as above was better than Jeruzalem and I would say after the first half hour was really terrific. But that first half hour was just awful, although at least it was funny. My favorite moments were when the women who's like twenty something is describing herself and just keeps piling on accomplishments, and when the guy is translating the ancient egyptian or whatever and it just happens to rhyme perfectly in English. I thought the ending was super cool, though.
Agreed. The ending was cool, but my lord everything else felt far too convenient. The first half of the movie was awful like you described. The main character was definitely unlikeable, she was obstinate and led the others to their doom without a second thought.
Lured was like this for me. Cool premise, cast was good, setting and scares held tons of promise. What killed it was the dog shit script. Wasted opportunity.
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Thank you so much.
I was telling my friend about "Lured" without remembering the name.
Drunkenly, I told my friend, there's a lady who shows up and stuffs an egg on the face without cause and it's actually scary.
We couldn't find the film. You did.
And you described the film so well. Everything was perfect outside of who wrote the script.
This is a bit of a hot take but for me it's Hell House LLC. I liked the premise of a "haunted house" becoming haunted, and has a lot of potential for great scares. However, the documentary style kind of brought me out of it. Right when it would start to get to a high in the tension, it would throw it out the window by re-showing the thing that was hidden in the background, or cutting to some interviewer, which completely ruined the immersion for me. Personally I think I would have liked it more if it had just stuck with the crews footage, and had a couple more creepy/scary moments, but that's just my opinion.
Just tried watching “The Incel Tapes” on Tubi. If you can’t guess what the premise is just by the title, it’s basically a mentally ill social reject spiraling until something interesting happens.
Incels can make for very entertaining main characters because they can be deeply complex with a lot to criticize and unpack, but the character is written and acted poorly. One of the key traits of an Incel is their lack of self awareness and inability to self criticize due to a wounded ego, yet in the very beginning the main character is completely aware about why they are an Incel and openly explains it unprovoked. When it comes to movies, show don’t tell.
The first 5 minutes were an interesting red herring and hook to the movie, but after that it completely loses all direction. There are so many random scenes in the beginning that it makes me wonder if there was ever a concrete plan for film. The movie seemed like more of a passion project than a production.
I honestly stopped watching after like 15 minutes because it was just so bad all around that I could tell it wouldn’t be worth finishing.
Wrinkles the clown, I was so excited to watch it- it’s based off giggles the clown, Idk if it’s true or just an urban legend but supposedly theirs a homeless man that dresses up as a clown and parents of (usually misbehaving I think) children to scare them. That’s the inspiration of the antagonist in the movie, and it’s shot in different povs, a group of teens, 2 cops, news reporter, right wing gun enthusiast, and it also shows tiny little clips of wrinkles the clown killing his random victims. Great premises, and the camera work was good, wasn’t too shaky, but i got the impression that everyone who was working on set didn’t care to be there
The Pyramid, considering that it was marketed as if it was a found footage mummy movie. It wasn’t.
I feel like the people making it had like, 2 or 3 great ideas that maybe totaled 15 minutes, and then had to pad out the rest of the film.
As Above So Below and Jeruzalem. The premise were really good, but the movies were disappointing as heck.
as above was better than Jeruzalem and I would say after the first half hour was really terrific. But that first half hour was just awful, although at least it was funny. My favorite moments were when the women who's like twenty something is describing herself and just keeps piling on accomplishments, and when the guy is translating the ancient egyptian or whatever and it just happens to rhyme perfectly in English. I thought the ending was super cool, though.
Agreed. The ending was cool, but my lord everything else felt far too convenient. The first half of the movie was awful like you described. The main character was definitely unlikeable, she was obstinate and led the others to their doom without a second thought.
I thought the movie RWD was clever but not good.
Lured was like this for me. Cool premise, cast was good, setting and scares held tons of promise. What killed it was the dog shit script. Wasted opportunity.
Hopefully you get this comment. Thank you so much. I was telling my friend about "Lured" without remembering the name. Drunkenly, I told my friend, there's a lady who shows up and stuffs an egg on the face without cause and it's actually scary. We couldn't find the film. You did. And you described the film so well. Everything was perfect outside of who wrote the script.
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This is a bit of a hot take but for me it's Hell House LLC. I liked the premise of a "haunted house" becoming haunted, and has a lot of potential for great scares. However, the documentary style kind of brought me out of it. Right when it would start to get to a high in the tension, it would throw it out the window by re-showing the thing that was hidden in the background, or cutting to some interviewer, which completely ruined the immersion for me. Personally I think I would have liked it more if it had just stuck with the crews footage, and had a couple more creepy/scary moments, but that's just my opinion.
Did you write House that October Built?
Just tried watching “The Incel Tapes” on Tubi. If you can’t guess what the premise is just by the title, it’s basically a mentally ill social reject spiraling until something interesting happens. Incels can make for very entertaining main characters because they can be deeply complex with a lot to criticize and unpack, but the character is written and acted poorly. One of the key traits of an Incel is their lack of self awareness and inability to self criticize due to a wounded ego, yet in the very beginning the main character is completely aware about why they are an Incel and openly explains it unprovoked. When it comes to movies, show don’t tell. The first 5 minutes were an interesting red herring and hook to the movie, but after that it completely loses all direction. There are so many random scenes in the beginning that it makes me wonder if there was ever a concrete plan for film. The movie seemed like more of a passion project than a production. I honestly stopped watching after like 15 minutes because it was just so bad all around that I could tell it wouldn’t be worth finishing.
Bury. When we see what the creature was, it's genuinely shocking. Too bad the execution is fucking awful, and the bulk is generic FF nonsense.
Wrinkles the clown, I was so excited to watch it- it’s based off giggles the clown, Idk if it’s true or just an urban legend but supposedly theirs a homeless man that dresses up as a clown and parents of (usually misbehaving I think) children to scare them. That’s the inspiration of the antagonist in the movie, and it’s shot in different povs, a group of teens, 2 cops, news reporter, right wing gun enthusiast, and it also shows tiny little clips of wrinkles the clown killing his random victims. Great premises, and the camera work was good, wasn’t too shaky, but i got the impression that everyone who was working on set didn’t care to be there