More Horror Movie Quickie Reviews
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singedsunI need to get some of these bad ones out of the way. And boy howdy is Amazon Prime just chock full of really bad horror movies.
The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom
The production on this is garbage quality. They're definitely going for a kind of 70s feel but everything is really flat, there's no real focus on the cinematic aspect and the lead actress has a garbled mushy mouth voice. I ALMOST DNF'd this after the first twenty or so minutes but decided to power through because there were some good reviews on it. However, it's not worth the time I spent to watch it.
It's about a woman who was attacked years prior to the movie and she's now housebound due to PTSD. The original attacker is stalking her again. But there's no build up here, there's very, very little explanation and it falls apart pretty quickly. Definitely on my DO NOT recommend list.
10x10
This is a strangely interesting thriller staring Kelly Reilly? and that one dude from that one thing (it'll come to me)...oh, he's Luke Evans. This man takes the woman hostage in a grocery store parking lot in midday (distressingly easily) and when he gets her home he locks her in a ... you guessed it... 10x10 room in his house. I'd hoped there would be a lot more focus there, but there really isn't. The name of the movie is (like so often) something we spent the least amount of time with. We see this man (who is very rich) spending a lot of time to go through the woman's purse and other things. He demands to know her name and doesn't believe her once she gives it.
There's no real horror elements to this, it's far more a thriller. The woman fights back, obviously and then in the back half of the movie we found out what this guy wants and why and it all seems very... played out, I don't know. The action was very meh as was the very thin thread that tried to hold this premise together.
The Loved Ones
This was a great, original premise. This is an Australian horror movie about a guy that gets kidnapped by another girl in his highschool after he turns down her advance for prom. At her house, he wakes up tied to a chair at her dining room table, with her, her dad and another woman we realize is her mother. The girl is dressed in her finest for prom and she has all these demands for him to make this prom special for her. Her dad is strange and threatening and insists he goes along with his daughters demands. It gets wild and bloody from here.
This wasn't like a good fun watch or anything but a really interesting twist on the horror genre. I liked it for what it was and it's probably one of the best I've watched in a long stretch of shitty horror movies.
Along Came the Devil
Our protaganist in this movie is a girl who's had to movie with her aunt. Her mother is dead, but Tanya starts to believe that her mom is contacting her from beyond. She sees visions of her mom as she's trying to reintegrate into a neighborhood she knew as a kid. Her aunt is a Christian and tries to urge her to come to church with her. Meanwhile, when she tells a friend about what she's seeing, her friend suggests a seance. (As you do.)
I feel pretty meh on this one. I watched it not that long ago and still had to look it up again to make sure I remembered the story right. It just isn't very memorable. I think there's a potential interesting premise here and in the right hands with some heightened spooks I think it could've been a lot better instead of meh.
Other than The Loved Ones, I have recently watched some others that I've enjoyed recently that might warrant more full reviews. I took a short break for horror movies as I binged watched Criminal UK (both seasons) and Ratched (all 8 episodes). I'm sinking back into it now and continuing to expand this ever growing list of movies for more of the good, the bad and the interesting.
The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom
The production on this is garbage quality. They're definitely going for a kind of 70s feel but everything is really flat, there's no real focus on the cinematic aspect and the lead actress has a garbled mushy mouth voice. I ALMOST DNF'd this after the first twenty or so minutes but decided to power through because there were some good reviews on it. However, it's not worth the time I spent to watch it.
It's about a woman who was attacked years prior to the movie and she's now housebound due to PTSD. The original attacker is stalking her again. But there's no build up here, there's very, very little explanation and it falls apart pretty quickly. Definitely on my DO NOT recommend list.
10x10
This is a strangely interesting thriller staring Kelly Reilly? and that one dude from that one thing (it'll come to me)...oh, he's Luke Evans. This man takes the woman hostage in a grocery store parking lot in midday (distressingly easily) and when he gets her home he locks her in a ... you guessed it... 10x10 room in his house. I'd hoped there would be a lot more focus there, but there really isn't. The name of the movie is (like so often) something we spent the least amount of time with. We see this man (who is very rich) spending a lot of time to go through the woman's purse and other things. He demands to know her name and doesn't believe her once she gives it.
There's no real horror elements to this, it's far more a thriller. The woman fights back, obviously and then in the back half of the movie we found out what this guy wants and why and it all seems very... played out, I don't know. The action was very meh as was the very thin thread that tried to hold this premise together.
The Loved Ones
This was a great, original premise. This is an Australian horror movie about a guy that gets kidnapped by another girl in his highschool after he turns down her advance for prom. At her house, he wakes up tied to a chair at her dining room table, with her, her dad and another woman we realize is her mother. The girl is dressed in her finest for prom and she has all these demands for him to make this prom special for her. Her dad is strange and threatening and insists he goes along with his daughters demands. It gets wild and bloody from here.
This wasn't like a good fun watch or anything but a really interesting twist on the horror genre. I liked it for what it was and it's probably one of the best I've watched in a long stretch of shitty horror movies.
Along Came the Devil
Our protaganist in this movie is a girl who's had to movie with her aunt. Her mother is dead, but Tanya starts to believe that her mom is contacting her from beyond. She sees visions of her mom as she's trying to reintegrate into a neighborhood she knew as a kid. Her aunt is a Christian and tries to urge her to come to church with her. Meanwhile, when she tells a friend about what she's seeing, her friend suggests a seance. (As you do.)
I feel pretty meh on this one. I watched it not that long ago and still had to look it up again to make sure I remembered the story right. It just isn't very memorable. I think there's a potential interesting premise here and in the right hands with some heightened spooks I think it could've been a lot better instead of meh.
Other than The Loved Ones, I have recently watched some others that I've enjoyed recently that might warrant more full reviews. I took a short break for horror movies as I binged watched Criminal UK (both seasons) and Ratched (all 8 episodes). I'm sinking back into it now and continuing to expand this ever growing list of movies for more of the good, the bad and the interesting.
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Date: 2020-09-28 12:40 pm (UTC)How is this the exact same reaction I always have when it comes to this actor? I've seen him in The Hobbit movies, in the Fast & the Furious movies, in ... other stuff, maybe, probably? but somehow, nine times out of ten, he's Whatsisname, It's Right at the Tip of my Tongue.
Sorry, not much or any of a horror movie viewer, but this bit jumped out at me. ^^;