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Good Deed (2018)
Promising plot, wasted.
The plot was promising and I thought it was not a bad movie. Until I saw the ending.
Aya is the owner of a beauty salon. When a young girl stumbles upon her just outside her salon, Aya invites her to lunch. When she learns that Taryn was a member of her sorority, Aya takes her home and begins to treat her like family or a very good friend.
Finally, although Taryn killed so many people, the movie ends with her sitting on a bench in the street, exploiting her new victim. I expected the film to end with Taryn being arrested. Since Taryn was not arrested, maybe Aya should get arrested or her friend Lauren.
The fact that nobody goes to jail, although Aya called the police, makes no sense at all.
The psycho Taryn character was overacted. And Aya was just too naïve and this is how the movie continued. A promising plot wasted.
The Dark Red (2018)
Schizophrenia and vampirism. Christians will find the film disturbing.
The story is about a young woman (I will call her a patient) who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. She had a difficult childhood and was adopted by a social worker after her mother was killed. The patient believes that she has an inherited gift of reading other people's thoughts which comes from her special blood type. A group of people, a cult, who are aware of this gift are chasing down those who have the same blood type, to use their blood and flesh to extend their own life.
The patient, who lives as a recluse after the death of her mother, is coupled by the cult with a man who also lives as a recluse (at least this is what the patient believes) who also has the same blood type, so that they have a child together and create a pure baby that also has the special blood type.
When the woman is ready to give birth, her partner's parents who are in the cult, abduct her and take their baby after she has given birth. After that, the woman is hospitalized and she is trying to find her baby, because she believes that her story is true and not a result of her schizophrenia. After they took her baby from the operating room, the staff (partner's parents and other cult members) picked with their hands part of the internal organs of the patient, from hospital stainless steel trays, and they bring them to their mouth to eat them. (Like vampires drink blood to stay alive?). Also, later the partner's mother (cult member) is shown with the gifted kid in her arms, transfusing the kid's blood into her bloodstream.
The audience is not given a clear answer as to whether the patient's story is real or just a product of her mental illness. My interpretation is that the movie is about schizophrenia and everything is in the patient's mind.
As for why Christians may find the movie disturbing:
Firstly, her partner and his parents are part of a cult that eats the internal organs of people who have a special blood type, and transfusing the blood into their own bloodstreams. This of course has nothing to do with Christianity. Keep note, the family's surname is Holyfield. This is something deliberate from the director.
When the couple visits the home of the man's parents, we are shown a room whose walls are covered with icons of Christian saints (Orthodox icons in particular).
What does the director imply, that the Christian saints have something to do with vampirism?
The idea of the gifted child with the special blood type the cult is using to stay alive and probably gain other supernatural powers, is an unfortunate comparison to the Holy Communion where Christians are receiving the blood and body of Jesus Christ and in general an unfortunate comparison to the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
That said, if you are a Christian, make your own decision. I wish I had never seen the movie.