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Them: Are You Scared? (2024)
Worse than bad
I'll give it a "1" for the competent cast but this has to be the lamest, most contrived, most amateurishly written nonsense I've ever suffered through - a complete embarrassment that it ever got produced and it wasn't a low-budget project. Sad to see the great Pam Grier in such a lemon.
Somehow a supernatural(?) but also apparently real person can mangle people to death without being present - oh but yes can also play a record and make phone calls. Full of stupid horror movie tropes that only make it all the more obvious the film has no solid or comprehensible storyline. Evil racist cop aspect has zero to do with it.
I simply cannot understand how a studio thought this was worth making. Even by low-grade horror genre standards this is pathetic. What else can I say, don't waste your time.
Emancipation (2022)
Serious American Civil War History
High point a powerful and chaotic battle scene. This is an unvarnished look at slavery in the American south in the 1860s though perhaps a bit too much sentimentality at times - but that's understandable. A re-creation of the iconic and historic wet-plate photograph "The Whipped Slave" was moving and well done.
I do not at all understand the gripes about the film being in B&W as it was spot on for the subject matter and the period - color would have been a cosmetic and superficial distraction. For those who can't deal with it I suggest skipping Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
Will Smith was impressive as were many other actors.