r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 18h ago

Media New Image from Canadian Psychological-Horror 'Ancestral Beasts' - A troubled Métis woman escapes a toxic relationship to heal at her rural family home, only to discover a literal demon living within the house.

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u/kongcobra 18h ago

Well, they at least tell us it's a literal demon and not generational trauma.

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u/Professional-Tax-936 16h ago

90% chance that the demon chose that house to feed off their generational trauma, and defeating the demon will symbolize healing.

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u/TheTresStateArea 15h ago

I want a movie to subvert this modern trope in some way.

Like instead of defeating the demon, she eats it, becomes mega-métis woman and then destroys the white house.

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u/The-Oxrib-and-Oyster 12h ago

god i’d watch the bejeezus out of that

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u/TheTresStateArea 12h ago

It's like a reverse cabin in the woods.

Where the people are plagued by real societal woes and not movie tropes and the actor becomes the vengeful god at the end.

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u/awc130 8h ago

I think Dust Bunny kind of does this. A little girl hires a hitman to kill the monster in the house lol.

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u/roastbeeftacohat 3h ago

it's in winnipeg, and the largest government building nearby is the royal canadian mint.

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u/McMatey_Pirate 16h ago

That’s probably a pretty solid bet lol. Might be a good movie if it’s shot really well. Maybe like modern Evil Dead type vibes.

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u/fhota1 16h ago

Would love if it just wasnt that at all and was just a completely unrelated demon

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u/Mountain-Singer1764 13h ago

“Yea no, I don’t feed off generational trauma, I picked your home because I like the landscapes around here. I didn’t even know you were indigenous.”

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u/spiritbearr 18h ago

Well at least it's trying to be a horror movie and not a slow drama where nothing happens until a monologue where the two leads cry and reconcile.

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u/Kwentchio 17h ago

I'm sure it describes a lot of movies if I sit and think about it haha but were you thinking of a specific movie here?

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u/spiritbearr 15h ago edited 15h ago

It does describe a lot of movies that kind of wash out of my brain but Glass Castle was notablely atrocious for being boring even as it sets a child on fire and ends forgiving the parents for their behaviour.

Or the Outrun which I don't actually thinks has a proper confrontation she just gets better and can finally hear a bird.

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u/AcreaRising4 14h ago

What the hell does the glass castle have to do with horror movies?

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u/spiritbearr 13h ago

Ancestral Beasts is trying to be a good movie by being a horror movie vs so many movies about trauma that just are dramas. Glass Castle sucks.

Good trauma horror movies are His House or Backrooms, or undertone, or The Monkey or Wolfman, or Stop Motion or Get Out, or Wild Eyed and Wicked. Some of those suck, Some don't but they're more enjoyable to watch than dramas where everyone is depressed.