#Screamers (2017, Dean Matthew Ronalds)

Come to Giglar! We've got the cooooolest algorhythm on the net, catered to you and you alone. :rolleyes:
Now, if they had done something with this set up .... oh well.

Instead they get sent a clip which is a surefire sizzler in terms of traffic, seeing the unanimous reaction they get in the office.
When a second clip of similar calibre arrives, the chase is on to exclusivise (???) their content.
I've just looked back on what I've just written, and I wants to pluck my eyeballs out :pound:

The head of the company is a Zuckerbergy sort, so he's gung ho about this "prize".
They eventually find a contact, and ...well ...tunnel vision isn't 20/20 is it?
Being blunt, I only kept this on as the brunette was pretty :laugh:
Yet again, just under 75 minutes ....

I've continued watch so many crap films because of the eye candy :lol:

The Witch In The Window. 2018.

Simon buys a house in Vermont, he takes his son with him and both try to fix it up. Simon is told of the previous owner Lydia and how the town thought she was a witch. As Simon and Finn work on the house Lydia's presence begins to get stronger.

This was something totally different than I expected to be, even though I was going into this on a blind view and never heard of It, this had the premise of being another haunted house, yet parts of it seem to be more drama. There is suspense built up and there is a good camera trick of using optical illusions with a blink and miss it. Alex Draper and Charlie Tracker play the father and son duo pretty decently as the relationship seemed strained and brought together. This does have one or two jump moments, this one does need a open mind.

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Loved this one. The way the camera creeps towards the chair. Brilliant.

That was a good suspenseful moment in the movie with Lydia in the chair with Simon and Finn slowly creeping towards it.

Certainly one of the better modern efforts imho.



21 Days (2014, Kathleen Behun)

3 clods ignore several red flags whilst setting up to debunk an "urban myth" :rolleyes:
The good old Native American burial ground as back story .... aww does your heart proud ... the old ones are the best ETC :nod::lol:
So guess how long they're staying ... go on guess :laugh:
Decent enough build up with the gradual eerieness, though the ending is a tad fraught visually (not as much as The Taking Of Deborah Logan, which still takes the prize in the WTF IS GOING ON stakes ahem).
I'd write more but I'm just going to investigate these weird noises outside ....

Chariots of Fire (1981)

A first time viewing of this British classic this evening and to be honest i was left underwhelmed.

It's a sports movie and i wasn't in the least bit emotionally invested in it. Good sports movies generally leave me drained and often with a wobbly lip at the achievement of the victory or the narrowest of defeats but i felt nothing whatsoever.

It didn't seem to use the great score from Vangelis what i would call correctly either. It all goes back to that emotion part. It should have been blaring out in victory as finishing lines were crossed, making the viewer want to go crazy, but no, let's just have it as the guys run along a shoreline to begin and end the film.

The whole thing was simply too much like stiff upper lip film making for me.

I sat through it unimpressed myself D. Onwards!!



The Woods (2013, Mark Bacci)

A couple decide to make with the fake/hoax Bigfoot thing. After overdoing it on their last night in civillisation, a companion chooses to stay behind to clear her head. So off they traipse ...
Decent enough survival horror imho. After doing a few set ups, the dawning realisation that something is actually out there is reasonably done ...

Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl. 2016.

Adele is sent away by her mother to be a carer for her Aunt Dora who is a shut in, soon Adele makes friends with a girl called Beth and slowly her behavior changes.

This was a unexpected turn from a drama/thriller to a somewhat gothic ghost story, It is something of a slow burner but rode it out and up to the last fifteen minutes it became a bit of a cluster f@ck ending that came with a twist. The reason I said it was gothic type is the house is mentioned from being the Victorian era and still has the old decor from the 70s and seems to have rooms that may hold the secrets of someone's past. The actors Quinn Shepherd and Erin Wilhelmi do try to make it entertaining but the film is on 76 minutes long and felt they makers could have crammed in a bit more. This movie can have a love/hate moment with other viewers.

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I've never watched Chariots of fire, Was there a chariot and was it on fire?
If not i'd be disappointed.
I'd b like ****ion' watched 2 hours of that shit and nobody set anything on fire or nothing.