I'll watch any movie with my name in the credits :)
I participated and appear in this documentary and even if I didn't, it would be near and dear to my heart. It's the story of a cottage industry - the local "brick and mortar" videogame shop - and its future chances against the inevitable world of digital distribution. The movie asks the question "as ownership goes digital, what gets left behind?".
To date, I've only seen the rough cut.…
I hadn’t seen Event Horizon in over twenty years and had a pretty low opinion of it until this rewatch, and I know why I felt that way. Despite it looking like something from the Alien franchise, there are no aliens. And despite it feeling like something from the Hellraiser franchise, there are no inter-dimensional creatures or trips into a parallel dimension. I remember feeling like the movie stole from both and I couldn’t see beyond that.
However…
I was…
Imagine Blair Witch Project except the characters are military men and the setting is the desert. It’s also got heavy Bermuda Triangle vibes. The quasi-documentary, semi-found-footage supernatural thriller style is unique and captivating, but the ending is left open for interpretation. I’d spoil the whole thing if I revealed my interpretation plus I’m usually way off on these things.
It’s a work of art, a swath of style and contradiction. It’s a zombie movie with its own canon. It’s equal parts Lynch and Raimi. It’s foreign to an American like me, yet it’s in English. It’s a love story in a unique triangle. Its ugliest images are some of the most beautiful I’ve seen in a horror film. It’s a buddy film with a parallel universe Curly Howard as the buddy. It’s The Walking Dead-creative-killing 20 years before Dead was born. It’s gothic and simultaneously hip.
“I’d give my life to be dead” - Dellamorte
It is absurd. And it makes perfect sense.
Felt very much like a spiritual successor to The Blair Witch Project, which is a good thing because I’d like a good alternative and most found footage movies don’t do it for me. A few genuinely good scares and an overall spooky vibe make this “haunted house Halloween amusement in a REAL haunted house” reality film a winner. Almost definitely better on a rewatch, too, as there are lots of quick peeks at weird stuff and I’d be cheating if I rewound and paused.
A top 10 horror found footage movie!
