horror
Beau is Afraid (2023) – Ari Aster
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Could easily be the far out-test comedy ever. A mummy-issued ego trip getting away with its masturbatory pretentiousness while begging for multiple visits.
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Cure (1997) – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Subtly striving for the viewer’s attention is rewarded with hypnotic disturbing discomfort.
This film creates a unique chemistry of sound and silence, control and terror.
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Men (2022) – Alex Garland
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Disturbing short-lensed piece of horror stunningly justifying its budget with visuals that let both the right talent in and over-the-top gore out.
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The Lighthouse (2019) – Robert Eggers
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Picture-pitch perfect except for the sound of farts offensively trapping a scattered
plot inside of a frame that hits one square between the eyes.
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‚End of Small Sanctuary‘ – Silent Hill 3 OST (2003) Akira Yamaoka
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Its orange-coloured light shines through memories of one‘s own adolescence like a sunset on an ambient beach.
A fitting ‚calm before the storm‘-embodiment.
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Hospital Hallway Scene – The Exorcist III (1990)
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Fast zoom accompanied by a silence-piercing musical sting hits like a battering ram and leaves your heart throbbing in horrific awe.
Jump-scare masterclass.
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Hereditary (2018) – Ari Aster
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Childhood-scary, sating and harrowingly haunting. It bends the mind in all directions while stiffing the body with soul-breaking terror that is just awesome.
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Midsommar (2019) – Ari Aster
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Cliches are nothing but dosed up bait in an artistic horror film of compensatory length that lightens up instead of darken while blooming us away.
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The Elevator @Awahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, CA
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Agressiv roter Blickfang nachdem man den ikonischen Eingangsbereich passiert hat.
Verstand spinnt automatisch ein sich links eröffnendes Blutszenario zusammen, welches ein Nähertreten unterbewusst erschwerlicher macht.
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Creepshow 2 (1987) – Michael Gornick
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Good times horror flick for the underworld-savvy Rock ’n’ Roll pre-teen that has a gluttonous taste for graphically warned sex and the macabre.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cage Creed
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A bright flame of a thespian toddler that thanks to the divine intervention of editing can do no wrong when melting the Arriflex lenses away.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Victor Pascow
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A very gruesome but friendly ghost the way Casper was meant to be but failed miserably due to its punch-me-in-the-face tenderness.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Louis Creed
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The pater familias and owner of the Norman Rockwell house by the side of the road-rope noosing around his trophy house-wife and kids.
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The Others (2001) – Alejandro Amenábar
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Intense beauty and fear holding hands in the permanent protection of a broken family that is full of love for one another in macabre ignorance.
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) – Wes Craven
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) meets the Shining (1980) during the well-manored, palm-treed night vision period of the Golf War. Sometimes in is out.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Mary Lambert
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Creepy-ass piece of horror in the time-honored “Sacred Burial Ground” tradition—notable members not exceeding the number of fingers in a monkey’s paw.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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A perfectly lighted, both gently scripted and edited Neo-Classical 80´s AIDS epidemic horror-metaphor that takes place in ghostly Detroit made by John Hughes.
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Resident Evil 2: Remake (2019) – Claire/ Karriere B
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Noch härterer Anfang samt Tyrantstalker in erster Spielstunde.
Vorübergehender Schock – keine Shotgun – immerhin Granatenwerfer.
Schließung einiger Lücken plus wahres Ende.
Doch kaum karriereübergreifende (Inter-)Aktionen.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Ellie Creed
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There’s something really naturally annoying about this child-actress’s performance that made her perfect for the part as one sides automatically with her brother instead.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Churchill
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There are some really interesting developments in this blue Russian cat’s character, the kind of revealing behavioral changes that are normally reserved to humans exclusively.
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Resident Evil (1996) – Capcom
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Intro eines ‚The Room’ Kalibers, peinliche Wortspiele („Jill Sandwich“), grelle Farben, Hund-aus-Fenster Jumpscare. Das alles und viel mehr verhalfen zum Kultstatus.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) – Wes Craven
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This film stays terrifying as it ages backwards into a welcomed relevancy that never lies. A master class of suspense, atmosphere and practical visual effects
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Interview the Vampire: the Vampire Chronicles (1994) – Neil Jordan
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One of the top ten (one can only wish there’d be so many) GOOD Hollywood vampire flicks that doesn’t feel like a lame juvenile setup.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Interior Set Design
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Richly detailed, sinisterly static interior designs that are choke-full of tell-telling family items that are arteried together by old New England American gothic.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Jud Crandall
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An agingly sweet giant fool of a man that means well but helps nothing but to accelarate what´s coming. How about minding your own business?
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cinematography
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Nice & juicy saturated sky blues, grass greens, and shinny apple reds—as well as well-lit darknesses with no spared precious details to miss.
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – John Carpenter
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“Do you read Sutter Cane?” No, but I know H. P. Lovecraft and this is a direct homage. A teenage trip I´m proud to like.
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The Thing (1982) – John Carpenter
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Just about the wildest cosmic cabin fever imaginable while stuck in white-desert limbo with “twelve” angry man deciding who’s next at the burning stake.
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Creep (2014) – Patrick Brice
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Blairwitchesque Found-Footage-Film beginnend um eine fragwürdige Person.
(Gute) Jumpscares, makaberer Humor sowie schizophrene Ansicht, -Stimmungswechsel zwischen Psychostalking und Mordgedanken erzeugen konstante Nichtblinzel-Atmosphäre.
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Låt den rätte komma in (2008) – Tomas Alfredson
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As if the Scandinavian cold, darkness and depression wasn´t enough, there had to be a goddamn vampire on top. Better lock your windows too, people!
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The Mercenaries (2009) – Resident Evil 5
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Intensely satisfying buddy-shooting/body-counting experience that rightfully compensates us for being forced to suffer a stupid plot and voice acting to get in.
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Mercenary Mode (2009) – Resident Evil 5
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Eine der letzten Splitscreen-Spielmöglichkeiten welche ich intensiv seit Release gezockt habe.
Das Glücksgefühl eines Headshots und ständiger Zeit, -Fluchtstress wirken amphetaminär auf das Seelenwohl.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019) – Capcom
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Neuauflage vom 90er-Klassiker ist die hochkonzentrierte Essenz des Horrors.
Aus frischer Schulterperspektive wirken „wunderschöne“ Zombies und schreckliche Mutanten erschreckend bedrohlich, doch Shotgun sei Dank…
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Mr. X (T-00) – Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)
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Schwere Schritte, öffnende Türen, verstörende Töne. Aus dem Schatten erscheint der bizarre unsterbliche Hüne, der uns überall finden wird wie ein ‚T-1000‘.
Purer Horror.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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Einmal wieder Kind sein?
Durch permanenter Paranoia (re)kreiert diese absurd geniale Verfilmung Angst in purer Ursprungsform.
Ton und Licht schleifen „Es“ zum Atmosphärediamanten der Neuzeit.
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Resident Evil 7 VR (2017)
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The brief, bone-deep peaceful impact from the Southern-afternoon prelude-stage between lolling trees and tall weed alone: made the game live forever more.
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Television Terror (1997) Tales from the Crypt: 02×16
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We all wish assholes a bad day (so do they), but there’s something deep and decent about wanting to save humanity from the true supernatural.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
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Harrowing sylvian Ouija-boarding of the mind that genuinely wounded mass audiences everywhere. Less is more when it comes to found footage, though. Avoid sequels.
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A Quiet Place (2018) – John Krasinski
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Größerer Augenmerk auf Visuals/ Sound durch minimalem Dialog aufgrund Handlung, was wiederum einige Plotholes, unbeantwortete Fragen und fehlenden Charakterbezug mit sich bringt.
Jedoch wundervolle Stille.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005) – Capcom
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Arguably the most fulfilling of the famously fucked up Resident Evil franchise, bringing the shotgun-jizz shooting to a whole different level of unending sociopathy.
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Halloween (2018) – David Gordon Green
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Michaels Heimkehr. Jedoch führen unzählige unbedeutende Handlungen, Charaktere Plot in die Irre. Die besten Szenen bestehen aus dem Laurie-Michael Konflikt und der nostalgischen Hommage.
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) – Zack Snyder
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The introduction alone is so consistently overpowering that it could very well serve as a standalone film and a rewatch-classic for the entire genre.
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Intro – Mandy (2018)
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It starts out soberly Jacking the King Crimson lumber sap Out of a roller-coasting tree-line that dusks blood red dawns out of Death.
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Todd Macfarlene‘s Spawn (1997-1999)
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Gory expansion pack to those who’s optical curiosity was originally aroused by the likes of “Do the Evolution” or “Follow the Leader” music videos respectively.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005) – Capcom
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Kontrovers blasses Setting macht Blut umso alarmierender. Mutationen wirken zum ersten Mal bedrohlich realistisch. Genießen Sie typisch spanisches Temperament ländlichen Zombiegehege. Und bitte keine Käferphobie.
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The Haunting Of Hill House (2018- ) – Netflix
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Klassiches Gruselkonzept um übernatürliches Haus. Jedoch erschreckend gut ineinandergreifendes Familiendrama, welches den Plot/ das Acting mit jeder Episode in tiefere Gewässer bringt. Best of Netflix.
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The Predator (2018) – Shane Black
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Zwei Predator, Weirdo-Protagonistensquad vs. Regierungsteam = wild aneinandergereihte SciFi-Action und One-liner-Coolness dank MCU-Humor. Enttäuschend für Fans. Erheiternd für heutige Filmgänger.
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Resident Evil 7 VR (2017)
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Das perfekte Medium um Survival Horror richtig zu genießen. Ich betrat eine andere Dimension. Mit VRBrille verschwammen abstrakte Kreaturen, Räumlichkeiten, Natur beider Welten zur Surrealität.
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The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
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There´s a lot of lack of fidelity to source material but the audio-visual aura is enchanting and inviting enough to bounce like a baseball.
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The Last Of Us (2013) – PS4
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Die harsche Darstellung einer tödlichen Pandemie und folgendem Überlebenskampfes macht dieses Spiel zur lohnenden Tortur von echten Gefühlen in einer toten (Spiele)Welt.
Ein perfektes Spiel.
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Halloween (1978) – John Carpenter
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Blaupause des Horror-Slashers und erstes, sowie bestes Kapitel der Halloweenreihe.
Michael steht im Schatten, baut Spannung auf. Jamie schreit sich zur Spitze des Horrorthrons.