I realized the main component of a good movie (for me, of course) is charismatic characters. Good or evil, beautiful or not, emotional or not. The most important thing is remembering! Attractive.
“Necromentia” did not lack memorable characters. One, of course.
Morbius. It's not bad. You won’t find enough characters like that right now. Softness in the face and some fragility in the body, sadness and a slight melancholy in everything. Probably, such characters are less and less likely to avoid ridicule from other film heroes, screenwriters, viewers. A matter of taste. But that's what I'm looking for.
I experienced already quite rare for me feelings of surprise, excitement, awe from the cinema. This movie shook me up. It’s one of the few movies I’ve squandered to get a taste of the highlights right after watching. I did not want to let go of this dark story, saturated with despair.
The whole story, the whole life of the heroes - this dark tunnel. When I imagined Hell this way, I involuntarily said to myself, “This is probably Hell.” There is a road, but it does not lead anywhere. Revenge is all that is left, but it leads nowhere.
It's a great story that probably taught us nothing, but it's appealing, sad, sad. Cinema is not banal, not stupid, saturated with feelings, albeit dark, and at the same time far from perfect, not overstated, bloodthirsty.
It's not thrashing for thrashing. It's not nonsense for the sake of delirium. It's not "horror." This is a high-quality, thought-out movie, with appropriate contrasts, appropriate characters - people and monsters, appropriate atmosphere, colors and music. In some places, it seems that the author contained much more than we considered.
Few members of the genre of mysticism and (okay) horror bother my return to them. Necromentia will be revisited. I’m going to keep my eyebrows from the gamut of heavy feelings over the scene, which can be eloquently titled “Just fucking die!” And I will shake again at the final dialogue. Thank you for "son," by the way. That fact knocked out the film's score far beyond 10.