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Annabelle: Creation Advance Movie Screening

August 1, 2017 (updated August 1, 2017) Published by

Movie Screening Summary: She’s back! In “Annabelle: Creation,” several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle..

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Phoenix, Arizona

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Movie Screening Date: Tuesday, August 8th
Location: Harkins Tempe Marketplace
Movie Screening Time: 7:00pm
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Las Vegas, Nevada

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Movie Screening Date: Tuesday, August 8th
Location: Regal Red Rock
Movie Screening Time: 7:00pm
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Wish Upon Movie Review

July 14, 2017 (updated July 17, 2017) Published by

Wish Upon was not only predictable but sophomoric in its intention and style.  There wasn’t anything about this self-professed horror movie that would come anywhere close to startling even a new fan of the genre and definitely will not be surprising or shocking your average movie watcher. 

Often, the narrative seems to lack the discipline that’s needed to stay on track and be true to the characters, instead relying on the audience to grasp and accept what is being portrayed without a complete structure set up and we’re also asked to not mind the obvious stereotypes.  Most jarring of these would be the females being nothing but jealous of one another and decidedly empty between the ears.  This is used in a somewhat comedic way but to a ridiculous extent. 

The dialogue between the main character, Clare (King), and a senior boy, Paul (Slaggert), whom she has a crush on, is possibly the biggest example of regurgitating tired plotlines to the degree that they lose what could have been unique almost from the very beginning.  

What I mean by that is the use of the wish itself could have been so much better.  Not until the very end of the film are they even used creatively. 

To back up a bit, Clare is raised by her father, Jonathan (Phillippe) after her mother’s suicide.  She hasn’t had the best of lives but she has a few best friends who stick by her side and her father loves her very much.  Jonathan stumbles upon a beautiful box and gives it to her as a gift.  The box has Chinese writing all over the outside of it and, conveniently, the high school she’s in has a Chinese language class that she happens to be taking.  The box doesn’t open but she can read the script on the outside of it that reads, ‘seven wishes.’  She soon realizes that if she makes wishes upon it… they do come true.  How?  She wishes for something to happen to her mortal enemy.  This wish is quite awful and something that, if it were to happen, would baffle all medical science.  She’s shocked to find out it does happen.  Knowing that it was impossible and had to have been her wish, she tries again to see if she now possesses the power we’d all wish to have and it once again comes true.  After using several wishes and happy that she now has almost everything she has ever wanted, she all but abandons the person she was before getting the box and, oddly, doesn’t mind when she, at last, learns about the ramifications of using the box. 

I’ll let the movie explain more about that but if she is going to get a wish, the box, or what controls it, gets something in return.  What it wants is blood.  What it gets is blood.  So, what ultimately doesn’t work here is that you could have seen the wishes coming a mile away.  In fact, you see the entire story unfold in your mind before it plays out on screen.  Not even the consequences are original which adds the humdrum and stale to what was expected to be a fun flick.  The box that gives you seven wishes and how that came about is interesting but it’s counter productive to have a provocative idea and disappoint the audience by doing nothing avant garde with it.  Wish Upon instead plays it safe and uses a formulaic thread or technique that works.  Every step it takes has been done before and I believe the filmmakers missed a real chance to have something really memorable.

I feel I must admit that the acting wasn’t much better.  Joey King is excruciatingly awkward and somewhat too childlike for the role while Ryan Phillippe needs to be checked for a pulse.  There isn’t one performance that really stands out in a positive manner. 

In its defense, I would like to say that if you don’t watch many horror films, prefer not to or aren’t supposed to watch anything bloody or gory, then this may be perfect for you.  This isn’t a bad introduction to the category and isn’t much of a fright.  I would, however, suggest you catch it at a matinee.  There are some humorous moments and it does wrap up well but fans of horror and thrillers in general… this is not for you.  

The Beguiled Advance Movie Screening

June 19, 2017 Published by

Movie Screening Summary: “The Beguiled” is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

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Phoenix, Arizona

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Movie Screening Date: Tuesday, June 27th
Location: Harkins Scottsdale 101
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Las Vegas, Nevada

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Movie Screening Date: Wednesday, June 28
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47 Meters Down Movie Review

June 16, 2017 (updated June 16, 2017) Published by

Perhaps quite a few people are uneasy about being in enclosed places, and then just as many are queasy about getting close to sharks. If that is you, well — get ready for “47 Meters Down”, because your personal spooked-out meter will be peaking in the red zone. This movie will take many of the scariest things you can imagine and blend them into a nice smooth frightening shake.

Two sisters are in Mexico for a summer trip. Kate (Claire Holt) and Lisa (Mandy Moore) are getting away on a vacation. Lisa tells her sister it is because her long-term boyfriend broke up with her. He thought that Lisa was too boring. Lisa and Kate meet a couple of local guys, and they hit it off. They convince Kate to go on an underwater scuba trip to see the sharks. Lisa is much more sensible and does not want to go. Kate tells her that if she goes on the tip, she will prove she is not boring.

They meet Captain Taylor (Matthew Modine) who owns the worn-out old boat and the crappy-looking equipment for a shark dive. They don the scuba gear and get in the cage and start to descend down around 20 feet. They have only limited oxygen in their tanks, and they have limited experience underwater. But that is about to change. The cable holding the shark cage snaps, sending them down to 47 meters below the surface.

Both Kate and Lisa know that they cannot swim straight up to the surface. Once they go up, every 20 meters or so they would need to stop and let their blood handle the nitrogen bubbles, or they could die from the bends. They have no communication with the boat on the surface. So they take turns to try things out. One will swim up to try and get radio contact, then the other will trace down a mysterious flashlight brought down with a different cable hook. If they get it attached, they can be gently pulled up to the boat.

But, yes there are sharks in these here waters. So every attempt to get free or get back up to the boat is met with a potential big toothy grin. The guy who brought down the flashlight and the new cable was attacked and killed. Either Kate or Lisa could be next. The new cable turns out to be as useless as the first cable, and now they are trapped again. The Coast Guard has been called for a rescue, but they are an hour away.

Lisa and Kate almost run out of oxygen, and they two new tanks are sent down. But the new tanks can keep them alive. However, being down for so long can bring on nitrogen poisoning.  This could lead to hallucinations and feelings of a dream-like state. They will both need to keep an eye on each over to make sure the other one does not get crazy ideas. After all, there is a rescue operation just about to begin…

To say anything more would deprive you of getting your feet wet and seeing this movie. The story is pretty straight-forward. Put two nice ladies in peril, and spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out how to get them freed.  Mandy Moore and Claire Holt do a decent job, but much of the dialog is scuba breathing and screaming. They prove to be intelligent characters, except for the fact that they got on such a dumpy boat to begin with.

The setup gets going really quickly, and the part underwater is intense and spooky. Each of the sisters does her best to comfort the other one. But it is hard to find any comfort when you are more than 150 feet below the surface. Since this movie is so tense and spooky, I will need to lighten it up…

Once I threw out all the chopped up fish and fish guts into the water, the sharks got real chummy.

It Comes At Night Movie Review

June 9, 2017 (updated July 21, 2017) Published by

It Comes at Night is incredibly manipulative in the way it reels you in, first assisting you in comfort and then, in the blink of an eye, taking you to the edge of insanity.  The film is dark but not a horror film per se.  It’s an on the edge of your seat thriller that pulls you in several directions at once; barely allowing you a moment to rest before tugging at again you again.  Watching, you’re like the young woman in the opening scene of Jaws, being whipped about and then pulled into the depths of the unknown.  The unknown in this instance is what comes at night, in the darkness, when you’re alone and everything around you is a potential threat.      

This is a story about a family who has a home deep in the woods that is now their hideaway from whatever happened to the rest of the world.  What happened is unidentified but it was toxic.  Something made people who were exposed to ‘it’ violently ill.  This plaque of sorts kills you rather quickly and those who figured it out and hoped they weren’t exposed ran away and either contaminated others with their infection or learned how to live with it.  Paul and Sarah, their son Travis have learned how to cope and also protect themselves from being vulnerable.  Sadly, as we learn in the opening scene of the film, this has come too late for her father Bud who is already covered in blisters, barely breathing and about to die.  Paul, with Travis (who’s only seventeen), takes Bud to an open pit they dug.  After putting him down like an animal, they throw his body in and burn his remains to help stop the spread of the mysterious disease. 

A well lit and beautifully photographed, (complete with an eerily creepy yet gorgeous string instrument filled track) nightmare later, we awaken with Travis screaming that someone is in the house.  By the way, this scene has one hell of a memorable jump scare.   Anyway, the family, prepared for this kind of assault, finds that a young man has broken in and they surprise him, shove guns in his face, take him outside and tie him to a tree to teach him a lesson.  They’re not kind to strangers.  They live by rules that have kept them alive so far and this man has challenged those rules.  Before long, we discover that he simply wants to bring his family there; to live somewhere out of danger.  Sarah talks Paul into allowing this and though Paul is skeptical, he agrees.  Travis enjoys the family being there and what ultimately started out as a thriller becomes sort of a drama in that Travis begins to resent his situation as well as his father. 

It Comes at Night is aesthetically pleasing.  The music is outstanding and lends to the intensity throughout the film.  Tribal drumbeats explode so loudly from the speakers of one scene that it seems the vibration alone physically moves you.  Director Shults (Krisha) uses this tactic each and every time anything exciting happens.  It’s made better by the sheer skill in which he chooses to tell his story. 

My final take is that a lot of what’s going on in the film you’ll see coming if you’ve been watching page-turners your whole life.  I believe you’ll forgive this because of the imaginative nature with which these characters have derived.  The film is a survival guide on steroids and an unbelievably heartbreaking look at what we could become, leaving you to wonder how you’d behave in the same situation.  It’s a bit slow at times and there are a few moments that don’t quite add up but as I mentioned before, they’re nothing that will ruin the film for you.  I’d like to warn you of one thing, however, if you have a weak heart!  If Travis is on the screen, get yourself in defense mode.

Alien: Covenant Movie Review

May 19, 2017 (updated May 30, 2017) Published by

While the Alien Covenant film is tolerable, mostly due to the visuals, the crew you should be rooting for during any crisis they may be facing is less than memorable.  None of the characters are especially noteworthy and you won’t grow particularly fond of anyone as the story progresses.  It’s this connection that’s needed and is so important for a story like this to propel you into the world they inhabit. 

Fearing for a character’s safety, especially in this particular franchise, is paramount to it being a success.  Though Covenant does bring back the horror element that was more dominant in the first film, Alien, it doesn’t quite capture the consternation that the original had.  That said, it is more on the gory side of the horror, sci-fi genre.   It’s set about a decade in the aftermath of Prometheus, a film not well loved by the Alien faithful.  Though the film may not have been well received, Michael Fassbender was and is in this film, as well.  He’s back as David and also as Walter, another synthetic.  Walter looks like David, has many of the qualities of David except for one little important difference.  I’ll let you discover that on your own.

Walter Minds the crew and the ship, Covenant, as its crew members and cargo of pilgrims make their journey to another planet similar to our own in the hopes of colonizing it.  A short time passes and, of course, insert one of the typical problems that happen in films where spaceships are floating along in deep space; they’re hit by something that does damage.  This also awakens most of the crew who have been in a deep sleep… killing a few along the process.

They receive a strange message from a planet closer to the one they had originally charted their course for.  This seems a little too convenient but the captain (Crudup) says it’ll be worth a shot and they set out for this planet instead.  This is where it really gets sloppy because the things these skilled professionals are doing say to a filmgoer that the filmmaker doesn’t take your intelligence into consideration when creating a story.  Several things happen that get different members of the crew ill when they land on this unknown land.  They aren’t really quarantined which leads to more devastation but at least it’s entertaining.  Per usual, the effects are great and the visuals of the first person, who shows signs of being taken over by a foreign entity and thusly being killed by it, is ghoulish and eerie… everything you could have hoped for.

Eventually they find David who has been alone here (obviously he’s the one who would have sent the message for them to pick up) and he and Walter get to know one another; and as long as you don’t get lost as to which is which it’s fairly easy to deduce that one is up to something and the other is now a useful pawn.

A spaceship has issues; check.  We have aliens; check.  The film has formulaic touches you’d expect it to have; check.  Unfortunately, its pacing is slow and flat in the beginning and the characters so drab, (which is sad because one is supposed to be the descendant of Ripley from Alien) that it’s hard to really get into it.  There are so many, if you really want to tear it apart, problems with it that if you concentrate on them, your brain will explode so, best not to.  One specific thing I feel I must address, though, is their brains.  This crew does this for a living and they just disregard all policy, procedure, rules and… all common sense the minute they land on a strange planet?!  It makes no sense so try not to think about it too much.  Just let things that defy logic or are the completely unexplained go.  If you love sci-fi films and the Alien franchise as a whole, you might have some need for this.  You’re not going to totally dislike it, you’re just not going to love it.  It’s not the worst of the bunch; however, it’s certainly not the best.  Rumor is there will be a few more of these… I hope Scott turns the helm over to someone who can steer a little better.

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It Comes at Night New Trailer

May 1, 2017 Published by

STARRING

Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo and Kelvin Harrison Jr.

WRITTEN BY

Trey Edward Shults

DIRECTED BY

Trey Edward Shults


Trey Edward Shults’ highly anticipated horror-thriller stunned critics at a secret screening at the famed Timberline Lodge this past weekend. Watch Joel Edgerton give us the rules for survival in terrifying new trailer.

In Theaters June 9th

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The Blackcoat’s Daughter Movie Review

April 3, 2017 Published by

Are you a horror fan looking for something new?  Then don’t miss Blackcoat’s Daughter; another winner from A24!  The short answer as to why you can’t miss this is that it totally embodies the new part that you’ve been looking for.  So, here’s a bit of unsolicited advice for you, if you don’t mind, don’t read much more about the film.  Don’t watch a trailer.  Go in cold, only knowing that you have to see it.  You’re a horror fan and that’s all you need to be.  If you’d like to continue reading, I don’t give away too much. 

Cinematically, it’s a stunner.  I’m ready to watch it again for the pure enjoyment of it.  The music is so unsettling, the way bows screech across their string instruments or the strings are plucked hard to get your attention in a given moment… genius.  Much like horror classics, the music is central in setting the sweeping tenor of the film.  It was absolutely unnerving. 

You’ll also be impressed with how this story, that centers on three different girls, starts to unfold.  Kat (Shipka) and Rose (Boynton) are stuck at their Catholic school in Bramford during winter break.  When their parents don’t come and pick them up, the headmaster asks that they are watched over by a couple of nuns.  Kat and Rose don’t know one another very well, nor do they particularly like one another, but they’re making due with the situation they find themselves. 
Then we are introduced to a young woman on the road named Joan who is played by Emma Roberts.  She’s odd; almost lifeless when she is approached by Bill (Remar) and Linda (Holly) who assume the girl’s in trouble and would like to help.  She reminds Bill of their daughter and he can’t help but tell her so.  Uncomfortable, but desperate to get to Bramford, she accepts the ride.  As Joan gets closer to Bramford, she gets more and more dark and we cut back and forth to and from the other girls.

We begin to pick up on more of each storyline.  Things are revealed about Kat who is having terrifying visions and she, like Joan, seems to get ill while her demeanor changes, as well.  Rose overhears something sinister and creeps around in the dark, abandoned school halls.  She does something that I don’t believe anyone in her situation would, however, and that is go downstairs where it’s dark and peeks through the window in a door she has no business looking through.  It’s here she sees something she wishes she hadn’t.  But when did this happen exactly and are you sure?  Just when you think you have this movie figured out, you didn’t know a thing.  What really works is how the tension builds in both storylines and you cannot wait to see them intersect… if that’s in fact what’s going to happen. 

Perkins’ writing and directing mixed with cinematographer Julie Kirkwood’s style, who worked with Perkins on the Netflix original I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, as well, will leave an impression on you.  This is a well told, rare, impactful story.   Perkins took special care in making sure you remembered his characters long after the movie was over.  I can assure you that you will.  The weather adds shading, the sets add mood, the lighting creates fear and, of course, the performances grip you.  Perkins wastes nothing in enhancing the film’s ambiance to set a specific tone for you. 

I couldn’t wait to see where the stories would come together.  As the movie got further and further in, I was getting more and more uncomfortable watching it alone… I’ll admit to then allowing a little daylight in by opening the curtains.  Let’s see how you fair.  Catch Blackcoat’s Daughter exclusively at the Alamo Drafthouse in Chandler, or wherever it’s playing near you, this weekend.  Good luck! 

IT – Teaser Trailer

March 31, 2017 (updated March 31, 2017) Published by

In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind torn body parts/remains. In a place known as ‘The Barrens’, a group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with a clown called Pennywise.

Directed by:  AndrÊs Muschietti
Starring:  Bill Skarsgürd, Finn Wolfhard and Javier Botet

*EXCLUSIVE: Within 24 hours of its CinemaCon debut on Wednesday, the trailer for New Line/Warner Bros. upcoming Stephen King feature adaptation It smashed all online global traffic records with 197 million views, blowing past the previous 139M record set by Fate of the Furious when Universal dropped that trailer back in December.

New Line released the trailer for the Andres Muschietti-directed horror film in English along with 30 localized versions starting at 9AM Wednesday. Of the trailer’s 197M global views, more than 81M views and over 1.8M shares on the U.S. Facebook instance alone. Within hours after dropping, the It trailer became a viral sensation, trending across Facebook, Twitter and rising to the top of the Reddit Homepage with 30K-plus up votes in four hours. The video quickly rose to the No. 1 position on YouTube’s trending videos and remained there throughout the day.

The trailer helped It trend globally on Twitter with trends for It, It Movie, Pennywise and the Red Balloon Emoji  all appearing.

It is based on the 1986 novel by King, and follows seven children who are terrorized by the eponymous being, who exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. It generally appears as a clown in order to lure young children.

It opens on Sept. 8, the weekend after Labor Day.

In Theaters Sept 8th

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Annabelle: Creation – Trailer

March 31, 2017 (updated March 31, 2017) Published by
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.

Director: David F. Sandbert

Starring: Miranda Otto, Javier Botet, Stephanie Sigman and Anthony LaPaglia

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In Theaters August 11th

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