Weekly Movie Review: Knock Knock (2015)

Solid movie. Felt like a riff on home invasion horror, but also brought a new element to it: female attacker(s) and a male victim. Suspenseful, intriguing, and Keanu is just, well, so Keanu. Plays up a pedophilic/cheating angle, heavily, and yet somehow makes you sympathize more with a victim in Keanu than his aggressors. Nice commentary by Eli Roth as an example from the other side of statutory rape. And bigger commentary (last few lines of the movie) on how, societally, this has become more problematic and more of an issue, fueled more so by social media. Not highly recommended from a pure horror standpoint, but recommended enough from a cinema standpoint.

6.5/10

Weekly Movie Review: The Nun (2018)

Nun = none = the amount of times I felt scared during this movie. Holy shit. That was miserable. I had such high hopes for this movie after the Insidious and Conjuring movies, but man, what a letdown. Even the jump scares weren’t scary. The only thing redeeming about this was the setting and aesthetics; it’s shot beautifully, but even Christ can’t save this movie. Wan, I’m disappointed you allowed this to happen.

2/10

Weekly Movie Review: Unfriended (2014)

While it was a clever take on the killer picking off white, California, high school kids, it ultimately came down to a lack of execution (typical for horror movies these days). The movie did a good job at building suspense, keeping my attention, and making me want all the characters to die, but the death scenes were mostly lazy and majority of the scares were jump scares. The whole movie taking place from a laptop-Skype session was creative and well-executed, but overall was trite and overdone.

4.5/10

Weekly Movie Review: Sharknado (2013)

They’ve made 6 of these apparently. and the 82% on rotten tomatoes was intriguing; everyone saying “it’s so bad it’s good.” But it was just bad. I get that maybe it was supposed to be awful, like Troll 2 or The Room, but at least those were funny. This was just abysmal, in every way. It was sunny for majority of the film where a hurricane is supposed to be taking place. The fuck? And nothing redeeming about it except for the credits signifying the end of 90 minutes I just wasted. Please. Never watch this movie.

0.5/10