Weekend Horror Movie Review #11
Aug. 26th, 2024 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrimettThe Piper (2024) - A woman struggles to reconstruct a half-destroyed concerto for her orchestra, and that concerto is so very cursed! Anyone who hears the melody can't get it out of their head, and if the person who hears the song is a child, then they mysteriously go missing. The woman, as well as her Hard-of-Hearing daughter, have to stop the orchestra from playing the concerto before it's too late. This movie is equal parts a twist on the Pied Piper of Hamelin story and also the Danse Macabre urban legend, and I love that combination! I was surprised at just how much I ended up enjoying this movie. Good performances, good story, and great music! (Youtube: trailer)
KKN di Desa Penari (2022) - A group of students travel to a remote village as part of a community service project. While there, they fall prey to a dark part of the village's customs, secrets, and the spirits that wander the forest at night. This is a long movie, almost 3 hours long, though it had a mid-credits scene that was more of an unrelated short film, so it pads out the runtime. I'm getting more comfortable with a lot of the vibe in Indonesian horror, so even though this movie had some unfamiliar religious elements, it didn't detract from my experience watching the movie and appreciating the story. I also often enjoy this sort of fish-out-of-water story, where people enter an unfamiliar environment and have to adapt, even when what they have to adapt to is scary and strange. And the village's history with the Dancer, Dawuh, and the lengths they go to protect their people from her malign influence while still honouring her, was really interesting. If you're into Indonesian horror or are prepped for a long foreign horror film, then this one is worth a shot. (Youtube: trailer)
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - I mean, it's Five Nights at Freddy's. I've watched it before, but I felt like watching it again because sometimes a familiar fluff movie is nice. It's not scary, at least not to me, but I love the lore of the franchise, and sometimes I like rewatching things with deep lore to see if anything new makes sense, or if a certain theory fits with the presentation. The story's nothing spectacular. Dude gets a job as a night security guard at a run-down restaurant, the animatronics are haunted and try to hurt people but not all the time, the usual FNAF fare. But it's fun, it's fluff, and I'll probably watch it again in the future because I'm a sucker for this sort of thing. (Youtube: trailer)
Only 3 movies this time (and I skipped last week, too; I'm such a slacker!), in no small part because I also watched Terror Tuesday Extreme and The Fall of the House of Usher, both of which were very good horror shows. The Fall of the House of Usher, though, was far more disturbing on many levels. Typical Mike Flanagan stuff, absolutely fantastic, but holy hell was it ever an emotional ride! Terror Tuesday Extreme was tame in comparison, as the episodes were based on supposedly true stories called into a Thai radio show. Most of the story were classic horror tropes, a fun watch, but nothing on the level of Flanagan.
KKN di Desa Penari (2022) - A group of students travel to a remote village as part of a community service project. While there, they fall prey to a dark part of the village's customs, secrets, and the spirits that wander the forest at night. This is a long movie, almost 3 hours long, though it had a mid-credits scene that was more of an unrelated short film, so it pads out the runtime. I'm getting more comfortable with a lot of the vibe in Indonesian horror, so even though this movie had some unfamiliar religious elements, it didn't detract from my experience watching the movie and appreciating the story. I also often enjoy this sort of fish-out-of-water story, where people enter an unfamiliar environment and have to adapt, even when what they have to adapt to is scary and strange. And the village's history with the Dancer, Dawuh, and the lengths they go to protect their people from her malign influence while still honouring her, was really interesting. If you're into Indonesian horror or are prepped for a long foreign horror film, then this one is worth a shot. (Youtube: trailer)
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - I mean, it's Five Nights at Freddy's. I've watched it before, but I felt like watching it again because sometimes a familiar fluff movie is nice. It's not scary, at least not to me, but I love the lore of the franchise, and sometimes I like rewatching things with deep lore to see if anything new makes sense, or if a certain theory fits with the presentation. The story's nothing spectacular. Dude gets a job as a night security guard at a run-down restaurant, the animatronics are haunted and try to hurt people but not all the time, the usual FNAF fare. But it's fun, it's fluff, and I'll probably watch it again in the future because I'm a sucker for this sort of thing. (Youtube: trailer)
Only 3 movies this time (and I skipped last week, too; I'm such a slacker!), in no small part because I also watched Terror Tuesday Extreme and The Fall of the House of Usher, both of which were very good horror shows. The Fall of the House of Usher, though, was far more disturbing on many levels. Typical Mike Flanagan stuff, absolutely fantastic, but holy hell was it ever an emotional ride! Terror Tuesday Extreme was tame in comparison, as the episodes were based on supposedly true stories called into a Thai radio show. Most of the story were classic horror tropes, a fun watch, but nothing on the level of Flanagan.