remake! Really can't be too on the nose with environmental messages anymore but the real problem is that the interpersonal dialogue is terrible and the animal attack to people walking in the woods bitching at each other ratio is just not working out. I fell asleep!
I wished this were weirder? I still really dug most of it – the raid sequence is honestly stunning and worth going to a theater for even though it’s out on VOD – but, and maybe this is me being poisoned by reading that profile of Eggers where he laments the new constraints that came along with his much higher budget, I wanted it to be weirder! I know it’s not a horror movie like Eggers’ previous two, both of…
Having a hard time believing that recreating her entire house and dousing it with liquid helium is in the budget for these grad students pioneering the field of hunting ghost rapists.
Mixed bag. Revealing that it’s a prequel sucks the tension out of everything but the final moments – because surely, if Katie’s sister or her family had died, she would have said something about it in the first film when she was discussing their history of paranormal contact – but there is some good stuff in here. The standout bits are actually in the daytime when the characters are fully aware of what’s happening to them and just afraid to…
This isn’t exactly a new observation I know, but Micah has to be worst horror movie boyfriend ever, right? Katie is sobbing on the floor begging him not to provoke the demon and he comes home with a ouija board. The movie doesn’t work unless he’s a huge asshole who is constantly filming her in her most terrified and vulnerable moments, but luckily(?) it’s established early on how bad he sucks when he ~flirtatiously~ tries to trick her into filming…
caught some gross sickness from my bf so we got bonked on cold medicine and watched this. good time. lots of nut damage. Johnny Knoxville silver fox era???? more likely than u think
This mostly just made me want to revisit Cage’s greatest hits, many of which go unreferenced here in favor of his 90s action roles even with all the ironic groaning in here about the state of movies and moviegoing and lack of adult dramas – making Cage himself an odd subject for a movie like this, given all his acclaim for Pig last year, which, yes, was not released until after this movie had been filmed, but he also won…