Live Action Film Recommendations

Bumping with my latest watch: Skinwalkers. Interesting film - if a bit too familiar. Lot of good concepts though.

Has anyone seen Journey to Bethlehem (2023)? If yes then can someone do a tv tropes page on the film.

I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard it as a biblical musical where Antonio Banderas plays the villain.

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jan 8th 2024 at 1:58:25 PM

I think one surprise for is to watch Une Belle Course (2022), where Dany Boon, a popular French comedian performs a depressed taxi driver that drives an elderly woman to a nursing home, but then he open his ears to hear her story... then you notice that Boon is acting so well that you forgot he regularly is on comedies!!!

A good film to watch, and to cry if needed...

Edited by Travsam on Mar 13th 2024 at 10:57:05 AM

I’ve rediscovered Cabin in the Woods. Forgot how much I enjoyed it.

Can anyone suggest a similar film? Besides Scream? Just something in that tone and feel?

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Mar 16th 2024 at 4:54:03 AM

Maybe Tucker & Dale vs. Evil?

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Mar 17th 2024 at 9:20:44 AM

Seen that one. That’s a good one. Anything else?

In terms of metafictional humor, The Final Girls?

Oh yeah, saw that one too.

There's Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, but its sense of humour is less overtly comedic from what I recall.

Maybe Rubber?

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Mar 22nd 2024 at 9:58:01 AM

If you want to try old-school self-aware horror comedy, try Theatre of Blood. Vincent Price plays a hammy Shakespearean actor who murders his critics using elaborate methods based on Shakespeare's plays. It's good stupid fun.

I’ll check both of those out then.

In the meantime. I’m watching a playthrough of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. I’m suddenly interested in movies like this - the modern Gothic Urban Fantasy horror…

The ones I know of are gonna be the Underworld movies, Blade movies, I Frankenstein, The Last Witch Hunter, maybe the Crow… I’m probably forgetting some… but yeah movies with that sort of darkness and gothic sensibility in a contemporary world… can anyone else think of some?

Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; in less contemporary settings, there's Van Helsing and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, though they're also more forgettable.

And a bit less fantasy than your examples, but:

Industrialisation has crippled the globe
Nature failed as technology spread
And in its wake, a market erected --
An entire city built on top of the DEAD!

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Mar 23rd 2024 at 9:20:03 AM

Forgot about all those. What else are we thinking?

If you're looking for horror-comedy, it's hard to go wrong with Re-Animator. But while the story it's based on is a send-up of horror tropes, there's not a lot of meta in the film, just cheesy goodness.

If it's quality meta-textual content you're looking for, I believe you've mostly covered it already.

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a must-watch film that's filled with great music courtesy of Korngold, action scenes that feel real, Errol Flynn at his best and stunning color photography.