(April 25, 2021 at 8:29 am)Eleven Wrote: Horror is my favorite genre, but honestly movies just aren't what they used to be. New good films are a rarity.
Agree. I tend to shy away from mainstream promoted horror films. I JUST recently watched the Conjuring 1 & 2 because I'd been avoiding it for that reason. And even then, I don't consider those horror but some light, scary fantasy. I get it, the thing is a franchise and they want Ed and Lorraine to be in the next films, so, they gotta triumph and all. And I've got no arguments with the quality that Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga bring to the projects. But the climax of both films is like a Legend of Zelda boss fight.
I find more success in that horror that "lingers" with indie or low-budget or less well known movies.
For instance, Wounds (2019) AKA: The Translation of Wounds was great. It is hard to find anywhere, yet the quality feels mainstream as far as production value.
Quote:Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar. (imdb)
It deals with old school Gnosticism and trying to connect through the portal of flesh wounds to an eldritch horror like an Old One in the beyond.
I stumbled upon the trailer back in 2019 amidst several other lesser known horror films and found it and watched it last year. I forget where.
