this is a nice coincidence because I was going to fish back through your posts to find where I said that I wanted to watch the movie and tell you that I did, and then you posted this. :) very convenient! lol
it was a pretty good watch! The story is definitely tense and creepy and god, you can really tell they put a lot of effort into it, I can't imagine acting while doing that much physical work. It really sells the desperation that nothing looks faked, and it has that nice kinda grungy look that makes it feel grounded and realistic.
However, personally I would've liked a vaguer ending (in that interview Picnic at Hanging Rock is mentioned, which I love) and the actual real hunter doesn't do it for me. it kind of countered the realism, this almost supernatural feeling hunter (for all the comparisons to Deliverance, I honestly kept thinking of First Blood, like if they were being stalked by rambo) who is like, slithering around perfectly and no one notices, plus it's very conveniently like, this dude who hates doctors happens to see them and decides to take his grievances out on them or whatever (I also felt like I was missing something)... but that's better than someone actually stalking them unknowingly from the city. So yeah that's the biggest complaint from me, a bunch of weird things happening and them all sorta turning on each other because of it and us never finding out the reason is just my kind of jam though LOL.
overall I liked it though, it hit the kind of... good kinds of uncomfortable notes you want to see in that kind of desolate horror setting where it's like, I'm pretty sure no one will survive this, and would you even want to? Definitely get why it'd roll around in someone's mind for a while, it has that kind of open ended staying power that's sort of enchanting.
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it was a pretty good watch! The story is definitely tense and creepy and god, you can really tell they put a lot of effort into it, I can't imagine acting while doing that much physical work. It really sells the desperation that nothing looks faked, and it has that nice kinda grungy look that makes it feel grounded and realistic.
However, personally I would've liked a vaguer ending (in that interview Picnic at Hanging Rock is mentioned, which I love) and the actual real hunter doesn't do it for me. it kind of countered the realism, this almost supernatural feeling hunter (for all the comparisons to Deliverance, I honestly kept thinking of First Blood, like if they were being stalked by rambo) who is like, slithering around perfectly and no one notices, plus it's very conveniently like, this dude who hates doctors happens to see them and decides to take his grievances out on them or whatever (I also felt like I was missing something)... but that's better than someone actually stalking them unknowingly from the city. So yeah that's the biggest complaint from me, a bunch of weird things happening and them all sorta turning on each other because of it and us never finding out the reason is just my kind of jam though LOL.
overall I liked it though, it hit the kind of... good kinds of uncomfortable notes you want to see in that kind of desolate horror setting where it's like, I'm pretty sure no one will survive this, and would you even want to? Definitely get why it'd roll around in someone's mind for a while, it has that kind of open ended staying power that's sort of enchanting.