The Devil Inside Review

 

I love Exorcism movies.  I also love documentary type horror.  So at some points this movie was really enjoyable.  I loved the concept that the Vatican was letting some possessions slip through the cracks and that there's a rogue pair of priests performing exorcisms behind the Church's back.  There are some really creepy scenes like where the people that are possessed do weird demonic like things and bend and break their bodies.  I thought those scenes were done quite well.

The thing I didn't like was how the movie's focus changed 3/4's of the way in.  It started out focusing on Maria Rossi, the main character's mom.  It was Isabella Rossi's film about her mom's possession and exorcism.  Then after they performed her exorcism (which didn't work) it focuses on how the demon is going to different people.  In the end they all die and all but one from the main group was possessed at some point.  The ending seem rushed and a separate  movie from the rest of the film.

Is it Scary?  It shouldn't be..

Do bodies move in weird impossible angles?  Oh yeah.

The Nun Review

It's one of those plots that had a chance, but didn't come together well.  It's one of those movies that you know for sure when someone is about to die.  So the acting was okay, not great but not horrible.  The effects were the same.

So it's really easy to tell when someone is about to die, because 'The Nun' AKA Sister Ursula (SPOILER: AKA the main girl, Eve), can only travel to her victims through water.  This is because the group of girls who she is targeting drowned her and hid her body in a pond thing.

It's one of those the main character is crazy and killing everyone without realizing it and when she kills the nun in the end she kills herself.  I think it would have been so much better if they had left the Nun as a separate character, but that's just my opinion.

Is it scary?  Maybe if you're on acid.

If there is nothing else to watch, should you watch it or do something else?  Do something else.

House at the End of the Street (2012) Review and Summary

Review:

Major plot twists!  Usually I can get a good idea on how the movie will end within the first 20 minutes.  I was so wrong with this one.  About 40 minutes into the movie you will be so confused, and wondering, "what the heck are they going to do for forty more minutes?"

Ryan is the cute young guy with the awful past that lives by himself and Jennifer's character becomes interested in him.  The whole town treats him like a disease because his mentally challenged sister killed his parents and disappeared in the woods.

At least that’s what the rumor is..

Summary:

It shows Ryan unlocking some secret room in the basement where a young lady is staying. He feeds her and she tries to attack him, so he gives her sedative of some sort then locks the room back up.  He calls her Carrie Ann, so we assume that he's taking care of her.  

So 'Carrie Ann', the mentally unstable sister of the cute and emotionally scarred Ryan dies like 40 minutes in.  He is struggling to contain her after she escapes the house again and he accidentally snaps her neck.  But don't feel too bad for him.  

Turns out Carrie Ann died when they were both little in a swing accident.  His druggie parents told everyone Ryan went to stay with his aunt, but they actually put a wig on him and made him be Carrie Ann.  So he is actually the one that killed his parents because he was tired of being his sister.

He kidnaps girls with brown hair, makes them live in his basement, and makes them be Carrie Anne.  Which is why the one escaped and was struggling against him when he snapped her neck.

He 'needs Carrie Ann' though so he picks up another one at a dinner with some chloroform.  Jennifer Lawrence's character then finds blue contact lenses and tampons in his kitchen trash can and a wallet belonging to a female Penn State student.

She figures out what's going on and he wants to kill the girl he got at the diner so that Jennifer's character can be Carrie 

Anne.  Her mom helps her escape and he dies.  And the only person in town that stood up for him, the local sheriff, is killed in the process as well.

In the end you either feel sorry for him or you hate him.

I rated it this highly because it did keep me interested and it had a major plot twist that made sense.

Is it scary?  No

Is it emotional?  Yes

Grave Encounters & Grave Encounters 2 Review

Grave Encounters:

So Grave Encounters actually creeped me out a little bit.  This is not an easy thing to do.  There isn't that many actual ghost sightings, it's more psychological, which fits since it takes place in an old asylum.

They could not leave the asylum, the walls and halls moved, even to where there were no exits at all.  I also loved how when they woke up they had hospital i.d. bracelets.  The ghosts made sure that they knew they weren't ever safe while they were there.

It was kind of corny, but all 'found footage' movies are.  I think after they got locked in for the night it was pretty good.  As far as modern horror goes, this was great.

They spent about $100,000,000 on it, and I think they used it well.  The building was gorgeous and creepy.  The location was perfect, what's creepier then Canada?  The ghosts were done pretty well.

Was it scary?  Kind of.

Watch it alone late at night with the lights out?  For sure.

Grave Encounters 2:

This was not nearly as good or creepy as the first one.  However it does tie into it pretty well.  In the first movie it doesn't make clear if the host for Grave Encounters, Sean Rogerson, lived or died.  This movie explained that and why the asylum is doing what it is doing.

The cast wasn't as entertaining or likable in my opinion; they were kind of just annoying.  I was really disappointed when the ghosts threw the one camera guy out the window so early on.  So the rest of the staff do make it 'out' of the asylum and when they try to leave their hotel and get on the elevator they get transported back to the tunnels at the asylum.  

If you want to see what happened to the original crew and how the 'footage was fond, then I recommend you watch the sequel.  If you want more chills like in the first one, I suggest you pass.

Is it Scary?  No.

Is it acceptable to watch with your boyfriend and act scared as an excuse to cuddle close to him?  Yes.

Evil Dead (1981) Review

So I finally watched this Cult Classic film, and I can see why it is a called that.  However, it is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.  The zombie/demons were so poorly done and I hated Bruce Campbell's character.  He heard on the recording that you have to dismember them to die, they made a little bit of a deal about it, like he was actually going to follow the directions.  But no, I think he only does it to two of them.

So they had a budget of $375,000 and I'm wondering what they used it on.  Obviously not on the demon make up.

It had a lot of potential, I liked the plot, it just didn't come together that well.

Is it scary?  Maybe to some.

Should you watch it if there is nothing else on?  Sure, give it a try.

Monster Brawl Review

So I've always loved monsters and wrestling.  This movie combined both excellently.  It has former WWE/ WWF Superstars like, Kevin Nash and Jimmy Hart.  It also has a brief scene with MMA Referee, Herb Dean and stars Robert Maillet (AKA Kurrgan) who you might recognize from 300, Pacific Rim, or Sherlock Holmes.

They had a budget of roughly $200,000 Canadian Dollars, and they used them well.  The special effects (gore) were actually pretty good.  The monsters were pretty cool looking and you could tell that they picked some good athletes for the roles.

Is it scary?  No

Is it a good watch when hanging with your buds?  Definitely!