Change Your Image
johndu-78390
Reviews
House of Manson (2014)
Turd
The guy playing Manson may have a good look but that's where the positives end.
Some actors have really thrown themselves into a role and lived their character long before the actual filming - think Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.
This guy seems to have misread the script and thrown himself into the role of Richie Cunningham from Happy Days.
The whole film feels like a rehearsal, a bad rehearsal.
It is a terrible, laughable film that sounds like it has been recorded on an old Nokia phone.
Top it off with a cheese rock soundtrack that has no relevance to the era it's supposed to be portraying and you have yourself one unwatchable waste of space and time.
Blair Witch (2016)
Something I can't figure out...
I really have nothing else to add about this film than what has already been said - that it is a cheap cash in of every other horror film in the last 10 years, masquerading under the title of an innovative, ground-breaking horror film from the late nineties.
The film basically relies on one cheap jump scare; one person looking for another person for 5 minutes, calling their name out to no avail. Everything goes silent then all of a sudden....BAM! The person is right behind them and the audience jumps. Kid's stuff, basically. But why, when these people are walking through the woods, wouldn't they hear the other person walking up behind them? When they can hear a witch cracking sticks from miles away? Did the other person tiptoe? Float down behind them?
Absolute garbage. Instantly forgettable and an insult to the original's legacy.
Hell House LLC (2015)
Surprisingly creepy
I approach all modern found footage movies with a sense of cynicism nowadays - mainly because they're usually atrocious - and going by the trailer, cover and even title of this film, it was no exception. But what a pleasant surprise! Great twists, a real and genuine sense of dread in the hotel and intense up until the end.
Location was perfect, fairly rural and run down but without giving in to the cliché, 'cabin in the woods' scenario. Great use of Halloween props for creating some ultra-spooky scenes and a decent enough original storyline to keep the viewer interested throughout.
Not perfect by any stretch, I'm still a bit muddled as to what actually happened in the house but otherwise highly recommended.
The Unfolding (2016)
Good for a student project, maybe.
But a film masquerading as horror on Netflix? That I pay for? It's almost as though students had been tasked to work out how horror films makers perform jump scares and other clichés.
Really poor, predictable, terrible acting, the lead character (male) one of the most unlikeable characters I've come across since James Corden.
Absolutely nothing of any merit to write about and certainly nothing original other than the nuclear war theme which doesn't really have a huge bearing on the film as a whole.
How this made its way onto Netflix is beyond me.