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Psychedelia (2016)
Bouncy Bouncy THUD
The story bounces around in time a LOT at the beginning of the film, which is minorly intriguing and majorly annoying. But I stuck with it until the time thing resolved. Sadly, there is much less to it than you would hope. But the story is at least better than the acting, or the actors. It does not help at all that both of the main characters sound like they have the mumps and look like they were involved in head-on collisions. But are the actors better than the cinematography or the lighting? Well, no. No they are not. But they are *slightly* better than the Foley effects and sound editing, if that helps. ISTG I think somebody was getting a dollar every time that tinny "whoosh" sound played.
American Nightmare (2002)
I Am Ride Or Die For Debbie Rochon...
And I still found this movie boring and the ending beyond stupid. The writer basically just took a bunch of tropes and nailed them together end to end like Wile E. Coyote trying to cross a ravine by nailing boards together. The same thing happened to the plot that always happens to Wile E. - it fell into the canyon and went boom. Except it wasn't even funny to watch. The ending is just irritating. Not scary. Not funny. Not deep. Irritating. Stupid falls and everyone dies. Except Debbie. Though she might as well be a ghost for all the sense her character makes. Do not watch this movie. If it comes on, turn the TV off and spend an hour and a half hitting your fingers with a hammer. It will be more entertaining, hurt less, and seem to be over quicker.
The Devil's Well (2018)
A Roller Coaster Ride of Lost Opportunity
Premise: not unusual but fun and serviceable
Acting: Tolerable to good.
Script: Okay, then terrible, then decent, then awful, then sorta interesting, and at the end, idiotic.
Lighting: Well designed for the most part.
Editing: Like it was done by a kid with a hatchet and chopsticks taped to his fingers.
All of bad reviews are right, the ending makes no sense and the characters all appear to have taken goofballs right before beginning of the last act. The writer needs to be severely beaten and taught not to take audiences for granted. It could have been a decent supernatural movie, it could have been a decent hoax "there's always a logical explanation" movie. Instead it is both so it is neither.
Devil's Snare (2020)
The Guinea Worm Of Movies
A bunch of sketchy-looking barflies get hold of a used VHS camcorder and a kilo of meth cut with drain cleaner and decide to make a movie. They lost the mike cover, or maybe one of them took it for a dead rat and ate it, so most of the movie sounds like it was filmed in a hurricane. The tape had some patchy spots so we frequently have what seems like missing scenes (How did they all get in the closet? WHY did they all get in the closet?) we jump over. And the actors shared the meth with the cameraman and the editor, so really, it's the cinematic cornucopia from Hell. It's not so bad it's good, it's not even bad, as that would require some kind of coherence. It's just, well, I could eat a memory card, subject my stomach to intense radiation, and poop out a better movie than this.