Everything about this movie was wrong except for Jeremy Sisto as the dad character and the Neon Indian soundtrack. The main character is Nancy and she’s stuck at a podunk diner working the night shift. Why is she alone? Because her dumbass fired her line cook before the shift started. Big mistake. A group of masked delinquents terrorize her and she calls the sheriff,…
This is a tough one for me, because I genuinely like odd-ball Lynchian type genre-busting “what the frick did I just watch?” movies. The story is simple until it’s not. The main protagonist is Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) who moves in with her father and step family after the death of her mother. As she tries to adjust to this new life, this crazed lady…
Iris Lark (Freya Allan) is called about the death of her father, from whom she had been estranged. She inherits his pub/home in Berlin and then finds out there is some zombified woman living in the basement with a bag over her head. This woman can become a dead loved one for two minutes, but then starts to get more powerful and demonic unless…
Well, hell has frozen over. I’ve finally found a Jai Courtney performance I don’t hate with every fiber of my being. He plays the main antagonist named Tucker, a guy who owns his own “swimming with sharks” business using his rusty old ginormous boat. Turns out, he’s also a serial killer. He feeds tourist victims to sharks and records it on VHS tapes. Things…
Samara Weaving plays Sofia, a pop music star who is stalked by obsessed fan Paul (Ray Nicholson). At the beginning, Paul goes to jail for stabbing Sofia’s bodyguard, then breaks out six months later to go right back to kidnapping Sofia. First question: why aren’t the cops a little more clued into the fact that Paul might go right for his #1 crush after…
This is a Norwegian film that presents a Cronenbergian Cinderella story. It takes place in the Victorian era where the value of a woman is how beautiful she is and how rich of a man she can attract. The main character, Elvira, is pushed by her mother to become more beautiful by losing her braces, getting barbaric nose surgery, and swallowing a tapeworm egg…
Bill Skarsgard plays Eddie, an unlucky mess of a dude, who resorts to petty theft when he owes money to a car mechanic who fixed his van. He goes around checking car doors for things to steal and finds a nice car in a parking lot. When he gets in to loot the SUV, the doors lock and the owner calls him to tell…
It’s the 1930s and twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their home of Mississippi after getting rich in Chicago by stealing gangster money. Upon their arrival, they start making immediate plans to set up a juke joint for that evening. Well, the shit hits the fan when vampires come to feast on the party. This is my…
Two Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East), visit the home of Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) to preach the Mormon gospel. The encounter goes from bad to worse as he attempts to have them question their faith in increasingly uneasy ways. This movie reminded me a little of Barbarian in that it kept taking you further down a rabbit…
I liked this movie better when it was called The Exorcist in the 1970s. It’s based on true events from 1928 where two priests attempt to exorcise a demon from a young girl. One hour and forty minutes later and I couldn’t care less. Dan Stevens and Al Pacino play the two priests with total indifference. The only reason I watched this was for…
