#381

Sounds great - let us know how you get on :+1:

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#382

I was about to watch Countdown on Amazon Prime. It seems a below average horror but Iā€™ll check out Extracurricular Activities instead on the back of your score.

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#383

Report back :+1:

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#384

Countdown is a bit stupid but not as stupid as the concept suggests and I enjoyed it a lot.

May also check out Extracurricular tonightā€¦

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#385

I watched both tonight.

Extracurricular Activities - A good dark comedy film. Not bad. Iā€™ll give it Pitchfork score of 6.8

Countdown - Read the blurb and reviews. Looked below average before watching but as @guntrip said, itā€™s pretty good. Iā€™ve seen a few of those spooky app films and this oneā€™s one of the better ones. Worked well. Iā€™ll give it a 7.2.

Iā€™ve got ā€œI See Youā€ from cinema paradisio to watch. Thatā€™s supposed to be good but the two I watched tonight were good no brainer fun in an uncomfortably hot flat. Iā€™ll keep I See You for another evening when I can watch in relative comfort.

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#386

Extracurricular Activities: ending was EXCELLENT

Also had a good time playing ā€œspot the TV show actorā€

#387

Excited for thisā€¦

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#388

Host was pretty good but yeah it did become less scary and more fun as it went along, I do think someone is going to make a really great laptop based horror soon.

#389

Watched Countdown last night to keep in with the cool kids in this thread. Pretty entertaining :+1:

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#390

Watched The Rental.

Very much an ā€˜adjust your expectationsā€™ film. I read loads of dreadful, scathing reviews of it beforehand, still watched it because Dan Stevens is in it so what the hell. Quite enjoyed it, was prepared for the admittedly lazy ā€˜climaxā€™ (bashing peopleā€™s heads in with a hammer is just shit, come on) but enjoyed the journey to get there; was happy when the dog reappeared, and the ending was kind of neat I thought.

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#391

Saw I See You with Helen Hunt. Really enjoyed it. 8/10.

I really liked the turn in the film about ā…” in. Reminded my of a low budget film called Fractured with a girl from Eastenders in it. That worked well too but definitely was impressed with I See You.

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#392

Saw The Vigil in the cinema today (first cinema trip since March). Really liked it - fuzzy, relatively old school and pretty unnerving in places.

#393

Watched Host last night - the new Zoom based horror. I was very scared.

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#394

Watched last night, Lucio Fulciā€™s Aenigma: Sometimes, vintage Italian horror movies are all I need to make me happy. Sure, popular opinion would have you believe that this isnā€™t one of Fulciā€™s best films but fuck it, I really enjoyed this. The plot is a combination of Patrick/Carrie/Suspiria and sees a young woman at a private school in Boston hospitalized when she becomes the victim of some mean-spirited classmates. Comatose she may be, but thatā€™s not going to stop her enacting her vengeance in the form of Eva, a newly arrived student at the school. Most everything here works: the dubbing is as bad as youā€™d want it to be, the script is kind of wonky, thereā€™s a truly unpleasant death by snails scene, the colors are super vibrant and the soundtrack is amazing, featuring this memorable number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uub_zfKLpM And check out that poster. This is the kind of art that Iā€™d stare at in video shops when I was too young to rent this kind of movie and could only imagine what lurid delights the film might containā€¦ Recommended, obvs.

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#395

So Iā€™ve seen this floating around on shudder recently and thought it looked a bit ā€¦ nothingy. Then I watched a review and decided to give it a goā€¦

OH MY GOD. Not in YEARS, literally years have I screamed so loudly. If someone were to say to me ā€œfilm set on zoom, during lockdownā€ I would have been like no thanks, but this is by far one of the most enjoyable ā€œfound footageā€ films Iā€™ve seen in years, trust me, Iā€™ve watched pretty much all of them (I think). I do really enjoy this sub-genre anyway, but I think itā€™s definitely one of the better ones.

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#396

Literally just watched this, knowing nothing about it other than itā€™s the ā€˜Zoom filmā€™.

Fair to say, it got me a LOT of times. The intimacy and familiarity of it all being on laptop screens, plus set during lockdown which is an isolation weā€™ve all felt first hand, was a potent combination eh. Lovely, terrifying, lovely stuff :+1:

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#397

Agree with the praise for Host. Although the main plot points were a bit thin, I really do think that the use of Zoom was really well done. Loved how little devices were used such as the filters and it actually solves the whole ā€˜why are they filming thisā€™ issue. I also love how this, Unfriended and Searching do keep you interested just by the details on screen

Whether its a one trick pony remains to be seen but Iā€™d be happy for more

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#398

Just finished itā€¦totally agree with you, and the very long and detailed basketball scenes did nothing for meā€¦ bit of a disappointment to be honest.

Onto ā€˜The Ritualā€™ next :+1:

#399

Look where I was this morning

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Itā€™s the mountains in the background that are the giveaway

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#400

Amazing!

KEEP OFF THE MOORS :wolf: :wolf: :wolf:

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