There are still a few movies to be released (https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/2024), but it’s still probably a good time to have a look at the best movies from 2024 and discuss them.
There will be similar threads on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, and probably !animation@lemm.ee
Feel free to comment with the movies you liked the most, ideally one comment per movie so that other people can chime in and discuss.
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This movie seems like it got a lot of hate on release because of its marketing campaign. I knew nothing about it going in and loved it. Creepy imagery throughout that isn’t overpowering at the same time, either. Very effective horror flick.
Wow. Genre-bending “body” “horror” with two phenomenal leads and a message more relevant today than every. Come for the hype, stay for the third act.
Pretty schlocky 6th entry in a middling horror anthology series, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that it doesn’t end up on many other lists, but I loved it just like I have for every other movie in the series. The final section alone makes it worth the watch even for newcomers, IMO.
You either love the Terrifier franchise or you just don’t love it yet. The success of the series is unbelievable to see but it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving one. Bonus points that Damien Leone knew that distribution for the movie would be fucked up like all the ones so he made it set during Christmas so the people who couldn’t watch it in October didn’t feel like they were missing out.
What if 28 days later was a single-shot found footage movie set around some French ravers? Great, fun, and short(!) movie that I loved.
Longlegs and Civil War stuck with me for so long after watching them.
Agreed. Civil War for obvious reasons but I really liked Longlegs. Nick Cage did a really fun performance and like I said, the imagery is really creepy in a way that calls back to older horror movies. I check r/horror every now and again for recommendations and the amount of hate that movie gets on there is absurd
I never got the hate either. It’s creepy and uncomfortable on such a primal level. I’ve seen Cage in some weird roles, but he was so unnerving in this one.
I put it up there with the best horror of the last decade.
Long legs:
I think it’s trying to hard. It clearly wants to be a satanist movie and hit all the shock factor of it to make the audience gasp. But a spectacle film where it keeps going out of the way to call itself that feels self feliciating in the way that Nope kinda failed.
Plus the twist is weak and it just explains everything for you at the end in a weird way then drips you off at the climax of the film, then another wino to camera and done.
I felt no tension or fear the whole movie.