Ratings Central - Movies

Anyone that knows me, knows I'm pretty arachnophobic. Even tiny spiders freak me out. But, in movies, I'm generally intrigued. Arachnophobia is an amazing movie, IMO. I still can't believe they had spider wranglers on set that kinda' told the spiders where to go and what to do to some extent. Crazy! But I digress. When I saw the poster for Sting, in my head I thought "Oh great. Another Itsy Bitsy 'masterpiece'". In case you can't read between the lines, I didn't think too highly of Itsy Bitsy. However, when we watched Sting, I was pleasantly surprised that it was not a throw-away spider movie. There was actual thought and some craftsmanship put into this. No, it's not going to win Oscars, but it was easily better than expected. So here we go, let's talk about Sting. Image by Horror Movie Blog As soon as the movie started, I thought "Oh wow. That's sooooo original. An alien spider..." and I think the creators knew their tro

  Ok, so it's been a while since my last review. I'll be honest, I've become very disenfranchised with the whole movie scene this year. It seems like one after another, each movie comes out and is just, well, garbage. So I started to think, why rate movies at all if the ratings never really change much? Then the hiatus. Diablo 4 came out in the meantime, and yes, I've spent a lot of time playing that too, but I've also watched A LOT of movies in the last few months. What has suddenly brought me back to share my views with you today you might ask? A friend's Facebook post of all things. "Just watched 'The Boogeyman'. This may be the scariest thing I've ever seen", and then I threw up in my mouth a little. So here we go. Yes, I've watched The Boogeyman. Image by IMDB Let's start by saying this is far from the worst movie I have seen, after all, I've watched the Requin and half of Drown the Clown (That review for another day *gross