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Besetment (2017)
Worthless movie that's such a new bar for unappealing standards and lows
Besetment starts with promise, it would seem the main character Amanda is falling into an unexpected psychological thrill ride. It's at that moment the movie takes a complete opposite turn! This movie takes the Norman Bates and mother relationship complex to a different level except Norman Bates is mentally handicapped and mother is both living and deranged. Our main character Amanda is chicken hostage by the Mother character. We quickly learn the Mother character, Millie, has an abusive control over her son, Billy, and engages in on screen incestual activities with Billy. This COMPLETELY CRINGEWORTHY incestual scene lingers on screen for almost 5 minutes.
Through acts of incest Millie collects the seed of her son and impregnates Amanda, who is being fettered, tortured, imprisoned, and otherwise maltreated in a room in the family Motel. Avengers friends are worried about her is she is disappeared and have alerted the county sheriff who seems willfully blind but suspicious. Under duress, Amanda is forced into a marriage with Billy at the town church. Billy's surprise application for a marriage license at the city hall captures the attention of the sheriffs who conveniently appear at the church while the marriage rights are in process and Amanda kills Millie and self-defense.
The movie closes showing Amanda winning substantial amounts of land and money in a civil case at court showing Billy is already in jail for his role in the actions against Amanda. Suddenly the movie shifts showing Amanda had given birth to the child of the forced impregnation who appears to be four or five who promptly commits an act of gruesome murder. The movie then ends in credits.
On the whole, the movie has very little to show for itself. Very low budget, only a few set locations. The Norman Batesish relationship almost works for a little while, but it is ruined wanted disgusting on screen acts of incest, which is pathetically also the Apex point of the movie between the rising action and the following action and resolution. If this has been a purely psychological Thriller it probably may have been more tolerable, but after the climax the pieces fall apart and the ending is leading with more questions than answers as if a sequel must be necessary. One could only hope that no sequels are ever made to this rubbish and this movie should descend into the bowels of an abyss never to see the light of day again!
Jack the Reaper (2011)
Bad Movie That Capitalized on Outdated Stereotypes
Jack the reaper seems that we can have a lot of potential, a reaper of souls of railroad accidents eyes to kill a bus load of teenagers. The reaper character could have been very interesting, but the reaper fails in every aspect. Very little background and no character development make the character irrelevant and unwatchable.
As a teenage slasher film, this film is unwatchable and in alarmingly poor taste. About half the teenage cast are "jocks" who are lazy and bullies, a ditzy blonde, several background female characters who add nothing, but the rest of the teenage cast are persons who have developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, or emotional disabilities. The movie stereotypes teenagers with disabilities in the worst way, making them all victims of bullies, unable to fend or think for themselves, and simply easy targets for railroad jack, the psycho killer. The movie's treatment of characters with disabilities is offensive, stereotypical, and demeaning. Jack the reaper, lacking any substance character, simply kills for no reason. The movies ending wraps nothing up, and was an easy way to let the movies innumerable loose ends hang in the wind.
Night of Something Strange (2016)
Worst of the Worst Movies I Have Ever Seen!
Wow, I just watched what might be the genuine lowest of the low of bad horror movies - "Night of Something Strange.".
I can say absolutely nothing was good about this movie, the "Zombie" concept of this movie seems creative on paper but in practice was vile and perverted (and not in a good black comedy way). Never in the entirety of my life have I ever asked myself, "What might happen if a venereal disease turned people into a zombie?" The film's gore is pathetic, it finds excuses to focus on and alter in graphically poor and uncreative ways human genitals.
(It is rated R but probably should be NC17.)
The script is poorly written, the acting is, at best, substandard, and the movie has no plot. Everything just happens almost at random surrounded by filming errors. The gore often attempts to cover up very poor film making and utterly fails to do so.
The movie stars no well known or even reputable actors of any kind. In hindsight, I should have rewatched any other very low quality horror movie like "Birdemic" or "Attack of the Killer Donuts" because at the very least I can riff and poke fun at them; "Night of Something Strange" has no redeemable qualities whatsoever and is on such poor taste it is impossible to even poke fun at it.
Manos: The Rise of Torgo (2018)
Worthless and Unnecessary
As a fan of the original "Manos and the Hands of Fate", I thought this movie could be fun and a tribute to the original. It was neither.
Bad script, terrible acting, low budget effects, then combined with a pseudo-sexual near incestual relationship between Torgo and his mother left me wondering what it was I was watching.
The Master is poorly made up to mimic the original, but he is a minor part. Manos, the Dark God, plays a big role, but her presence adds nothing and is at best confusing.
Two big thumbs down, this prequel makes the original seem Oscar worthy!
Her Infidelity (2015)
Unfulfilled Potential
The movie, in principle, has a lot of potential, but falls flat very quickly. The actor portraying Grayson, an apparent psychopath, is totally incapable of proper role portrayal, never really developing the character into something believable. The plot/script are muddled with numerous holes that are obvious through quick fixes in script that make no sense. The um movie doesn't really resolve itself, an ending that doesn't tie up all the loose ends.
Rare Exports (2010)
Intriguing Concept, Cinematic Failure
Rare Exports has an intriguing concept of a Krampus like character, but ultimately fails to produce on screen. The build up plods along with main characters that never exceed one dimensional. There's 65 minutes of build up to a climax that fails to happen, which creates plot holes and a movie with no resolution or actual ending.
The movie bills itself as "darkly comic", and it fails to deliver in that regard. At best there is sarcastic symbolism analogous to the cliche Santa imagery in the public realm.
For no clear reason there is full male nudity in the evil elves. There's at least 20 minutes of old men naked, just weird, distasteful filler.
After 50 minutes of potentially intriguing build up, the script gives up on itself creating pseudo-action plot holes and many loose ends. This is a nice time killer during the holiday season, but nothing more than that.
Vile (2011)
One Hour Twenty Eight Minute Waste of my Life!
'Vile' has a premise that seems promising, collecting a brain fluid that is produced during extreme pain - perhaps best accomplished by gathering it from the viewers on this cinematic mess after watching it! The premise is great, the follow through in practice is useless.
This film is modeled off of comparable torture horror films, but rapidly becomes a tedious repetition of the same torture device in the same place over and over again to achieve nothing.
The characters are as one dimensional as could be possible, they never develop into anything and it is impossible to be sympathetic for them. The obvious twist is pointless, the movie fails to resolve itself and struggles to its' ending. The writers apparently knew this and wrote a second ending on top of the first that again fails to resolve the movie.
The torture scenes were built poorly, under acted sometimes and overacted at others. The gore that should have accompanied the torture was seriously lacking and fail in presentation.
Don't torture yourself watching this vile refuse, watch virtually anything else and have a better and more memorable time!
Dead End (2003)
Dead End falls short of expectations
'Dead End' captures the best parts of comparable horror thrillers like 'Black Cadillac' and adds an almost black comedy twist. A narrow number of set locations create a psychological thriller edge.
Unfortunately the movie lacks in other ways. The script has little substance and quickly becomes tedious. The film is low budget and lacks in gore content when it was seriously needed. The acting is either flat or over the top.
Christmas Reservations (2019)
Cute but Disappointing
I had high expectations for Christmas Reservations, I came out disappointed.
It follows the usual course of Christmas romance stories, the usual sort of Christmas cliche cuteness. The main characters don't ever really develop, from start to finish they never become more than one dimensional. Their lack of character development is compounded by a lack of script strength and story development, the unnecessary secondary characters get a lot of screen time and overshadow the main storyline.
Although the movie ends in a predictably cute way, the movie plods along much longer than it should and falls flat when compared to other comparable Christmas romance movies. Melissa Joan Hart and Michael Gross take their characters as far as they can very well provided the limitations of the script and story.