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The Witches (2020)
An Opportunity Missed... By Quite Some Distance
I grew up loving the 1990 version, despite being absolutely terrified by Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch.
I'm not the type of person to dismiss a remake before actually seeing it. But if you are going to remake a film you need to make it at least as good as the original, preferably better, though that doesn't happen very often. And it definitely didn't happen here!
Now the location of the film has been moved from England to America, not the biggest issue in the world. The main characters are now black, again no issue at all... until the undertones of racism come into play. Jibes at "rich white folk" being the only people that normally stay at the hotel where the majority of the film takes places and the not-so-subtle racist comments by the white hotel manager. Was all that really necessary? I don't think so.
Then we come to the Grand High Witch, Anne Hathaway have it a good go but was nowhere near as terrific or scary as Huston was. They were big boots to fill to be fair to her.
The film scores it's points from me for fantastic cinematography, costumes and set decoration. But that's about as good as it gets in my opinion.
Always watch a film, especially a remake, before having an opinion, I will just pre-warn you not to have high expectations with this one.
The Irishman (2019)
Good but too long
I enjoyed the film, great to see some of the old faces back on the screen together, I just feel the film is probably 30-45 minutes longer than it really needs to be
Overlord (2018)
70% war 30% horror
Went to see this expecting it to be an all out humans vs zombies flick, but it was far from that. You see the horrors of world war 2 with the twisted plot of Nazi experiments on humans blended in perfectly, it doesn't dominate the whole film. Genre fusion isn't always successful but on this occasion it certainly was.
The Exorcist (1973)
Superb horror classic
I was born 15 years after the release of this film so I obviously wasn't around for the controversy that surrounded it at that time. Growing up I heard about it, among other films that had been banned, and I was intrigued.
I was probably around 15 the first time I finally got round to watching it and I was in awe. I was genuinely shocked at some of what went on, even by today's standards it was grim, grim enough that you can forgive the dated makeup and special effects.
I'm now 30 and have just finished watching again and it's still as great as the first time I watched it.
Gacy (2003)
Shockingly bad
I recently watched an interesting documentary about John Wayne Gacy and it led me to search for movies based on his story. Gacy was quite difficult to actually purchase once I had found out about it but eventually I got hold of a copy. I wish I hadn't bothered. There was an opportunity here to make a great serial killer but bad acting, poor editing and a weak screenplay just made this barely watchable. I gave myself a pat on the back just for sticking it out until the end.
Now I know it says at the starts some things have been changed for dramatic purposes but do you really need to add more drama to a story about a guy who killed more than 30 people? Then if you feel like you just then make it more interesting than the true story itself, Gacy fails miserably at every chance to do that.
Honestly don't bother with it