tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89670054909260266802024-03-12T17:23:41.555-07:00Nail BitesHorror movie review blog by a girl who loves horror movies, not professional write ups - just my personal thoughts on more recent horror movies.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637197654825767682noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967005490926026680.post-26582521320366734872014-05-12T09:20:00.003-07:002014-05-12T14:19:35.853-07:00The Sacrament (2013)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been soooooo long since I’ve seen a really good movie,
what is wrong with me? Am I expecting
too much? Do I just have certain taste that
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I want a flick that I don’t want to end – please somebody
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Unfortunately I’m not writing this because The Sacrament
cured me. The Sacrament was quite bland,
and relies heavily on Gene Jones (Father) and his preachy speeches. What you’re left with is a very sparse movie
with not much going on, not many creative liberties are taken to spice things
up. It’s weird because I did feel some
tension so something was working on me, but all in all it just felt uninspired –
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So here’s what you have, because it’s not much. A group called VICE travels to a remote
location to meet-up and interview the sister of a guy who’s come to them with a
disturbing (to him) letter from his sister.
She’s joined a group called Eden Parish and she seems a little off her
rocker. Once the group arrives they’re
treated like royalty until they start noticing some creepy stuff going on - Commence
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So that’s it – I kept waiting for something, anything. It’s just super predictable. It’s all obviously based on the Jonestown
Massacre, yet there’s no mention of it. It is BARE BONES Jonestown. I say if there’s no mention, then you should probably come up with some
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The only thing that I found even a bit interesting was that
the sister (former druggie) might still be being drugged by “Father”, and that
might be why she was so enamored with him.
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I think I also wanted a more sinister reason for Father
having this commune out in the sticks.
Let’s say he keeps them drugged and demonstrates some disturbing fetishes,
he could sell their kidneys to locals. Perhaps he’s the only one who can have
children with the women – making a master race.
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program phone systems for a living, I don’t write screen plays – I just know
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So in the end I enjoyed Gene Jones, though his speeches grew
tiring towards the end. I thought Amy Seimetz
(Caroline) was thoroughly convincing, I wanted more of her high energy, brainwashed
character. And I know this may sound strange but I have a soft
spot for Joe Swanberg and AJ Bowen – they’re like lovable horror teddy bears –
but this also means they come off comical to me, and that’s not always good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m really confused, and that’s not good. Proxy starts off with one hell of a scene, I
was really hooked and remained hooked for at least 30 minutes – but the twists
that this movie takes were not at all what I had in mind. The story left me grasping for answers, or at
least some way to tie it up in a nice bow – and before you yell at me saying “Jennifer,
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SO because I’m so confused – let’s truly dish. Esther is our main character. We meet her while she’s nice and plump with
child. Minutes in, she’s assaulted by a
hooded figure in quite the brutal fashion.
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Soon our main character gets involved with a group for women
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become friends. Melanie opens up to
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Here comes some major changes. Esther spots Melanie out at a shopping mall,
Melanie’s screaming and yelling to a security guard that she’s lost her son
Payton. She’s hysterical, Esther is
confused since Melanie has professed to her that her family was killed in a
drunk driving accident. Melanie runs out
of the store, Esther follows, and low and behold Melanie plucks her son out of
her car. He’s alive and well, but the
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Speaking of not well, Esther has issues of her own. First off, she’s more into attention than
being a mother. Especially shocking, in
a good disgusting twisted movie sort of way, is that she actually commissioned her
girlfriend to attack and kill her unborn baby!
Wowzer, the scene where you find this out was quite shocking – I definitely
thought Esther was odd, but I really didn’t expect this. That’s one completely unfortunate thing,
Esther is NOT WELL – and you just need to accept that because there is no
background into why she’s nuts…and there’s a few more scenes involving her that
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Now, we’re only about one hour in at this point and there’s a
lot more to go. Esther becomes consumed
with Melanie - they’re really a lot alike in her mind – though Melanie becomes distant
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They’re both psychologically flawed, and it drives Esther to
commit a most violent act all in the name of bringing her and Melanie together –
and then Esther is shot to death by Melanie’s husband and we have a new lead
character and a new vibe of complete confusion on my part. The overly dramatic scene of Esther’s death
was really over the top to me, how about shave off 3 or 30 minutes by cutting
some of this out? It was shot
beautifully, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes things are nice and shiny so you
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little freaky when Melanie's husband starts imagining things he wished he would have done
differently when he killed Esther, then there's Melanie hitting on her now, dead sons, pre-k teacher – did I mention you still have like 45 minutes to go?</span></div>
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So while all of this was going on, Esther’s girlfriend,
Anika, has been in jail. Anika somehow
finds out that Esther has been shot by a family whose son she killed, she gets
tatted up for her lover, sporting Esther on her neck as a testament to her lost
lady. This is a major flaw to me
because a main sticking point is that newspapers and new channels chronicling the story intentionally withheld the Michaels names, and not even the police knew who Ester was! So how tell me then, does Anika know from watching TV or reading a news story that it was Esther who was killed? Doesn't make much sense to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eventually we get an Anika and Melanie throw down (after Melanie watches Anika masturbate though), a few
more dragged out dreamy sequences of Melanie spiraling into crazy – and some terrible acting (or was it the
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I really love the original Wolf Creek, it’s simple, and its
sweaty hand inducing. You’re drawn into
the main characters lives before anything happens, you party and laugh with
them. I can still see them clearly in my
brain, because I actually liked them. Soon Mick rolls around and your enticed with his
witty behavior, though thoroughly put-off too.
Mick manages to make everyone a little uncomfortable, but then he reels
them back in with his quirky personality. Is he joking, is he serious?
You can’t piss him off, I mean you need his help…and then it all happens
once everyone settles in. That’s the
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What Wolf Creek 2 does, is nothing like the original. Have you ever watched a monster movie, and
they show the monster so much that it no longer is scary to you? I used to get super angry when I would only
get glimpses into certain portions of a movie, crazy angry if I only got to see two seconds of the scary creature. Now,
here I am wishing that for Wolf Creek 2, they would have given Mick a little
less screen time. He became a messy caricature
of his former self – a one liner machine.
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Wolf Creek 2 is full of 3 things – one liners, car chases, and
people you don’t care about. I was
entertained for all of 15 minutes to be honest, and those were the first
15. Two bored cops pull Mick over, and
what ensued drew me right in. The two
cops are given about 75 outs not to give Mick a ticket. I really enjoyed how Mick was keeping his
serial killers ways at bay, he had to be thoroughly pushed before he gave in –
and give in he does. It was a nice
opening and there are pig/cop puns galore, some of them very funny. I should have known though, the jokes and one
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Mick meets up with some German backpackers, conveniently of
course, they’re hitchhiking across the outback.
You spend a little time with the couple before Mick makes his
appearance. The scenes between Mick and
this couple made me so angry! The female
backpacker is completely useless. At
least in the last movie the females were put through some hell before they
became unable to function. Here the girl
sits and watches Mick man handle her man.
I think I timed it and she had about 15 minutes for a head start on
Mick, I think she was entranced though – since they happen to show Mick cutting
off her boyfriend’s penis and waving it around in the air with his hand. The only thing I really have to say is “really?” Also, why the hell is Mick butchering her man
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Once she finally does break away, she can’t even manage a
few words to help the poor sucker out who picks her up. Her screams are annoying and her lack of
normal human function is disappointing.
It’s even more disappointing that the main character, Paul, joins the
movie at like 40 minutes in. You know
absolutely nothing about him except that he’s nice enough to stop and try to
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Paul manages plenty escapes throughout the movie, but at an
hour and forty seven minutes you do get a little meat, kangaroo meat to be exact. I actually covered my mouth to prevent myself
from laughing out loud during a chase scene that involves a herd of Kangaroo
crossing the road at a not so perfect time.
I mean, my 2 year old was napping next door – and I really was LAUGHING
OUT LOUD.. I am embarrassed that this is
part of the movie, this is not supposed to be a comedy. It’s just not what I expected or wanted. I want something with the tones of the
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It only gets worse from here and the music is lousy. Only so many times can I take the sort of juxtaposition
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hardcore horror scene with music that seems it’s opposite sometimes, but every
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Don’t even get me started on the Hostel scene and Micks
underground cave lair. Seriously did I
miss something? What happened to his
beat down farm full of old car parts, what is up with the cave system filled
with a hundred bodies? I don’t get it,
and I don’t like it. I know Mick is
nuts, and sick, and disturbed – but this seemed really out there. Don’t even get me started on Zombie girl, or
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But what I really don’t want you to get me started on is the
ending. I was already angry about the
main female character not being able to speak a single freaking word to help
her situation – but you’re also left with Paul, who ends up a permanent
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Dog Turds! I’m really
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if I ever ran into him - because he really does scare me. I’m all in for Wolf Creek 3, ditch the thousand
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I think anybody who writes, directs, and stars in their own
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Derek Lee and Clif Prowse were quirky, passionate, and super energetic. They’re pumped in this flick, and it spilled
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Derek receives some bad news health wise (<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/brain-avm/basics/definition/con-20034230">AVM - Arteriovenous Malformation!</a>) and he and
his best friend Clif are off to see the world, I think it’s a great
excuse. Derek exudes this excitement and
passion which really made me love him in like 5 minutes. Clif, Derek’s best friend, is also super
passionate about helping his friend in the geekiest of ways - blogging the hell
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So by blogging their journey, we of course have the built
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So enter moment where Derek happens to be infected/afflicted
with something that starts taking a horrible effect on him. Derek starts sleeping the days away and Clif
is naturally concerned that Derek’s AVM is the culprit. Unfortunately Clif can’t talk Derek into
seeing a doctor at any point, and soon Derek is showing more peculiar changes
like superhuman strength and speed..did I mention he’s not fond of sunlight
anymore? This is where I got really, really, really
bored. I don’t need tons of footage showing off Derek’s new talents, give me a
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Something that soon becomes apparent to the two is that
Derek needs to consume blood to fend off all the nasty’s he experiences. I did like how they both worked their way through what type of blood worked for him,
but seriously once you’ve both come to the conclusion that your a
vampire it’s time to reach out for some professional help. It’s funny because in the movie Contracted I
completely defended Samantha’s reasons for not reaching out for help more seriously – but here
it made me a little angry. This is
straight up supernatural shit!! Call the
Today show for heaven’s sake, they’ll protect you since you’re new superhuman
strengths will surely make you a billionaire…or perhaps a science experiment –
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I also forgot to mention, lots of this is finding its way on
to the pairs travel blog, which I kind of dug.
I like the twist of blog followers watching some of the craziness from
afar, unable to physically assist.
Eventually Derek finds himself alone, and on a mission to go back to the
source of his issues – his one stand. He
manages to hunt the lady down, and this is where it picked back up for me…just
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Derek meets with Audrey and she gives him the scoop on what
he is and what he’ll need to do in order to survive, let’s just say he’s not
happy about it. She explains to him
something that I really loved – and wish a whole sort of love horror story
could be made out of it. She explains to
him that she didn’t really want to turn him because he was some asshole or
criminal, he was a mercy kill. She
thought he was dying, and that she was being kind…Ioved this part of the
story. I would like a movie based around
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So what am I saying - Something was missing for me. I
loved the two main characters, loved the overall energy, just hated where that
energy was spent! I think I’ll be
watching out for the two filmmakers, though I wasn’t quite knocked off my feet
with the movie overall – their intense energy is infectious! It’s found footage with a twist of lemon – I just
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Byzantium takes a new spin on things, with two strong female
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quiet and always looking inside herself for something deeper. Gemma plays Clara, Eleanor’s ever serving
backer, keeping the two vampires with a roof over their heads for a couple of
hundred years. The performances by
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So we have this lovely pair, and they’re vampires, and they feed. You get to see just how different they are
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Eleanor gently massages her prey with her deep emotional hands, only
taking from people who are in their twilight time or on the verge of crossing
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to light with timed flashbacks that help to tell the entire tale of this pair. Clara’s
been used, it’s only natural that she would treat the rest of the world as a
game that needs to be played in order to get what she needs. She’s quite the protector, and by using her
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Caleb Landry plays Frank, he becomes quite obsessed with
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perfect fit in my opinion. They’re both
very awkward in this movie, and I could see them spotting each other in any
surroundings and being drawn together.
That’s always a plus. I hate it
when movies thrusts two people together and really can’t give you any reason
for the attraction. Here we have to very unique individuals, shy, awkward,
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I find out so much through IMDB these days. I was watching a new film (that I liked by
the way) called “The Seasoning House”, directed by Paul Hyett. So after watching any movie these days I do
my 15 minutes of work on IMDB to see what that directors done in the past. I’m almost always surprised to see just how
small of a world this movie making business is…and I’ll talk about that later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ok so first things first, The Seasoning House is pretty darn good. Pretty good probably doesn’t make
you want to run out and devour the movie this instant – and it shouldn’t. I just want to let it be known that despite
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Pretty Darn Good, Pretty Darn Good, Pretty Darn Good - Sorry, I’m a goof.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Its 1996, in the Balkans – young girls kidnapped from their families
are being prostituted out to the military, all whilst being kept in an old
decomposing house. During the film you
closely follow Angel, a deaf and mute, girl who’s been kidnapped but reserved
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One of the opening scenes in The Seasoning House is a brutal
one. You’ll be meeting the next influx
of young girls into the house, and watch as Victor (brothel owner) makes sure
the girls know who’s in charge. The
special effects and make-up in this scene are just great. The make-up throughout the film is top-notch
in my opinion. The thing that isn’t
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Viktor takes Angel under his wing. Angel is played by Rosie Day who manages to do a pretty good job despite her characters lack of speech. Viktor notices straight away that she’s
different. Angel is deaf and has a large
birthmark on her cheek, something that might hurt her in the “real” world but
works to her benefit in this horrible situation. I quite liked this, as it also gives Angel an
out when she doesn’t respond to the cries and pleading of the other girls being
held captive. You might normally ask why
a person wouldn’t help another who’s being tortured, but Angel can’t even hear
their pleas…though she doesn’t make a lot of eye contact with them either, as
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So beings that Angel is sort of damaged goods, she’s left to
pretty the girls up (though that’s laughable) and pump them full of
heroin. I think one thing this movie
could have benefited from was cleaning the damn girls up, and make the house a
little nicer. Let’s face it that any
dude who visits this place is a total creeper.
But I still feel like some of these girls where so fucked up that they
would put off even the most vile man, so while the dirtiness of it added
greatly to the cinematography – in my head, the state of the girls would
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Eventually Angel develops a friendship with another girl
being kept at the house. This girl can
sign, and Angel is immediately smitten and wanting to help. The girl plays all her cards right with
Angel, it’s hard to tell whether there’s a true friendship there or if she’s simply
trying to manipulate Angel – I guess it doesn’t matter. She knows that becoming a friend to Angel
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Two words – Ryan Oliva (Ivan). Two words – Holy crap. I won’t give away the whole scene but holy
hell this man is quite honestly one of the scariest men I have ever seen in a
movie. Ivan’s a “patron” of the house. I
can honestly say I would probably die from fear if I were in a room alone with
this man. This scene had me holding my breath and sets off the second half of
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Have you ever been watching a movie and the main character
is escaping but by dumb luck they end up in the worst place possible, like say the
killers house? Yes, you have?? Me too, it was called Eden Lake and I hated
it then. This also happens in The
Seasoning House, twice. This was my
absolute biggest gripe, it’s just way too convenient. The reason I still rate this higher than Eden Lake is that at least the characters are not doing moronic things constantly just so you can keep the story going.<o:p></o:p></div>
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end..or does he? It’s one of those
endings where you get to draw your own conclusions, and I’ll be honest I would
have preferred something a little tighter.
This isn’t some crazy thought provoking change your view on the world
type movie, I don’t think we need such a broad ending. It seems like people are scared to end things
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that sets such a great mood and doesn’t sound like canned movie music. It reminded me of works like you’ve heard in
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enjoyed it and I can’t wait to see what he has coming. Paul has done make-up work on movies like The
Descent, Eden Lake, The Children, and The Woman in Black. I can see how some of these movies have
rubbed off on him. The Seasoning House,
written and directed by Paul Hyett, is pretty darn good for a first time
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should like it, but I just don’t. It’s
like when someone puts this valiant effort into making a new inventive cake
flavor, but when you taste it you realize that something in the recipe is NOT
working for you. Does that make sense to
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dead bodies with no memory of who he is or how he’s gotten there. He will meet up with a larger group of folks
who’ve also woken up to find that they don’t know who they are, or why they’re
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I really enjoyed the overall concept, but I didn’t want the
guts of the movie to be the characters trying to figure out who they are. I wanted the guts of this movie to be these
people figuring out what the hell is going on in general! People, none of us remember who we are – yes this
is weird. For now, let’s just table that
discussion and figure out if we’re in mortal danger and try to leave this place
like we’re friends. I don’t care who did
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have had with the larger concept, I get sad they we mostly just watch a lot of
adults bicker with each other. I guess I
didn’t need the slow burn of them figuring out who they are, it would have been
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The Chinese writing mute
lady, really???? I find it hard to
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People can’t remember who they “are” but they are able to
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Jonah (Sharlto Copley), I’ve only seen him on District 9 –
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Graves he has the strangest accent. I can’t even really describe it – but it
really distracted me. Overall the acting
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ever watched a movie where that person then presses play on the video camera,
and then what they watch is at the perfect spot so that they can see one of the
other main characters doing something seemingly disturbing? WHY WHY WHY!
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I just didn’t like it, and if someone could please explain to me what’s
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I saw the original We Are What We Are quite some time ago,
but I remember I was decently impressed with the atmosphere and storyline. I think my only gripe was that it might have
been a tad bit boring at times. Fast
forward to this weekend and I finally talked my husband into watching the
American version. I was pretty excited
as I heard pretty much all praise for the remake. I have to admit, I was bored out of my mind. I get really sad when my husband, who hates
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The movie looked beautiful - it has that in the bag. But the story is bare, and boring. In the original there’s a pretty kick-ass
ending, in my opinion. This one offered
up something that was just from left field, considering the kids didn’t seem
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I’ve got the memory of a goldfish. In the
2010 version I loved the grittiness, the fumbling of the family to secure their
food, and the complicated relationships between the older children. In the 2013 version you get nice little
loving siblings, a nicely kept home, and a very ceremonial and neat aspect of
devouring the body – I disliked all of these things. By everything being so nice, neat, and
discreet – It just made it boring to me.
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The endings, I was glad when the 2013 version ended. I felt like I had watched a 3 hour long movie, and
the period flashbacks made me chuckle.
When we finally got to the end I was still waiting to see what impressive
tweak or twist would be applied (not that every movie needs one but I was falling
asleep here people!!), I was not impressed. So you’re telling me that the kids are so
suddenly ravenous to either hurt dad or continue the tradition they decide to
eat him alive - and he just lays there for it?
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prefer the 2010 ending, if you haven’t seen it…stop reading.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620604/?ref_=nv_sr_5">2010 version</a> you have 2 boys and a girl, teenagers. The families being chased down by
cops (they’re not the smartest but they do find them!). In tight quarters the police are on their
tails, at one point one of the brother’s bites the sister, handing her a nice little heartfelt note in the process. So the cops end up seeing her as one of the
cannibals victims, and she lives to see another day. The brothers aren’t too lucky, in a very nice
poetic way. I quite liked that ending,
not to mention the mother in the flick pays the price from a group of hookers
she pissed off earlier…and you cheer for it.
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has an incredibly cheesy concept – It’s just done right. This one only gets a 3 because visually it was nice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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subject matter = Bid Bad Wolves. Let me
tell you two things, I enjoyed this movie and Tzahi Grad is a bad ass of the
most awesome kind - I would watch this movie again just to watch the man play
Gidi, the father of a murdered child whom many people in the movie are out to
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The premise is quite simple, it’s the way this movie is
written and made that makes it unique and special. Kids are disappearing, molested and
brutalized. There’s a main suspect but
he’s released back into the public after a rogue cop makes some wrong moves. A man whose daughter was murdered and the
rogue cop seek some quality time with the main suspect, beyond the reach of the
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in little red riding hood garb, perfectly tying into the movie’s title – great music
and gorgeous cinematography let you know you’re in for a nice little ride. Can I just say that I just loved how they
placed the title of the film on the tin roof of an abandoned home the children
are playing in = that looked great…and sometimes it’s the little things that
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From the opening scene you’re quickly introduced to our main
characters, Lior Ashkenazi (Miki the cop) and Rotem Keinan (Dror the main
suspect). I already told you that Gidi
is a total bad ass but Miki & Dror are both very well acted too, top notch
all around. Side characters such as the
real estate agent and Gidi’s dad, who we’re introduced to later, are simply stellar. I can’t say enough about the acting in this
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Little does he know Gidi (dad of a girl who was murdered) has the same
idea. The two meet in a most unique and hilarious fashion, everyone is watching
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in a house together, things get crazy as Gidi tries to extract some information
from Dror about his daughter. A few
times I was questioning if they had the right person, will he spill the beans,
what’s going to go wrong here??? Plenty goes wrong – from the hilarious and
awesome introduction of Gidi’s dad, to a very tragic outcome for Miki.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Written, directed, and starring Marina De Van, In My Skin is
nice little flick that follows a woman named Esther. Esther becomes
increasingly obsessed with inspecting and mutilating her body after a very strange accident
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I’ve never been to a movie set, nor do I have any reel (get
it reel…lol) knowledge of film making. I
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impressed if someone writes and directs a movie. I’m just floored when someone writes, directs,
and stars in a film – How on earth!!
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Esther is at a party one night and she’s insanely wounded by
a trip she takes while taking a walk.
Esther doesn’t first notice this gaping wound, in fact she only
discovers it when she notices blood all over the carpet of the house she’s in. She eventually has the wound looked at, and
as you can imagine the doctors perplexed that she didn’t first notice the
wound. Esther almost seems impressed
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Esther starts to get urges throughout the film, first glances,
then touches, then the actual mutilation.
It’s very terrifying to see something come over someone so strongly that
they need to take control back and feel normal by harming themselves – but I
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The people that surround Esther are her boyfriend, Vincent
and her “best friend”, Sandrine. Vincent
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jealousy towards Esther as she’s surpassed her ranking at the office. This plays itself out in one of the most
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Jealous and bitter to Esther, but highly aware of what she’s
going through. Sandrine lets some fellow
co-workers come severely close to finding out Esther’s secret. Sandrine lounges
back and watches as some other people almost expose Esther’s leg to everyone at
the work function. It almost played out
like a group egging on a beating, and then one person comes to their senses
seeing the absolute panic and terror of the victim. Her dual personality is almost exposed, I was
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Throughout out the rest of the film Marina becomes
increasingly fascinated with herself. You find this fascination in shocking and
subtle ways. The subtle is an arm
falling asleep and Esther’s fascination with that feeling, it’s almost a turn
on at this point. The shocking is a
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The film does get a little more shocking as time goes on, as
Esther gives in more and begins an almost affair with her body. She becomes highly erotic with herself,
almost making love to her own body – but with mutilation and very long gazes
where she takes in every inch of herself.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Increasingly her urges are represented visually so that you
can understand what’s going on in her mind, when she’s set off. I did find some
of the split screen imagery to be distracting during the end of the movie. Once the split screens are no longer used I
was really haunted by some of the shots though.
Esther just fully taking herself in, covered in blood. It seems like she was really “jiving” with
her body. Maybe she was actually seeing
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I dug this film, mostly.
There was something missing for me, I wasn’t connected to Esther in a
large way – except that I was nervous for her to be found out. I didn’t want her to be shamed – but I also
didn’t quite compute what she was trying to accomplish because I’ve guess I
always thought about self- mutilation as a way that released pain and I wasn’t
completely aware of what pain she was experiencing. Then again, maybe her pain was her disconnect
from her body? I have no true knowledge
of what drives the general population to have this sort of behavior – but it definitely
wasn’t this version - and by this version I don't mean I think it's wrong. I think it's just a very original interpretation both story wise and visually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If I take Esther’s story as being hers, and only hers – I liked
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637197654825767682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967005490926026680.post-34538456195490399212014-01-06T13:02:00.002-08:002014-01-09T06:43:49.120-08:00Nailbiter (2013)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nailbiter is an independent film made with a low budget. I
can’t seem to find how much of a budget, but the Internet never lies so I’m
going to go ahead and believe it. So in believing that the Director and all
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Nailbiter has a simple story that blossoms. A family is forced to hide for safety in a random storm shelter, during horrific storms that are taking place. The family is trapped by debris. While trying to break free they encounter scary creatures in many forms.</div>
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Now that I have that out of the way I have to say this movie
has a fantastic premise, but the script and acting were mediocre. I took some notes during my movie
watching. I’m not the best at reviews so
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I really liked the intro to Nailbiters, you get lots of TV Newscasts and EB messages warning of crazy weather. The only thing is - with such stern warnings on impending doom, you'd think the family might decide to wait on driving to go pick up their father from the airport. However with watching horror movies, I've come to realize that sometimes if you accept a few faults it won't damn the rest of the movie for you.</div>
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Now the biggest fault in this movie to me was the actual script, not the story, but the dialogue that conveyed the story. The lines that people utter are just really dry and super conventional, and the acting - well it's hard to say if the acting was really all that bad with what the actresses and actors were working with. To me most of the performances come off as first time tries.</div>
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There's some really cool characters in this movie that I didn't expect. Let's just say that there's more monsters than you think. This was the coolest part of the story to me, super original - or maybe I've just not seen enough movies to know if it's a rip off. This is the part I enjoyed the most. You go in thinking it's one maybe two pesky creatures, and then the actual story gets really big. </div>
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But again while the story is super cool, and they even manage to make things look really great on a small budget - the dang script and acting go and mess it up. I think what I'm really trying to convey here is that this movie could be really awesome, but it just wasn't. I want a re-do, with a re-write of the script! The worst lines come when the mother actually utters these lines to her scared daughters "We're all going to die here!!". Actually that whole scene is just terrible with a capital T.</div>
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I thought the creatures, during their very brief screen time, looked fantastic. There were some other effects that didn't work out so well - can you said Moonshine bomb? No, well neither did this movie - very well at least. </div>
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So this whole story ends with quite a bang, let's just say that the whole town joins in at the end. Were even left with an ending that can lead right into Nailbiter 2. I probably have come off like a seriously disliked this movie, but that's not the truth. I think this movie has a ton of potential, but hey, it's done and it's made - so that's that.</div>
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Don't watch this movie if you can't handle a bad script and questionable acting, do watch this movie for a little breath of fresh air in the story department. And do watch this movie if you're into low budget flicks with a little heart.</div>
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So basically this is what it is - great story with poor execution. I have to rate it fairly in comparison to other things I've seen. So I'll give it a 4 with a strong heartbeat, though the overall story I would rate much higher.</div>
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This year was a great year for me and my DVD player, we got
to enjoy countless hours together, chilling.
I’ve never really kept track of whether it was a good year for horror
movies, because I’d never really set out to watch as many as possible. Over the course of 2013 I watched tons of
current year movies, but also ones from the past that I’d never even heard
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and using the good old google search key, I realized there’s a whole world out
there that I’d never known about. I’m so
happy that I don’t have to depend on movies reaching the theaters to watch
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Here are the movies I talked about in 2013 (starting in
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recommendation from blogs, searches, and lists.
I can’t even begin to tell you how blown away I was, the story was superb
and the director really hit a home run.
I can’t believe I’d never heard of it before, but I guess raising two
baby’s means I spend a lot of time on the Disney Channel. So as far as the best movie I saw this year, I
have to give it to Martyrs. That movie’s
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So the new stuff, oh yes were there some great new movies
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award to <a href="http://nailbitesnailbites.blogspot.com/2013/11/american-mary-2012.html"><span style="color: black;"><b>American Mary</b></span></a>. It’s so fresh,
so sleek, and so entertaining. I have to
give an honorable mention to <a href="http://nailbitesnailbites.blogspot.com/2013/11/contracted-2013.html"><span style="color: black;"><b>Contracted</b></span></a>, I know not everyone loves this movie
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makes it to the theaters and gets lots of hype.
Perhaps it colors by view, so there’s quite a few I saw in the theater
that didn’t impress me. Now does this
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think bad I think someone forcing me to watch something that they intentionally
made crappy in order to torture me. I
think a lot of work goes into every movie, even ones I don’t particularly
like. There were quite a few movies I
watched that I would never recommend to anyone else unless they enjoy horror no
matter the end product – but really if I think about it, the more movies I see
(even the bad ones) the more I ultimately enjoy those random gems that come
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artists. I bow down to the folks that venture off to make horror movies – You’re
living your dream, and I can’t imagine the work it takes. I will continue to enjoy the fruits of your
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Compliance isn’t exactly a horror movie, unless you take
into account that this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam">really happened</a>, and happened a lot. Compliance follows a particular incident that
happened in Mount Washington Kentucky, where a prank caller posing as a police
officer, manages to talk quite a few people into doing crazy things all in the
name of following authority. I think it's OK to go into this movie knowing the whole story, but spoilers are to follow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ann Dowd plays Sandra, the restaurant manager, receives a
prank call from a man impersonating a police officer. Sandra is under some intense pressure
throughout the movie to keep her restaurant running but also field this phone
call. Sandra’s being told that one of
her workers has stolen from a customer that day. She will be asked to assist the “police
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of the theft and brought to a back room, where her life’s about to change. The caller demands that employees search
Becky. She’s brought into an office and ordered to remove her clothes. Sandra is slightly reluctant while performing
the strip search, but is almost romanced by the prank caller into complying
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Many other people will participate at various points in the
movie, but none are worse than Sandra’s fiancé.
Van is asked to drive into the restaurant to help Sandra with the
situation. Van doesn’t even work there, but the prank caller wants a male to
watch Becky, one that Sandra trusts.
What follows are two hours of utter disbelief for me, Becky is searched
over by Van in very demeaning ways, and it will all end with an implied full on
sexual assault – and Van leaving the restaurant saying he’s done something bad.
Sandra throughout the movie remains unaware of just how far the prank has gone concerning
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Eventually a maintenance man is brought in to watch Becky,
after Van rushes out. He actually
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If I would have seen this movie and not have known it was
actually based on truth I would have thought the story was really out there,
and honestly, might have written off the movie. Knowing it’s based on truth I
can really say I enjoyed this film immensely.
The cast is top notch, it’s filmed beautifully, and the music is
atmospheric. I felt like I was trapped in that room with Becky, and this whole time the rest of the place is just booming with regular patrons enjoying their food.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have you ever watched a movie and you know it’s not a
masterpiece, but for some reason you still like it? I think I would place this movie in that
category. There’s stuff missing that
could have made it killer with a capital K, but I still really dug it as far as
horror movies go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here Comes the Devil has a pretty simple concept. Two parents are on vacation with their kids,
and being kids they want to go explore a mountainous area on their own. While exploring the kids go missing for 24
hours or so, but are soon reunited with their desperate parents. When the family returns home things start to
change, the kids are different, and the parents aim to find out what’s
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Adrian Garcia Bogliano gets to fill in the details. Here Comes the Devil looks great, I wish I
had the fancy words to describe his vision but I’m no film student. Besides the gritty backdrop of Mexico, and
luscious colors the city provides, Adrian also has a real style of
filming. Adrian often zooms in on faces
at odd angles which I really liked, and he also tends back up quickly after the
zoom in. I liked this quirky little
signature of his. I’ve not seen any of
his other movies so I’m not sure if this is new, or what he’s known for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The soundtrack is absolute perfection and timed perfectly
for overall affect. It’s something that
really stood out to me. It all flows
together with the film so wonderfully.
The music sounds, like the movie looks – if that makes any sense to
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<b>This movie is OnDemand currently, <span style="color: #cc0000;">don’t read any further if
you don’t want to be FULLY Spoiled</span>. If
you’ve already watched it let me know what you think.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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So the details, the beginning of the movie shocked me a
bit. We open with two younger females
having sex in a house. I was reading
someone else’s view on this scene and why did Adrian have to include such
graphic sex, and one of the commenter's posed the question “would you be so
shocked and questioning this scene it if it were a girl and guy having sex?”
You know what, I probably wouldn’t have - so I’m taking what that commenter
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The two girls have a conversation that lightly ties into the
rest of the movie, sets a tone, they are interrupted by a knock on the
door. One girl goes to answer and she’s
met by the most prolific serial killer in Mexico’s history (well you find that
out later). When our killer shows his
face, it’s all devil. He doesn’t look
quite human. This brings up one of my
first questions, was he already changed into a devil like being or is he the
person that starts our chain of events?
Our killer escapes the house after being injured, he ends up going to a
mountainous area and dying there – yes the same place the kids eventually get
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and kids, who are our main characters. Sara
the daughter gets her first period while the family is exploring. Her mother, Sol, played by Laura Caro takes
her to a gas station to sort everything out.
While Sara is cleaning up they’re spied in the bathroom by a creepy man
outside, Lucio. Sol takes notice of the
stare down he’s giving them and scares him away. Lucio is a local who many people find strange
in the town, he’s apparently obsessed with the surrounding mountains and
caverns. At this point Sol doesn’t
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exploration of the mountains, their parents stay behind and get hot and heavy
in the car. Let me say the conversation
had between Sol and Felix (dad) is quite graphic! I was little surprised, but while graphic it
comes off pretty standard in the dirty talk department. So while shocking, I feel it was only
shocking because normally sexy talk in movies is so, well, pretty. There’s
nothing pretty about Sol and Felix’s dirty talk! Might I also mention that while Felix is “handling”
Sol, we get nice little shots of the cave which happens to be the same shape as
Sols…coincidence? Perhaps, I tend to
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run to where the kids went but he doesn’t find them, though he does pass a red
truck. Sol and Felix contact the police
and wait in a nearby hotel for news.
They get into your normal this is your fault quibbles and eventually
rest until morning - except for an unexplainable earthquake felt by Felix in
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family is ecstatic and return home. The
kids start behaving differently though, and the parents have them visit doctors
and psychologists. During some of these
visits things keep piling up, and everything is pointing to something very
traumatic having happened to the kids – but they’re not talking really. At home strange things are also starting to
happen, you get some strange sounds and flickering lights. Things that make the parents pause, but no
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pictures of what they remember, and they both draw very similar things – except
for one small item that sparks a memory for Felix – a truck. Here’s where things get really shocking. Felix remembers a truck he saw when he went
to search for his kids, so the whole family goes to stalk this vehicle down,
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the vehicle and its owner. It’s Lucio, as soon as Sol sees Lucio she’s
disgusted as she remembers how he looked her and Sara up and down in the
creepiest of manners – the kids also start flipping out and screaming as they
see Lucio, this really hammers it home to the parents that Lucio must have
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circumvent the law and take things into their own hands. It’s what most parents say they’ll do if they
ever find out their children were harmed in some way, the thing is you should
really make sure you’re right. This is one twisted little scene. During all of this the kids are left with a
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traveling back to the cave where they were lost. Mom see’s this but she doesn’t tell dad, this
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continues. Something cute that I caught
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to drive and his son keeps having issues with learning. When Felix drives off with Sol, after they
emerge from the cave, he’s driving like his son. So does this mean Felix is now some sort of
devil incarnation of the son? Just
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scene. I was confused as to whether he
had already “changed” via the cave, or if he was perhaps still human - and then died in the cave, transferring to the children? I’d love that cleared up, though it doesn’t
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to fit in my horror movie watching between taking care of two kids….who can’t
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Megan is Missing is a movie about two best friends who end
up missing after being targeted by an online predator. Megan is a 14 year old
popular girl at her school, though she’s popular for all the wrong reasons. She’s
sexually active, partying, yet still seems to maintain excellent grades at her
High School. Megan has an oddball best
friend named Amy, 13. Amy is reserved
and not well liked by Megan’s partying crowd.
The two form a very tight relationship though, Megan needs a true friend
who doesn’t use her and Amy is drawn to Megan’s outgoing personality and ability
to navigate life on the popular side.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The whole movie is made up of found footage and videos of
the girls talking to each other via skype, I have to say that I was caught off
guard with all the frank talk of sex between the teens like it was no big
deal. I think that’s because I’m 35 and
their 13/14….I was thinking to myself please tell me kids these days don’t
rattle off talk like this at 13/14 and please dear lord never let my daughter
do these types of things! I bet a lot of teens are like this though, so while
it shocked me I bet it’s not too far from the truth (yes I do realize not all kids are like this). You are also presented with reasons throughout
the film that give you a little look into why Megan is so “free” with herself –
disturbing too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Megan is played by Rachel Quinn, I feel her acting throughout
the film came off as very believable. Like
I said there’s a lot of each of the girls talking directly into cameras while
they’re skyping and I felt she was very natural and bubbly like a real teenager
would be. Amy on the other hand was far
less believable, I didn’t get much emotion from her and couldn’t quite connect
or feel for her.<o:p></o:p><br />
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There’s a couple of scenes in this movie that go on for far
too long, one of them is when Megan brings her friend Amy to a party. First of all Megan has to trade favors just
to get Amy in, again please dear lord never let my daughter do these types of
things. The party scene must go on for
15 minutes, it’s all random music and teens acting up. The supporting characters in this movie do
not give great performances (painful and very bad), I almost LOL a few times. This particular scene just gets old, it’s not that it came
off really fake as far as the set-up, but sometimes I think scenes go on for
far too long. I don’t always need a point
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Megan eventually begins chatting with an unknown kid named
Josh via skype at home on her PC. Josh
has a broken camera, so Megan can’t see him during their conversations. I can totally see an unsuspecting girl not
getting up in arms over this, look at the show Catfish. People go months without seeing who they're talking to on the other end. For a
teenager, and in this movie, I don’t see this as a flaw or something Megan
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Eventually Megan goes missing, hence the title. Amy is distraught from the second she notices
Megan’s gone. The next shots are
straight from the HLN Network, can you say Nancy Grace? Nancy Grace's news show isn’t my
favorite, but I do see it ALL THE TIME.
Plaster pictures of the beautiful missing teens on the TV, talk about how
loved she was, how popular she was, make “important” reenactments of the crime
for the TV audience etc. I even had a
little laugh as after they spend 15 minutes talking up Megan and urging the
public to find her, the newscaster then spends 2 seconds also letting her
viewing audience know there's a missing teen in Crenshaw. Let’s just say that Crenshaw
teen didn’t get as much pub as our California Queen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be honest this was a great part of the movie. Seeing these types of newscasts in a movie,
made me realize how effed up some of these shows are. Sure we get the word out about a missing
person, that’s good, but the shows are so pumped up on adrenaline and ratings
that it’s also a little bit sickening. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Now up to this point I don’t really like the movie that
much, Execution and timing is bad so when you finally reach the climax, and get
to see what happened to these girls, it was fairly brief. You get your run of the mill girl in a cage
chained up scenario and a rape scene (made very uncomfortable not just because
it’s rape (that’s bad enough) but the thought of her only being 14 makes it all
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But more torturous then that rape scene is the two hundred
gabillion million minute scene of “Josh” getting rid of Amy. I swear to you, you get to watch a guy shovel
for approximately 20 minutes. This went
on for far too long. This is another
case of “dude, I get it”. If you hang on
though, you are rewarded with a chilling scene and thought. As Josh is burying
Amy she’s still alive, as he covers her with dirt you get to hear her pleading
for her life but her voice fading underneath the dirt - So disturbing and
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footage for scenes there absolutely must be a reason for this footage to have
been recorded in the first place. The
end of Megan is missing is sorely guilty of giving us no reason for the last 22
minutes of footage to exist.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Overall the story is great.
I think with better execution, better pacing, and a few acting classes
this could have been better. Josh definitely
could have been given a larger role too, a peak into his world, just a peak now! I don’t need hardcore motivation, shoot he’s
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will however keep this director/writers name in my mind, he’s got a chance to
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- Michael Goi has quite a few cinematography award nominations and one win, looks like he's also worked on AHS. Here's his <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003922/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">IMDB Page</a>.<br />
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I didn’t know what to expect when I turned on Maniac the
other night, I do love horror movies but my memory doesn’t serve me well on
knowing if things are remakes. I don’t
believe I’ve seen the original Maniac made in 1980, so while I was watching
this current Maniac, I had nothing to compare it to. I simply picked this movie because word of
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Elijah Wood plays our main character, Frank. Frank runs a mannequin restoration shop,
courtesy of his late mother. Frank is a
disturbed young man who can not only thank his mother for the restoration shop,
but can also thank her for his great need to scalp women! Thanks mom.
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Franks mother is shown in various flashbacks, most of them
involve her having seedy sex in front of Frank and yelling at him to leave or
go wait for her somewhere while she finishes her deed. This is definitely
disturbing to a young man, I can only imagine.
But I’m not quite sure this would lead to Frank wanting to scalp other
young woman? It would have made more
sense to me if he wanted to kill guys looking for prostitutes. But I can sort of accept him wanting to hurt
ladies, if they acted the same way his mother did (aka loose) – but some of
them he truly knew nothing about. It’s
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Frank brings these scalps back to his mannequin restoration
shop and places them on his restored
mannequins, he then has all sorts of interactions with these mannequins. From watching it seems like they sort of
retain some of the scalped woman’s personality and fight with each other, which
drives Frank nuts…well more nuts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frank also leaves a super trail when hunting his ladies,
there’s never gloves and he even uses a Dating website to hook up with one of
his victims – not to mention there are a few chase scenes in the city where the
ladies always find themselves surrounded by fences or walls– and why these women
couldn’t attract attention or at least try to beat the crap out of Frank I
don’t know. Frank seems really small compared to half the women in the movie. Frank was creepy for
sure, but not scary in stature.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main storyline is between Frank and Anna, Anna is a
photographer who ends up at Franks shop.
Her niche is taking pictures of mannequins and bringing them to life. As you can imagine, Frank becomes quite
attached to her. She’s kind to him, and
very interested in his work. Anna talks
him into letting her use some of his mannequins for her art show in the very
near future. Frank falls for Anna and she
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Throughout Anna and Franks interaction I wasn’t quite sure
if Anna saw more in Frank then just a friend, I guess there could have been a
little something there – Anna neglects to tell Frank she has a boyfriend, and
it seems fairly obvious that he was “into” her.
She also accepts gifts from Frank, and he makes himself highly available
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The last part of the movie involves Frank going to Anna’s
art opening, he has a few cringe inducing interactions between Anna’s boyfriend
and her agent. Frank ends up murdering
Anna’s agent, and subsequently Anna finds out about her agents death and
becomes highly emotional – Frank soon comes over to her apartment to comfort
her. Once Frank is at Anna’s apartment they start chatting about Rita, and
Frank let’s a few things slip out that make Anna highly aware of the fact that Frank’s
the killer. She runs around and manages
to lock herself into a room away from Frank.
Then comes the scene that made me squirm, it involves a neighbor, his
mouth, and Frank’s butcher knife…omg..that was a good one!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But that great scene still didn’t save it for me. Anna manages to escape her apartment, and we
end up with another man chasing woman scene.
A car is passing by, and Anna manages to jump in. As the driver speeds
away she grabs the wheel and points the car in Frank’s direction – well she
tries too. The car ends up hitting a
pole, and Anna is hurt so badly I was shocked.
I might need to view this scene again, but Anna is flung completely out
of the car and Frank comes to her rescue, OK that’s a lie – He comes over to
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The last scene did confuse me a little bit, I already
mentioned above that I was a little confused on the interactions that Frank had
with all of his mannequins so there’s more of that, and all the mannequins are
fighting with each other making Frank crazy and then they all pull the skin off
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OK so you can probably already tell I wasn’t totally digging
this movie. So the main things that I
didn’t like, that I’m totally open to people clearing up (be gentle) for me are
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During the whole film you don’t get to see a lot of Frank,
it’s a POV sort of style. You get to see
what Franks sees. I enjoyed this highly
in some scenes like when Franks stalking from the shadows, chasing his victims,
or even having a more gentle conversation with Anna. However I think it might
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The music, I LOVED the soundtrack to this movie. It was very atmospheric, and seemed to fit
quite perfectly – but it could have stood to be used a little less, as you can
overkill a movie with music too. The overall look was top notch and I was even
a little shocked at the gore because normally when something looks so good you
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It’s a style thing I didn't dig, not a quality thing in this movie’s case. I simply don’t enjoy this style movie, it was
almost too perfect looking and not gritty enough. The POV filming style was a
bit annoying and I would have enjoyed it
more with some simple changes like a stronger main character (aka fierce, big,
and scary), more connection between the scalping’s and Franks childhood, and a
more clear understanding on what relief scalping women gave Frank – even if it
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I wish I could explain my thoughts on the film more
eloquently – but that’s what I got. Sometimes I think I'm hard on one film for one thing but willing to let it slide in others, but I guess that's why there's so many choices for so many tastes!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dogtooth isn’t quite a horror film, it’s an artsy little
flick. I had this thrown on my radar due
to my extensive searching for offbeat and disturbing movies, I’m a weirdo what
can I say! Dogtooth is another one of
those movies that looks great and had the subtle hand of an artist directing
it, but I can’t say I really liked it.
For me Dogtooth lacked motivation for its characters, and so what they’re
doing doesn’t really have any clear direction.
Without understanding the motivations for what people do, it’s hard to
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Three teenagers/perhaps mid twenty kids (2 girls/1 boy) are
confined to an isolated country home with their parents. I’m guessing this is where they’ve been
raised their whole lives, but this wasn’t fully explained. They spend a lot of time learning from
homemade tapes that teach them vocabulary.
This vocabulary isn’t run of the mill though, for some reason they are
taught that certain words mean different things. An example would be instead of calling a
light bulb a light bulb, they are taught that it’s called a mouse etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is one thing that isn’t properly explained. If the kids are already confined to this
home, scared to leave, and brainwashed – why is there a need to teach them this
odd vocabulary, what purpose does it serve? I suppose I could dig really deep and say
perhaps the director what just using this as a metaphor to show us viewers the
type of brainwashing that was going on, maybe it represents the total control
the parents have by even changing words? But I just keep coming back to what
purpose does it really serve if they know nothing of the outside world? The
parents also subject them to games and tests, rewarding them with stickers. I find this a little tough to swallow with
young adults, sure kids are into stickers for a prizes but you would think
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The parents, I really couldn’t get a grasp on them. Like I said before we are presented with no motivation
for the reasons they would keep their children away from the world. The most obvious guess is the world is bad
and they want to protect them, but this is never fully explained. There are also a few really warped scenes
with the husband and wife, so maybe they’re just crazy? I’d love it if anyone could shed more light
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Another low point is that the kids seem like robots, I mean
I realize they’ve been kept away and have no real experiences except inside
this space but they lacked any emotion.
It’s not like they’re locked in a room all by themselves, they have each
other. I would have rather seen them
chat and question their lives with each other.
I think I just expected more raw emotion from young adults, and this
leads me to another strange part of the film.
One of the kids is a young male and the parents bring in a female outsider,
Christina, to help him with his “urges”.
But the dang thing is - I never once see this kid have an “urge”, she
just comes in every couple of days/weeks, has a little mechanical sex, and they’re
done. It would have been nice for the
director to show the son acting out, and that sex was the logical answer that
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Speaking of sex, and this is a super major <span style="color: #ea9999;">spoiler</span> - At one point the outsider female (Christina)
starts leaking information into the kid’s lives (random objects, words, etc.),
so the dad squashes this and Christina is no longer welcomed in their
home. So what do these parents do now to
help their son with his urges? Well
logically they let him choose between his two sisters who gets to take on that
task, this is crazy if you think the parents are keeping them locked up for
their safety, or to keep them pure or something – and why even bring in
Christine to possibly spoil things if having your son sleep with his sister was
an option in the first place. This didn't make sense to me, but the parents are warped.
It would have just been nice to hear the parents discuss the issue, and
how they came up with this as the answer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the end one of the sisters “Bruce” does manage to poke a
few holes in her parent’s story with help from Christina, who provided her with
a few video tapes. This does result in
one great scene where Bruce actually performs the iconic dance from Flashdance
in front of her siblings and parents, I particularly liked this scene. It really showed some acting out which I
think was lacking throughout most of the flick, though does Bruce really know
she’s acting out? Maybe not, but it’s
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One of the last scenes involving Bruce is
BRUTAL, and quite awesome – this is where I see what I’ve wanted to see the
whole film! This is not because I get to
see something disturbing with my eyes, it’s because of the emotionally
disturbing act erupting out of Bruce – this reaction from her makes sense! Finally some emotion that makes perfect
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were acting the way they were. I couldn’t
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This is a movie I “almost” need to watch
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I say Bravo for the effort, I can see the effort, I just couldn’t detect
any real reasons for the characters actions. I feel I’ve run on about this
movie, so it must have stirred up something, so overall inventive and easy on
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I made a list of all the movies I wanted to see that are
fairly new, one of them was Contracted, written and directed by Eric
England. I was super excited to watch
it, but ready for it to suck because often excitement = let down. I was very pleasantly surprised, I really
liked this film. I want go all love on
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Najarra Townsend is our lead named Samantha, she was just
great. Samantha isn't the most likable
girl on the planet. She has some issues
such as being a bitch, but – it’s all acceptable if you ask me. She has a mother who is overbearing, due to
Samantha’s past drug use. She has a relationship
with her first ever girlfriend that’s definitely at its end, and she also has
to deal with multiple advances from men she’s not interested in. She’s just at a very awkward place in her
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At a party thrown by her friend Alice, Samantha makes a
reluctant appearance. She spends most of
the party being very gloomy wishing that her uncaring girlfriend would make an
appearance but that never happens. Alice
being one of those peppy party pushers gets Samantha to drink a little to
lighten the mood, Samantha wasn't game from the get-go – I attribute this to
the fact that Samantha is obviously trying to overcome whatever substance abuse
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Late into the night Samantha meets BJ, who you’ll have
already met in the very first scene in the movie – though you hadn't seen his
face. BJ hands Samantha a drink that she
left sitting on a table, except it’s not really Samantha’s drink – you can guess
what happens to young ladies who accept drinks from strangers. They end up hot and heavy in a car, Samantha
is reluctant (rape), but the deed is done.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next morning it all goes downhill for Samantha. Now let me talk about one thing that will
probably make people hate this movie.
Lots of horrific things start happening to Samantha’s body. I know some people will for sure be
flabbergasted that she doesn't make it to the hospital ER but I really didn't
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Ask yourself how many times something crappy happened to
you, and you just waited to see if it would get better, praying it would
magically disappear? Maybe if you just
waited a few more days, it would clear up on its own. Now add onto this that the reason you’re
having issues is because you had unprotected sex during a black out drink fest?? Add on to this that you’re in love with a
girl who doesn't love you, and you had unprotected sex that you don’t want her
to find out about – since it also involves a man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you can’t wrap your head around that, you will also be
mad at her friends and family for not marching her straight to a clinic. I also offer you up an explanation for this. Samantha is a former drug user, her family
and friends have seen her in very shitty states, her look is shocking at various
points – but drugs do crazy things to people’s appearances and in today’s world
lots of “ugliness” gets overlooked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So over the course of 3 days, it’s a very fast infection -
Samantha battles intense bleeding, sporadic nail loss, and freakish eye
issues. The make-up is spot on, and
delightful! Samantha/Najarra and her
petite frame were decorated perfectly, I appreciate that Samantha was not some over
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stalker who finally gets his dream hookup with Samantha, but given her
precarious state I’m just going to have to say he must really dig Samantha, and
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chuckle. There is nothing good I can
really focus on in this movie except for the location, which was
beautiful. The script, acting, and music
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calls up her brother and he suggests she goes to their parent’s house and sort
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loitering outside and gives Gwen a big ole stink over it. Kristi’s character comes off as too cool for
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wait…they do cut off some of her hair for fun!!
Gwen is freaked out by this, freaked out but she never ever runs
away!!!! Never, Never, Never! She keeps
to the house, the RV, and an old shack with random tools. She has at least 200 times where she could
have simply run up the road and escaped.
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cut off a few fingers and then Kristi decides to off him since he’s of no use
to her anymore – shoot he wasn’t receptive to Kristi’s new plan to go and live
the good life in Florida! We end with
Kristi chasing Gwen around a little more and Gwen managing to coax her into a
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and she puts on her seduce face and seems to take some sort of psycho sexual
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Eden Lake is another flick that garners lots of love, and
ranks highly around the inter webs. I was
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Eden Lake starts out by introducing us to a couple named
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Once they arrive and spend a few hours together at Eden
Lake, a band of motley teenagers decides to hang out at the location too. Loud music, dog snarling, and genital exposing are
enough to make me leave a location I’m hoping to relax in, but not Jenny and
Steve, guess they’re in it for the long haul.
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Now for something I find illogical for an adult to do. Jenny and Steve go in to town to eat, leaving the lake for an hour or two. Steve spies the teenagers and follows them to
their house. Steve then gets all hot-headed and breaks in to their house to confront them?
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and wake up to find their car stolen. They
decide to walk back into town and are soon almost run down by our gang of teens
in their car, the group meets up and Steve decides to talk some sense into the
teens, this does not go well. What
really sets the teens off is when the group’s snarling dog accidentally launches
onto the end of a knife and dies.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Here’s when we really get to see one of the best performances
in my opinion, Brett played by Jack O’Connell.
He is one scary mofo, I would crap my pants if he was yelling at me (and
he’s playing a teen). He just seemed so
black hearted and evil. He’s lead in the gang for a reason. He has the others on lock down and they do
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her to run for help. When Steve’s
captured Brett has each member of his little gang torture Steve just a bit so
it can be captured on mobile phone video (filmed by the highly underused gang girl member, girl was creepy), by filming the attack Brett can't be the only one
impacted if the groups caught. Each
member caves under his pressure. I
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locates the GPS System Steve handed off to her after the crash, she somehow makes a call through the GPS that activates the bluetooth on Steve's Cell?? Steve's cell phone then starts ringing while the youths are all around him. They grab the phone and know Jenny is nearby
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Then they chase her a lot, all over Eden Lake. She runs, she makes a noise, they hear it,
run around some more etc. You also get
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engagement ring and they get all mushy etc.
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But I have another good thing to add in here, since I’ve
been hating a little. The score is
awesome, I knew when I was watching it I was having flashbacks to The Descent
for a reason. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432382/">David Julyan</a> is the
composer and he’s done other films such as The Descent, Momento, and The Cabin
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the brother of the guy Jenny finds when she finally manages to reach a
road. She hops in the guy’s car as he’s
actually coming into Eden Lake to fetch his brother for dinner! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING
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the way back - but then being awesome Jenny steals the car when he hops out to call
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much coincidence. I also have one more thing to add, can we please dress Jenny
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American Mary is a one of a kind little horror movie, I
didn’t want it to end! Free spirited,
nontraditional, and eccentric are just a few of the words I would use to
describe this flick. There was a weak
ending in my opinion, but I’m letting it slide because this movie was all about
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Mary is a young promising medical student hoping to become a
surgeon. She’s a hard worker and
seemingly adored by her instructors.
Like many people going through years of expensive schooling she finds
herself in financial turmoil, Mary starts looking for a way to make extra cash
to continue her schooling. So with her
desire to gain some financial security she decides to answer an ad to become an
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Mary’s offered a significant amount of money to help Billy, she just needs
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life, after her first on the fly surgery she’s lured in to a new world of body
modification due to someone witnessing her save the man at the bar. It’s a dark, hidden world where Mary’s knife
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strange and shocking as they are - I felt like the film did a pretty good job
of letting us see their desperation in needing these body modifications. Sure it’s not what’s considered normal, but
with the extreme lengths they were willing to go you could see that these
weren’t just piercings or tattoos to them.
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her choose to go all the way with her new career in body modification, ditching
school. I have to say it would be cool
if one day it wasn’t just rape that set a woman off – but I still really loved
this flick and it was so inventive with all the trappings around it that I’ll
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After she’s raped, Mary quits school and decides to fully
pursue her new found venture. She dives
in head first and has quite the little business going on in no time. There’s a little revenge sprinkled in here
too, not the best part of the movie in my opinion. Revenge rape thrillers are done constantly,
what I liked about this movie was that the rape resulted in Mary taking on
something she was wonderful at, something that was shocking and believable at
the same time, something that made her a superstar but would also be her
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Now for the flaws, we have a few characters that we’re
introduced to that could have added a lot to the movie but instead they seem
sort of thrown in to me. We have a very
sympathetic detective investigating the disappearance of a nasty sexual deviant
surgeon, Mary’s “former” teacher. He seems
to have caught on to Mary being a part of his disappearance but that’s as far
as that goes. I think he could have been
incorporated more in to the story. My
thoughts were to have him be the angel on Mary’s shoulder, or have him even get
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gorgeously but it was a complete let down.
I did not want the movie to end, and when the ending sucks on top of you
wanting the movie to be longer, you get sad. Mary’s met at home one day
by a former client’s husband - he had only been in the movie for like 1 minute’s
time before he gets to have his moment.
I just think he and the back story he had isn’t explored enough for him
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inventive and Mary (Katharine Isabelle) is straight up Awesome. I would not recommend this to everyone, it’s
for people who love fantasy type horror set it the real world. Great ride..<o:p></o:p></div>
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I Saw the Devil has been in my newly formed Netflix queue for
only a week or so, I’ve ready so many good reviews that I bumped it up to the
top so I could watch it immediately. I
was not disappointed – it has some amazing characters in it like an inhuman
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Byung-hun Lee who is brilliant playing a very methodical, emotional driven,
stone cold all over your butt Secret Agent who is out for revenge. Kim is out for revenge because his pregnant
girlfriend’ who is also the daughter of the Police Chief, is brutally murdered
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Kim decides to hunt Kyung-chul, and hunt he does. Kim starts a very nice game of cat and mouse
so that he can not only take revenge on Kyung-chul for his girlfriends’ murder,
but so that he can also perhaps get some real emotion from Kyung-chul – I think
nothing would feel better to Kim then to have Kyung plead for his life and beg
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how he can keep track of the sick killer, Kim is always listening in and Kyung-chul
even knowing he is being hunted boldly still finds new
victims. He’s sick, so this cat and
mouse chase is mostly a new high for him, I think this hurts Kim greatly –
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The scene – there is one scene with Kyung-chul is a car with
two others that is shot so freaking fabulously I wish I could have been there
to see how it was done. It’s fast,
bloody, and dazzling – very imaginative.
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even more pain on Kim – but as a viewer you will expect nothing less from
him. We have the pleasure of seeing
Kyung-chul take some hits to his manhood via Kim but the displeasure of viewing
the way these hits simply pump up Kyung-chul to try and sacrifice himself to
deal a superior perfect blow to Kim…let’s just say it doesn’t quite go as
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have such awesome characters I like to feel their pain and inter-workings, you
need time to do this! I really enjoyed Kim Je-Woons work. He’s made a fan of me and I’ll be looking
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The story idea behind Undocumented is a pretty fantastic
one, very inventive, and a lot could have been done with it. That being said, I think the movie was
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The premise is a handful of college kids, all US citizens
are making a documentary about Mexicans, crossing into the US illegally. While crossing over and being bused to a
final location in the trip, they’re (College kids and the Mexicans) bombarded
by a group of militant US citizens who want to make these people suffer for
trying to cross illegally. They do this
not only to punish the people they’ve captured, but to use it as a warning
against future offenders crossing illegally.
Simple story - and great set-up if you ask me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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call home, the college kids are asked to continue their documentary, albeit the
premise has changed a bit. They’re now
asked to focus on the militant group and how they’re helping to stop the onslaught
of illegal immigration. Up to this
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over the top to me. Picture this - you have
a small stage where there’s a chair.
Behind that chair is a large American flag backdrop. One of the illegals is placed into that
chair, and his wife is placed in some crazy torture device in front of
him. The main militant in charge then
starts firing off immigration type questions to the illegal immigrant, for
every question he gets wrong his wife is tortured. Let’s just say he doesn’t
get may questions right. This whole scene reminded me of a game show, I felt
the film was trying to be serious and this scene made me laugh. I wanted the militants to be serious, be
careful, be neat, and have a very systematic way of “torturing” the immigrants
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one of them has the job of messing up dead illegal bodies to place in the
underground tunnel that runs below the border in order to scare other
illegals. Dumb. He’s very proud of his work!<o:p></o:p></div>
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some drugs, because he was getting branded from the militants and they offered
him some pain relief. Well after he’s
branded they decide to throw a fiesta with music and a pinata - Travis (college
kid) beats the crap out of this pinata, with a nail studded bat! Of course the militants had placed one of the
other college kids in the pinata, so Travis did not have such a great fiesta
once he found that out. Dumb.<o:p></o:p></div>
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People kiss in the midst of all of this, I always find this
dumb!!! Please movie directors, if you’re
one/two days into a horrific experience I really can’t see kissing being on
anybody’s mind!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was ONE cool part, something that made my stomach
churn. There were a couple of children
caught up in all this, and the Militants just release them from the facility to
face the dessert on their own. I have
kids, so this made me envision my own child just released into an unknown,
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Now back to dumb. In the
beginning of the film our documentary crew interviews some people before their
illegal border crossing trip – This includes a local family of some people who
will be crossing the border and a businessman who exploits illegals. Well our militant patriots also manage to go
find these people outside of the facility and bring them to there for some “fun”. I mean really? They’re out in the dessert somewhere and this
militant group just goes out and kidnaps people already in the US? Really???
This film did not make the militants bad-ass enough to pull this off if
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set-up for a great movie, it just was not this version. The acting is alright, the overall look is
decent, but the details for the story are overly dramatic and the militants are
like bad cartoon characters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637197654825767682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967005490926026680.post-13288197201824985462013-11-04T13:09:00.001-08:002013-11-05T13:31:19.146-08:00Deadgirl (2008)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Deadgirl is a movie about two discontented teenage boys –
that’s the basic premise. I can’t
exactly call this a horror movie, for me it was more about exploring the two
teens and how they navigate through a world where they are not fully accepted
and welcomed in. I think if you go into
the movie with this in mind, not thinking it’s a straight up horror movie you
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Rickie and JT are best friends. Rickie is the introverted, quiet, follower
type and JT is the more extroverted, outgoing, leader type. Both are on the outskirts of their high
school, neither popular and they don’t exactly follow a crowd. They’re their own group and Rickie definitely
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bitch about life. They set up shop in an old abandoned hospital. In the hospital they find a dead girl, well a
“zombie” girl that is. This is where our
characters start playing very different roles.
JT is all about keeping this dead girl for himself and his lusty needs, but
to me it’s not all about lust – my reading between lines also says this girl
represents him taking control and taking what he thinks he’s entitled since his
station in life hasn’t afforded him popularity, girls, riches etc. Rickie’s not into it at all, he voices his objections but does not do much to stop JT.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What follows are days and weeks of watching JT spiral out of
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He’s obsessed with the dead girl, like most people who get what they
think they wanted it molds him into a complete monster. Some might say he was a monster before
because he chose to enslave the dead girl in first place - but if you can
accept his first decision to enslave this girl as the ball that started rolling
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While all that is going on you get a nice peak into the
world of Rickie. You get to observe this
reserved guys love infatuation with a child hood friend JoAnn (and he has a
very unhealthy love for her, he thinks they have something but he’s very wrong
and hanging on to old child hood memories…that JoAnn doesn’t give any thought
to), you observe his lack of good home life, and he starts coming out of his
shell – just a wee bit. Perhaps
witnessing such debauchery from JT finally ignited something in him? I like that he reaches out to JoAnn more, and
let’s JoAnn know his feelings for her – but it’s sad that he can’t save himself
from the rejection. Rickie is definitely
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eventually –The secret of the dead girl starts to spread,
through an admission by an angered and beaten Wheeler, Johnny and his jock
friend, Dwyer force Rickie and Wheeler to reveal the dead girl. Let’s just say
the jocks don’t fare well (even they’re pressured into victimizing the dead
girl. JT does some obvious pushing but here even Rickie joins in since even he
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What we end up with is a ravaged
jock and disfigured dead girl. Johnny the jock deals with some very
unpleasant affects from his meeting with dead girl, and JT deals with finding a
replacement for dead girl. One of the
funniest moments in the film is when JT and Wheeler try to kidnap a girl at the
gas station – LOL funny.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The last 20-30 minutes pump it up. JoAnn (Rickie’s crush) is brought into the
fold while she was trying to figure out what happened to her love – the jock. JoAnn ends up at the mental hospital with
Rickie, JT, Wheeler, and the dead girl.
JoAnn is set-up to be dead girl’s replacement since JT and Wheeler
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free taking care of both JT and Wheeler – she also manages to get a hold of
JoAnn and turns her. Rickie’s still
alive after the hospital showdown and is then shown taking perfect care of the
new “dead girl”…his own obsession can now be realized.<o:p></o:p><br />
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characters are well developed and over the top just to make sure you understand
their placement in life. If you can
handle the premise in general, I think you’ll find this movie has a lot to say
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