The Stepfather.

I’ll just say before I start, this is the original Stepfather and not the newest one. I also have not seen the new one so cannot really compare them. Okay? Okay. So, The Stepfather, ‘A family-values man named Jerry Blake marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine, who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie, and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.’ I knew the movie, I knew what happened in it and I knew how it opened and most details about it, but had never seen it.

I loved the opening, where you first see Terry O’Quinn changing and shaving. If you didn’t know the story or what we were going to see after this scene, this part would have been really good. It doesn’t seem like anything wrong, here’s a man who’s just changing, when it starts shaving his entire beard off and using contacts and glasses, you get slightly suspicious. But hey, he may just want a change. When he starts to put everything into a suitcase…that’s when you kind of go, “oh….snap”. Spoiler. He then walks out of the bathroom down the stairs and out the door…right past the corpses of the family he’s just murdered. This is a brilliant opening scene, comes out of nowhere, he’s just in the bathroom and then BAM, out the door past a whole load of corpses. He also just walks straight out the door and down the road, passing kids playing, neighbours just doing their normal, everyday business. And no one knows he’s just killed his family! It’s insane!

I’ll have to be honest though, it opened well, but I thought it could have been better after that. Terry O’Quinn made a very good evil man. I wouldn’t mess with him. But I thought they could have kept the suspense going longer, could have showed more of his evil side, more edge of your seat moments. I don’t know whether they changed this in the new one, I will just have to wait and see.

Overall, The Stepfather starts off very well, but then loses it, it has some good scenes and is an enjoyable film but could have gone further. And has Terry O’Quinn always been bald and just has really good wigs?

Boy Eats Girl.

Boy Eats Girl was on the Horror Channel. Late at night. And from the start looks low budget. All of these point to a bad movie. But actually, I was pleasantly surprised. ‘A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.’ Most films I see that follow those steps turn into really bad movies that, somehow, I finish and then feel sad because I’ve just lost an hour and a half of my life I will never get back. But this was different, I actually rather enjoyed this film.

Boy Eats Girl, from the start, is a comical movie, just the title of it makes you think that. It starts off low budget and sticks that way through, I’ll be honest, I can be slightly biased and be put off by low budget movies, I think I could call myself a film-snob, but I do stick with most of them, and I did with this, and it was good I did.

I did enjoy this movie, the acting wasn’t oscar winning and the gore was low budget but it was good and worked with the film, the comical side of the film worked seriously well for it, which I think is where a lot of low budget movies go wrong. If this one had gone down the really serious route, it definitely would not have worked. 

Most of the characters were also likeable, especially Nathan two mates, they were honestly hilarious. Exactly what you wanted during a zombie apocalypse… Jessica, Nathan’s love interest was getting on my nerves throughout it for various reasons, but apart from that, I liked everyone, they had every character, the cute hero, his hilarious friends, the bully, the slutty girls, everyone, and it all worked.

I would thoroughly recommend this, its not the best but it doesn’t think it is. You know and they know the dead bodies being grinded up aren’t real and that knife that someone just stabbed a zombie with isn’t real. The mum from Moone Boy is also Nathan’s mum, which makes it seem less scary too, but that’s just me. Going back, if you want a comical, doesn’t take itself too seriously, horror film, watch this one. Where instead of boy meeting girl, boy tries to eat the girl. Ha. Brilliant. 

When A Stranger Calls.

I actually really enjoyed this movie, surprisingly. ‘During an otherwise routine babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.’ I don’t think I was really expecting much as it is a remake, saying that, I’ve never seen the original so to be honest that could have been a terrible movie so the new one didn’t really have anything to compare to, but its a classic so I’ll go on that it’s good. So, going back, I was impressed, I really did like this movie. 

From the start you are on edge, it starts as a normal horror movie, where it’s all happy apart from the main has got a problem. I’ve seen this in many films, in this Jill has been made to babysit instead of going to her schools bonfire party. Damn. The house is in the middle of nowhere and is huge, the perfect house for something bad to happen. Jill has also not been allowed to drive there…damn you dad, now she’s stuck out there! If I was a psycho, I would definitely be going for this house!

As I was saying, from the start you’re on edge, you know the house is out in the middle of nowhere, all her friends are out somewhere in the middle of nowhere, she has no car, and she’s looking after kids, and let’s be honest, kid’s are the worst idea in a horror movie, basically, she’s screwed. This film holds the tension very well, from the first heavy breathing phone call, I was scared. It may have helped that I was watching it on my own and it was starting to get dark, but I think it still would have scared me if it was sunny outside on Christmas day. I also find anonymous phone calls and strange knocking on the door and all that terrifying so that may help with it as well. This film scared me and did a very good job at it, it didn’t over do the phone calls, it didn’t show you who was doing it, you were with Jill the entire time. I’ll admit, some things she did, I wouldn’t have done or would have done earlier, like phoning the police but that’s got nothing to do with this. I was also very happy that we didn’t see the guy until the last like half an hour. And the “Jill, we’ve traced the call…!” scene, oh my gosh, I stopped breathing, I knew it was coming yet I nearly wet myself!

Overall, an impressive film. I’d highly recommend for a film to keep you on the edge and actually scare you. One complaint though, but I can’t really put this on the filmmakers, the trailer, I watched the trailer after watching the film and I didn’t like how they showed the whole “Jill, we’ve traced the call…!” bit. Yes, I know, everyone knows but seeing it before seeing it in the film takes away the shock, and that’s a brilliant part. But apart from that…impressive. I’m just not going to answer the phone anymore or babysit, but I’ve never really babysat so that’s alright…

Good Deed For a Friend.

So, this is not a review, (even though Good Deed For a Friend sounds like a pretty good movie), my friend, who is a very good writer, has started her own blog. Now trust me, this is a good blog, it is sickening how interesting her life is, so please, go and check it out. You will not regret it if you do….well you might, as you might get hooked…:)

http://www.scarphelia.com

New Years.

So I am back, I am sorry I have not posted in quite a while, sadly, my life that was not so busy when I started this, became busy. For now, and forever hopefully, I am back.

Thank you so much for everyone who is on here even when I am not, if I could I would give you all some type of horror movie thank you, but I can’t so I will just keep writing for ya’ll!

I am also always on the lookout for recommendations of movies so if anyone has any, feel free to post! Thanks again.

Creepshow 2.

Creeeeeeepy….

I will be honest, I have not seen Creepshow one. From what I’ve seen though, they don’t lead from each other so it didn’t seem to really matter. (I may be completely wrong about that…)

I’m not really that sure what I was expecting from this film. I was actually/probably/maybe expecting something like if Goosebumps the TV show and the film The Page Master had a love child. Cartoonish going into some B-movie type story. (I knew that it used cartoons, that’s about all I knew) And I was…..partly….right…..

Creepshow 2 ‘Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.’ starts off as a cartoon when a young boy takes some magic seeds from The Creep, this scary looking thing who talks to you throughout the film. Cleverly, the stories all come out of a comic the boy is reading and you follow the boy until you cut into a story. The boy grows through getting the magic beans, being bullied, just basically a normal story the underdog hero of a movie would go through. This is all done as a cartoon, the actual stories are the only things that are in real life.

There are three stories in the movie, the first one is about a wooden statue who takes revenge on its owners killers, the second is probably the best with a group of, stereotypical, teenagers who go out onto a raft in the middle of a lake, only to find there is something in the water that’s hungry, the third is about a woman who is being stalked by the hitchhiker she knocked over, who just wants to thank her for the ride. All three are very corny and not really scary but my favourite was definitely the second one. The teens are stupid, there’s a jock, a slut, an emo/loner and a geek, a worst Breakfast Club on a raft… The monster itself looks like a giant, floating black plastic sack, and the deaths are pretty hilarious. I don’t mean that in a horrid way, their skin just kind of melts when the black plastic sack touches them, (poor slut who sleeps across a gap in the raft), pulls them straight through the raft gaps which is probably worse, (poor poor jock), and it even has some humour (poor geek). I enjoyed this one just because it was B-movie-ish, whether its meant to be I’m not sure, but it’s entertaining, over the others, especially the first one, it’s the best. The first story is slow whereas the third one I liked the concept of but it’s just so over the top. It has got some creepy moments though and as I said, a good concept.

Overall, this was a let down of a film, I was expecting more, but the stories are pretty entertaining, they’re just so bad, they’re good, or near enough good…

Audition.

Audition is strange, that is the main thing I can say about it. It’s strange. Very strange. ‘A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.’

 

Yeah…she looks nice…

 

To some I’m sure it’ll be like a work of art and will be all artsy, but to me, it was just strange. It starts off as quite a nice film, in some ways, and then just goes down the weird road, the very weird little slip road off the weird road actually. It’s all filmed in what seems like a dream like sequence, either dream like or old, this made it kind of confusing as some is done in flashbacks and dreams. By the end of it, I pretty much had no idea what was real and what was a dream. It also had some plot holes, not overly big ones but noticeable ones. I feel I’m jumping ahead, I’ll go back a bit.

 

So it starts with a widow, who decides he getting lonely…speed dating, clubbing I hear you shout? No, hold auditions for women, because it’s such a normal thing to do. He, with some help from his friend a director, sets up an audition for a film where, basically, he’ll be the shoulder to cry on for the person who doesn’t get the part, the person crying is the person he decides he wants as a future wife. Jump ahead and he chooses Asami…the one who the entire audience is shouting “NO. DON’T DO IT! SHE’S NOT WHO YOU THINK SHE IS!”. Well I was, and did he listen? Nope, course not. No one knows anything about her, no past can be found on her, yet he falls for her. I will warn you, we are getting close to spoilers but as you know, I will should in bold letters when there is one.

Audition is set out as a perfect horror movie is set out, just longer. It’s happy with no problems literally up until right at the end, when it all goes tits up. The happiness in this film lasts a lot longer than most other films, nothing really goes wrong, there are hints at things going a little crazy and dreams that should be taken to see a therapist but apart from that it’s all hunky dory.

Now I know I said about spoilers, but I’m not going to say any, all I’m going to say is that the ending is messed up, it’s not for the faint hearted and is literally like a punch in the face after a drawn out bar fight. You knew it was all coming, but you didn’t know it would be that bad. If people have seen it. then you know what I’m on about. The end is…an ending.

Overall, Audition is an interesting film, I saw it because of how disturbing it was supposed to have been but I didn’t find it that bad, the ending is an ending but I won’t be watching it again anytime soon, I just found it kind of all over the place and that the ending was the only thing I really enjoyed.