Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
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If Hereditary (2018) is the appetizer for the meal that is Ari Aster’s films, Midsommar is the satisfying main dish. From the cinematography and the acting to the backstory and silent details, watching Midsommar is an exciting experience that captivated me from the beginning and brought me all the way to the end without knowing that two and a half hours had passed.
I appreciated the fact that we saw very little special effects. We saw some effects with the…
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My first watch of Hereditary left me with several questions about the plot and how the lore we learn about relates to the characters we are seeing. Despite it being a slower paced movie, I believe there were a lot of subtle clues that I could have easily missed, especially the clues near the beginning that have no meaning to the viewer yet. It is a movie that I would watch again because I know it would give me a…
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This film excels at two things: being a horror film that is continuously engaging because of its plot and scare tactics, and at representing a very real human fear that existed at the time it was produced, in the early 1990s.
I found this movie and its methods of horror to be very tasteful. There were some jump scares and scary scenes, but none of them felt overdone (with exception for the prolonged scene inside the mountain of fire). As…