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The Green Inferno (2013)
Glorious!
Saw it on Netflix, it had one star, I though, why not. After I was done with it I checked IMDb and realized it was made by Eli Roth. Why am I not surprised. Glorious.
But why?
It's a mix of so much. Corny B dialog, cult horror setting, good self aware jokes(thinking of you you glorious poop scene), over the top gore and an amazing ending. This whole film is a pun to old cannibal films and b horror in general. Or pun might be a bad word, this film is more of a tribute or homage to cult b horror.
And the story?
Did I say it was glorious? A nice girl, naturally an a student, with a rich dad get's goes to the rain forrest with some vegan- hipster-activists. Yes, Eli knows the stereotypes. They chain themselves to trees, stop some bulldozers, trend on reddit and jump on the plane home. Everything is fine.
Until they crash in the backyard of a tribe of headhunting cannibals.
See it. But don't expect insidious or something serious like that. This film is was all B Horror wants to be.
Have fun.
Lights Out (2016)
Sorry but they milked the concept a bit much.
The short is a fantastic example of a clever and well executed idea. It just works, so good, and I was super excited about the feature. So it hurts to say that the feature is far from the clever short.
Why? They milk the concept bone dry in a couple of minutes. You get it all in the intro and everything after the title is just a downward spiral with a bunch of desperate attempts to keep it going. I hoped this could be a great feature version of the weeping angles from Doctor Who. If you haven't seen that you should watch the episode "Blink" right now. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000252/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Some of my favorite horror movies are the original Chainsaw Massacre, Blair witch project and The Evil Dead. What do they have in common? They leave a lot to your own imagination. You get bits and pieces of explanation but they never give too much. They let you fill in most of the blanks. Lights out wants to explain all of it and centers the whole story about that explanation. In that way they miss the thing that made the concept so good. The fear of the dark and the fear of the unknown. When they take that from us we're left with jumpscares and predictable story lines.