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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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What Lies Below OK/G
Mena Suvari. That
actress who will forever be known as the choir girl from American Pie and the horny be-yotch from American Beauty (at least to me, and likely others from my
generation or before). She hasn’t really
aged and this is just one of two recent movies I’ve seen with her in it; the
other one being Don’t Tell a Soul,
which wasn’t bad, I just wasn’t too big a fan of the ending. Here, she picks up her teenage daughter from
camp and heads to their cabin in the woods by a lake. There, we meet mom’s new boyfriend. He may be really attractive, but something is
clearly not right about him; licking menstrual blood on a raft and sniffing the
teen daughter’s clothes while she’s in the shower are just the beginning. While I may have made it sound like a
Lifetime “movie of the week” type film, it gradually becomes an entirely
different film, one more fitting for the SyFy Channel. It certainly has atmosphere and intrigues for
a good deal, but I didn’t feel entirely satisfied when it was over and felt slightly
confused (even after reading “spoilers” online; they all felt the same way I
did). I also felt that perhaps there may
have been some things I didn’t pick up on the first time. I don’t know.
Currently available on Netflix. 4/8/2021
Other movies and TV show(s) I’ve seen and their ratings (see above):
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys >>>B
Don’t Tell a Soul >>>OK/G
The Evictors >>>G
Eyes of a Stranger >>>B/EH
Fatale >>>OK
The Leopard Man >>>EH
My Neighbor Totoro >>>EH/OK
The Power (2021) >>>EH/OK
(Shudder)
The Soul Collector >>>OK
Southern Gothic (season 1) >>>OK
The Widow >>>EH/OK
---Sean O.
4/10/2021
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