laurenswitt

I wasn't the biggest fan of The Shape of Water. It was a gorgeous movie that left me emotionally completely empty. Nightmare Alley is similar to me in it being a very good looking movie that one just enjoys watching every frame there is, but it again misses something that would get me to the point to really like it.

It's missing a real structure and a good pacing at parts. After the first 30 mins I asked myself still what this story is even about and why I should care about anything that happens.

At the end it's a okay to good movie for me that is flawed in a lot of ways, while also having a lot of amazing scenes. I would say you could easily shorten it by somewhat like 30 minutes and the movie would benifit hugely by that alone.

It's a shame that such good cinematography was wasted on such a subpar script. A more balanced movie that explores the story from all perspective would've been much more appreciated.

I'm somewhat of a fan of Mr. Cooper. Especially his last movie Hostiles made me really appreciate his movies. Even if his works aren't masterpieces I'm more intrigued to watch one of his movies instead of something completely generic. He feels like someone that truly wants to tell a story what sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

With Antlers I'm really ok the fence as we have some decent ideas that could make maybe not the most creative horror flick but something enjoyable. I just feel like a lot of the plotpoints were handled so poorly that it left me quiet bored for a huge part of the movie. So often I just asked myself why this was written the way it is.

Not many characters here feel like they make rational decisions and stuff just happens so we can get to the next scene in the script. The climax doesn't really feel like it was deserved and the monster acts really inconsistence at times. It felt like they should have done a better job setting up the lore about it which is weird as a huge chunk of the movie is just build up.

The acting is fine. It feels like the script didn't really give them a lot to work with. Character interactions feel rather stiff at times and could've used a bit of warmth to them.

Something I have to praise the movie about are the special effects. It reminded me a bit of the Thing, even though there is still a huge difference, but with both movies I felt really uncomfortable at times looking at a corpse or such. So good job for that.

We are also awarded with some nice looking shots. They made a good job of using the area they shot in to their advantage.

So all in all a slightly above average horror movie that just feels rather sloppy with it's execution at times and could have definitely been better just having the core setup in mind.

I wouldn't say you need to see this in the theaters. Just wait until it's streaming somewhere and watch it then if you're really interested.