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Unhinged (2020)
Uneasy watching Unhinged
I like suspense stories and found the idea intriguing for Unhinged and even found the trailer exciting. I have always been a fan of Russell Crowe and this also encouraged me to buy the Blu-ray. But after I started watching the movie the brutality was so intense it pulled me out of the story and all I wanted to do was turn it off. I only watched a little over 40 minutes and decided enough was enough. I have no interest in finishing the movie. I don't need to go into gory detail here because I'm sure there are enough reviews on this movie that will take care of that part of it. It just hit too close to home for me and no longer felt like entertainment. For any one interested in the movie, just understand the violence is realistic and intense.
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Missed its mark entirely
I really loved the first movie Mimic. The second movie, Mimic 2: Hardshell was ok too. It had some very suspenseful moments, and it felt true to the original film.
This third film, written and directed by a young filmmaker, J.T. Petty, who as the documentary on the dvd indicated was just given the premise of "Rear Window with Roaches" and was told to run with it. He did, but he ran as far away from the original concept as he could. This movie plodded along at a snail's pace with uninteresting characters and no real story sense and basically had no suspense at all until the last ten minutes. And it was painful to wade through the movie to get to that part, but I just had to see how this turkey was going to end. I can understand the filmmaker and studio wanting to try something new and different, but this whole story premise was too off the wall and didn't give the viewer what he expected after having already seen the previous two films. This movie was shot in Romania (I can't understand why-----didn't we have any locations available in America?)and didn't have a very good look to it at all.
I can only hope that if there is a fourth movie, it will be made by more experienced and competent filmmakers and will give the viewers what they expect in a franchise horror film. I believe this movie was a straight-to-video release because the studio had no faith in this movie to
stand up at the box office. And they were right.
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Above-average movie-of-the-week suspense film
I've seen this movie many times and structurally the story is very well plotted, it's a good creepy mystery. I think it would have made a great feature film, but it still turned out very well as a TV-Movie. The acting is terrific, especially Eleanor Parker in a bravura performance. The acting and directing is first rate. Joseph Stefano (scripted Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO from Robert Bloch's novel of the same name) has written a clever script filled with juicy dialogue and subtext -- it's worth repeat watching just for that! This movie is a very guilty pleasure of mine. I've seen this movie at least a dozen times and always enjoy every single frame of it.
Basically four sisters are summoned to their ailing father's sickbed and are told by him that his new wife is slowly poisoning him to death. And he wants them to kill her in order to save his life.