Part of that question really comes from the performance of Willem Defoe. He looks like Captain Ahab from Moby Dick and sounds like it too. Combine this to the writing and language choices, you have this poetry in the presentation. There are times of meta jokes as well
This version of the story spends so much extra time on everything. Slow walks through the hallways. Indecisions on what to do. How to search for something in the library. Her doodling in her notebook and the way people stare at her. Everything just feels like it took too long.
I think why this movie series has done a bit better than others consistently is there is some historical reference. Believe what you will, but Ed and Lorraine are real people. They claim to have been hunting and exorcising ghost/demons since the 60s
So the story is ok. There is a good mystery the holds on for about half the movie, and then the second half is more of action. However, the action is punctuated by this weird explosive body thing that just keeps happening, and I am not sure how I feel about it.
Can we talk about how a 1999 movie caused more physical fear than anything I have watched in years? Not because of the trees falling or the tents flying in the air, but because the claustrophobia. Oh my goodness that is such a good scene in the tunnel. And Heather Donahue is fantastic
This is a cosmic horror, that is light on horror and heavy on mysterious thrills. There are for sure some well crafted and scary initially, they either last too long or you get too much time to see what is happening to worry about it.
This though, might be his best work. I can see the conflict in his eyes as he progresses through the movie and there is a time near the end where he is confronted with having alcohol, he has been 8 years sober, and you can see the fight. That is acting. Rebecca Ferguson is good, and has a dope hat
The fact that this is Jordan Peele has always surprised me. It was even more so in 2017 when this came out and we all knew him as the comedian. Now, we have this movie plus Us and Nope, maybe more, that we attribute to his outstanding horror filmography.
What kind of Shakespearean horror did I just watch? What a fantastic movie. The poetry and the language used does an excellent job of pulling you into their religious mindset. There is this compelling pattern and rhythm that keeps you engaged.
This movie was recommended to me and honestly, I had no idea what it was about. I knew it was Zach Cregger, and I find his movies to be very lack luster for endings, and this one isn't much different. Better, but not much different. I really hope his new Resident Evil movie is good.
This movie starts wild and ends with a weird dream. I got to be honest, after watching Halloween (1978) and this, I fully understand why parents thought everyone was having sex and that the world was evil. Combine that with serial killers were around, yeah the world was crazy in the 70s.
Annabelle Willis is really outstanding in this. She is really the only one that seems to play her part above and beyond while the rest of the cast slinks by. The gentlemen that plays Father Perez also does a great job, but doesn't have a lot of screen time.