I will admit that I saw this as a big Scream fan but would like everyone to know it def isnāt worth crossing the picket for and I wish I hadnāt
Itās a bit of mess, undoubtably the worst in the series so far. If anyone wants more details:
Theyāve kind of tried to have their cake and eat it too by having Sidney as a main character but also trying to keep the focus on the younger generation. As a result, there are almost two sets of casts so you donāt get to know either very well, and then Chad and Mindy turn up. It makes the deaths meaningless, thereās no supporting character like a Tatum that you really feel concerned for. The killer reveals are very anti-climatic because the killers have less than 5 minutes screen time as their non-Ghostface selves. Some even more unbelievable not-dead-yet moments for our main characters too. I would not be very excited for the series to continue with the Sidney focus tbh. Melissa and Jennaās films are so much, head-and-shoulders better.
I would do but I thought Scream 6 was completely uninspired and really cemented that Iām just done with it all, itās the same old each time. Iāll catch it when its available at home because my gf will want to but Iām not rushing
this is what, the third Scream film in 5 years? Itās just too many and even aside from the Palestine stuff, Iām put off by them going back to Sidney - seems tired and this hasnāt convinced me otherwise
I love the whodunnit of it all, and I also like when they switch up genre gears a bit (6 is a little action movie-ish to me), but this one is really not very coherent. Thereās also a dearth of charisma without Jenna or Melissa, Neve and Courtney Cox do their best but itās not enough Cox is also weirdly absent through large chunks of the film, including most of the final act. Itās also weirdly referential to the last movie, with several characters asking Sidney why she wasnāt in New York, which is weird, but no mention of the Carpenter sisters. A lot of callbacks to Scream OG (inc some needle drops like Fear The Reaper) that kind of just become replicating the beats rather than homage, if that makes sense. I got a lot of love for Scream OG and I think itās a good screenplay but itās weird that theyāve lifted about a third of it into this film and then mashed in some other aspects from other Scream films before the big question becomes (big spoiler) is the killer using AI to pretend to be a dead legacy character or did that character survive?
I will also say that, as my love of the franchise suggests, Iām not a particularly picky viewer or much of a film snob, so for me to be unimpressed, itās not worth it for anyone
Yeah thatās my main issue. The OG trilogy came pretty fast too, but they at least had clear topics - meta horror, sequel meta, trilogy meta. Then you get a big gap and you can do remake meta, another big gap and you can do the whole requel approach
Having another two films right away, where there arent really any original hooks to build from as far as I can tell, was always going to lead to disappointment
So I did indeed watch Horror Express. Only realised when I looked it up on JustWatch that itās been on iPlayer for literally years
A lot of fun tbf - itās basically an uncredited version of The Thing (and/or From Another World) but set on the Trans-Siberian Express rather than The Arctic. With Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee playing friendly rival scientists, this is very much Hammer Horror meets Murder On The Orient Express. Thereās some interesting choices for the thing/creature, particularly when it body swaps. Telly Savalas turns up two thirds of the way through this and itās like he just stepped in from a completely different film.
American Psycho - not watched this for a looooong time. Still think it holds up, even when the distance from now to its production is longer than between when it was made and the period it is satirising. Christian Bale deservedly gets a lot of plaudits for making the main role work, but the whole cast is very entertaining and it looks and sounds great. Shame that Mary Harron didnāt go on to do more stuff, as the direction is spot on between the horror and the black comedy. Vastly better than the book for me.
Honey Bunch - been wanting to see this since it got a lot of buzz at last yearās film festivals. Pretty unusual and very vibesy throughout. Real life husband and wife Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie bring nice believable chemistry to the screen, and Jason Isaacs and Kate Dickie are good as ever in supporting roles. This is super slow for the first half and made me questions how is was going to get through 110 minutes. Escalates nicely in the second however and has a pleasingly brutal and bittersweet finale.
Interesting - I read American Psycho when I was in my 20s (when I frankly had much more time/tolerance for that kind of book) and I remember seeing the film in Odeon Holloway Road (where I first saw fight club and Blair witch - happy days!) on the first weekend and being massively disappointed. Notwithstanding Mr Bale was great.
I watched it again last year, as the comedy it is, and thought it was great! The ending is obviously ambiguous, between book and film, so goes a bit flat.
And of course seems a million times less controversial than it seemed then.
I think that American Psycho, and Brett Easton Ellis in general, was an early form of edgelordism. I read a few of his books quite close together, but canāt imagine going near one now. I think having a female writing/directing team on the film took a lot of that particular vibe off the source material (for the better for me at least)ā¦
Iām a total idiot. Iām reading this thinking, this is the second time recently that someoneās been singing the praises of this, who was the first? And of course, it was Mr. Moon in the podcast. Silly me. Anyway, I should give this a go.
