Best and worst movies of 2023, now the year has come to a close it marks the first year this site has been running. There has been some great horror this year and some truly awful entries also, so, lets get into it. Happy New Year.
1.Talk to me is the little movie that could, its amazing that it was the first feature film from two youtubers as its one of the best horrors of the year. It's original, clever and actually managed to creep me out in places. I look forward to the sequel.
2.Red Rooms, I might have to go back and change the rating i gave this movie, the more i think about it the more i like it.
I gave it a seven but i think i may push that up to an eight.
It's a very underrated, original, creepy film and easily one of the best films of the year. It nearly took the top spot and it may even be a tie with Talk To Me. It is so damn good and covers some tough topics in a very interesting and unique way, those being, the public's consumption of true crime media, the glorification of violence and hybristophilia. It is a very unnerving film with a great lead performance, go watch this movie.
3.Evil Dead Rise is loads of fun and my favorite cinema experience this year, the title scrawl was epic on the big screen. It was a perfect balance of the slapstick comedy of Evil Dead 2 and the out and out brutality of the 2013 remake. I was extremely happy with this movie, its everything it needed to be.
4.The Passenger, I recommend you go into this movie blind. It's a great thriller about what happens when a fast food worker's life gets derailed by a psychopath who wants to take him on a road trip. Kyle Gallner is brilliant in it.
5. SAW X was a great return to form for the franchise, this is by far the best acting we've seen from Tobin Bell in any Saw film. I love that they chose to make this as character driven a story as possible and deviated from it being a series defined by its kills. This is a movie that underneath it all is about a broken man who tries to seek redemption but is dragged back into doing the only thing that makes the world make sense to him anymore, helping people change in the most horrific way possible.
1.Scream 6 - It would have earned a place in the list if the reveal wasn't the second worst of the series, also the whole red herring with Kirby was ridiculous, there is no way in hell i will ever buy Kirby as a killer, don't try and trick me and tell me that she might be the killer because obviously she isn't. Everything else though i loved, The Carpenter Sisters, The Core Four, Ghostface in New York all great stuff.
2.Birth/Rebirth - this nearly made the top five, its a very good movie and a great modern day adaptation of the themes found in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, you should definitely watch this
3.Cobweb - Man i love 95% of this movie, I absolutely love the atmosphere and right up until the ending its one of the best horror films of the year, then the ending happens and its just ok.
4.Saltburn , i thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it's not top five stuff but again its very close.
Now to shit on some truly awful movies.
I fucking hate this film.
Here's the review I wrote for it after i watched it as i'm not going to waste time talking about it again.
1.The Exorcist: Believer
I'm going to be as blunt and as frank as i can be about this film, the first hour seems like it was written by someone other than David Gordon Green. It starts off as a fairly generic but above average possession film and then as soon as they introduce Ellen Burstyn it becomes a steaming pile of crap. I'm glad Burstyn asked for the ridiculous amount of money she did, good for her. She is really phoning it in here and she is used for about ten minutes of screen time that makes little to no difference to the plot whatsoever.
It is pathetic that they even wrote her character into the film. This film is a joke.
David Gordon Green is honestly an idiot. You can tell he thinks he is making a really important film about hope but that's not what this is, its a soulless lifeless cash grab that flat out disrespects Friedkin's masterpiece. He actually had the audacity to write that Chris Mcneil thought the men who gave their lives to save her daughter wouldn't let her in the room to watch the Exorcism in the original because she wasn't part of the patriarchy. What a load of absolute horse shit.
Green's writing is laughably poor and amateurish. The original Exorcist is a very simple story expertly told and brilliantly written, you get the feeling that David Gordon Green thinks he can improve upon it by adding in a bunch of hokey woke nonsense about how all religions matter and he is so heavy handed this concept is literally said out loud. What a farce. People need to tell him that he clearly doesn't have the writing ability or knowledge to write about social issues.
It's so bad i fell asleep during the "Exorcism" if you could call it that, what it really is is a bunch of people from all faiths singing kumbaya while the two possessed girls do their best mercedes mcambridge impression.
David Gordon Green has watched the original Exorcist but he's too thick to grasp why it works. His new Exorcist trilogy can fuck off and die in a fire. In the words of Linda Blair in the original film, his mother sucks cocks in hell, the faithless slime.
Coming in at number 2, we have Infinity Pool. This is basically the film equivalent of an art student shitting on a canvas and putting it up in a gallery. Just because i can't figure out why you did what you did and what its all about doesn't make it art. Its still. just. shit.
I won't bore you with the films premise, that's a waste of time.
What I'll tell you is that this is a bad attempt at a David Cronenberg film, who happens to be the directors father, i'm amazed a lot of the horror community actually like this piece of shit. Its fucking terrible, Mia Goth deserves to be in better than this nonsensical dirge of a film.
3.The Popes Exorcist is one of the most unintentionally funny horror films of the year, Russel Crowe is ridiculous in it, the film itself is a tired retread of cliches you've seen in every possession movie but unlike Exorcist Believer Its silly enough to be fun, so its not all that bad, i suppose.
The Nun II, is absolutely awful, The scares in The Nun II are laughably bad, tiresome, predictable and inoffensive.
I don’t understand why people enjoy this series
its a rinse and repeat of the same thing, over and over again.
The Nun II is a mish-mash of horror cliches with nothing new to offer. From spooky ghost children that just come off as laughable to
fake out scares that you can see coming a mile off. The film is cartoonish and silly. Its only redeeming feature is one cool creature design it has at the end, other than that it's just plain bad.
The Conjuring series has basically gone the way of Marvel movies, there are no stakes, no one is ever in any danger, there's too many jokes and all the movies feel the same. I'm so done with this franchise.
Hopefully soon we'll be done with James Wan and his boring PG-13 Mcdonald's horror
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