MOVIE REVIEW: Malevolent

RELEASE DATE: October 5th 2018

RUN TIME: 1 HOUR 29 MIN

MPAA RATING: TV-MA

MY IMDB RATING: 7

DIRECTOR: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

MAIN CAST: Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers

NETFLIX SUMMARY:

Brother and sister team Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) are nothing more than scam artists. Preying on the grief stricken and the vulnerable, they convince the bereaved that Angela has the ability to contact the dead. It's a simple con, until Mrs. Green (Celia Imrie) summons the pair to her home -- the orphanage that was once stage to a string of murders of young girls -- and Angela grows less and less certain of what's actually real. The fake paranormal investigators suffer the ultimate reality check when they are confronted by the true horrors and terrifying past that lie hidden within the haunted orphanage.

MY REVIEW

When I gave my IMDB rating a 7, I was pushing it, Malevolent was a great well rounded movie and it had some very good solid scary moments. But it almost seemed predictable at times. But I really liked the over all creepy feeling that stayed with the movie till the end. It was well imagined and you could relate to the characters. There was nothing cheesy about the acting, it was intense at times but in some parts it dragged a little and you would lose track of what the story line was. But it was diffidently a great horror movie. 

MOVIE REVIEW: Chappaquiddick (2017)

RELEASE DATE: April 6th 2017 (USA)

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 45 Min

MPAA RATING: PG-13

MY IMDB RATING: 8

DIRECTOR: John Curran

MAIN CAST: Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms

IMDB Summary

Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

MY REVIEW

I was only 6 years old when that event happened, but I have heard so many different interpretations of  the event , I feel as through I lived it and was there. This movie gives me that same vibe. Now don't get me wrong, I still have questions of how they know some of this happened the way it did, but this story is as old as the movie is new. It's amazing how this story seems so factual based on stories I have heard, but can not actually co-operate the facts. But I enjoyed it, it was like watching history in the making. While some parts may not be factual the writers and directors stayed close to the story as it was told over the years.  It diffidently takes you back in time to another era. It takes you back to the late 60's when the world was much different before smart phones and the internet and how news stories broke out and a glimpse of how the world actually runs and who has the power.  

NETFLIX TV SERIES REVIEW: The Haunting of Hill House

RELEASE DATE: October 12th 2018

CREATOR: Mike Flanagan

MAIN CAST: McKenna Grace, Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman

NETFLIX Summary

The Haunting of Hill House is a modern re-imagining of the iconic novel, about 5 siblings who grew up in the most famous haunted house in America.

MY REVIEW

I am only three episodes into this series and I am hooked. It has a slow but freaky build up to something that has not been explained. It has that feeling from the ABC Series LOST, but in a haunted house with real ghost. But it's not so much the house is haunted as it is the Crain family, but don't get we wrong, that house is haunted. The family is very dysfunctional. I was on the edged of my seat most of the episodes I watched. I will update this posting when I watched the last episode. 

MOVIE REVIEW: Hold the Dark

RELEASE DATE: September 28th 2018

RUN TIME :2 Hours 5 Mins

MPAA RATING: TV-MA

MY IMDB RATING: 8

DIRECTOR: Jeremy Saulnier

MAIN CAST: Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard, James Badge Dale

NETFLIX SUMMARY:

A gripping psychological thriller unfolds in the treacherous Alaskan wilderness when a retired wolf expert is summoned to investigate a child’s disappearance. Hold The Dark, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård and Riley Keough, and directed by Jeremy Saulnier,

MY REVIEW

This is a slow build up thriller. Lots of intense action once it gets started. Sometimes I became lost in the action. While I am sure this movie will find it's audience, it is a love it or hate it movie. Watch with out interruption and put your phone down.

When I first saw the description on Netflix, with out viewing the trailer, I thought it was going to be a wilderness movie about surviving the wild, and yet while I think about what I watched it could very well be that very thing. I guess it would depend on your opinion. This is a good movie, just not sure who I could recommend it to.