What did you guys think of The Ritual?

It's typical soi horror

This is the only netflix original content I have ever liked.

I liked it, definitely worth watching it. The shots of the wilderness when hiking are nice, sort of reminds me of "The Hunter".

I rate it 7/10

It had a lot going for it until the monster showed up. I was not a fan of the half moose half poe from zelda.

Boring stupid soihorror. It's literally a magic pagan monster God being worshipped by a cult. Vidya tier story.

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Surprisingly comfy movie at points. Monster's cool, so is the store light aesthetic in the forest (wish they did more of that). Good movie.

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Pretty decent, worth a watch but it's not going to blow you away.

Maybe if you weren't a poor newfag youd have a pass and wouldn't make yourself look like a dumb fuck

how is it vidya tier? It's done far more in films than games

Pass shows poster ID?

I never knew that.

you have eight words to tell me why I should this tonight instead of Tokyo Drifter

spooky ancient god creature hangs up Christmas decorations

what is it about

It's about a bunch of american guys who go hiking in Northern Europe after one of their friends gets murdered in a botched robbery.
Then they end up in a spooky forest with something stalking them.

It's okish, but a big part of the film is a nu-horror subplot about the MC coming to terms with not saving his friend from the robbery, which is about as boring and played out as you can imagine.

>american
They're bongs

they are no Americans

Solid. Liked it.
Lovercraftian horror, ostensibly.
Actually survivor's guilt and how life ends friendships.

Brits then. It's not really important to the plot.

Loved the beginning hated the end

It’s ok until the main character literally goes REEEEEEE at the ancient forest god monster like an autist and it backs off

yup, also I was glad they didnt puss out for the monster reveal. We got two good shots of the thing and it had a knarly af design

It was okay until the monster showed up, and they just kept fucking showing it. Looked fucking weird and creepy silhouetted against the fire, but then they just kept showing it more and more and the ending was stupid.

>It's like symbolism and shit for his triumph over his inner turmoil, mannnn.
>Sips onions.

me and "The Gang" go into the woods to chill in a cabin with now power and no running watter ever summer since we were 13. We are like 28 now and still havent missed a year

>Lovercraftian horror, ostensibly.
Not really, no. The fact you think le spooky cult and a monster = Lovecraftian shows how much little you know about that term.

the headless horseman cant cross the bridge dude... this is standard horrorfare rules

lmao I forgot about that, fucking ridiculous, horror is dead

ok well define lovecraftian then faggot

It's still an old god from beyond known history. There is definitively something on that direction.

I wish the Headless Horesman got more love.

A dude who rides around on a horse decapitating people with an axe with a flaming pumpkin for a head is such a badass concept. I guess we had that tv show a few years back but it kinda petered out

The cabin and the guy seeing the oter guy dead in the tree and then screaming were creepy af.

This. Most of Lovercraft's work would not qualify for some people.

>It's still an old god from beyond known history.
It's an old norse forest spirit that kills people. You don't get much less lovecraftian than that.

It's all right.

It's very well executed, the visuals are spot on and the performances are all around solid.

-Obviously not filmed anywhere near scandinavia, probably somewhere in Scottland by the looks of it.
-It falls back on tired all tropes like the ingroup fighting and arguing which is so fucking tedious at this point and is obviously just filler. Things like that can be solved so much more subtle via subtext and missplaced words in dialoge. 15-20 minutes of the film is wasted on that and doesnt provide anything we dont allready know.
-It borrows way to much of it's emotional beats from The Descent, so it isnt really that original.

The stick people figures was a cool touch though.

you can't sip on an onion

You wanna bet?

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Cosmic horror centering on themes of human insignificance, limitation, the fragility of the human species' identity, human transience, the past being inherently alien and sometimes actively malevolent, the universe being at best uncaring and at worst coldly hostile, the existence of simply incompatible alien life and strict materialism.

Big monster in the woods and a cult really don't make something Lovecraftian.

It's explicitly supernatural, it's a bastard child of Loki and thus has an accessible body of human mythology behind it. It's very quantifiable and doesn't challenge your conception of your reality, history or planet the way something actually alien does. The film does not focus on Lovecraftian themes either.

it wasnt bad

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>It's very quantifiable and doesn't challenge your conception of your reality, history or planet the way something actually alien does.
An old, physical, pre-christian god certainly does.
>The film does not focus on Lovecraftian themes either.
This is a WAY more compelling argument, imho

This post made me cringe

Not him but that's gay

I feel like the movie covered the majority of elements you mentioned. It takes place in a seemingly-normal world but the existence of the beast implies other Nordic mythological figures may have been real as well (the past being alien). The dudes are all totally fucked (human limitation, fragility, uncaring and hostile universe). That said, it doesn't have the scope you mention, which is a pretty critical aspect of Lovecraftian shit and it pulls that weak "man besting an old-world god at it's own game" ending.

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The scene with the house they stayed in was v spooky.

>An old, physical, pre-christian god certainly does.
Not him, but you really do not understand the concept of 'lovecraftian'. If the monster has a link to existing human legends and stories then it's not lovecraftian.
If being old, legendary and evil was enough to be lovecraftian, then the concept of lovecraftian horror would be meaningless.

>An old, physical, pre-christian god certainly does.
Not in the magnitude. Basically, the difference is the Ritual monster isn't a slap in the face. Its existence has precedence, its existence implies something not only knowable, but very human-centric, and something that's been studied and is even followed (albeit in a bastardized way) in the modern day. There is somethign quantifiable behind it. It's a lot different when your species gets instantaneously mindjacked and sent back in time 600 million years by aliens who achieved temporal immortality and physically exist on a level we only used to think gods existed on. You also have to take into account the time period in which Lovecraft wrote, a lot of what he wrote would have been much bolder and stranger back when evolution was still being debated and figured out and we hadn't lived through decades of literary deconstruction and subversion. Simply put, a 1920s audience wasn't nearly as comfortable with absolute materialism as we are.

The Ritual is not Lovecraftian horror, it's folk horror. The old gods, the old ways, out in the country, alone, the divide between urban and rural mentally and culturally, their practices coming off as horrible and strange, The Ritual has much more of that.

See You can see lovercraftian stories from lovercaft that re-imagine existing myths. Like the sphynx one written for Houdini. There the statue was a modification of the original horror.
Here is the same, that thing maybe existed as an echo in the legends, but for sure its true, horrific nature and features were forgotten.

Not all of Lovecrafts horrors were other worldly, but i doubt the common understand of that word really takes that into account

The implied existence of Nordic gods doesn't make the past alien, the existence of pre-human civilizations makes the past alien, the implication that life on Earth was seeded here by other intelligent, material life makes our past alien. It ties into the fragility of human identity as the masters of the planet, as the dominant lifeforms, which then ties into human transience, it would have to imply overtly that we weren't the first and we won't be the last. The real existence of human mythology gives too much importance to humanity. The creature needs to exist beyond and without human context to be Lovecraftian. It needs to be, in every sense of the word, alien.

There's much better folk horror you could watch

It's pretty explicitly stated to be a nameless bastard child of Loki, no? The problem is there needs to be hints to the contrary for it to even begin qualifying as Lovecraftian, and that isn't in the film.

And an ancient god literally grazing on people does not communicate that?
I think you are reaching. The themes are not STRONG, and for sure this guy has a point >The film does not focus on Lovecraftian themes either
But there is definitively something.

user, in the modern world, we killed God.
Before we killed God, in the pre-modern world they killed the old gods.
That being existing puts humans 2 steps back. Is quite shocking and reality re-writing, no matters how much you are trying to spin it.

The scene where the guy finds the immortals was creepy as fuck, desu. For that scene alone I don't regret watching the movie at all

let's get one thing straight, heathen.
There is only one true God.
Pagan "gods" are lowkey just intelligent demons that peasants worshiped because they had no understanding of what God was at the time, and assumed any powerful alien being must have been a "god."
There's a reason pagans were wiped off the earth. They helped sustain the existence of powerful demons.

Was spooky up until the monster reveal. Why are monster reveals always so bad and ruin otherwise good horror? Same with Sinister. The unknown is so much scarier, it lets your imagination do the work. And yet it's lazy to just let that be the case in every movie, so how exactly do you do an effective monster reveal?

>Lovecraft wrote some different stories, so that means that lovecraftian horror can be anything I want it to be.

Jesus christ.... the concept of lovecraftian horror is specifically about his stories that feature unexplained, unknown and uncaring horrors lurking below the surface of the mundane world and the way that they reveal human civilization to be meaningless, feeble and doomed.
Norse monsters in the woods are not even remotely related to the concept of lovecraftian horror, any more than his stories about cannibals or cats.

You guys need to learn what lovecraftian horror is, good grief.

Fine movie though.

because it's a netflix movie.
They can't make an actual folk horror movie because they are too arthouse-y for mainstream audiences.
there has to be a clear cut monster for them to go "oooh ahh" at or else they consider the movie to have scammed them.
modern movie viewers are the equivalent of people going to see freak shows. they just want to see freaks, they don't care about the themes or atmosphere.

>the concept of lovecraftian horror is specifically about his stories that feature unexplained, unknown and uncaring horrors lurking below the surface of the mundane world
>and the way that they reveal human civilization to be meaningless, feeble and doomed.
The movie still has the first half

In english please.

Are you trying to undermine my arguments in such petty way?
I divided the sentence in 2 halves, and stated that the movie has the first half.

>Norse monsters in the woods are not even remotely related to the concept of lovecraftian horror
See "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"

Your post would have made more sense if what your saying wasn't the opposite of reality. Like everyone has been trying to tell you, a Norse monster in the woods is not unknown, unexplained or uncaring. It's a mundane creature of legend that isn't any more lovecraftian than a dragon or big snake.

Not all stories by lovecraft are lovecraftian, retard.

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>Not all stories by lovecraft are lovecraftian, retard.
I think we are done here.
What I can suggest you is to actually read Lovercraft and not copypaste your opinions from reddit.

solid cthulhu-tier film until the 3rd act. thats when it ruined the whole setup.

but if you dont care for the cthulhu requirement, then its a fine show.

>Your post would have made more sense if what your saying wasn't the opposite of reality. Like everyone has been trying to tell you, a Norse monster in the woods is not unknown, unexplained or uncaring. It's a mundane creature of legend that isn't any more lovecraftian than a dragon or big snake.
Not really, autismo. See

Came here to post this

>dude pisses all over himself
>other dude praying in front of idol naked

You've already been told what the concept of "lovecraftian" is and why it doesn't just mean "everything lovecraft wrote" by multiple people at this point. If you haven't gotten it yet, then you're never going to get it, so yeah I think we are done now.

>user, in the modern world, we killed God.
Embarrassing and retarded. By that logic shit like The Mummy is lovecraftian.

what

>You've already been told what the concept of "lovecraftian" is and why it doesn't just mean "everything lovecraft wrote" by multiple people at this point. If you haven't gotten it yet, then you're never going to get it, so yeah I think we are done now.
Read the tale you fucking imbecile. Barring the fact that if ALL of the elements listed are necessary, and always present, is debatable.

>Embarrassing and retarded. By that logic shit like The Mummy is lovecraftian.
But the movie does not even fly over any implication of the mummy existing.
While the reveal of that corner of the world in which something ELSE lingered and such something considered humans nothing but food/playthings is present in the Ritual.
Are you autistic? Are you tone AND genre deaf?
How much lovercraft did you actually read BTW?

it's Lovecraft

It was a great movie up to the second he was escaping and punched that old bitch in the face. It was like Charlie Chaplin tiger comical how she fell and felt like a 180 degree turn from the serious tone of the movie. Then the rest was just boring as hell and the monster was underwhelming. Fuck this movie. I have never seen a movie go from so good to so bad so fast.

>Retard bongs decide to 'hike' in based pagan Sweden mountains.
>Get fucked up by Norse mythical creature
Kino, indeed.

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Those are actually both me.

Understand that it's not the monster that's important, it's what the monster's existence implies. Cthulhu might be being and scary, but ultimately, it's what that means for us and the planet that's scary. There is something to be said for the existence of pagan old gods shaking our world up, but the problem is not everyone is an atheist, or materialist, or Christian. It's when something contrary to our human notions comes along, that's the Lovecraftian horror, the redefining of human thought and existence beyond the bounds of our personal contexts and concepts.

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What are some other horror kinos with a heavy outdoor setting? My favorite, especially wide open nature areas

The Witch

I liked Apostle more but it wasn't bad. I don't regret watching it

>It's when something contrary to our human notions comes along
Are you being intentionally obtuse, or what?

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The Endless

stay away from anything that has netflix written on it

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It was a good movie. Not great, but good. Only the end was memorable

like hwat?

nice commentary about modern ''masculinity''

it actually criticises ''soibois'' and modern masculinity

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The twist at the end was about on par with 'The Village'. It was good up until the capture/escape garbage.

Niggers.

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My hometown slowly turning from le 95% face to 70% face over twenty five years is more Lovecraftian than any amount of tentacle porn.

This honestly seeing the monster ruins the movie. How very troubling that we still haven't figured this out yet.

Because it doesn't ruin the movie at all? Only soibois think that.
You see the monster in literally ever single popular horror movie in existence.

Definitely worth a watch

That show was fantastic in the first season, trying to describe it to people was great. Oh it's about Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow but he was George Washington's anti-paranormal agent and he was trapped underground then woke up in modern times and he teams up with a sassy black cop to fight spooky crimes. Good stuff. Shame Season 2 took such a nosedive.

it's pretty good but the actors overplay their emotions and are pretty cringy, would be better if a decent actors played in it
good for a B horror movie thi

Eh. It was ok I guess. I didn't hate it when I was watching it but it isn't something that stuck with with me either. In many ways, that's actually the worst thing I can say about a movie though.

It was better than Hereditary tho

>The Endless
wasn't bad. better than the ritual. worse than the witch.

Absolutely lost it when the dude punched that old lady in the face lmao
>this is for me mates

Hereditary felt new and original, The Ritual on other hand is exactly like 100 other "we wandered into wrong forest uh oh" movies

Hereditary felt new to anyone who hasn't seen a slow burn family-in-crisis drama movie before.

>...Now with Ghosts and Cultists!

Yeah, very clean set up for the rest of the movie

I expected more. It was better than Blair Witch though, which was deforestation in slow-burn visual form.

Pretty ok but I felt like it was sort of by the numbers
Well executed but all the beats seemed like any standard horror movie

Is it even Netflix Original? I saw a trailer in Cinema .

>horror movie that takes place in Sarek around summer
oh neat a horror movie where the sun doesn’t set, might be interesting
>pitch black night
wew lad

Blair Witch Project
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers 1956
Rosemary's Baby
Prince of Darkness
Evil Dead 1981
Bird Box (it's bad, but still popular)
It comes at Night
Oculus

I'm sure there are more

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They're all shit

You said popular, not good

I didn't say anything

one of those movies I remember watching but have no idea what is was about

>They're all shit
>blair witch project
>shit
Ummm..excuse me sweetie but that is one of the greatest documentaries of all time.

I unironically like Blair witche. But probably mostly because of the nostalgia element. I first watched it almost 20 years ago with a group of friends.

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Both of these. I guess I'm glad we saw the monster but it definitely stopped being creepy pretty much as soon as they were captured.