If I get an opportunity to watch it, I'll have to. I do enjoy bad movies for the sake of bad movies... but gotta know it going in.
Yeah, they're some sort of bird or reptile feet. But that is 100% a beach ball. Reminds me of the old Doctor Who eps with shoddy effects where there was at least one monster that was made of bubble wrap. Ugh. An ex was real into Story of O. Never read it, never will, but heard way more than I wanted to.
It's real weird to me when anyone religious - and it is like, 98% Christians - can TALK about how important faith is, and insist that they take their entire religion on faith, and that everything bad is simply a test of that faith, and how everything everything everything is about having unwavering faith... and then ALSO obsess over the idea that everything is also irrefutable proof that other people must believe in. It should be something personal! I hate evangelical shit that tries to make that personal conviction into everyone else's problem, ha.
Exploring the same topics (and therefore tropes) is part of what genre IS - if something isn't exploring the things that we fear in some way or another, then it isn't really horror! But it absolutely is very much about how those things are used and structured and put together that determines how well it works, how original that presentation is, etc. When it's done well, it's excellent to see.
The Orphanage that I was talking about is... 2007, I think? If that helps to narrow it down. It wouldn't surprise me if there were multiple movies with the title.
I really just didn't remember it much at all, which surprises me. I usually have a fairly good memory for things I've seen, in that I'll at least recognize the scenes or characters, even if I've forgotten what happens. But it was good! I know the court stuff was a polarizing element and that it led to some people not liking it, or finding it boring. I thought it was really well integrated!
It's based off the case of Annaliese Michel, I'm pretty sure. It was a German case from the 70s, I think. An epileptic girl who died of malnutrition after her family opted to treat her via exorcism.
I really don't know how Sinister and Insidious would cross over... I feel like they're very different types of story (for all that I got the titles confused for years.) They also ultimately strike very different tones, and I don't know that I can see it working well to try and blend them! But I'd be willing to be proven wrong.
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Yeah, they're some sort of bird or reptile feet. But that is 100% a beach ball. Reminds me of the old Doctor Who eps with shoddy effects where there was at least one monster that was made of bubble wrap.
Ugh. An ex was real into Story of O. Never read it, never will, but heard way more than I wanted to.
It's real weird to me when anyone religious - and it is like, 98% Christians - can TALK about how important faith is, and insist that they take their entire religion on faith, and that everything bad is simply a test of that faith, and how everything everything everything is about having unwavering faith... and then ALSO obsess over the idea that everything is also irrefutable proof that other people must believe in.
It should be something personal! I hate evangelical shit that tries to make that personal conviction into everyone else's problem, ha.
Exploring the same topics (and therefore tropes) is part of what genre IS - if something isn't exploring the things that we fear in some way or another, then it isn't really horror! But it absolutely is very much about how those things are used and structured and put together that determines how well it works, how original that presentation is, etc. When it's done well, it's excellent to see.
The Orphanage that I was talking about is... 2007, I think? If that helps to narrow it down. It wouldn't surprise me if there were multiple movies with the title.
I really just didn't remember it much at all, which surprises me. I usually have a fairly good memory for things I've seen, in that I'll at least recognize the scenes or characters, even if I've forgotten what happens. But it was good! I know the court stuff was a polarizing element and that it led to some people not liking it, or finding it boring. I thought it was really well integrated!
It's based off the case of Annaliese Michel, I'm pretty sure. It was a German case from the 70s, I think. An epileptic girl who died of malnutrition after her family opted to treat her via exorcism.
I really don't know how Sinister and Insidious would cross over... I feel like they're very different types of story (for all that I got the titles confused for years.) They also ultimately strike very different tones, and I don't know that I can see it working well to try and blend them! But I'd be willing to be proven wrong.