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Wounds (2019)
Translation of wounds is an eerie concept
Before giving this movie obligatory one star, just beacause it doesn't fare well on some idle netflix wednesday, please watch Babak Anvari's first film persian-spoken "Under the shadow". If you don't like his first movie, you really won't like this one. You don't have to give it a 10, but if this is a 1 star movie then we'll be stuck with mediocre and trite horrors like The Nun or Insidious: the last key forever, because that's what the audience presumably wants.
I think we really need more fresh takes on horror genre such as this one. If you're used to Annabells and stale hollywood remakes that's fine. But we need directors who are willing to try something different such as Ari Aster or Ben Wheatley.
How many of you can remember even one scene from uninspired horrors like The Conjuring 3 or Curse of la Llorona or tiresome remakes of Evil Dead or Pet Sematary?
But sure as hell we'll remember and reflect on films that DO NOT follow your standard horror formula - like "Primer", "Mandy", "The Witch" or "Kill List" because they are different, intriguing and demand patience from the viewer. Many foreign horrors like "The Wailing" or "Baskin" have different narrative structures from american movies which is great. In the end these slowburn movies are much more rewarding than some jump-scare nonsense.
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
I want to go back to the old freezerinos after seeing this documentary
Imagine the horror of a feminist dissection of the movie in which one of the speakers condescendingly infers that the creators of the movie were actually making a subconscious statement about oppressive patriarchal society without even knowing!
Imagine the audacity it takes to say that artist like Scott, O'Bannon and Giger were actually unaware of their own creative process and subconsciously succumbed to their male guilt.
The decision that this angle is relevant to this movie was wrong and it made the documentary naive, shallow and obtuse. No wonder Ridley Scott wanted nothing to do with it.
Shame really, I liked the bit about Francis Bacon.