Don't get me wrong, if you want to change sex go ahead - if you are adult. If we don't acnkowledge kids to vote until they 21, or drink , or even drive at 18 how can we allow them to change sex at 12/13 and give them stuff that can be harmful? Damn, this movie is depressing and horrible...
I've watched since 2015 around 1500 horror movies so I believe I have some knowledge although I am not a critic. ButI know what see.
You've got this young female writer who is trying to get published. The publisher is her boyfriend (no conflict of interest there) but something is missing on her writer so he thinks of invite her to go to his glass house in the middle of the desert. Oh have I not told you? She has nightmares, some dreadful waking nightmares where she can't move... The ones I've seen over and over on movies..
But Ahah... it's not. After all there is a ghost that wants to enact revenge through her and there we go... Unfortunately there isn't anything really worth it. I would say it's oaky at best.
Why was the baby always crying?
What was the linkage between the pigs and the movie?
What about the two children / neighbor stuff?
What a heck was that ending?
I get this book is about women and how they deal with childbirth. You have (this applies to men) the social construct that as soon as the child is born it's your most precious thing, and you feel love like you never felt - well of course that's bullshit. Love doesn't spring out of nothing -it grows. Anyone that say different - may feel differnet and that's their life BUT that doesn't happen to the majority. The vast majority - even if they feel ashamed and don't admit - like to have their own time, their own stuff and so on. You are a person, you are a husband/wife and you are not mother/father. That's it. You don't remove the individual person you are OR the husband /wife functions.. to be honest that's why most married deteriotates.
Okay, what about the husband actions? She was doing stuff because she was suffering from child post pasturm disorder or because she had previous problems or because there were malefic things happening - well I didn't understand. All the book gives focus it was something horrible that happen and so on, and then the all pill stuff and maybe a social critique of how "men" deal with woman that become abnormal with pregnancy. They treat them as "crazy" to be treated as problematic and treat with medicaments... There's much more than this but the movie not even here was clear and never really try to get both sides of a conversation
Nothing is explain, you may think A and be correct and me thinking B and I am correct as well, in the end we are both wrong because this was done that only the writer/cast whatever know the real reason behind.
I hate when movies do this, rush ending never really explaining and there may be several interprerations.. Oh well
Another remake, sequel that doesn't bring anything new. The death's were more akin to SAW and the cenobites weren't that interesting. Then there is all the main character stuff that was boring. She was unlikable, whinning about everything but still work this out. While per example on the first one the girl wanted to saved her father, The remaining characters are boring as well.. At least the new pinhead was a female, lets go marketing that. Oh the brother of our main characher was gay, and we add here some POC et voila we ticked all the boxes therefore this must be awesome... It's not. They even make the woman's voice be like a men's voice. WHY?
In terms of special effects - of course this is better - after all, the first one was made in the 80's.
If you have watch everything from hellraiser then go right ahead you will be disappointed. If you have not watch the old one - then I wouldn't advise starting here. IT's crap. To be honest - just read the goddamn book.
What about that ending? WTF Is that daemon? Looks like more a house elf from harry potter... WTF? How that skinny dipshit has 30 legions under him? WTF? OH my god I am upset.
Stop screwing with movies with your politics & please be more faithful in them.
In the movie the ending is bad - wtf is that oh wallace did this and that, body positiviy movement margaret stuff etc.. WHAT?
Please read the book. Its just a different league.
Possession, satanists, bystanders dying due to the actions of our main character and so on. Boring but not bad. It's jut another horror movie.. unfortunately the cutest girl died. I am sorry due to the main character action her fateful friend died.
I really enjoy the setting and the haunted house. Another thing hat really felt great, after all it was recorded on Go Pro I Guess is that it was an amazing video experience. Really enjoy the camera work and sometimes when you got this self-camera kind of guy/gal it's shaky that makes me a bit unconfortable seeing it.
Everything here felt nice and really scary stuff - well most. It's a low budget movie so the monsters/ghosts are a bit fake BUT maybe the purpose was it was all a prank? Who knows, watch it and tell me about it.
Either way I really enjoyed the movie. Some good interesting comedy/horror stuff. Not mind blowing but okay.
There is no nudity whatsoever.
This story is set like 100 hundreds in the future of Lizzie timeline as her descedents try to live with her family curse. We've got the main protagonist (A young teen) that is starting to show some odd tendencies. Knowing of their past they think that is time she took medication although she doesn't want it. Her mother convices her to see her aunt (mother's sister) because she was commited in the asylum after killing her baby child. Meanwhile in the city people are being killed by an axe.
The story then evolves into a cat and dog chase as everyone is trying to understand how the girl is killing people. By the end we come to realize that probably the young teen has just some psychocis but it's not killer.
I enjoy the tale but don't expect anything really knew or groundbreaking.
Unfortunately didn't really expand on all the Lizzie stuff and there are some minor woke elements - the all boyfriend situation - why he is even there? He has like three lines in all the movie... _NPC. And gay friend and you could arrest half the town when she reported to the police that someone has sent her a d1ck picture.
You want to see how you can make a woke horror show that ticks all boxes you are used and it's crap? Go no further. I will not make a review out of his because I hated it.
Gay characters are not characters at all. They are all about seuxality. Nothing exists beyond their sexuality. If you remove that they are gay and one is black - you would have cardboard NPC characters from a videogame.
I find it hard to believe that gay people can identify with this.
But the movie is only at half, but the ending is here no? Well no, the second part we've got the story of the bullied girl and why she turn the way she is/was.
There is a third part, a couple of weeks, months later where a bunch of girl don't believe anything that happen and defy the surviving member of the first part.
The beginning and ending you've got an intro from a JPop girl
Overall I was dissapointing for it. The terror factor is just not there and the story is a bit flat.
This tale is all over the place. I can see people hating or loving it. The reason behind is the synopsis was already done on other movies and nothing innovative really come UNTIL the end.
Basically you've got a couple with a small child (daughter) that go back home to take care of her grandmother. As the story unfolds we get to learn more about the main woman's mother and upbringing and the torment that she (the bedridden woman) gave to all of his famly. A mix of satanism & witch she did a lot of awful things and the purpose of all was to get eternal life.
The story is very slow, apart from some more action scenes right in the end. It's a body switch kind of situation that makes you wonder right until the end on what happened.
The story is that these men (and women) want to survive and they hear of a safe place within a island but things on the island are not what it seems. There is a feud between two irish families and they are more interesting on killing one another than zombies.
What a boring movie, saved by those moments of comedy (well not saved but atenuated) but apart from that just watch if you are watching them all...
Oh by the way if on the 4 one you got smart zombies, here you've got zombies that start eating other beings besides humans.. But alas, there was never a movie that really connect all of these stuff in one grandiose movie but unfortunately our creator is dead (not a zombie) and therefore we shall never see that conclusion..
There are some interesting characters, but most are just boring and cardboard. You got the strong female character and leader of the pack, you got the weird professor, the film director that nothing matters execept the shot, the cheerleader etc These character (the cheerleader kind of girl Debra) leaves the group so I thought that the last movie would be about her or the ones that lock themselves in a panic room but ALAS it was not.
I Wont' dwell much on the movie but it's nothing interesting or worth mentioning.. Week special effects.
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So in this movie we've got some new things created by Romero which deal with who is the worst enemy of humankind on a apocalypse zombies - hint is not the zombies and secondly how would the plague of zombies evolved?
On contrary o
f the previous novel here is several years after and some people are trying to amass food. They found that firecrackers make zombies not attack while they pillage which they use it but zombies are now doing two different stuff - one they are mimicking stuff they did previsouly - some kind of lost memory repetitive and secondly one zombie is learning and at the same time teaching other zombies - how to use a weapon or not to be distracted and so on.
At the same time in the paradise city not everything is great as we hope as the rich live on the spoils of the poor.
I enjoy the movie, the changes on the zombies BUT I didn't enjoy the ending that much. Is not bad BUT is like zombies become a new kind of species. In terms of characters were interesting and innovative FOR that time. IF you are only watching now AFTER the Walking dead you will feel these characters boring but never forget tha all of these tropes were created by him.
At least the plot is the same...
So basically society is in shambles as the dead rises and some people try to escape the cirites while the army try to contain the zombies. Two soldiers seeing nothing could be done to stop the onslaught (some social commentary here since one is black and other is white - and there was some racial tension) they escape via helicopter with a couple of tv news personal.
The first instinct was getting north but then they stop at a mall since had everything they wanted and few death inside but then stuff happens and they have to deal with zombies and even bike gangs.
I have some complains... it's too slow at some moments and a bit repetitive. They have to show you everything and try to copy paste situations... Then we've got the zombies which don't behave at zombies at times and with our survivors they almost are just there to be pushed aside. Their attack is pointless with no velocity. I wonder how they got so powerful and so many. Then the zombies can climb ladders which make no sense since they would make it topple over.. But whatever..
The goods , the interaction between all characters and the growth you've get from all them.
The first one had some interesting premise and it is a story within a story and unfortunately I just found out there is a sequel and that makes sense because the first one is incompleted. There was a second movie called Valdemar Legacy - La Sombra Prohibida. It's a story of young woman who is trying to getting a value of an old house BUT stuff happens and she disappears. Afterwards a detective is sent to investigate (to this 30m have passed) and the remaining 1 hour is the story within a story as a woman tells the story of the house.. then the movie ends. I was disappointed. 2/10
The second deals with an isolated religious community as things go to shit. I don't understand all the IMBD reviews because they all gave it a 9 or 10 but then the average is 5 which makes zero sense.. One thing I will say it terms of cinematography is a good movie. BUT in terms of story I've seen way better and ti ended well poorly to be honest. It has some interesting concepts - very akin to the Village - but deals with god and devil and the loss of innocence. To be honest I coudn't connect with most characters, the three girls were cool, but then the all "jesus" redemption arc in the end was bad. Calling this horror - well maybe psychologic horror living in that community but apart from that... probably not the movie fault but rather mine - but one thing I say - don't trust IMDB reviews. They all say the same things 5/10
Another spanish horror movie, there are a couple more to watch and for what I am watching I am enjoying them... This one deals with two friends... which is what it means "amigo". The story is about a guy who has been in accident and can't move, so his friends take care of him rather dutifully - putting the friends needs above his but then we start wo see things strange things. that make us wonder the sanity of the caretaker. He is taken some medicine for mind but unfortunately due to some strange occurrences in weather he can't get more.
We become aware that there was an accident and the reason the caretaker is trying so hard is because he is partial culpable of the friend condition and demise of of the wife.
Before going for spoilers let me just say that the invalid is really a great actor, his body is really deformed due to the fact that he doesn't move and your muscles become atrophied.
Some spoilers..
The story by the end begins to be very dark as the caretaker is really punishing his friend with force feeding, cold water, and other mistreating that makes you quiver in pain... then that deaths are truly magnificent to be honest - I didn't expect , first he invalid stabbing the caretaker and dying as well... Perfect ending.
Another great Spanish thriller horror movie.
Take your medicine guys...
They are all different friends which enhanced my enjoyment and there were several plotlines going on. First of all and center is what is happening in Venice. As you know Venice is a city on top of islands and connected by bridges and boats. There are four hundred islands, some of them with their own history. Veneti (I know they aren't called that - those were the ancient inhabitants of Venice) hate the visitors , after all they are destroying Venice with their polution, grafitti etc... do you know that Venice receives more than 20 million people per year? That's insane. Italy has around 60 million people so you can see the impact that has...
Well, besides this story you've got a madman roaming around Venezia killing foreigners. Interesting (and also believable) he makes like he is making a play - since he is dressed as a Harlequin) and people laugh and record it. With thousands every day it's believable that if a couple disappear who would notice it?
Well on top of this story, there is another we get glimpses and more heavily on the end that there are group of terrorists kidnapping people and trying to increase fear so visitors stop coming...
One of the best aspects of the movie is the flow, I really enjoy it, sometimes it's fast paced, sometimes it gives us time to learn more about the main characters, villains and city. Another is the images that we get from Venice. Venice is beautiful but can also be frightful with their small corridors and water everywhere. They really get the atmosphere of Venice and the Harlequins and Plague Doctors.. I really enjoy the story and that ending is very good... IF you didn't understand the ending I am going to tell you... so spoilers ahead...
The two terrorists (husband and wife) were kidnapping people and knew the police was on top of them so they publish the video in their name, hinting there are more and instead of getting arrested they killed for the cause. To be honest, I hope for something different. I hope, or wanted they gave the plague to the people they kidnap and letting them go to their country and let the bubonic plague roam free. That would be nicer but alas..
As I watch this movie, I thought two things - first, it was a zombie kind of movie (more on the vein of Hater the book) and then I thought this is Spanish but not from Spain I thought Argentina … it sure look like it but alas, it was Uruguayan. Almost there.
You've got a girl that is going to work when her ex-husband reminds her that she must take care of the child. IT seems she is struggling with something (we've see a photo of her, ex husband plus two children) but only one is there.
She brings her child (of 8) to work as she is a night watchwoman on a abandoned building. Strange things are happening on the city - but all in the background.
In that buildings she lets her child playing with some balls while she is making her rounds when strange people, violent people start to invade the place. As she struggles to find her child, she meets those people and some normal people who first save her, then make her work for them in return to tell her where her child is...
This book is nothing new, is not scary and it's a bit of jump scare. Then there is the all 32 on the title.. you know what it is Going to explain, with spoilers
After one of these people kill something (either a rat or a person) they become still for 32 seconds-why? Is never explained.
Nothing really is innovative, nothing is really interesting. I got bored and there are some deus-ex machina moments that really was boring convenience plot... yes that key was just there - why? Well because... There were a dozen rats in that storage, why? Well because... And the pistol was just there , why? Because.
I also wondered why so many people entered that place...
The ending was boring, and as much films nowadays leave you wonder -now what? Well if it sells - you've got a sequel, if it doesn't sell it, then you've got a "I wonder" moment that is rather convenience..
Then the main characters, is beaten in the end by one of the monsters but not killed yet the zombie stop for the 32 seconds - WHY? it makes zero sense..
Christini Ricci did a good job. But as I said I've seen this type of trope dozen times. The boy also was not that interesting actor and at that age they could have found someone better.. hey but at least it will grow.
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You've got our main character who is being bullied by his army colleagues and as the days advance he becomes frustrated and angry. He discovers some ancient demonic books and is so desperate that you can see it change day by day... The movie is nothing you could put on a pedestal because as I Said it's slow and it's over the last confrontation it ends very fast. Although is not a bad movie.. the main character evolution is truly something interesting... in the beginning we get to feel pity and as the story progress you becoming to feel a bit afraid of him... This was done on 1981 so the computer savvy it was a cool thing to watch
Should you watch? Yes, but vear in mind that if you enjoy scary and fast books this will not be for your. This is slow and doesn't have any kind of terror factor.
6/10
This is very slow, we are talking Korean slow. All the setup drags on and on... Which is why I didn't enjoy as much as other slow burning movies. It's not that gritty so don't worry and there are some awkward sex scenes... Either you show nudity OR please to drag sex scenes for minutes on end..
A Bit of spoilers ahead...
So what is this about? A young girl called Mizuki goes to a new school and of course gets bullied. As she is bullied, one of the girls of the class becomes interested in her and starts defending her (Kirie). They become friends and Mizuki confides in her that she changed schools because she became pregnant from a school teacher (we never knew if it was consensual or not - well she was a minor so that's that). As they hang out they meet a boy called Shibanai. Well the bully continues and Shibanai becomes interested in Mizuki, Kirie becomes jealous of Mizuki and tells her parents that Mizuki is still screwing a new teacher...
After a while as Shibanai & Kirie were starting to get intimal two teachers appear and rape Kirie. Kirie afterwards ask Shibanai to fuck her because she feels awful with the semen of the professors so they fuck (what...) and later that day Kirie commits suicide.
Mizuki is very upset with everything and starts to get revenge... Well, Mizuki cuts herself and we get to see something (like a flower with tooth... very strange stuff) and then chaos happen and strange psychedelic stuff happen and people start dying or getting crazy and such...
It's very odd
Advisable? Hmm Highly debatable... I honestly can't recommend unless you enjoy Japanese horror.
Before you jump saying - looks like Squid something well, Japanese have been doing this kind of movies for a long time, since Battle Royale , which was the first I remember watching but one of my favorite was As The Gods Wills it (2014).
One of the latest was Imawa no Kuni no Alice (2020).
So, what are my thoughts... well this movie has some interesting stuff, remember all those things you did as you were kid, those pranks and so on? Well here they turn several notches...The bullying in Korea & Japan movies is very common - I don't know if the bullying there is worst than in europe or usa but sure they portrayed as such. I won't advice this book unless you like this theme of death game. IF you have watched all others I advised here then go ahead - it's more of the same. Different reason, different games but mayhem and horror and gore.
I've always enjoy Ju-On & Ringu. So I thought I would watch the movies this year for October Horror Fest. I've already watch the first and second a couple of times but never really dwelt the later ones... So here we go...
If you don't know Ju-On it deals with a curse. There were two short called Katasumi & 4444444444. But in terms of movies the first one was Ju-On: The Curse in 2000 & Ju-On: The Curse 2 also in 2000. BUT in terms of theatrical the first one was Ju-On the Grudge in 2002, and then Ju-On The Grudge 2 in 2003.
Afterwards they made two movies they air in the same time. They are connected two the previous although they followed different familes... One was called Ju-On: Black Ghost and second Ju-On: White Ghost.
There were 3 more movies made; one of them a cross-over with the Ring Series... So let's review the first two:
Black Ghost
This, as previous are told in vignettes with different characters setup & fate. One of the most interesting things, but the previous was like that s well, they are told in anachronic timeline. I am note going to lie to you but you must be completely focus or you will lose where you are in terms of story - because as I said it's not told in one fluid motion.
for those who follows AV you will remember Maria Takagi & Kana Tsugihara. Bear in mind there is no nudity on the movie BUT it's cool to see her.
White Ghost
This one is not a sequel of some sorts - but it also doesn't feature Sadako. This is set on the same house as the previous years after Black Ghost. Btw, in both movies Toshi (is that his name) appears but very briefly - no part of the plot. This one evolves a broken family, some child molestation and a confused grandmother...
I can't really talk about the movies plot or else would give to much spoilers... If you want to see all movies, then these two would be right on your alley. But watching just for the sake of horror as isolated I cannot recommend them. It's for hardcore.