#resolution (2012)

[horrorpolls]

what's your favourite movie directed by aaron moorhead & justin benson?

resolution (2012)

spring (2014)

the endless (2017)

synchronic (2019)

something in the dirt (2022)

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Voting ended onJul 24, 2025

[rottenhellion]

My crack horror headcanon: The entity from Skinamarink and the one from Resolution and The Endless are a child and adult of the same fucked up species. Thier time loop MOs are very similar, as is thier petty sadism, near-complete invisibility, and controlling natures, The Endless is just able to affect a much larger area and do it to A LOT more people.

[archive-of-fear]

Name: The Mountain

Source: Resolution (2012), The Endless (2017)

Category: Stronghold

Alignment: The End, The Eye

Description: The Mountain is a stretch of land in the backwoods of California, marked by a series of stakes in the ground whose reality is under the influence of a mysterious entity. Within it’s boundaries, the world is trapped in an eternal cycle marked by the changing phases of it’s three moons. Anyone is welcome to enter and leave the boundaries during this time – so long as they leave before the end of the third full moon. If they fail to leave, or die upon the Mountain before that time, the person (or people) become trapped within a pocket of time – which can range from a few weeks to ten seconds long, in which they become unable to leave the newly created loop or are even able to see beyond the boundaries of it. It will observe those trapped on the Mountain constantly, and will often make scare appearances to make itself known – and to remind them that they are never given a moment to themselves, as it is always watching them. At the end of their loop, it will kill the people within and/or cause them to experience a gruesome death. Throughout the loop, the entity will torment them with recordings (film reels, video tapes, records, etc) of their violent deaths from it’s perspective, and the brutality amusing. Those within are aware of their situation, and will often end their own lives in order to avoid whatever fate the entity has in store for them (and out of spite). At the end of the Mountain’s cycle, on the night of the third full moon, the entity will fully manifest and destroy the Mountain and everything within, killing anything that remains within its space.

[i-just-want-to-destroy]

[frecklesandpoverty]

My 31 Nights of Halloween Horror: Night 19

My choice for the night of October 19th was: Resolution (2012)

I rated this movie 5/10. I wanted to like it more, since it’s rated 6.3 on iMDB, but I couldn’t really get into it. I didn’t even know this counts as a prequel to The Endless (2017), until I was finished with this movie, so I may watch that one tomorrow, I’m not sure yet. I was looking forward to watching that one, but if it’s anything like this one I’m afraid I may not like it. I really wanted to, but the whole movie was kind of boring for me. There WERE a few funny parts, but not enough to make me like the movie more lol. I tried!   https://www.imdb.com/list/ls040538201/

[best-movie-poster-tournament]

Round 1- Poll 93

Which poster is better?

Stín kapradiny (1986)- Artist unknown

Resolution (2012)- Artist unknown

Voting ended onOct 31, 2025

Alternative titles under the cut

Stín kapradiny- English title: Shades of Fern

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

Have you seen Resolution (2012)?

Yes, I have seen this movie.

No, I haven’t seen this movie.

I haven’t even heard of this movie.

Voting ended onDec 16, 2023

[darklordreasonable]

Anyway Resolution (2012) by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead is quite possibly my favourite film of all time because

It's a meta-horror movie in which the twist is "the characters work out they're in a horror movie" and normally these tend to either go parody "okay well we just need to avoid doing the things dumb horror movie characters do right 🙄" or they go way-too-serious "fuck you audience how dare you want to watch a horror movie I can't believe you'd want to put people in these situations you perverts" but Resolution does Neither of these things

The characters start out by going "okay I guess we're in a horror movie. That sucks. I guess I'd better just disengage with the situation and evacuate while I still can-" and then the movie hard blocks that because

the monster in the movie is the fucking Director, y'all

It's trying to get an interesting and watchable story out of the two of them, and it has been trying for god-only-knows how long (in Resolution you're left with the sense that it's a time loop, so maybe this is all happening in folded time or whatever and they'll get to move on with their lives when it's done with them, but The Endless says 'No, it's doing this in Real Time, and their families have not idea what happened to them', which: my favourite flavour of horror, "bad news you were in the wrong place at the wrong time and now the universe has decided that your life is over in ways that you would never have believed possible yesterday"), but it knows that All Of The Endings It Has So Far Are Unsatisfying, and until it can get that perfect performance out of them it's going to keep doing reshoots over and over until it's satisfied. 'Michael abandons Chris and goes home' is a bad ending. 'They both get shot' is a bad ending. 'Chris kills himself' is a bad ending.

The audience aren't blamed for watching this because they had no part in it's existence; the film exists whether or not an audience is there to watch. The only person that a film depends on to get made is the director; it is by their whim that the characters are placed in this situation, and no-one else's. Resolution (2012) is the only film to get Rage Against The Author Right, and that is why it's maybe the best film of all time.