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  • Death of a Unicorn, a horror-comedy from A24
  • The Woman in the Yard, a psychological horror from Blumhouse
  • A Working Man, an action-thriller from MGM

I'm making this post to bring attention to original movies being released that people here might not have heard about. If it's recieved well, perhaps I'll make this a weekly series of posts about originals being released.

Okay, technically, A Working Man is based on a book, but for all intents and purposes, it's original.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If you told me that these posters were parody artwork I would belive you.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

The text is too clear to be AI; must be real!

...this timeline sucks.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced they aren't

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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Original movies come out all the time. Any given week, if you look up what's currently playing, there are some original movies. I'm so sick of people constantly complaining there's nothing original because they'd know about all the original movies coming out if they actually cared. It's like hearing someone complain there's nowhere to buy groceries while on a street with three grocery stores.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

nobody advertising originals means nobody will see them since they might sa well not exist. Not everyones browser home page is the imdb released today list. Basically nobodies is. Most people are casual viewers. I'd say its very good casual viewer is getting exhausted of capeshit or sequels and wants something new. Unless you want only films people see to be disney cashgrabs or marvel copy pastes, I don't see why you complain people bringing attention to different films, especially ones not from hollywood.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

I'm not complaining about bringing attention to original films. I'm just saying if all the people whining "there's nothing original" actually wanted original, they'd bother to look up what's playing

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Yeah but I think it's childish to complain about movies "might as well not existing" if you haven't even looked for them.

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Went to see Unicorn just as it came out - purely by chance, I was in town and needed to kill a couple of hours.

You'll find this out if you look at most reviews, but it's a solid 6/10 movie. It's competent and has an interesting premise, but it doesn't do anything terribly original with it. The "scare" moments were predictable to even a passive fan of horror, though not unearned.

What brings it out of mediocrity are the performances; the whole cast is bringing their A game. Even if the characters never really surprise you, they're still somehow believable and it's easy to root for (or against) them.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

All three of these look pretty interesting.

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