Also whilst on 2022, one of the better horror-comedies that have come out of this year is The Blackening aka 'We can't all die first', a slasher/Saw sort of movie with a mostly black cast. really good cast and writing. I laughed out loud quite a few times at both the characters and some great lines, and this is not an out-and-out comedy.
If you're interested, I cohosted this podcast about 2022 horror, where it's mostly me talking about 50+ horror movies from 2022:
Candy Land is mentioned about 18mins 20 seconds in
Thanks for the link, put it on my watch later list cheers.
I still haven't seen The Blackening but keep meaning to check it out, I always confuse it with Meet The Blacks. Thanks for the heads up on You Won't Be Alone, I always have my eye out for foreign horror, last good ones I seen were The Trip, Incantation (which for netflix films were actually really good) and The Sadness from Taiwan, which rips a few other films off but is still an entertaining gorefest.
Thanks for the link, put it on my watch later list cheers.
I still haven't seen The Blackening but keep meaning to check it out, I always confuse it with Meet The Blacks. Thanks for the heads up on You Won't Be Alone, I always have my eye out for foreign horror, last good ones I seen were The Trip, Incantation (which for netflix films were actually really good) and The Sadness from Taiwan, which rips a few other films off but is still an entertaining gorefest.
BTW, I did the movies alphabetically, so you can find You Won't Be Alone nearer the end. Or use that knowledge to find movies you want to listen about (so the Blackening is near the start). We did actually talk the most about Candy Land, IIRR, at least 10 minutes.
It was one of the best of 2022 for me and I thought it was better than X, which I also liked, so I'm also really looking forward to Maxxxine, nice cast too. Haave you seen Candlyland (2022) yet? Highly recommended if you haven't.
Other recent ones I enjoyed were When Evil Lurks, Smile, Talk to Me, Fresh and Venus. I also had an absolute blast with Malignant, although it's a polarising film but I thought it was awesome fun and a great homage to those batshit nuts Italian horrors of the 70s/80s.
I really liked Talk To Me. It really stayed with me: for the rest of the night I had a creepy feeling, which is pretty unusual for me.
I wanted to see Malignant when it came out, but I didn't get to the theater in time and then forgot about it. Need to check it out.
Malignant is absolutely nuts and I reckon it could go either way with anyone watching it. I personally loved it but would completely understand if others thought it sucked, so again could go either way with you. If you're in any way familiar with Italian horror, then you should have fun with it.
Not for the faint of heart, but incredibly ballsy and original. This film will haunt you.
This garnered some discussion on the old IMDB horror message board with multiple interpretations of its conclusion. What's your interpretation?
Mine is that
Spoiler:
Anna really did see some form of afterlife as we see the transformation in her eyes, like all the others. But as a form of revenge she tells her tormentor that there's nothing when whispering in her ear. That's why the Madamoiselle says "keep doubting" before killing herself.
But it's open to different takes I reckon, and this made the film kinda frustrating for me as philosophically it was quite ambitious, more so than many other torture themed horrors and I felt the
The Coffee Table (2022) This is a Spanish horror-comedy film that has gotten some good reviews. Horror master Stephen King recently said of the pitch-black tragicomedy, “My guess is you have never, not once in your whole life, seen a movie as black as this one. It’s horrible and also horribly funny.” I found that the comedy moments were actually funny to me. Unfortunately they made the horror moments especially disturbing, not in good way. Don't let this film's innocuous title fool you. Do not watch.