Movie Review: Abandoned (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (27/31)

I have so many questions, please elucidate me...

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

Movie Review: Hellraiser (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (26/31)

 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?

It's not good, it's bad. Why? Because it didn't innovate, it didn't try o create something new or interesting. It' goes further as it violates/contracdic the cannon created by Clive Barker in his novella Hellbound Heart. The opening of the box motif - in the first movies it's the desire/needs that make the box open.. here anyone can do it. Even worse, a stuff comes out from the box and pricks them and off they go.

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.

Movie Review: Halloween Ends (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (25/31)

Jamie Lee Curtis has 63 years old. She made the first Halloween back in 1978 - she had 20 years. Now she is 63 and finally Michael Myers is dead or is it?

She performed/made Halloween; Halloween II; Halloween III, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween, Halloween Kills & Halloween Ends. They are not all in the same timeline and there are more and they will make more without any doubt. It's like friday 13th, nightmare in elm street among others. While it makes money it's good - and to be honest there is another thing that makes them recurring... Today film companies, directors are not even trying to create something new. Tell me a series that started recently and have multiple movies on the series? Now tell me all the remakes, sequels of the 70's and 80's ? Yeah and most of them shit on the series. They can't seem to create something new and good so they bring our heroes/evildoers down to the gutter. So many series 

What can I say about this... well to be honest after the last movie we needed a conclusion and we got it here - basicaly they are more older, several years have passed and people become a lot of discotent and hateful of our survivors - blaming the victim as is if brought the evil there.

There is a new character that somehow connects with myears and starts killing people... yeah. The ending is crap as well. I didn't like what they did with any of the characters to be honest... Enfin if you have watch everything before - go right
ahead

Movie Review: My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (24/31)

So I've just finish the book and I gave it a 8 stars. Then I finished the movie and I thought what a bunch of crap. Why did the director and writer butcher Hendrix book? Wtf did I just watch? They just destroyed half the book to smithers - like the interaction between Abby & Gretchen, how they met, how their friendship grew, all of that lost. Then start putting nowdays politics unto the movie including making Glee gay and Margaret shaming. WTF? Then the all Glee nut alergic stuff WTF... Abby is just weird here but on the novel she is strong. Like in the movie she even gaves up on Gretchen while on book she goes against everything and everyone to fight for Gretchen. The exorcist guy is crap compare with the book one. And then the all family interaction between both Gretchen & Abby parents is non-existant here. By the gods how to make a bad adaptation.~

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. 

Movie Review: The Accursed (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (23/31)

 So this was quite normal movie... bascially you've got a demon that possessed a old woman. At the same time a young girl returns home to he mother's funeral. There with her friend she decides to get a job taking care of a old woman - probably compensating her lack of action with her mother.

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.

Movie Review: Deadstream (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (22/31)

 Ah what a movie... This was a very funny and horrific movie. Basically you've got this daredevil kind of guy that makes stupid dangerous videos on the youtube (Similar) platform, but do to some problematic stuff (mainly woman and beating a homeless (in his defense he did pay him lol) he was punished and got a banned. And what famous people do when they get some popularity and people try to cancel him/her? They make a useless unsincere apologetic video. After some months he return with his new most daring stuff ever- going in a haunted holiday since he is very afraid of ghosts. 

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.

Movie Review: The Visitor (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (21/31)

There are slow movies and then there are standing still movies and this one falls to the latter.

You've got a american woman and her british husband who return home after her father has died. There he is received very very warmly by all the community. They had lost their baby and now are trying yet again.

As soon as you start seeing the townsman you've got the feeling that something is not right... You've got strange smiles and weird references and then he finds a very strange painting of Maia (That's her name) father and it looks like him. Well, all over the place there are paintings of her father and they look like him. The paintings sometimes are not connected to her father but her ancestors. 

This is 40 minutes content. 

There are some people that are against what is happening BUT they are afraid of the other people...

We don't really know if Maia is aware but at least him is becoming a bit crazy with allt he paitnings and such.

Spoilers?

I've finished the movie and it was a good ending. As most of this Lucifer come to earth stuff, usually don't end in a correct way this one did end. Why can't evil triumph once in a while? Well..  And incest is always a plus in my book.

My problem with this movie was the beginning. A little too slow and the ending on the other end was a bit too rush... so weak pacing. And the originality factor which is rather non-existant.

Movie Review: The Inhabitant (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (19/31)

 So, Lizzie Borden, you all heard of her. One of the most famous woman serial killer. So, what happened to her descendents? (Besides the ones she killed)

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. 

Movie Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) October Horror Fest 2022 (18/31)

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. 

Movie Review: Ring of Curse (2011) October Horror Fest 2022 (17/31)

 So another japanese horror movie but one I can't really give credit. It started with a very interesting premise... a girl who likes to write is being bullied and they force her to write some story. As these people want to read what she has read they start dying one by one minutes, or hours of reading. 

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.

Movie Review: The Influence (2019) October Horror Fest 2022 (16/31)

As you know from previous posts I've watching other countries horror movies instead on focusing on american stuff because unfortunately the last movies I've watch they focus on social stuff - usual depicting white people as evil or white male mainly. So I am trying other countries stuff AND older stuff.

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.

 

Movie Review: Survival of the Dead (2009) October Horror Fest 2022 (15/31)

This was the weakest of the lot and the only thing worthy was the comedy effect... Basically in these movie we follow some characters from previous novels, not the ones you expect but a group of national guard men (and woman). It starts with a lesbian woman touching herself in front of men -fucking weird. Then one of the men say I can please you and she says well I don't like men.. WTF? Imagine that you got the same situation but the papers were reversed ? It would be canceled... well not in 2009 but you understand.

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..

Movie Review: Diary of the Dead (2005) October Horror Fest 2022 (14/31)

 This movie is a prequel of the last one and is set in the days after the apocalpyse as a group of film students try to document everything that is happening... In the beginning they don't understand what is happening but as news come they continue to document all the stuff. Again, we must remind that this book is something new back in 2007 but now is "dead" and done.

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.