If you like horror films- Holy shit. Speak No Evil-

Not one comment? :(

I highly recommend this one if you like horror-

It reminds me of The Vanishing. Once you get to the end, you have to watch it again.

I wonder if they'll fuck up the American remake.

R2- Other than Hereditary- I have never found a film scarier and more disturbing on a second viewing.

What floored me are various lines throughout the film that were really vicious when you know what ultimately happens...

My heart was racing later in the film like I had never seen it before.

These were very brave actors.

The Vanishing (original) is an absolutely perfect comparison.

American Remake- Fuck. What? I think I had heard this awhile back and clearly blocked it out.

I looked up the remake. It is coming from Blumhouse. The three leads are James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy and the director is responsible for one of the most horrifying movies I've seen called Eden Lake. If you haven't seen Eden Lake, r1, you really should. It is essentially Deliverance in England...but without the anal rape. It's also one of Michael Fassbender's first films. So, the remake is going to be in good hands.

R4- I just checked this out- I DID see Eden Lake and it was very effective (Its 15 years old and was pretty hardcore for its time)

He also directed The Descent Part 2- and while not as good as the original, was pretty damn great. (Its issues were more script/plot related)

and I do like James Mcavoy-

In this case anyway, Blumhouse is another good sign-

Are we the only horror fans on this site?

R6- No- Because those Halloween threads were pretty popular. This place is odd sometimes!

Hey- you know what I just noticed--- They do not have an actress listed as the "wife"--

I dont want to give away spoilers...

As you know there were 2 women... Its weird... I wonder if they are changing it to do two gay men, or a single man, or IMDB just has not listed it... Kind of interesting.

For me- they should not change a fucking thing. The original is near perfect.

Thanks op im going to watch it today

I like horror but what is the films title and is it on netflix or does it have a 8k blu ray? Thanks

R9- SPEAK NO EVIL---

No idea on he rest buddy...

Nice R8- I cannot wait to hear your review!!!!

Normally I would say wait until the new one comes out and watch both! However, there is no way this new film will be better than this original. There is just no way.

Is this out already? I thought it was coming out in the summer of 2024.

They're remaking a film from 2 years ago? Instant nostalgia?

R12 We are talking about the original-

What if you thought Hereditary was stupid? I didn't care for it so if this is being compared to that...

I'm reading the wiki page about it now. Going back for a fucking stuffed rabbit? Yeah, some people bring their own troubles on.

r13, it's an English language remake.

r9, it's on Shudder right now. Don't know about a Blu-Ray.

OP, Yeah, I don't see a wife. I hope they don't make them a gay couple for obvious reasons. Maybe they're hiding stunt casting?

r16, This movie has zero moments of supernatural horror. It is slow burn horror.

Okay good R17, cause I can't do the floating people bullshit of hereditary, not to mention the incredibly unattractive little girl who looked nothing like the brother or parents, but I digress.

I’m a supernatural horror fan but loved SNE. I’m sure the remake is going to stink like our version of Martyrs.

Americans love crappy happy endings and can’t stand to see the kiddies hurt, so this too will suck

Yes! I loved Martyrs, the French one, is there a remake? That's the kind of horror I love. I also loved "Frailty" and of course "Rosemary's baby". I don't know why I so disliked "Hereditary". My boyfriend loved it, it just didn't do it for me.

I can't watch horror and have no idea why people do. Nothing worse than seeing people being cruel and horrific to each other.

But then again, I grew up with violence and lived in fear my entire life. Still do. So fear isn't "fun" for me.

I grew up with a brother dying of Cystic Fibrosis, I was always trying to escape and also desensitize myself to the prospect of death. Friday the 13th and all the other scary movies helped me. Bring them on!

R22- I lost my dad when I was 10. And he LOVED horror films.. So my love for them is similar in a weird way to yours, and also it reminds me of my dad.

Probably the most vicious film that I have seen to date is L'Interieur (sp?) aka Inside starring Beatrice Dalle- Absolutely nasty.

Speak No Evil is a far better film and almost just as nasty- in a completely different way.

Ooh thanks for the tip R23. Yeah I've just always loved horror and am always looking for new ones. I was so excited to see "Pearl"and "X" and they were a let down.

NO WAY R24!!! I loved Pearl and X-- Probably my two other favorites next to Speak No Evil as far as horror films in the last 2 years. Shit.

I started that thread about a film called The Nest awhile ago, and I just saw The Iron Claw last night. Both by Sean Durkin one of my favorite directors.

I recommend both of those highly as well. The Nest and Speak No Evil are in my top 20 films of all time at this point.

It was good but I prefer supernatural elements in horror movies

It was excellent, OP. I watched it yesterday. I see on IMDB many reviewers think the visiting couple was too passive in their actions in the last section of the movie. I can see their point, but I felt differently. I won’t say any more because I don’t want to spoil it.

Thanks so much for recommending!

R25 Ha, it's funny how different people get the movies differently. I enjoyed Pearl and X, but not in a scary way. I read about the Nest on here at work so I forgot to make note of it, I will though. It's just good to have fellow horror fans, even if we like different ones.

R20 the US version of Martyrs is godawful.. Frailty was great. Have you seen Lake Mungo, Fractured? Another creepy supernatural movie you need to watch into the ending credits

R21 I can’t stand slasher films that fall under the horror category. I want creepy, a movie like Fractured…no blood or guts

Quite chilling. The ending made me sick. Makes you not to make friends with couples.

I don’t understand why the couple just took it ( no spoiler)r30.

I’m going to give this a watch. I’ll report back for discussion.

I’ve created a spoiler thread for those of us who’ve seen the movie and would like to discuss it.

It reminded me of Funny Games. They're both movies where the bad guys start violating boundaries and keep escalating until they're holding the family at gunpoint/cutting out a child's tongue. Both situations could have been avoided if the protagonists had ditched their middle class manners and told someone to FUCK OFF.

R34 Yes!

At least the US version of FG was as good as the German original…I do think, without googling it, Hanake did both versions

This kind of reminded me of another European thriller about the dangers of getting close to strangers called Borgman

Have you guys seen this? It's great, I promise you'll love it.

It has to have a great story to be worth it to me. I disliked Hereditary, which didn't feel like it had a great story, just some tacked-on stuff about witchcraft that didn't feel like it was at the heart of the film for me. The acting - is good but mostly it was the same-old same-old.

These "horrors that people do" films like Inside seem to come into vogue every couple of years and they have never been my faves.

I rewatched Get Out recently and found it holds up really well. I like those, and fun slasher and supernatral films from the 1980s that feature gratuitous nudity from like Michelle Bauer.

I found "X" pretty underwhelming but I loved "Pearl"

The alligator scene in the beginning of X was really well-done. I thought she was insane for jumping into a random pond in east Texas and then camera panned over the the alligator on the shore. Chilling.

Yeah X was good, it just wasn't as scary as I hoped. For young kids who don't know true horror, it's perfectly fine.

What do you consider true horror, r41?

Oh damn, R42, I was hoping you wouldn't ask. After I typed that I thought about it. That's a great question...The original "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hostel" was pretty good, "Halloween"...I guess X is horror, but what I should have said is it's not the type of horror that would scare me, if that makes sense. Oh "Henry; Portrait of a Serial Killer" too.

I will try it.

Hostel is still one of the scariest movies to me.

Mostly because its real people doing very evil and horrible things, and the setting for it is VERY plausible.

Especially given how sadistic and evil, rich people can be.

And how they like to prey upon poorer, weaker people. Just for sport.

To me, that is a REAL life horror.

I don't like the torture porn movies but I love supernatural horror. Funny Games really bothered me. I guess I kept hoping someone would get away but the nonchalance of the killers shoving her overboard and then just popping the husband and going to the next house was very disturbing to me. Another one similar is Open House.

Insidious really creeped me out with all the shadowy figures hiding in corners.

Yes Funny Games was fucking scary, sort of loosely based on Tom and Jackie Hawks murder. The thought of being thrown in the ocean in a bag....nah, fuck that.

Loved Pearl. Haunt on Amazon Prime is really good. Eli Roth produced it. A lot of good ones on Shudder.

Oh nice, R48, I love Roth. I liked "Cabin Fever" too. Hey didn't he date DL anti hero Kelly Osborne?

R36, I just watched Borgman. Good recommendation. I thought it went down easier than Funny Games or Speak No Evil because those Dutch yuppies were such unlikable cunts. It would have been a lot darker if they killed the kids.

Every "new horror" and quite a few classic horror tropes rolled into one.

OP, what is the movie about? I mean, without spoilers (obviously) what KIND of horror movie is it? What's the gist? Make me interested in seeing it...

Family A meets Family B and Family B does increasingly bad things to Family A.

The remake looks like derivative SHIT.

I am extremely disappointed. The original is a MASTERPIECE. This looks like the first half is identical and the last 1/2 is destroyed and turned into a basic action/thriller. NO THANKS. This looks terrible.

The remake looks interesting, I like McAvoy, he can play the latent psycho well. Abigail looks like it's going to be a hoot. I'm interested in what Skarsgard is going to bring to Nosferatu, and the trailer for Alien: Romulus looks crazy.

The original is so good. I’ll probably end up seeing it. And be disappointed.

Disturbing film. I can't believe they already remade it but nothing beats the OG.

It’s one of those movies that stays with you. It’s so fucked up. I wish they wouldn’t have gone back for that damn bunny.

Has anyone seen late night with the devil?

R59 That is the film I am most excited about other than Maxxxine!!!

There’s one on Shudder called the influencer. I was pleasantly surprised it was actually pretty good watch it if you get a chance.

R61- I liked that one too!!!

R39 I finally saw Pearl… lol, it was great. Definitely original

Violence porn is not what I call "good horror films."

It's violence porn.

It's terrific. Horrifying in all the right ways.

Just watched it. Definitely one of the most unsettling films I've seen. I like the comparisons to the original Vanishing.

I will watch it again at some point.

Thanks OP!

This is a perfect description from Carlos Aguilar: " [a] brilliantly bleak cautionary tale about letting others cross one’s boundaries for the sake of civility ..."

I don't like gory pointless slasher movies. BUt I like a good horror movie especially science fiction.

It wasn't a gory, pointless slasher film, r68.

The original Vanishing wasn't a slasher film either, but the final scene disturbed me more than anything I've seen in a slasher movie.

So is the Speak No Evil you're praising a Dutch film about two families? I'm finding several films with that title.

Correct ^^^

Thank you, r71. Putting it on my watch list.

Anybody have any good recommendations for some good movies on Shudder?

What the hell made people notice this thread months later?

Was it the remake trailer?

I cannot stress enough- WATCH THE ORIGINAL before seeing that piece of shit- I can tell already that they destroyed the last 1/2.

I would hate for the impact to be lessened because the original is( more or less) spoiled by some action film remake.

Watch the original.

McAvoy isn't playing the character I thought he would.

R75- That actually surprised me too-

I'm watching this tonight. I chose Pet Sematary Bloodlines over it. WHYYYY. Oh, yeah...because Katey Sagal's HOT son is in it.

Oh, they pulled a The Vanishing remake, r74? Tacked on a 'to the death' fight scene at the end? How expected. I'll maybe catch this one on streaming.

[quote]Yes Funny Games was fucking scary, sort of loosely based on Tom and Jackie Hawks murder.

Funny Games predates that incident. The original Austrian film came out in 1997, 10 years prior to the American remake

[quote] It reminds me of The Vanishing. Once you get to the end, you have to watch it again.

After I saw The Vanishing, I was so freaked out I didn’t even want to ever think of it again, let alone see it again.

It's no See No Evil.

[quote] It reminds me of The Vanishing

Thanks for the spoiler.

I really hate horror films. I just don't understand why people would intentionally make themselves feel bad or terrorized. And I ain't even talking about politics.

[quote]Violence porn is not what I call "good horror films."

Agreed; I guess I'm old like this, but I like silly horror, vampires (scary kind, not the sparkly ones) and movies like Get Out. But movies about cruelty, torture - good lord, that's real life. I don't want to watch that shit!

R84, I'm almost afraid to ask, but have you really experienced Hostel or Saw levels of cruelty and torture in real life? If so, I'm sorry. If not, then you misunderstand what people like about these movies. (I'm not a fan myself, but many viewers are.) They're distortions and exaggerations of the sort of thing we all fear IRL. In that way, it's no different from a demonic possession horror movie, which play on the universal human fear of losing one's mind or losing control.