11/24/2023 0 Comments New scary movies on netflix![]() ![]() The ending was so perfect that it became clear that the entire convoluted plot was retroactively engineered to get us there at all costs. The day I can’t be thrilled by full-frontal male nudity, girl-on-girl cello playing that’s grotesque yet anatomically correct, and a dismembered man whose eyes and mouth have been sealed shut will be the day I retire from film criticism. The directing was competent and the twists were fun, but I never felt that it transcended “relaxing B-movie that you never think about again” territory.īut that perverse, glorious ending assuaged all of my concerns. Anyone who has seen my “Honk If You Love Orchestral Drama with Maggot Vomiting” bumper sticker can attest to the fact that the premise is right up my alley, but the execution wasn’t always there. I’ll admit that I was on the fence about this movie up until the last 10 minutes. But to paraphrase Steve Jobs, great art doesn’t follow public taste - it stretches it. No, I did not wake up this morning expecting to see a bony wrist inserted into a human vagina after having its hand chopped off. But every once in a while, a movie like “The Perfection” comes along to remind us that there’s a wide world of unexplored sexual terrain that’s waiting for anyone with the creativity (and supply of meat cleavers) to expand their horizons. So, at a certain point, it’s natural to assume that your days of discovering brand new sex acts are behind you. The human body has a finite number of orifices - and a finite number of limbs that can be inserted into those orifices. AF The Aftermath: Did I Just Watch Somebody Get Wristed? ![]() It’s a brutal reality of the entertainment landscape that more and more titles are going poof by the day - and an existential threat to cinema found on the fringes when “ Watch the lesbian cellist rape revenge conspiracy epic before it’s too late…” just feels like common sense. ( And they’re both directed by men! Parallels!) But the politically minded Netflix gore-fest and the Cate Blanchett-starring cancel culture portrait are both dread-inducing lesbian revenge sagas set in the cutthroat classical music world - each with spectacular endings serving as brutal punctuation on metaphors for social criticism - each with obvious Park Chan-wook influences. Yes, the two movies are ultimately worlds apart in tone and target audience. So it was a pleasant surprise when word-of-mouth proved enough to make “The Perfection” into a proper moment Williams’ red look from the film was briefly a top carousel mainstay on Netflix’s homepage.īut what has that virality done for “The Perfection” lately? It was with a heavy heart that I watched Todd Field’s “TÁR” come and go from the film conversation last year with next to no mention of this oddly similar work. Spoiler-wary critics ( myself included) were reticent to explain why a seemingly schlocky Netflix original knocking off Universal’s casting could actually be a cult classic in the making back in 2019. Far removed from the “Get Out” fervor that might’ve once propped it up, Shephard’s body horror can safely stand on its own as an uneven but gobsmacking delight - and you don’t need to be tricked into cuing it up. In reality, “The Perfection” is so much better, bolder, gayer, and grosser than that. Think something akin to Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash,” but starring a Leighton Meester in “The Roommate”-type and themes even more toxic to queer women. Watch the trailer for “The Perfection” now (it auto-plays on the platform, and is still maddeningly misleading) and you can easily envision a C-tier flick about an obsessive, unstable ex-cellist meeting her prodigy replacement and getting even. Marketing for “The Perfection” positioned Williams’ perceived duplicity brilliantly in its new context: effectively inviting audiences they were confident would try the film anyway to misunderstand her complicated character as a full-stop bad guy in the movie’s promotion. Fresh off her Froot Loop-induced lunacy, the former “Girls” star was a newly minted scream queen, known for playing type-A villains with elaborately hidden motives. ![]() When “The Perfection” hit Netflix in 2019, there was no question that distributing Allison Williams’ first film since Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” was a decent play among subscribers. ![]() Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Passages’ to ‘TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’ ![]()
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