Horror movies and Scary Tv making a comeback?
POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN
UPDATED: Monday, August 10, 2026 16:55
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more of a Witchcraft thing not just cameras recording missing kids running away?
WB already has hits Sinners, Final Destination
film 'Weapons' trailer II
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not sure if comedy
The 'M3GAN 2.0' Cast Share What It's Like to Be Back
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probably another attempt at tv or movies coming, its old now March 1996...masters of gaming horror
Resident Evil Requiem - Game Overview
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Sinners (2025) vs. Alien: Romulus (2024) vs. Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Sinners
-(2025)/Alien-Romulus-(2024)/Final-Destination-Bloodlines-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
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ALIEN: EARTH Brings the Iconic Sci-Fi Franchise to TV in Glorious Fashion (Review)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/alien-earth-brings-iconic
-sci-130000052.html
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Late Night With The Devil (2023) was pretty damn good. (Australian Horror)
Spent more time watching reviews and retrospectives of it afterward than the runtime of the movie. Especially after Brenda said last week she figured it out halfway through (I still don't know what she meant by that).
Everybody online seems to be going with pretty much the same story about what actually happened, and a few people have some more interesting theories on top of that.
Maybe I'm giving the movie and the writers far more credit than they deserve here, but I think everyone is missing something, and it wouldn't surprise me at all. There's hidden symbolism all over this movie along with other things popping up in the background and during single frames even in scenes where it would appear that nothing was going on but dialog.
MINOR SPOILERS:
The set and atmosphere were great. It felt like it was taking place in the late 70's. The costumes were good. They nailed the suits. I was a little underwhelmed though with the cultists/grove costumes though. Not awful stuff you'd get at a pop-up Spirit Halloween store, but it shows the budget of the movie, I think. It couldn't have been terribly high.
Cinematography was great. Mostly shot in 4:3 ratio, but only during the 9 minute documentary in the beginning (voiced by Michael Ironside) as well as what the audience sees on camera. When it cuts to commercial you're usually greeted with dialog between characters backstage not only in black and white, but widescreen as well. At the end of the movie all bets are off on camera work and they get some dutch angles in there.
My only flaw I would list for the movie was showing a bit too much at the end. Less is always more with the "monsters" in horror movies, but I think that ultimately in the end the studio had some interference and did things they thought would bring in a more mainstream audience. *There would have been PLENTY of people involved who would have had input on that I'm sure, since one of the jokes about the movie online were about how many company title cards there were at the beginning. Some people thought it was a joke and part of the movie there were so many, so whoever produced this movie was worth their weight in gold for how much scrounging for budget money they apparently did to get this thing filmed.
A second complaint would be that they probably could have run that through another VCR filter or an actual VCR before putting the finished movie out there, but again, that might have turned off a mainstream audience.
I'd give her at least 4/5. Probably not 4.5 out of 5 though. But with my heavy bias against Horror flicks in general, that's a high rating out of me.
I think had they showed less of the "monster" at the end and ran that through another filter or two to make it feel even more like it was filmed in 1977 and forced you to watch it as if it were beyond the minor filter they used along with the 4:3 aspect ratio used in 80% or more of the movie, it would have been an easy 4.5 out of me.
Granted, now that I've seen retrospectives on this and I've seen that scene several times now, there's no denying it was a pretty awesome effect, especially given what I expect to have been a very low budget for the movie. I still think there were better, more subtle ways that you could have done it.
I'm sure I'll be rewatching it at some point, probably showing it to other people. It wouldn't surprise me if I were still thinking about it a week from now even without a 2nd watch.
And depending on the ambiguity on the end, the minor gripes I had about the movie might not even be legitimate. With very few exceptions, most of the people who talked about this movie last year on YouTube seem to take pretty much everything at face value. I don't think we were supposed to do
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Oh... (SPOILER ALERT 2)
Found it kind of interesting that every time we were saying Abracadabra as kids because we saw some two-bit magician on TV or in real life say the words, we were actually using a word that's been used for invocations for thousands of years, and who's origin is still disputed to this day. In this movie it was tied to an ancient Gnostic entity called Abraxis, whom some believe is actually the Devil and even the Christian God's boss, or even just two sides of that coin, being both God and the Devil at the same time himself.
Cute.
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Budget $38 million
Weapons Movie Review: Zach Cregger Delivers A Horror Masterpiece That Stands Amongst The Year’s Best Scares
https://www.koimoi.com/reviews/hollywood-movie-reviews/weapons-movie-r
eview-zach-cregger-delivers-a-horror-masterpiece-that-stands-amongst-the-years-best-scares/
Director Zach Cregger's second feature film, Weapons, proves that there is still much to be done in the horror genre.
Late Night With the Devil, 7/10 IMDb, 97% Rotten Tomatoes, 72/100 Metacritic user score 7.0
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/late-night-with-the-devil/
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97/100 would be way too high for Late Night With The Devil, but that's not what RT does. 97% just means that 97% of the reviews weren't shit.
72% on IMDB and 70% on Metacritic seem too low to me, but not by too much. I gave it a 4/5, with just some minor cinematography changes and a toned down baddie at the end (less is more in horror) keeping me from giving it a 4.5/10. And that's with my heavy bias against the Horror genre.
I believe it's an 8/10. But I could see that being dragged down by people who expect a ton of gore out of their Horror and would rather watch the 18th Saw movie instead of something that makes you think.
The amount of gore in this movie is very limited. This is probably the main factor why it didn't get a higher rating because the people more inclined to have gone out and seen it probably would have rather enjoyed a gore fest over what they got here.
You should give it a watch now, Jaynez. Love to hear your take on it.
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