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This isn't another honorable mention of mine. I really do like the premise, having horror at school grounds which I don't see often, it's almost similar to the movie "The Faculty" as that was about aliens taking over the school. Though also a little of the film "Susperia" as that was about a dance school that was really a front for an evil witch sect. It's a very unsettling and creepy feeling because educational institutions one of the very places we always depend on to provide us intelligence and most of all security from the outside world, but when it's compromised there is no safe place because the danger is already here. Though it's also based on our subconscious fear on how authority we depend on for protection can be inverted and turn against us.
I really like the environment and atmosphere of the school, which is unsettling from the beginning as clean and orderly as everything looks it's just had a cold sterile atmosphere, as everything is too calm, and I've been to a lot of schools and it's never that calm. But also, when it comes down to the other half of the story once the secret is out and it doesn't disappoint as we see the lair, really like that glowing green lighting that was used which I felt sort of added to the strangeness and danger of their environment. Also, like the makeup work on the reptilian alien or mutant creatures, sort of reminds me of the make up effects of the reptilian aliens in the 80's mini series "V". This episode could of easily of been a spin off tale from that series as the scheme of the alien/mutants in this tale is similar to the one in the mini series and also in the miniseries brainwashing was utilized.
Illya Woloshyn, whom I remember from the TV show "The Odyssey" as J, he was really solid as Augie. I really bought him as the nerdy type; I'll admit just seeing him in that role with the glasses, really makes me wish that a "Spider Man" film would have been made in the 90's, he could of played Peter Parker/Spider Man he looks like the character. Anyway, his character is one that just goes with he flow of things because he believes everything happens for a reason. Which I believe is true, but it sometimes depends on what that reason is. Unfortunately that's his weakness that mentality makes him a little too much on the passive side, he doesn't question enough or take action when needed.
I really like the sister Jasmine whom is one on the aggressive side of things, she rebellious she like to do her own thing, but what I like about her is she doesn't go with the flow of things she likes to make her own flow, which is something I can emphasize with because I'm that way too. This is a big advantage for her because her instincts are sharp doesn't just accept things as they come along, she actually does question her circumstances. And we see her instincts are on the money there really is something rotten going on in Denmark or should I say the school.
The dynamic between the two is solid, sort of a Freudian dynamic as Jayme is kind of the id, while Augie is sort of the ego. They really are good for each other as the sister abides by the green beret code "you watch my back and I'll watch yours" in one moment Augie was about to have some of that Sponge (which looks like sludge, let alone who has oatmeal for desert) but then the sister gives him a look that says, "Really, your going to eat that" then Augie passes, so she keeps him from going the wrong way and she's right as that Sponge is really a mind control drug. I even like that little monologue she delivers toward him as he was cracking for one moment, when he was trying to hide under the covers (yeah, that's really going to work.) how all the rules are out the window, which is true because in a life or death situation there are no rules except one survive. That monologue motives Augie to do what must be done as we see him use his best weapon which is his intelligence, much like with "MacGyver" he has a plan to save both him, his sister, fellow students and the world.
As an old saying goes sometimes you got to break the rules.
Rating: 3 and a half stars
This isn't another honorable mention of mine. I really do like the premise, having horror at school grounds which I don't see often, it's almost similar to the movie "The Faculty" as that was about aliens taking over the school. Though also a little of the film "Susperia" as that was about a dance school that was really a front for an evil witch sect. It's a very unsettling and creepy feeling because educational institutions one of the very places we always depend on to provide us intelligence and most of all security from the outside world, but when it's compromised there is no safe place because the danger is already here. Though it's also based on our subconscious fear on how authority we depend on for protection can be inverted and turn against us.
I really like the environment and atmosphere of the school, which is unsettling from the beginning as clean and orderly as everything looks it's just had a cold sterile atmosphere, as everything is too calm, and I've been to a lot of schools and it's never that calm. But also, when it comes down to the other half of the story once the secret is out and it doesn't disappoint as we see the lair, really like that glowing green lighting that was used which I felt sort of added to the strangeness and danger of their environment. Also, like the makeup work on the reptilian alien or mutant creatures, sort of reminds me of the make up effects of the reptilian aliens in the 80's mini series "V". This episode could of easily of been a spin off tale from that series as the scheme of the alien/mutants in this tale is similar to the one in the mini series and also in the miniseries brainwashing was utilized.
Illya Woloshyn, whom I remember from the TV show "The Odyssey" as J, he was really solid as Augie. I really bought him as the nerdy type; I'll admit just seeing him in that role with the glasses, really makes me wish that a "Spider Man" film would have been made in the 90's, he could of played Peter Parker/Spider Man he looks like the character. Anyway, his character is one that just goes with he flow of things because he believes everything happens for a reason. Which I believe is true, but it sometimes depends on what that reason is. Unfortunately that's his weakness that mentality makes him a little too much on the passive side, he doesn't question enough or take action when needed.
I really like the sister Jasmine whom is one on the aggressive side of things, she rebellious she like to do her own thing, but what I like about her is she doesn't go with the flow of things she likes to make her own flow, which is something I can emphasize with because I'm that way too. This is a big advantage for her because her instincts are sharp doesn't just accept things as they come along, she actually does question her circumstances. And we see her instincts are on the money there really is something rotten going on in Denmark or should I say the school.
The dynamic between the two is solid, sort of a Freudian dynamic as Jayme is kind of the id, while Augie is sort of the ego. They really are good for each other as the sister abides by the green beret code "you watch my back and I'll watch yours" in one moment Augie was about to have some of that Sponge (which looks like sludge, let alone who has oatmeal for desert) but then the sister gives him a look that says, "Really, your going to eat that" then Augie passes, so she keeps him from going the wrong way and she's right as that Sponge is really a mind control drug. I even like that little monologue she delivers toward him as he was cracking for one moment, when he was trying to hide under the covers (yeah, that's really going to work.) how all the rules are out the window, which is true because in a life or death situation there are no rules except one survive. That monologue motives Augie to do what must be done as we see him use his best weapon which is his intelligence, much like with "MacGyver" he has a plan to save both him, his sister, fellow students and the world.
As an old saying goes sometimes you got to break the rules.
Rating: 3 and a half stars