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3/10
Been done before and better. Soska Sisters take steps backwards with each film.
29 April 2024
Plot holes galore. Unlikeable characters and dumb script.

Soska Sisters haven't made a decent film since the entertaining AMERICAN MARY. Rabid was an insult to the original and Dead Hooker in a Trunk was just ok.

This has so many annoying parts it just spoils the whole thing.

Unlikeable characters who don't seem to like each other at all so why are they friends or together!?

The script is lazy and full of holes and the charactersaking more than. Your normal dumb decisions.

The acting is bearable (except that awful actor the Soska Sisters keep using) who this time was blessedly only in it briefly as a Zombie Paramedic. (He is the worst wooden actor out there, ruins any scene or film he is in.

This could have been fun.

A festival to celebrate the memory of all those killed in the '68 Zombie outbreak. (Seemingly suppressed and dormant ever since) Yet meteors bring it all out again which just happens to coincide with the Festival (Right!!) Some cheap but ok looking practical FX makes for a couple of ok death scenes but it's all so background and edited so quickly don't see much. Maybe because not best quality FX.

Couple of ok gore gags.

You usual trend of diversity inclusions are here but don't feel forced like most others and aren't distracting so that's good.

It's a shame.

I wanted to like it but was left disappointed and struggled to keep my attention. I simply didn't care for the characters at all. The main lead was cute but that it. Rest were cliché after cliché.

I remember Return of the Living Dead 2 Rave to the Grave having a similar feeling. And YouTube series Zombie Rave/ Beyond the Rave having similar theme but with vampires.

Soska sisters had potential to become a popular name after the fun American Mary but seem to be taking a step backwards every film they do. And now seem destined to survive in low budget Tubi level hell. Maybe they are happy with that. But I think it's a shame as they had potential. Need to work with better scripts and better actors if wish to continue imo.
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Knuckleball (II) (2018)
5/10
Worth a watch but seemed unfinished. Too much left unanswered.
24 April 2024
I have this a watch as saw trailer and Micheal Ironside always gives a good performance.

I did enjoy this but also I was left unsatisfied with the ending. It opened a door with a twist at the end yet didn't even try to explore it or explain. Now sometimes that's clever writing as makes you think. Not in this case. It didn't join enough dots for the viewer to create much of a picture at all.

It could have done with ten more minutes to explore that twist and show more of that world.

Those VHS tapes needed explaining.

I'm sure the director/writer thought they were being clever but it was just disappointing as a viewer.

Especially as the rest of the film had me invested.

It of course has obvious influence from Home Alone, maybe even The Shining. Right from the start the script shows this boy as highly intuyand intelligent. Almost to the point I thought "ok to we get it!? The kids smart!?"

The mother and father are having problems it seems.

Not surprised as the dad seems so thoughtless and uncaring. Not sure if was just bad acting but he didn't seem affected by anything at all.

The protagonist was clearly far from intelligent. Making some of the silkiest decision ever. I know they were trying to highlight that he wasn't as bright but some decisions were just silly.

Overall I was still a good film and kept my attention all the way through.

Just a very unsatisfactory ending. A missed opportunity for that twist to have really hit harder and left the viewer shocked. But played safe and didn't even show anything at all.
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The Jester (II) (2023)
4/10
It had potential but left me wanting. Poor.
22 April 2024
I like true idea. Although not massively original the mask and costume looked interesting. Not sure why called it Jester though as no real connection and not very comedic at all.

The film is well shot, lit, edited and the acting is good.

But the script is just aimless and has nowhere to go. The final third seemed like making it up as went along.

It wasn't as deep or meaningful as I think they believed it to be.

The characters weren't that likelable really and it all felt rushed and not very well thought out.

It would have worked better as a short film, say 30 mins maybe.

In fact I seem to remember someone saying it was a short film so maybe that would be better as didn't work here.

Also. It is far too tame. Zero gore and the deaths were boring. It really would have saved the film if it had a few more kills and upped the gore. But it was tame and I just didn't care about the constant sob story about the dad being absent. Boo hoo.

The end was predictable and really not as good as they probably thought it was. It wasn't clever. It wasn't some deep metaphor for mental illness it was just daft.

She just said. I'll ignore you and that was it smh.

Shame. Had potential with the character. It was similar to many others in horror but lacked any menace due to lazy kills and not many of them.
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Fog City (2023)
5/10
Fun idea. Flawed plot hole script. Hot women. Good FX.
19 April 2024
I've been looking forward to this since saw trailer and the poster a while ago.

It's filled with very sexy actresses. Dressed provocatively so the director knows what he's doing with regards to that at least. Ha ha.

But the script is the big let down here. It has so many plot holes.

Also.

Aren't these people all meant to be best friends??

Even before the nasty Fog arrived they were all so bitchy and nasty to each other?? Constantly making awful remarks and slagging each other off?

I refuse to believe these people would hang around with each other if dislike each other this much.

So badly written characters.

Why are they dressed as schoolgirls. And why didn't the rich girl change out it work clothes for the 'party' ??

How many times did she fall off that balcony? Ha ha ha.

The FX were good but not nasty enough for me. The acting passable for most part, especially working with such dodgy dialogue. Edited ok except the falling off balcony. Smh.

Wilhelm scream was amusing to hear.

How did the cop not see her in basement when he shined the light right on her?

It's not a terrible film. Yes of course could have been better writing and the ending was silly but worth a watch for sure. Far far worse out there.

Did I mention the women were all hot?
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Die'ced (2023)
2/10
Terrifier dvd ordered from Wish . Com and that's being kind.
18 April 2024
Not even sure where to start.

First the positives.

Nice clear image.

Some decent trolley shots, one very nice Drone shot.

The two main lead bro and Sister acting was quite good considering what had to work with.

This is obviously a very low budget film and I congratulate anyone that can get off your ass to get one made. I feel with a better script (this was terrible) the director may have potential.

Every shot was of course totally unoriginal, stolen from better slashers but he tried.

The script was so full of holes you could drive through them. Each scene had huge flaws and some made zero sense at all.

Pointless music over scenes were unnecessary and at times drown out dialogue.

The guy playing the escaped mental patient (sigh!! How original) was massively inept. Zero acting skills and the worst Art the Clown impression ever. The little skips he did were puzzling and embarrassingly camp. Zero menace.

The kills were so badly choreographed. No tension or feeling it was real or brutal at all. Found myself rolling my eyes at the inept way they were portrayed. They at least attempted to be gory but simply pointlessly cutting and arm or hand off really isn't that satisfying. Especially a cheap Halloween prop.

Why was the first guy killed putting on make up when it was the night 'before' Halloween??

The father and his constant bellyaching and out of the blue "oh he may have killed your mother" dropped into conversation!? Worst dialogue. Who wrote this script it's so bad.

They stop in a cafe for a drink and food, maybe this was one of the films sponsors and they had to film there because it was a totally pointless scene. And of course yet another rip off of Terrifier. She says she is starving and they order a sandwich and a croissant. Neither of them touch them .....probably because the waiter keeps coming over and hassling them asking if everything is good and enjoying the meal!? Go away!?

They leave and this then leads to a pathetic attempt at humour which failed. And was another Art the Clown (Mime really) from Wish . Com rip off.

Luckily the two siblings were good enough actors to save a couple of scenes. But it was so unnatural conversations. Purely just to drop plot context in as quick as possible as needed some sort of plot. (There is very little plot at all) The mother having an affair and then going missing. And then we are supposed to be shocked at the end with the supposed twist. That made me laugh out loud!? Really!? Stevie Wonder would have seen that coming. Ha ha.

The cops at end just casually stroll in. Those guys must've worked for free as no way they are actors in real life as terrible. Where was their direction. Where was the realism. Surely the director could see that was a mess.

Editing was all over the place. The so called party looked like a snooze fest. They were bored as soon as hey got there !?

Why was he struggling to get between the pallets when she got thrown them easily and he is actually skinnier than her!? And you could see he had lots of room. How do you look at that scene in editing and not think the same? You are seeing exactly the same thing we are.

The director tried, bless him. Got to give him that. So I'll give him an extra point for that but there is no originality at all and the stealing from Terrifier is cringe. Especially as it's done so poorly. He works hard constantly posting his posters and links to the film in every Horror group on social media. So credit for putting the hours in. But it's nothing if when they go look at it they see this mess.

Luckily I saw it for free. I'd never pay for this. It's about 45mins long without the credits. And it just left me shaking my head. Laughing at the clearly rubber sledgehammer used repeatedly. So I guess he'll return and they'll have to say he's supernatural because no one could survive what happened to him. Sadly he did. So the world will be subjected to another film.

I really hope he has learned some valuable lessons. Get a decent script. Learn how to edit and leave a scene that works and isn't illogical.

This shouldn't have been released like this. It looked rushed. Zero script or story that made sense.

So unoriginal. Blatantly stolen cash in character.

He told me the next one will have bigger budget. Well. It wasn't the budget that made this so bad. I can forgive budget restraints. But not illogical scenes and bad scripts. Lazy gore when was promised carnage. He obviously lied because wanted us to see it and many have. Doesn't mean they liked it.

Which judging by the score they didn't.

You only get one chance at things and I hope for his sake he didn't blow it by rushing this poor effort out. Tarnishs names.

Sadly this is Pooh Blood and Honey level trash.
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Argylle (2024)
5/10
The Long Kiss Goodnight from Wish - great start but became far too goofy.
11 March 2024
I had been looking forward to this, trailer looked lots of fun. Great cast, great director. So checked it out. It started off really good and I was enjoying it especially the train scene.

Lot of fun then quickly became overly silly, predictable and lost my attention. It's practically a daft comedy remake of THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT.

Far too many similarities to be a coincidence.

Kick ass female Spy loses memory, has secrets so company want her dead, memory returns so she kicks arse and becomes super spy again. ........etc.

(Long akiss is a great film highly recommend) Which also starred Samuel Jackson, ice skating scene and the heroine bleaching and cutting her hair once memory returns.

Just watch that instead.........but if have to this will kill a couple of hours of nothing else on.
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7/10
Enjoyable but not the masterpiece people gush about.
8 March 2024
Saw the Dune ² film today.

Really enjoyed it and it had some good visuals.

Well worth seeing and I look forward to the inevitable pt3. But...... Disappointed the new films didn't utilise the Bene Gesserit 'Weirding Way' power, so no weaponised modules. 😢 the 'voice' is still used though of course.

I'm all for diversity. And given the books mirror on the worlds religions and politics this was fitting to have all cultures involved. But was there a need to gender swop as well as race swop a character? 🤔

It's a great sci fi film but it's not quite the masterpiece it's being heralded as imo.

I'm sure it will predictably win countless awards. FX. Couple of actors performances.

The script shouldn't though imo.

The ending felt totally rushed and zero resistance felt, no tension. Far too easy and brief a victory imo. Could have done with at least another half hour to really feel them gaining ground and getting ever closer to the Emperor. But no........they were there at the doors in a heartbeat which I was surprised by. Missed opportunity to build tension, suspense and bring great performances from the cast especially Walken is wasted here. (More on that later)

Feyd actor wasn't great and looked like a cross between Matt Lucas (Little Britain) and the Engineers from Prometheus 😁and his 'Birthday' scene in the arena seemed pointless and badly executed.

Batista's lack of acting abilities showed in this to the point he just shouted all his dialogue and hoped for the best.

Christopher Walken seemed wasted and was never really allowed to embrace the role with the little screen time he had. Didn't come across as Emperor at all. No grandeur at all. This is the Emperor of the Universe !!?

Anyone elsenspot the almost Monty Python Life of Brian moment. "Only the true Messiah would deny he is the Messiah" (or words there abouts) nearly had us shouting out "He's not the Messiah he's a really naughty boy!" Ha ha. 😂😂

Again. Well worth the watch though. The religious nods to real life from the book, the jihad, the politics are there although most is skirted over as it wouldn't make quite an exciting film. It's more style over substance. Visually nice yet not hugely engaging intellectually.

The designs for the spaceships seemed a little bland also, no real style or identity for each 'House'. At least Lynch film had some well thought out difference in the look of each houses palace and ships etc.

Bland. Especially after seeing what H R Giger had designed for the Harkonen style (for a film that sadly never got made many years ago). Oh how incredible that would have been If only it had happened. 😢🖤

Nownif only we could see Lynch's first 14hr cut. Ha ha. Love to see what treasure we're inside that version.

Bring on pt3. I'll still watch. It will be popular. But they tooling themselves with all thebgushing about masterpiece.
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Silent Night (2023)
4/10
In the age of John Wick, John Woo is just tired and choice now.
27 December 2023
Gace this a look as love Joel and thought good to see John Woo back.......... Love a good revenge film and this is John Woo so has half a chance of being great action.

Sadly........ Enjoyed about half hour of this film. The last half hour.

In the age of John Wick, John Woo just doesn't hold up anymore. There were a couple of two handed gun slow mo moments that almost captured the old magic of a John Woo film from yesteryear but all seems tame up to Wick now.

The storyline was massively generic and lazy seen it a million times and better. Overly sentimental and drawn out at times to the point of cringe. (the ending! 🙄) took forever to really get anywhere.

The main villain is just a cliche. Most of the stunts and action are surprisingly poorly executed and unrealistic.

Why was the villain slow dancing with his druggy GF whilst all his men were getting slaughtered!? Made zero sense. 🤷 Poor man's Punisher.

Very disappointed.
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3/10
Was it meant to be a comedy? Cheesey, predictable, poor CGI, unconvincing cast. Pointless.
5 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS.

Predictable and cheesey "You're all going to die" (delivered with zero menace by a child actor, they should have looked harder because he's unconvincing or maybe its the direction) and some scenes are unintentionally hilarious. "Wrong Priest" 😁 and the "Panty Sniffer " priest who is totally useless and his acting b movie level. Is it meant to be a dark comedy? Also would you seriously leave a young boy alone with a Catholic priest!?.

The films desperation to add shocking dialogue from a child fails and it all still pales in comparison to The Exorcist even now after all these years. Some very poor cgi throughout.

The Demon sounds like one of the Orcs from Lord of the Rings. Like a London Taxi Driver with a sore throat. Ha ha.

Its cliche after cliche. Crowes accent isn't as annoying as I thought from Trailer and his acting is strong considering the turd he is in.

Who the hell directed this? Is it their first Horror film? It fails to have any genuine The location is magnificent though love that place. 😍 and some impressive sets. But its full fat cheese.

The fact they try to pass off all the child sex abuse of the Catholic Church because of Satan is insulting to all those who were abused.

Despite all these negatives. I am still kinda enjoyed parts of it as a comedy. Things try best pick up once they enter the Catacomb but its a mess at the end of the day.
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The Park (2023)
2/10
What a shame. Far too tweeny and tame. Can't decide what it wants to be.
30 March 2023
All adults are deadfrom a mystery virus. Only the children survive and they have an expiration date. Hit puberty and they die.

Interesting premise. Right. Could be good......wrong.

Firstly I can't really imagine this generation would survive long if this happened now. Just saying. Over sensitive cancel culture kids or those identifying as a toasters and pondered to wouldn't prepare them for a world without adults let's be honest.

Silly film really. Can't make mind up what it wants to be. Dark or tweeny.

Kids murdering each other....dark. With machetes darker..... but don't see anything at all and more about clichéd tweeny drama.

Too tame to be horror or an adult apocalyptic film with too dark theme for sensitive little kids of today. 🤷🏻 I was hoping for more of an intelligent Lord of the Flies type film. This is nothing as cerebral.

Potential Violence yet that never really happens l Or seen, frustrating. They try to make it tense and threatening and gritty, kids swearing and welding machetes but ultimately is so tame it's kinda embarrassing!? Why not just commit to one or the other. Maybe the tweens will enjoy it but as soon as past puberty I wanted to die than continue watching. But I did. And the ending was lazy and abrupt.

It tries to be philosophical and deep but its just kinda embarrassing how much it fails to achieve anything. A pointless endeavour.
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6/10
Always great to see John Luther return. If not as good as series.
19 March 2023
Always glad to see Idris return as DCI John Luther.

His character In the series was so enjoyable to follow and the writing tip top.

Not quite so much here. The writing was a little lacking. Some great moments. Piccadilly Circus in London being the highlight.

There were some great tense and dark moments. The serial killer was a true sadist.

WTF was going on with Andy Serkis' hairstyle!? It was bloody awful and really distracting. Made it all so comical. Whomever thought that was a good idea needs sacking. Looked like Lionel bloody Blair!!

The storyline started very good with people being controlled and blackmailed but then The Red Bunker story became massively far fetched and silly. Andy Serkis was a mixed performance. One part creepy, malicious and sadistic and the other a pathetic overacted and hammy.

It's an OK watch and i must say I did enjoy for the most part.

BUT it suffered for only being two hours long. It needed to be a series to really get into the character and his back story and those he manipulated. The Red Bunker was too much and daft. Like a cheesy game show host. That hair!!

The ending was weak though and just like a poor Bond setting. Ha ha.
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5/10
A missed opportunity. It could have been fantastic.
11 March 2023
I really wanted to like this film and give it a higher rating but I feel like it had a chance to be so much more.

The script felt like a first draft and lots more needed to be added to have made it a reao finished version. The home alone type trap was far too brief and I and iM sure many others would have loved to have seen more cultists meet their end by her ingenuity. It needed to be put into use for sure and theyd have been onto a winner. Her skills were used in a cheeseball way and the humour was only slightly hinted at , they needed to have had it real dark humour and also the whole film needed to be more gory. It really felt quite tame.

There needed to be more of the cultists so could have had more traps and kills and had the babysitter be more badass.....they tried to make her that way but it really wasn't convincing at all.

It's watchable and not terrible but it could have been fantastic.
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4/10
Disqppointing clichéd Cheesefest. No comedy. No scare.
8 March 2023
Really disappointed in this film.

Started off with potential and then they get to te Care Home and it just gets stupid and lazy.

Some really irritating cliche characters.

It tried its best to have a message but because it was Troma level bad it was lost amongst the dross.

It had moments of GET OUT in there but without any of the suspense or good writing, acting or direction.

Extra points added purely for attractive female leads.

And the one scene where a patient twists and consorts which was kinda cool.....but want explained at all and just added as an after thought.

The villains were almost scooby doo level cringe.

Who was the target audience here?

It seemed to fail in every area. The CGI was very cheap and fake looking.

Once they got to the Care facility it was fail after plot hole after fail. Like they just didn't know where to go with it.

It had no fun element and no comedy.

The 'Dog' character was so overracted it became irritating.

A huge blot on Ortega's resume.

Avoid.
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Mid-Century (2022)
2/10
This makes very little sense. Bad all round.
7 March 2023
A couple rent a vacation home haunted by the spirits of the architect who built it and his two wives, as well as their deranged, living son.

A very poor film.

Badly acted which was surprising as the actors involved have proved to be good in previous films Alice the Doctor was good but the rest of them are very wooden, its kinda embarrassing how bad in some scenes. Stephen Lang was particularly odd....what was he doing? Did he forget how to act or something? Favour for a friend by doing this film? I see he was a producer. Not sure why he thought this would be a good film to invest in. The story looks as if making up as go along and the part about the Dr and her relationship was tacked on. I just didn't care.

The story makes very little sense at all. The characters relationship was confusing. One minute lived uo, next minute arguing ten loved up again.

The same Lazy oooo a person has walked quickly past the camera jump scares used so many times it was boring to see and totally ineffective.

I really was disappointed and struggled to get through the film and eventually turned it off 3/4 way through. And i very rareoy stop a film once started. Found myself scrolling on mobile. I think this must have been a first time directing job.
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Death House (2017)
3/10
The idea is interesting. The script and film is a massive fail.
17 February 2023
All of these name Horror actors together sounds like fun. Even if a lot of them aren't known for actually being good actors at all, it still could have been a fun watch.

Instead we get a huge steam pile. A real mess of a film. Proving that it's a good director that makes a film not actors. Even the few actors involved that are usually of a good standard are awful in this film.

The three who were the devil maker, the devil and the son of the devil also made little sense and was amusing more than Scary.

The story makes no sense whatsoever. Not even close to a rational plot. And it took itself far too seriously. The Evil 5. Hilarious scene at the end with then standing in a semi circle trying to look cool 2as the cringiest thing I have seen in years. I can see why Mosely was asked to deliver the most dialogue as he's one of only a couple of people in this that can actually act. (The others...Sid Haig give a fun. Yet far too brief scene, Barbara Compton does ok with what she had although the 'girl power' part was a wrf moment!! Deep Wallace was poor here sadly, usually good but poorly directed maybe).

There was only one good horror scene in the whole film. The 9 in the cell that had transformed into slimey bloody beasts. This couple of minutes was fantastic. And the only redeeming oart of the film. The make up fx and gore looked genuinely stunning and nasty and so much so it looked so out of place nxt to the cheap cgi and after fx the rest of the film relied on.

Total cringe supposedly hi tech virtual reality headsets that were just tape and circuit board. Terrible! Why not just use VR headsets!?? They are cheap enough to buy.

Shower scene was welcome relief from the cheap green screen as she had a nice body. (Although face like a pizza and caked in make up.....and why did she have that black mark on her nose whilst she sat in the car at the start of the film?? Puzzled me.

Kane Hodder tried his best bless him. Some ok moments of acting but still couldn't say it from being a total mess of a film.

That script!? Story!? Hints at something interesting but in the end just a child's level rambling of clichés and drivel. Maybe Gunnar was drunk when wrote it!?

What the hell was it going on about. It made no sense at all.

Tony Todd is more miss than hit. He totally over acts and I usually roll my eyes when I see he's in a film last decade or so as it usually means it's gonna suck (except Final Destination and Hatchet)

This could have been great. But all involved failed.

I love Horror and I try my best to support low budget independent film but this was unforgivable bad.

A lot of the people involved Ed should take a long hard look at themselves and either do better or quit the business as its not for you.

Clearly many agree.

If they hadn't have tried to play the film off as serious, deep and meaningful story it .....nah who am I kidding, it would still have been bad. Just highly amusing that they really thought they had a ool deep and thought provoking story here didn't they!? Ha ha that cracks me up.

Avoid. Just check out the cool scene elsewhere online. We'll done to all involved with that scene. All the rest.

Please quit.
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Alone (XXI) (2020)
5/10
ALIVE wasn't the first as many keep saying............Two others before it.
15 February 2023
Alone (America) 2020 is the same story as 'Alive' 2020 (Korean) film which itself borrows so much from 'The Night Eats the World' 2018 (France) which steals directly from 'Rammbock: Berlin Undead' 2010 (Germany) (aka Siege of the Dead) each tells the story of a lone young man trapped alone in a building trying to survive a virus that turns people into maniacs who devour human flesh. Counting the days, rationing food, drink and trying to not go stir crazy. Until

Its amusing seeing people all saying this poor American remake isn't as good as Alive, when Alive isn't as good as its predecessors.

Alone (2020) is a pretty weak and diluted American version and a lot less violent with just a few 'scary moments' comoared to any of the other tellings, less gory moments or injury detail. Plays it for more of a romantic teen audience. It is well made but lacks the intensity of Berlin Undead.

Aiden and Evey (close to Adam and Eve and Donald Sutherland's 'Abel'.....hmmm is the script writer trying to subliminally get bible references in here now. If so it's badly done. Ha ha) Speaking of Sutherland, he is of course great in his short role here and steals the scenes. Criminally underused.

Enjoyable if nothing else. But a sanitized safe version of what came before and before and before.
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Army of One (2020)
3/10
Nothing new to see here. Clichéd and so very tame.
2 January 2023
I enjoy a good revenge story.

Sadly this isn't a very good one.

Only 2 minutes in and the tired old clichés are screaming out from the lazily written script.

Scene. Two cops - outside a house with vicious serial killers inside. What do they do? Wait for back up? You guessed it. Of course they don't. One says he's not waiting for back up and has been hunting them for years and is going to get them now!

I think you can guess how that goes for him......only way it could have any more clichéd was if he was a week away from retirement. Ha ha.

Cut to happy couple (the surviving cop and babe wife) on a relaxing break driving along just waiting for the next cliche to arrive......doesn't take long. Local redneck appears named "Butch" who has some of the worst, laziest tattoos crudely drawn on his arms in marker pen I have ever seen in a film. Sack the person who was supposed to do that.

Of course they end up in trouble by trespassing. And then a really tame scene. I would have thought after Butch showed his intentions earlier that he would have used the woman for his pleasures......that would have at least set up for a justified revenge. Yet it really cops out and makes little sense.

Then comes overly easy retribution as a few are taken out without much trouble at all. Because drum roll da dad daaaah she's a Ranger!!! Another shocker. Ha ha ha. Now we have several Rambo style scenes of traps and sharp sticks.

Some very amusing dialogue follows. Cheesey lines which I'm sure were just there so he could put them in the trailer "you killed my husband......you all die".

"Run rabbit run" made my eyes roll.

A religious matriarchal leader does little to convince at all and is amusing. Why is anyone scared of her?

Mourning the death if their friend "Earl" they all decide to get drunk instead of going to look for the woman!? Even though know the Police are suspicious.

Go watch the remake of I Spit on your Grave if you want to see a really effective and well made revenge film. That at least makes you hate the villains and root for the victim.

This is just meh.

Well shot, edited. Acting isn't the worst I've seen.

One good thing. The lead actress was good/convincing at the fight scenes and also gorgeous. But it's not enough to save this.
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12 Kilometers (2016)
8/10
Beautifully shot, gripping and thought provoking.
3 December 2022
Highky ejoyqble and amplease to watch.

The story itself kept me gripped from the start and when it finished I immediately watched it again. When it ended it left me wanting more. Not because it had left me unsatisfied but because the style and atmosphere it created was so enjoyable.

Director Mike Pecci has created a highly professional short film that certainly needs to be seen by the masses.

The lighting and tones look fantastic, the deep orangey glow, the camera angles, location/sets and direction is top quality.

I can't find fault in anything here.

Script and actors were highly convincing in their roles and created suspense and believability.

Well done to Mike Pecci for creating this fantastic piece of Cold War Soviet horror.

Thought provoking and as deep as the hole they drilled. 12 KM Deep.

Well done.

Also would like to mention the clever marketing. View with Directors consent only after sending your favorite 3 Horror films. Nicely done and gets people talking. I hope this doesn't limit its reach. It deserves a big audience and I'd love to see more from this director.

I'll be keeping an eye out for his films from now on.
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The Lair (2022)
3/10
Disappointing ALIEN OUTPOST RIP OFF. Expected far better from Neil Marshall.
28 November 2022
I was really looking forward to this. Neil Marshall's films are fantastic. Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday were all highly enjoyable escapism. Marshall really knew how to bring mobsters and action to the screen.....so, what went wrong here?

First thing I noticed was the quality of the acting. Not the best.

Then I kept thinking. "I've seen this already!' It all felt so familiar to a film I had seen a few years ago.

ALIEN OUTPOST has many extremely similar scenes and setting. Wouldn't be surprised if it was the same set!

Small unit, holed up in a small base in desert attacked by ALIEN 'Heavies'.

Marshalls film has men is cheap rubber suits running about with masks on and even cheaper looking cgi tongues. The action doesn't work, the choreography is poor and has zero tension. Its like he's forgotten how to make films!?? This is a syFy channel level direction and quality.

What a shame.

Tarnished his name with this film.
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Fall (I) (2022)
8/10
The Descent for people with a fear of heights. . Well done.
21 November 2022
Well done to the film makers.

Not been so scared by a film since a child This is like THE DESCENT where that used claustrophobia this uses fear of heights and uses it well.

If not scared of heights then unsure whether it will Damn.

I almost turned it off numerous times. Sweaty palms and looking away from the screen. Ha ha. Not ashamed to say it made me genuinely scared.

No film has ever done that and I've seen everything, desensitised to all violence and gore.

I guess by tapping I to a real life fear it greatly increased the thrill.

People who hate Spiders may be the same with Arachnophobia the film.

The story is very basic, and also borrow another plot point from The Descent (which I won't spoil) but it's no huge twist.

After a tragedy where she loses her husband her best friend takes her to a huge mast to conquer her fears and get back her life.

As you have seen In the trailer and poster.....I all goes bad.

The ending seemed a little rushed and was a bit disappointing that didn't see certain moments that would have added and brought it to an end better. But it's a small thing.

I would love to see the making of this.

Well done to all inolved. You did an extremely rare thing and made me squirm and sweat watching a film. Bravo.
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5/10
Good idea, flawed script, missed opportunity
11 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Loved the trailer. Did its job well as the premise grabbed my attention and the fact it had metal musicians involved seemed kinda cool. (Although it turned out the music was a bit poor throughout )

I'll start by saying is far from the worst film I've seen. It kept me entertained and I love revenge films. Its well acted, direction isn't too bad and its edited to a professional level but the script doesn't really match the quality.

Too many daft parts and choices to ignore. The God bothering lead actor started off likeable then became irritating with his actions until slightly redeemed himself with a fun kill spree.

First scene was confusing? Seemingly unrelated. Zombies? At first i was not sure what the hell that was about at all (until later in the film that is when all made clear.

The snippet of Band performing at a Church sermon almost made me turn inside out with embarrassing Cringe. So bad and that nearly made me switch it off.

Who thought that was a good idea!? Ha ha Again I tried to ignore and carried on.

Clichéd biker characters appear, a storyline about rival gangs is hinted on (and then totally forgotten about) and a slaphead hard man in a muscle car unnecessarily attacks a girl due to his own incompetence. Then tie wraps her to her car steering wheel and pushes her into a lake. Why didn't she simply put her foot on the brake???

Ok. Again I tried to ignore the daft logic.

Two days later she's buried. (They work quickly there!) And it's only then (at the wake!?) that a police detective decides to introduce himself and mention that the girl was tied to the steering wheel!? Then casually (days later) goes to Gas station to ask for cctv footage. The script is full of all these daft inconsistencies that its difficult to ignore.

Blood on face Continuity was noticeable (Covered one minute, clean the next) as was the dodgy blood cgi. Some fun gory parts regardless but nothing excessive.

Add pointless and blatant cameos of rock stars in strip joints and we start to actually get a vague semblance of story and the detectives back story of vigilante justice. Enter (the always awful) Jacoby (singer? From Nu Metal band Papa Roach) who ina flashback waits until Police break into a motel room (where he has a kinapped woman) to blow a hole in her head. And doesn't get shot!?? C'mon. That's ridiculous!? He would have been riddled with bullets by the police for sure. Then we see the detective pick up evidence with no gloves. Yet another ridiculous script fail.

The idea of someone providing a service to people who have had family members murdered etc by capturing the killers and allowing them to torture them seemed like a great idea but its just far too brief here......and the main spoils it all and causes a right mess with his weak actions. This should have been the main part of the story, but it just turned into an almost comedic kill spree. Which needed to be a lot more splatter to be enjoyable. Think Brain Dead (Dead Alive) ordered from Wish.

If this just had the script polished a little better. Focused on the story of revenge, not been shy with the gore and violence then it could have been an excellent film. Instead it's an OK film, flawed with couple of interesting moments.

Missed opportunity.
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Deadstream (2022)
3/10
Kinda of irritating but the homage to Evil Dead helps. If poor imitation
8 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The guy was so cringe and annoying.

I wasn't sure it it was trying to be funny or was just so bad it was funny.

His effeminate girly wails everytime something caught his eye and scared him. (Every few seconds) quickly became old and annoying.

The comments from viewers were the funniest it's.

They should have made it a comedy and added some jokes or comedic parts.

It was obvious the woman who arrived was gonna turn.

Not much originality really.

You can tell they were trying to create a similar vibe to the classic Evil Dead but fell hugely short to that masterpiece.

After all these decades they still can't match Evil Dead's gritty majesty.

The FX were cheap looking.

I wasn't sure if this films budget but it looked super low. Worth one watch and there are a couple of laughs but the guy was too irritating to like and the FX were too cheap looking and drew me out of the film.

Few points for making the effort but other films with similar and less budget have suceeded far better.

One time watch if really isn't anything else on.

I watched on a plane as was bored. It kinda passed the time I guess.
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1/10
AN INSULT TO THE LOYAL FANS AND GOOD CINEMA
16 October 2022
Well. I can't say it was a shock that this film sucked so badly. Halloween 2018 was ok, had some real clunky and corny dialogue and cliche ridden script but nostalgia helped us along and it was a 5/10 film at best. Then Halloween Kills arrived and to say that was a bad BAD film would be an understatement. Very poor and totally illogical script with the stupidest dialouge put to film. It made no sense whatsoever!? And apart from some fun deaths and the scenes with a young Loomis it was a total disaster that tested and broke many Halloween fans tolerance limits.

"Endless Evil Dies" Tonight that drove viewers up the wall and caused headaches with the eye rolls it caused. Why were these people so angry about a man that had been locked away for 40 years!? (Remember this continues after the first film) Nonsense logic. Idiotic decisions people made throughout, Strode Family idiocy and Laurie in a Hospital bed throughout. .......so when it came to the END. Expectations were LOW.

I went into the film (streamed) trying to forget what a disaster Kills was and give it a chance.

The film was more of a drama for the first 50minutes, focused on unlikable, badly written characters and Laurie suddenly deciding she would forget about it and get on with her life and not worry!......er.... OK. Myers still not been found after 4 years.

They tried to create a new storyline about the town people still being paranoid etc after Myers went missing yet again, commiting suicide and killings etc and then totally forgot about it and never mentioned it again. Characters randomly and conveniently showed up at the right place just to provide a little plot line help in the bar or supermarket. Hilariously tacked on.

Myers is hardly in the film and this is the real insult. He becomes a side character in what was to be the big final showdown between him and Laurie Strode. But they inexplicably dumped that for a weak new storyline about a babysitter suddenly becoming evil because he looked Myers in the eyes once!? What the... ...!!! Wow. Who thought that was a great idea? Were the script writers drunk or high!? Puzzling (and as I said earlier) totally disrespectful to the fans who have followed these two characters since the 70s.

The producers, script writers and Director should be ashamed of themselves. Halloween will never be able to rid itself of the stain these last two films have caused. And it's inevitable they will bring it back sometime to squeeze more blood out of poor Michael Myers mythology.

Watch it if you must. It really is bad.

Halloween is now a joke series.
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1/10
An absolute joke of a film. Embarrassing for all involved.
12 October 2022
Loved the original.

The 2nd was pretty good.

3rd oh no.

So. Thought....they've got rid of the sicko director and all his nasty fiddling crimes, starting fresh. May be good. Right.

WRONG.

Poor Dee Wallace. Admired her work in the 80s. Great actress. And her scene at the start was bearable. Only thing that was.

I'm unsure where to start with this film, there's so much wrong with it.

The script. Simply poor. Almost no attempt at a real story. Two main characters who seem like strangers to each other, clearly uncomfortable around each other, know nothing about each other at all yet supposedly about to get engaged!? Wth! Zero chemistry between them. Arely tolerable acting chops and a 'plain' female who is clearly intended to be hot and sexy (failed) with a geeky nerd boyfriend.

It's impossible le to not notice the Incredibly poor green screen environments and backgrounds. So low quality and look straight out of a cheap kids tv show in the 80s. How could they think that was passable as!? Surely when editing it they must have thought.....'we can't release these scenes, they look terrible'.

I've seen far higher quality 'fanfilms' than this mess.

Everyone involved would do well to take their names from the credits.

Think I'm exaggerating? Then by all means fill ya boots but don't say you weren't warned about it.

Luckily I never paid to see this or I'd demand my money back. I did lose 90mins of my time though.

It's shocking how a film this poor can get a release nowadays when so much is possible and cheaper.

Jeepers Creepers deserved so much better. Its a much loved couple of films, (slightly tainted by a sick criminal director) but a fantastic monster ......it deserves a studio putting its money where its mouth is and doing it right with a competent crew on board. Then see the money come in. Not going to fool the fans with dross like this.

Epic fail and the people who made the decisions should be sacked.
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8/10
Highly enjoyable Stephen King adaptation with great cast
5 October 2022
Highly enjoyable Stephen King adaptation by Director John Lee Hancock.

Oozes that Stephen King vibe from the onset.

Jaeden Martell had a huge job carrying the film on his young shoulders but succeded with visible ease. His acting skills show true maturity beyond age. He is going to be a hugely successful actor.

Seasoned actor Donald Sutherland holds your attention firmly as always, his screen presence has never been in doubt and the character of Mr Harrigan himself was in suitable hands.

The film never goes full on into the supernatural, holding itself on the edges and dips it's toes in occasionally (with tense creepy effectiveness) tending to delve more into the real world emotions and consequences of grieth and loss.

Mr Harrigan did leave me wanting more. There feels like there is so much more to learn about Mr Harrigan and I'd certainly welcome a prequel story or another that tells us more about thise 'terrible Memories'. I guess as it was based on a short story by King there wasn't much to work with.

A very enjoyable film, well directed and fantastically cast.
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