#umma film

[killingg-eve]

I need another release of the film "Umma" where umma is a covert narcissist

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

I watched "Umma" tonight and I hope Sandra Oh and Fivel Stewart have good physiotherapists because they had to carry that entire film

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #861 - Umma

[horrorcryingscreencaps]

[cravingdemise]

Watch Umma (2022)

[averyqueerhalloween]

A - Annabelle

U - Underworld

T - The Thing

U - Umma

M - My Bloody Valentine

N - Night Of The Living Dead

(Yes, my real name is actually Autumn 😁)

Your turn! 🎃🍁

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[emeto-film-critic]

Umma - 2022

SAFE

[myhahnestopinion]

THE 2022 AARONS - Worst Film

I could make a long, elaborate joke here about needlessly bad movies, but I’d rather get right to the category than Babylon. Here are The Aarons for Worst Film:

#10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

A Final Girl spends decades preparing for a rematch with the masked killer who murdered all her friends? You’d be forgiven for thinking you saw this film before. Billed (once again) as the one-true sequel to the seminal 1974 horror film, 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (once again) butchers the franchise. Linking a lazy approximation of the ‘legacy-quel’ format popularized by 2018’s Halloween to generational trauma, gun culture, and gentrification, the film’s skin-deep themes are even more meaningless than the original’s nihilism. No amount of gore can mask the fact that this franchise has clearly run out of gas.

#9. Firestarter

With Stephen King setting movie-goers on fire in the wake of It, there was every reason to think returning to his other early works would yield similar results. The problem is that the 2022 adaptation of his 1980 novel doesn’t know where to start with updating the story to present day. Following a pyrokinetic girl and her father on the run from government forces, the movie makes no mention of modern expansions to the surveillance state, and its simplistic tale of gifted individuals feels helplessly quaint in a culture dominated by superhero cinema. The music, composed by the legendary John Carpenter, is admittedly straight fire, but the movie’s murky cinematography snuffs out any other remaining appeal.

#8. Choose or Die

Choose or Die has a clear survival instinct, opting to throw anything and everything at the screen to keep its thin premise alive. The only real winner in the film about a cursed 1980s video-game contest is horror icon Robert Englund, cashing in on his clout with a few minutes of voiceover work. Everyone else struggles to jump through the hoops of its inconsistent rule-set and inadequate budget (The on-the-fly filmmaking has all the visual-flair of the text-based adventures it’s inspired by). The prize for powering-through is the offer of a prospective franchise; Netflix browsers would be better off choosing any number of the streamer’s other options.

#7. Halloween Ends

Heavily promoted as the final confrontation between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, the thirteenth Halloween ends not with a bang but with a wimp named Corey Cunningham oddly hogging the spotlight. Spending the majority of its runtime on a coming-of-age Romeo-and-Juliet romance, the film’s shake-up of franchise formula is a smug trick on the audience that never turns into a treat. Hypothesizing on why evil endures, Ends is undone by an inability to express its ideas intelligibly, and by robbing agency from its most important character. Despite its definitive title, the latest installment will almost certainly not be the last, but it does leave the franchise in bad shape yet again.

#6. Margaux

Margaux is a smart house; Margaux is a dumb film. To be fair, even a regular brick-and-mortar building would seem intelligent compared to the group of college students lured into the titular deathtrap. Not even self-aware jokes at their expense can turn the characters, played by a collection of CW stars, into tolerable company. The only other expense not spared by Margaux is the budget for its nauseating white goo, the sickly sustenance of a house-wide 3-D printer, that swamps every frame of the film. The oozing substance is reflective of Margaux’s unsound foundation: an utterly illogical series of events is what brings down the house. 

#5. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

It was always going to take an inspired touch to bring Mr. Harrigan’s Phone to life, and John Lee Hancock couldn’t answer the call. The Blind Side director delivers a dreadfully faithful adaptation of Steven King’s short story, a hodgepodge of the author’s familiar hang-ups including a decade-late technophobia around iPhone applications. The script does no service to stars Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell, both doing their best to sell an undying connection between a rich, cranky old man and the young boy who reads to him. In a clear-cut generational divide, King’s son undisputedly took the crown for phone-based horror last year; curious parties should just call up Joe Hill’s Black Phone instead.

#4. Umma

Umma isn’t the mother of all bad films but is highly-derivative of far better ones. The horror film manages to be only the third-best film from 2022 about an Asian-Immigrant mother overcoming generation trauma to become less overbearing to her daughter (The others being Aarons-Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once and Pixar’s Turning Red). This familiarity doesn’t stop at just one medium either: the mother’s self-induced electro-phobia also invites unfavorable comparisons to the TV show Better Call Saul. This all might be more forgivable if Umma wasn’t so neglectful of its jump scares, putting in only the minimal effort needed to raise the film up to feature length. 

#3. Grimcutty

The Hulu-Original horror film starts off looking especially grim but is ultimately a cut above those worse fears: the meme-based movie is merely incompetent, rather than incompetent and ignorant. Writer/director John Ross is well-aware that the bygone Momo Challenge his concept is based on was a hoax but that seems to be the extent of his comprehension, especially when it comes to the basics of filmmaking. His laughable script and languid pacing spread thin the legend of the Grimcutty, a lopsided monstrosity that’s meme-material for all the wrong reasons. The film is successful in at least one regard: it will unquestionably convince viewers that cutting back on screen-time isn’t always a bad thing.

#2. Morbius 

Yes, it’s Morbin’ time. The maladroit movie Morbius turns The Living Vampire into a lifeless vestigial entry in Sony’s speciously-named Spider-Man Universe. Despite decades of comic history to draw from and even more years of tragic movie monsters, the anti-hero’s origin offers viewers absolutely nothing to sink their teeth into. The dramatic tension is as hollow as the character’s bones, as the story constantly shies away from any moral complexities to receive a wide-appeal PG-13 rating (which didn’t stop the movie from bombing… twice). If there was any remaining doubt, the desperate post-credits scene makes it obvious: this is the work of vultures scavenging their IP for everything they can get.

AND THE WORST FILM OF 2022 IS...

#1. After Ever Happy

One after another, the adaptations of Anna Todd’s Wattpad novels have lowered the bar for romantic movies and romantic partners everywhere; the fourth film doesn’t break that cycle. Encompassing everything from arson to overdoses, After Ever Happy untethers the unceasing ups-and-downs of Tessa Young and Hardin Scott’s relationship from any semblance of structure. Starting with a sensible climax for the last entry and hanging up its hat without resolving any of its new plot threads, the franchise’s footage seems to now spill over from entry to entry with no rhyme or reason. As such, the fifth film is now mandatory viewing, if only because one can never be happy before confirming this story is over for good.

NEXT UP: THE 2022 AARON FOR BEST DIRECTOR!

[rye-views]

Umma (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim. 7.3/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

An uncle who we don't even recognize comes to our home and starts berating us? No thank you. I am not having an abusive mom haunt me after her death.

Idk, but the beginning bw Chrissy and her mom just didn't seem like a mother-daughter relationship. I just feel like Amanda could be better to her kid in general. I feel like this makes Korean culture seem more foreign. Even for a Korean American, the Korean seems foreign. The uncle doesn't even have a Korean accent. This is so traumatizing for the whole crew.

Why in movies do we never rinse our mouth after brushing our teeth? Who knew a nine-tailed fox could be so small?

[lurkingshan]

Anticipating the LITBC Adaptations

One of the questions @bengiyo asked us this week is what parts of the book we are most looking forward to seeing in the upcoming film and drama adaptations. I had a good convo with @doyou000me and @stuffnonsenseandotherthings in the comments here, and I wanted to talk a bit about why I am excited for these adaptations.

Most folks who watch a lot of South Korean media know that there is precious little LGBTQ+ representation in Korean dramas and film. In mainstream kdrama, we are lucky if we get a queer side character a couple times a year, and it's even more rare for those characters to get a romantic partner (but not unheard of, see Be Melodramatic my beloved). There has been a big uptick in Korean bl production over the last few years, but most of those projects are underfunded and fly under the radar (with notable exceptions like Semantic Error, The Eighth Sense, and Love for Love's Sake). So it is a very big deal to me to see two mainstream adaptations of Love in the Big City, a story that is undeniably centered on a queer lived experience.

Let's talk about the film first. When I first saw the announcement that we would get a film adaptation starring Kim Go Eun, Steve Noh, and Kang Ha Neul, I was ecstatic. These are huge names in Korean media, drama headliners and movie stars. Now, does the choice to focus only on part 1 and center the story on Jaehee mean this project likely won't feel fully rooted in Young's queer perspective? Absolutely, we should recognize that and manage our expectations accordingly. But there will be a mainstream film about the relationship between a woman and a gay man living together, and that is already a very big deal for South Korea. We have to look at this project from the context of Korean social politics and recognize that it signifies progress. And I am still hopeful that Young will feel like a fully realized character, even if we are unlikely to see the full extent of his depth and complexity represented in this film.

And that is where the drama comes in. Sang Young Park himself is the screenwriter for this adaptation, and based on the production photos @my-rose-tinted-glasses shared here, we are getting all four parts of the story in this version. The cast here is not as famous as the film headliners, but they are recognizable, solid actors who have had main roles in other dramas. I don't know how these two projects came to be made at the same time, so I can only say that having them premiere around the same time is genius, whether by intention or happenstance. Because I can easily imagine that people who are exposed to this story for the first time via the film might then go check out the drama, where they will see a much fuller picture of Young's life and an authentic queer experience. @archiveofmystuff shared that there has been some reporting about the long process to secure funding for this full novel adaptation, and I'm not surprised it was difficult. But with Sang Young Park attached I feel confident that we will get a solid version of this story, even if it can't get quite as explicit about all the gory details as the novel did. I can't wait to see Young, Jaehee, Umma, Hyung, and Gyu-ho on my screen, and I'll be so curious to see how he structures the show to fit the four parts of his novel into eight 50-minute episodes. There are so many exciting possibilities and I am feeling optimistic.

TL; DR: it's a big deal that these adaptations are being made, and it will surely result in more people seeing Young's story. It's a signal of positive progress in the Korean media landscape, and I welcome it.

[moodyinapinkbow]

🕯️An Aquarius Spooky Watchlist🕯️

Max (HBO):

Young Frankenstein

The Witch

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Film)

The Curse of La Llorona

Prime:

The Exorcist

Drag Me to Hell

Renfield

Polaroid

Hulu:

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

The X Files

American Haunting

Cobweb

Netflix:

Umma

Black Mirror

Cabinet of Curiosities

All Of Us Are Dead

[makoodles]

I’m thinking about the fact that sometimes reader sleeps with the silly family, like they just sleep over. Does Jake just place her on top of him and the kids just sprawl over her? (Look definitely got his tail wrapped around one of her limbs cause that’s his umma) is neytiri like laying on jakes outstretched arm with her hand on reader back while she’s sprawled out on her belly with her head in jakes chest(he places his hand on her ass. Pervert) like now I’m curious what the sleeping arrangements are cause I don’t know if the whole family still sleep in that large canapy when the kids got older or if it was when they were still little

i love this idea shgkshg

i think Omaticaya families probably all sleep together in a shared kelku home high in the trees when their children are young, like we see in the beginning of the second film! As the kids grow older, it's custom to expand the home further to give them more space.

so early on, when the kids are young, they definitely all sleep in one big pile. Jake has reader pulled on top of his chest (both because he likes her close and because he doesn't want any of the kids to accidentally roll on her in their sleep), and neytiri is curled into his side with her slender hand resting against your back.

lo'ak definitely tries to shuffle as close as possible to you, his tail wrapped around wherever he can reach. he loves holding your hand, too! it relaxes him when he feels your hands, so similar to his, pressed together. neteyam curls up against neytiri, but he likes to worm his little face in between you and jake sometimes, just because he likes to feel close to everyone all at once. kiri prefers her own space, and often squirms away from the pile of limbs to sleep on her own a couple of feet away. when she does sleep in the family pile, she sprawls just as badly as Jake does, her limbs all akimbo as she flops across her family

as the kids get older, that kind of communal sleep arrangement becomes a thing of the past. the kids become teenagers and need their own space - and their parents are grateful for the space, too! but that doesn't mean that you don't miss the familiar comfort of your little sleepovers with the family. as time goes on, when you stay over in the Sully family home you end up sprawled across jake and neytiri exclusively, occasionally joined by tuk

it doesn't even really occur to you that your little sleepovers are growing more and more intimate as the kids start sleeping in their own little areas! you've always slept with your friends like this, after all!

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

We’re back with the #CAPEWatchGuide for #SpookySeason! 👻 Queue these horror films from #2020 to now featuring Asian American and Asian diaspora to your watch list!

👻RAGING GRACE (Directed/Written by @pariszarcilla; Starring @maxeigenmann, @jaeden.paige) 👻IT LIVES INSIDE (Directed/Written by @bduttafilms; Starring @megansuri) 👻UNSEEN (Directed by @fouryoko; Starring @midoriglory, @jojopurdy) 👻DAUGHTER (Starring Vivien Ngô, @ianaiexander) 👻KNOCK AT THE CABIN (Directed and co-written by @mnight; Starring @kristencui_actss, @davebautista) 👻UMMA (Directed/Written by Iris K. Shin; Starring @iamsandraohinsta, @fivel_stew) 👻UNHUMAN (Starring @briannetju) 👻BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION (Starring @harryshumjr) 👻EVIL EYE (Directed by @elandassani@dassanir; Starring @sunitamani, @sarita__choudhury)

What’s on your watchlist for #SpookySeason?!

[smtown-tourist-juliette]

Juliette Chapter 40 Cover:

They were young and inexperienced. Their parenting skills were questionable; some wondered if ‘the baby can really raise a baby.’ But shining with all of the potential in the world, boy group SHINee proved themselves capable of raising a baby.Through all of the tears, stressful challenges, temper tantrums, and fierce competitions, SHINee showed us what it means to laugh and to love. Three years ago, SHINee touched the Nation’s hearts while opening up theirs, and three years ago, we watched SHINee say goodbye to their roles as parents.��Until now…

Just when SHINee didn't think their plates could get anymore full, KBS's hit reality program, Hello Baby, decides that it wants to bring SHINee on for its eighth and final season. That's right, Baby! SHINee is back and ready to take on the challenge of being parents again, but is their new member, Hana, who never got the chance to be on Hello Baby the first time around, ready for what it takes to be an umma? How will this cycle of Hello Baby differ from the first? What new challenges await these six shining idols? But most importantly, what will their new baby be: a boy or a girl?

A month has passed since Key went on his blind date with Apink's Eunji. They've managed to remain friends but Key has struggled to find the courage to tell Jonghyun about what went down during that date. Don't worry - he plans to tell him someday. Well, that day turns out to be the day that Taemin and Naeun decide to visit the SHINee dorm for Chuseok and who just-so-happens to be joining them for that celebration? Eunji! And who else will be there but none other than his notoriously jealous boyfriend, Jonghyun. It's a Love Triangle that Key never imaged himself being in and he's unsure of how Jonghyun will react once he finds out that Eunji will be joining them. It shouldn't be a problem as long as Jonghyun doesn't find out about what happened on that date. He's not going to find out, right?

SHINee definitely has their hands full with a new little bundle of joy but their Comeback Season for Hello Baby won't be the only Comeback that they'll be making this fall. Apparently a full-length album wasn't enough to please SM, so it's been decided that SHINee will be releasing another album - their fifth mini-album. While filming the music video for their title song, Everybody, Hana begins to feel ill. There's an ache in her lower abdomen but those are just period cramps, right? Yet, why is there no blood? Why are these cramps making her throw up? Why has she suddenly turned feverish? Why are the cramps getting worse despite taking pain killers?

Suddenly, after doing a one-take for their music video, Hana takes a turn for the worse! The pain in her stomach is excruciating and she can't stop throwing up. An ambulance is called and rushes her to the hospital, leaving only one question left to be answered: what is wrong with Hana?!

Find out the answers to these questions and more in Chapter 40, Parenthood Round 2. Head on over to Asianfanfics to check it out!

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4.5/5

Book Blurb:

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.

Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing. 

In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that. 

For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated. 

A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.

Review:

When her father abandons her family and her mother brings home a new man... one girl will begin to spiral and her appetite grows... and her need so does her body count. Ji-Won's entire life implodes when her father leaves their family because he has met a new woman. Her mother is fragile and begins to spiral and Ji-Won must look after her younger sister as well. Ji-won is dealing with failing college grades as well.... and something awakens in her after her mother has her eat a fish eye... as it is said to bring luck... yet Ji-Won has begun to develop a darker craving... human eye balls. Ji-Won soon begins to be plagued by darker urges and dreams, and her spiral isn't helped by the fact that her mother has latched onto a new boyfriend, a boyfriend that has suddenly moved in, has eyes on both Ji-Won and her sister, and is disgusting. Ji-Won knows that she'll have to protect her family while also dealing with her growing hunger for eyes... and when opportunities present themselves and her urges take control... soon the body count around her campus begins to grow. Ji-Won knows she'll have to find a way to cover her tracks but a certain classsmate is fixated on her... and now she has two men she'll have to deal with that put her life at risk. Can she figure out a way to reclaim control while also satiating her new hunger? Oh I love a coming of age girl spiral, I loved the horror and descent into the darker craves that was told in this. I had a fantastic time reading this and it definitely gave me RAW (french horror film) vibes and I had such a fun time reading it. Ji-Won was such an interesting character to read and the horror in this was fantastic! I would absolutely recommend this for anyone who enjoys a coming of age horror story.

Release Date: June 25,2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Kensington Books | Erewhon Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 1101-1200

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) had the most votes with 1,168 votes. The Old Dark House (1963) had the least votes with 338 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Silence of the Lambs (1991) was the most watched film with 78.1% of voters out of 691 saying they had seen it. Stalker (2022) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.4% of voters out of 471.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) was the least watched film with 79.1% of voters out of 611 saying they hadn’t seen it. Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998) had the least "No" votes with 6.8% of voters out of 381.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Silence of the Lambs (1991) was the best known film, 0.7% of voters out of 691 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998) was the least known film, 91.9% of voters out of 381 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

Mother! (2017) Ma (2019) What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Swallow (2019) Suspiria (2018) Nothing But Trouble (1991) Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Return of the Living Dead II (1988) Pyewacket (2017) Hellbender (2021)

Gwen (2018) Lake of Death (2019) Leptirica (1973) You Are Not My Mother (2021) Censor (2021) You Won't Be Alone (2022) Stalker (2022) Berlin Syndrome (2017) Mandrake (2022) Raven's Hollow (2022)

Outpost (2022) Violation (2020) Unwelcome (2022) Brooklyn 45 (2023) Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) They (2002) Honeydew (2020) Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) Alone (Pandemic) (2020) Alone (2020)

Dark Was the Night (2014) Animal (2014) White Zombie (1932) Venus in Furs (1969) Umma (2022) Renfield (2023) Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Earth vs. the Spider (1958) Wicked City (1987)

The Uninvited (2008) The House That Jack Built (2018) Viy (1967) The Pope's Exorcist (2023) Winchester (2018) The Ruins (2008) The Old Dark House (1963) The Shrine (2010) The Head Hunter (2018) Under the Skin (2013)

The Lure (2015) The Sand (2015) Emesis Blue (2023) Where the Devil Roams (2023) The Deeper You Dig (2019) The Hatred (2017) Tokyo Gore Police (2008) Teddy (2020) The Night Stalker (1972) Wishmaster (1997)

DeepStar Six (1989) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) The Monster Club (1981) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The Tingler (1959) Obereg (1991) The House That Cried Murder (1973) Scalpel (1977) Out of Darkness (2022)

Reincarnation (2005) Howling Village (2019) Suicide Forest Village (2021) The Forest (2015) Don't Look Up (1996) Kaidan (2007) The Dinosaur Project (2012) Exists (2014) Spook Louder (1943) Death Kappa (2010)

Red Dragon (2002) A Bucket of Blood (1959) Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998) Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001) Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (2011) Wake Wood (2009) The Resident (2011) Sweet Home (1989)

The Silence (2019) #Alive (2020) Lord of Misrule (2023) The Day of the Beast (1995) Rigor Mortis (2013) Bloody Chainsaw Girl (2016) Freaked (1993) Demon Seed (1977) Raging Grace (2023) Safe (1995)