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Tao chu li fa yuan (2020)
Get the hell out with these bad reviews
Maybe I'm just easily entertained, but this movie was absolutely hilarious. Everyone in the theater was laughing out loud and clapped at the end. Now I don't think this movie is for everyone, especially not refined horror fans, as this is not horror but rather a comedy with lots of blood and zombies. It's not a smart or deep movie but it's entertaining all the way to the end, and even though I only saw it about 3 hours ago I want to rewatch it already. I also thought including memes was really smart, and actually funny and didn't come off as pandering to a younger audience. This movie is a lot like a high school group project not taken seriously, and that's what makes it so good.
Genesis (1998)
good art film
If you have seen Cerda's film "Aftermath" you are sure to like this one. While I thoroughly can enjoy a good gore film, an actual story, good acting and artistic expression is a plus. "Genesis" Is all that. A hauntingly beautiful film in which a man creates a sculpture in the image of his dead wife. It's about mourning and how far people are willing to go for the ones they love. Even when the man notices what is happening he still keeps trying to finish the sculpture with all his might.
Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)
Honest thoughts + people rating it 1 are stupid
I might have been slightly disappointed with A Tale Of Two Sisters as I was expecting a horror flick, maybe something about the stepmother going insane and killing the sisters. What I got was an almost two hour long film with an ending almost impossible to predict. While I liked the twist, there wasn't an amazing buildup. It felt quite clear that someone was dead or nonexistent, the plot twist was finding out who it was. If you look at The Sixth Sense, what makes the twist so good it that it's realistic and makes sense, but also because it's predictable. It makes you want to go through the entire movie again to look for all the clues. With ATOTS there are no clues to tell you about Su-mis DID or that she is impersonating the stepmother. There's also the ghost woman who I assume is the mother as she has long hair (and is dead) but while we see the ghost we have no idea who the mother is or what she looks like, making it impossible to predict the ending. There are also scenes where Su-yeon (the dead girl) is alone but we still se her experiencing things like a normal person, which is a really dumb way to try and make the audience think that she's not dead, as well as make scenes where she interacts with the stepmom/older sister on her own, like when she is locked in the wardrobe. This also, by the end of the movie, ends up feeling like a cheap way of covering up the fact she's dead.
I don't think this movie was complete trash, however and it did have some good aspects story-wise. I liked that there was more than one twist and that you really had to watch til the very end to understand it. It wasn't just "Boom! The younger sister was dead all along! End" there was more to it. I genuinely enjoyed it and many times it had me on the edge of my seat. I just think it could have been put together a little better, and a lot of scenes felt unnecessary and like they were just dragging the film out needlessly.
Besides all this, I've read some of the 1-star reviews and a lot of them are just.... stupid. I also tend to dislike pretentious artsy films, and this was a bit pretentious, but it was still a good movie. I know a lot of people were unsatisfied with it considering how long it was and how little happened. But you should have considered the fact that this isn't really a horror film. There is a long buildup because there is so much more to the characters and the family than you think. As I said in the beginning of this review, I expected this to be a more classic horror, but it wasn't, which was the main reason for my disappointment. But I don't think it's fair to rate this genuinely good movie low because "it's not what you were expecting". If you want something predictable without long scenes go watch a slasher.
Animal Soup (2009)
cringe inducing
This movie was pure garbage. I know it was made for a specific audience that might enjoy this kind of movie, and I'll admit that not every single scene of the movie was cancer. It was funny at some points, but I had to skip practically the entire movie to get to them. I actually do like films that "take things to the extreme", but that was the only thing Animal Soup ever had going for it. When the only thing you can legitimately advertise your movie with is the fact that it's gross, it's probably not a very good movie. Even films like August Underground and A Serbian Film had at least decent acting, lightning, and the script made sense, besides being disgusting/disturbing.
As for Animal Soup, it's just embarrassing. The attempts at acting made me cringe. The ways in which the women were killed were incredibly unsatisfactory and obviously fake (which might have been a weak attempt at comedy?), there wasn't an ounce of originality, in short everything about this movie was just bad. The only scene I even remotely enjoyed was when they were killing off the last girl by cutting off her face, while one of the guys jacked off while loudly reading Mein Kampf (again, probably an attempt at comedy?). This last scene is the only reason you should ever watch this movie since it's so off rails, you can skip the rest.