Change Your Image
heavensnight-88203
Reviews
Halloween (2018)
This is not a good Halloween movie.
Lets get one thing straight first, Jamie Lee Curtis is good in this. Unfortunately the rest of the movie is a desperate, boiling mess of a film. It contains every single cliché and trope of all previous Halloween movies. This would be fine, if they were at least done well. But they are not.
The "important" scenes with Myers like discovering the mask are just clumsy and not effective at all. For a similar scene that actually works and has the impact it needs check out Jason discovering the hockey mask in the Friday The 13th remake (2009).
The script runs from completely uninspired to cingryworthyly dreadful. The cinemetography has no flair, no atmosphere and David Gordon Green's directrion feels like he watched the original Halloween film, got really over excited and then tried to copy it, and not in a lovingly homage way either. Scenes are flat out lifted from JC's film and shoved into this movie, losing all of their creepyness and impact and making little to no sense at all.
Honestly, I dread to think how bad the two sequels are going to be. It concerns me a great deal that this movie appears to have a lot of positive reviews, when its just plain bad.
Even Will Patton can't save it. It lacks atmosphere, scares, tension, suspense, has completely clumsy direction and a poor script.
4/10 and I didn't even mention some of the more incomprehensibley stupid scenes of which believe me, there are plenty.
Unsolved Mysteries (2020)
Ominous and unsettling indeed.
A very well made reboot of the iconic series, Netflix does generally seem to be very good at crime documentary's. Six episodes in Vol. 1 and these first six cases are bizarre and completely intriguing.
The production is sleek, low key and emotive. I also really like the reimagining of the theme tune.
If you like true crime and a mystery, I would highly recommend this new series. I can't wait for Vol 2.
I should also state that you need more of an attention span than that of a goldfish to truly enjoy these cases, as they are singular and focused. Unlike the original series. A change that I think here works for the better.
Great stuff.