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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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Porno OK/G
No, this isn’t an actual porno, although a porn film is involved
and there is nudity. This horror film
associated with Fangoria (although Rue Morgue is my favorite
magazine, I’ve also been reading theirs religiously for about the past 20
years) takes place at a religious-owned movie theater (they all pray together
before work) in the early Nineties (Encino
Man and A League of Their Own are
the only two movies playing; I remember seeing the latter in the theater). After hours, the workers discover a boarded-up
staircase leading to an underground theater where they come across a porn film
(of an arty satanic variety) that unleashes a succubus after viewing (that is a
female demon that seduces her victims, usually while asleep, whereas the
incubus is the male version, for those unaware). There is violence (more than once involving
male genitalia in explicit detail) and there is a decent amount I enjoyed here,
but it is a bit formulaic in its approach and I wasn’t entirely satisfied when
it was over (at least not enough). I did
like this better than the last movie Fangoria was involved with (Satanic Panic), but here’s to hoping
their next involvement is even better than this. 5/20/2020
Bonus review:
The Jack in the Box EH/OK
I love clowns and I love toys, especially jack-in-the-boxes
(a clown toy, shocker). The Jack in this
movie was cool, housed in a box looking like it was designed by the Cenobites
(those demons in Hellraiser, for
those unaware). The clown that comes out
of the jack-in-the-box was really cool; he even had claws for fingers! Oh yeah, a clown physically emerges from the
giant jack-in-the-box to kill people. Why
wasn’t this movie better than it was?!!!
This is largely a by-the-numbers slasher flick in which the toy is given
to a museum after being discovered and, in true slasher form, we know whenever
someone is going to die. It wouldn’t
have been so bad if we actually saw the majority of the kills, and had it been
the same movie with a villain not as cool, my rating would’ve been even lower. This film is far from recommendable, but I
kind of am suggesting it, in the slightest way possible, for evil clown lovers
solely because the clown is so gnarly (he belongs in a better movie). 5/20/2020
Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Little Joe >>>EH
Spies in Disguise >>>EH/OK
---Sean O.
5/21/2020
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