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The Sacrament is a Ti West joint, he's a far better filmmaker than Eli Roth could ever hope to be. It also has all three of Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, and AJ Bowen in it, which is basically indie horror bingo for me (A Horrible Way to Die and You're Next also star all three, with YN including Ti West in the cast, and both are quite good). I've been meaning to re-watch The Sacrament, I remember mostly liking it the first time around I think. West also made X, which I'm very much looking forward to watching sometime soon hopefully. The House of the Devil is really good, also. Yes, I suppose I am a bit of a Ti West stan come to think of it.The Sacrament
Eli Roth was one of the producers so I hoped it was better than it was. Three guys visit one of the guy's sister at a Jim Jones type cult. Things go wrong and they break out the special kool aid.
It's not bad but I felt like I'd seen it before when I hadn't.
Sticking with my Halloween marathon:
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch - I had somehow managed to avoid SotW up until I watched it a few nights ago. It is indeed not good. It makes a lot more sense, its entire existence I mean, knowing about the whole original TV anthology idea that was mentioned a bit earlier in this thread. Even then it wouldn't be any good, don't get me wrong. The scene where the guy suddenly has a Celtic accent and explains the entire plot of the film in like two sentences (with zero explanation at any other time in the movie) cracked me up. The casting of Tom Atkins' characters' love interests must have been a running gag at this point, I mean seriously, Stacey Nelkin was 24 years younger than he was and Jamie Lee Curtis was 23 years younger.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Dr. Loomis is apparently as unkillable as is Michael at this point, I guess his limp is the one reminder that he blew himself up along with Michael earlier on? Movie itself works okay but it's basically just a re-skin of the first one with more slasher movie cliches in place of the nuance that Carpenter had. It's also pretty clear that the directors were more than happy to have Pleasance chew the hell out of the scenery at this point, with his dedication to his American accent also being pretty spotty at times. Ending is so incredibly dumb that I'm not sure I can stand to try watching 5.