Chady wakes up on her sixteenth birthday ... stacked. As she continues to go to her family's Lutheran Church, she's shocked--and thrilled--to see her man crush, Jack, also in the house of worship. How can she possibly stay away from witchcraft now, when it gives her the power to take him? Time to power up on Wicca.
So, check it out. I promise you won't regret it! Enjoy!
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I liked this one, as I do all of writer/director Osgood Perkin's films (AKA The Blackcoat's Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House), son of Anthony Perkins of Psycho. His brother Elvis Perkins performs the soundtracks. As with every movie of his, it didn't blow me away, but it didn't suck. He IS one of my favorite writer/directors, however, behind my favorite, Ari Aster (AKA Hereditary, Midsommar).
FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is charged with investigating occult crimes in 1990's Oregon, where the father of every family suddenly goes berserk and kills said family in every case. Plus, she spots a creepy man in the distance as she investigates: someone is orchestrating these murders.
Eventually, thanks to a little girl (a much younger Lee Harker with her Polaroid camera) who heard strange sounds and came outside and to find a crazy clown character (Nicolas Cage), Tiny Timlike, who tells her and her mother that he serves the man downstairs. "Where?" her mom asks, to which the insane man replies, "Everywhere!" On a visit to the mother's house as an adult, Lee finds the snapshot, and the man is captured and slammed into the hoosegow, but is highly unfazed. As if someone will make everything all right.
I'm probably the last one to have seen this, but if haven't, check it out. You won't regret it. (*Blows you an eerie kiss sound like in the movie.)
Post Mortem is a 2020 horror movie directed by Péter Bergendy, written by Péter Bergendy, Gábor Hellebrandt, and Piros Zánkay, and starring Viktor Klem and Fruzsina Hais. It's about a photographer of the dead (Klem) during the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the ghosts that terrorize a community because there're "too many bodies to bury."
Where to begin? I was both amused and confused by this ambitious plot. I didn't find it believable at all. I personally feel they could've interred all the bodies if they would've worked their asses off. And that didn't happen, ghosts throwing a whole village around back then. Too, why's the heroine a ten-year-old girl (Hais)? That was weird. Maybe hang out with people your own age?
I won't be cruel and give it one star. There were some creepy shots of the dead, especially the woman burning in the fireplace, but other than that, it was a real letdown.
Of course, that's my opinion, and maybe you'll like it. Check it out and enjoy, hopefully.
- A.R. Braun
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2021's Don't Let Her In is the newest film from Full Moon and writer/director Ted Nicolaou, the tag team that gave us TerrorVision and Puppetmaster vs. Demonic Toys, plus cinematographer Howard Wexler, who gifted us Blade the Iron Cross. Richard Bland (Re-Animator) did the score.
In this horror-erotica feature, simply-pretty plain-Jane blonde Amber (Kelly Curran) and her soon-to-be rock star boyfriend, Ben (Cole Pendery) decide to rent out a room in their artists' loft to bring in some extra money. Along comes a vivacious woman in black, Serena (Lorin Doctor), who oozes sexuality. She makes occult bowls she sells for a living ... and Amber finds one in her underwear drawer.
Serena makes quick work of their faithful relationship, seducing Ben into the best sex he's ever had right next to Amber as she sleeps, then morphing into a demon face at the climax, then waiting for Ben to travel on tour, for he's on his way to rock stardom because of her spells. She also makes Amber green shakes Minnie Castavetly. Once Ben's gone, here comes the brief, cheap thrill of a lesbian encounter that gives Amber the best orgasm she's ever had, then Serena turns demon-faced at the end, which, ironically, doesn't panic the couple.
It's not long before Serena figures out Amber's pregnant--by Ben, not Serena--and Amber soon finds out Serena's up to no good, for she's bellowing satanic chants in her room. In truth, she wants to hurt the baby.
A mysterious long-haired dude in black shows up named Elias (Austin James Parker) outside the loft, demanding something be returned to him. He just happens to be Serena's ex-boyfriend, and he wants that demon sculpture Serena's got, which is why she's possessed.
I was sure this film was going to be about a succubus, and the watered-down softcore porn and the briefness of the movie turned me off. It didn't suck, but it didn't blow me away, either. I felt the sex scenes could've been longer and more hardcore (it's not a porno), and it should've been a two-hour film ... about a succubus.
But that's just me. Maybe others will like it, so it's with a look. Enjoy!
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Here's the link: Amazon.com: Book of Sprites eBook : Braun, A. R.: Kindle Store Enjoy!
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Abigail, a 2024 horror comedy (although I didn't get the comedic edge), was written by Stephen Shields and Gary Busick and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The plot follows a team of kidnappers who take the daughter of a powerful underworld figure, demanding a random of $50,000, unaware that they've been led to an isolated mansion only to be victims of a vampire.
Abigail (Alisha Weir), a little-girl ballerina, takes them out one-by-one, the first victim Mr. Cool Dean (Angus Cloud), who's beheaded and drained of blood. Charged to watch her is the vivacious Joey, played by Melissa Berrera whom I recognized from the Starz show Vida. She made it hard to concentrate on the film because she's got a stunning set of busoms--sorry. I also recognized Peter (Kevin Durand) from The Strain.
Alliances are made, certain people becoming victims of vampirism either willingly or unwilling, and the bloody gore fest leads you to wonder if any of them will survive the night.
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Late Night With the Devil is a found-footage and documentary-style 2023 horror film written, directed and edited by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, starring David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, and Fayssal Bachi. Desperate for better ratings in the 1970's compared to Johnny Carson--whom I watched religiously as a kid--a late-night TV host of a program called Night Owls, who worships at the Grove when he's off work, unleashes hell on earth into the studio and into the living rooms of the viewers.
On Halloween night, host Jack Delroy (Dastmalchian), after losing his wife to cancer, has stacked the evening with creepy guests, including a medium, a skeptic, and a 13-year-old possessed girl named Lilly (Bachi) who was the only escapee from a house of Anton Levay-style Satanists after a fire. I found Lilly fascinating the way she stared at me through the camera, as if in the mind of the viewer. Also clever was the first movie about elite, demonic worshippers at the Grove. In fact, when Jack talks a parapsychologist into bringing out Lilly's demon, the devil says he knows Jack from worshipping among the trees.
Jack's worst fears come true when pure evil is unleashed in the studio and on his life, leaving him without hope and in big trouble, big trouble!
Enjoy if you haven't seen it yet. \m/ \m/
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Bodies Bodies Bodies, a 2022 comedy-horror film, was loaded with potential, but dropped the ball, IMHO. It was directed by Halina Reijn and written by Sarah DeLappe, based on a story by Kristen Roupenian.
Seven young people gather for a Hurricane party, boozing and doing drugs. When douchebag Dave (Pete Davidson) gets killed, the six assume a murderer is lurking about, and they commence to kill each other out of panic. After the murder, blond lesbian Bee (Maria Bakalova) doesn't see a shadow figure lurking behind her. I wanted the figure to be a werewolf or murdering ghost, but they didn't do anything with it, instead opting to do a slasher film, which, for the most part, I don't think has much of a plot.
The twist ending isn't unclever, but it didn't blow me away.
Check it out, and let me know what you think.
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Countdown is an American supernatural horror movie written and directed by Justin Dec and released in 2019. In this chiller, a group of hard-working people find an app that tells them when they're going to die.
At a party, a teenager named Courtney (Ann Winters) is in peer-pressured into downloading an app called Countdown that tells her when she'll die. It gives her three hours to live. No biggy, she'll just refuse to go with Evan (Dillon Lane), her boyfriend, into his car, as he's drunker than Cootie Brown, therefore outsmarting the app and changing her destiny. Or so it seems. But Courtney receives a message on her app that says she's broken the user agreement. At home, she's killed by an unseen phantom as her time runs out. Then Evan crashes his car. A branch impales the seat where Courtney was supposed to sit.
Evan Rachel Wood lookalike Quinn Harris, our good-hearted angel-of-mercy protagonist (Elizabeth Lail), disbelieves Evan's claim that the app accurately products one's death. Evan skips his surgery at the hospital and is told he's violated the user agreement. Then he tries to escape the hospital but is haunted by Courtney's ghost and is killed by the entity.
Nurse Quinn enters the morgue and finds out Evan's time ran out on the app. Unfortunately having downloaded the app herself, she is given a short time and refuses to go with her family to her mother's grave, trying to change her fate. Again, the messages comes: you've violated the user agreement. She destroys her phone, gets a new one, then finds the app has downloaded itself.
After she escapes an attack of a demonic entity in the parking lot of the cell phone store, she meets young Matt (Jordan Calloway), whose Countdown app says he'll die in eighteen hours. This is when they learn the countdown's broken if the user tries to change the future. Then Doctor Sullivan (Peter Facinelli) sexually harasses her, then tricks the hospital staff into thinking it was the other way around.
Quinn and Matt find Father John (P.J. Byrne), who figures out the app is linked to a demon named Ozhin, previously summoned by a Roma woman who told a prince when he'd die. Quinn and Matt meet again with the Padre and find if someone else dies before their countdown ends, they get to live.
Time for Quinn to give comeuppance to Doc' Sullivan.
If you haven't seen this gem yet, enjoy!
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Polaroid is a 2019 supernatural horror film based on the 2015 short film of the same title, directed by Lars Klevberg, the screenplay written by Blair Butler. The storyline follows high schooler Bird Fitcher, who's gifted a Polaroid camera from hell. She comes to realize that those who get their picture taken with it meet a horrid death.
Sarah (Madelaine Petsch) and her bestie, Linda (Erika Prevost), go through a box of her dead mother's stuff when they find an old Polaroid camera. Being a typical teenager, Sarah has a photo taken of herself in lingerie for her boyfriend. But who's that shadow figure behind her? Sarah meets a grizzly end via the phantom that night.
Bashful high School student Bird Fitcher (Kathryn Prescott) is gifted an old Polaroid camera by her co-worker, Tyler (Devi Santos), who bought it from a garage sale. Said camera has the initials RJS carved into it. Bird takes Tyler's picture, then notices a weird smudge in it.
Bird goes to a costume party with her friend, Kasey (Samantha Logan), and meets the latter's other friends, Devin (Keenan Tracey), Avery (Katie Stevens), and Bird's high-school crush, Connor (Tyler Young). Tyler's murdered by the ghost, and his photo comes free from the shadow, which has moved to Avery's picture. The entity hunts them down one-by-one.
Bird and Connor play detective and find that the camera was owned by photography teacher Roland Joseph Sable from their school in the past. Said teacher had been accused of torturing four students and killing three of them. Then they turn against each other, Connor and Devin fighting for the camera, and Devin is accidentally snapped by the cursed thing. Devin is arrested and attacked by the entity in his cell.
Bird, Connor, and Casey discover Roland's wife, Lena Sable (Grace Zabriskie), still lives. They visit her and find the camera actually belonged to their daughter, Rebecca Jane Sable (Emily Power), who'd been slow and had formed an attachment to the camera, but had been bullied by other students who took inappropriate pictures of her, causing her to commit suicide. But Sheriff Pembroke (Mitch Pileggi), one of the kids who tried to save her, now grown up, reveals to them that Roland molested his daughter, and the students had tried to rescue her.
If you haven't already, you've got to check this movie out! Enjoy!
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Walden (previously called The Stenographer) is a 2023 American horror movie written and directed by Mick Davis starring Emile Hirsch and Shane West. It's about a mild-mannered court reporter (Hirsch) who becomes a milquetoast serial killer who murders killers who get off scot-free in court due to loopholes and technicalities when he develops a brain tumor.
Walden is painfully shy, but driven, attending a stenographer class trying to break the world record of 360 words a minute with 361. He comes damn close. His friend Judge Boyle (David Keith) wants him to spend his time on something more productive, finding a Miss Right. In time, one of the young women in the stenographer class corners him, questioning him on why he's so laser-focused. Unfortunately, he blows her off.
But then the brain tumor hits, and he begins to date the woman who cornered him, the lovely-and-wealthy Emily Duperon (Kelli Garner). A romance ensues.
Walden is a praying man but, frustrated at these monsters walking away from convictions, he tells God he won't be praying anymore, and good luck with your do-nothing strategy.
He commences killing murderers who beat the system, including a crackhead who torched his three-year-old daughter in an oven, then gets out and buys a new oven. Walden ties him up and fries his head in said oven.
Yet the murders continue after the brain surgery. When Walden, now a drinker, finally got laid, I was so happy for him. And if Detective Bill Kane (West), and his vivacious partner, Sally Hunt (Tania Raymonde), catch him, what are they going to do, give him a medal? I would.
If you haven't seen it already, go for it! I found it a special film in the same vein of Slingblade. Enjoy!
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Under Paris is a new French shark thriller that can hold its own with any fish movie out there--and you know I love my scary fishies flicks--a 2024 film directed by Xavier Gens and written by Gens, Yannick Dahan and Maud Heywang.
Grieving, genius scientist Sophia Assalas (Berenice Bejo), working with the river patrol, must figure out a way to save Paris and Olympic triathalon swimmers from becoming chum as an overly-large shark appears in the river Seine. The breeding rate is astronomical, the female sharks engaged in parthenogenesis, the ability to breed without a male.
The movie opens with Sophia's team trying to save the ecosystem in the ocean, then all her men--including her husband--are gored to death by too-large sharks that aren't supposed to be there, who've bred stealthily.
When Sophia, working with eco' warriors, endeavors to get the Seine closed and the triathalon cancelled, the mayor, Anne Marivin (Le maire de Paris) pulls a Jaws and cares more about making money than saving lives.
What results is a bloodbath with some of the greatest shots I've ever seen and gore unparalleled. Foreign films really are the best (not better than Jaws, though)!
Enjoy if you haven't! It's on Netflix!
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I had heard that Stephen King gave this one high praise, but also that Google was bragging about it, so I decided to check it out. I'm so glad I did.
Fall is a 2022 thriller written by Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank, and directed by Scott Mann. The movie showcases two young female thrill seekers who climb a 2,000-foot-tall television broadcasting tower and become stranded at the top.
The movie opens with a mountain-climbing scene with vivacious protagonist Becky Conner (Grace Caroline Currey), her bestie, Shiloh Hunter (Virginia Gardner), the hot, bosomy blonde, and Becky's husband, Dan (Mason Gooding), who falls to his death.
Becky crawls into a bottle until her father, James Conner (played by Neganesque Jeffrey Dean Morgan) endeavors to bring her out of it, not allowing her to drive home drunk. We learn her dad wasn't too keen on her late husband.
Hunter shows up to save the day and recommends they climb that old tower, for it's just the thing to bring Becky out of her blue funk. Once there, they find the tower to be too rickety . . . and the stairs fall away after they reach the top. During their struggles to be rescued, Becky learns that Hunter used her wiles to get Dan to cheat--proving her father correct--and that she got Dan to say he loved her, which was something Becky had failed to do.
Check it out if you haven't: it's killer! Literally!
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Smile is a film that left me unable to imagine a woman smiling without an evil grin. It's left its mark on me for more than a few days. More like a lifetime. Smile is a 2022 psychological, supernatural horror movie written and directed by Parker Finn and is his first full-length flick, based on the short film, Laura Hasn't Slept (2020).
At a psych' ward, therapist Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) meets grad' student Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey), who tells her she just saw her professor kill himself. Laura states she's being terrorized by an invisible entity that appears as various grinning people. She screams, in panic mode, then smiles that evil grin and cuts her own throat.
On the 'morrow, Carl, a patient, smiles like Laura and screams that's she going to die. Rose calls the orderlies to restrain him, only to find out he's been asleep. Afraid for her sanity, her supervisor, Dr. Morgan Desai (Kal Penn from Harold & Kumar), forces her to take a week off work.
Yet the hallucinations continue. She goes to seek help from her former therapist, Dr. Madeline Northcott (Robin Weigert), who finds that her hallucinations come from seeing her abusive-and-mentally-ill mother's death from an overdose.
When Rose attends her nephew's birthday party, her dead cat's said nephew's present, petrifying the other guests. Rose's mind becomes afire and squirms with bugs, the breakdown being exacerbated by seeing one of the guests copping that evil grin.
The shit continues to hit the fan from there. I'm sure everyone's seen this film by now, but if not, this is a definite must-see.
Enjoy!
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Crucible of the Vampire is a 2019 British horror film directed by Ian Ross-Mcnamee and written by Darren Lake, Ian Ross McNamee, and John Wolskel. It was released with a remarkable lack of fanfare.
A young, beautiful woman named Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch), who's also a museum curator, is sent by her professor (Phil Hemming) to a creepy old house to inspect a crucible used by a necromancer (Darren Lake) buried in the eerie manor.
The head of the house, Karl Scott-Morton (Larry Rew), welcomes her heartily, but then proves himself aggressive and threatening, even creepily insisting Isabelle go out to the pub one night. What could go wrong? She ends up being ogled and chased by young Tom (Aaron Jeffcoate), but Tom means to warn her about the evil in the manor, and Karl, furious to find him on his land again, marks him.
But Karl's vivacious daughter, Scarlett Scott-Morton (Florence Cady), looks at Isabelle suggestively after kissing her mother, Evelyn Scott-Morgan (played by MILF Babette Barat), goodnight at the dinner table and makes forward passes at her the whole time she's there, which leads to . . .
. . . well, let's just say this movie is more of a lesbian soft porn than a horror flick.
A flash to the past finds the necromancer working a charm with the crucible in the forest, and soon is confronted by a witch hunter and civil war soldiers, the makeshift Cotton Mather accusing him of witchcraft, punishable by death back then, knowing he's brought his daughter back from the dead, as she haunts the forest.
They hang him high.
Back to the present, and the necromancer's daughter haunts Isabelle ghostly, is a vampire, and so is Scarlett, though not undead yet. This turns into a nightmare made flesh, and Isabelle soon regrets coming to the manor, and can't escape.
If you enjoy watching lezzies get it on, you'll probably love this one. If not, I'm sure you'll be disappointed, especially with the confusing ending.
Enjoy checking it out!
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Nocturne is a 2020 Blumhouse Amazon original movie written and directed by Zu Quirke. It's about the bloodsport of classical music musicians. In fact, I think only classical musicians and extreme-metal musicians like me are the only ones truly challenging themselves, so I could relate to this film, big-time.
Mad Moira (Ji Eung Hwang) keeps a diary of her occult dealings, a virtuoso violinist better than any other. Unmercifully, she jumps to her death from her balcony when the grandfather clock chimes.
Juliet Lowe (Sydney Sweeney) is a classical pianist who lives under the shadow of her sister, Vivian (Madison Wiseman), also a classical pianist, who's the lone musician at her school who's been chosen to attend Juilliard, the most prestigious school of music there is. Her jealous sister has chosen a gap year. Both sisters play lighting-fast on the keys.
Juliet is tired of playing second fiddle. When the faculty cleans out Mad Moira's mail slot, the diary falls onto the floor. Juliet snatches it, looking for an edge to become a better musician than her sister, making a Faustian deal with the devil.
The pages in the diary urge Juliet to take three anti-anxiety pills instead of one, and they spell out that she has to steal Viv's boyfriend, Max (Jacques Colimon), as one of the stages. But the last stage has been ripped from the diary.
Filled with pride, Juliet chooses the same piece Vivian had chosen to play at the senior school showcase, Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2, and in time, steals her musical teacher, Dr. Cask (Ivan Shaw), who has sexual ties to Viv. At the party at the beach, Juliet allows Viv to fall off a cliff and break her arm but saves Max from going over the edge. Now Juliet is chosen to replace her sister at the showcase, and it seems like she's moving ahead of her sister. But it only seems that way. Juliet cuts down the achievement of Dr. Cask and makes bold claims about becoming the star pianist.
But Juliet suffers visions of a bright yellow light, as well as hearing that dastardly grandfather clock, which cause her to fall off the stool and pass out while rehearsing for the showcase, and she slips down the downward spiral she has chosen.
This one's on Amazon Prime, so check it out. You won't regret it.
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is not a remake, but a prequel, going back in time to when Jud Crandall--the old man from the first movie, excellently played by Fred Gwynne of Herman Munster fame--was a young man, and the wide-awake night terror happened to him.
The film is an a 2023 American supernatural horror movie directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer and written by Beer and Jeff Buhler (Buhler? Buhler?). Set in 1969, it happens fifty years before the original movie based on the excellent Stephen King novel, Pet Sematary.
A youthful Jud Crandall (Jackson White) endeavors to escape his boring home town of Ludlow, Maine--the fictional town from the book--with his lovely, blond girlfriend, Norma (Natalie Alyn Lind), taking off in his car to join the Peace Corps.
But the town won't let him go.
A huge black bird crashes into the windshield, and they find a dog in front of the car looking mangy and diseased that belongs to local Bill Baterman (David Duchovny of The X Files fame) and find that his son, Timmy (Jack Mulhern), has returned from the war, but doesn't act ... right. What they don't realize is that Timmy came back dead and his dad buried him in the Mi'kmaq burial ground beyond the Pet Sematary. Consequently, he came back ... wrong. Timmy raptly watches said dog attack Norma's arm, and waits before firing a shot in the air which scares the pet off. You see, the dog's been buried there, too.
It's not long before Timmy wreaks havoc on the town, killing some and making another like him. The members of the predominant families call a meeting and, since they know the evil history of the town, realize they have to put an end to Timmy.
My favorite part is when the founders of the town discover the Mi'kmaq village, which is overrun with zombies who'd been buried in the evil graveyard, feasting on corpses, and are told to "Aim for the eyes," as zombies must be killed by a shot to the head.
I had high hopes for this one, but instead of just showing up at the Baterman's and burning down the house with Timmy in it, like the clip in Pet Sematary, it goes too far with everyone escaping from the burning house--chasing a seemingly unkillable Timmy--and Bill Baterman getting out with them, then traveling through an underground tunnel and into a creek for more unplotly hijinks.
But, by all means, watch it and decide for yourself!
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OK, so I had to rent this one that's still in theaters because it's so ironic to have Sydney Sweeney play a nun. She was also one of the producers, whatever that means. So here we go!
Immaculate, psychological horror, is a 2024 film written by Andrew Lobel and directed by Michael Mohan. In the intro, Sister Mary (Simona Tabasco) steals Mother Superior's keys and tries to escape. Four hooded and disguised figures make short work of that. She ends up buried alive.
Along comes American novice Sister Cecelia (Sydney Sweeney), who was trapped under ice at a young age and died for seven minutes, only to be revived, in her mind, for a reason--a destiny. She devotes her life to God.
Being special not lost to her watchers, she gets an invitation from Father Sal Tedeschi (Alvaro Morte) to join a convent in Italy, but her dream life of being a nun soon becomes a wide-awake night terror, for Tedeschi is a mad geneticist, and he's chosen her for a baleful, sickening reason.
I feel that Sydney pulled it off, actually convinced me she was an innocent nun, her acting prowess flawless. The movie is gory as hell, which is supposed to be a last resort, and there are plenty of booby shots--I mean, it's Sydney Sweeney--but, overall, I thought it was an interesting, entertaining film; it didn't blow me away, however.
Check it out for yourself if you haven't already. It's been in theaters since March. And let me know your thoughts in the comments. Enjoy!
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District 9 was written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, and stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James. It's based on the short film, Alive in Joburg. It's a partially-presented found-footage film.
In 1982, a huge UFO invades air space and hovers over the South-African city of Johannesburg. When nothing happens, an investigation team flys up and cuts open the ship and finds over a million malnourished bug-like aliens inside. In turn, the South-African government relocates them to a camp called District 9, where the environs are squalid at best. It becomes a slum, and the aliens end up being called prawns, a derogatory term.
No love lost between the prawns and the locals, the government hires Multinational United (MNU), who relocates them to a camp outside the city. Piet Smit, a MNU exec,' appoints his son-in-law, Wikus van de Merwe--an MNU employee--to serve the aliens eviction notices, and the shit hits the fan, the prawns attacking with brute force and alien technology. In the process, Wikus find a hidden container with unearthly fuel that sprays his face and makes his arm alien and insect-like. Now MNU can use him to fire the alien weapons that won't let humans operate them.
All hell on earth breaks loose.
It's important to note that this film was based on the real-life events of Cape Town's District 6, during the apartheid era.
You don't want to miss this gem! Enjoy!
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Who knew someone would write a horror movie of a similar plot to "Still Life" by Iron Maiden, the creepiest song ever?
Writer-director Bryce McGuire penned this gem, which started as a short film, about a haunted pool, starring Wyatt Russell and Carrie Condon.
In '92, young girl Rebecca Summers goes out to the pool at night to retrieve her terminally-ill brother's toy boat, only to be dragged underwater and drowned. We find out later her brother miraculously recovered.
In the present, the Waller family--Ray, Eve, and children Izzy and Elliot--move into the Summers's house. It's a fixer-upper, but there's a pool. Ray is a former major-league third basemen who's been sidelined by M.S. But the more he swims in the water, which is mixed with an underground spring that's been there since time immemorial and comes in through the drain, he finds he's healing. You know the 411: first it does something for you, then all you want to do is swim in the pool.
There's only one catch: to help one family member, it requires a human sacrifice of another family member, a price only twisted families will pay.
And the pool is filled with the ghosts of the many families that have lived there.
Must-see TV! It's worth the $20 rental fee.
Enjoy if you haven't seen it already!
The second sequel to Book of Shadows, Book of Set, is out on paperback and available for pre-order on Kindle! This is the creepiest novel ...
