Homecoming

When they arrive at his home town for a big celebration, a man's girlfriend is captured by his psychotic ex and tortured for stealing him away from her while he and his friends race to save her before it's too late.

This one here is a rather curious thriller rather than an out-and-out horror effort. One of the main issues with this one is the really bland pacing, which has the abduction placed oddly later in the film than it should because it deals with the useless extraneous moments in the film where she's dealing with outside issues that have nothing to do with the main torture scenes. The majority of the scenes consist of either her attempting to get away only to be stopped without any kind of true punishment offered only to repeat the process again or his friends telling him to get on with his life, and it manages to plod along lifelessly instead of generating any interest. Rather than doing any kind of physical, damaging torture, it features only knock-outs or drugging and carries on in a series of lame parts that give off a thriller feel more than a true horror film, and the painful, agonizing moments of her trying to win him back or pining over a rejection don't help this one much. The finale does have some pretty decent moments, including the clever discovery of the kidnapping, some brutal confrontations down in the basement and a rousing conclusion, but it's all too claustrophobic and confining to really get where it could've gone. This is just too flawed and has too little right about it to really be of any importance.

Rated R: Language and Violence.

Look let's be honest, this movie is nothing special. It's at best an alright misery rip off and at worse a brundlefly of better movies. However, I honestly can't hate it. Like okay it's not my favourite movie by a long shot (though I'd be lying if I said I really like Jessica Stroup in anything.......except prom night and iron fist but more on those later) but it's at least acknowledging of how derivative it is. Mischa Barton is ridiculous but still kinda creepy, the boyfriend is pretty likeable if a bit too naive at times, there's some moments in it that make me genuinely flinch every time I see them (that ankle break is pretty brutal). So yeah, it's shameless in deriding from better movies but come on, you knew that going in. It's cliched, silly and at a few points just plain weird, but if you can switch your brain off for a bit, it's not bad.

You've seen this premise a million times. Crazy Firl or Crazy Guy wants someone, they are obsessed, someone else is in the way. So if someone else is in the way what should they do?! That's where the fun and craziness begins. I personally love this movie because Mischa Barton is a very under rated actress. She plays crazy really really well. Btw this was a lifetime movie ... for whatever reason it is hard to find now. If you find it, watch it.

Starts out well enough, and i was looking forward to seeing Mischa Barton for the first time and she looks so much like a cross between likeables Kirsten Dunst and Jessica Rothe, but unfortunately Homecoming does not bring home the goods, only a heap of rubble. The production and direction are both terribly handled and really just dumped a lot of crap onto the actors to try and salvage what they could from what was afforded them. Barton tries hard and there are glimpses of talent, as well the supports manage flickers of hope but at the end of the day, their earnest efforts are not enough to save this from sliding down the dumbwaiter.

Just got trired of hollywood recent times Woke-activist films. It's good to watch some actual "American" films without any of "Woke" sh*t in it. Well it had a box office success ; a little but good for $9M against a $1.5M investment.