It was a Movie MONTH for me! PART ONE
Halloween Ends, The Rental, Gerald’s Game, The Barbarian, Train to Busan, The Northmen, Raw, and Creep are all the movies I watched the month of October. I have been taking a hiatus from writing a review for movies because I have been consuming as much film as I can because it was SPOOKY MONTH.
I am going to do something different and review all the movies I listed in this one article. Probably going to have part two. It’ll be fun! Spoilers of course, you have been warned…
First, we got Halloween Ends. I watched it with my boyfriend’s family when it came out. The Halloween series is my favorite, but this film PISSED ME OFF! As someone who has watched all the original films, I know that Micheal Myers WENT HARD in his prime time. But this film made him seem weak. No explanation as to why he could take so much damage from the past films and still smash someone's head in. WHY THE HELL DID MICHEAL LET COREY TAKE HIS MASK! I get it, Micheal is getting old from killing mindlessly, but come on… Also, I felt like the mantle for Micheal should have been passed down to Corey because he did some damage pretending to be Micheal. He had some sick kills with the radio man and the teenage kids. It made me cringe in disgust by how much gore was in it, but you know what. HE FUCKING DIED; (excuse my language) he was so deranged that he killed himself, but made it seem like Jamie Lee Curtis did it, so her granddaughter would hate her for ‘killing’ her weird ass boyfriend. There could have been potential for some sequel, but no, they just want to end a classic horror series. Plus, the way they killed Micheal was so brutal. Really, a grinder in a junkyard? Jeez. I’m going to miss Micheal. I give it a 7 out of 10, only for the gore and also because Micheal was barely in the film, and they disrespected his series.
Second, we have The Rental. It sucked. My boyfriend and I agreed that it was horrible. A movie directed by Dave Franco. He needed some help with this film because it was struggling to create a plot. Two couples go to a cabin to celebrate some work together. There is some adultery committed, and they are trying to hide it, but they find out that a camera was in the shower. The owner of the cabin is confronted by the couples, but one guy gets angry and beats him up until he is unconscious. But surprisingly (I’m lying it wasn’t a surprise) there was some other guy stalking the cabin and killed the owner and everyone now thinks the guy that beat him up killed him. They are scrambling to get rid of the body and everyone is stressed, but the couples find out about the adultery and everything was just so stressful and dumb. In the end, the stalker guy killed everyone in that cabin and sought out another vacation home to stalk and kill all the renters in. The film was grasping at straws for a plot, and the adultery focus was so dumb. I would have been more interested in the stalker dude instead of the couples. I give it a 3 out of 10. It sucked badly.
Third, we have Gerald’s Game. I was so surprised by this film. It gave me chills. So the basis behind the film was that this older couple is struggling with their marriage, so they decide to get spicy in a rented house deep in the woods, there is no one miles and miles near them. So, they are getting spicy in bed and the husband decides to handcuff the wife’s arms SPREAD EAGLE ON THE BEDPOST AND ENDS UP HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND DIES. The wife is still handcuffed, what the fuck is she suppose to do. I would have simply died. But her whole process in escaping and surviving was nerve wracking. I loved every minute. The wife had some disturbing memories appearing in her delusions because she has been in this bed for hours and days without food, so her trauma is conflicting with her escape. She is talking to her dead husband and herself, and they are going back and forth with her. It's making me anxious. But the thing that got me was the moment it got to nighttime. The wife wakes up, and it's dark as hell in the bedroom. She sees some big guy in the corner with a distorted face in a suit holding a box full of weird valuables. She thinks she is hallucinating, and I thought so too. The shot was so scary, it's one shot that makes me scared and anxious in any film. The camera is pointed at a dark corner, and it sits there for a long time, so the audience can see what the hell we are looking at but also second guess ourselves, like nah there is nothing there, but it might be. It gives me chills just thinking about it. But the wife ends up getting out in the most disgusting way possible. She rips the skin off her hand as she slides her hand out of the handcuffs. I would simply throw my hand away if I had to do that. She escapes and in the end she finds out that the man she thought she saw in the corner of the room was an actual person with some facial disease that made his face disfigured. He was arrested because he was murdering and raping people all over the state. The only scene that bothered me was that she went to the courthouse to see the man’s trial. She just walked in and walked up to the man while he was handcuffed, about to get his sentencing. You can’t do that in court! But overall, I give it a 9 out of 10 because I found out in the end it was a FUCKING Stephen King novel. Mr. King NEVER MISSES WITH HIS STORIES!
SEE YA IN THE NEXT PART!
