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Hey. For some reason the internet doesnât understand what I mean when I say I want a monster movie.
I need an ACTUAL monster movie. I donât want psychological horror. I donât want christian religious themes. I donât want thrillers.
I want a six legged freak of nature that stalks a group of campers and they all die at the end. I want uncanny valley zombies. I want good CGI, and simple scares. Just the creepiest, most terrifying, fucked up monsters you can throw at me. Giant spiders, cryptids, whatever.
Here is a list of movies that scratched my monster itch:
The Ritual
The Thing
Alien
Cabin in the Woods (the ending sucked)
Super 8
A Quiet Place (the first one was better)
Eight Legged Freaks
Spiders
Arachnophobia
The Host
The Monster
The Void
I WANT MONSTERS. GIVE ME MONSTERS!!! recommendations appreciated thank you very much all
edit. we are all so opinionated lol this is cracking me up. creature features are such a personalized genre at this point
second edit. i just watched the descent. in a way i think that was actually the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing horror movie ive seen in a long time. it got a lot right. the blood lake scene was the best part. so creative. and no weird religious or sexual motifs, just fear! the cinematography was excellent and the betrayal in the end was a great moment, although iâm not sure i fully understand the weight or meaning behind it. couple nitpicks about the film, i thought the score could use some work because it doesnât really stick me after watching. maybe some sort of recurring theme to signal danger could be cool? i donât know. also, the creatures totally shouldâve had more limbs or something. with a bigger budget i would LOVE to see the creature designers branch out and really flex their imaginations. i donât know, maybe theyâre more humanoid for a reason though - possibly to parallel the devolving of the spelunkers into animalistic behavior as they struggle to survive and end up competing with one another. just my initial thoughts. lastly i donât really understand the significance of the car crash to any of the charactersâ arcs involved. i genuinely would like this explained to me if someone wants to volunteer. i think this movie is really gorgeous in its own way, although very intense at times, and overall it gets a low 9/10 from me.
jeez i just asked for movie recommendations whatâs your problem
this is one of my all time favorites i donât know how i forgot to add it to the list. like it isnât unique in any way. very generic. but it just does everything so well. itâs a very satisfying watch⊠seen maybe 4 times now
this was it. i watched cloverfield paradox. and then i also watched the one with the aliens in the desert
i didnât find it scary it was just upsetting. not what i like to watch
this one was cool. i like analog stuff a lot.
edit: not the movie i thought we were talking about but im glad to update i am currently 1:06:30 through The Descent
oh yeah i saw this too. just looked at the trailer and i remember watching this a few years ago. it was alright.
exactly. it didnât feel creative or clever or satisfying, it was just like the writers set themselves up with an impossible task - save the world - and then gave up.
it just felt disappointing. as soon as the credits rolled I remember going, âthatâs IT?â just seemed like a weird place to end the story and kind of anticlimactic.
no but i really want to! just got back in town from university, so i have to make an appointment with the theater :)
yeah no i thought it was great. at the same time, i did ask for scary monsters, and most of what i remember from 28 days later isnât even related to the zombies. i get that zombie movies typically are more about bands of survivors and finding allies and such but, like, i still want some zombie action you know
28 days later was good but it was so slow. my friends fell asleep halfway through. i wasnât scared though. just thought it was interesting
oh god splice was awful. havenât seen the relic though thank you
itâs just like. i donât really care about the characters? it felt like the writers didnât know where to go with what they had created so they kind of took the easiest way out. like they had set themselves up for a simultaneously very dramatic yet painfully anticlimactic conclusion. narratively, it justâŠ.. very slowly lost its tension. but not in an especially pleasing or well-thought-out way.
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thank you kindly.