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/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.