Watching Monday

[brigdh]

Oh, man, I haven't done one of these posts in aaaages. So here's a very brief summary of some movies I've seen lately:

It Follows
An incredibly creepy horror movie that manages to have no gore at all! :D Who knew such things still existed? I adored this, and I like it more and more as time passes and I look back on it. The premise is that there's a curse passed on by having sex: a thing (a monster? a ghost?) that will constantly follow you. It can look like anything - strangers, friends, family members - and if it catches you, it'll kill you. The only way to get rid of it is by having sex with someone else, but of course to do so is to sentence them to death. It was clever and terrifying and disturbing, and I just liked it so much.

Kingsman
The movie pretty much has abhorrent politics (from the opening shot that's just labelled "Middle East" because it's all one country, right) and I am so not designed for suit-porn (personally, I thought Eggsy got less and less hot over the course of the film, which is clearly not the intended reaction), but with all of that said, it's a pretty amusing action movie that I enjoyed more than I expected to! I'm not engaged enough to actually join the fandom, but I'm totally not surprised that a lot of people ended up shipping it.

True Story
A weird little movie about a man accused of killing his family and the journalist investigating his story. I'm not sure how much I actually liked this - it definitely dragged in some places in the middle, with the endless long shots of the two main dudes sitting in an empty white room staring at each other - but if nothing else, it was interesting to see Jonah Hill in a drama.

Comments

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any of these, but the scariest movies I have ever seen had absolutely no blood and gore in them at all. It was left to the viewers' imagination. The first was The Innocents, a 1960s movie based on The Turn Of The Screw - the one with the governess who believes her charges are being possessed by the ghosts of two dead servants. True, she did see them, but nobody else seemed to, and you never knew whether the ghosts were real or in her crazy head. That was terrifying! The second scary film was The Others, with Nicole Kidman, which had a similar feel to it - again, no actual blood and gore in it, but absolutely terrifying.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I've seen The Others are really enjoyed it, so I'll have to track down The Innocents! It seems like it might be just the type of thing I like.

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

I'd be surprised if no one has posted it on YouTube, if it isn't on DVD.