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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
Felt like a student film project remake of the original
I was super excited to see this movie as I loved the original and the trailers looked like it kept the creepy vibes of the original. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. I found the movie to be full of the cliche tacky things that a lot of scary movies have nowadays. For example, making a ton of unnecessary noise when you are hiding and trying to be quiet, using lights and lighters in dark spaces when you are trying to hide, yelling each others names as you run through the forest, just unnecessary and unrealistic things that nobody would do in real life and make you not care what happens to the protagonists. I felt like a number of things that happened in the movie just weren't nearly as effective as the original for that reason. Also, one of the reasons I loved the original was because you know absolutely nothing about the killers, where they come from, or what they are about. In this film, the entire town is full of creeps and it just really took away from the eeriness.
Halloween Kills (2021)
Killer Disappointment
I was so looking forward to this movie as I was a fan of the 2018 Halloween as well as the original. This was the biggest disappointment!
Some of the characters in this film were awful. Tommy, Lonnie, Marion and Lindsay were not great to say the least. I especially was not a fan of Tommy Doyle's character in this film, just awful.
There were so many useless mob scenes that were completely pointless and take away from the film. The flashbacks were useless and not needed. The writing was terrible. "Evil dies tonight!" was waaaaay over the top and just lame.
The only thing I enjoyed about this movie was the 10 minute scene in the house near the end where Allyson and her boyfriend are in the house with Michael. That scene is Halloween to me! The rest of the film was a mess.
Michael taking on the 11 firefighters looked so much better in the trailer, but felt like he suddenly became Jet Li. And Michael not dying was so far fetched in this one.
Huge let down. So disappointed!