Red Mosquito

Ms Harmless wrote:reading around a film is as much part of the experience of consuming a film for me, it doesn't spoil anything

Total other side of the spectrum here, not that I watch much any more but

I really appreciate that Del Toro is completely unafraid of camp and melodrama, in a way that Robert Eggers isn't; I wouldn't change a thing about either of them but I'm really enjoying comparing and contrasting the styles of the brightly coloured Frankenstein and the blue-grey Nosferatu

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine, and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

I think Del Toro's script was mostly perfect, but I do wish they'd included this Shelley quote verbatim, it's perfect; I mean, it's there, but it's diluted a bit

"A Mother's Embrace" -- a STUNNING Brazilian little Lovecraftian slow burn that will go relatively unnoticed and that will be a crime; reminded me of early Del Toro or Bayona, which is CRAZY in 2025

Keeper.

Perkins´s worst film to date. Its really undercooked. There are hints of a better movie but every choice he makes is just weird and boring. Kinda like a b side for the way more entertaining The Monkey.

Hopefully the next movie is something he writes, these last two seem something different.

recent horror movies

"Dracula - A Love Tale" - great film, and rarely for me I found the campy elements pretty seamlessly blended into the dark and dramatic, in a way that Coppola's film fails at for me

"Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc" - beautiful, funny and gnarly as always, with A+ animation and character design, loved it

"Dead of Winter" - started off wonderfully, beautiful setting and a stellar central performance, but it becomes too generic action thriller for me, with an action thriller score that annoyed the shit out of me; but if you like 90s throwback action on the quiet side, this might work better for you

very happy to hear that Hildur Guđnadóttir, who scored "Chernobyl", "Joker", "Women Talking" and "Hedda", is going to be scoring 28YL: The Bone Temple

my top 20 horror / thriller and adjacent movies released (to the UK) in 2025, followed by 20 more honourable mentions that I wouldn't kick out of my head on a cold night:

1. Nosferatu
2. 28 Years Later
3. Frankenstein
4. Bring Her Back
5. Hallow Road
6. The Girl with the Needle
7. Sinners
8. Weapons
9. A Mother's Embrace
10. The Shrouds
11. Alpha
12. The Long Walk
13. Presence
14. Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc
15. The Assessment
16. Fréwaka
17. Best Wishes to All
18. The Ugly Stepsister
19. The Damned
20. The Banished

Honourable Mentions:

Dracula: A Love Tale, Companion, The Surrender, Strange Harvest, The Beldham, Protein, Heart Eyes, Dead Talents Society, Dangerous Animals, Wormtown, Dead Mail, Meanwhile on Earth, Monster Island, Found Footage: the making of the Patterson Project, The Rule of Jenny Penn, The Righteous, Puzzle Box, Shelby Oaks, Wolf Man, The Dead Thing

good list, i havent seen or really know a lot of these. Ill check them out.

Ghost Story (1981). I held off watching this one until I could read the book and I finally finished that last week. The book was pretty good. The movie is not.

Although I do know what the doctor from Dream Warriors’ penis looks like now so I guess that’s something.

last night I was browsing Shudder movies to watch and landed on French film "All the Gods in the Sky", a ridiculously bleak, deeply uncomfortable but beautiful film which is comparable to "Bugonia" but better imo

I'm rewatching the prior 28 franchise films before seeing The Bone Temple on Friday evening

so far, Days = a masterpiece (obvs)

tomorrow I'll rewatch Weeks and Years

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm rewatching the prior 28 franchise films before seeing The Bone Temple on Friday evening

so far, Days = a masterpiece (obvs)

tomorrow I'll rewatch Weeks and Years

28 Days Later is definitely on of my favorite films.

Im probably going tomorrow to see the new one. Looks great.

The 28 franchise is one of my favorite film franchises of all-time. Me and the kids watched Days last night, gonna watch Weeks tonight, Years tomorrow, and then take in the new one on Friday.

I don't know if I can rank them, but I would grade them thusly:

28 Days = A+, just a great film in so many ways

28 Weeks = Intro is A++, one of the best scenes I've ever witnessed, rest of the movie weaves between C and A-, but it's definitely a worthwhile ride

28 Years = A to A+. Time will tell. I love it.

(Mother Love) Bone Temple (of the Dog) = ???

RockPusher wrote:The 28 franchise is one of my favorite film franchises of all-time. Me and the kids watched Days last night, gonna watch Weeks tonight, Years tomorrow, and then take in the new one on Friday.

I don't know if I can rank them, but I would grade them thusly:

28 Days = A+, just a great film in so many ways

28 Weeks = Intro is A++, one of the best scenes I've ever witnessed, rest of the movie weaves between C and A-, but it's definitely a worthwhile ride

28 Years = A to A+. Time will tell. I love it.

(Mother Love) Bone Temple (of the Dog) = ???

yes to everything

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm rewatching the prior 28 franchise films before seeing The Bone Temple on Friday evening

so far, Days = a masterpiece (obvs)

tomorrow I'll rewatch Weeks and Years

Weeks is the, um... weekest film of the franchise but still has many things I love about the franchise; I just think the family drama intimacy is slightly undercooked compared to the action movie cliché of it all, which is a bit overcooked for my taste; overall the film is much greater than the sum of its parts and a million times better than most horror sequels

28 Years Later is a masterpiece, no complaints

Bone Temple in just under four hours, howzat!

Ms Harmless wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I'm rewatching the prior 28 franchise films before seeing The Bone Temple on Friday evening

so far, Days = a masterpiece (obvs)

tomorrow I'll rewatch Weeks and Years

Weeks is the, um... weekest film of the franchise but still has many things I love about the franchise; I just think the family drama intimacy is slightly undercooked compared to the action movie cliché of it all, which is a bit overcooked for my taste; overall the film is much greater than the sum of its parts and a million times better than most horror sequels

28 Years Later is a masterpiece, no complaints

Bone Temple in just under four hours, howzat!

it was absolutely amazing

damn, im thinking maybe next tuesday for me