Recently Watched Films

Weird. As. Fuck. 

I did enjoy it, but it's the kind of movie where you've really got to look deep into it to get what its point is (or just read up about it afterwards like I did). Otherwise it really isn't going to make a lot of sense. 

Same director of the excellent The Raid films.
I like it, a bit different from the usual!

Average to poor horror.

Entertaining black and white 50's western. 

For now it's just westerns for pre-60s films, but there are a number of other older titles I intend to see should I get the chance. Some of Hitchcock's films for a start. 

When I watched a found footage movie I want to feel suspense when watching it, since the whole idea of the genre is to imagine it's something that has really been found under mysterious circumstances. [Rec] just didn't do it for me most of the time, though it did have it's moments. This one, set in the Paris catacombs (and filmed on location) just worked for me, even as it's actual plot got increasingly weirder. Other ones I enjoyed are Grave Encounters (kind of silly ghost effects but compelling and freaky) and Willow Creak, where I admit not much happens for a while but the extended scene inside the tent is tense as hell and what sold me on that movie working in the style, where others like Blair Witch Project didn't. Troll Hunter is another good one, though to me it was less horror and more fantasy. 

Psydye wrote: Shame to hear Blair Witch has no love here, I actually rather liked it! But hey! To each their own!

My main issue with it is that hardly anything happens beyond them getting lost and a few weird things hanging in the woods. Even the end scene was very underwhelming. I was expecting them to actually capture this Blair Witch on film even for a fleeting second. But you see literally nothing.