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Knock at the Cabin (2023)
I Wish I Spent My Time on Doing Nothing Instead!
Because this movie is literally a 2-hour of nothing. I really wanted to believe in Shyamalan to come up with a movie that doesn't disappoint in years. I waited patiently but every time he manages not to live up to my expectations. The casting was good even though many of them have really no screen time. Long dialogs lost me many times, and I kept on waiting for one twist, that never happened. I think this was a waste of an opportunity as the story could be written in a much more exciting and interesting way. I strongly believe that Shyamalan wanted to play to audiences' fears after crazy couple of years but it is so obvious that the movie makes you laugh at some point.
I really wish I could have chosen another movie to watch instead. After Old and this one, I am not sure if I will put any future Shyamalan movies in my watch list again.
The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
So bad that makes you laugh
I really can't add anything new to the any other review here. I have no problem with choosing a cliché story but at least you could try for some acting maybe? It is so bad that it makes you laugh. Each line, each scene they are so bad, it gives you cringe. Waste of time. If you watch a murder House documentary you certainly can engage more than this. So don't bother watching it. Not even one person acts well. I ended up turning it off after flashback scene. Because clearly this is a school project and they didn't even have money for fake blood. No further than a group of friends trying to make a so called horror haunting using only their emotionless faces.
Devil in Ohio (2022)
All the Cliches with Very Bad Acting
Everything you expect from a secret satanist cult story and all the cliches are in this show. Cult, satanism, evil girl pretends as good, past traumas reflecting in today's judgements, troubled teenagers, popular girl tries to discover her identity.. literally they tried to force everything in on show. That's fine, you can have the same story and with a good production you can make it watchable. However, acting is so bad in Devil in Ohio that it makes the show absolute rubbish. Gives you the cringe. No emotion in any actor at all. The married couple more looks like and acts like siblings, their children are over (or under) acting with very bad lines, no emotion in lead character's voice or face, also netflix didn't even try to spend money in visuals at all! The car crash scene is so ridiculous that she just jumps on her seat and hits her head purposely. It got worse in every episode so I had to fast forward. They tried to add magic-voodoo story too (a little bit of everything) but that also didn't lead anywhere like any other storyline. They were so desperate that they "forced" a confused teenager storyline (probably to make it look like diverse) but it failed greatly.
I am sure you can find much better shows to spend time, don't even bother with this one. I can't believe it's rating is over 5.
Sinister 2 (2015)
a really bad sequel
It is sad to see that this movie also became a victim of terrible sequels. First of all, none of the stories or characters are formed and founded well. No character development whatsoever. Literally so many pieces are floating in the air that many questions are left unanswered. I would say this is just a bunch of shocking murder tapes. (if you find them shocking of course) I didn't even find it suspenseful. Sadly after some point I was checking my phone and watching the movie at the background. That's how it can't grab your attention to be a good horror movie.
Halloween Kills (2021)
painful to watch
This was really painful to watch. I really don't know why they spent time and effort to something that doesn't add anything to the franchise but only more gore. They didn't have to call it "halloween" actually, they could create just any character kills random people and give us bloody gore scenes. At least we would expect less. The ideology they wanted to bring in didn't even sit well with me. (it is not Michael, it is fear he created?!) I read in the reviews about transforming Michael into a killing machine. Well, again if that's the purpose why bother with so many characters without any development, all the chaos on screen for nothing and dialogs that don't make sense. If it was a comedy-horror, I think it could be much better because I mostly laughed at all the things come together to give me nothing but some silly chase, kill and blood.
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
How to force it too much
Oh boy, where to start. I knew it wasn't good but it was advertised on Netflix home page so I gave it a go. To be honest there are so many accurate reviews here that I don't feel to add much on top of it. The movie falls into the trap to force it too much to scare. Random sudden effects, no foundation to the story, no character building... In a scene, she suddenly screams at poor boy asking who wrote the message and literally her acting and anger go from 2 to 10, it doesn't make sense. SO bad. After 30 mins I started to check my phone and barely looked at it after. If you have too much spare time, by all means watch it. But I am sure there are worthy movies out there, so don't make the mistake I made.
Antlers (2021)
A Nice, Del Toro style(ish) Mystery
I was looking for something to watch and I found this movie; haven't heard anything about it before, I decided to watch it. It kept the mystery well till the end. The movie started with a creepy quote which in my understanding about the nature getting revenge. Though I couldn't make direct connection with the script as the movie mostly felt like a local tale/myth coming true. Still I liked it. I haven't read the book they adapted it from (The Quiet Boy) but I can tell Jeremy Thomas did a good job with being mysterious, creepy, quiet little boy. I felt like the sub-story about the teachers past with abuse was a bit much. I don't know why they had to give a justification about her getting involved as she is the teacher and she didn't need any more reasons for it. I saw Guillermo del Toro's name at the end as the producer which it made much sense because the dark, mysterious flow reminds you a little bit his style. I would recommend if you are looking for a mystery-horror that doesn't bring much gore.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Meh
I am a little bit tired of this same loop of the story. Villain borns, hero has personal problems (in this case superpower and host "fall apart"), superpower and host make up, a very usual short final boss fight and end credits. This is what happened here. No surprises, no twists, nothing. Just a hero movie with expensive visual effects with no character fulfilment or nothing new. I mean, you have a secondary villain in your hand and you prefer to use it as a placeholder for "diversity" and maybe a little hint for future movies but no other purposes. And in the end, venom eats the villain because it was a part of it?! I watched this at home while I was constantly checking my phone. After a point, it becomes a background attraction which you occasionally check but mostly listen because it is "same old story". I like Tom Hardy but this was a bit bland.
Things Heard & Seen (2021)
How to mess a movie in 2 minutes
This movie had so much potential. So much. I can't believe they truly messed it up just in last 2 minutes. How come you can build up the story so good and suddenly manage to have the most ridiculous ending? It is already 2 hours, you could take 10 minutes to give at least some kind of ending! I was going to rate less, but for the sake of good acting I gave 4. I agree with a review here saying "don't watch the end, make up your own ending" yes do that. Turn it off when the guy receives a call note at the end.
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
Time to stick it to the heart
This is just another example for what happens when they really want to skim every drop out of a franchise but they run out of original ideas so they make fool of themselves.
I mean, story is absolutely ridiculous. They thought they added a few twists in but actually they turned it in a real s***show. No continuity, no developed characters and even the lead Selene lost her character and importance. I was lost already in first 10 mins.
This is when they need to push the wooden stick to the heart and end the the series. I am glad Kate Beckinsale already rejected to take part in possible future installments. They really should learn a lesson and leave it here.
Slender Man (2018)
Disappointment in 90 mins
Such a great character to terrorise audience and yet such a terrible execution. I don't know where to start: Lame teenager characters or absolutely no focus on Slender Man. I expected Sony to follow the footsteps of Blair Witch and create a mysterious horror story with one of the scariest horror characters, Slender Man. However we don't even get a clue about what it is and story just turns into a Ring cliche: watch the video and die. I mostly watched it as a Sony advertorial as you see Sony phones more than Slender Man. I don't understand how Sony agreed to release such a bad movie.
The Snowman (2017)
Such a Rubbish with an Amazing Cast!
I really don't understand how they can have a good story (if you know the book), an amazing cast and yet an awful movie.
So many brilliant names in and yet all scenes are floating in the air, the editing is horrible, you don't even understand how a scene changed into another totally different scene, how a character changed location... Absolutely nothing makes sense in the film. It is difficult to understand the storyline if you have no idea about the book. Editing is so awful that I really don't know why some scenes are in the film as they are totally irrelevant.
I think it also affected the cast's acting performances. Such good names in such bad performances.
I must admit this is a kind of success to have such a bad movie with a good cast. I expected a lot from the trailers, still had a little hope after reading reviews, just watched and really sorry for this production and time I have spent.