Rotten Tomatoes 2019 Horror List: Abbreviated Part I
Fortunately (or unfortunately), there are a bunch of movies on this list I recently watched (and mostly loathed). There are some I watched again and some I didn’t, but it made sense to roll them up here because I don’t have a ton to say about them.
#17 The Girl on the Third Floor
CM Punk: actor, MMA fighter, wrestler…and wasn’t he on road rules? Oh no, that was the Miz. Anyway. Not a great actor. He’s not a great guy in this movie. He’s moved into a haunted brothel and fucks one of the sex workers who then murders CM’s friend and tries to kill baby mama. There’s also a female pastor who knows about all this?
I’ve watched it twice; I still don’t get it.
#16 The Wind
I refused to watch this again. All said, it’s not a bad premise – and it’s quite fucked up. But I’m really tired of the “has the woman gone mad?”/Yellow Wallpaper trope.
#15 CRAWL
I’ve seen this twice and have liked it BOTH times. There’s nothing special to it; it’s your typical creature-feature. But that’s the great thing – it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. It’s a monster movie – animated quite well, with lots of action, some good kills (but not main characters!), and a happy ending.
#14 Midsommar
This is as fucked up – maybe more than you think. The main character is a whiny little bitch but the people she’s with are way crazier than she is. It is that artsy type of film that I fucking hate. And then it opens to these grotesque, ritualistic and colorful deaths – the type that imprint on your brain. You can’t unsee this shit. I despise Saw and Hostel for the torture, but honestly, I will remember the ones in Midsommar with more horror.
#13 Luz
It’s a foreign-language film, which I don’t oppose, but I have to be willing to pay attention COMPLETELY…and I don’t usually give a movie that much attention (I got shit to do). Unfortunately, some of the context is lost on me since the film doesn’t caption all of the foreign languages. I felt like I was missing out. However, I knew going into it that it was going to be a hard sell – the filmmaking is intriguing. It does seem like a different kind of possession movie, but I just didn’t get it. I’d be willing to watch this again and do more research.
