Movies Posts Tagged as 'Horror'
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Hole, The (2009)

City boys of competitive ages move to a quiet town that hides mysteries only weird folk encounter. Performers were alert and the mystery was intriguing. Not all holes need to be explored. I got that. Scares were correct but limited. The kids acted accordingly and the mythology was promising. I didn't understand why someone's personal nightmare interfered with others. The clown puppet gave me chills when it connected to childhood fears but it disconnected as soon as it got personal. Dante of any kind is a childlike adventure, Dante restrained is a child crying for help and Dante unleashed is a mad genius. 12-Aug-2026
Five Nights At Freddy's 2 (2025)

The ambition to make the franchise step up is absent. It does the same thing as before to tired effect. Kill no shows were confusing. How did some of them die? It was a horror geared towards gullible children. A child that thinks mechanical contraptions are friends is far-fetched and the child looks too adult to participate in such lunacy. Yes, the mechanical thing getting inside of the car pissed me off again. I actually thought they would explain it or at least rip the car ceiling off. There were whimsical elements that could have been culled to completion but they were trampled on. A bloodless sequel. 09-Aug-2026
Last House, The (2026)

The threat is incomprehensible. Locking people inside their homes to take over their land seemed like a waste of time when its power was greater than ours. Why the delay? It's a bind the writers had trouble pontificating. The actors were a cohesive unit. They were family. Wagner lead as a dad who had to protect his own without admitting to the danger, Greta Lee was well composed as the mom and the children of all ages clicked. The progression from family vacation to family strife was convincing. Family time was sentimental, neighborly contacts were necessary, animal rescues were understood and the family's resilience was enervating. The best parts of the film were inside the house whilst everything outside remained vague. 07-Aug-2026
Mortal Kombat II (2026)

Super-powered action, simplified storytelling and amiable actors. Mr. Urban's Aussie accent is sorely missed but he's still proficient at delivering quips, face muscles and hair. Bringing back the dead confused. If they can resuscitate you after you die why bother? Is that the point? Because they can? Fight is all that mattered and it's where the film excelled. It took me back to when I payed the games, recognizing characters and being amazed by their looks, moves and kills. 05-Aug-2026
Primate (2025)

Younglings stay home partying whilst dad goes away on business. Pet monkey Ben's adorability is fading due to illness and he's turning mean. The monkey escapes from his enclosure and goes on a rampage. The action set pieces were fresh and unexpected. The handicap was used accordingly. The actors were subtle but captivating. It hurt to watch the transformation from sweet pet to demonic shredder but the film was sheer panic. 02-Aug-2026
Devil's Mouth, The (2026)

Conversations felt awkward and untrue. Character development depended on corn and cliches. Actors were not handed the right cues to bring better than before depictions to life. The jellyfish scene was a topper that the rest of the film did not cede to. The threat did less than Jaws did. I couldn't see a thing. It was very specific about editing the shark. I had to pretend how they got killed by imagining a 50s black and white film. They blinded me because they had nothing to show. Underground shots during attacks would have created the panic it was striving for. The attacks above ground were shoddy, the strife was mechanical and the emotions were fake. 01-Aug-2026
Do Not Enter (2026)

I did not heed the warning. Morally bankrupt Influence team challenge themselves to break into a famed hotel mired in violence and abandonment for clicks. Somewhere in the hotel is hidden 300 million dollars. The team is not the only ones who think they can find it. There are shifty influencers whose moral code is to make easy money and steal others' glory. There were no redeemable characters in either party so the dialogue played out annoyingly. Rats don't stampede, they run away, not explaining how electricity works in an abandoned building was lazy, having characters not die even whilst being torn apart is even lazier, not showing exactly how they got torn apart sucks, the concept of witchcraft is skewered and what is supposed to scare, dulls. It got everything wrong except that I would watch it. 28-Jul-2026
Godsend, The (1980)

Pregnant stranger poops a daughter on a six family's doorstep and disappears. Mother adopts abandoned child and proclaims her a godsend. Deaths and family discord follow. The godsend seemed to be the culprit but the director only insinuated it. All iterations of godsend Bonnie Blue had poker faces. WTF were they thinking about? Feeding time? I hope that dusty guy doesn't show up again to bark? There is little interaction between the kids to establish a dynamic or a threat. It just was. Mother had vanity issues. As long as they appeared great, evidence didn't matter. Bad acting killed the rest. I spent most of the time reimagining a simple plan. The mythology doesn't exist. Nature's task should have been to limit overpopulation. The only way to do that is by naturally enhancing volunteers to sustain life. When crucial evidence is uncovered the characters don't act on it. No, "honey why were you in the barn when your second brother died?" They filmed a scene with a child making out with her sleeping dad but they couldn't show us how a four year old can kill a preteen? It's okay, she only made out with him to make him sick. A classic that could have been had anybody cared. 17-Jul-2026
And Now The Screaming Starts (1973)

Abrupt editing and tacky effects sour a spooky tale. Virgin bride moves into castle with a family curse. The secret only intensifies because anyone who divulges it perishes. Bride has visions of a severed hand and a man with hollowed out eyes. The hand showed up in peculiar places with violence its main purpose. Bride's visions are only realistic to her. No one sees what she experiences. A professor of mentality is hired to calculate and treat her paranoia. The script doesn't linger analyzing the character's actions and the actors don't assert like the majority of the people would. The camera silently presents faces grandly emoting as thoughts. The secret sounded more devastating than was presented. I didn't know you could inherit a scar, trashing a relative's grave is cathartic and that women screaming during a 30 second fuck was normal. 14-Jul-2026
The Mummy (2026)

Child is kidnapped in foreign country and resuscitates as a mummy 8 years later. How does a family that is established deal with that kind of return? Half and half. The showdowns were based on cliches but the child astounded and the staff was on it. The visuals were full of creativity and hauntings. I keep remembering them. I was curious, spooked and entertained. 08-Jul-2026
Undertone (2025)

A daughter cares for her comatose mother whilst hosting a mystery show that entices viewers with myths and facts. The premise only works if the source of the terror (the show) weren't so basic. I could not concoct the visuals necessary to instill fear from the audio presented. Video might have fixed that. Bumps in the night and sleight of hand make up the scares. The film was working towards authenticity but missed being that by not allowing the actors to work for it. When mama falls off the bed daughter is shown off camera helping her back. I wanted to see the struggle of an actor turning a thought into an action. It would have been inspiring. Nina Kiri carries the weight of the film because the support was invisible. Someone needed to physically free her of the constraints. The crust was decent but the pie not so much. 07-Jul-2026
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)

It felt like a TV sequel of a film. The silliness tired and the action stall tactics were irresponsible. It was an unrealistic interruption to dire situations and it happened often. The sisters had a dynamic but it relied on harping about the same subject whose urgency no longer mattered. Change the subject. The film kept going around in circles which didn't help with sleep. The cast were in a fun movie I wasn't privy to. I think I stayed because I wanted to see Ms. Weaver get clean. She did and it was the only gift. 03-Jul-2026
Black Phone 2 (2025)

Wonder Twins versus Freddy Krueger. Sister's superpower is to have 4K dreams of abused boys and brother makes public phones ring. Sibling effects after surviving catastrophe doesn't blend with their present choices. What makes them think they can help anyone when they should be avoiding mental imbalance by obsessing over teenage things. The set-up was an excuse and the love interest looked like the brother which kept jolting me awake confused as to why she was making out with her brother. The film tries tying all it's knots together but they don't hold and it gives way to Carrie/Pazuzu awakenings and It tomfoolery. Boys without dicks equal women with power. 18-May-2026
Good Boy (2025)

The dog said, "get me outta here!" whilst the humans yelled "WTF?!!!!!," just for the hell of it. 02-May-2026
It is disconcerting to think of a dog living in darkness for a good portion of its life. There were no lingering impressions that the dog was ever comfortable. Though the idea of a dog's view of a haunting is fresh and experimental, there were too many shadows to cast a good light. Even though Indy was brilliant his light should have been shared otherwise we are to think that our pets don't see us. I wanted to hug it. The scares don't cling to a mythology of substance but having a baby experience them gave it a protective chill. Effort exists but I understood the dog better than the haunt. 02-May-2026
Dust Bunny (2025)

A blockbuster that should have been. I hopped onto the camera as soon it started to move. "Kill Bill" is hired to assassinate a monster that may or may not exist underneath baby Wednesday's bed. Sigourney Weaver was intelligent, funny and enervating. It was a "bitch" howdy welcome. Aurora strapped the story onto her shoulders and it didn't weigh her down. She was chin to chest with Mads. The supporting players got their own space, story and admiration. The synopsis readied me to understand but didn't prepare me for the motion. Fuller is a bunch of masters imbued in one. I was so involved that I had to cancel my lunch date for the next day because I was too tired from staying up watching it. I was that involved. 18-Apr-2026