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In the Tall Grass (2019)
Ruining a perfectly creepy short story...again
If you've read the story...they changed it a lot and completely overcomplicated a perfectly good, creepy little tale, and in doing so, really sucked the dread from it. All the eerieness of the story is gone, replaced with some strange, unneeded time paradox ridiculousness and an added character. Stay away. Read the book.
The Mind's Eye (2015)
Not an homage!
Homage does not mean rehash. Nor does it mean dull, unoriginal fan- fiction. That's what this is. Save yourself and just watch the material they ripped off for their "homage": Scanners The Fury Firestarter
The "Stranger Things" guys did a MUCH better job.
I'm not saying every aspect of this film is complete garbage, but the bones (story and writing) are. The acting is on par with the level of production. The music is fun, but only serves to make me dislike the plot line even more and see it as someone piggy-backing on much better work like the aforementioned classics. The gall it took for this to be compared to De Palma or Cronenberg baffles and angers me.
Rubber (2010)
A terrible failure trying desperately to be art.
A perfectly good idea ruined by over-explanation and "look how clever we are" winks. Good jokes don't give the punchline away before the setup, great art doesn't demand you read a thesis to walk you through it. The introduction and frame story here did nothing but detract from the perfectly acceptable conceptual element of this film. It feels like a "Mulholland Drive" or "Lost Highway" if David Lynch had filmed an additional 45 minutes of footage to both pad out an inconsistent idea as well as spoon-feed his audience the point he was making. If the point is "just because", SHOW it. Don't tell us straight out. Let us see/experience it through the visuals and story. Take the idea and run with it, don't falter and just blurt it out. What's the point in watching the rest? Overall: a terrible failure that could have been something great.
Cabin Fever (2002)
Well, I tried...
I am a huge horror movie fan. I go to 24-hr film festivals, conventions, you name it. However, I just cannot stand this movie. I first saw it when it was released in theaters and HATED it, avoiding it and its sequels like the plague depicted therein. Tonight, 13 years after its release, I decided to give it another go.
And I still just DO NOT get the appeal. Unlikable characters who garner no sympathy from me, intentionally weird supporting characters who seem to serve no real purpose other than to be inexplicably weird, and a plodding pointless story that has no real mystery to be explained or suspense as to what might happen.
It reminds me of something a student might put together in an attempt to make a sloppy, unappealing homage to true pioneers of the strange in film like Lynch, Cronenberg, or even Tarantino. The difference is that those three (and others I'm not going to take the time to list) had a POINT to the oddities and strange, obnoxious weirdos they wrote and put out there for consumption.
This film, like many of Zombie's films, feels like a cheap ripoff of much greater freak-shows on film.
House at the End of the Street (2012)
Cliché'd Claptrap
SPOILER FREE (as if you won't figure it out on your own)
Cardboard but-out characters taken from any number of other films make it hard to sit through what seems like a much longer movie. The surprising shock twist is neither shocking nor surprising to any thriller/horror film fan worth their salt. Honestly, the plot line would have been more interesting (and surprising) if they hadn't veered into the direction they chose. The ending, stolen and poorly repackaged from previous films like most of the rest of the film, is one of the most unintentionally laughable things I have seen in a very long time. As it stands, I feel like my mother would have watched this on the Lifetime Movie Network.