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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Kids vs. Aliens G
Spin-off film of a segment in V/H/S/2, both directed by Jacob Eisener (I recommend the short film
he also directed, Treevenge, which
you can check out on YouTube). This
roughly 75-minute feature is fast-paced with barely enough room to
breathe. I enjoyed it though (as I did
the vignette in the aforementioned anthology film). As you can deduce from the title, it involves
kids (and teenagers) that must fight for their lives after aliens crash a
Halloween party at one of their houses (the teen girl and young boy’s parents
definitely aren’t going to win any ‘Parents of the Year’ awards). These aliens don’t want to be anyone’s
friend; they simply want to annihilate in more ways than one. There is violence, yes, towards both humans
and aliens. It did end too soon, but I
have a feeling this may not be all we’re going to see since the story obviously
isn’t over…1/22/2023
Bonus reviews:
All Eyes OK/G
[POTENTIAL SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW]
After being fired for a certain incident on his podcast, a
dude takes an offer for a decent sum of cash.
The offer? Tell this one man’s
story about claims of a monster living in the woods near his home in Oklahoma. First he has to meet this guy at the post
office in town. Then he has to follow
him a ways before being told to hop in his truck blindfolded to avoid knowing
where he lives. That’s not suspicious at
all! He lives in the middle of nowhere,
the house being booby-trapped inside and out, he claiming to forget where some
of the traps may be. Yeah, this dude’s
not off his rocker! He actually ends up
not being the one you need to worry about.
Our protagonist eventually labels the house “the escape room from Hell,”
and it wouldn’t be out of place in Maximum
Overdrive. I wasn’t sure if I should
reveal whether there is actually a monster and if we do get to see it, but there
is one and you do see it briefly at the end and I wasn’t a fan. Otherwise, this movie generally isn’t that
bad for not getting any known exposure (I stumbled across it by accident when
searching for other movies). I really
didn’t know what to expect. There is a
bit of suspense with a few surprises in store.
1/20/2023
Among the Living EH
(haiku review)
Fresh subgenre take?
Nope, not really; not to me.
Standard zombie flick.
1/20/2023Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Angel (1984) >>>EH/OK
The Batman >>>EH
Croc! >>>B/EH
The Night Shift (Ghost Mansion) >>>OK
(In
Korean with subtitles)
---Sean O.
1/22/2023
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