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The Prophet and the Space Aliens (2020)
Shows how people Can Be taken In By Con Artists!
I am surprised that "Rael" Claude Vorilhon let this documentary movie see the light of day.
This does not paint Mr Vorilhon in a very good light and someone who is a joke to most but laughing all the way to the bank by those stupid enough to put their trust in him.
After watching this I came away feeling vindicated that this man is nothing more than the wannabe con man a lot of people take him to be!
For someone claiming to be an alien contactee his story is very vague despite meeting them every day for a week in 1973 to get their message out to humanity.
In all that time he couldn't trouble Elohim for one bit of physical evidence to take back to humanity to support his claims.
You only have to look at Vorilhon's life story of failed pop star to intrepid racing car reporter and magazine owner, which was nothing but a rag by all accounts, to then take the ultimate leap in his quest for stardom by reinventing himself as a cult leader.
Mr Vorilhon has done very well out of his venture being able to travel the world, indulge in his passion for racing cars, meet and have a bevy of young women fall at his feet like groupies, you have to hand it to him in that sense lol
Within his con artistry there is some good ideas about how humanity should live going forward, although these ideas were apparently stolen from the author Jean Sendy!
There was also a programme in Africa to help the victims of female circumcision, whether most of that was for the camera, I guess we'll never know.
All in all, I find this movement very suspect in its motives although they are not dangerous in my opinion with his deluded followers quite happy to indulge Claude's every whim.
I just find it disturbing that in the 21st century people are ready to fall for the claims of a man who comes across as a very kitsch early 70's hippie with a Buck Rodgers style story and make it fly for a few idiots!
Terrifier 2 (2022)
Should Have Done Better With This!
The first instalment of this was criticized for having no narrative, well we are still non the wiser after the second helping!
The film started well continuing with the brutality of the first effort but then falls flat paying homage to too many 70's and 80's horror movies.
It seems like there was every nod thrown in there from "Nightmare On Elm Street", "Halloween" to "Killer Clowns From Outer Space", which is how this latest effort from Damien Leone finished up in a similar setting smacking of it being too staged for my liking.
There is also the same old, same old where things take a really daft supernatural twist to ensure the survival of the chief antagonist "Art The Clown" with an Easter Egg ending thrown in there with a cameo from Chris Jericho culminating with a way over the top final scene making sure there will be another chapter in the franchise.
There is more than enough gut wrenching barbarity to satisfy the needs of your average gore hound but you are left feeling that this could have been done a lot better despite an over 2 hour length to the movie.
All in all there is a lot to like here but the school report reads: "Must Do Better"!
Muscle (2019)
DISAPPOINTING !
This is a film that had the potential to be good but fails to hit the mark in the end.
It starts well with a stylish Black 'n' White picture which is well shot and captures the mood of the lead protagonists state of mind.
Cavan Clerkin takes the lead as the Mr Average Simon who appears to have moved to The North East of England to take a job in a dead end call centre where selling rubbish products over the phone to the public is the order of the day.
He spends his nights having a few pints with a work colleague then trudges back home to his wife who is equally dissatisfied with life.
She wants to move back to London so she can get a job in whatever he chosen field is.
The reasons for them being there are never explained but there seems to be a growing enmity because of that.
Simon decides to join a local gym which is full of your boring stereotypical steroid freak types who look to bully Simon.
He is determined to not be put off despite the menacing and dismissive attitude of the manager of the gym to lose weight and get in shape.
Whilst training there he meets a unhinged ex squaddie called Terry (Tel), Who regales the younger meat heads with stories of his thuggish ways and casual bigotry of menacing door staff in the "Night Club Scene."
The character is played by Craig Fairbrass who does his now usual type cast well worn "Pat Tate" impression.
Terry takes Simon under his wing which then careers into a coercive bullying relationship which Simon goes along with due to his state of mind.
You now expect this deranged "Buddy" film to go down that well trodden path but it takes crazy turn, With the film descending into a convoluted mess !
The film is a Hotchpot of ideas thrown together by the director Gerard Johnson which rip off Shane Meadows, Ken Loach, David Lynch respectively.
The middle section of the film is the real kicker where the director thinks it is somehow a good idea to go down the "Tinto Brass" route from 1979's "Caligula" with an identical and lurid outcome which is basically "Pornography" !
The last section of the film is equally off putting as there is no satisfactory ending to the film.
This is where you are left feeling is there a "Lynchian Allegory" here for us to decipher ?
Answers on a postcard...
There is a decent cast here with good performances from Clerkin, Fairbrass and Lorraine Burroughs who is on point as Crystal.
It's just a shame the director had to spoil what could have been a decent film.