Who remembers Tilda Swinton’s terrible age/sex makeup in Suspiria? You will be reminded.The revelations are all prepared for and characters are consistent. Everything fits together like bricks and mortar. Witness that Midnight Mass was teased in Hush and Gerald’s Game. There are bound to be tons more little things to reward rewatches, because Flanagan is a careful writer and a total self-indulgent nerd. There was a Hobbs End Easter egg which was adorable.Does no one in this town ever watch stories? NO ONE? No one has ever seen ?.It really felt like a Stephen King ensemble horror from go–think Needful Things or ‘Salem’s Lot–and despite having several compelling individual arcs, it never strays from that community-based perspective, which is a strength and a weakness.It did things with stories that I actually haven’t seen done before.Midnight Mass, miniseries, written by Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, Elan Gale, Dani Parker, and Jeff Howard, directed by Mike Flanagan, Netflix, 2021. Hoo-boy, and then I binged the rest of Midnight Mass. I did find it interesting as a contemporary riff on Folk Horror, something I will be obsessing on quite a bit in the coming week.Īlso, enjoy one of my favorite subtitles in recent memory: Alma is every woman who has ever been in charge of an office, while Martin is the entirety of that office. Martin in particular gets carved on and tormented kind of a lot, and I really liked and identified with Alma, who is forced to carry Martin like an overloaded rucksack all the way to the psychedelic conclusion. I didn’t dislike In the Earth, and I respect the hell out of the tiny cast, tasked with what was, beneath all the prog rock, technobabble, and Wheatley’s epilepsy-inducing adventures in the editing room, people just being fucked-up savages at each other, a tale as old as time and pretty cheap to film. Somewhere around the middle, I think it also briefly became Mandy (2018). As soon as Ellora’s park ranger Alma leads Martin on a seemingly routine dispatch to another scientist’s camp–a former flame of Martin’s, in fact–the movie veers from its bleak pandemic premise into a bleak weirdos in the woods are going to hurt you premise. Luckily, I didn’t have to hang long before In the Earth pulled a switcheroo. But Ellora Torchia looked really cool on the cover art, so I stuck with it. I know that about 5 minutes in, as nebbish scientist Martin (Joel Fry) demasks and submits documentation to prove he’s not contagious, I asked myself why I was watching any given Thursday. In the Earth is about humanity carrying on after a pandemic, or at least that’s how it starts. In the Earth, written and directed by Ben Wheatley, Hulu, 2021. It’s incredibly fun, just a perfect horror-comedy with no fat on it anywhere. Meanwhile, Kathryn Newton stalks and murders Millie’s classmates with vicious aplomb that, ironically, shows Millie living her best life. As Millie struggles to evade a police manhunt and get anyone to believe scummy Vince Vaughn is a sweet, bullied teenage girl inside, Vince Vaughn does a tremendous job of making us believe he’s a sweet, bullied teenage girl inside. The big difference is in this film, the body switching is between a savage serial killer (Vince Vaughn, in the roles he was born to play) and his would-be victim Millie (Kathryn Newton). Just as Happy Death Day played with the Groundhog Day concept, Freaky rejiggers family classic Freaky Friday. It’s a feelgood film for people who don’t want to feel good. I absolutely loved Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day movies, and Freaky is more of the same: clever, but not for its own sake, funny, gleefully gory, featuring genuine characters you will love having genuine moments you will want them to have.
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