She didn't talk up Ralph Fiennes performance in The Menu enough. It was brilliantly bonkers and he carried that movie on his shoulders. Not knocking other performances in the least, but the movie didn't give the other actors enough material to truly make them stand out. It was all him.
@melissalong8491
11 ай бұрын
I'm with you, I loved The Menu. It captivated me from the beginning all the way to the dessert course and beyond.
@williamallen7984
10 ай бұрын
I would argue that Anya Taylor Joy was great in it as well. Just all around a great film…
@Tanstaafl_74
10 ай бұрын
@@williamallen7984 Agree, she did great, but her character was the straight role. The only normal human in it. She was like an island of sanity in a river of crazies. She did it well, but that in and of itself made Fiennes' stand out even more.
@Hetaliafan85
11 ай бұрын
10. Fall (0:42) 9. Barbarian (1:41) 8. The Platform (2:54) 7. Smile (4:04) 6. Mandy (5:11) 5. Army of the Dead (6:22) 4. The Ritual (7:40) 3. The Menu (8:40) 2. Jug Face (9:49) 1. The Lighthouse (10:47)
@artemisnectar7
11 ай бұрын
Thank U!🎃
@Noid1220
11 ай бұрын
Lost me when she called Army of the Dead a “darkly engrossing drama possessing surprising emotional weight”
@AaronfromQueens
10 ай бұрын
Right? It was already a slog and then the scene with the tiger just went on and on and on for seemingly no reason. Most interesting part is already over in like the first ten minutes.
@silenraven1017
9 ай бұрын
I first saw Army of thieves and i found the first movie to be a silly comedy with Jonattan Cohen hunting bank robbers during a zombies apocalypse occuring to be stupid as fuck but funny. And the whole little stories about the vault was interesting to me with the visuals but then army of the dead came and i was a literal zombie watching this. Unable to think or understand what i was watching and realised i lost 2 hours of my life.
@dalegribble420
6 ай бұрын
seriously, i've heard a lot of bad takes from this channel but that might be one of the worst. i watched that movie in a group, and not only were we all bored to tears but zak snyder movies have also been banned entirely from movie night because of it lmao. gotta admit i'm kinda surprised to see them jerking off a movie that wasn't made by ari astor for once tho.
@jamesmendonca2900
11 ай бұрын
I love how weird The Lighthouse is. Some people call it a pretentious film, but I thought it was fun watching Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson acting crazy against each other in a bleak, black and white backdrop.
@stephenairey4952
10 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think it's Pattinsons best performance. So weird that it just grips you and never lets go
@Hilz28
10 ай бұрын
So. Boring.
@ataridc
8 ай бұрын
@@Hilz28yea wasn't for me but some ppl connected with it so maybe we're the ones missing out
@shestolemythunder
11 ай бұрын
The Endless/The Ritual were definitely weirder than I was expecting, but in a good way!
@Black.Rose743
11 ай бұрын
the Ritual stuck with me for days. Like I literally watched it during the day and still had nightmares
@gingerninja2487
11 ай бұрын
Read the book. Its way better.
@Black.Rose743
11 ай бұрын
@@gingerninja2487 so I've heard
@TheTurkaderr
11 ай бұрын
The effects in that movie are amazing!!! The way they blur scenes and mix past and present in the same scene, I'd never seen that in a horror movie, and it was a breath of fresh air.
@6Jillybeans
11 ай бұрын
I watched Barbarian today! I don't know if there's something wrong with me but I actually felt sad for Mother at the very end. It's not like she chose to be born or to be abused in such a way by an evil man who was supposed to care for her. She clearly cared about Tess. It was a silly film though.
@TheTurkaderr
11 ай бұрын
I know,right ? It was awfully sad. She was sort of a Frankenstein's monster.
@Stefnos87
10 ай бұрын
naaa Frankenstein's monster knew the diffrence between good and evil, and chose the later@@TheTurkaderr
@thecunninlynguist
11 ай бұрын
Lamb. Didnt really know what to expect and it was wierd. Same with Men
@babygurl0232
11 ай бұрын
These were my exact thoughts while watching this. I also thought about The Hunt and Martyr..Cosmic Dawn too..really the list goes on
@fredzzkid
9 ай бұрын
"Barbarian" was amazing. Kind of felt sorry for the "monster" - you could see there is still a vestige of "normal" feeling when she touches the guy's nose and says "Boop!"
@bradhend
11 ай бұрын
Totally thought Malignant would make this list.
@KatiePatterson1
10 ай бұрын
I kinda have a love/hate relationship with trailers. While I think some trailers are awesome and showcase just enough to get you intersted, there's a lot of trailers promise one thing but deliver something entirely different. And sometimes, because I get locked into what the trailer has promised me, it prevents me from enjoying what I'm watching.
@Joey7Z7Horror
11 ай бұрын
The People Under the Stairs anyone???
@216EMU
10 ай бұрын
The Empty Man was promoted as a teen slasher…it was nothing like that and SOOOO good
@bonmotze
11 ай бұрын
I love The Jug Face because so many people from one of my favorite movies "The Woman" worked on "The Jug Face". Thank you for including that little Gore gem.
@spankywzl
11 ай бұрын
10:15 Big shout out to Larry Fessenden who is always a welcome addition to any movie, horror or otherwise. Most recognize him from Stake Land, Hellbenders, or You're Next, but to me, he will always be the hapless McManus who shows up to work in Session 9, only to be quickly and surprisingly dispatched by Gordon (Peter Mullan). Let's not forget that Larry directed the movie Wendigo too!
@TheTurkaderr
11 ай бұрын
he's also great in Jakob's Wife, with Barbara Crampton.
@deaditeera
11 ай бұрын
Wow, no one who does videos on horror ever mentions Jug Face. Good job WhatCulture!!
@TheDaveCave_
11 ай бұрын
Segue is pronounced “segway”, not “seg-you”.
@clarissa3173
11 ай бұрын
Realising now I have been spelling “Segway” wrong my entire life and no one has ever corrected me. Thank you
@milesmcmillan-kr6ti
11 ай бұрын
Let this awesome commentator say it anyway she likes! She is brilliant.
@thatlittlevoice6354
11 ай бұрын
They know. They mispronounce one word every video so people will btfo of the comment section.
@glennl.3277
11 ай бұрын
@@thatlittlevoice6354lol they don’t do it on purpose. they literally just mispronounce words all the time
@gingersnapps
11 ай бұрын
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that can't stand mispronounced words, I don't want to sound like a jerk by pointing it out but sometimes I just can't help it ....
@DarkFr3ak101
11 ай бұрын
I tried to watch Jugface once and it was just too weird for my taste in horror so I turned it off. However the Lighthouse, Menu, and Barbarian are great. Who knew Green Goblin and Batman can make a great movie. 😂
@thefemalemantis
11 ай бұрын
I am so happy for this . And excited that I got here less that 10 mins after it's posted.
@finnfiasco
11 ай бұрын
I liked Smile, but I’m all set on metaphorical/psychological horror for a while. Babadook and Smile sufficiently covered grief/trauma. Just give us some spooky spectres and slashers for a while.
@glennl.3277
11 ай бұрын
In my opinion, Army of Dead stunk! Zombies on horses? Zombies thinking? The only surviving character is the annoying girl who has no business surviving? The premise was interesting but the movie itself fell flat. Some may like it and that’s fine. But the prequel about the safecracker was much better, again, in my opinion.
@michaelmiller3012
11 ай бұрын
I think you mean Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead. Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness was the third film in The Evil Dead trilogy, and it is awesome :)
@bambamgaming773
11 ай бұрын
There's way better movies to put on here than Fall, how about Malignant from a few years back?! That movie got WILD at the halfway point.
@amandawilkinsontarot7096
11 ай бұрын
The Platform was excellent. It was terrifying to see how quickly human beings devolve into monsters in these kinds of situations.
@svenlauke1190
10 ай бұрын
too few people know of this film. one of the smartest horror films I have ever seen. cube, saw, escaper room etc all fail to portray this "prisoner dilemma"
@amandawilkinsontarot7096
10 ай бұрын
@@svenlauke1190 Absolutely
@ginavalera1193
11 ай бұрын
The Platform and the menu were both great❤
@carilandry4742
11 ай бұрын
The only problem with Smile is that they built it up to be such a good movie and then ruined it with a painfully cliche and predictable ending.
@Milton2k
11 ай бұрын
Infinity pool and Crimes of the future... are maybe even weirder than these ones.
@user-qp5ws2yo3j
11 ай бұрын
Also, Possessor.
@jay4d3v4
11 ай бұрын
props for mentioning Jugface, it is a real gem!
@grahamurwin-toll5323
10 ай бұрын
"The psychotic drowns. The mystic swims. You're drowning. I'm swimming. " -Red. I love Mandy so much. Nicholas Cage is at his best in my opinion.
@Horror-Man
11 ай бұрын
Top 20 Favorite Horror Films of all the Whatculturehorror staff video!!!
@Ryssa9548
8 ай бұрын
I would add The Other Lamb to the list. The trailer made it look weird but didn't prepare you for the unsettling feeling throughout the movie and the weirdly satisfying ending
@svenlauke1190
10 ай бұрын
the platform is legit one of the best films of that genre I have ever seen. thought it would be a trash flick, but its very very smart
@MegaJackpinesavage
5 ай бұрын
Eggers' "The Lighthouse" a work of high cinematic art --- think "Waiting for Godot" 's Vladimir & Estragon with a flipping mermaid thrown in....sheer brilliance.
@Milton2k
11 ай бұрын
Again... "Fall" is not horror, but a thriller. A good one, with a dash of blood, but that's it.
@iwasshockedhoneyiwasintears
11 ай бұрын
barbarian is a masterpiece
@spankywzl
11 ай бұрын
Mandy was the tits! Sure it took a little while to get going, but it gives the audience a while to adjust to the 70s film making vibe it was going for, and to set up the 2 lovebirds relationship, but once it starts, it doesn't stop!! Lots of gore, insane lighting and Richard Fricken Brake!! So good. Cage's expression at the end of the film is just so gloriously unhinged and brutally beautiful! What a trip! \m/ * * \m/
@Bbyblu96
11 ай бұрын
The ritual was the best movie I’ve watched in the last 5 years
@JamesFromTexas
11 ай бұрын
I really don't watch trailers anymore. They're either too vague or give away the entire plot and use all the good scenes (looking at you Fast and Furious franchise)
@schmidington
11 ай бұрын
My friend and I kept laughing during The Lighthouse every time we'd think of Willem Defoe's fart!
@oneeyeman6258
11 ай бұрын
The Ritual was great. But I honestly thought Mandy and The Lighthouse were stupid and terrible.
@wellsborie6897
11 ай бұрын
The lighthouse was advertised as being pretty weird
@margaretthompson4750
11 ай бұрын
Am I only one who got annoyed at end of Army of the Dead when at the crash Geeta isn't looked for when she's all Battista's daughter worried about the whole movie
@jefferycarter7169
11 ай бұрын
Hey, just a heads up, it's pronounced "Segway", like the motorized thing, not "Seg-you".
@flithbrin
11 ай бұрын
for Fall I really think they were pretty dumb to not take parachutes with them. If they were going to take drone videos of themselves being dumb, they could have taken it further and it still would have fit the narrative, but then there'd be no movie I guess.
@sheriffkimbo
11 ай бұрын
Is Ellie's mispronunciation of words a running joke that I am not aware of, or is it just a real thing?
@malkiyyah2693
11 ай бұрын
Wonderful list, for sure. Good to see The Ritual and Jugface get some love, and there was no title on here that I felt was forced.
@Sunprism
11 ай бұрын
If you make another one, I'll suggest Pi. The trailer is no preparation whatsoever
@alexspindler1
8 ай бұрын
Just watched Haunting of Queen Mary and it would qualify for a future list. Very weird. It doesn't totally wrap up tightly by the end though but it's quite the ride!
@magstheonlyone
11 ай бұрын
Man! You really try hard with the description of army of the dead. It's just a bad movie
@kellyl13
6 ай бұрын
I thought the Barbarian trailer hinted more towards a psychological horror movie with Bill Skarsgard's character as a possible villain.
@BrokenNoah
11 ай бұрын
1:22 It's pronounced "seg-way"
@ranwolf1240
4 ай бұрын
Army of the Dead - My question is how did the military manage to close off Las Vegas with the cargo containers with all those zombies running around?
@pierrebuieii3908
11 ай бұрын
I never seen army of the dead advertised but the movie was weirdly awesome 👏 I love it 🥰
@ginavalera1193
11 ай бұрын
Jugface was weird,the fall was good but weird and the rest has good times but the lighthouse was out there and a waste of two good actors. Too long and confusing at times,YIKES😮
@ianoag
11 ай бұрын
Yep! definitely a lot of weirdness going on here! Nicely done!
@changowowowoezzy9617
11 ай бұрын
The ritual is one of my favorite movies of all time
@MrJB2224
11 ай бұрын
What's your favorite movie 1 thru 10? Here's mine 1 Army of the Dead 2 Barbarian 3 Ritual 4 Mandy 5 Smile 6 Menu 7 Fall 8 Lighthouse 9Jugface 10 Platform
@michaelburke4048
11 ай бұрын
Barbarian was 2-3 movies clumsily stitched together, and The Lighthouse ranks high among the worst movies I've ever seen. I love weird films, but inconsistent, jarring, and unlikable doesn't make a film weird, it just makes it amateurish. Jug Face on the other hand, sounds like my sort of weird..
@weirdybeardystuff9261
11 ай бұрын
Thumbnail looks like Godrick the Grafted and I can't unsee.
@brandywoods1227
10 ай бұрын
That new Nicholas Cage horror sci-fi movie, I forget the title but has something to do with a color we can't see, is incredibly weird and deeply disturbing also. I just watched that movie and it's intense!
@Bebop_Bun
11 ай бұрын
Putting the movies in the description wouldn't be a bad thing. That way we don't have to search the comments for the list to avoid spoilers.
@DJGamingSmash
10 ай бұрын
My problem with The Menu was that it wasn't weird, it felt very vanilla and added nothing new, just regurgitated the same class satire that's grown... (wait for the pun)... STALE. Smile confused me by how bad it was and boring too, everyone wants to be Ari Aster I guess, but Hereditary and Midsommar somehow ruined horror because every movie now tries to copycat it what the whole "get it??! it's trauma!" thing, it wasn't even funny like it looked in the trailers or campy, so I wasn't even enertained by it.
@Tomy_Yon
11 ай бұрын
I watched it with a friend who didn't like horror and she even liked it. Great storyline. 👏
@raeraebadfingers
11 ай бұрын
Watched what? 🤔
@HistorysRaven
8 ай бұрын
The Platform absolutely IS a metaphor.
@davids2977
10 ай бұрын
The only thing weird about Fall is Becky didn't get arrested for trespassing and manslaughter. Army of the Dead was such a ridiculous pile of crap; in no way was I interested in the cast's outcome, they were so cookie cutter it wasn't even funny.
@Elly-caitlin93
11 ай бұрын
The platform is soooooo GOOD
@rome8180
11 ай бұрын
Se-goo? Do you mean "segue"? It's pronounced "seg-way."
@tpenguin7857
10 ай бұрын
I found FALL tragic and it made me cry...
@edithobrien7118
10 ай бұрын
GOOD JOB !
@MataNui.
9 ай бұрын
Only thing I thought when I saw the trailer for Smile was "Can hollywood please stop trying to make that smile scary". It's the same effect from Truth or dare, it looked stupid then it looks stupid now.
@filthymcnasty5625
11 ай бұрын
vertigo is nothing to do with heights.
@mandelbot5318
11 ай бұрын
It would be more accurate to say that vertigo is not ONLY to do with heights, given that it is a common symptom of acrophobia.
@thegood9
11 ай бұрын
Hmm, I thought Fall was exactly what I expected it to be...and it scared this Acrophobic to death.
@AbyKitten
11 ай бұрын
The spoilers in WhatCulture Horror vids have become ridiculous.
@TylerTour
11 ай бұрын
I saw Kaitlinn Jenner in that cell!
@DeidresStuff
11 ай бұрын
If I were the woman in Smile, I'd have killed myself before it took me over completely.
@TheTurkaderr
11 ай бұрын
I actually found SMILE to be pretty Banal and your typical horror movie from the last ten years or so, like every other movie where someone gets cursed with something and has to figure out why and how to solve it before they die. Like THE RING, TRUTH OR DARE, etc., just in a different form and with a different creature. These movies rehash the same premise over and over. It doesn't deserve to be on this list in my opinion.
@Milton2k
11 ай бұрын
Again... The Menu" is not horror... a favorite recent one of mine, yet a couple of deaths in a flick do not make a horror movie. Also a thriller.
@briansullivan5908
11 ай бұрын
Being made into a human s’mores is pretty horrifying.
@CatsOverBrats
11 ай бұрын
The Platform is worth a watch.
@SeanPynrose
7 ай бұрын
I completely disagree of Fall being considered a horror. I don't understand the premise for it to be a horror, considering any other movie horror related is alot different. It feels alot like 127 hours, which as good as a movie can be, isn't horror either. At best find a different level to label it horror since neither is straight up horror at all.
@matwetton
10 ай бұрын
No Mad God? Cant tell me that isnt weirder than anything you expected
@MrJB2224
11 ай бұрын
The Platform was disgusting!!! At what point do people wake up and start taking control of their situation? I'd go floor floor ending everyone until I got to the top or my time was up.
@TheSlothReader
11 ай бұрын
WhatCulture Horror go a week without mentioning Barbarian challenge (jk, this is made entirely with love as I watch every video and have genuinely gotten good recs from them)
@Milton2k
11 ай бұрын
Mandy, The Colour from outerspace, and the one with the girl with the fetiche about cars... are infamous for being weird. Midsummer and Hereditary also.
@kiillabytez
11 ай бұрын
What's a fetiche?
@SomewhatSlightlyBored
11 ай бұрын
"color out of space"
@sweetna22
11 ай бұрын
I think What Culture Horror needs to put the thesaurus down.
@myronjones-roberson8544
6 ай бұрын
Event Horizon was missed
@michelnewcomb9860
11 ай бұрын
That synopsis of Fall makes me have no sympathy for either character. If you're stupid enough to climb a 2000 ft. anything, any peril you face is well deserved.
@baconair
8 ай бұрын
"10 Horror Movie Spoilers" By WestCultureHorror
@ajgvulture8929
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for spoiling Fall 😔 Not even a spoiler warning in the video
@trentwright2266
11 ай бұрын
I LOVE YOU ELLIE
@finnfiasco
11 ай бұрын
The Platform was just not great. It started with a strange, lite-sci-fi premise and a view into the human condition, but boiled down to silly metaphors without a decent resolution to the strange premise. I remember just feeling cheated when he turned around and said “the child is the key!”. Like, we saw the kid for about 4 minutes of screen-time and suddenly they’re the key to humanity. Blaaaaah. Ride the damn platform to the top and fight the entitled rich folk!
@jonathangould6178
11 ай бұрын
Why she say advertisement like that💀
@tripled8611
9 ай бұрын
Wait… number 10… “a disastrous climb gone wrong.” That’s a double negative so the movie is about a climb that was planned to be a disaster but everything worked out fine? Just kidding I’ve seen it. Thought it was intense at moments of the climb lol
@noni4315
11 ай бұрын
Fall was so damn predictable. Took the "bff had affair with hubby" from The Descent and the "bff was dead the whole time " from 47 Meters Down.
@erikthompson619
11 ай бұрын
"Segue" is pronounced "seg-way", not "seg-yew". Just saying.
@amandawilkinsontarot7096
11 ай бұрын
She's Britidh. We have different accents and words than Americans.
@mandelbot5318
11 ай бұрын
@@amandawilkinsontarot7096I’m British. And it’s still ‘seg-way’.
@seanrosenau2088
11 ай бұрын
The pit in Jugface reminds me of The Lazarus Pit in DC Comics.
@mda7763
11 ай бұрын
Hi🎉
@orchidrose1410
11 ай бұрын
The platform is a metaphor
@ahappyklingon3631
11 ай бұрын
Army of the Dumb was your typical mess of a film devoid of logic, chalk full of plot holes etc. from Hack Snyder.
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