Cass Hyde

Slasher films aren't dead yet, but this one leaves more to be desired and has too much garnish. The pace could have been faster and some scenes seemed drawn out or were wholly superfluous. It fluctuates between a campy and a serious tone inconsistently. And the ending left me starving for more. I do hold some esteem for how a few scenes were filmed, but I think that it leads the audience on, so they can keep their eyes on several red herrings which it does very well and surprised me at the end. I give kudos to the opening scene as a nod to the progenitors of the genre. I will admit that some of the kills in the film were sillier than others, especially in the beginning, but most were average. Bloody, but average. I enjoyed the concept of a Thanksgiving killer, the methods they used paired with today's tech, and the concluding dialogues, but it neither innovates nor breaks the mold of the slasher genre. It's not worth the 1 hour and 40 minutes.

There was a fantastic cast in this film, but the actors and actresses, themselves, hardly remedy the fact they were given a horrible script so fixed with abysmal storytelling and boring characters (inspired by fantastic real people who have been dishonored by this atrocity). The motivations for the characters and their actions are beyond bland and foolish, respectively. It empowers a few overdone tropes in film: 'We're coming with you.', 'We're going to k*ll you ... but not yet.", and, of course, the bleeding damsel-in-distress. There's another trope in the movie that hurt my very soul in a bad way, but that would be spoiling it. Don't worry about it because it's not even worth looking into and Star Wars did it better in the 80s when it was the 80s. In truth, the revenge trope and leading theme of the story doesn't even consider or make use of Chekhov's gun, which makes me wonder why a certain object wasn't used in the film despite how prominently it's featured, at least, twice. The Harder They Fall is a plus two hour film that should have been wrapped up in one hour with its pointless, drawn out pacing. This is another one of those cases where I loved trailer, but absolutely despised the movie itself. Black westerns are so uncommon and I am very disappointed that this one fell flat on its face for all the appeal it had.

Only one phrase can describe this show: pins and needles. In a good way. In it, Nanno, a twisted entity who disguises herself as a teenager, steps into the lives of high school students and staff ... and then brings out their worse for the entire world to witness. It is one of the most thought-provoking and nail biting shows I've ever seen that's led entirely on the concept of delving into temptation and paying the price for it ... or having others pay it for you. The writer(s?) of this show keep the stories fresh with a new set of characters in each episode with their own pursuits of awfully misguided happiness. I'd higly recommend to anybody who finds pleasure in the discomfort of others and suggest to the mature ones seeking something new.