Movie Review: The Dunwich Horror (1970)

As the title implies this novel deals with Lovecraftian Mythos. Particular the story "The Dunwich Horror"  and the fate of Dunwich. Well, we've got Wilbur Whateley portrayed by Dean Stockwell and Nancy by girl sensation Sandra Dee. 

The story is set first in Arkhan as Wilbur try to recover the Necronomicon from Arkham University but failed because of Professor Armitage. Then Wilbur seduce Nancy and drug her. Afterwards he tries to make some ritual to release Yog-Soggoth.

I think this movie is not that good and didn't survive the test of time (after all it has 46 years old).

It's a slow movie with little thrill to the watcher. Nevertheless I think the characterization was good (from every character) and it developed quite nice (mainly Wilbur and Nancy).

Should you watch it?

Sure if you are into the horror from the 70's.

But if you want gore or get a fright then you are not getting here... 

If you love Lovecraft as I, then you must watch it.

There is an excelent review Here

Movie Review: Robot Overlords 2014

So, Robot Overlords - I watch this movie when I went to work, at lunch and at the return and boy I want my time back!

This movie deals with a invasion of an alien race (robots) that imprisioned all humankind. They defeat us in under 7 days... (quicker than god you know?)

So humankind is implanted a neuro thingy that allows the robots full knowledge of our whereabouts.... it's a modern GPS implant.  Anyone caught outside their homes will be shot - disintegrated....

The special effects are good for a Irish/english movie and they got Gillian Anderson to do a small part - yes, a small role. She is in the movie no more than 10m alltogether...

So, what do I think of this movie?

Yep, there is no story at all - they are controlled by the Robots Ovelors plus some humans who sided with them. There is also a boy who learn that he can control the robots with his mind. The Robots who have mastered technologies beyond our compreenhsion don't have an anti-virus or firewall and are fvck up by this boy. It's better than Neo in Matrix.

- If the robots wanted to assimilate everyone thoughts why wait 5 years?

- If they imprisioned everyone how do they learn about our ways?

- The cubes in the air consume so much power that I would love to know how they support themselves? Air?

Reasons to see this movie:

- because your infant wants it

- you follow gilllian anderson no matter what since x-files

- you're irish

- and that's it...

The reedeming factors were:

- Ben Kingsley being the bad guy.

- Ellen Hunt performance (not helen hunt...)

- Can't remember anything more... It's bad.

TV Series Review: Scream - Season I 2015

What starts as a YouTube video going viral soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past.


This has been an interesting show. I didn't expect this much for a MTV show. But I've been suprised over and over.  They proove that none is safe and most characters have been killed.

First a video of two girls making out and in the next day one of the uploaders is killed. Emma started to receive calls taunting her. There is no suspects but the murder remembers something that happened 20 years before.

And Who's a suspect we don't know... Then in the next episodes some minor characters are killed... but one of them was a little different. One of the girls from the video is killed by hanging a different MO from the other gruemsome killing. What does it mean? We all think will was the killer and then he died. We thought Jake was the killer and he is stabbed in the heart (and didn die... so wrong producers!!) But who stab him?

So now the last episode is up and we've got some suspects...

Emma Duval  She is in the center of it all. She is taunted by the killer saying that all of this is because of her and her mother.

Audrey Jensen She can be the killer because everyone made fun of her (with the lesbian film). But she is a petit woman. The killer is quite tall...

Noah Foster She is obessed by the previous killer and he knows all about killing and motifs and cliches in the slasher films. If this guy is the killer then it's awesome. 

Brooke Maddox  A girl from the upperclass that in ten episodes turn from "high-above-you" to a down to earth girl with feelings. Something she didn't had before. I think, in my opinion, that she is the best character in the show in terms of development.

Sheriff Clark Hudson Who is he? He investigates all murders and cannot be the killer because he is imprisioned in the ninth episode. 

Maggie Duval She is Daisy. The previous assassin's lover which had a child (probably the one doing all the killing). She cannot be the killer.

Jake Fitzgerald (Ahh.. the guy who has every possibility to be the killer. He is upper class like Brooke and a jerk. He is not that smart. He blackmail Brooke's father just for fun and spied on most girls via webcam and malware. He could be the killer BUT that would be a cliche... Which this story have a lot BUT I think in the terms of the killer they are not going give

Kieran Wilcox  A new boy in town, son of the Sheriff a new lover of Emma. He was one of the prime suspects since most of the times something bad happened he wasn't around. The show itself try to frame him... 

Will Belmont Emma's boyfriend - Most suspecions acts belong to him. I bet he was one of the first to be pointed the Killer, until Emma killed him (indirectly)

Piper Shaw   This girlie to me is one of the prime suspects because she appear in the city after the first killing and she is a reporter having befriend Emma with ease. In the 9 episode she said Emma that after meeting with Brandon's mother she discover that Kieran was the son of Brandon. There are some other actions that make her being one of the prime suspects. In one episode that will is capture she confronted the killer and got away with a smack in the head. Why? 

Seth Branson This guy from the beginning was one of the prime suspects. First he was spying on the girls (through webcams) and it was banging Brooke (a minor I think since they weren't in the university).

After seeing the last episode I was not suprised that Piper was the killer. But I also knew that one was not enough since most of them were attack by the killer in some episodes. So who was the second killer? Who else but the girl who shot the killer before she start talking about the plot and the ways (the same cliche of all other movies... why the killer doesn't kill outright and gloat later is odd to me - it seems we have to justify to them why we are killing them (and I say not because I am a killer right?)

---- But Audrey? Why? She hated most of them - but did she hated Emma or Noah? What were Audrey reasons? Well, in no way it is said or explained that she killed someone. We know that she exchanged letters with Piper and help her but did she kill someone? Did she killed her girlfriend because she found out? Mayhaps in the second season this things will be explained... But one thing I know for sure ---- If audrey was the second killer and she is small, how come in the episode they smack Will (and Piper) the killer was bigger and will? Will was taller than audrey... so................ A third killer? Or something nobody thought about? 

Either way, I really enjoy the series. It had some gore, mystery and drama. I didn't enjoy that much Emma but I really enjoy Noah and Brooke. 

These series are full of cliches. They mash together dozens upon dozens films (mostly slasher) into a series. Let us see what the second season bring us.

Movie Review - Air 2015

In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent and two engineers (Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou) tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind struggle to preserve their own lives while administering to their vital task at hand.

If you have read Wool then this is a somewhat copy... 


The film itself is alright with only two characters plus one (which means nothing by itself). Two engineers are tasked to wake in intervals to maintain a silo where a bunch of people are waiting a nuclear fallout to pass over. It's a ungrateful place since they have two hours each 6 months and nothing much happens. Fix that or those and sleep again. They have done it a hundred times... But it seems nothing is what it seems...

Did I enjoy it? Nope. Not one bit. The ending sucked because nothing is answered. I felt a bit disappointing. But it seems that the nuclear fallout took more than 100 years as they predicted at first....

If you want a claustrophobic dystopia with paranoia involved? Watch this...
If you want the real deal... .. read Wool ;)

Changes

After June everything changed. I had a baby boy and my reading habits have gone down the drain... I will try to recover it but it's being hard. Not sleeping, too much work didn't leave me much disposition to read... But other things pop out... I've been watching series and animes like I had never before, thanks to my telephone and my half an hour train ride to work and home...

I will make small reviews of each series as I can...