SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's pick the Week 103 movie!

Sherdog Movie Club: Let's pick the Week 103 movie!

  • A Dark Song

  • The Ritual

  • Gerald's Game

  • The Devil's Candy

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MusterX said:
There are two things I always check. Run times for all 4 films, and scores across IMDb, Meta, and RT. It can be very helpful to know when you narrow it down to 2 films and one of them is universally a 48 across all 3 platforms and the other is a 78. When that many people agree you have to take that into account when selecting a film, at least I do. The Ritual was definitely the lowest of the four on all 3 rating sites.
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Jesus Christ. I don't even watch the previews. Just go with my gut on something I haven't seen.
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
Jesus Christ. I don't even watch the previews. Just go with my gut on something I haven't seen.
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HAHA, yea, I try to make a good choice. I don't expect everyone to vet the films the way I do.
 
MusterX said:
Let me know how that is because I may end up watching 2 or 3 of these this week. Probably should have before now anyway.
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Cubo de Sangre said:
This is my first time being the only person to select a film. To many that indicates maybe making a mistake. Curious to hear your opinion after watching both.
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I will let you guys know what's up. About 20 mins in so far.

Initial observations: Carla Gugino is still super-hot, even at 46. And 61-year-old Bruce Greenwood looks like he's obviously on TRT.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
I will let you guys know what's up. About 20 mins in so far.

Initial observations: Carla Gugino is still super-hot, even at 46. And 61-year-old Bruce Greenwood looks like he's obviously on TRT.
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That movie reviewed well man. I also thought the same thing in the preview, that he looked ripped for his age.

I can tell you a half hour into A Dark Song, if I had to describe it with one word then I would choose oppressive.
 
MusterX said:
I can tell you a half hour into A Dark Song, if I had to describe it with one word then I would choose oppressive.
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That's exactly the sense I got from the trailer. Just seemed like the kind of movie where you'd walk away feeling depressed and shitty.
 
Finished it, @MusterX and @Cubo de Sangre.

It was okay. I didn't love it.

The story is essentially that of a woman coming to terms with a particular childhood trauma that she experienced. My biggest issue is that for much of the film it simply feels like not a lot is happening.

It's bolstered by Gugino's superb performance, but that was not enough to keep me from getting bored at about the 45 minute mark and really feeling like I was having to dig in and power through at about the 1:15 mark.

For most of the film I felt like I was watching about a 6/10, but I thought it wrapped up in a fairly satisfying way in the last 20 minutes, so I guess a 6.5 seems appropriate.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Finished it, @MusterX and @Cubo de Sangre.

It was okay. I didn't love it.

The story is essentially that of a woman coming to terms with a particular childhood trauma that she experienced. My biggest issue is that for much of the film it simply feels like not a lot is happening.

It's bolstered by Gugino's superb performance, but that was not enough to keep me from getting bored at about the 45 minute mark and really feeling like I was having to dig in and power through at about the 1:15 mark.

For most of the film I felt like I was watching about a 6/10, but I thought it wrapped up in a fairly satisfying way in the last 20 minutes, so I guess a 6.5 seems appropriate.
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Yea I watched A Dark Song last night. It started the first 45 minutes great, building on the idea of impending doom and then just inexplicably goes off the rails for the second half. I have no idea why the director chose to do what he did. He was working toward a climatic and dark ending and then just said nah, I'm going to trash this film for no apparent reason. There was a chance for the director to make something kinda special and instead he ended up wrecking all the work he put in for the first half. I guess 6.5 out of 10 as well.
 
We have a winner!

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We have a winner! I mentioned that I have only seen one of these four movies that MusterX nominated -- and it's this one! I also mentioned that I thought it was fantastic -- and I stand by that statement!

Members: @shadow_priest_x @europe1 @MusterX @Scott Parker 27 @the muntjac @Cubo de Sangre @sickc0d3r @chickenluver @FrontNakedChoke @AndersonsFoot @Tufts
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
Jesus Christ. I don't even watch the previews. Just go with my gut on something I haven't seen.
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Don't try to act all coy and shit. You saw a woman tied to a bed looking frightened and distraught and you went for it. We know you vote for the pervy shit, Cubo. ;)

the muntjac said:
I can't really think of any great movie theater experiences right now
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I definitively had that with Blade Runner 2049

My mate got us some premier tickets. I was so happy that I started breakdancing right on the subway. Then I realized that it started at 23:59 on a Thursday... I tried explaining to my friend what a workday is but he shifted his head to the side and looked as confused as a perplexed bulldog.

That said, watching Blade Runner 2049 was just awesome, real horrorshow. It was totally worth being a zombie the very next day at work.
 
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shadow_priest_x said:
Me too.

If nothing else I'd like to go back to the time when the Internet was a thing, but it wasn't dominating all of modern life. It's just become this overwhelming, unstoppable force that often feels like it has just as many negatives as positives.
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I was just thinking now that because of youtube, the practice of tape-trading is dead. Documentaries like Winnebago Man and Shut Up Little Man both featured people making copies of VHS tapes and cassette tapes and passing them off to their friends/family. I don't think today's youth will understand the fun and mystery of being handed blank tapes with weird shit like a guy cursing during a Winnebago shoot. Your friend would say, "My brother's friend has this funny tape of two old guys yelling at each other," and all you think about is wanting to see this tape. Hoping one day your life will cross paths with this unknown magic of plastic and film. There was so much more lore behind stuff like this back in those days. Now, everything is so instantaneous because of the internet and youtube, and I feel that mysterious wondering and waiting is lost on the youth. Yet, here I am with a youtube channel. I'm such a walking contradiction.

And don't even get me started on porn.
 
europe1 said:
Don't try to act all coy and shit. You saw a woman tied to a bed looking frightened and distraught and you went for it. We know you vote for the pervy shit, Cubo. ;)
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What are you saying? That it's not really my gut I'm listening to? :cool:
 
MusterX said:
Yea I watched A Dark Song last night. It started the first 45 minutes great, building on the idea of impending doom and then just inexplicably goes off the rails for the second half. I have no idea why the director chose to do what he did. He was working toward a climatic and dark ending and then just said nah, I'm going to trash this film for no apparent reason. There was a chance for the director to make something kinda special and instead he ended up wrecking all the work he put in for the first half. I guess 6.5 out of 10 as well.
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Indeed. I looked up the audience reviews on RT for A Dark Song and one said this:

A dark stool. This movie is less about horror and more about some creepy fat Jewish guy tormenting and sexually abusing a vulnerable, mentally disturbed Christian woman for an hour and forty minutes. See him scream at her, make her strip so he can masturbate at her, make her shave his disgusting back, even drown her. How the heck is this rated 91%? Lousy movie.
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So when I read that, I was pretty much busting one of these:


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In any case, that's two of the four movies down, neither of which we were particularly enthusiastic about.

I would be curious about your reaction to Gerald's Game, though. It would be interesting to see if you enjoy it more than I did.
 
We’re watching the non-found footage version of Blair Witch Project?

Okay, so we were talking about special movie theater moments, right? Well, I remember my friend and I being dropped off by his mother to go see The Blair Witch Project, and both of us were geeked to see it. The promotional build up must have done wonders on us, but hey, we were only 14-years-old at the time. We were the first two into the theater, so we got prime seats. I remember we were taking a count on everyone that came in after us because we were just excited that so many other people were showing up.

The movie starts, and over the course of the runtime, I become more and more bored. When it was over, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so letdown by a movie before. My friend and I were both so dejected.

This Family Guy joke could not be truer to me.


I think this is where my skeptical cynical approach to movies originated, all thanks to The Blair Witch Project. To this day, I’m so jaded by this movie, and I’ve never watched it again. Worst of all, a copy sits amongst my DVD collection because it’s my wife’s. The thought of it makes me want to go all Jack Torrance on her.

So yeah, I’m plenty excited to watch The Ritual this week. :D
 
chickenluver's top 10 horrowshow films

10. Vampyr
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
8. The Thing
7. Psycho
6. A Tale of Two Sisters
5. Let the Right One In
4. The Witch
3. The Shining
2. Frankenstein
1. The Exorcist
 
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