Gretel and Hansel, 2020 - 8/10
Audition, 1999 - 3/10

I think my opinions on both of these are pretty unpopular.

Gretel and Hansel's slow burning nature and focus on atmosphere and tension appealed to my preferences. Also, dark magic is always something that interests me. Definitely not without problems though, the only performance I found worthy of merit was Alice Krige's.

I found Audition incredibly boring, the first hour and a half felt to me felt very cheesy and overly simple in plot. Even the final 20 minutes, where the gore and horror comes in, weren't doing it for me. I just didn't really find myself caring.

Mark of the Devil (2020), directed by Diego Cohen.

I haven't seen a "possession" horror movie for quite a long time so I decided to refresh my memory. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece but I'm still disappointed. Such a waste of time. It was boring and full of poor special effects. The plot makes no sense as well. I feel as if someone wanted too much at once and it simply doesn't gel. At least, there are some nice Mexican landscapes shown with a drone.

Try the 1970 version with Udo Kier. Lord, was he hot when he was young!

Midsommar
 

This was the last horror film I watched.

This Ari Aster fella - (his first film was Hereditary) ... has an incredible grasp of the slow burn .. and the morbidly creepy.

He takes his time, does what few horror film makers do - develops his characters as people rather than simple chainsaw fodder.
He builds a sense of dread masterfully ... not with cheap jump out scares but by tapping into our brains finding fears we didn't even know we had.

Both of his films (so far) are the only horror flicks that left me feeling uncomfortably uneasy, but also exhilarated with the respect for a well made movie - something that's incredibly rare in the genre.

probably not for everyone...especially for those fans of the genre that measure the worth of a horror film by a slasher's teen body count.

Let me ask you this: would someone who doesn't really care for gore like it? I'm good with psychological horror, not so much with gore anymore. Not that it bothers me, but, I don't consider it to be horror. Just gross.

there definitely is some pretty shocking gore .. but that isn't the centre of the horror .. it enhances the horror.

hard to explain i guess. it's not slasher 'lets see how crazy each kill can be' kind of gore....

but it's pretty intense in one particular part

Kinda strange since you just recommended Mark of the Devil in your previous post...

I saw that when it came out, and I haven't watched it again. But, it kinda sticks with you, you know? ::big grin::

The Doll is a decent Indonesian film in the vain of Annabelle and The Conjuring. The tension is enjoyable and there's a good twist near the end.

Well recommended.

The Cave (La Cueva) (2014), directed by Alfredo Montero.

That rings a bell... I will have to watch it when the occasion arises. Btw, I've seen Udo Kier lately in Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019) and he still looks well! ::wink::