Reviews

I really like this series, it's really cool to hear the opinions and insights of people who actually work and have worked in the biz, I love hearing all the movie reviews except Allan Arkush, he gets a little long winded and self-indulgent in his episodes, but he is pretty entertaining, although probably the most entertaining personality to watch is John Landis, controversy aside he's a million laughs in my opinion, as is Illeana Douglas, love her, she's awesome, and Daniel Kremer too, I don't always like the movies he talks about but I like the way he looks, dude's hot lol. Umm, they talk about new movies as well as lot of old classics from all kinds of movie genres, sometimes even talking about obscure horror and trippy oddities from the 70s and 80s. I just really enjoy listening to these kinds of short reviews and it's a show that's been quietly running for a long time and it has an exhaustive back catalogue of episodes, so there's likely to be an episode on a movie for just about anyone by this point! Good solid and underrated review series, watch it x.

Thsi is a great little series that shows a different story of some kind of animal on every episode, they're usually brief but it's really good and every one tells a different story and it's frequently uplifting, funny and unique and sometimes even very sad and heartbreaking, you also get stories of animals that got sick and very old and disabled and needed extra care in their final days, it's just astounding the level of different creatures that can form bonds with us humans, it's way more than just cats and dogs, it can even be insects! The range of things that they can do and feel and the extraordinary surprising things that they can teach us is amazing. They can't talk but they can repay kindness, they remember things, get mischievous, they forgive and sometimes don't, they can be as complex as you or I in their moods, you can see all you need to in their eyes and mannerisms, body language, they're not human beings but they are persons, you see the soul that is inside. What a wonderful little online series this is and what a true blessing and priceless treasure the animals are, may we be lucky enough to have them as a part of our lives and be privileged enough to be a part of their world always. A real joy to watch, it will make you appreciate and love the magic of animals all over again 💖

Well this was certainly very different but I was charmed almost immediately by the felt, you know the fuzzy part of some of the Pokemon, made me wanna reach right out and pet them! I thought the first episode was a little slow but that was fine because it was an establishing episode, we're meeting this new character who's not a trainer, nice refreshing change, and the animation was so terrifically different and bright and cheerful, but it's quite visually loveable and it gets to the heart of the matter quite gracefully, I really loved the lessons that it had to tell were done in a really subtle kind of way that wasn't too overbearing and they didn't have to yell it out loud to you, saying stuff like you may not be perfect or the best at swimming or whatever but you're still special just like you are, you don't have to be, I loved the episode with the Magikarp that lost its rubber swimming ring, and the thrilling ride on the Dragonite, I don't think I've ever seen the Pokemon look so cool and loveable and just, gracefully dragon-like in flight before, and it had a Snorlax too, which is a big plus because he's my favourite he just does his own thing lol. This was very nice indeed and mellow and just a lot of simple wholesome fun, it's cool to see Pokemon in a different way than battling, just a very nice surprise, I thought it would be for babies going by how it looked in the first images I saw, but I was very intrigued just the same and it didn't disappoint. This really cheered me up, it was possibly the most genuinely sweet thing I've seen in ages! Wonderful, what a little joy of a show. I already want more! 💓

Pretty sure this is a movie you'd either outright hate or love if ever there was one... Well I sure loved it a lot the first time I saw it, mostly because in a good way I'd never seen anything like it, still haven't since, and I really clicked strongly with this movie and it worked for me a lot. There's just something very magnetic and even engrossing about its wonderfully offbeat quirky tone to me and the uncanny way that the scenes are directed and even the dialogue, none of it fits into any set genre and it's a very bizarre viewing experience indeed, it doesn't even really feel like it takes place in the world as we know it! It's a bit of a movie anomaly for sure. I guess you could say it's sort of artsy, but I mainly found it to be very funny, and just a consistently compelling and very weird watch. It's such a unique blend of low key homoeroticism and aggressive male energy and the poetic, having a kind of focus and mixture of the pure physical brawn and the brain as the interesting juxtaposition between the two 'brothers', with Monty living entirely for the physical and his more quiet sensitive younger brother the mental, and the main focus of the film is the terminally messed up codependency between Monty and his no less twisted younger bro, and there's a definite weird 'tension' between the two that adds an extra bit of an ick factor to the movie! Trevor Goddard, may he rest in peace, wasn't much of an actor, but he had his strengths and he was really good in this and he made the movie work and it played up to what he was good at, his physicality and intimidation and he was also quite good at being funny as a fairly moronic lunkhead who is very over the top and strange, but he was the best character and a lot of fun to watch. I felt a bit sorry for how Monty ended up, he was an obscenely vain abusive jerk but in a movie full of less than reputable characters he didn't seem that bad, he didn't deserve to be betrayed and poisoned and have his head planted in a cabbage patch! When the insane nun showed up an already crazy movie really flies off the rails! Oh my goodness, Sally Kirkland was very fearless in this movie, shaving her head and getting completely nude for her role. When I figured out where I'd seen her before I couldn't believe it was the same actress who played the sweet wholesome mother in 1991's Haunted! She was awesome and more than a match for Goddard and Davis, she stole the movie! The rather anticlimactic ending isn't really befitting the rest of the film's trashy grungy craziness, but I put that to the flick's very complicated production history, plus the movie is so damn nuts anyway who really cares by that point if you're onboard and you're having fun with it? It's not about how it ends or even coherence of the story in this case, it's about the overall experience and to me, the whole thing is a real trip, don't try to make sense of it, just get lost in it! It's kind of the only way to really love a movie this freaking bizarre! I'd say to seek out this gleefully absurd, twisted and saucy gem if you have a keen interest in the truly out there and different kind of independent movie that you've never heard of, but go into it blind! Because that way you'll enjoy the balls-to-the-wall insane experience of this picture if it's a surprise. I love this sexy crazy goddamn movie. X.

Despite being a very early Halloween special, I find this one great in its own way and an improvement on the first. I think they worked better when they still had wraparounds in them with Bart Lisa and Homer all having nightmares after eating too much Halloween candy, and Homer's nightmare having a little extra twist in the tale! So in the first story I love how Maggie and Flanders get to have wishes that don't backfire, I guess it's a pure of heart thing. Love Homer's infernal turkey sandwich with the terrible slightly dry turkey, and I think it's a really clever joke when everyone grows to hate the Simpsons after Bart wishes them famous, it's a bit of a commentary on the mania of the show at that time, and it's a gag that was ahead of its time in more ways than one! Then there's what I think is the most fun story, in which the whole town is held hostage by and forced to do the every whim of a superpowered Bart, lest they be horribly and hilariously punished! It's got loads of great comedic moments and I most love when Homer is turned into a Jack-in-the-box that struggles with air conditioning and how it goes all wholesome with the montage of Bart and Jack-in-the-box Homer bonding, but when Homer gives his son a kiss Bart suddenly wakes up screaming, I'm pretty sure he was loving his 'nightmare' before that point! It still comes as a surprise even though you already know going in that it's a nightmare. The third chapter is the most gothic and horror themed and I love it I think it's a nice little Frankenstein parody and it has visual nods to Bride of Frankenstein. It really worked great letting other characters take center stage other than the family, Mr Burns as a mad scientist just blended perfect. It's rather violent at points, when Homer in a sack gets beaten with a shovel and it's very icky to me when he gets the top of his skull sawed off and his brain yanked out! The animation as they walk through the lab is really different and impressive, and he might not get up to much besides crashing through a few walls and swallowing an entire box of donuts, but I love the huge Homer-bot, I find the design really cool and a memorable image, a big dumb robot but still clearly Homer, to Franken-Burns great despair! It's bizarre but I don't have any problem with that ending, it's interesting the way it plays around with the anything goes continuity of the Halloween episodes, I for one would have loved if the two headed Homer had shown up in the next episode! This Halloween episode is quaint with not as much pep and personality as the ones that were shown in the following years, but I love it a lot anyway, it's endlessly charming and nostalgic and it remains a classic and a whole lot of fun to this day, wonderful festive goodness, and a well deserved ten psychedelic fire-breathing monster cats out of ten! X 🎃

This is astonishingly poor and bad to watch, I mean it's just a bunch of guys yelling random crap at each other in the woods while terribly pretending to fend off ridiculous dolls that don't move but growl like monsters and have been lamely hung from tree branches,, and these are just cheap dime store dolls not even ones that are at least made up to look scary, it's so laughable, I think the effect whenever you see blood splatters might be even worse than the birds in Birdemic! This is embarrassing to watch I don't know how someone could seriously put this together In probably less than a weekend, call it a movie and put it out there for the world to see, urg, count the damn scenes where the guys will go off into the woods while awkwardly talking nonsense it's so amateurish, imagine the most painful ad-libbing ever! The only 'actor' I kind of liked was the tall skinny guy in the red shirt because he was mildly enthusiastic, I don't know how he did it! I guess I gave it a two because it made me laugh a few times just because of the sheer ineptitude? Yep, you um, you definitely don't need to be rushing out to see this one as it's a true monstrosity of a picture. And most aptly indeed the last words spoken in the movie are "it's terrible!" 👎

So this sci-fi horror Christmas movie is one of those crazy old early nineties horror gems that I always just loved a lot, to me it's the best movie in the series since the first one. It's a little bizarre though, being a sort of macabre and messed-up spin on Pinocchio, if Pinocchio was a psycho robot determined to murder a little boy to steal the boy's mother for himself! It seems to be one of the more maligned sequels but I really don't know why, because unlike the previous three efforts, not counting the fifteen minutes of Ricky from the second one, it at least felt like an actual coherent fun horror story that you could follow from beginning to end, one that's never boring, and one that definitely has more of a Christmassy theme to it this time around with some real ties to the holiday instead of merely taking place around it. The "killer toy" aspect is well used too, not that there's all that much killer toy action, but what there is is fun and a little different because the toys are actually little robots programmed to kill, which I think is pretty cool, I especially love the gross creepy worm! I really dig its tacky weird charm, and that it tries so hard to take itself seriously makes it even more outrageous and funny when it flies off the deep end at several key points! To me it just captures a lot of what I love about these kinds of direct to video hidden "treasures" of the sweet nineties. I really love Brian Bremmer in it, he's by far the best thing about it and steals the show, him and the oddly adorable and demented Mickey Rooney! Brian as "Pino" was just so damn creepy and hilarious at the same time with his big freaky eyes and his clipped almost robotic way of talking and odd jerky movements, and the downright insane pinnacle of the movie that is so freaking outrageous it makes me laugh and feel disbelief every time I see it, is of course when he gets "naked" and looks like a full sized Ken doll down there and is revealed to be a very advanced robot that aggressively attacks the poor woman who to me hilariously looks more disturbed by his lack of equipment then finding out what he really was! "I love you mommy!!!" I can't believe they actually went there and I've yet to see another scene quite like that in any other horror flick to date, I think perhaps when Pino was studying mother son relationships he must have gone to the wrong kind of websites! And how about that scene with the creeping toy hand and the guy in the tightly binding white underwear? It's got some weird s-**t in it for sure! Change of topic, the main child "actor" was absolutely terrible, he never does anything beyond wear the same dopey clueless expression all the way through and doesn't emote more than twice, and when the insane happenings do go down, it's mostly happening to everyone else, he never even has to talk until the very end scene because his "character" is conveniently meant to be traumatised.. So In closing I'll say once that again that I genuinely love this movie, it is silly and everything but who cares, at least it grabs you, I highly recommend if you have a certain fondness for fun 90s horror pictures like Demonic Toys, it ain't perfect but you could definitely do a lot worse than checking out the unduly forgotten Christmas horror magic that is The Toy Maker. X.

Fleshy, pink, ever-growing, self-replicating alien slug piranha things with spindly legs, no eyes at all and gaping maws with rows upon rows of sharp teeth that viciously attack and consume anything living that crosses their path, crash land on earth in a meteor and make their way to the creepy flooded cellar of a house where they soon begin to devour the hapless humans trapped within - can they save themselves before the extraterrestrial abominations eat them alive, and that there is the plot! It's pretty super typical stuff and is a very noticeably low budget movie, but it did come out pretty good for what they did have to work with and it's a movie that feels very accomplished by the end, and it's just a harmless fun chompy space monster romp , the classic B-movie plot works mostly because you can tell it was made with love even if the money didn't allow the full vision of what the director may have had in mind to make it to the screen. It is good though and it works. I didn't always think so though, I didn't quite know what to make of it when I first saw it on the uk horror Channel years back. I'd never heard of it and it took me a while to warm up to it and get the appeal and why some considered it a "cult" movie. I like it now a lot, the monsters are really cool and scary, the atmosphere is kind of grim and effective and sometimes quite spooky, and I really love all those grimy waterlogged scenes in the grim cellar of certain death, the absolute scariest cellar I've ever seen in a horror movie! The practical effects of the monsters are top notch and it's fitting that they should be the movie's biggest highlight, and they certainly are a credit to the old and best method of having a huge physical model of a movie monster, because you certainly feel the presence of those toothsome slithering space monsters! I love that the design isn't remotely humanoid, it's kind of like any classic monster stripped down to its bare essence, that primordial gaping mouth of razor teeth ready to eat you alive... The spawns look so much better than the movie that surrounds them though, and when you see them fully and how looming and scary they are you sure see where the director's priorities were. You know they're the main standout because any scenes without them where you have to listen to the "teenagers" talking for any real length of time soon begin to drag, and it feels like there's a lot of padding to fill up the runtime, particularly the prolonged and over the top sequence where the mini-spawns attack a bunch of annoying old biddies as they have some kind of afternoon brunch, so bizarrely hilarious! The rest of the characters are bland and boring but I really liked the character of young Charles, I thought the young man had a more interesting quality to him than everyone else in the cast, and he does a lot more with just his expressions than the older actors do with a lot of yammering, I love his cool room and how being so into horror movies in a way actually saves his life and allows him to keep his cool and save the day in the face of some pretty horrific stuff! So in closing I consider this movie pretty good, yeah it's creaky and very rough around the edges and has its dull stretches and some bland as hell acting, but it's still very enjoyable and entertaining and it does what it sets out to do with its very charming old style B-movie horror vibes and music score, it's a perfectly fun little horror movie to watch on a rainy day! X.

Well I was really quite blown away by this movie when I first saw it and it worked for me big time, it's come down a bit on subsequent viewings but I still like it a lot for the gore and the action scenes. I thought I might enjoy it when I heard the title and saw images of the Goreman, well if nothing else he certainly didn't disappoint! To look at he was like a combination of Lord Zedd and the Djinn from Wismaster, and he was a rather odd alien evil guy because he's dark and awesome, absurdly lovable, hilarious in a dry oblivious kind of way, and just the right mix of funny and scary! It's mainly due to how well they went with the naturally weird and funny premise and how it might play out if some kids really did have an all-powerful supervillain as their personal slave! The girl can be super annoying but the movie does work as well as it does because of the two young actors and the performance of the guy playing Psycho Goreman, you can't not laugh at the guy at least once the way he's always making the terrible promises of death and destruction, and only wants to fulfil his bloodlust, but is totally unable to because of one little bratty girl and the amulet that she possesses! As silly and over the top as it is, it sets up all the plot elements and the characters really well. The concept is ridiculous but it works because they get the tone right and it's very charming even if not every joke lands, which they certainly don't. I could see how a film so crazy and juvenile might not be for everyone but I think I'm at just the right kind of age to have really appreciated and got what this was a sort of warped love letter to, and I could tell by those familiar themes that it was partly made for the people who grew up in a certain 90s era, by people who grew up then as well. One of the first things it reminded me of was the older really corny Power Rangers series, especially the sheer awesomeness of the goofy alien council and the fantastically fun sequence where Psycho Goreman has to take on all of his backstabbing demented generals that don't want him to return to his gruesome former glory! That was my favourite part of the movie hands down, I just loved seeing all the nice practical effects and aesthetics of the assorted villains, it was so cool and nostalgic that it had me grinning nonstop, how they all looked would have had me itching to get action figures of them all when I was a kid, especially the one that was a comical barrel that filled and powered by blood and guts and bones, and who could shoot gallons of hellish gore onto his enemies with his hose arms! In the big battle and stupid nonsense ballgame at the end between PG and the paladin space lady you don't really know who you should root for, as the people of Earth seemed pretty screwed either way! I think Psycho Goreman was the lesser of two evils because he at least was honest about his dark intentions, and at the end I guess he learned something from his time living with the kids, he learned to believe in his own inner power, which was good for him but not so much for mankind and the cosmos beyond... It's such a weird 'happy' ending! So there's the great one liners, the superb and over the the splashy gore, how hard I laughed at some of the scenes, I loved it and thought it lived up to its potential and it felt like a movie from a bygone era, bizarre goofy bit hilarious and charmingly nostalgic and just fun! Frig on! X.

A group of strangers stranded in an eerie bus station in the middle of the night, decide to swap scary stories until the bus to their final destination arrives - and I DO mean final! I find this a lot of fun and quite lovable despite, or perhaps because of how cheap and corny it is. I remember first seeing this macabre oddity many years ago late at night on the uk Horror Channel and for whatever reason I'd always find myself watching it and getting a weird Twilight Zone feeling because of just how bloody strange a little movie it is! It's a cobbled together mess for sure, technically awful, but still something about it speaks to me, it has an earnest kind of joy about itself, it wasn't just plodding through the motions and you feel like they really were trying to make a fun scary silly time, and for the most part, I do find it a fun and charmingly silly anthology to sit through, despite its many shortcomings! So about the stories, well for me none of them are all that good exactly, they're very stunted and held back by the production values and the acting, some actors more so than others, and the punchlines of the stories are hackneyed and delivered very clumsily and without the right kind of macabre flair, but what they do all have is a colourful ghoulish villain in them, like the evil ghost of a dead swim champ, a demented escaped maniac posing as a scout leader, a sexy charming vampire and his goth rock chick partner in crime, a psycho killer unwittingly brought back from the dead, and a girl possessed by the vicious bloodthirsty spirit of an Aztec goddess on the rampage! The stories are all really quick and to the point and pretty fast paced so they're usually over before you can get really sick of them. The ones I liked the most were the one with the haunted pool, I thought it was really creepy at points, and the one where the guy had the hokey power to bring someone back to life he sees in the obituaries because the acting of the gentleman that played the very ungrateful resurrected serial killer was so hilarious, his hammy delivery and facial expressions were on par with the great Eric Freeman of Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 fame! I love the setup of the wraparound segments and how it very much seems like they're all in purgatory on the road to hell but at the last minute there's a neat twist upon the twist where it's revealed that everything was just one big nightmare of a very imaginative little kid! Way to pull the rug out from under your audience but I do love that ending, Came as a genuine surprise! So while there are many more beloved and far better made horror anthology movies out there to enjoy, Chillers is nevertheless what I'd call a minor hidden gem and it is a nice little window of sorts into a weird shot on video anything goes vhs horror era that doesn't really exist anymore, everything's so wonderfully tacky and cheesy, compared to the bigger budgeted classic stuff movies like this are like the real troll films hiding under the proverbial bridge, but they need a little love to ya know! I like this kooky little anthology movie, it's cheap and goofy but overall a fun surreal time, one that you lean to love! X.

A group of young(ish) people enter a rundown old Wild West themed tourist attraction fake town thingy, where a ghostly legend stalks the night and lures unwary men to their doom, and they soon run afoul of her as well as her insane vengeful father and must try to escape the ensuing madness alive before they all become a part of the show! So this is definitely one of those turn off your brain kind of movies, in fact this movie practically does that for you! It's all but required as there's no real strong narrative to it or ever a sense of cohesion, it just breezes along at its own weird merry pace and offers up lurid set pieces and bonkers sight gags, like creepy borg Gomez Addams lookalikes and hilariously exploding monster goldfish, haunted can-can shows.. For me it's just about inventive and lively enough that you want to keep watching just to see what might pop up next, and while technically awful and very stupid it's certainly not boring and makes for one crazy trip to watch, one that is a lot more fun if you never take it too seriously. It's such an astonishingly confusing mess of a picture that you might think you've missed a few chapters but no, it was just made that way! It is a little annoying the way that it toes the line between trying to be a legitimate horror movie and a comedy, they should have opted to just make it a horror comedy, it may have played a lot better than it does, and a sense of structure wouldn't have hurt either. I do enjoy it for what it is, because it's just so damn strange! I find something enjoyably compelling about it all, even if the fractured storyline isn't as good as its parts. It's so wonderfully offbeat, the tone and story is like a mix of an old fashioned Twilight Zone type of ambiance and the then fresh exuberance of the awesomely gooey practical effects, and it does have a good sense of macabre fun to it. Even the main cast is odd, they all look like they're in their early thirties, but they act like immature kids and make dumb obnoxious jokes and in one scene even skip down the street together, it's like you're watching the Scooby gang! I loved him in this movie and for me he was one of the more fun aspects of it, but man Ron Palilo had to be the most unconventional choice for the lead in a horror movie ever. Everything about the guy was so not what you'd typically get, he was very short which was naturally hilarious in the movie, big silly eyes, vaguely effeminate and an overly quirky way of talking, even when he was trying hard to be all serious it was like he was in a comedy sitcom. His character even cracks a joke right after he and his broadbacked butch girlfriend have narrowly escaped explosive death at the hands of insane Mecha Gomez Addams, and they know that their two other friends are dead and condemned to be crazy ghost residents of the cursed town of Hellgate forever! I thought he was a cute and charming little dork though, he was the right kind of hero for this movie. I wish it was better and more focused but I do have a soft spot for this freaky little horror oddity, it's a strange, strange film of bizarre moments and oddball characters, and one that never answers any of the many questions you might have. I'm sure there was a good concept in there somewhere, as it I just enjoy the ride of it, and like I said sheer weirdness makes you want to keep watching, it never quite makes it as a horror comedy, slasher, or ghost/zombie movie, but what does make it an entertaining and fun enough romp to sit through is to me just the surrealistic randomness of the plot and stand out moments, it's definitely best described as so bad it's fun! X.

Yeck! Wow this was quite astonishingly terrible all around, it achieved a level of movie ineptitude I didn't think was possible for a killer 'gator' movie. It was just laughable, with the exception of Antoni Corone who at the very least seemed to get what a colossal pile of s**t he was in and was having a laugh with it, every single performance was stilted and horribly awkward, it was stiff and really weird, like it was directed by a foreign person directing English speaking actors, like in Troll 2, except that movie is bizarrely lovable and hilarious because the actors actually raised their voices above a robotic monotone and were animated enough, but this isn't a good bad movie that's trying, it's just nothing but boring and aggravating in its by the numbers horribly cliched plot, which rips off Jaws big time, and it doesn't help that they indirectly point out the comparison themselves! Oh and when they barely half-showed the monster it looked like a cheap Halloween costume they rushed together. Sigh, one of the absolute worst movies that anyone is ever likely to stumble across, and an insult to the killer croc genre, because it isn't actually one but presents itself as such on the cover, so it doesn't even have that. Pitiful! No bite no effort whatsoever and no love from this viewer, I really wouldn't recommend unless you're looking to increase your boredom of the day. Flush this gator!!

This episode was so great, a lot of his newer stuff as the Nerd has been really spotty as of late but it's the episodes like this what remind you how great this guy can be at talking about video games when he's really onto something special, and you can see that in his movie reviews as well, he knows movies and he knows games and the nostalgia of games and he has something to say, and oh wow in this particular episode he really nailed what nostalgia really is all about when you think about it, and it really touched my heart, I wasn't expecting it to, the episode took a surprisingly took a real turn in its last act and had a lot of feeling and depth to it, it all but put a tear in my eye. He was comedic and lively too of course, I wasn't big into the rain of poops and I think that pickle needs to be retired lol. I could never play those Contra games for very long without a Game Genie, I'm liable to freak out and panic as I can't keep track of everything flying around at you, way too hard for me lol. But he really got it right with this one, the stuff you really love as a kid it can mean more to you then you know and you don't always always realise that until years later, nostalgia, our past, good and bad, it becomes a part of you forever, thank you for this episode James, terrific work man x.

So I recently saw Cocaine Bear and if nothing else, it definitely delivered on the insane promise of the title, with a bear doing plenty of cocaine and a good amount of satisfyingly gory kills, but it did however feel a bit awkwardly paced, with the many side characters and their backstories, and the humour for me was mostly hit and miss, although thankfully everything with the crazed momma bear worked great and she was alternately scary and hilarious in her scenes as she rampaged and occasionally chilled out lol. I thought it was really cool how we got a killer bear movie again because I don't think there's been a real proper one since Grizzly! So all in all it was just very fun and not much more than that, but you know maybe that's a good thing I didn't go in expecting Shakespeare from that title! I guess my hopes for Cocaine Bear, were a bit too high!

So this is one seriously schlocky horror comedy and I do reckon that if you don't appreciate the comedy or tone right away then you'll probably find it to be a bit of a horrible viewing experience. However if you do enjoy it knowing it's not at all meant to be taken seriously you might have a lot more fun as it a lot of laughs! So I just love Shelly Stevens in it, she was just epic and her titular character gave zero craps and spouted the foulmouthed one-liners like she was Freddy Krueger, and I found the scene especially hilarious when she's still a regular old lady and was choking on the word dime while tearing into her horrible moneygrubbing family, but I thought she was even funnier still when she was resurrected as a demon granny who just loved being pure evil!! She really gave it her all and it's a good example of just one performance carrying and raising an otherwise unremarkable movie above the average and for me, even making it a bit of a hidden gem. I love what a great job they did of making granny's family just the worst kind of arrogant selfish people that you really couldn't wait to see her butcher them! They're so mean that they're not even willing to wait and let nature take its course and let granny die naturally, but try to speed up the process! A lot of the acting is very goofy and exaggerated, and it makes for a very tacky and cheesy tone, but because of that and not in spite of it, I just find the movie a lot of fun, it was fast paced. Not every joke lands but everyone seemed to get that they were in a silly horror comedy that I think was meant to be a bit of a sendup of similar B-movies. The scene where devil grandma repeatedly powerslams her grandson while commenting like a wrestling match is again damn funny and not to be missed! It gets really wacky towards the end when she's slaughtered and turned almost the whole family into monster zombie people and they're all laughing like maniacs around the dinner table, of which the visual was giving me some serious Night of the Demons and Beetlejuice vibes! I actually felt a bit bad for the fate that befell granny, becoming a bloodthirsty demented monster from hell and turning against the one relative that she did actually care about in her own cranky and borderline abusive way, she didn't seem all that bad before she changed, just old and understandably bitter as she was surrounded by people who didn't care about her and only wanted her money, except for two. No one gets what they want in this movie - the family of greedy jerks get nothing, granny gets no love and eternal life, and even Kelly doesn't get to be with the mysterious exorcist preacher man that she seemed to fall for at first sight. At least granny came out on top in the loony final scene! Something that really doesn't work for a second is how they tried to dress down Shannon Whirry and make her all plain and homely, she's clearly a vixen even under the librarian exterior! So I think that this odd but very fun horror comedy is more than entertaining and funny enough to stand out among other 90s horror romps like Wishmaster and Warlock The Armageddon, it has no conscience, it's phenomenally cheesy, and I sure laughed my butt off at it, I can't believe I missed out on it as a kid because I know I would have loved it, it's got the making of a cult classic if it isn't one already. A very underrated and fun campy horror comedy indeed, one that's well worth checking out, so give The Granny some sugah! X.

So I do love this movie and consider it a classic, but I also have kind of mixed feelings on it too because I only love two of the four stories as well as the memorable little wraparound with Dan Ackroyd as some kind of chatty monster. I see what they were driving at but I really don't like Kick the Can by Spielberg because I find it horribly sappy and sentimental to the point of being cheesy, despite the earnest warm acting of the late great Scatman Crothers, and the one with the racist man I don't like for several reasons, one of which is probably obvious to anybody that's heard of this movie's horrible tragedy that for some makes it something of a lamentable movie and fair enough I can see why, but I don't feel like that, I prefer to enjoy the movie for the parts of it that I feel genuinely hold up and are more than enough to make it a good anthology. It's a real tie for me between the third and fourth stories but I do especially get a kick out of Joe Dante's tale, I think it's some of the best work he ever did, I just love that wonderfully offbeat and sinister tone and how the surrealistic aspects of the story start out small and gradually grow more alarming as the tension just rises as you along with Helen wonder just what the hell is going on with this bizarre strained family and their not-quite-right household! The visuals and set design are so excellently eerie and unnatural, like there's something artificial about it all, with the overly colourful lighting styles, deep shadows and odd angles of the twisted house and the downright creepily 'happy' family, setting such a great mood that I just love a lot. It builds up the atmosphere very well with creepy little touches until we eventually get to the nightmarish lunacy of freakish cartoons made flesh!! I love Nancy Cartwright as the scowling, chubby and very unfortunate indeed Ethel who tries little all-powerful Anthony's patience and finds herself condemned to terrifying cartoon hell for eternity, perhaps ironic or something given the real path her career went in! They all turned on poor Ethel so fast!! I really loved the performance of the kid who played Anthony, he had just the right note of vulnerability yet ominousness to him that a child who wielded such an unfathomable reality warping power would probably have. He may have taken a group of strangers prisoner to act as his fake family but at heart he's not an evil boy, he just wanted someone to love him and dare to tell him no, and I love the sunny ending and the way the mood changes as he uses his amazing powers in a more positive way. A Terrific and wonderfully weird short that I find absorbing from start to finish. And then there's the final segment, a remake of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet which I love just as much but in a totally different way. The music score sets such a perfect mood and atmosphere as the wickedly playful violin themes drive everything along at a brisk pace that captures both the creepiness of the situation and the rising panic of the lead character. John Lithgow was so great in this, his sweating pale face and crazy expressions really say it all and he's often intense and hilarious at the same time and I find him captivating to watch as he makes the part of the movie memorable and awesome almost all by himself. The weirdness in this story comes from some of the more oddball passengers, particularly a scene-stealing little girl who was really funny. Can't be forgetting that awesome monster though, the effect of him still looks fantastic as you only really get one good clear look at it near the end, where it's almost cartoonishly malevolent as it as it gives that wry little smirk and finger wag that so clearly says that it would love to have fun with him and mangle him with its freaky clawed hands that can rend steel like butter, but just doesn't have the time as the plane nears civilization. I love the little sheen of slime that it leaves on his face after it lets him go, nice touch, also eww.. Whether it was a creature of nature or some kind of demon is tantalisingly unknown but it certainly had a nasty idea of fun! I do like the closing revelation but I don't know if it was a good idea to reveal the damage the creature did to the plane at the end, as the clear claw marks leave no argument that Mr Valentine just went mad with his own irrational fear of flying, the ambiguousness could have been more creepy. So in closing I love this movie and I think it deserves to be remembered for its best parts despite the real life tragic accident, it is an effective anthology that does justice to the classic series. X.

So I really had a fun time with this, the lead actor was very cute charming and sympathetic and it was just the kind of weird that I tend to go for, but it seemed a bit aimless and kind of unfinished by the end, I mean there was no real punch or payoff that I could see, Just a slow and very strange and still by the end of the movie burgeoning disintegration of a poor average schmoe's life who was only trying to make it in Hollywoodland doing a bit of a gross demeaning job and living in a s&&thole apartment with an unnerving rat infestation that his landlord was rather useless at fixing for him, and then his first date in a long time dies on him after a very strange night all because she happened to be...well, you know! I fail to see what exactly made this a horror movie, it felt like the story was heading that way and that the guy was kind of starting to lose it, but nobody was murdered and it didn't even have any blood in it, it was just about his problems and personal inadequacies and how his rat problem and love life brutally came crashing together to the poor odd girl's cost. I loved the very garbled old vhs-esc distortions that run throughput the movie, they really gave it a certain flair And added kick, I loved all that stuff, very cool. I don't know had a great little time just chilling out to this movie really and I liked it a lot for it's highly effective weird edgy ambiance and dark indie movie charm. Somewhat dark but not really a horror movie at all in my book, but very enjoyable for a certain kind of mindset nevertheless, definitely worth the time to watch if you like that slow descent into the whirlpool of modern alienation madness kind of movies, you've been warned though, it's a weird one! 🐈 🐀 💀 x.

And so after eleven movies and a lot of brutal harmless cheesy horror fun, it all came down to this, a lame whimper of a movie that's far removed from the glory days of the series. But watching it last time, I must admit that it's not the absolute worst movie in the franchise. I don't despise it with a passion, it has some pretty good aspects to it, like how it has kills that we're actually allowed to see, and how it takes the action back to the woods, where Jason is in his spooky element, I did actually really like the Travis Von Winkle(tee-hee) character too, because he played the role of the jerk you love to hate really well and his character at least made an impact, he was obnoxious enough that I could actually picture him in one of the eighties movies. They should have given Trent a much better more gory death that was befitting of his jerkiness! I do like how fast and lethal 'Jason' is but I don't like his traps or his use of the bow and arrow, that's not quite Jason to me and makes him not very distinguishable from the mutant hillbillies of the Wrong Turn franchise. They rather insultingly rush through his whole motivation so quickly in the opening scene that there's no real meaning to any of it and you don't know who or what he is, and that's why this doesn't really feel like a Friday the 13th movie and Jason doesn't feel like Jason... It's not a very remarkable movie in any case but there's little sense in disliking it because it's a remake, because if you take away the opening minutes there's barely anything in it that actually makes it one if you think about it, it plays mostly like just another of the sequels, one of the lesser ones of course! What's the most wrong with it is that it's just not very good and goes nowhere and feels very flat and empty by the end, it falls way short of its potential, and it all feels a bit seen it all before, even in 2009.. it's all so glossy and had no real grit, Friday the 13th vibes, or that much in the way of suspense and genuine atmosphere at all. It also offers absolutely nothing new at all, if you profess to be a remake then you know, switch it up a little! Of course we never expected a complex script from any Friday movie but surely they could have put more thought into this than what they did, it's little more than a rehash of the same old thing. The original Friday slasher flicks varied wildly in tone and quality from movie to movie, but they were mostly all fun and satisfying little watches for what they were, this is neither. It's just very run of the mill, it's like a million other average horror movies.. It flies right out of your head as soon as you're done seeing it, I watched it just this week so I could send this off on this most rarest of dates and...virtual nothing! So, Friday the 13th 2009, a remake that manages to be both inoffensive and underwhelming at the same time... I'm afraid it's a five completely wasted woodchippers out of ten for me X.

Wow I couldn't believe that such a great horror film had passed right under my radar for so long until I first saw it last year on a blind online rental, you never know what you may dig up when watching horror movies you never have before! It's definitely one of those slow and steady type of films but I had a blast trying to figure out what was really going on in the story and where it was all heading, it's not at all as straightforward as you might think... I was never bored with it, I found it all quite gripping from the get go, especially after the genuinely shocking opening scene! It sure is a beautifully shot movie, everything looks so stark and cold, and the locations in the idyllic-looking seaside town are full of sinister atmosphere and dread. It has some of the most tense and scary scenes you'll ever see in the dark in a horror movie, with one sequence of a whole doomed family being stalked in a mist-shrouded pitch black house playing out like a nightmare on film. The dead town feels like a real old fashioned place and community frozen in time, and the menacing tone and the horrific violent scenes work against the look of it, tearing away the peaceful facade of the 'normal' small town and gradually revealing the rot and terror that lies just beneath the surface, the soulless malevolent people that inhabit the place are dead and not buried, it's a cute little seaside town that's gone to hell and it's genuinely creepy as hell! It really grew on me through the story and the quality of the atmosphere and how you learned the terrible truth as it all headed towards a superb macabre twist that was done terrifically well, because you've been following that one character all the way and you thought you knew who he was but it turns out that he didn't even really know himself as his mind and his whole world crumbles around him, and any hope of a positive resolution to the story is crushed, and evil wins, royally! Sometimes in horror movies that don't have a happy ending it can seriously work and even become something kind of grand and awesome in its darkness, and this is one of those times to me, it's was one of the best I'd seen in years. So the late Jack Albertson was bloody well fantastic as the utterly insane coroner with the darkest of agendas and a seriously twisted love of what he considered art. His character seems like the ideal harmless old pillar of the community type but the reality is anything but, he's a heartless monster who has the innocent brutality slaughtered, intentionally horribly, all so that he may remake them and add them to his collection of walking dead masterpieces, and preserve the humble time capsule image of his town... Who knew the same actor who played lovable old kooky grandpa Joe could play evil so well, I think he stole the show! This movie absolutely deserves to be more we'll remembered and regarded than it seems to be, as its an excellently constructed mystery horror thriller that doesn't follow a group of teens or anything like that, and it doesn't skimp on the horror and dares to have one of the most fearsomely hopeless endings you'll ever come across. True hidden gem that's well worth seeing for the creepy and effective story, the morbid scenes and very nasty deeds! 💀 x.

After unexpectedly discovering that their friend Rose has been hooked on pain killers for thirty years due to an old farm injury, the girls work together to try to free her from her dependency. She's at first embarrassed to seek help, and even lies to her roommates to keep her meds within reach, but of course by the end, because she's lucky enough to have the kind of supportive friends that she has to help her, we know that Rose will be okay. I do really love however that the story isn't totally wrapped up by the end, with Rose actually relapsing, and acknowledging that she may never be completely free of her problem, but still feeling optimistic because she'll have her friends with her to help her face the struggle, as well as giving her the strength to reach out for professional help. It's so honest and they treat the topic with such respect, while not exactly hard drugs you get the point and for what it is, the episode is a very real little examination of addiction and how it can overcome anyone, no matter how sweet and innocent they may be, and I can't praise the writers enough for not taking the easy way out with the ending. Betty White really showed a little range in this one, as her character is normally so nice and silly, Rose's unexpected angry outburst is quite jarring and startling and it's impressive how convincingly she could switch up the intensity like that out of nowhere. It is pretty darn scary when those you care about fly off the handle at you and you have no idea why! I find the part of the episode where they stay up all night with her to show that she can make it through just one without her pills so sweet and it makes up most of the runtime and it's a great sequence, even though they all snap at and insult each other at points they still all look out for each other too, true friendship, and the cornerstone of the whole wonderful series. Funny moments-wise, I loved when they played the Saint Olaf version of monopoly, and when Blanche told the tale of when she once tried to quit "nooky", hilarious but mostly just by the way that wonderful actress told it! I also really enjoyed the subplot with the pizza commercial that comes back into play at the end, with Dorothy and Sophia having a bad rehearsal as Dorothy criticises the grammar of her few lines, and despite losing out on a lot of money, as a proud Italian Sophia is unable to hide her disgust at the admittedly lousy product! While not a top favourite of mine, I like this episode for the reason I do many others, because of the honest and respectful tackling of touchy subject matter that still rings true today, it was a show that was definitely ahead of its time that way. Thank you sweet Betty White, so sad we had to lose you, but now may you and all the other girls rest in peace together and may you all be truly golden forever, thank you so much for giving us hope and laughter and for being a friend to so many xxx 🌹

This grizzly Italian horror oddity follows a group of friends exploring some remote Greek islands who make their way to one particular small island and village that they find to be eerily deserted except for a few dried up corpses and a terrified blind girl. It's a scenario that was fairly common in these kinds of older horror movies, tourists explore some exotic far away locales and very bad things soon happen to them. Tisa Farrow in particular should have known better.. So, while the group tries to figure out what kind of nightmare befell the foreboding island of mystery, a bloodthirsty and utterly insane cannibalistic man is stalking and eventually killing them in bloody ways after a long buildup - in fact the bulk of the movie is a very slow build to the kills and final act, now I for one liked that approach in this instance because the presentation of the movie is really effective and it has a wickedly spooky atmosphere and look to it that is genuinely unnerving, at least I thought so. I think that's the best aspect of the movie, I can see how some might not expect that going in given the film's reputation as a big Video Nasty, but apart from one famously over the top scene involving a baby that's still pretty bold to this day, the violence and gore aren't quite on the same level as that of the other notorious Italian cannibal movies, and what you do get mainly happens just in the last forty minutes. It plays more like a weird low-key slasher, although it sure doesn't skimp on the cannibalism! I reckon what really stands out about this picture and the scariest part of it is thankfully the creeping Anthropophagous himself, very ably played indeed by George Eastman, his flesh eating fiend is rather like the movie itself, slow and simplistic yet solid and full of unsettling menace, he was physically imposing in a very sinister lanky way and he brings the pain and gore to his art of the kill! The bizarre sunburned look made him appear almost inhuman and I love the climactic scene of him eating his own entrails after taking a pick axe to the gut, it's kind of fitting and macabrely poetic given how in a flashback it reveals the tragic event that caused him to lose his mind as he faced the horror of having to eat his own family's remains to survive while lost at sea and became little more than a hungering ghoulish beast! He has no colourful personality but you do feel his lurking presence and how he is a deadly enough threat for the clunkily-dubbed cast to have to deal with, and sometimes that's all you need with your horror villains. Could've been better, could've been worse, and I've definitely seen a whole lot worse, but I thoroughly enjoy this movie with its floaty off key music score and windswept ambience. For what it is and despite its shortcomings, to me it has a sort of visceral grim gory charm that you just don't get anymore. Well recommended if you're not looking for something overly complex and you need some of that sweet old classic Italian horror goodness! X.

"Because your mind is so inviting..." So I enjoyed this movie a lot, it was creepy and had a distinct feeling of encroaching and inescapable doom, it was well acted all around and about the only thing that really seriously annoyed me about its structure was that it had to be the most predictable horror movie I've ever seen in my goddamn life!! I predicted the poor cat, I predicted when the situations were real and when they weren't, and I saw every one of those ceaseless jump scares coming a mile away, I'm not usually so on the ball while watching a movie but it was so easy because you could tell because it went quiet and still every time just before something terrible apparition or whatever would pop up and it blurted out the obnoxious cliche noise which bugged me a little too, it's 2022 for crying out loud, why do we still get the big noise jump-scares, it's lame, it doesn't have to be loud to get its point across, it can be so much more effective when it's quieter, you're not really startled by what's happening it's the noise that's doing it! It also had some rather unmistakable similarities to certain recent horror movies about unseen evil entities cursing and tormenting the helpless until there is no escape, but it was okay because the movie was good enough to be it's own thing. Anywho I enjoyed it, it certainly engaged me all the way through and the demon was very evil and horrible and it was so unfair and sad how it got her in the end after all she'd been through and was going to start its cycle of death all over again... It wasn't as satisfying as if it had been truly beaten when she set it on fire and mentally forced it back but I kind of liked how it was a very uncompromising ending, she was ultimately doomed just like the rest. It is a horror movie after all, and sometimes they merit a hopeless ending. I loved the brief glimpse of its true hideous face if you could call it that, very grotesque and twisted, layered mouths inside of mouths reflecting how it gets inside her at the end as well as the malicious smiles. There was something about the story that I found scarier than the monster though, and that was the idea that something only you can see could ruin your life bit by bit and invade your mind and make you look insane until you have nobody and nothing left and are easy prey. I enjoyed this a lot it was good, very satisfyingly and just disturbing enough. I do wish that instead of Lollipop Lollipop oh Lolly Lolly POP at the end they should have played that song from the nineties, "I Love Your Smile" you know? Lol but I guess that one might have been a bit too upbeat but so was the one they'd picked! Nice movie, gave me the creeps, lingered in my head a while after I watched it, hope to see more in a sequel! Thank you and I wish ya a happy new year 🌻

So I liked this sequel a fair bit but I do personally think that there were some slight drawbacks to getting them off that secluded farm.. While it definitely expanded upon the scope of the story it to me felt slightly smaller and less intimately impactful too because the first time it was entirely focused on their family unit and of slowly establishing the monsters and the fragile nightmare of impending death that life was to live among them, and how seemingly unstoppable they were and the whole beautiful tense atmosphere of that movie. But with this one right off the bat you of course know pretty much all you need to know and what the stakes are, the next logical step would have been to have them go out into the world to find other survivors and share the precious secret of the creature's weakness and how to kill them, ah but it just was slightly less impactful to me. Anyway I thought all the characters were good but I really loved Millicent Simmons in both of the movies, her performance is one of the big highlights, she's got such a wonderful quietly strong quality to her and conveys a lot of courage and determination without a single word, and I loved how she takes charge more in his movie and is willing to step out alone on a quest to give those she loves and everyone a real chance of finally fighting back. The absence of Krasinki's character leaves a big hole that definitely changes basically the entire dynamic of the movie and young Millicent did a better job of being a stand in for his character than Cillian Murphy did, although I liked him a lot in it as well, his arc of going from a broken man who had lost everything and had no interest in helping anyone out to becoming a self-sacrificing person who's story plays into hers, and how he's inspired by the way she's not willing to give up even though she's lost people too. The blind killer space-rock beasties look so good, they're so friggin super deadly and lightning quick that you can barely follow their lethal motions on the screen! Excellent action scenes all around, I thought the best part of the movie was when the deadly dangerous situations of both Regan and Emmett at the dock and those of Markus and his mother at the scrap iron works place were shown to both come to a head at the same time, I thought it was really cleverly done and quite a nail-biting sequence, as was the one on board the creepy wrecked train full of mummified corpses, during which I was made to jump twice! I like how towards the end it became about the younger people empowering themselves against the monsters that had been keeping them afraid for so long, A good solid if unremarkable and slightly underwhelming sequel, does way more right than it does wrong. I think we need one more of these, one that ups the stakes and increases the scope of the creatures and the wrecked world even more and showcases a bigger scaled conflict between mankind and the sightless dreaded rocky alien invaders and delivers a more definitive cut to black ending that shows that people may be starting to gradually gain the upper hand and turn the tide! Gives you more of what you love and broadens the horizon. Very much Looking forward to seeing what's coming next for the Quiet Place franchise. X.

Oh I always loved this, right from the first time I ever saw it as a little thing, who doesn't! It is mine and a lot of people's favourite werewolf flick and probably the best of all time and for good reason, just about everything about it is so damn spot on, and very memorable, you only remember the great ones! There's really no denying how great a horror comedy it is or especially how great a werewolf movie it is, because it tells a very classic by the numbers werewolf tale, but very much in its own way that makes it feel unique and special to this movie, and the comedy heightens the horror and somewhat vice-versa, but it's the horror of the story that really takes precedence and when push comes to shove it's horror that's the main focus of it, it's a perfect little blend of quirky black comedy, grim horror and ultimately tragedy. Of course the first thing that everyone brings up is and what probably pops into their heads is the transformation scene, because it's the best werewolf transformation ever put into a movie, the practical effects are so viscerally effective and really good, it's kind of disturbing with the gentle music offsetting the body horror of the situation and conveys really well the hellish pain and helplessness that a man would go through were his body to suddenly snap, contort and elongate from a two legged human being into a four legged monster wolf from Hell! I freaking love that werewolf, it's such a terrifying brute, it has the most scary vicious looking teeth of any movie monster I've ever seen and is more like a hulking monster than a wolf with it's demonic utterly evil yellow eyes, and the face is set in a permanent snarling rictus with the brutal looking fanged maw that endlessly hungers to gorily slaughter and tear apart all who cross its path!! It's a fantastic creation that is used just enough where it remains awesome and terrifying, and the scenes of rising tension that lead up to its attacks are equally unsettling, none more so than the wonderfully frightening sequence where the poor uppity man in the deserted London Underground is chased through the claustrophobic urban maze of the subway until he meets his painful demise on the escalator, to me it's one of the very greatest horror movie sequences of all time and a really great showcase of something that you don't see being more effective than what you do. I can't say that the fantastic effects work isn't a huge part of what makes this movie the classic it is, but it's other things too, like how great the characters are, David is so likable, he and his best friend Jack are genuinely nice young guys who are sucked into a dark horrific fate that is unfair and inescapable, with the only way out being the death of the doomed young David, it's a real tragic story on the quiet! Such a bloody excellent horror movie, always loved it a lot, it's fun it's scary, characters that you really feel for and who have developed, some even after they're dead, it has all those covers of Blue Moon...just a tremendously well made werewolf horror movie that is always great to watch around this time of the year, and a classic that set a standard of how good a werewolf movie could be that has yet to be beaten! X 🌕

Uh so I was never really all that big a fan of the Halloween horror movie franchise, or of this latest and hopefully last ever trilogy, but at least the 2018 Halloween and its sequel were consistent with each other and with Michael definitely being more than a man in terms of his resilience and the deadliness of his attacks, well they sure as sugar tossed all that out the window with this winner, ooh it's The dang Last Jedi of Halloween movies for sure! The previous two movies weren't perfect or even all that good to me, but the director did seem like he was making a pretty straightforward and basically entertaining Halloween trilogy, which is why the direction that this one goes in is so very bizarre and jarring, and indeed aggravating! It's just so stupidly unnecessary and weird how it goes off in a lot of different directions that never really feel right and just aren't what you were expecting, in a bad way. Yeah it might be different but that's not everything, it rather brazenly doesn't give the audience what they wanted at all and that's totally not cool in this instance, you do a movie with an oddball plot like this when it's just another standalone Halloween, not in what's supposed to be the big final Halloween movie. As a finale of this trilogy or of the whole series, yeah right, I can only consider it a horrifically convoluted mess of a movie and just very poor. For one thing the focus isn't even really on Michael, he was pretty much given the backseat of his own movie as an elderly man stuck in a stinky old sewer pipe with virtually no supernatural aspects to his character whatsoever, it's all about a rather boring dorky young man who starts out in the story as a very sympathetic character who, after being unfairly labelled as a murderer and relentlessly picked on by the really nasty citizens of Haddonfield as well as a strange encounter with Michael, unleashes his inner evil and becomes a complete monster, and nobody cares because he's so boring! I think they really mishandled his character, a good old redemption arc would have worked for him much better than making him the killer and focus of pretty much the entire movie.. In any case, nobody but nobody came to see the Corey Cunningham Halloween movie. That's where it became awful and fell apart for me, as a lead character and killer I don't like or am interested in Corey, I don't know him, I have no investment in him, and he's definitely no Michael. No complaints about the guy's performance I guess, but this was the wrong movie for it. I can enjoy a little change to an old tired formula but this was just too much to spring on the audience and expect them to just roll with. It felt very contrived and sloppy, like a Halloween flick that didn't know what it wanted to be, one that was being pulled in too many different directions for it to work, and one that falls way short of what it's trying to sell. Michel Myers doesn't even make an appearance until a good forty minutes have passed! And while he and Laurie do have a decent confrontation right at the end in a little teensy kitchen it's a case of too little too late because the rest of the movie isn't really leading up to that moment at all! It's beyond bogged down with the story of an uninteresting character and the direction is never really where it needs to be. Well, since they can magically rewrite and erase whole movies and timelines I think I'll be pretending that the story ended on the satisfying fiery note of part 2 all those years ago. Worst Halloween movie I've ever seen, no real respect for the characters and no real interest in giving this half-assed trilogy any kind of meaningful or satisfying conclusion, what a gigantic disappointment.