Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Lord of Misrule feels like it’s aiming to land somewhere in between Midsommar and The Ritual. Both well made folk horror films for different reasons. Lord of Misrule struggles with the “well made” part. The best compliment I can give it is that the cinematography wasn’t too bad. Other than that, the pace feels rushed and a bit disjointed. The characters behave in strange and unrealistic ways even for a movie with cult vibes. Finally, the movie looses a lot…
I really enjoy Mike Flanagan as a filmmaker and with this being one of his earliest works, you can see his progress from this to something like Midnight Mass. I enjoyed Oculus but I do have my issues with it, some being trademarks of Flanagan. Oculus feels like two movies spliced together. It goes between what happened between to two main characters when they were kids and how they are dealing with it 10 years later as adults. The gripe…