Folk horror hits for me better than most, putting Hereditary near or at the top. But it's really hard to not include Asian horror as some of the most effective lingering films. Ju-On, Ringu...
Hereditary got me spunt, and +1 for Cabin in the Woods <- watched that one three times which is a lot for me.
Eta - i think had Hereditary come out in the 70’s it might’ve made my top 3, I believe it’ll age well.
Eta2 - i just mean with regard to ^ that time can add to a movie’s legendary status and if it holds up over time then the movie can edge upward in these kinds of chats.
Folk horror hits for me better than most, putting Hereditary near or at the top. But it's really hard to not include Asian horror as some of the most effective lingering films. Ju-On, Ringu...
Hereditary got me spunt, and +1 for Cabin in the Woods <- watched that one three times which is a lot for me.
Eta - i think had Hereditary come out in the 70’s it might’ve made my top 3, I believe it’ll age well.
Eta2 - i just mean with regard to ^ that time can add to a movie’s legendary status and if it holds up over time then the movie can edge upward in these kinds of chats.
- Doc
I agree. I don't think any of the major scenes in it will significantly lose their impact with time. Though time will have to tell.
Hadn't heard of this one. I can kinda see why now I've looked into it. But it does look like it could be a fun time if I am in the right mood so I suspect I'll check it out.
Folk horror hits for me better than most, putting Hereditary near or at the top. But it's really hard to not include Asian horror as some of the most effective lingering films. Ju-On, Ringu...
Hereditary got me spunt, and +1 for Cabin in the Woods <- watched that one three times which is a lot for me.
Eta - i think had Hereditary come out in the 70’s it might’ve made my top 3, I believe it’ll age well.
Eta2 - i just mean with regard to ^ that time can add to a movie’s legendary status and if it holds up over time then the movie can edge upward in these kinds of chats.
- Doc
I’m convinced. It’s going on the watch list.
he/him we all just have to live through it,
holding each other’s hands.
Hereditary was good. Midsomer was epic because it's about Mormonism. I'm not a huge horror fan, but back in the day I ended up watching just about every B horror movie there is. Someone mentioned Hellraiser, that's the pin guy right? There were some moving visuals in that one. Population 436 is severely underrated. The ring was pretty good.
Midsommar is, in my opinion, the best folk horror film of all time. I think I see why you say it is about Mormonism, but I would love for you to explain that.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
For you horror fans, what did you think of the movie Eraserhead?
I know David Lynch made the film, but it felt kind of like art school shlock. I’m not saying it wasn’t disturbing or disgusting, because it was. But it was also mostly confusing to me. And when a movie is confusing to me it loses me; my affection for it immediately evaporates. Communicating in metaphor is best left to Star Trek aliens.
For you horror fans, what did you think of the movie Eraserhead?
There's surrealism I like (Mulholland Drive, for example) and surrealism that's not for me. Eraserhead is in the latter category. Lynch is hit or miss for me.
ETA: Wes Anderson came to mind because I just watched Astroid City last weekend. It was interesting, and I admire his vision but it was too meta to me to be an enjoyable movie. Grand Budapest Hotel is a film of his I adore. Pedestrian of me? That's cool.
Midsommar stood out to me for Florence Pugh's acting and the movie's novelty. It's kinda fun to have a horror film made in Blue Willow. Is it the best folk horror film in my opinion? Again, I resist the superlative. It's appeal is the lack of metaphysical forces that give the malevolence of communal abandonment of self a realism that is a great feature of the genre. But I also enjoy when there turns out to be deeper horrors that resist modernity in the genre, too. The VVitch is an example of that branch of folk horror I think is a great movie. I think both play off of that key aspect of folk horror: modernity is fragile and barely covering over things old, powerful, and waiting. Venturing past it's borders leaves the person who is accustomed and beholden to law, technology, and individualism exposed as their power disappears outside of the collective illusion holding it together. Midsommar did that well.
I do not think the connection to Mormonism holds beyond the idea of collectivism and ritual where the individual self is not even secondary to the community. If that's ones experience with such things it makes sense it would be the touchstone one finds there. But that's about it, in my opinion.
