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Daisy Cousens (2017)
I'm just looking for info.
Why make the post if you can't even tell us if this is satire or comedy that is intended to still be taken seriously. Is this even actually a show, there is obviously enough info in the hands of the person who made this page to tell us SOMETHING. FFS, what is this site for?
Havenhurst (2016)
There is nothing conceptually wrong with the bulk of this film
However, something between brainstorming and filming must have gone awry.
The opening scene I missed the fact that I was seeing a cameo because I was instead infuriated that the junkies looked like they had just put on freshly purchased clothes and pulled the sleeves down 'sloppily'(as junkies do). Luckily, this was the worst of the acting... but possibly the most consistent part of the plot.
I don't intend to go through the film scene by scene but there are a few things that it seems most of these reviews are just overlooking.
Overall the main problem with the plot is the false leads. There are nearly seven theories that they gave credence to before they revealed what was actually going on. Unrelated to any of the evidence, so don't bother.
From here on is where the spoilers are, and I'll try to limit it as much as I can bear.(I lied, it gets pretty laden... but there is more to pick out than what I put to words if you want to give the movie a shot for that sort of a reason) I didn't hate this movie, but just because I found enjoyment doesn't merit it a decent work... and this one nearly gave me anxiety.
The characters start figuring out what is going on. By start, I mean that basically all they know is that they are being watched while they're in the halfway-house and that it is somehow related to tenants disappearing.
So, the only logical thing to do is to gather all of the evidence you can and openly discuss it in the room, right? At one point a character gets film developed at an offsite store and takes them all of the way back to Havenhurst before looking at them... after which she makes a call on the phone inside the room to tell a detective to come look at them.
Once what is actually going on is known, it is confirmed that there was no logical reason for characters(some weighing near 170lbs) to be flying across the room. During the second 'attack' scene this happens to a character without even having been touched. Later there are times when the bad-guy sends someone freefalling ten stories down a shoot and the first thing they see when they sit up is him creeping around the corner. Okay, maybe he uses the other shoots for travel and just doesn't reel as long as some months-sober lady with a fresh hangover.
Nope, the next scene she kicks him down a sewer ladder, he falls from the top to the concrete between nine and fifteen feet below. Main character does nothing more than pull herself up the last rung, close the drain behind her and check the exit door and he's already climbed back up the ladder, struggled with the opening, and presumably made it all the way back down the ladder because he's crashing -down- through the ceiling on top of her.
At one point she cracks him over the head with a skillet and he doesn't even flinch, ten minutes later she hits him with her foot and he lets go of a sewer ladder and her other leg(both hands).
There is a whole thing about the main characters missing friend comparing photos of what is sometimes one way and sometimes another throughout the building, but they decided to also(in fact, more so) focus on how the dimensions of the building are not the same as they 'used to' be... without any mention of why the older photos existed, it is later revealed that this building PRECEDED the one made famous by the families long-dead infamous bloodthirsty ancestor. Someone who appears in a couple of photos in the time when you had to sit there throughout the exposure so as not to screw up the shot. Subtract ten-fifteen years off of these later photos and that is when they are implying he already had Hofbräuhaus converted and actively capturing people. So even for decoration, these photos of 'before the passageways in the walls' should not have existed.
The last thing I can't forgive is the fact that he has an entire wall of tools but decided to hang a die-bar on the peg-board??? She's walking around with it in one hand and using it like a pry- bar, which is maybe what the crew thought it was a prop for. That's not the type of tool someone would have in a custom built area with frames/supports sourced in-house, it's a 30-75lb(this one is admittedly a smaller version) specialty item for moving pressing equipment to where they can be bolted(to assemble something like what you saw crush the Terminator in the first movie).
Here's a hint in case you ever find yourself running from a murderer and you come across naught but a die-bar hanging from a ply-board wall, to open or finagle something with it, pry with the pointy end. The slanty end is for leveraging between the tip and the widest part(you will likely be alternating which end is the fulcrum if you use this for what it is intended for) something that weighs more than half of the people on a given factory shift put together and moving it around a hopefully smooth surface. So in that sense I guess I could be wrong, if there were a slight gap under the gate she likely could have taken one steady lift on the end of the handle(pivoting the tip off of the floor) and flung the entire thing off of the hinges... being as strong as she is, at least.(look out little girl!)