Oh, the Horror

“Midsommar“
A really long and dragged out story about a group of kids who discover a small community of people who turn out to be completely nuts. The set up seemed to take forever and there is no reason that this film should be almost 2 hours and 15 minutes. Good young cast is wasted.

UPDATE: I’m willing to give this movie another try. By talking to others, I may have missed something the first time around.

Rating: (*1/2)

“Child’s Play“
Chucky’s back, love him or hate him. This is a very crazy remake of the 80’s iconic toy from hell flick of the same name. The story is a little different, but the premise is the same and so is the result. The violence is really taken up a notch as the deaths are more creative and certainly more gory. Chucky must’ve been watching Rob Zombie or Eli Roth movies, cause damn. Aubrey Plaza is a nice casting touch as she plays her usual spacey person. I’ve sat through a lot worse than this and it fed my horror vein for 90 minutes.

Rating: (**1/2)

“47 Meters Down: Uncaged”
I sat through the first movie because I have a thing for shark movies. That movie was stupid and this one is equally as dumb. I was actually rooting for the sharks. That being said, what made this movie a little more suspenseful was that a bulk of it took place in underwater caves and I do not like closed spaces. The sharks are interesting that they’re enormous and prehistoric. This is still a movie about stupid people doing stupid things.

Rating: (**)

“Crawl”
A fun and effective thriller about a spunky college swimmer who checks on her estranged father in the middle of a hurricane only to discover that he is trapped in the basement of his run down house by a giant gator which entered thru a nearby drain pipe. If you think about it, it’s absolutely plausible. Anyway, the movie worked for me because the gator effects are terrific and there are a lot of tense and jump out of your seat scenes. Much of it is predictable and kinda dumb, but you get exactly what you signed up for and at 83 minutes, it goes by quickly. I liked it.

Rating: (**1/2)

“Ready or Not”

What if it was your wedding night, just married and to be accepted into the family, all you have to do is play a nice game of hide and seek? Not bad, right? Maybe, a little weird. Not if the family’s goal is to try and capture and kill you. This is a pretty bonkers of a horror movie with a pretty neat premise and a good cast including Andie McDowell of all people as the mom. It’s got a lot of standard stuff in it, but it works because it doesn’t take itself too seriously and is fun.

Rating: (***)