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Chupacabra Territory (2016)
was a decent way to waste some time
Found footage movie about folks looking for a chupacabra. They head up into the wilderness while filming their adventures. I liked the movie just fine. The focus switched between several different groups' cameras, so that was entertaining. There was some blood and gore, of course, some sexual content, as expected when sexually active groups go off into the wilderness while bringing along alcohol. What really got my goat was the explicit sex scene for the last twenty minutes of the movie. As we're seeing one of our protagonists running for his life, etc, building up some fear and suspense, we're forced to flip back to a sex scene between the leading lady and her love interest. Back to a fellow running for his life and the chupacabra chasing him. Back to a sex scene, revealing a new position. Back to running for one's life. Back to grunting and groaning sex. I don't mind a sex scene, but it was grating to switch between the two. Here their buddy is running for his life, yelling for help, etc, and these two are humping like rabbits in every position they could think of. It killed the flow of the movie for me. Other than that, the movie was a decent way to kill an hour and a half. Acting was decent for a b-movie. The effects were more along the lines of lots of darkness and things going bump or growl in the night.
Deep in the Darkness (2014)
idk why all the bad reviews, i loved it!!
Some people gave this movie bad reviews but i don't understand why. This movie is one for horror lovers. To me it didn't seem like a TV movie and I am the queen of B-movies to the folks around me. The sets are well done, the makeup excellent, the monster makeup well done and the blood and gore pretty decent. Nothing was obviously, ridiculously fake like most TV movies. This movie is creepy as heck. It starts out creepy from the first two minutes and the hits just keep coming. Some people said the monsters have too much exposure but the monsters are an integral part of everything that happens in the movie. There is plenty of mystery left to the monsters, including their origin and other things I can't say because, spoilers! The acting is great. I felt for the characters because they really seemed to be in distress, anger, pain, etc. There were some nice twists and, overall, the movie was fun to watch! It was nice and dark, creepy and scary. I'm from a small town in the woods, so I really enjoy creepy small town movies. You'd like this movie if you enjoy movies with dark atmosphere, creepy small towns, creepy neighbors, creepy people in general, monsters, or if you have a fear of the dark or the woods. I recommend you try it with an open mind. Don't let the bad reviews make you miss this one.
Event Horizon (1997)
my favorite
I'm a huge horror fan. This movie was my first horror movie and it is the reason that I love horror. It's the reason I keep watching every horror movie set in space I can find. This movie is terrifying. I still have trouble watching it alone with the lights off and I've seen it many, many times, as I introduce all my friends to it and they usually make me watch it with them. The effects are great and it's so creepy that I jump when things happen, and I never jump at movies. I love the atmosphere, the creepy lighting and the music. All of it enhances the movie, rather than being distracting or directing ones mood toward a scene. The gore is pretty much perfect, not too much, not too little. All in all, just a perfect horror film. I haven't seen a space movie this good, except maybe Sunshine, which is amazing as well.
Dark Moon Rising (2009)
so boring and just stupid
The movie very boringly details the love between Dan and Amy and the fact that Dan is a werewolf with a demented father. Dan is a werewolf in a really bad, wolfman inspired costume. Dan's dad is evil. He kills women constantly just for fun. Dan's dad is coming after him and killing people along the way. Dan has to protect his girlfriend, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, livestock is being killed, by Dan, and the sheriff, aka Maria Conchita Alonzo, who can barely speak any of her lines clearly, bumbles around like an idiot. Even after discovering the existence of werewolves and having Bender sexually assault her in a parking lot, she just lays there with her gun in her hand looking shocked. Bender walks away very slowly, stands and poses, taunts her and, instead of ending the whole thing by putting a well deserved bullet through his head, she just stares, wide eyed, after making sure the safety is on so the gun won't misfire. Amy's dad is angry at the world, constantly trying to fight with everyone, knocking his daughter around, threatening Dan multiple times with his fists and a gun, just out of control aggressive, except towards Bender. In the 'final showdown', which was slow and boring as heck, everyone has a clear shot at Bender, who stands and poses yet again in front of a group of people with guns, and they all just stand there until he finally jumps down behind cover, after five minutes of standing there making idle threats. Then, instead of remaining in a group, everyone splits up, going in a different direction than the one the bad guy went. The folks take some shots at him, firing a ridiculous amount of ammo without reloading a single time. Amy keeps running in circles, literally, in circles, always coming right back to where a protector just told her to run away from. She is constantly popping up in front of Bender, like she's drunk and can't figure out how to run in a straight line. The ending was dumb. Dan walks away, after dropping his shirt because, hey, who needs a shirt when you're walking off into the desert for whatever odd reason. He leaves Amy his car, which she gets out of looking like a female Dan, in a black wifebeater, jeans and a thick black belt with a big buckle. She puts flowers on the road and smiles when she hears a wolf howl. I thought maybe the movie would pick up and show some action sometime in the two hour running time, however, it just kept dragging from one boring, yawn inducing scene to the next, paying way too much attention to the amy's dad's paranoid ramblings and rantings and starlit dates with the sheriff. Then there's be ten seconds of action. Dan's dad kills someone after there's a gratuitous showing of breasts. Then another long twenty minutes of Dan and Amy vowing their love for one another. More ramblings from Amy's dad. More incoherent lines from the sheriff while she drinks tequila on the job and then drives around. Dan's dad kills some hooks after another gratuitous breasts shot. More rambling. A new character pops in and rambles on for ten minutes about his history with Bender, who he discovered was a serial killer. More rambling. Dan turns into a werewolf. Rambling, love, paranoid dad, Bender kills someone, a fortune teller gives Dan some info, love love, rambling, don't shoot the werewolf that's right in front of you, aren't the stars pretty, oh look, a werewolf, let's not shoot him and discuss being paranoid instead. oh, and don't shoot the werewolf, we're going to milk this run time!! The movies was longer and more rambling than this review, which is saying something.
Wyrmwood (2014)
i love this movie!!
I've seen tons of zombie movies, domestic and foreign, no matter how crappy the ratings are, just to enjoy the zombieness of them. I didn't have any expectations for this movie, as most zombie movies lately have been crap. I was shocked at how much I liked this movie. The movie is unique, full of action, original and hilarious. The actors are great in their roles and the zombies disgusting and scary. There's no 'society devolving to the point where everyone's a rapist so let's have tons of hardcore rape going on' theme, which i loved even more, because all the zombie films lately seem to hammer that one into the ground. This movie is just kicking ass, making jokes, improvising, being bad asses, killing zombie and beating the bad guys.
Orphan (2009)
the parents didn't deserve any children at all, so unlikable, horrible movie
The child actors in this movie were amazing. Absolutely believable, great actors. The adult actors were fine, i suppose, but the characters they were portraying are horrible people who shouldn't have had custody of any children at all. The father is an idiot who should have taken his kids from his wife a long time ago and left her high and dry. The mother is an alcoholic with one child who really needs attention, another who is disabled and another that passed away. The mother only ever pays attention to her own needs to the point that one of the kids fell in an iced over pond and nearly drowned because mom was too blitzed to care. Said mother also lost her job for alcoholism. And lost a baby, before during or after the alcoholism, the movie doesn't specify. The father constantly whines and mopes about her being a horrible parent but does absolutely nothing to protect his children. The mother has bipolar tendencies and serious anger issues she takes out on her kids, after ignoring them while dreaming about another bottle. So, the solution to these problems is to adopt another child, says this movie. We get to watch these two horrible parents, a father too self involved to care about the safety of his children, and a mother who is too addicted to care about the safety of her children, spiral even further into their selfish problems while a whacked out adult with a disease that stopped her from aging twenty or thirty years ago takes advantage of this completely jacked up family, nearly kills the kids, and does kill a few other people. And the end of the movie? The happy ending we'll all be satisfied with? The kids are rescued by a relative who actually gives a crap about them? Nope, dad is killed and the kids are now left with one parent, their awesome, alcoholic, negligent, horrible mother who'd rather let them drown in a pond than put down the bottle. I can't believe anyone watched this and said, 'wow, i really like this movie, what great family values, everyone wins in the end!' I think the ending was the only good 'horror' part of the movie, as those kids will prob be dead within the year after their mom lets them play in traffic, drink Drano, play with fire, run with scissors, use the chain saw, drive the car or play in an icy pond while she's busy focusing on the important things in life: one or two of the thirty seven bottles of alcohol in the family wet bar. It was disappointing that alcoholism and parenting was portrayed like this in this type of movie. The movie was supposed to be about an orphan, as the title said. However, the scariest parts of the movie were when the mother had any interaction with her kids. As stated above, the ending was horrible and the whole movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth. It also portrayed the adoption process as 'anyone could do it, as long as you have enough money'. I thought there were rigorous background checks, etc. I don't know, maybe other people found this movie entertaining, I did not. I was constantly cringing at the adult themes going on around these kids, at the parents just not caring what they did or said or where they did it and who could walk in on it.