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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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Heart Eyes OK
There aren’t too many Valentine’s Day horror flicks. There’s My
Bloody Valentine and its remake, the underseen yet not exactly grand Lovers Lane, Valentine, and the segments from Holidays and the original Tales
from the Crypt film (my review for Holidays
in one of my older blogs is in here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2016/11/mooby-reviews-11416.html);
ones featuring a romance without taking place on or around the holiday don’t
count either. Here’s another one to add
to the list. In it, a killer dubbed the
Heart Eyes Killer (HEK, for short), due to the mask having hearts for the
eyeholes, has killed people in different cities for the last three V-days,
Seattle being the current one. The
kills, for the most part, are worthy enough, but the film generally isn’t
anything other than ordinary; predictable more so than it tries not to be. It’s basically a rom-com with a body count; a
sappy rom-com by the end. I wouldn’t say
I disliked it, but it sucks I didn’t
like it better than I anticipated. Happy
V-day, suckers! 2/11/2025
Bonus review:
Crust EH
Sean Whalen, a face you recognize more than the name (he was
in The People Under the Stairs, Twister, Idle Hands, etc.), directed, co-wrote, and stars in this, playing a
has-been child actor living and working in a laundromat. After a group of teens film him doing
something private, yet very human, and post it online, one of his tears falls
into a mound of socks, thus giving birth to the sock monster of the title. Yup, a sock monster, complete with two holes
for eyes, a mouth, and two arms (kind of reminded me of the Egg Monster on the
cover of the original Goosebumps book, Egg Monsters from Mars). It kills anyone that bothers our protagonist.
My expectations weren’t very high given
the concept, but this didn’t work for me; at least not in the way I hoped it
would. (I did think it was funny when
Crust danced along to an oldies tune, and I liked how they decided to end the
film). It’s basically more of a drama
about a man with a mid-life crisis, the titular sock monster essentially
ancillary. 2/8/2025
Other movies and TV show(s) I’ve seen and their ratings (see above):
Arena Wars >>>OK
The Birthday (2004) >>>EH/OK
Borderless Fog >>>EH
(Netflix; In
Indonesian with subtitles)
Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story >>>OK
(Lifetime)
Cupid (2020) >>>OK
Gladiator II >>>OK
Grave Torture >>>EH/OK
(In Indonesian
with subtitles)
Here (2024) >>>OK/G
My Animal >>>OK/G
Severance
(Season One) >>>OK/G
(Apple+;
9 episodes)
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp >>>B/EH
---Sean O.
2/12/2025
