Post by Martin Stett on Jan 25, 2023 17:18:38 GMT
More folk horror movies need sick metal soundtracks. The latest microbudget horror from the writing/directing/acting/editing/photographing/composing/costuming/sound team of the Adams family (John Adams, Tobey Poser, and their daughters Lulu and Zelda - with a special bit part from John Adams Sr.) is a banger of a coming-of-age movie that looks at arthouse A24 horror shit and says "that's cool and all, but do you have witches playing metal music and killing people with magic and shit? No? Then fuck off!" and proceeds to, like, rip the throat out of Saint Maud and use her bones as a fucking drum set.
I mean, the movie is a mess and it's actually pretty slow going, but there's no pretentiousness here. It's a simple tale, simply told, but with such gusto and enthusiasm and no subtext. The very end of the movie made me cackle with sadistic glee, and how often do I get to say that? Not quite as much fun as the family's previous effort (the delightfully grotesque ghost story The Deeper You Dig, which also had a really funny and fucked up ending), but still pretty dang good. A24 and major studios may be trying to strangle the modern horror genre in different ways, but the lifeblood of gnarly horror is still gushing in little indie hits like this.
"Want anything?"
"...Bass strings?"
"You've got it."
I mean, the movie is a mess and it's actually pretty slow going, but there's no pretentiousness here. It's a simple tale, simply told, but with such gusto and enthusiasm and no subtext. The very end of the movie made me cackle with sadistic glee, and how often do I get to say that? Not quite as much fun as the family's previous effort (the delightfully grotesque ghost story The Deeper You Dig, which also had a really funny and fucked up ending), but still pretty dang good. A24 and major studios may be trying to strangle the modern horror genre in different ways, but the lifeblood of gnarly horror is still gushing in little indie hits like this.
"Want anything?"
"...Bass strings?"
"You've got it."
