Rate The Last Movie You Saw

I like bleak British flicks

You're an enigma, cat_sidhe.

Originally Posted by the samoan lawyer


Only every day of my life.

Believe me, the Last Jedi makes the Force Awakens look real good.

Mother! (2017)


A marmite film if ever I seen one. And I thought it was brilliant. I 100% recommended going in blind to this one as it really is a head trip. I had a rough idea what I was expecting it to be but it played out completely different. Jennifer Lawrence plays the part so well and although Bardem was good, there really wasn't that much for him to 'act'. The cameos were once again totally unexpected but worked brilliantly. Much more psychological than your typical horror, throughout the film I sensed vibes of Bunuel, Polanski and Kubrick, although I'll not mention what films. Its tense from start to finish with a real feel of claustrophobia and despite it not being particularly gory, there are several scenes that are pretty close to the bone, particularly the final scenes.


I loved the allegory behind it all and for me it totally worked. The only Aronofsky I haven't seen yet is Noah but as it stands this is as good as anything else he's made. Cant wait to watch it again.

Great isn't it. It's hard to see what other director still working would have accomplished what Aronofsky does here.

Oh and yes to Winstead. She's mightily awesome in Fargo.

In the Mouth of Madness


This movie was fantastic, Lovecraftian in every way, but let's start from somewhere.
When we are shown at the start that our main character is in a horrible situation, then we get thrown into the past in order to see how this normal, intelligent human being became (what is considered by the doctors) insane and locked up. Those are moments I cherish, so instead of surprising you by hiding where character gets in the end, they surprise you by showing you the end and letting you imagine everything in between, while throwing surprises at your fully working detective brain that is trying to solve the puzzle, small but significant change that fits this psychological sub-genre very well. Especially when Neill pulls this so perfectly, just look at him at the start, through the middle and near the end, (in)sanity shows in his eyes, it can be heard in his voice, just a great performance overall, it was even harder to be this convincing when you look at the budget and the world this movies takes place in.
Others were average at their roles well... Besides Julie Carmen, there are no bad actors expect her, she is seriously lacking here, with only few words that seem like acting, everything else is on a Spanish Soap Opera level.
Story itself is Lovecraftian to its core, beings we cannot even start to comprehend, main character going from a very stable, sane and educated person, to full blown insanity over the course of the story.
Horror is a mixed bag, it uses some classical jump-scares, but not very often, other things they manage to pull off is atmospheric horror, for example those scenes on the road, very disturbing.
One thing where it lacks is time, it would benefit from being longer in order to fully explore some other aspects of the story, it is about one hour and thirty minutes long, addition of twenty to thirty more minutes would be fantastic. Highlighting town folk, town itself, all these objects and who Sutter Cane is, why is he doing this and so on.
It needs you to stay in it, maybe even more than one watch in order to fully understand, it is an intelligent movie that will play tricks on you. Ending itself is really... Well not important, as this is not a movie about endings, if you are familiar with HP Lovecraft you are probably already aware how this one ends. This was a great experience in my book, sadly movies as this one are not big cash cows and are not made that often.

Verdict: 8.5

Was your copy with booming sound followed by whispery voices, Khan? We couldnt watch ours. One minute leaning into the tv the next being blown off the lounge. I thought this was a recent thing...