I watched the top 100 best horror films of the 21st century (List at the Cinema Forum) - part 2

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The story is about a group of teenagers who decided to hang out on Skype and ended up in a game with a possibly living or dead friend. Which slowly makes the characters die and feel ashamed.

The first thing that will surprise you is that this is our film and we came up with this idea, specifically the Bazelevs-Bekmanbetov studio. And yet this is the first film that was fully shot in fact on the green screen. Before that, there were only indirect attempts like Death on the Web or the Paranormal phenomenon 4. Among the disadvantages, it was noted that the film lacks scope. Which sounds dumb.

You're sitting with friends at night before going to bed, with a girl of course. And there is nothing else around you, just the Internet where you will find everything. This is the title theme of the film. The Internet remembers everything and everything that gets there will stay there. An iconic phrase that sticks in the memory. Such are the characters here. Ordinary teenagers with a mess in their head. And it is because of the Internet that their sins are revealed. Someone shits others and inflames them, someone cheats, and someone, as a best friend, lays out how you disgraced yourself. And it's after that that you realize what it leads to.

I'm especially surprised that the unknown actors here are giving their best. Well, I'm also really glad that the film has become a cult. I got a sequel, a universe, imitators, and in general I was able to surprise with something. And my grades are all underestimated.

Positive:

+ An idea
+ Actors
+ Message
+ Horror moments are good in places
+ A new subgenre

Minuses:

- Except for the foreign ending, where a sudden and unnecessary screamer comes out.
- Not very pleasant characters, although they tried to reveal both sides here, because the microminus.

6.5/10

Lighthouse

There's nothing to add here. I wrote a lot about him in a post about Eggers' work.

7.8/10

Crazy Parents 

The Adrenaline director decided to shoot a bouncy horror thriller with a mad Cage where he, as one of the parents, wants to kill his children. And all this is because of the virus. The most simple, driving and crazy movie. The director tried to play hardball and it came out. But I didn't get the message right, so the ending turned out to be strange. But, it turned out that it did. Cage is cool.

Positive:

+Action packed
+Cage
+Madness

Minuses:

- The message has not been brought to mind
- The director's stupid habit of shaking the camera.

6.8/10

Memories of the murder

One of the few top films that has almost no horror at all. But finding it is clear in itself. Often, since the time of the Meme and the Silence of the Lambs, there has been a dispute about whether horror films of this genre are. Yes and no.

The plot of the film directed by Parasites is about a really real serial killer who was operating in Korea. And it's amazing how the script of the film is embedded. There is an investigation going on from the very beginning to the end, and even if you watch the movie 2 times, you still wonder what will happen and what details you missed yourself. From false suspects to unnecessary evidence. And it all looks powerful.

Don't forget about the characters. The police here are good and are really looking for the killer, but they are definitely idiots here, because instead of searching, they either randomly beat someone or extract a confession from a completely innocent person. Moreover, the film itself gives them another hero. A policeman from the city. That at first he gets a beating from one and then he becomes angry and aggressive. Which affects the other. Again, the chemistry between the characters is sufficient. And the theme that runs through every director's film is that the government is bad and likes to make everything worse in all its glory. 

Well, the ending of the tape leaves us on a negative note. Where even Western expertise does not help the heroes. And the lynching that was supposed to be is a bad feature. Well, the final 2 where the hero of the film retired, started a family and returned to the very first murder. It's ironic that almost recently a murderer came there, that he remembered the past. And who was he? An ordinary person.

By the way, the killer came to the police himself many, many years later and confessed to the murders. Well, if you answer why many such films are on horror lists, it's simple. The scariest thing in life is murder, real and existing. No monster is as scary as a human. There are enough examples in life when it really scares.

Advantages and disadvantages:

I don't think it's worth noting them, I don't want to see the downsides here, but I see only the good in everything.

8.3/10

A stolen account or webcam

The story is about a popular webcam girl who has someone trying to steal her identity and merits.

I remember Madeleine Brewer in 2 films, this one and Chimera (not the one with Brody). And this is the case when the actress was underestimated. She's really powerful here. Moreover, the very disclosure of the uniqueness of her streams is immediately visible. Do you really believe that this is really unusual. Even in my life, I know only one such example. But even here it looks more spectacular. And the theme of the film about scammers and sudden star disease, shown here as a psychological horror, looks great.

That's why the critics were so enthusiastic about the film. But the ratings from the audience are not strong. All because of the ending, which strongly looks like spoiling the message and idea. But even against him, I have nothing more to say. The movie is beautiful by the way.

Positive:

+Actress
+Atmosphere 
+Horror
+An idea
+Beauty


Minuses:

- The final
- The film sags in places

6.5/10

Busan Train 

It's one of the zombie movies, which confirms that you can still come up with something new. Moreover, I noticed that it is in the zombie genre that this happens most often.

The plot is about a man and his daughter boarding a train, and he, like the whole of Korea, becomes a zombie infested. Zombies are here in the spirit of the War of the Z Worlds, spinning and spinning and running. The characters themselves are not cardboard, so I feel sorry for them. But Korean films always focus on them. The theme of humanity and the values of loved ones runs through the entire film. Where the main character is a goat, during the course of the film, he himself visits the same goats. Everything is simple and clear. A lot of action, although the graphon is weak in places.

Positive:

+An idea
+Characters
+Action packed
+The final 
+Message 

Minuses:

- Sometimes the characters are dumb
- The graphon is bad in places, but it doesn't spoil anything for me personally. 

7.8/10

To be continued 

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