Cold fingers around my throat - The Rolling Horror Thread 2018

anon86369613 · 2018-09-06T14:13:19.762Z

Did anyone watch Ghost Stories?

I watched it the other day - thought it was really good.

ghosthalo · 2018-09-06T14:19:51.068Z

is this a tv show? could do with a good horror show. i dabbled in channel zero, that seemed okay.

anon86369613 · 2018-09-06T14:22:43.958Z

It was a film that came out a few months back:

en.wikipedia.org

Ghost Stories (film)

Ghost Stories is a 2017 British horror film written and directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, based on their 2010 stage play of the same name It stars Nyman reprising his role from the play as a man devoted to debunking fraudulent psychics, and who is tasked with solving three unexplained paranormal events. Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther, and Martin Freeman co-star as the individuals who went through the paranormal events. The film premiered at the London Film Festival on 5 October 2017 and wa...

anon86369613 · 2018-09-06T14:23:08.003Z

It’s more of a play really…

ghosthalo · 2018-09-06T14:24:23.744Z

ooo i will have a look at this

anon86369613 · 2018-09-06T14:29:39.423Z

It’s great. Leaves you thinking for some time afterwards.

guntrip · 2018-09-06T14:30:25.855Z

Paul Whitehouse is a totally unexpected MVP as well. He’s so good in it.

anon29812515 · 2018-09-06T14:30:59.483Z

Johnny Depp said he’s the best actor in the world, innit.

(I quite liked it)

anon86369613 · 2018-09-06T14:31:51.569Z

Yes he’s brilliant. The thing that I liked was that his character wasn’t a million miles off one of his fast show characters… pretty sure that was deliberate.

SloameOcean · 2018-09-06T15:43:00.000Z

Good stuff! Been a while since I saw 28WL, but I remember really enjoying it - should give it another watch some time soon… Only other one I’ve seen here is Colossal which I posted about recently. I really enjoyed it and you’re right about how it wrong-foots you and becomes way more serious than you’re expecting… I thought Jason Sudeikis was excellent in this; he totally had me fooled with his nice guy shtick so much so that it really wasn’t until the 2nd time I watched it that I realized quite what a manipulative asshole he is…

weeber · 2018-09-06T16:03:13.324Z

Is Drag Me To Hell worth a watch? It’s been sat on my DVD shelf for ages, but I’ve not got around to it. Tonight might be the night - unless it’s dreadful that is.

ghosthalo · 2018-09-06T16:05:04.828Z

GET SOME

Petagno · 2018-09-06T16:06:26.205Z

It’s great fun It’s definitely not a straight up horror though - has a similar thread of black comedy running through it to Army Of Darkness…

weeber · 2018-09-06T16:09:53.801Z

Good to hear. Thanks. I’ll get it on later.

ghosthalo · 2018-09-06T16:10:59.028Z

sorry that “get some” is a quote from drag me to hell. just realised it might seem a bit aggressive

TKC · 2018-09-06T17:17:57.228Z

i bloody hated Ghost Stories

weeber · 2018-09-06T17:20:15.289Z

Don’t worry - I presumed it to be a positive statement rather than an aggressive one.

no-class · 2018-09-06T19:56:54.583Z

the Robert Carlyle zombie kind of ruined the second half for me with his thing of teleporting to wherever the protagonists were at any given moment.

weeber · 2018-09-06T20:24:03.229Z

Yep, this was really good fun. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Petagno · 2018-09-06T23:21:37.436Z

Excellent Any chance of a brief review?