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More like “Ass.”

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gross cosmic space horror is back baby!!! atmospheric and trippy as fuck. worth watching in the theater alone for the psychedelic visuals & incredible score. shudder is really giving us the goods lately 🌀🪐

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We have John Carpenter at home (complementary)

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Ash is a frustratingly uneventful slow burn that finally wakes up in the final act—just in time to salvage some of the face-melty, ooey-gooey sci-fi horrors it spends the first hour and change only teasing through fleeting, non-sequitur flash jumpscares. Flying Lotus wears his influences loudly, but instead of synthesizing them into something fresh, the film mostly drifts through a haze of familiar beats without any urgency.

The script somehow manages to be both incoherent and entirely predictable, which is almost impressive in its own way. Eiza González and Aaron Paul do what they can, but the film gives them little to work with. I was, however, impressed with how much effort they put into hyping the film and ing…

Review by Haunted Hippie ★★★½ Liked

Mind fuck gross out horror on the silver screen??? In this economy?? We’re so back

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Close enough. Welcome back, Dead Space.

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soundtrack hard carried

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Wanted to love Ash, but this was hard to sit through. The components for a good film were all here, it’s stylistically interesting, has a solid cast, the classic aliens invading a spaceship premise, and Eiza González looking stunningly beautiful as the final girl.. Unfortunately this just really didn’t work for me, even with a 90 minute runtime this dragged on and never had me invested.

~ SXSW Day Five ~

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💤24%
🔙A Quiet Place🔙 
🔜Risky Business🔜

Thought today was a good day to give some 2025 movies a watch, found Ash to have quite an interesting synopsis. Nothing out of the sci-fi norm but the premise and especially the visual style peaked my interest enough to check it out. 

Shocker, this isn’t great. It suffers the most from its underwhelming acting coinciding with some pacing issues, this never really allowed me to invest in the characters or story developments. It’s also flat footed and the story is all over the place, by the time we reach the hour mark I’m completely checked out and I was just happy the finish line was in sight. 

But if I’m honest that last…

Review by Andrew ★★★

"Sorry for your loss."

I went into Ash knowing absolutely nothing about it besides some of the cast. I chose to add it to my watchlist because of Paul and Uwais. The soundtrack, fantastical and perfect. The visuals, quite trippy and on point, down to the weird neon colour filter that's a must have if you're one of the never ending fake influencers using neon lights all over your rooms.

It was an often surreal visual headtrip and while I was fairly certain Paul we be great, I was very impressed by González's lead performance. That said, Paul's performance felt off and a little cheesy.

I did not expect this to be a mostly psychedelic murder mystery, but it was. A murder mystery with flashes of surreal horror. Until the final 30min or so and it kicks the horror into maximum overdrive, briefly reminding me of The Thing.

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Not my brain turning to ashes halfway through… that second half ate DOWN tho

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genuinely what the fuck was happening at any given moment