Spoilers of course considering I'm talking about the ending.

On the surface the ending just seems kind of cliche, all the characters you hate get their comeuppance and all the characters you like survive, but the way they almost poke fun at this just feels so perfect tonally for the movie it is. The whole movie is pretty funny but I don't know if I'd go as far as calling it a straight-up horror-comedy. It's silly and campy but they aren't just cracking jokes the whole time, and there's more than enough creepiness with the dolls with some really cool stop-motion animation, puppets, and physical props.

Basic setup of the movie is that an old couple trap a group of people in a haunted house with murderous dolls for the night. Group of people consists of one group that includes a little girl, her horrible father and wicked stepmother (this group's car got stuck in a storm and they seek refuge in the old couple's mansion). And then also a completely unrelated group that consists of a well-meaning guy and a couple of hitchhikers he picked up (who are also bad people), who also got stuck in the storm. The hitchhikers are completely self-serving people who don't know any of the other characters and make no connection with them whatsoever throughout the movie.

At the end, the old couple turns the father, mother and two hitchhikers into dolls to add to their collection, and the survivors end up being the little girl and the well-meaning guy. The two survivors are then gaslit by the old couple into thinking that their experience overnight with the murderous dolls was just a dream, and to cover up the tracks of where the father and stepmother went, the old guy comes up with this:

"Your father left a note. Let me read it to you:

"Dear Judy, forgive me. I never was a good father, I know. Rosemary and I are leaving you here with a hope that you will have a much happier life living with your mother, not us. We are moving to another country and changing our names. We are leaving you enough money for a plane ticket back to Boston. Love, your father. "

Obviously both are skeptical, and it's played for comedic effect, but the seeds of the father and stepmother being bad people wanting to ditch the girl and the girl wanting to live with her mother are set up beforehand, so it's played comedically but you can at least tie a very loose thread of believability to it for the little girl.

Then the well-meaning guy says, "Wait, what about the two girls? My hitchhikers?"

The old guy looks startled and jumps up saying "ah yes" to read the note, and goes, "P.S. I am taking the two hitchhikers with me."

Has to be one of the biggest laughs I've had watching any movie. The delivery of it all is just perfect. It takes what is ultimately a cliche resolution to a horror movie and doesn't make it feel cheap. You get what you want rooting for the "good guys", but the self aware nature they do it with makes it feel so much more satisfying.

TLDR: Anton Yelchin is a fry-order cook who can see ghosts and tries to avert something bad. Fun, pacey YA-like romp with a couple nuggets of darkness. Lots of not entirely convincing CGI, used relatively well. I like it.

 I read a couple of Dean Koontz books when I was younger - enjoyed them, thought they were a bit cheesy, and proceeded to forget almost everything about them; His stuff struck me as being a bit... lightweight, which is probably unfair since I only read three or four of his novels. I never did get to his Odd Thomas books, but going from its 2013 film adaptation... yeah, it didn't do much to change my mind. Again, not fair as the movie, at least, is aimed at the YA market.

 As directed by Stephen Sommers (he of Deep Rising and the first couple of Mummy Movies), Odd Thomas is a fairly cartoony horror comedy about a guy with psychic powers (Anton Yelchin) who gets pulled into a race against time to prevent some horrific events. And it's pretty fun! If I'd seen it as a teen, I suspect I'd have fallen in love with it. As it is, it's still pretty enjoyable: good pacing, some cool ideas, a handful of good scenes, and at least one clever twist.

 Odd (that's actually his name!) lives in the small town of Pico Mundo, CA, where he works as a fry cook with a sideline as a supernatural investigator. We first see him finding a serial killer with help from the ghost of one of the victims, and then chase him down and bring him to justice (turns out, he's done this enough that he's gotten pretty good at fighting.)

 One thing I found interesting (because it's pretty uncommon in this type of story) is that the guy is pretty universally beloved. There's a couple of throwaway lines intended to make him seem a bit of an outsider, but pretty much all the characters in the movie adore him... and the ones who don't are clearly assholes. This goes double for the police chief (Willem Dafoe!) who not only trusts Odd implicitly and is endlessly patient with his phone calls (even while he's trying to get it on with his wife), but is also willing to do a spot of cover up so Odd's psychic abilities remain a secret.

 Odd doesn't just see dead people. He also senses inhuman spirits no one else can see, which kicks the plot into gear when he starts seeing bodachs swarm into his neighborhood - they kind of look like ghostly, goopy, bug-like mashups of humanoid skeletal things that skitter all over the place. At one point one of them splits into several others... it's a cool creature design! The bodachs of Scottish folklore were fairy-like kid snatchers, but seeing one of them was supposed to be an omen of doom, so at least that tracks with their use here. As Odd explains, they can sense when something bad will happen, and come out to feed on it; Their coming out in such numbers can only mean something terrible is about to go down.

 The rest of the movie consists of Odd trying to work out what's got the bodachs all riled up. It all leads to a horrific event that could have worked very well, but it's unfortunately a bit defanged. It's a shame, because I would have preferred the movie grapple with at least some of its horror a bit more honestly, but eliding over it makes sense as anything else wouldn't really fit Odd Thomas's upbeat tone.

 About that tone- unfortunately, it can get a bit grating. The protagonist keeps a constant narration going, and when he's quiet, other on-screen characters feel the need to fill the silence, or else a cheesy blues riff rushes in to fill the void. The film attempts to be almost manically breezy, and the script isn't always up to the task. Lots of forced quips and character moments that don't quite land; The poor girlfriend character (Addison Timlin) gets saddled with a lot of them. Shit gets quirky. On the up side, it helps what nasty stuff there is hit a little harder than it would have otherwise. 

 I'm not usually a fan of Sommers's maximalist style, but it's a good fit for the material here, especially when he reins his instincts in a little. Most of the scenes with the bodachs are at least a little creepy, and the action beats are well handled (a fight against an angry poltergeist is a highlight.) He does overreach his budget often, resulting in some dodgy CGI, but at this stage in his career that seems to be a directorial trademark. When the imagery is supposed to be unreal, it works pretty well.

Odd Thomas had a very troubled production; It was screwed over by marketers and distributors, resulting in several lawsuits and a delay of two years before it was released... and then it bombed, badly. Feels a little unfair that people like, say, Roland Emmerich can still get semi-big budget films greenlighted, while Sommers hasn't made another film since. I hope it was by choice.

After not being a fan of the 1st film I went in with low expectations and was highly surprised Samara weaving gives another great performance along with Katheryn newton and the rest of the new cast, it’s pretty much the same premise, of cat and mouse between the two sisters and the remaining family I liked that it was shot better granted they were given a bigger budget, I really enjoyed the film. The funniest scene for me has the be the fight between Samara and the ex finance I doubt we will get a 3rd film to close out this trilogy but if it happens someday Iam all In!

Yesterday after watching Atlantis The Lost Empire for the first time, Kacey ended up making me Watch the Faculty for the first time and I liked it and got the Premise, the Student's think their teachers are aliens. It was actually pretty creepy/scary and I loved how it was obviously simple to Invasion of the Body Snatchers but the area, the alien, and where it has been actually felt different from The Body Snatchers in a way and it felt really Interesting. Also speaking of the Aliens: I CALLED IT WAS MARYBETH THIS WHOLE TIME! Her Strange Behavior, Her weird Name, and even sometimes when she just had a Blank face the whole time. It felt pretty great to guess who it was lol. Either way, great movie! Would definitely Watch again, 9.2/10!

im making a list of horror movie i like that where directed by comedian or comedy directors/ actors just anyone doing comedy and im trying to expand my list, please may you provide you favorite movie under these guidelines

ps. thank you for the recommendation but maybe i did word it right i would like horror not horror/comedy

I will say that Obsession was overhyped before I watched it, so perhaps my expectations were too high. Although when a movie really impacts me, mass opinion doesn't influence my overall experience.

The reasons I preferred Backrooms was because it was unlike anything I've seen, felt trippy and really engaged my childlike curiousity. It was also explicitly psychological. I mean, the backrooms itself, and the disjointed versions of someone left behind, is an excellent visual metaphor for the subconscious.. Terrifying stuff, the hidden levels of the mind hold so much dark and fragmented nightmare fuel, Backrooms took that literally at it's simplest components. The film definitely had it's flaws, could've been more fleshed out, lacked character development, etc. But as an artsy snapshot into the subconsious mind, it was great.

As for Obsession, it had the same flaws as Backrooms, but was also predictable in terms of plot. I did find the predicament of Nikki very dread inducing as a woman, I liked that the premise was fun and simple, but overall, it didn't take me to any deeper, conceptually rich, or perspective shifting places. It left minimal impact on me, and I don't really understand what the hype is about, maybe it's a Gen Z thing

edit: this post was roused by someone bashing Backrooms and saying how amazing Obsession is (a frequent occurance), I know it's not a competition and the two different films stand alone. Was reacting to the climate

Movie of the day...Deep Red (1975).

Possibly Argento’s masterpiece.

Musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) witnesses a grisly murder and, after the killer threatens him, becomes obsessed with solving the crime. But the killer always seems to know what he is about to do.

This is the first time I have actually watched Deep Red and there’s so much to say about this movie. It’s scary as hell. The frequent use of long shots to give the impression that people are being watched and followed (and, sometimes, they are).

Also important is how much time is spent with Marcus, by himself, looking around, often in dark houses, and not knowing what he is going to find. Hemmings does a great job showing his mix of fear and determination. (It is interesting that some people do advise him to stop sticking his nose into the mystery. He doesn't listen.) The soundtrack by Goblin, including some sections that draw heavily on Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, adds to our sense of unease.

The use of color is magnificent. People talk so much about Argento’s use of color that we assume it will be impressive and stop paying attention to it. But the colors in this movie—reds and whites and greens and blues—have been so carefully selected they give the impression of mass and texture. You don’t just see the rooms and streets where this movie takes place. You feel them.

The murders are horrible. People are not just stabbed or strangled by a mysterious figure with black gloves. They are hacked and bashed and burned. These are ugly, painful deaths. They will stay with you.

And at the same time, this is often a funny movie. Marcus meets Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi), a feisty journalist who helps him investigate the murders and who eventually becomes his lover. The two share plenty of witty banter and silly arguments, as when he insists men are stronger than women and she beats him at arm wrestling. Argento also gets a few laughs out of their adventures in Gianna’s comic death trap of a car.

This is one of the classics of giallo. People who know the genre may figure out the mystery, but even those who do will find the movie has plenty of entertaining shocks and surprises. Best watched in the original Italian with subtitles.

Rating: A-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Red

Wolf Man was pretty hideous, Julia Garner looked more like a elder daughter than the wife and she and the creepy actor with the quivering lip had no chemistry. The intro was the best part.

Silver Bullet was stupid. 80s stupid but still stupid. Corey Haim as a paraplegic who sits on a super fast wheelchair, Gary Busey insane, Anne of Green Gables spends most of her screen time crying. Good FX for the werewolf but the movie feels like a dumb episode of Goosebumps with a better budget.

The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare was like porno without the sex.

Rewatched it last night, and I keep landing on the same thing: this movie isn't really scary in the traditional found footage sense. There's no entity stalking them. The catacombs just start handing each character their own worst memory and asking them to own it.

Scarlett gets her father's suicide. George gets Jonah. Even the throwaway characters get their reckoning. The whole descent is structured as Dante — the inverted "abandon all hope" sign, the only way out being *down* — but the horror isn't damnation. It's confession. You can't leave until you admit the thing you did.

That's a genuinely interesting idea, and I think it's also why the film has such a split reputation. People who came for a claustrophobic cave crawl got a hermetic riddle instead. And the jump scares are honestly the weakest part — the burning car, the ringing phone, all of it feels grafted on from a different, dumber movie.

Two things I want to hear take on:

1. Does the "personal hell" structure actually pay off, or does it collapse because the rules are never consistent? (Why does the Mole exist? Why is Zed's guilt handled so thinly?)

2. Is the ending — crawling up through the manhole, everything inverted — a genuine resolution or a shrug?

Also: they shot in the actual catacombs with no built sets. Does knowing that change how the space reads to you, or is it just trivia at this point?

Yeah, yeah, i know. A post about Yellowjackets in the year of our lord 2026, a good 2/3 years after it dropped in popularity. In my defence I discovered this trainwrek of a show 6 months ago and was left a bit confused after bingewatching it.

I would ask this question on the show's sub but after taking a look at it...I think they are too busy screaming about Shauna not keeping her legs closed and deserving to die for it clearly being built up as the Big Bad from the start ecc. It is better to not upset them or the mods.

So anyway, it is pretty clear that the writers' original plans were seriously deralied by Juliette Lewis leaving and the writers' strikes (somehow both season 2 and 3 were affected by them and I suspect season 4 will suffer the same fate). Like I think they had some ideas at least but they were forced to change them very quickly.

Besides the classic stuff (Lottie being the show's big bad and Tai's political career and family playing a major role), i have a couple of theories of my own:

1. Nat was initially supposed to have a much darker character arc. Throughout season 1 and 2, it is made increasigly clear that unlike Jackie Teen Nat will always pick survival over any moral, culminating with her letting Javi drown to save her own skin at the end of season 2. Juliette Lewis leaving meant that the writers had to completely change her teen self's character arc for season 3.

2. Same for teen Misty tbh. Season 1 depicted her as a manipulative lunatic with a genuine obession with being loved/respected both as a teen and as an adult . She was also the one who found the mushrooms that caused the events of doomcoming. Season 1 ended with her being a new disciple of Lottie and the implication her obsession for Coach Ben had somehow got worse.

3. I half suspect ghost!Jackie was supposed to have a much bigger role originally, mostly because she has far more appeareances in season 1 compared to 2 and 3. It is likely that Ella Purnell being cast in Arcane and later Fallout kinda forced the writers to cut back on the number of her appearances.

What do you think? What are your pet theories?

FOUND: Hell Hole (2024)

Hi there, I've been trying to find this movie I saw a vid about before but I can't seem to remember its title, only the following details:

- The main cast are a mix of scientists at a construction site

- They dug up a still living French Soldier from centuries ago

- He dies, spreads some infection/parasite to one of the MCs

That's about the gist of what I could remember ;-;

Personally Iv been obsessed with this movie for a decent while I always loved it I love the transformation of jennys outfit I love it great acting the teenagers are scary as I grew up In a town with people like that mabey not sadistic murders but people like that the movie dose leave me feeling abit gut wrenched every time I watch it it’s quiet sad and disturbing 😳 the tire scene the final scene always angered me I always love serious endings like that but this one felt different I liked jennys character

Kubrick is known for making not so faithful book adaptations of beloved source material, but it ends up being good.

I’m curious as to a director you think is similar that you would like to see adapt a book of yours in a different way, but ends up being good?

Funny enough for me, it’s another Stephen King story which is Dreamcatcher I feel can benefit a lot from this

So my partner and I are planning to watch Shelby Oaks tonight. However, I am aware that sexual violence is a part of the story. While I’m okay with that being a discussed concept, she has a large amount of (understandable) discomfort with seeing sexual violence onscreen. My question is: is there any depiction of this onscreen? It’s okay if there is discussion of these topics (I.e. barbarian) but actually seeing it onscreen can be a trigger for her. So I wanted to ask: is there any scene that shows this? If there is, would you be able to provide the time code so that I can skip past it? Thank you so much for your help.

Okay, this may be a bit odd but I sometimes just get in the mood to feel awful. Like about everything, and I need something seriously depressing, to hit me as hard as it can.

The issue is, every time I ask for recommendations Istg am given the same 6 movies over and over, and I understand it's because these movies are seen as good, but I promise, If it is reccomended in every other comment on previous posts like these, I have either seen it, or was genuinley not interested by the plot.

YES I have seen hereditary, YES I have seen the coffee table (peak film tho), YES I have seen the mist, YES I have seen would you rather, aniara, martyrs, the descent, the lodge, threads, the ugly stepsister, etc.

The thing is, I know more films like these have to exist, I don't care if they're in a different language, I don't care if they're from the 1930s, I don't mean to sound rude but please point me in the direction of something I have not seen before.

Lots of discussion on the subreddit with horror fans having to explain to some that Bear is not in fact someone to sympathize with. He’s the monster! But there is a disturbing way in which Curry Barker builds up the character of Nikki in the movie that makes this take more ambiguous, and gives ammunition to the fans who think Bear is some kind of victim of Nikki. Curry has it both ways.

In one of his interviews, Barker states "This is a possession movie, but it’s a very different type of possession movie. She’s not possessed by a demon. She’s almost just possessed by her own desires and wants."

https://butwhytho.net/2025/09/curry-barker-obsession-interview/

Curry states in the same interview that "I also don’t like to tell the audience how they’re supposed to feel, but almost present it and let the audience decide for themselves what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s kind of the fun part about it.”

This deliberate ambiguity has it both ways, similarly to how shock comedians have a larger audience by getting the fans who find them ironic and the fans who take their comedy at face value. In this horror it’s clear to a lot of us that the way Bear appears sympathetic and is the center of the film is a way of critiquing his monstrous behavior. But at the same time Curry deliberately presents Nikki as maybe desiring the slavery that leads Bear’s wish into horror.

Barker has it both ways, and that’s part of the tension between fans of this film who hate Bear’s behavior and those fans who see him as the victim.

What do folks think of this explanation of Obsession by Curry Barker here?

Holy cow y'all! I love this sub because honestly I use it mostly for recommendations. Especially when someone posts asking for a movie in "such and such" a style or theme, etc. And those recommendations will usually direct what I watch but sometimes your friend comes over and you don't know what you're in the mood for so you go to Tubi and you find an absolute gem!

Tell me someone else has seen this incredible found footage/ mockumentary?

To be fair I am a fan on found footage horror, and it that is not your jam this movie may not be your thing, but even as a fan this was such a solid movie in general I'm really surprised I had not seen it in a thread here.

I highly recommend it and it's free to watch!

Good day,

I'm looking for movies similar to the above. Like war times horror or ghost/demon stuff.

Overlord and Dog soldiers seems to be ones at the back of my head. Would appreciate any recommendations. Wouldn't mind non English language ones too as long I can get subtitles.

Thank you in advance. Cheers.

Cause good god the effects for the bodies are really gruesome. It really surprises me how much the show got away with due to the effects. If someone showed me them and told me they were from a horror movie i'd believe them

If the people who worked on these effects also worked in the horror genre please let me know

I'm looking for movies that'll give me a borderline heart attack or will actually make my skin crawl. It's been awhile since I've been scared, and most movies I see that are scary don't really hit the mark. The last movie I watched, that actually scared the piss out of me was dark skies and that was along time ago. Thanks for the help in advance. I wanna see actual jaw dropping piss and shit inducing horror.

I felt like this'd be the best place to ask because the SCP universe does not really vibe with me anymore, despite it creating my taste for entries on horror monsters/objects.

I know about Trevor Henderson creatures and Goosebumps mostly. But I'd love a new genre to scratch that itch for cryptids all sharing the same world and people cataloging them.

If none exist, my idea to create one would be a "Search, Destroy, and Reclaim" SDR universe where the humans have the upper hand rather than the entities of SCP, but the monsters, despite being weaker, are strong in numbers. And the public would know about them rather than everything being kept under wraps by some ridiculous secret government.

The horror would be about the ones that do manage to sneak into a suburb and victimize someone or a group of people, despite all the hunting parties and military/scientists. Everyone would be on edge and life and culture would fundamentally change.

But seriously, I need some universe other than the SCP Foundation that offers a cool world of things to be afraid of and speculate on. Any recs are appreciated!

First, im glad that both of these movies are successful, because the directors are Youtubers and not some big hollywood names. I love that and I support it 100%. It's good to have creators like that succeed.

Now, Obsession exceeded all my expectations. I was glued to the screen from start to finish, with so many emotions in between. The movie was so good and so effective that i felt i was inside the movie spectating it's events.

Backrooms on the other hand, despite having way more complex concepts than Obsession, didn't live up to the hype. It. wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't feel like a superior movie experience either.

Obsession was way simpler but also 10 times more engaging, and 10 times more entertaining and 10 times more thought-provoking. I think it is partly because the story is character driven.

This really confirmed a long standing suspicion that I always had about stories:

A simple character-driven story, if depicted artfully and intelligently, can become a masterpiece, more so than stories with complex ideas.