Syfy and Asylum studios have been making pictures for ages, and you'd think they'd have gotten better at it over the years, but nope. Instead, they churn out movie after movie with nothing but the bare minimum of cheap CGI effects, and crappy acting and dialogue for the most part. As a horror movie reviewer, sometimes my job involves watching bad horror movies, so I can warn people away from wasting hours of their lives.
Cucuy: The Boogeyman (2018) is about the legend of the Cucuy, a cloaked bag-carrying demon that abducts bad children and fattens them up so it can eat them, body and soul. Of course, nobody believes in the Cucuy nowadays, so when bad kids start disappearing, the Sheriff's Department mobilizes to track down the perpetrators. The problem then becomes, how does one track a cloaked bag-carrying demon that carries away naughty children in his sack?
Cucuy has a decent cast of actors in it, including Brian Krause, who horror movie fans will recall from Stephen King's Sleepwalkers movie. The effects are halfway decent this time, and I have to admit it was hard to tell if the Cucuy was a CGI effect or an actual guy in a mask and cloak. It might have been a mix of the two. In any case, it wasn't a bad watch, though I doubt I'd watch it again. I saw this one on Syfy channel, so it's a fair bet they'll show it again at some point.
Karma (2018) is about a good guy forced into a bad line of work, evicting folks from houses that his boss (who also happens to be his girlfriend's father) has bought out from under people for failing to pay their taxes or something. Along the way, this guy evicts an old high-school buddy who's actually already being hunted by what they refer to as a Karma-Demon. Naturally, the Karma Demon feels that someone who evicts people from their homes deserves some retribution!
Karma has Tim Russ, better known as Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager in it, and Mandela Van Peebles, who is the son of Mario Van Peebles. Mario Van Peebles is probably well known to horror mvoie aficionadoes as the guy who was in Solo, Jaws 4, and my personal favorite of his movies, the werewolf movie Full Eclipse. Karma is, for lack of a better comparison, basically a cheaper version of the Final Destination series of movies. Deaths seem to occur by accident, except in this case, the people who die are a bit more deserving than just the passengers in an airplane that crashed. Karma isn't a bad watch either, just to watch some particularly bad folks get what they deserve. Karma is on TV right now, so check Syfy to see when it might be on again.
In other news, the Karma Demon has thankfully axed any possibility of there being an Iron Fist Season 3 on Netflix, and I couldn't be happier. After being thoroughly disappointed by both the first and second seasons, Netflix finally pulled the plug and let that poor suffering show die a peaceful death.
That's all for tonight, folks! Back soon with more reviews.
No comments:
Post a Comment