nyborg-king Reviews

Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask (2023) Season 1, Episode 2

HUGE step up

[8/10 · 13 October 2023]

This is the type of episode I like to see in this show, great horror, amazing interpretation of the original Haunted mask. I dont know what I think of the whole overlapping time gimmick, but i guess its not harmful to the show just yet. The acting is amazing, the production value is way higher than the original goosebumps series, the potential is there. All it takes for this to be great is good writing however rare that is in hollywood these days.

Goosebumps is one of those legendary IPs that can easilly be exploited by suits to make a buck and push whatever they wanna push.

I grew up with goosebumps, I have such high hopes that this wont be remembered as a product of its time.

We need hollywood back to being timeless, back to writing classics that isnt held back by the technical limitations they used to see.

Before It Ends (2023)

A moral duality rare in a movie like this

[10/10 · 31 August 2023]

I have gone to watch quite a few WW2 movies, danish and otherwise. This film was an amazing story about a family caught between two strong moral viewpoints, testing their morals and ethics to the breaking point. The actors performed fantastically, even the child-actors did great, depicting how war can poison children with hate, evil and anger and yet also holds a story of redemption in several ways. Its such a deep story, the father, the son, the town, grownups and kids, the danes, the resistancefighters all captured in this movie. This was what I thought broke "De forbandede år" telling too many stories at once, but unlike "De forbandede år" I think this movie tells brings all these elements together in a focused and well directed way. It doesnt feel like 5 seperate movies forced into one, its feels like a unique part of history few consider or know about. How liberation wasnt as clean as we like to imagine. This is a HUGE recommendation from me to you telling you to watch it.