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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 432379" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">You're All Gonna Die</span></strong> (2023)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BOTQ1YWFkNzQtMDY4NS00MWViLTlmYjQtMjljMGRiYzgyYWY4XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b56bfb245ea4c7e01f229a84f00f40075c836ab4b855604e62c9878b68f54346" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 615px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p></p><p>These tacky straight-to-home-media jobs are the sort of thing I would usually actively avoid but when it comes to terrible recent slashers, it seems my lack of taste is boundless this November.</p><p></p><p>If Evil Things was <em>The (Wannabe) Blair Witch Project; Founders Day</em> was a <em>Scream</em> ripoff and<em> Final Summer </em>was<em> Friday The 13th Redux, You're All Gonna Die </em>would seem to be analogous with <em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:</em> a group of kids travelling who stumble into a rural community where they are pursued by a killer.</p><p></p><p>There are certainly more generic slasher stereotypes present here, but the Texas Chainsaw feels more obvious by virtue of the fact that it's filmed entirely on location in the middle of nowhere and that it's accompanied by an unpleasant soundtrack that hurts the ears. Imagine several singing bowl bells being played at a very specific pitch and volume that's beyond the comfort zone. Then throw in tinnitus and you're on the right lines. Not only is the score nasty, the sound design is the worst thing about this film, with the "music" drowning out almost all of the mumbled dialogue.</p><p></p><p>The backstory element is done to the Nth degree here, though it it somewhat more interesting than the one in <em>Final Summer </em>(for whatever that's worth). Sadly, the backstory's main "twist" regarding the killer of the nasty man could be seen coming from a mile away (and it was lifted right from <em>Dynasty</em>). </p><p></p><p>As with Evil Things, there's a sense the actors are going for naturalistic. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's clear the actors are either inexperienced (Taylour Geiss) or driving home the "naturalism" too aggressively (Robert Rodenbach) it ends up with performances that are overacted, which is not what this film needs. Once things kick off, the men are quickly offscreen and the girl who becomes annoyingly hysterical lasts far longer than she has a right to. Ultimately, though, we're left with a final girl who is passable enough. The reveal of the killer is pretty anticlimactic, but there are some satisfying moments - trying to convince the sheriff that she is not attacking the killer is pretty decent, even if the sheriff's errors make her only a step up from a slasher sorority girl.</p><p></p><p>There are also some mysteries remaining (even if the biggest, for me, was: how has a rural labourer who has never left his small town ended up with bling, overly white Hollywood veneers).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 432379, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]You're All Gonna Die[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6] [/SIZE](2023) [IMG width="615px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BOTQ1YWFkNzQtMDY4NS00MWViLTlmYjQtMjljMGRiYzgyYWY4XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b56bfb245ea4c7e01f229a84f00f40075c836ab4b855604e62c9878b68f54346[/IMG] [/CENTER] These tacky straight-to-home-media jobs are the sort of thing I would usually actively avoid but when it comes to terrible recent slashers, it seems my lack of taste is boundless this November. If Evil Things was [I]The (Wannabe) Blair Witch Project; Founders Day[/I] was a [I]Scream[/I] ripoff and[I] Final Summer [/I]was[I] Friday The 13th Redux, You're All Gonna Die [/I]would seem to be analogous with [I]The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:[/I] a group of kids travelling who stumble into a rural community where they are pursued by a killer. There are certainly more generic slasher stereotypes present here, but the Texas Chainsaw feels more obvious by virtue of the fact that it's filmed entirely on location in the middle of nowhere and that it's accompanied by an unpleasant soundtrack that hurts the ears. Imagine several singing bowl bells being played at a very specific pitch and volume that's beyond the comfort zone. Then throw in tinnitus and you're on the right lines. Not only is the score nasty, the sound design is the worst thing about this film, with the "music" drowning out almost all of the mumbled dialogue. The backstory element is done to the Nth degree here, though it it somewhat more interesting than the one in [I]Final Summer [/I](for whatever that's worth). Sadly, the backstory's main "twist" regarding the killer of the nasty man could be seen coming from a mile away (and it was lifted right from [I]Dynasty[/I]). As with Evil Things, there's a sense the actors are going for naturalistic. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's clear the actors are either inexperienced (Taylour Geiss) or driving home the "naturalism" too aggressively (Robert Rodenbach) it ends up with performances that are overacted, which is not what this film needs. Once things kick off, the men are quickly offscreen and the girl who becomes annoyingly hysterical lasts far longer than she has a right to. Ultimately, though, we're left with a final girl who is passable enough. The reveal of the killer is pretty anticlimactic, but there are some satisfying moments - trying to convince the sheriff that she is not attacking the killer is pretty decent, even if the sheriff's errors make her only a step up from a slasher sorority girl. There are also some mysteries remaining (even if the biggest, for me, was: how has a rural labourer who has never left his small town ended up with bling, overly white Hollywood veneers). [/QUOTE]
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