Matty Petes

The only reason why my rating has 2 stars is because the first 3 episodes are pretty cool, but maybe that makes it more tragic. It started good, and just as it was starting to get exciting the show runner decided now was the time to slow things down; like it had to focus on some drama to cash in on unearned emotional moments. As a heads up to writers, it takes more than 3 episodes for people to be emotionally invested in characters. My short review, Degrassi and Horror doesn’t mix well (not that any part of this show is scary) but high school drama doesn’t invest me in the zombie apocalypse. Also, and this is perhaps just my humble opinion, but it makes for a very boring experience when (what seems to be) the only driver of the story is people repeatedly messing up.

Bad, boring, not thrilling or scary. The acting was good and the writing was fine, but the movie itself was just some weird high end intellectual flex that is just meaningless on its core.

Boring. Total snooze fest for anyone who watches horror regularly. Movie relies on tired tropes like seeing someone in the corner, two voices when one person talks, or a contorted person. The acting is meh, and there’s a few story lines forced in there which add nothing to the story but only take away from the whole thing.

Short Review: The movie is perplexing and unnerving, I didn't find myself frightened or particularly horrified, but I found myself extremely uncomfortable and unnerved the whole time. Something this studio excels at. If you are experienced in Horror films you should find it as a fresh and novel experience. If you are new to Horror, I'm sure you'll be huddling at many points, totally unsure about what is coming next. I'm not sure the studio will ever put out something quite like Hereditary again, and Saint Maud is certainly no masterpiece, but it deserves to be watched at least once; and given your full attention when doing so. Long Review: I want to premise this by saying that Horror is not only my favourite genre of movie and game, but also increasingly the focus of my graduate studies in (let's just say) cultural theory. The movies this studio is putting out play around a lot with uncanny and unsettling cinema in a way that is aesthetically and stylistically pleasing and complex. Though, I can't help but feel like the studio is riding the success of the films Ari Aster wrote and directed (being Hereditary and Midsommar), while this film was written and directed by Rose Glass; considering the fact that the trailer advertises its connection to the previously mentioned Ari Aster films. This is not the studio's debut film, which was actually Under the Skin or Enemy, both made in 2013, it actually has about 25 films under it's belt. However, this studio's recent films play around with your sense of comfort and consistency by constantly throwing uncanny imaging your way, utilizing time-images well by quickly interrupting long shots, using an interplay of volumes to quickly create and release tension (often to make you put your guard down), and by using genre expectations to build and then misdirect viewer anticipation (which helps in 'the scare'). It is for these reasons that the studio is quickly developing a strong cult following. However, due to all this it must be said that Saint Maud does not follow the usual path of a Horror film, it operates with much more subtly than, say, the Conjuring franchise that has done so well and has sort of developed a Horror cinematic universe. This is not to say that A24 is the Avant Garde of horror we must follow without question, but that I see a lot of the innovation in A24 movies as in the Blair Witch project (which massively popularized the 'found footage' Horror genre of the 00's-10's). This also means that the movie isn't for everyone, as the Horror genre has huge separations and distinctions in it. Saint Maud is a deeply psychological experience, inviting the viewer to sort of 'scare themselves' by offering a window into an experience that attempts to 'pull the rug out' from under their perception. Jump scares are rare (if happening at all) and there is no 'big bad dude', but only the fragility of our own minds; which this movie attempts to take full advantage of. All-in-all, if movies like Silent Hill, The Women in Black, or The Conjuring are your horror preferences, you may find this movie novel and creepy at best, or slow and uneventful at worst. But, if you let yourself get unnerved by it, you'll do what I did after I finished the film, and sit there in astounded silence for a few moments just digesting the novel experience from this great studio.

Short Review: Clovehitch killer is a psychological thriller that takes the viewer into the mind of a serial killer. Long Review: I watched this movie with a resounding, meh. There are no twists, I feel like they try to throw some twists in there, but it’s all so predictable. All the dark psychological places they try to take it have just been done better in other movies/shows like Mindhunters. Also, this movie could have been resolved within like 20 minutes, but the main character is so hopelessly pathetic that the antagonist has way too many chances. Also, I don’t know why movies think it’s good storytelling that a teenager with a textbook can diffuse out more than full on homicide investigators. Also, there’s far too many plot holes to explain here without ruining it, but all i can say about it is at the end I found myself very much so saying a lot of, “ok but hold on, so what about loose end X? How did this person not just do Y?”

Short Review: This film is an apocalyptic thriller revolving around a pregnant women surviving an android apocalypse. Real mixture of terminator meets iRobot meets Bird Box. Might be worth a watch, but temper expectations. Long Review: It really feels like the director didn’t know what direction to take this in, and instead took it in multiple directions poorly. The character’s weren’t compelling enough to create a connection causing the emotional scenes to run flat, the movie has far too many slow moments to be a thriller, it’s not a horror, and there isn’t enough action to be an action movie. It’s hard to explain without spoilers, but I think what got me the most was the inconsistent use of real life events (such as pregnancy) which only seemed to arise when it was relevant to the plot. I’m not sure when it lost me. It may have been when the main character rolled through a war zone on a wheelchair with a crying baby strapped to her without catching any attention, in may have been when her initial contractions lasted like 72 hours, it may have been the notion that the U.S was being destroyed by androids and other countries were untouched and didn’t supply military aid, and it may have been when a singular women held a chain link fence closed with one hand from a group of super-strong/fast android like hours after giving birth. Regardless, it brings you along an inconsistent ride of mediocrity with a flat story and tired plot.

Was decent, it’s a good action movie with cool and effects and mostly satisfying actions scenes. The only thing is that Vin cannot act, like, his only 3 setting are: blank stare, anger, punching, and that’s it. Luckily this only become obvious in like 2 scenes.

I’m pretty well versed in horror movies. The film is definitely creepy and dark, but I never found myself frightened. Although I was unsettled from time to time. However, I think I developed a hatred for children more than anything.

It's really too bad that this movie didn't do well. It's a good terminator movie. It has great combat scenes, funny little 1 liners, good references, expected & flat emotional scenes (just like most actions movies), and has a couple interesting twists and turns that I didn't expect. I was thoroughly entertained and got what I expected, because I didn't expect a cinematic masterpiece, I wanted to see robots fight. I know some complains are like "oh! Skynet failed... but Skynet 2.0 (not the real name) exists" and sure it's a little cheesy, but if Palpatine can build the Death Star essentially 3 times and no one complains than a military AI can go haywire and pre-emptively destroy humanity to end wars; which, honestly, is far more believable.

Short Review: Come True is an ambitious movie that falls short, and contains a story that is as complex as it is under explained. It has amazing hypnotic scenes intermixed with boring scenes with flat unbelievable characters. Long Review: First if all, the “horror”. I put the word in quotations as this has to be the least frightening film I have ever seen which parades itself as a horror film. Other than 3 minor jump scares with no real tension build up the whole movie is pretty uneventful. The sci-fi component is definitely a lot stronger and is definitely in that surrealist sci-fi category. That said, it’s pretty boring aside from a few surrealist scenes. Those scenes however, are few and far between, and far too scarce for the movie to be advertised on that basis. Finally, the story is really empty. At first the movie is quite promising, but the ending twist (which I won’t divulge here) leaves a lot of unanswered questions. The film produces a lot of unexplored story lines that are just abandoned, I imagine these are to “throw off the viewer” but they become damning plot holes at the end. This leaves the overall story (after the viewer stops for a moment to think back over their experience) to feel pretty flat, and makes you go “but wait, then how did X happen?” about a dozen times.