Have any of you bitches watched Barbarian?

Saw it this afternoon.

Damn it is good.

Loved it. And much more than I expected to.

I loved it until I didn’t. But it’s got a really solid first hour. Mystery box after mystery box.

Barbarians hmm. Uncut, one imagines.

Not yet, OP

yes. What do you want to know ?

Saw it last night, really enjoyed it. The trailers do a great job of not giving to much away which made it more enjoyable to see it unfold.

Cops are assholes!

I made the mistake of seeing The Invitation after seeing this, which was a mediocrity and features the nightmare woke annoying version of what the lead in Barbarian could have been but isn't.

PS So... is every horror movie now going to star a nappy haired mixed race half black female? #post2020cliches

I didn’t understand the part with the robots.

Congratulations on being a racist piece of shit R8

I was starting to wonder if they were planning on doing something like they did with Mia Goth in X. But one of the main female antagonists is indeed played by a male actor as I suspected, just not Bill Skarsgård.

I enjoyed it. Lots of twists and turns. The latter part of the movie goes batshit crazy. Just when you think the movie is about to come to an end, it keeps getting more crazy.

I watched it last night and enjoyed it a lot. Really good, not “brilliant,” as a lot of people online are getting carried away saying. They set it up as something different than it is and it caught me off guard. The biggest innovation in the film is its unusual structuring, which really grabbed my attention and I was surprised by. The rest of it, particularly the second half, was just a bunch of usual modern horror movie cliches though.

Did Billy Boy present his intact dong?

I didn't like it as much as I wanted too. Characters did really stupid things. The cops scene was unbelievable as it was written. Spoiler : no one ever went looking for these 2 people, both didn't tell anyone where they were staying

In the end the demented mommy had more human feelings than the sleazy Hollywood agent.

I enjoyed this, a lot. It was clever how it all unfolded and using Detroit as the setting was a smart move. I like that they didn't have to reveal much for us to imagine the horrors that took place beforehand.

Plus, she might not be the only one.

It's a direct ripoff of, 1985's "Castle Freak", which the director never ever references to in any interview. Everything- the Big Bad, the Jump, the Old Parent, the Inherited Property.

What a massive piece of shit this thing was. Not quite as useless as X, but still terrible.

This movie is basically the people under the stairs for the airbnb era.

I loved it. I don’t think Mommy is dead. God bless HBO Max.

I like the part where they both fall off the tall tower and still live

OMG, the baby bottle, lol. This movie gets better and better. Justin Long plays a douche bag so well. Barbarian is scary and a laugh, to boot.

Shill

I went into this blind and was pleasantly surprised, I thought Skarsgard was going to be the villain, or maybe he was in a way as he didn't actually turn on the washing machine did he? And Long does a brilliant job of getting people to hate him, what an utter douche. Great film for Halloween.

The fall off that huge cement silo thing-y was utterly stupid.

I do like how the narrative manipulates your expectations based on existing cliches and tropes of a set up like that. And using Bill Skarsgaard, a notorious villain, makes you jump to immediate conclusions. That was cool.

But yeah that last 1/2 hour it all craps the bed.

I wonder what Skarsgards intentions were with our heroine, we'll never know now I guess. Its a bit like drew Barrymore in Scream, they trick you to think they will be the main star, clever.

I’f you are in the mood for a preposterous, bonkers horror film, you might try James Wan’s Malignant. It is also bananas, but much more in a 1950s b-movie fashion. I enjoyed it more than Barbarian.

It also features an adorable detective.

Like Barbarian, it’s best to go in knowing nothing about the plot.

R27, so glad you liked it!

Malignant was an enormous bore filled with terrible actors. At least the cast of Barbarian was talented and helped carry the viewer through a less than good horror film. Malignant was so awful that I dumped it midway through. Definite candidate for 10 worst of the year.

I watched it last night. God, it was awful. I just kept waiting for something to happen that never did. I'm with the poster above who wondered why the hell no one ever came looking for these two. The guy was supposedly in sime jazz group scouting a new something or other for them and, I guess, they just figured fuck him. The woman had an interview with the documentary woman who knew where she was staying and then just figured fuck her. The woman falls off the tower before the mother but somehow ends up on top of her. The mother flies face first off the tower but ends up on her back under tje woman. RIDICULOUS.

The disappearance issues maybe could raise questions (though they didn't bother me), but the falling can easily be explained.

1- The mother clearly weighed a shit ton more than the girl so she would fall faster.

2- The mother wanted to save her "baby" so she could have easily manipulated things to turn them in mid-air once she reached the girl.

I do want to add that I did not like the film, so I'm not defending it because of that.

R29, leaving Malignant halfway through was you loss. The absolute craziness started shortly thereafter.

It is quite consciously a b-movie. The performances match the material.

No, if you can't engage me in a horror movie halfway in, you're not going to suddenly do it later on. That's called bad filmmaking.

One could say nothing much happens in the first hour of The Exorcist. Well, nothing horror-related. However, it's still compelling, excellent filmmaking and writing, and it's worth the wait.

Malignant just sucks. And so does James Wan, who has never made a good film.

FIrst 40 minutes or so are pretty decent but then the laughable main villain appears and things quickly go downhill from there.

All the critically acclaimed horror films this year (X, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Malignant, Speak No Evil, Watcher...) turned out to be such a disappointment. I stopped watching all of these films halfway through.

I don't know if whether or not i liked Malignant. I knew there was a twist but it didn't quite come together for me.

Btw, We knew going into production that Malignant was going to be a film people loved or hated.

But did you know it was going to be a film people completely ignored? Because no one was talking about it.

R37 it’s a cult classic already in the horror community. Just because you haven’t heard about it in your sphere, doesn’t mean that other people are not talking about it.

Sure, Jan.

It's just okay; very overrated, though. I can't believe people on Letterboxd are giving it 4 and 5 stars. It's 3 stars, tops; "been there, done that". I'm never falling for Tik Tok hype again.

“She ain’t never come around here AUUGHHHHH!”

As soon as he started that sentence, r41, I was saying "She's coming through the wall, isn't she?"😆

[quote] Plus, she might not be the only one.

Yes, clearly they are planning on sequels.

It's another "Let's wander down a dangerous pitch-black endless hallway for no reason, even though we've had dozens of reasons to simply turn around and leave." Insufferable.

Malignant sold itself as a super-scary horror movie. Then once the word got out, they changed their tune pretty fast calling it intentionally funny and a parody. Bitch please. Stupid is as stupid plays. The "reveal" was laughable and I don't believe intentionally so. I haven't seen a transformation that bad since "The Beast Within" and that was fucking 40 years ago.

I did enjoy Barbarian much more, but it wasn't perfect. The ending with the water tower was silly, but that's the very end so... Justin and Bill pretty much made the movie for me; the girl was okay.

Of the recent batch of horror hits, I'd say X and Pearl have been my favorites.

Meh. It was kind of stupid. To be fair I also realized I just don't like horror movies that much. I like suspense and tension, a sense of dread...so I enjoyed the first part of the movie. But the rest was mostly dumb. The villain was ridiculous. A couple generations of inbreeding did that? The main girl did too many stupid things. And nobody knows/cares that they've gone missing at all? I did find Justin Long's douche character funny sometimes, especially the square footage scene.

A "horror" movie I was surprised to find that I did like this year was Bodies Bodies Bodies. Probably because I'm entering a get-off-my-lawn stage.

I enjoyed X and must say part of that had to do with Martin walking around in his underwear. Was a little surprised Pearl didn't try to cop a feel of him.

I watched it; it passed the time. The main chick was extra stupid. Yes, her empathy is what allowed her to connect with the creature (side note: 2 generations of inbreeding leads to super strong banshee children? Since when?!), but she wouldn't have been in that situation if she didn't make so many easily avoidable decisions beforehand.

I don't get why the bitch at property management firm didn't know that they rented out the home to one person, let alone accidently doublebooking . Is she in on it? Is she feeding people to that thing? Does the listings have reviews from people who stayed there before and left unharmed? Why didn't anyone mention the homeless man screaming at them to stay out of the house?

I thought Bodies3 was fun, but stupid. Guess it was a satire on how stupid this generation is.

And I also- the lead girl in Barbarian was so cautious in the beginning, then threw caution to the wind, going down the dark stairs, tunnel, etc?. And not even grabbing a broom or stick as a weapon. Mehhhhhh.

What I found most amusing in Barbarian was how policed the language was between the two lead characters in the beginning. When she shows up at the AirBnB and discovers someone is already staying there, the man is so careful about what he says to her, making sure not to offend her and parsing his words so delicately so as to appear both unthreatening and coddling. I was hoping it would be seen as some sort of a ruse, but no, that was who his character was. Nor was it any sort of comment on what our behavior now has to consist of towards someone who is not another white straight male.

I'm not saying it was good or bad writing, nor am I necessarily complaining about it; I just found it interesting that even in film dialogue we now have to be so careful to make sure we don't offend. And not offend the character, I mean to not offend the audience. Meanwhile, we're watching people get their heads ripped off.

Wayne's cautious, politically correct demeanor (although there were micro-aggressions such as his ignoring her refusal to have tea, and grabbing her luggage when she didn't ask him to) was definitely part and parcel of his character. But, it was also meant to be a red herring because we know we're watching a horror movie and here's this character practically out of a rom-com now looking suspicious given the context. I thought it was pretty smart and amusing of the writer/director.

It’s like you can’t have a relaxed conversation with a stranger nowadays.

All that excavation and underground work and no one noticed, even when the neighborhood was still fairly occupied and normal in the 1980s.

I did like the film and have recommended it to several friends, who then text me about it right after finishing it.

R53 - I just assumed the tunnels far predated the house. Obviously, later, they were retrofitted for electricity and, presumably, ventilation. If it had happened in the 80s, even once the neighborhood had been abandoned, he would have needed a team of workers and certainly it would have come out. Although, that might be how the homeless guy knows what's going on...

This movie reminded me of "Cabin In The Woods" where the students were being manipulated by a bunch of bored bureaucrats apparently working for the devil. Every time they started to make a smart decision, they pumped in gas so they continually did dumb things

Everyone except Keith and the homeless guy was a barbarian.