A week to go before Halloween! I'm so excited! And I'm not even doing anything this year. All I got is basic cable and I haven't even seen any of the halloween movies this year. Quite strange actually. It's like the grinch xmas cartoon. Even if all the things you usually do on haloween are taken away, halloween comes anyways. Cool! Good to know.
Things Heard and Seen (2021) is a movie about a husband and wife who relocate to a smaller town upstate from the big city. The wife was an art restorer of some kind (much like Sigourney Weaver's character in ghostbusters 2, which now confuses me, ebcause wasn't she a cellist in ghostbusters? huh. odd), but gives up her work to become isolated in her new community because she's having a hard time making friends. Of course, the husband is having no trouble making new friends, at his new job, or even at the library.
This wasn't a bad movie. Ending kinda sucked, but it has Amanda Seyfried as the wife, some guy i didn't recognize as the husband, and F Murray Abraham as the husband's boss. Karen Allen and Michael O Keefe sneak in there in a few places as the sheriff and his wife, and Natalia Dyer from Stranger Things plays a friend of the husband. Special effects were decent for a movie of this type, but nothing outstanding. Was kind of a slow start, some basic creepiness and a bit of building tension, but then it sort of petered out near the end. Pretty sure there's no spoilers there, but watch it on netflix if you want to. I can't say it was really worth a watch, but it wasn't the worst horror movie I've ever seen. The acting was at least decent. I won't watch it again, though. Was sort of lame, all things considered.
Raw (2016) was about a young woman training to be a vet who develops a taste for human flesh. This is pretty much the movie's synopsis, so i am not giving anything away. Pardon me while I savage this movie like a hungry cannibal.
This might quite possibly be the lamest horror movie i have ever seen. One, it's a body horror movie. So. You're basically being freaked out by your own body. I don't have body dysmorphia (although I really should have ryan reynold's body, and not this one, so maybe i do relate slightly), so i found it hard to understand what the fuss was about. Also, i've never really had a hankering for human flesh, and this movie does not give you a logical reason to suspect the protagonist just sort of developed one. It just kind of happens out of the blue, and there weren't even drugs involved. So basically the movie expects you to take this leap of logic and pretend that all humans have this hidden lust to eat each other, and that we're only held back by civilized society. Which, is kind of ridiculous.
The movie starts out extremely slowly. There is the most boring hazing incidents in the history of cinema for the first half hour of this movie. I was tempted to turn it off several times out of sheer boredom, and the movie did not get better. The movie is in french, and I didn't recognize any of the actors. This movie's only saving grace is the the young lady studying to be a vet is mildly cute, and there is a bit of nudity along the way. Even the ending was unsatisfying, as perhaps having to resort to eating human flesh would seem to indicate. I cannot recommend anyone watch this trash. It wasn't even that I was grossed out by the cannibalism. It was just that the movie sucked. Watch it on netflix and find out for yourself, or don't, and save yourself the mental equivalent of boring-movie-induced brain damage.
In other news, it's almost midnight and i'm trying to get this in before the day switches over to tomorrow. Still trying to catch up, so I'll catch you guys with more reviews next time.
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