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An error has ocurred. Please try againthis list will be edited over time. it is hard to do a fair ranking or to judge a movie based on your opinion 5 years ago to now. so please take it easy. it is my subjective list of favorites.
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Sebelum Iblis Menjemput (2018)
I am amazed!
First let me tell you as a absolute paranormal horror movie lover how amazed i am to watch my first movie from indonesia to the very end and to absolutely love it! This is the most difficult movie genre to nail and god did you guys well at least for my taste.
10/10 is my personal taste, but of course there are flaws and cliches all over the place that other people could pick on. But a 7-8 out of 10 would be a genuine correct rating for someone who knows the genre like me.
The Screenplay and Soundediting is on a american blockbuster level. The Care for details how the sound wanted to constantly surprise you. Those two areas bring so much depth to this movie.
The king of horror movies for me were "ringu" and "ju-on". Ju-on especially showing itself in this movie. A form of horror that is very pure. No big story no big explanation, just playing with your fear constantly.
And now for all the haters because there will be always haters in the horror genre:
This movie especially is all about wanting to be thrill and shock, make you forget about your critical thinking and instead enjoying the thrill ride. It is the most difficult thing to do that in the movie industry.
I want to praise Timo Tjahjanto for the amazing job he did in directing.
You can feel how every actor in the movie is being pushed by a good director. Even though the little girl really struggled to convince the other actors did really a good job. Surely must be their most difficult acting job.
For all the rational people out there:
Screenplay 9/10
Soundediting and Soundtrack 9/10
Acting 6/10
Story 4/10
Scares 10/10.
Leave the World Behind (2023)
stop making this political..
This movie is a eye opener. I think mostly because it shows how negative people review a complete a masterpiece, just because it challenges so many concepts that people or society have created in their head to feel safe.
Even though the movie isnt making it political the majority of viewers is making that assumption. Maybe not even conscient.
Then there are people who just dont get it since there is not enough happening for them when they expect movies like aquaman or batman beating up superman, with dull easy to understand story and meaning. Something to escape from their daily life.
Well i guess this movie isn't for you then.
For people who have the grasp and reach to fully get this movies meaning and for people who care about the work behind good movies and all the details necassery to make a brilliant movie, this is for you.
For anyone who cares, i say it's a masterpiece and i watch movies.. a lot of movies.
Have a nice happy new year everyone.
Smile (2022)
brilliant horror. learned from the best and made it its own.
For all those who are still undecided and want to check out other ratings. This is a truly great horror movie. Since even the best horror movie will not get over a 7 on imdb.
This movie shows how simplicity can be so complex. There is much more to this movie as the obvious scare scenes in the movie. Many people i guess dont even get the full scope of that movie and the many subtle details that go into it.
Without giving any spoilers it is a movie that should be watched in the cinema if you have the chance or at least in a home cinema environment with some amazing sound.
People who appreciate supernatural, psychological or subtle horror will appreciate what parker finn created here.
Lets hope that this wasnt the last fantastic horror movie we will see from him.
10 out of 10 because i cant think of anything that should be changed. Which is really really rare.
Zhou (2022)
masterpiece
For spiritual story-driven shocking horror, this might be the best movie out there. Shame on all these people reviewing brilliant horror movies badly. When those are the most difficult genres in movie making. For people who don´t get these horror movies stop watching horror movies or at least stop rating them down.
I think this movie learned from all the top japanese masterpieces and even improved on them. You can find "the ring", "ju-on", "noroi", "dark water" and even "the howling village" ideas in that movie.
Brilliantly thought through and terrifiying.
Aku no kyôten (2012)
Once a great horror director, now a Tarantino Copy Cat.
Guretoo maginifisento... is not enough to get you through harvard.
This is how i i want to begin this with... . Ah yes i should take the movie serious.. well the director of audition and one missed call has shown in the past how capable he can be. But that somewhat shocking display that he wants to showcase with extreme situations becomes less and less creative. Here it reminds me of the development of a quentin tarantino. Use clichees to purely shock with brutality.
So bland, uncreative, ridiculous...
back to the movie... sadly the actors are doing a. Horrible job acting out a horrible movie. A man has become a murderer from his early childhood... why explain that? That should be enough for the viewer since the viewer gets to see a lot of blood, people being shot and a funny german song..
ah yes two foreigners appear who also speak with broken english and horribly act out some insane background that makes no sense at all.
And in the very end the movie changed into battle royale. Yes now i spoiled that brilliant movie.
People watch movies like oldboy instead. This is crap.
The Sublet (2015)
the writer should write diaries instead of movies
just in case anyone is lost in these other 2 reviews. as someone who knows and loves psycho thrillers and shocking horror movies. this movie is not brilliant at all.
a good horror movie might just shock well without a good story. this doesn't. you see pictures flying around. knocking over and over again, doors opening, chairs moving. so when you do s**t like this it better be scary or it will later explain the story. but it doesn't either.
it all doesn't make sense in so many ways.
don't think the acting is bad. i think the directing and writing is bad. seems like they were supposed to behave totally irrational for the scenes. the dialogues wouldn't happen in real life.
for the good parts, the screenplay and sound was OK, which doesn't change a bad movie into a good one.
for anyone who wants to see real good psycho horror, go watch session 9, orphan or tales of two sisters (korean original). real masterpieces.
La casa muda (2010)
pure boredom for people with a brain
what i was expecting hearing a movie from uruquay, after a lot of great Spanish horror movies was good enough, that Americans made a remake of it.
so i sat down watching the movie and tried to get what this movie wanted to deliver. but just after starting the movie i felt kind of awkward about the girl's weird behaviour, the endless long shooting of film when there is nothing happening and a terrible shaky camera. sure here some people would now say, that this is the beauty of that movie . but if there is no story, no depth, no activity at all in a movie and you do all that, then you just created the most boring movie you can imagine.. when the girl in the movie heard voices, saw her father being murdered, saw her father's position changed, saw the killer or meets her affair her reaction is completely unnatural and failed to deliver any authentic feeling to the viewer. AH of course now is a good time to say that i am just too stupid to get the ending and that she actually killed everyone. you people are so easy to manipulate if that is so... i don't know how many movies i've watched with the same twist to clean up a bad movie and make you think that you are the idiot and not the people who created the movie. even she killed them her emotions would look a lot different.
well back to the movie:
-girl walking around in the house in slow motion, having an incredible interest in looking at every piece of equipment. -girl's father died and his body is changing rooms many times in the movie. -girl walking around in the house in slow motion, having an incredible interest in looking at every piece of equipment. -girl happily found the key to get outside -girl running outside and sees a creepy girl -girl happily meets her friend (later you know her affair) -girl can not answer the question of "where is your father?" and says "i don't know", later to be revealed to be the "brilliant" twist of this unworthy movie. -girl doesn't want to go back to the house but the guy is eager and doesn't care about the blood on her dress -then inside the house the girl is happy to be back in the house and starts to space up looking at house equipment. -girl's affair suddenly disappeared -girl finds her affair and he pretends to be dead -girl is actually starting to talk and we are all happy knowing that the whole thing we saw is just pure fiction of the girl's mind ....
...end
acting: just a really stupid idea to give a amateur actress a role where she has to act out her emotions non-stop through a whole movie, where she completely failed.
screenplay: in general just a guy holding a camera and walking behind the girl the whole movie.
dialogue: senseless and stupid even if you are happy with the great twist.
atmosphere: sometimes good then again just boring
sound: actually pretty nice and mild use of music and sounds
Thor (2011)
the ugly truth
hey let's make a sh***y movie that the whole world will watch in the cinema since we will promote it beautifully and to guarantee that, we use jokes smaller minded people will laugh about, throw money around for effects, make a love story that girls also agree with boyfriends to watch it and give it a stamp of marvel. marvelous! here you go~ ah what subjective rating is this? right! it is just like the subjective general rating of over 7 for this movie. as long as people are mindless zombies, creative and smart movies can never be really appreciated and people still take a sh***y movie throw money at it to make it sh**² and then guess what? more money for them! SPOILERS
Pyega (2010)
great atmosphere bad ending
usually i don't write reviews but as someone who really knows about horror movies, especially those who work with suspense and ghosts, i advice to watch that movie and maybe it is best then to stop watching it before the last 10 minutes. like so many times the rating of the others is totally inapropriate for a movie who understands to build up the atmosphere so well and which has decent acting with a lot of scenes that do scare the hell out of you. but for getting a scare you have to go into it, just like every horror movie. that is how our brain works.
so definitely try the movie if you love suspense ghost horror.
+great atmosphere +overall great acting +nicely placed shock scenes
-reveals too much at the end and becomes therefore plump -some scenes tend to get a little too long