Movies Posts Tagged as '2010s'
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Hole In The Ground, The (2019)
Single mother starts a new life with her son in the boondocks. Woods are spooky with a giant hole in the ground. Baby boy disappears into the woods and returns different. A neighbor's history tells of a mother falling apart at losing her son to the woods, going to prison, killing her son and being constantly haunted. She becomes deranged, unacceptable but tolerated. No one believes her truth because all nutty people are considered liars. But the nutty people are always right. We don't want to look at that shit so we ignore it, the way we don't Santa and Barbie. Mama believes the lady's mythology when she too faces that dilemma. The child is a spooky chill, the mother's face speaks volumes and the director allows us space to breathe. Cliches disrupt the flow. Dreams no longer surprise. The end was a meh and a what. Craft without sense. 29-Nov-2023
Gantz:0 (2016)
Some of the realism popped. An Alexa prototype is god to mankind and can gift life and restore earth's biggest dilemma. There are monsters running amok, conquering earth and no human to contain them. The monsters amaze like boss battles but the characters are srtipped of personality. Why are there monsters running loose? How does Alexa resurrect us? Are the monsters left or right? Can a man fuck a girl back to life by winning the game? (Love the hair effect.) 22-Jun-2023
Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016)
The family dynamic is strong. Mother is at a loss because husband died and left her with two daughters to raise and lead. Money is tight so she resorts to scamming people psychically as an excuse to raise morality. Eldest daughter's teenage dream keeps getting interrupted. Baby sister misses daddy a lot. Her mother parents her daughters into thinking every tragedy has a fairytale ending, preparing them for nothing. Creepy little one decides to use an ouija board to manifest her dad. Things don't go as planned. Teenage romance is doomed, mother starts believing in anything because she can't deal and baby girl is a spoiled little bitch. Yay. I think it's her hair. I love it. The evil's existence mutes an almost classic horror film by not making sense. 05-Jun-2023
Lights Out (2016)
Tricks were forceful, the atmosphere foretold and ideas were bouncing. The cast was fulfilling, the monster was unforgiving and a stepdaddy explanation as to why he didn't do more was needed to clarify a few months worth of questions. Wouldn't he have encountered the monster before? Why did the monster strike, now? Yes, I ruined it for myself thinking about stupid shit but the scares were still thrilling. 04-Jun-2023
I See You (2019)
A family is stalked by a presence whilst dealing with infidelity, trust and motherhood. Halfway through, it dishes out answers. We are ready for an anything can happen scenario and it delivers. There were no whys answered but the clues added up. Helen Hunt established intelligence until she was abruptly cut off. Phrogs are homeless people with better digs. The surprises kept coming because we weren't given a fair study of who the characters were. The prequel. 1. Ignore the phrogs. Expose the emotions that catapulted the insanity. 2. Rewind. 3. Study what the characters knew. 4. Fuck phrogs! 28-Mar-2023
Better Watch Out (2016)
Well-done horror camp concerning a teen babysitting a 12 year old with a crush. An invasion brings forth her motherly instincts and nicely shot panic. Madsen and Warburton were joyous. When the film jumps outside the box, it stalls. It stalls because it didn't have the nerve to enact the obvious. I would've screamed for that. 16-Mar-2023
Under The Shadow (2016)
A mother is left to fend for herself when her husband is called to duty. The building scares and the apartment is freaky. The actor/daughter was a happy accident. She was cute and alert. The lack of music created tension. Mother's home is crumbling, the war is raging, daddy hardly calls, little girl starts hallucinating, women had no power and she's losing her mind. The mother and daughter had natural reactions. The level of trust spiraled as mine did. Can she do it or is she fucked? The mother's parenting skills are questioned throughout. The scare jumps were surprisingly scary. The fight had guts. Did she really slap that child? If it was real, she didn't flinch. I see sheets with a different eye, now. Unique. 14-Mar-2023
Gabriel (2014)
Rory Culkin pays a disturbed youth that returns from mental rehab to the care of his family. It consists of a mother who has no idea what she needs to do to make her son well, an even-keeled brother that lends strict support and an adorable nonna that seems to comfort the youth. Youth doesn't want to end up nuts like his dad and blames brother and mother for neglecting the man at his worst and making him super nuts. He thinks that if he finds a childhood friend he will marry her, buy a house with, have kids and best his brother, so he can be cured. The scenes that work best are with the family. Performers are jittery, anxious and emotionally invested. Culkin captured the character's frustration. The trek is uneventful because no one is ever home and the people he does meet flash by. You can't cure mental illness but you can hold it back. 10-Mar-2023
Brightburn (2019)
Clark Kent origins with the Kents and baby Zod. There is little explanation to why the kid exists, why he wears a silly costume or goes on a rampage. Elizabeth Banks touches upon the stubborn mother that has only one chance to love a child. 10-Mar-2023
Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014)
This is worst than imagining Jennifer Garner beating her kids. Scott Foley goes dark and tries to make it funny but we dont spend enough time with the housewife from hell to be a judge or enjoy it. I thought she did what I've seen every wife do when the husband fears her. It's a trivia dream cast. They were all standing in place to receive more than they got. The bros of the beaten man fantasize about killing his wife and getting away with it and the females in their lives agree. Scott Foley has big balls. 26-Feb-2023
Bel Ami (2012)
1800s penniless, talentless fuckboy decides that seducing rich married women's luck might rub off on him. He receives treats like an eager dog but gains no love or respect. Robert Pattinson leads with his vampire face and squishy looks but his insecurities are boundless. He makes female revenge hurtful even when he's a horny asshole. The women can't keep up. Pattinson is achieving in another planet and they are jetting on Hollywood professionalism. Sexy is mute which nullifies the point but Robert's pain alleviates it. 10-Feb-2023
Halloween Ends (2022)
I hope so. Besides the original two, no one has added anything fresh, stimulating or artistic. Michael is psychic now. He can tell when someone's been bad to children, like Santa Claus. They gave Laurie white guilt because she is responsible for unleashing all the serial killers in our community. It felt equivalent to hanging Carroll O'Connor for his amazing portrayal of a bigot. Laurie's feminism got softened. She sets up her granddaughter, that almost got killed by the most famous serial killer ever, with a date that served time for maybe killing a child. Yeah, the kid died. Worst parent ever. Why couldn't they meet on their own without Laurie's instincts being seniled? Absolutely not, you are never leaving this house until that psycho is off the streets! That would have been enough fury to unleash a psycho. Corey's idea of a possible serial killer is smiling like he's auditioning for The Dark Knight: The Joker Reborn. An animated feature. I wished the psychos in my life were that funny. Giving Corey a storyline was a stall tactic because they didn't know how to end it. It's been so long that they forgot the purpose. It mistook the original as schlock entertainment and served it as such. What stood out in the original was the images, hand magic, ideas and symbolism. Awesome music is ingrained, a mask and a scream queen born of Janet Leigh never hurt. Everyone deserved better. 02-Feb-2023
Hush (2016)
It's a horror slasher that believes it shouldn't have to explain why a killer kills. He just does. It's a lack of opinion and a loss for art. A perspective from a person with capabilities would have created a nicer balance. Mask off created no tension or tingles. SPOILER ALERT: It wasn't Brad Pitt. The mask was more effective. All was slasher cohesion with no heart attacks. 20-Dec-2022
Mandy (2018)
An artful relentless mess in which Lord Nicholas takes on religion and splits his asshole kicking its butt. 12-Oct-2022
We're Still Here (2015)
Infernal ghosts. Mother devastated by the loss of her adult son thinks her new home is invaded by his spirit. Malevolence is underfoot and the whole town is on call. The mythology is a curse with an alloted time that makes little sense. The ghosts need a family to feed off so violence doesn't overwhelm the town. The scares are cool within a limited reality, the actors suffer from too many acting classes and the sense is lost within its limitation. 12-Apr-2022