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Okay, let’s dive into The Bloodline Killer . I know, I know—indie horror can be hit or miss, and this one... well, it took a bit of a nosedive. But let’s give it a fair shot. Image by fullhdfilmizlesene.com.tr A Storyline Familiar Yet Different The setup for The Bloodline Killer is intriguingly odd. Picture a family dealing with the grief of losing their father to a masked maniac. Sounds like a solid start for a horror movie, right? Here’s the twist: the grieving family isn’t your typical young, scared bunch. The mother is pushing 60, and her sons are in their late 30s. It’s a strange choice that stands out, but not always in a good way. Seeing grown adults act with the kind of irrational fear and poor decision-making you’d expect from teens is… interesting, to say the least. Image by IMDb Killer or Puppy? Hard to Tell The movie tries to introduce its own horror icon, and it fails. Miserably. Our masked killer, Lee, is the cousin of the grieving family. He moves like he’s got two left

Hey everyone, I recently gave Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini a watch, and let’s be honest, I wasn’t exactly expecting a cinematic masterpiece. This movie, based on a real-life case, dives into the strange disappearance and return of Sherri Papini. With “based on a true story” flashing on screen, I thought, “Alright, here we go again with another TV drama cashing in on some headline-grabbing tale.” Based On Real Life? If you haven’t followed the real-life drama, here’s the gist: In 2016, Sherri Papini went missing while jogging, only to reappear weeks later with an incredible story of being kidnapped and tortured by two women. The film attempts to bring this baffling case to life, starting with Sherri’s disappearance and leading us through the twists and turns of her alleged abduction and eventual return. I never followed this case, but to see it on screen like this, makes it hard to believe that someone would be that terrible at coming up with a believable story. For Sherri'

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

I was recommended Late Night With the Devil by a work associate, and didn't think much of it. I'd been meaning to watch it for a while because the premise of a late night talk show in the 70's that could allow the devil into the world sounds like a great time. Boy, do I regret not watching this sooner. TL;DR if you like slow-burn thriller/horror, then this is for you. Image by Medium The story focuses on a talk show host, Jack Delroy, trying to compete with the great Johnny Carsen for late night talk show ratings. In a last-ditch effort, he decides to bring a "possessed girl" on the show during a Halloween episode and all hell breaks loose. Let's start this off by saying this was an independent film. That usually means poor quality or bad special effects, low budget etc. And the low budget is correct. This film was made for around a million dollars and yet some of the special effects used are easily better then anything Hollywood has churned out in the last de

  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

To say the very least, I'm a bit of a horror fan. Jason, Michael and Fred are my main guys like most horror fans, but Ghostface was never far behind them. I still remember when Scream was released back in the '90s and it was such a fiasco. Yeah, we'd all seen slasher films in the past, but none of them had been as creative as Scream yet. Scream was really the first non-comedy/horror to push the Meta of horror movies right into the viewers' faces. A "Whodunnit" plot mixed with a new iconic killing machine and the saga was born. The original trilogy followed all the steps you would expect from a trilogy. Ironically, these steps were even told directly to the audience during the 3rd film.  Photo by Variety Then, the hiatus. Scream was one of the "big" horror franchises to actually pump the breaks after the 3rd film. A bold move to say the least. Nowadays, this would never happen. Production companies are way too greedy to let something simmer like Screa

Like many, I grew up in the 80's. I grew up with He-man, G.I.Joe, M.A.S.K, Transformers and, yup, you guessed it, The Ghostbusters. I remember the first time Dad let me watch the VHS (For those of you playing at home, a VHS was the version of streaming movies, but in physical form, similar to DVD's but I know some of you don't even remember those) for the first time and I was terrified of a few scenes in the first movie. The librarian and especially when Dana gets grabbed by arms in the chair and dragged into the kitchen. As a five or six year old, yeah, that's pretty scary. I fell in love with those movies, and shortly thereafter with the animated series 'The Real Ghostbusters'. I'm not sure which was based on each other  the show or the movies, but there were definitely  some interesting ideas in the cartoon. But, my childhood is not why you're here reading. You want to know how Ghostbusters: Afterlife ( GBA )  held up to the original series. I'm g

I'm a Horror freak as most of you know which basically means I ingest as much of the genre as I can. Most of you also know that as much as I love the genre, I believe that most horror movies in the 2000's are just garbage. There are exceptions to the rule of course, but for the most part the people these days making these movies are relying solely on jump scares to frighten their audience and have almost completely neglected a good, creepy story. This is the exception. Based around a young Autistic boy Oliver, this movie gets into the creepy factor almost immediately. This movie is one of the few newer movies that takes the time needed to build a decent story, to use technology we see everyday in a valid and harmonistic way and that uses tropes that are generally not seen in the genre. By using a children's story book, this movie taps into some primitive protective consciousness making the events that happen frightening without really trying to. The imagery is generally dar

Let's start this off by saying that the comedy/horror genre of movies isn't my favourite. I love horror and I love comedy. I just don't feel like the two should date. So please, if you like the genre, take this review with a grain of salt. The movie started off really strong in the horror sense. The music was there. The creepy vibe was there. The creepy "Campfire" story for the killer was present. We had a good start to a slasher flick that I would have probably really liked. But, the nosedive happened about ten minutes into the film. This movie's main problem, in my opinion, was it stayed very flat the whole time. It wasn't really scary during the horror parts, and it wasn't really funny during the comedic parts. It was just, well, blah. There were parts that make you snicker of course, and there were certainly suspenseful or creepy parts. But you can't expect a second here and a second there of these moments to end up making a masterpiece. Unfort

Well, I had the.... Experience of watching Mulan live-action tonight. In recent years, I have been so frustrated with Hollywood putting out really decent movies but crutching on the name of something else well known. Mulan falls into this category. Like Child's Play, Evil Dead, Carrie and dozens of other movies that come to mind, Mulan's live-action remake is actually an okay movie on its own. It has great special effects, dramatic scenes, a master score, well-acted scenes and a plethora of vistoic scenery capturing the essence of the era.  But, and there's a huge but here, it's not the Mulan movie you knew and loved. Yeah yeah, 'they had to change some things'. I get that. All movies have a vision. Some different than others and I'm sure we wouldn't be happy with a carbon-copy remake of the animated classic either. This Mulan movie is little like its original, and that's where my frustration comes in. Yes, it is similar but different enough that Dis

Well, I feel like I should welcome everyone back! It's been a long time since I've reviewed a film, you know, this little thing called COVID closing movie theatres and such. But, with that said, let's get down to the serious business at hand: how was The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run? OK, so a little history. I like SpongeBob the show. I always have. That show is like many others that were designed for kids but sprinkle enough adult humour to keep me entertained, and this movie did the same thing. For the most part, I really enjoyed the movie. It felt like the SpongeBob TV show. So much that my girl-friend said it had felt like a really long episode to her too. As an extension to the TV show, the movie shines well. The characters are on par with what you would expect, the humour is exactly the same and SpongeBob himself does all kinds of weird things with his body unlike some of his other movies.  However, when viewed as a movie and not an extension of the TV show, the