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Stockholm Bloodbath (2023)
Please God have mercy on me..
... for if this is what hell feels like, and by this, I mean watching this movie, then I'll promise I won't ever sin again.
Watching this from start to finish is pure agony. The movie does not know what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it gore? Is it historical? Is it fiction? We don't know, be because the movie wants to be all of these things and none of it simultaneously, in a regurgitating blending that makes no sense making it difficult to take it seriously.
The acting doesn't help, which it is very unconvincing and at times upsetting by how bad it is.
What is nice though, with the exception of a few scenes, are the effects and overall cinematography. It is clear they they spend much more time and money on that, than in acting or scripting.
Not reccomeneed, at all!
Please, dear directors and what not, do proper screen testings and quality assurance before producing or releasing your movies and spare us poor viewers the agony of sitting through your self indulging productions!
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Feels forced, unscencere, and an insult to the original story.
The characters are empty shells, the acting is forced, but most importantly, the story does not live up to the expectations. Edgar Allan Poe's name in this feels like nothing more than a cash grab.
The biggest insult to the viewer, is how strong, engaging, and genuinely creepy the start of the series was.
Everything else feels forced. The language, character back stories, and dynamic tries soo hard to feel modern, but it feels written by someone who's so detached of reality and of how people nowedsys actually act and talk, that makes the whole experience feel like it was written by an Ai with limited knowledge of how humans actually act.
A shame.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Not the worse, but very upsetting at times
Without adding spoilers, I'll summarize it as a decent horror. I really liked the special effects and the actors, including the lead, are very talented and their acting is believable. However, they cannot save the characters they are playing.
Ti begin with, the story is upsetting, the characters make inexplicabile and counter intuitive choices, and the movie lacks in verisimilitude considering the universe and period of time (everyone, even the woman from the remote village, seems to speak perfect English, accent aside).
Also, I'll be honest, the hypocrisy bothers me and was a distraction thought the movie. I am Romanian and, therefore, the franchise has a special meaning to me. The fact that they manage to cast in leading roles an African-American actor, a Filipino actor and, in minor character roles, a Marroccan actor, but absolutely zero (0) actors of Romanian origin is very hypocritical and a bit insulting, and, as i said, very distracting.
I believe that respect goes both ways, and this movie is lacking respect towards the source material (Bram Stocker) and the culture that inspired the work to begin with.