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Child Eater, 2016. 6/10
 This had a great premise and a weird back story. The Child Eater had a eye disease that made him slowly go blind, so he thought if he ate peoples eyes it would cure him. The younger eyes the better. The killer looked cool, the storyline all over the place and the good parts shot in the darkness. http://img.cinemablend.com/cb/1/3/d/...4647e103d7.jpg |
Hush 2016 It was pretty decent. I enjoyed it overall.
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Ditch Day Massacre, 2016. 8/10
 Finally got to watch this on Amazon Prime. ::love:: Fantastic! I need to see every Bill Oberst Jr film, my mission.  |
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
7/10 Description: "In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her 2 daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business, inviting an evil presence into their home." Mike Flanagan co-writes and directs Oujia, also known for Hush and Oculus. The first 3/4ths of the film is really well done. I highly recommend the film for that alone. It feels like a fresh film take on some fairly well covered horror-subject matter ground. The directing, sound, story and characters are rich, warm and engrossing. The story and characters stay realistic, intelligent and relatable. However, the last quarter (ending rampage) of the film far exceeds familiar... Unfortunately, the ending was unimaginative and stock, purely physical, and having little to do with the principle themes of the film. I'd have to get into spoilers to specify, but let's say after the Priest talks to Mom and Sister in the bedroom, it's totally hack. I didn't necessary mind the extremely cliche identity and backstory of the evil apparition -- though it felt completely out-of-place in an otherwise very warm slice of suburban Americana setting -- but if writers Flanagan and Howard were actually going to use it, they should have really turned it on it's head, and integrated it into the story with a modern context. Rather, this evil's origin (and ending) felt completely disembodied from the rest of the film. The ending should have resolved the engaging emotional relationships of the family and Priest. It didn't have to have a happy ending, but it might as well have ended with Indian throwing a water fountain out a window. |
BEYOND THE GATES 2016
Two brothers reunite to pack up their missing father's video store. They find a VHS board game that seems to be connected to their father's fate. Meh-ish. A bit juvenile. |
The Wailing (2016)
Decent but there were a couple of things I didn't understand and the ending was a bit of a letdown too. Some sweet locations though. |
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