Reviews

This movie's first act is a little long but remains the best part of the picture. Most of the established character intrigue of the film lies there and remains there because the second we start to progress the film it dips so hard in quality.

If you want a visual feat that's entirely masterful in style, this movie is exactly for you. But if you want the intense and deep character writing you've seen in Hereditary and Midsommar, look elsewhere. This movie has nothing characters. The plot is also nothing. The entire runtime of this film goes for far too long and starts to become an endurance test rather than an actual film. It's boring and meandering on every scene until you get to the most insane climaxes that really keeps hitting you over the head to see if you got it. I genuinely hate this movie for everything that's not the visuals. The acting is fine but the actors weren't given much of anything to work with and boy does it show when you find out that every single character is flatter than a 2x4. I don't recommend this movie.

This movie is begging for you to think for yourself. A fantastic ensemble cast in this satirical take on Gen Z friendships and how fake some people can really be.

As one would expect from a satire, this one is trying to say something. And as I stated above, it's begging for you to think for yourself. This movie is important and especially for Gen Z.....y'know, the members that are terminally online.

If you think that this iteration of Candyman is woke then you've clearly never seen or weren't paying attention to the 1992 entry. To pile on that, you also aren't familiar with the original story by Clive Barker named The Forbidden that was also politically charged but for a British reasoning. Nia DaCosta's Candyman is nothing different from those 2, just a modern sequel to the 1992 film to show that nothing has changed between then and now and that's a problem. This film is beautifully shot and has a lot of great sequences in it. If you're going into it with the expectations that it needs to be a linear structure then you're already leading yourself astray. This film opts for more disjointed sequencing which allows for a more creepy viewing experience, while not SCARY it is intensely creepy and will get under your skin. I would say "give this a go" but only if you're going in with good faith for the movie. If you weren't....why even bother?

The acting is bad, but with such a horrible screenplay I can't be surprised. The editing is horrendous as people will just teleport from one room on the second floor to suddenly being in the kitchen or will teleport from outside to coming down the stairs inside the house to the first floor. This movie is a farce for all the wrong reasons. BUT to give credit where it's due, this movie is a great fun movie to put on at a party and enjoy like The Room where you just rip into it. If I'm being serious, I give this movie a 2/10 for just all around poor everything. But on the fun scale, this movie gets a solid 7/10. It's a great "watch with friends while drinking" movie that I recommend solely for that reason alone.

Onto the actual review for this episode. Sorry, needed to get that rant out of the way. This is easily one of the best episodes in all of RWBY and the score doesn't accurately represent that. The pacing, the acting, the animation, the writing is all fantastically done here as the volume is starting to reach its climax. I hope you, the reader looking at this review, take into consideration that the ratings here aren't accurate to how the actual volume is. This episode gives answers to things from this volume as well as perfectly setting up the suspense the next few episodes need to start with. So far, this has been the perfect episode of volume 7 and is one of the best episodes of RWBY ever.

I don't get why people are already hating this movie. It's not the best one ever made, but I enjoyed the characters (who were likeable), I liked the direction, the acting (aside from a few enunciation issues early in the film). The scares were well done and a few of them really worked. The plot, unlike the 2004 version, was cohesive and made sense as to its progression. I say it's worth a watch and it's a good way to start 2020 for horror. That said, it's not going to be for everyone and please take the rating to heart.

I went into this movie today only wanting it to be a buffer movie because I was going to see Blood Fest later and I already wanted my expectations to be low, so I went to Slender Man for just a time waster. And boy, did it waste my time. There were only two things in this entire movie that actually gives it merit and might (MIGHT) be recommendable. Those things are: the good suspense when Slender Man is on screen, the few disturbing scenes that were really well put together, Joey King's performance. If anything, I'd recommend it solely for Joey King. She steals the show. You almost forget she's not the main character. If it weren't for the boring nothing characters that were made, I'd almost think it was about her and her friends, but then we go back to Hallie for the final act after spending time with Wren for like 30 or so minutes. The ending is just an eyeroll-fest. This movie is nothing special at all. It's best for just a random impulse rent from Redbox or $5 ticket at AMC on Tuesdays. It's still better than The Bye Bye Man because I did find enjoyment in Slender Man.

If you want a good movie about dogs, don't watch this. Instead, watch "Isle of Dogs". This is legit the worst movie I've seen so far this year and I sat through all of Truth or Dare.

I went into the theater for Unfriended years ago thinking not too highly of it. The trailer I had seen was pretty bad and I made a last minute decision to go see it. But I really enjoyed the movie and as soon as the credits started rolling, I wanted to see it again. Lucky for me, the movie was going to be releasing a couple months later and I bought a copy.

What I thought was sad about the movie was the fact that people hated on it solely because the trailer was absolutely garbage. I think a majority of horror movie junkies can agree that today's horror trailers are very very very bad. I don't blame the movie, I blame the producers.

What really made the film was the cast of teens that played off of each other's paranoia really well. The entirety of the movie felt like it was going to be overwhelming, but it stayed above the line and never got into bad territory.

I'm shocked and surprised by the lack of attention this movie got because of the trailer. Most people dismissed the movie because they thought it was Universal's cheap version of Insidious, which is not a fair assessment to make. Regardless of how it ended, I stand by that this movie is criminally underrated.

had to be taken from the CIA so they would stop using it against terrorists. It's cruel and unusual torture!

LOL

That aside, I'm probably being way too generous with a 5. This was not a good movie, y'all. I'm not going to get too into the movie because other reviewers have done a number on it. I'll just give my .02

The movie starts off promising, the title sequence feels reminiscent of Grindhouse films. Then it keeps going. The sisters Abby (Jillian Murray) and Megan (Clare Grant) Graves are unbelievably hot and they love comic books! What's so wrong with that? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN 2 HOT GIRLS GUSH ABOUT COMIC BOOKS?! Anyways, they have one last get together before Megan moves to New York. So they try to go to someplace in Arizona, and end up in Unity which is a town full of strange characters. They're told about Skull City Mines and they go check it out. Hijinks ensue.

I'll give my reasoning to a 5 now.

Plot: This plot is everywhere and nowhere. It has a lot to offer, but barely gives it. Two girls have fun, then they don't, but then demons? I'd give the plot a 2/10 for the good Children of the Corn vibes.

Characters: Really good chemistry between the sisters. Becca is also a good character. The villains are believable, especially Moseley. I'd give them a 7/10 for good characters.

Acting: Surprisingly well done for a B-movie. The actors were great in their roles, except for Tony Todd. It felt like he wasn't acting to his fullest potential. 7/10 for great acting, Todd takes away from it though...never thought I'd ever say that.

Special F/X: Don't EVEN get me started on how much I hated the digital blood. I can't rate this low enough, so I'd have to give the special F/X a 1/10 because they managed to actually get blood on their actors!

Setting/Cinematography: Not as good as past entries, but it's also a well done camera work. The setting is really amazing, even for a desert it looks breathtaking. 6/10 for this.

Now, after doing the calculations, the score would come out to be a 4.6. I normally round up my numbers, which would give a 5. The movie is really nothing special, it just needed a few things for it to be good. Like; F/X, a good plot; but that was already covered. This was not my least favorite of the bunch, but it sure as hell isn't my favorite of the ADH4. In fact, to this day I have yet to watch Dread and Hidden (which are supposed to be the best).

I want to say this movie is underrated, but it should have a slightly higher score than 3.7/10. That's just too mean for this movie.

Granted that I loved this special when I was about six, now as I watched it again I realized that it was the biggest piece of rubbish I'd ever seen. The characters are one dimensional, the plot goes back and forth, the song transitions look like someone tried their least and came out with this abomination, and the only thing that redeems this crap fest is the animation. For a low budget (and I mean REALLY low budget), names never heard around the household as leads, and a horrible song to go around with it, it keeps kind of a pretty good feel from the animation.

If you've seen this then you've probably witnessed the horrors of this program. Every time they show this on TV I try my best to either look for a better show or look at it from a different perspective. However, every single time I try to look at it a different way, it gets worse. Now back to the animation, it is really smooth. It renders well and it looks like walking, running, skating, blading, etc. when you see it. But that only saves it from getting a complete and utter 0. Humour got run over a reindeer and it never recovered.