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Halloween Ends (2022)
Y'all are missing the point
It's an allegory for abuse and coping with post traumatic stress. Laurie, our "Final Girl" should be remembered as legends- we need to honor the lives of the victims and respect their grief to find inner healing. Halloween Ends will be decisive- but it's my new favorite Halloween film of the ENTIRE franchise. This movie has balls. And it works!
I think people are going in to this movie wanting Laurie to be the main character, but she's not. Halloween Ends feels a lot like the latest Jurassic World movie or Rise of Skywalker: it brings back these old characters we know and love but sideline them to bring in fresh new characters and a new story. And I LOVED Allison and the new characters. They felt very 3 dimensional and I wanted to root for them.
Cory Cunningham is the new Michael Myers. He embodies the shape of evil- as if "The Shape" possesses Cory instead of Michael in this film.
* I equate Cory killing himself in the end as a mercy killing, similar to the priests death at the end of The Exorcist.
American Horror Story: Winter Kills (2021)
They pulled a Season 8 Game of Thrones
Not only is this finale to part one too short (around 35 minutes), but it's incredibly unsatisfying. I've never wanted to punch a little violin girl in the face more than right now (iykyk). I'm very very disappointed and I expect an apology. Way to go from the best episode of AHS last week to the worst.
Scoob! (2020)
This isn't Scooby Doo...
The Scooby-Doo I grew up with kick- started my love for horror movies and thrillers. Creepy monsters in disguise with unique locations and themes, Scooby Doo and the gang were often faced with imaginative antagonists with real motives. SCOOB! (2020) manages to highlight only part of the magic between Scooby and Shaggys bond- completely disregarding their playful interactions with the monsters they face. This poor reboot has no mystery, no creep factor, no monsters in disguise, and not enough humor to justify its existence. The live action movies in the early 2000s did a much better job sticking to the spirit of the show. I was very disappointed in this random kids movie disguised as a Scooby Doo movie.
Mom and Dad (2017)
Where's the ending?
The premise of this film was so promising, and it does deliver some of the blood and humor you'd expect. However, the film lacks a conclusion. The narrative cuts off right after the climax and doesn't resolve the story. So much of this film showed promise, but the ending, or lack-there-of really left something to be desired.
Fright Fest (2018)
Could Have Been a Gem
The plot had so much potential, and the set design/misé en scene matched perfectly from what you'd expect from a Halloween-themed movie. Even on a poor budget, the film's editing, screenplay/script, and acting fail to justify the film's existence. Characters are not just paper thin- but fail to match common stereotypes- rendering them completely un relatable and unlikeable. The first half had a decent pace, but the second half of the film drags on and on. Unfortunately, this film is not so bad that it's good- it's simply unwatchable. Unless you are very young and easily frightened, you are better off rewatching a horror classic instead of this sad attempt at B-Movie Horror.
Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
In the Game of Thrones You Win or You Die
This was predicted since season one. We've built up such a fantasy about how it would end that there was no way it would satisfy all of us. If you think this was going to end happy for Dany, you CLEARLY haven't been watching the show for what it has always been and meant to be- a bloody and icy/fiery war. GRRM made no mistake when choosing this ending. Cersei was no Hitler, and she always loved her children and did everything in her power to protect them. DID YALL FORGET ABOUT HER WALK OF SHAME??? Ofcourse they would humanize her. That last shot with the horse and Arya brought me to tears. A real reflection straight from the book of Revelations. This episode was beautiful. This is the Game of Thrones I didn't want, but the version we NEEDED. You obviously don't understand true character development if you think a character such as Damy wouldn't let her emotions take the best of her.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Stop Hating on this Masterpiece
Ok, so maybe too many of the heroes lived through this time. But the cinematography (even while blurry and dark) matched the tone and plot perfectly (masterful storytelling and directing, in my opinion). The show has never been about the incoming winter, but rather the true Game for the Thrones.