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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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Clown Doll OK/G
The title is one word (ClownDoll)
in some places and The Clown Doll in
others, but apparently this is the only movie with that title, so whatever. I do love clown movies and I do love doll
movies. The doll here is life-size and
the clown design is obviously a mask and wig, so this is really a slasher movie
with a clown as the slasher. Is that a
complaint? Not at all. I actually liked the way the clown
looked. I want to recommend this film
based on that alone. Plus, there are
some kills, some of them worthy too. It
is slow at times and it is a low-budget film, that much is obvious, but it’s
not as bad as it could’ve been based on that, although, yes, it would’ve
benefitted from a better budget. I was
hoping it wouldn’t contain an overdone twist I thought it was leading towards,
and while it does feel a bit ambiguous at the end, it’s actually exactly what
you think it is after I pondered about it afterwards…I hope. Even if it does contain one of those “open to
interpretation” endings, I’m sticking with my conclusion because it’s a much
better movie that way. Not a bad
addition, nor a masterpiece, to the clown horror subgenre. 5/3/2021
Fried Barry B
The titular character is abducted by aliens and undergoes an
ordeal that puts the ones from Fire in the
Sky to shame. It could just be his
drug-induced state, so I don’t know. A
synopsis tells me an alien inhabits his body and uses it to travel through Cape
Town, which is in South Africa, if you didn’t know. Whatever, the movie didn’t work for me as an
alien abduction film or a drug-induced one.
I read that it’s an acquired taste and I wonder if it’s one of those
films in which you yourself need to be fried to enjoy it. I can see it likely becoming a cult film, as
some are already labeling it, and hence the “acquired taste,” but I’m
definitely not one of those fans, nor do I see myself ever becoming one; I
think it’s one of the worst movies of the year.
It currently has an 83% score out of 42 critics on Rotten Tomatoes
though, so what do I know? 5/7/2021
Bonus review:
June 9 OK
(haiku review)
Is found footage dead?
Some may say, but what isn’t?
This one’s just okay.
5/8/2021
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Butchers >>>EH
The Little Things >>>EH/OK
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) >>>OK
---Sean O.
5/8/2021
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