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In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with an ancestral creature.
This was actually a very well made movie. The cinematography was excellent, and the mood of the movie remained dark and ominous throughout. The acting was pretty good, and the special effects were solid. And when we finally get to see the creature at the movie's end, it is truly hideous and grotesque. The movie is rich in imagery and does the mythological creature, the Wendigo, justice. The story does start out rather slow but thankfully picks up in the final 30 mins. As a horror fan, I think it is worth a watch.
3 years, 4 months ago
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Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
This movie takes the world's obsession with escape rooms to a whole new level by adding a life and death spin on the popular past time activity. Adam Robitel's low-budget but well-staged horror thriller is one of those nicely constructed genre entries that never takes itself too seriously and fully embraces it's over the top concept to provide some memorable deaths, set-pieces and twisting and turning narrative that seemingly wants to set up future installments. In the end, it's a fun, silly and fairly enjoyable romp.
3 years, 4 months ago
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Three years after he last terrorised his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.
I'm trying to watch all of the Halloween movies I've missed over the years starting with this one. I wish I hadn't bothered to be honest as it's so bad! The plot is irrelevant. It's still the same old song and dance. Michael dispatching annoying people right and left. The only difference between this one and the rest is that it contains more swearing than before courtesy of the embarassment that is Busta Rhymes who stars in the movie. Watching him trying to do some kung-fu on Michael Myers is cringeworthy. All of the cast is terrible. It's truly sad about a Halloween movie being so unoriginal that it borrows from or rips off various other movies. This might be the worst (along with Halloween III) in the entire franchise. Give it a miss unless you're a completist like me.
3 years, 4 months ago
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When a single mother and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
After seeing the trailer, I didn't have high confidence for this movie. However, I was pleasantly surprised and I really enjoyed it. It feels like a worthy successor to the original movie, it doesn't just ignore the past, it supports it. I would advise seeing the original movie ahead of this, as there is a lot of nostalgia surrounding it. I feel like they wanted it to respect the original and it does that alright. It has a good atmosphere, and a really good pace, there's nothing slow about the movie, it doesn't lull, nor did it feel overlong. It's a bit goofy, it doesn't take itself too seriously. For me, the best bit was seeing the original Ghostbusters return even if Harold Ramis' character Egon only appears as a ghost and of course hearing the fantastic tune by Ray Parker Jnr in the end credits. On the whole, this is a brilliant movie that casts aside the woeful female Ghostbusters crapfest that came out in 2016. If you loved the original movie then you definitely need to see this.
3 years, 4 months ago