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1922 (2017)
Decent King Adaptation but Wilfred's Voice is Bothersome
I love Stephen King adaptations and watch them every chance I get. This film has been on my list and I was excited to view it. It's a decent, slow burn, suspense film with fewer King tropes than one normally sees.
For me, I was put off by the voice of character Wilfred James, a loner ranch owner that conspires with his child to off his wife Arlette. The acting is well done, and the commitment to character is admirable, but I just couldn't handle too much of Wilfred's voice. I can't be the only one who felt this way watching it, right?
Zak Hiditch does nice work directing this cast. The setting is beautiful and the homestead sprawling and large. It definitely felt like an isolated location and the Director of Photography Ben Richardson shot it gorgeously.
This film is a decent watch, and King fans like me will find enjoyment in it. Overall a pretty decent flick.
7/10 stars (-1 for Wilfred Jame's grating voice) = 6 stars.
Massacre on Aisle 12 (2016)
First Rate Christmas Comedy Horror with a Delightfully Wicked Cast
Stupendously splendid tale about moron employees at a hardware store fighting for a bag of money and their lives on Christmas Eve. Gloriously told through the eyes of the newly hired Dave, this is a superbly wonderful romp through horror comedy tropes chock full of holiday cheer and a bit of blood.
A pair of dimwit bank robbers stash their stolen loot in a hardware store and it gets discovered by an even more dimwitted staff. They all want the money, but someone keeps plucking them off, one by one. Who is the killer and who will get the money? It doesn't really matter because this cast is uproariously funny and packs some major talent (see also Amber Jean as Santa's Elf for even more talent).
I died laughing about 19 times watching this movie (Otto also dies about 19 times, which is another story). This is a horror comedy for the ages and will now been added to my annual Christmas Movie Extravaganza Weekend for this holiday and beyond.
8/10 (+1 for the gut-busting outtake reel on the DVD) = 9/10 stars total
6:66 PM (2017)
Just Jimmy!!
Serial killer Jimmy Timmy Beck, resurrected from the dead, goes on a murder spree in Old Man Stan's country farm house while a misfit television crew tries to escape with their lives, all while filming a reality TV show. What could possibly go wrong? Lots, and it is FUNNY!
6:66 PM has all of your typical horror movie tropes ramped up to absurdity and sports a very funny cast that layers on the silly. Add a scare here and a scream there and sprinkle on the witty one-liners with a zombie kitten for the cherry on top and you've got an uproarious popcorn horror comedy that kept me entertained for 90+ minutes.
7/10 (+1 star for the great outtake reel on the DVD special features) = total of 8 stars.
Weedjies: Halloweed Night (2019)
Hilarious Halloween Horror Comedy as Ghoulies go to Vegas!
Remember Ghoulies? The fun 80's horror romp from Charles Band gets re-booted Vegas style when the Weedjies take over a masquerade party at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip. It's fun, it's corny, there might be some weed smoking, lots of one-liners and even more 'No Don't Open That Door' crazy deaths of the wild cast of characters.
Charles Band also made period hits like 'Puppet Master' and 'Pit and the Pendulum' and 'GingerDead Man' amongst many other fun popcorn horror flicks. This movie is a great throwback to those fun movies with cool horror effects and director Danny Draven does an outstanding job making this movie rock. The music is really good, too.
7/10 (+1 for rockin' theme song and music video' Weedjies of the Night').
Total: 8 stars out of 10.
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Pursuit of Comedy Turns Cold
I love Liam Neeson films, and was hoping to add this to the list of great revenge stories, but I had some difficulty with the attempt at comedy that fell flat and some plot points that I couldn't really get past.
A good joke is wonderful, a zinger here or there, a good come back when delivering a swift kill... but this film just layered on the poor attempts at humor, and from all the wrong characters.
"Do you know what I can do to you... on Yelp? is a great line from one of the bad-guys, but totally detracted from the tension and made him seem a lot less frightening -- this is from the antagonist in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, and that dude was scary. In this film, his talent as a terrifying bad guy is wasted.
And apparently there are only two police officers in the whole town, and when murders happen, they just kind of shrug as in, "Wow, that's a shame." And nothing is really investigated past that.
The snow plow was a cool touch, but tossing dead bodies that appear light as a feather off a cliff with one hand also pulled me out of the film a bit. Which is the last thing I want to do when watching a Liam Neeson film.
7/10 stars (-1 for light-as-a-feather-dead-body-props) = 6 stars.