Decent Indonesian horror, but a little subpar relative to the other Asian movies that find their way stateside.
The individual components of the movie are pretty decent. The acting and character design – particularly the two protagonists – are really well done. The cinematography is well done, and there's one jump scare about two-thirds of the way in that's worth the price of admission alone.
It's a little too ambitious of a plot. There's a lot of moving parts, and a lot…
Really developing a distaste for these British direct-to-Shudder releases. A complete slog despite a sub-90 minute runtime. Probably because there’s barely 30-40 minutes of plot.
The askew substance-to-plot ratio stretches the events of the film so thin that it’s surprisingly hard to follow as well. Nick Frost, who I think does the best he can with what he has, is just such a huge gravitational pull that you find him more irritating than malevolent or scary.
I’ve seen worse than this but there’s just too little budget, too little story and too little tension for this to have been greenlit.
Whipped ass and will definitely be in contention for best horror of 2024. Arguably better than any horror that came out in 2023.
I think a lot of people would have fumbled this premise. There was a lot of attention to detail that went into capturing both the 70s aesthetic and the cadence of late night talk show television. It's easy to see more careless hands turning this into a parody/comedy horror and I don't think it would have been…
Remember that moment in The Sixth Sense when you learned what was going on? How about when you were watching Cabin In The Woods and exclaimed “wait…THAT’S what this movie’s about?” That’s the payoff you’re waiting and waiting for in You’ll Never Find Me. The buildup is so long and so drawn out that the twist basically needs peak-of-his-powers Shyamalan genius to be satisfying. Consequently, when the inevitable average-quality reveal finally hits it has all the impact of a wet…
