tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74211512645367015512024-03-14T04:15:40.751-07:00Cinema FreaksWe do movie reviews.Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.comBlogger693125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-90513144038295590382021-10-07T16:33:00.001-07:002021-10-07T16:33:31.529-07:00Black Roses (1988)It must have been an interesting time in the 80s when the biggest thing to worry about was the dangers of subversive rock and heavy metal music. Black Roses is a slasher that sort of doubles as a PSA for the PMRC, seeming to posit that maybe heavy metal really IS bad and will make kids kill people! Finally, someone is tackling the real issues!Director: John FasanoStarring: John Martin, Sal Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-24715271472694923202021-08-21T13:14:00.002-07:002021-08-21T13:14:10.037-07:00Pig (2021)SPOILERS for the movie in here.Director: Michael SarnoskiStarring: Nicolas Cage, Alex WolffIMDbFood is such a fraught, weighty thing; it can be political and it can recall all these memories and mean so much to people. In Nicolas Cage’s new vehicle “Pig” these kinds of themes are explored. Cage’s character Robin Feld, an ex-chef who now lives a solitary life in the woods, has a line maybe Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-74179426145741765582021-07-15T08:47:00.006-07:002021-07-15T08:50:18.221-07:00Bunnyman Vengeance (2017)This kind of movie
is honestly tough to review because you know it wasn’t really
serious. It’s a fucking guy in a bunny costume. That could be the
whole thing right there, but it wouldn’t be fun to read.Director: Carl LindberghIMDb
Co-written with Michelle.The first one, at
least, was funny – particularly the Grindhouse edition we reviewed
a while ago, which was so batshit and absurd that it roseLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-17496319297627127892021-06-24T19:44:00.005-07:002021-06-24T19:45:15.306-07:00Bunnyman: Grindhouse Edition (2019)Well, I had to revive the blog for this one. Thing was, I’ve been looking into some urban legends and found this Bunny Man story kind of interesting. If you don’t know, there were a few incidents back in the 70s of people running across a deranged man in a bunny outfit with an ax, who told them they were trespassing on private property and threatened them. Not much else was ever found out. It’s Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-73619130949032789532021-03-12T08:16:00.005-08:002021-03-12T23:42:33.417-08:00Legion (TV show) and how to resolve stories without fightingI want to talk about the TV show Legion, which I finally finished all of a while ago, but also more in general about the concepts of superhero stories and action and all the other ways you can tell a story than what we get.NOTE - MILD SPOILERS FOR LEGION AHEADLegion, the Noah Hawley vehicle, ran for a few years in the late 2010s and came to an end in 2019. The first season, I bought in 2018, and Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-33852878342477724332021-02-20T07:06:00.003-08:002021-02-20T07:06:38.658-08:00Possessor (2020)This one got a lot of good reviews, but man do I ever not like it! Apparently, this was a movie made by David Cronenberg’s son Brandon Cronenberg, who probably grew up surrounded by surreal body horror props and scenes and it bled into him, and this is what came in lieu of seeing a therapist.SPOILERS AHEAD!Director: Brandon CronenbergStarring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-18228712176549927572021-01-21T21:05:00.002-08:002021-01-21T21:08:32.521-08:00Frankenstein (2015)Am I still doing these? Let’s see what happens. I'm posting this with very little editing. I don't know if anyone reads blogs anymore. But this is still here, still heaving onwards like a strange misshapen behemoth forgotten by time. Here we go.Director: Bernard RoseStarring: Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Ann MossIMDbCo-written with Michelle.Frankenstein is a new adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel fromLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-58460765805806545902020-10-25T07:33:00.003-07:002020-10-25T16:50:54.007-07:00Cinema Freaks 2020 New Horror RecommendationsEnough talk about bad movies. Let’s relish in the good. Halloween
is almost here in this year of 2020 when everything is a mess. Why
not have some fun with some of the more creative horror you can find
recently? Here are a few of my recent favorites.
Scare Me
This is really like
nothing I’ve seen – not because of anything it does, but because
of what it omits. It’s a horror anthology film likeLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-13106304550717369152020-09-21T07:27:00.005-07:002020-09-21T10:14:01.356-07:00Antebellum (2020)Yup, I'm still doing these things. It's been a while, but we're back.This is a new horror movie about a modern writer who seemingly finds herself back in the times of slavery somehow. This was billed as something like other recent black-centric horror films like Get Out. But that isn't really accurate in the least.Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher RenzStarring: Janelle Monae, Eric Lange, Jena Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-11310157190834672612020-04-30T20:48:00.001-07:002020-04-30T21:04:17.827-07:00Friend Request (2016)Friend Request is a horror movie about what happens when you turn down a friend request from a crazy witch on social media.
Director: Simon Verhoeven
Starring: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Connor Paolo
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Co-written with Michelle.
If you’ve seen Unfriended, you basically know what you’re gonna get here. It’s one of these ‘college’ movies written by someone who’s whole idea of college was Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-443417330494454432020-04-07T08:47:00.000-07:002020-04-07T08:47:07.866-07:00The Perfection (2018)I… uh… you know, I don’t have an intro for this. Just read on and I’ll explain what this is.
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Allison Williams, Logan Browning
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Co-written with Michelle.
This one starts off with a girl named Charlotte, whose mother has died and so she can finally go back to playing the cello like she always wanted. She meets her teacher’s new protege, Lizzie, who Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-87492847620508053132020-04-04T23:40:00.000-07:002020-04-05T09:21:46.958-07:00The Hunt (2020)Good satire is very hard to do, as this movie proves so well that it ought to be in the dictionary definition for how not to do it.
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Betty Gilpin, Hillary Swank
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You might know this from last fall when Trump and a bunch of other conservative weirdos saw the trailer for this movie and then got mad about that without even waiting to see it! Which, after Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-53410841423073811782020-03-31T20:31:00.003-07:002020-03-31T20:31:54.879-07:00Wendigo (2001)When I was maybe 13, I’d go to Blockbuster any chance I got. I’d browse the shelves for the evil-est looking horror flicks available. I didn’t give a single fuck. One of them was this movie. This was maybe the third or fourth horror flick I ever saw - back then I didn't get to see most of this whole genre until I was 12 or 13 and neither of my parents watched it, so I just discovered everything Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-71662201752477176722020-03-24T20:26:00.002-07:002020-03-24T20:26:22.119-07:00The Platform (2020)The Platform is a Spanish horror comedy about a strange prison concept where food is distributed via a system where a giant platform (name drop!) lowers through hundreds of levels and people are supposed to be fair. Unfortunately, people are selfish! There. That’s the entire fucking movie. But they milked it for like an hour and a half, so I guess I have to review it.
Director: Galder Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-55762335569637138622019-12-22T09:19:00.000-08:002019-12-22T09:21:25.157-08:00Black Christmas (2019)
If there was anything I was thinking this year, “gee, I wish Blumhouse would do a new Black Christmas remake” was NOT it. But apparently what I want doesn’t matter.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Director: Sophia Takal
Starring: Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Aleyse Shannon
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Co-written with Nathan.
Essentially, what this is is a bad Twitter argument about rape culture that they spent thousands Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-31117227074180513722019-10-20T08:40:00.001-07:002019-10-20T11:09:05.580-07:00Demons 2 (1986)
The first Demons was a gloriously insane little ride that was mostly about people spewing green stuff out of their mouths while heavy metal songs played over scenes of them all dying. This one is kind of like that, only without any of the things that made the first one good or even interesting. All the cool lighting and directing touches are gone, the music is less prominent and the kills are Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-31269727859426166022019-10-06T20:20:00.000-07:002019-10-07T06:31:24.611-07:00Joker (2019)
Well, this one has been getting a lot of press, mostly because the media loves to write about incels for some reason these days and have been talking about this movie because they think incels will love it. It’s kind of becoming a thing. If women were as interested in those sad psycho incel fucks as writers from shitty content-farm news sites, maybe incels would never have even been a thing. ButLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-15818325339884758222019-09-13T05:30:00.003-07:002019-09-13T05:30:45.644-07:00Funny Games (1997)
Let’s talk about stuff that hasn’t held up. Every decade has a few things that just end up seeming dated after it’s over and we’ve all had a chance to analyze the settling dust of said decade. Like the 60s had the whole Woodstock hippy thing, the 70s had prog rock and acid, and the 80s had Reaganomics and weird PRMC hearings trying to say anything fun was witchcraft. Well, I’ve recently found anLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-9500925959392113272019-09-03T13:45:00.002-07:002019-09-03T13:45:24.432-07:00The Pyramid (2014)
There have been a lot of good horror movies coming out. So many, in fact, that I occasionally go back and watch something fucking stupid to remind myself where I came from. You can’t forget your roots.
Director: Gregory Levasseur
Starring: Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O'Hare
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The Pyramid is a found footage movie – remember that stupid-ass form of horror? I mean sure, there were a few goodLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-47468134467244739052019-07-23T05:13:00.000-07:002019-07-23T05:13:33.942-07:00Crawl (2019)
Crawl is a horror movie about a Florida hurricane that I think was just intended to serve as propaganda for other people not to come to this already overpopulated state. It’s basically like what every other state thinks Florida’s hurricane seasons are always like. Right down to the gators happily devouring anybody that comes into their path. Hurricane seasons are like buffets for gators.
Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-16594295568393060032019-07-08T07:09:00.000-07:002019-07-08T07:09:03.758-07:00Midsommar (2019)
Just a year after his breakout hit Hereditary, director Ari Aster is back with this movie, which is somewhat like a Wes Anderson-style comedy if Anderson descended into a serial-killer-style mania. There are gonna be spoilers in this one, so tread lightly.
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor
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Midsommar is about a bunch of kids going to Sweden for one of the Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-64085799480731562452019-07-06T08:19:00.000-07:002019-07-06T08:19:23.614-07:00Boar (2017)
Movie titles can be confusing sometimes, as to what they’re about. Sometimes, you just don’t know for sure. For instance, this one is about a giant boar that murders people in the outback.
Director: Chris Sun
Starring: Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley, the fucking boar
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Co-written with Nathan.
Boar is an Australian horror film starring Australian power lifter and wrestler Nathan JonesLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-40283172018794343272019-06-23T19:10:00.002-07:002019-06-23T19:10:16.305-07:00Child's Play (2019)
For years horror remakes were just such pieces of shit. They were just so utterly terrible and without benefit. They were dreaded by fans of the old films and loved by teenagers mostly. It’s been a few years since we were getting a bunch of them, but I guess the people behind this Child’s Play remake really took their time on purpose. This is actually pretty awesome.
SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE Lawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-75501084647718062232019-06-14T05:04:00.001-07:002019-06-14T05:04:18.369-07:00Ma (2019)
This has to be the most absurd shit I’ve seen in a while, even counting the John Waters film I saw last week (Desperate Living). Not that this is as full of genitalia and body mutilation and gross out stuff as that movie was – though there is some – but just the choices this movie makes are so goddamned weird.
Director: Tate Taylor
Starring: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers
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SPOILERSLawrence Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593480000331366158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7421151264536701551.post-41596684869015993772019-05-18T12:21:00.000-07:002019-05-18T12:21:06.576-07:00Dark Spirits (2008)
Dark Spirits is a movie about a chick whose sister dies from some mysterious supernatural force and she has to figure out why it’s haunting her, too. The problem is that by the end, the audience still has no real clue. This was part of a box set of DVD movies from Walmart my friend found in his apartment, so you know it’ll be amazing!
Director: Huck Keppler
Starring: Milena Minichova
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