I thought Space Jam 2 and GB Afterlife were similar in that they would be much better if left to just tell the story they are telling without the nostalgia interrupting constantly.

Space Jam 2 benefits from Space Jam being actually really quite shit.

In news that will be surprising to nobody the new Munsters trailer looks terrible.  What is perhaps surprising however is exactly how terrible.  The expectation I guess is for something glossy but ultimately clueless.  What we get instead is something that looks like someone made it at home for their Youtube channel. I think that's what they're aiming for - something deliberately a bit cheap and schlocky in the hope that it translates into camp - but based on the trailer alone they haven't really nailed the tone needed to pull that off.  (Or maybe they weren't aiming for that at all, and it's just not very good.)

The Herman Munster impression's pretty competent, and the theme tune's still a classic but...  I think that's all I can say for it.

That does look like typical Rob Zombie fare, in which case I mean terrible

Aye. Poundland Addams Family.

Fucking hell that looks atrocious.

g.man wrote:

Aye. Poundland Addams Family.

It was but it had a certain charm. Fred Gwyne was great.  Fun Fact : Lilly was played by the gorgeous Yvonne de Carlo who played Moses' wife in the Ten Commandements.




as for that modern remake - I can't even bring myself to click on that.

"Carter", from the director of "The Villainess" - looks very much like The Villainess + Hardcore Henry + a bunch of green screen but still kinda fun action (+ zombies? I guess?):

Fuck me I love this movie. I hadn't even fully grasped the storytelling work done with his character.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Fuck me I love this movie. I hadn't even fully grasped the storytelling work done with his character.

Absolutely loved this film. With all my heart. What a wonderful movie. The contrast between typical male archetypes in film and Waymond, highlighted in that video, is superb

Trailer to Nope looks interesting. I'll give it a chance.

Get Out would have been better with a much less spoilery trailer.

Get Out and Us, both low budget horror movies on the Blumhouse label, where a "hit" is a take of £30 mil plus, both made 250mill+ worldwide. That sort of thing for - specifically for a horror audience who can be particularly fickle (hi, DS)- suggests that audience reaction was also massively popular. Think "critical praise more than audience" is a false narrative here.

I quite like Get Out.
I don't get Us. It's not even remotely interesting.

Twilight Zone was dissaponting, love the originals but I didn't even finish this new lot.

Key & Peele has some nice memes but the show was more miss than hit.

Have I covered everything?

I liked Us but thought Get Out was a bit ehh.

regmcfly wrote:

Get Out and Us, both low budget horror movies on the Blumhouse label, where a "hit" is a take of £30 mil plus, both made 250mill+ worldwide. That sort of thing for - specifically for a horror audience who can be particularly fickle (hi, DS)- suggests that audience reaction was also massively popular. Think "critical praise more than audience" is a false narrative here.

I don’t think it’s false narrative exactly but take the point it’s too much of a sweeping statement. I was thinking more about Us where there’s more of a disparity between critical and audience views. It’s not like you’ve never spent money to see a film you don’t like so I don’t think box office can be the sole determining indicator of quality.

Dark Soldier wrote:

I still stand by the stance of him getting a hell of a lot of praise due to his films being centred around black themes in a genre which was, for a long time, shit scared of looking at the angle, and at times was weirdly racist around it.

But taken objectively both films are flawed, quite dull, not creepy and touch on the themes at a simple surface level.

I argued this point when Get Out came out and got lolled at though, so there's that.

Your first paragraph- there's value in that for a large audience. I don't think it is reductive.