Haunter

Haunter

Aka Casper the Hipster Ghost. Haunter switch things up by putting you in a ghost side of the story. It not like some movies with similar twist, since you know the character are dead from the get goes. The main character knows she dead, it just the family doesn’t. Now she trying to find out way, and about past people who die in the book, and their connection. She does that while trying to talk to the living, even though she was warning not to. The movie stars Abigail Breslin as the ghost teen in Question. She seems to have died in the 80’s due to her clothes and love of labyrinth era David Bowie. She helps keep the story movie since she has to carry different emotion. She has to be scared, angry, sad, happy, nervous, and sometimes all at the same time. She manage to be a ticked off teen but not to bratty about it. She is also enough of the every girl where you follow the mystery as she solving it. It not a big acting type role, it low key and helps drives you a long as the clues given to you. She a bit of cipher that way but manages to do it without being boring. It helps that the small cast pretty good in carrying there rolls. Some of them carry creepy scenes. One problem with the movie is it slow at times. It takes it sweet time. It one of those I get to the point when I get to it, you guys just enjoy the atmosphere type of stories.  This stand out when you become a couple of steps ahead of the character. Also doesn’t help at time it only a little bit of dialogue. That not a huge complaint though since that time is to tell you the rules of the world. Those rules they stick to pretty well. Also you suppose to feel the since of repetitive that the character feeling. When it gets creepy it does it very well. It not real blood or gore, it most atmosphere and weird stuff happening. All and All a nice low key movie a B

Breaking the Girls

When it comes to erotic thrillers, Lesbian loves and murder plots go together like peanut butter and Jelly. It just goes perfect together.  This is one such tell that takes a strangest on a train plot. Where two people joking about wouldn’t it be a great idea, if each one of them kills someone the other head. This way each one of them has an Alibi. But OH No...Turns out one of them wasn’t joking. One of them went through it and now expects the other person to return the favor. But here it has a down on her luck college girl. The College girl pines for an X boyfriend who dating a stone cold bitch. Who not only, gets her fired, evicted, and almost kicked out of school?  Ouch that a holy trinity of bitchiness. The college girl while down on her luck, meets a wild party girl and they hit it off and have a lesbian love affair. 

The college girl view this as a onetime thing...but party girls goes all single white female and wants more. It is the college girl who brings up the murder idea and the first to Jump. There twist and turns along the way. Some of which pretty fun if you let you mind go. Some of scenes are pretty hot and the party girls play a good crazy girl. The girls are pretty hot. It’s the main character that a bit of problem...since she seems lifeless and monotone a lot of time. She has one setting...and that setting seem to be a light cruise control. No matter how bad or crazy things get...she never hits the emotional pedal in her acting. She reacts to seeing a murder the same way you would react to finding a ticket on your cars. Also the plan she somewhat convoluted and require them to have the worst cops sense the cops on Dexter. A small amount of investigation would have totally destroyed the plan. And the plan requires for too many things going right. Still a decent watch for the ladies but their much better movies of it type. C+

Blackout

A nice bottle thriller about people 3 people stuck in the elevator.  One of which may be a killer. They slowly start go crazy, turning on each other till it reaches to a boiling point. A plot like this is something that been told a couple of times. It is a gimmick that be done but that not necessarily a bad thing. That is because if, the characters are interesting enough, it can overcome.  All 3 of them are and have nice plots that let you get to know how their personalities work for the most part. It helps that I liked two of the actors. One of them is the man who plays little finger in Game of Thrones. I call him Edward Norton light...or his Evil dopplaganger.  I wonder if you prick him will Edward Norton feel it. The other person is the start of Joan of Arcadia who I like as an actress. The other guy I never saw before but it’s pretty good. The thing is not much happen for a while. Sure it would be scary in real life but it not exactly thrilling seeing people in a box trap hanging out. When things start going south, its picks up and the good acting starts. But that pretty deep into the movie.  Also the killer background is not clear. You learn what makes the other tick...but you don’t learn what makes the killer a killer. The ticking clock the killer has to deal with though ads a lot of tension. All it not that great a movie. But not bad either.  C

Tabloid

This is a documentary about a true story of a tabloid sensation.  The story goes like this. Young Beauty Queen marries a Mormon. The man leaves on a Mormon retreat and the woman believes they brainwash him and he now part of the cult. The woman with a help of the guy kidnaps the man at gun point and take him to the cabin and ties him up. While tied up woman precedes to F the cult the right out of him for an entire weekend. Then after that the story starts to get weird. Their religion, sex, disguises, prostitution, false identities, and even some dog cloning involve. It's done through interviews, articles, and news clips.  It’s pretty nicely done. It helps if you know very little about the story so you can decide who telling the truth and who not. Since multiple groups have good reason to fudge the story. And you really get to see how the media plays the roll in this, and shaping public opinion. You get how the media picks side and drive the narrative to ways that suits them. Then you see how the law reacts to the public opinion. The people they interview are interesting characters and good telling their story. You can see the woman is bit publicity savvy despite seeming kind of flakey. She appears smarter then she acts, although still kind of insane. She has a nice personality when she talks and it only till as she talks you say “hahaha this lady crazy.” Then when you hear her talk even more you think “Oh this woman’s CRAZY...not sitcom crazy. But make a sculpture of you out of her poop crazy.”  The story is a nice mystery that slowly builds with surprises.  It set the mood of each era the story takes place in showing poor hair choice decisions of the people involve.  If there a minus, it is that some important people in the story refuse to give an interview. So you’re missing important parts of the story. But still a solid story B

Haunting House

Haunting house

2 Families go to a fancy house in the woods to try to buy it. Not a cabin in the woods, no. This is a multiple bed room house with little recordings that tell you about what is in the house. The place is big and cheap to buy. There one catch.  Once they get into the house they can’t leave. Whenever they try to walk to far from the house they come back to where they were.  They try to drive out and they go around in circles. They are  trap in a time loop, with a mute woman who seems to know about the house. They are  seeing  illusions and slowly going insane as dark secrets revealed. There are two things that help this movie. First one is the fact, they tried to leave the moment things looked weird. This avoid the “why don’t they just leave the haunted house”. Answer they can’t. They try and try to no avail. If you think of a way for them to escape, changes are they will try it. You follow them and feel the frustrations when they plans and theories go to hell. The seconds is it quickly skip months ahead of time, so you can see the madness kick in. The people quick get the idea there some sort of force working against them.

 One thing I didn’t like was the mute girl. A problem that could be solved is the woman just pick up an f’ing pencil. Just write down your words woman.  Since nearly everyone on here a little F up, part of the mystery is who to trust because they all seem to be horrible people accept for 1 or 2 people. That said some of the freak out of the character a bit over the top. Sometimes it becomes like a lifetime movie where a character is a nice guy one minute, then he ready to choke a B the next. So it gets over the top near the end and some of the decisions seem suspect. Although it hard to  blame on them to much going mad. Still has some fun twist into it, and a nice spooky picture. B