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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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The Djinn OK/G
A young mute boy in the late Eighties summons a djinn
(basically a supernatural entity in several different cultures, for those
unaware) from a book he finds in his new apartment to make a wish (I’m sure you
can deduce what that wish might be). You
know what they always say though…be careful what you wish for! This film is well-shot and the primary single
location manages to be used very effectively; some parts may be chilling to
some. It does lose a bit of steam
towards the end, even at roughly 80-minutes, but it’s still not a bad film
worth checking out. It feels like one of
those that might get better with time. 3/5/2022
Bonus review:
Two Sentence Horror
Stories (Season Three)
Read my review for season one here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2019/10/anna-and-apocalypse.html
and season two here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-sentence-horror-stories-season-2.html
for an outline of the show (and if you want to read my analysis of the previous
seasons). I don’t think you would care
to check out this season if you haven’t watched any of the last two, even
though you don’t need to watch episodes of an anthology show in order. You’ll see that I said this at the end of my
review for season two---Even though I
can’t say this is my favorite anthology show after just two seasons, yes, I
will watch a third season and so on, but I just hope they’ll contain more hits
than misses, thank you very much! Well,
I did watch this third season as I said I would, but I can’t say there were
more hits than misses this time (unfortunately, but not surprising). Out of these ten episodes, all roughly 20
minutes each (watch on Netflix instead of The CW to avoid commercials), my
favorites of the bunch were “Toxic,” “Teatime,” “Heirloom,” and
“Homecoming.” “Toxic” involved
demons/zombies in the woods, “Teatime” involved a babysitter in charge of an
evil little girl with a special doll collection (I was slightly reminded of Dolls from 1987), “Heirloom” was a decent
ghost story with a unique take on racism, and “Homecoming” involved a literal
and figurative demon wherein the creature design wasn’t too bad. As for the rest? “Crush” was kind of lame; “Plant Life” wasn’t
too interesting of a tale involving a failing relationship that gradually
becomes body horror (some might claim the ending is somewhat bittersweet);
“Teeth” may have worked had it been expanded since it felt a bit
underdeveloped; “The Killer Inside” was probably my least favorite, involving,
among other things, a woman trying to save her Dad; “Patel Motel Cartel”
probably looked better on paper because the script was fine, but the creature
effects were terrible; lastly, “Erased” may have been a clever metaphor on
colonization, but the execution wasn’t too compelling. Obviously this isn’t my favorite series, but
I can’t resist horror anthology shows.
You figure, a little over three hours isn’t long for an entire season,
but it is still precious time you could use on something else worthwhile. You decide what you want to do; that’s your choice
(I gave you my opinion). Just like it
was your choice to read this review. And
thank you, like always, if you did. 3/2/2022
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Belfast >>>OK
Blue Ridge (2020) >>>EH/OK
---Sean O.3/6/2022
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