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Fatal Frenemies (2021)
I have a major problem with the ending...
This review has a few major SPOILERS, you've been warned. So this movie is standard lifetime, mystery and suspense. The same middle class families and turmoil that goes with someone being some type of underhanded killer. It revolves around three teenaged girlfriends who are on the track team. My issue is that the crazy boyfriend, who is definitely a decoy character, was dating one of the friends, who was killed early on in the movie. When all the dusts settles and the happy ending begins, this boyfriend character suddenly turns into a nice guy, then he asks the other friend out on a date! Why the F would they do this and think it's okay? If my friend was killed, I wouldn't date her boyfriend after her murder/manslaughter was solved.
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
GAR-BAGE!!!
If you liked the cheesy 80s slasher flick, Slumber Party Massacre, surely you'd want to see the sequel right? Not so fast. While horror sequels tend to disappoint, this sequel total swings and misses, IMHO. This movie has almost none of the charm of the original B-movie classic. They try to make the villain some super-natural, fun-loving, tongue waging rock star. It's like the Fonz mixed with Freddy Krueger with spectacularly bad results. Everything that happens is psychological and not real. None of the "scares" work and every thing is so predictable. Yeah of course he's hiding in the back seat. Don't waste your time, even if you enjoyed the original.
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)
Infuriating
First, I will talk non-spoilers, then I will go into the spoilers.
The premise of this movie takes us an insane asylum where doctors and psychiatrist study the phenomenon that are these inbred monsters from the previous films. Think of it like Arkham Asylum from the Batman mythology. A group of attractive college students go on a snowmobile excursion and are forced to bed down at this "abandoned" hospital/Asylum for the night after they get snowed in. This means they are likely in the north US or somewhere in Canada. As you can expect, terror is around the corner and some of them may not make it out alive.
As you can probably foresee, the group has to make various life/death decisions in order to survive. What is particularly infuriating is the inconsistency in which they make these decisions. Any movie goer who witnesses this will yell at the screen because it will tick many people off.
***SPOILER ALERT***
At one point in the movie, the group witnesses one of their friends go missing, only to find his head wrapped in a shirt. Then, they see the killers brutally murder one of their friends right before their eyes. At this point, they must find temporary shelter, gain their composure and figure out their next move to be secure their survival.
One decision they decide democratically, which involves them planning to outsmart the killers, which works out and leads to them trapping all three killers in one of the basement cells. At that point, all but one decided to kill the freaks while they have them dead-to-rights. But of course, one of the girls in the group finds some moral compass and thinks they should leave the freaks, who just brutally murdered at least three of their friends, alive. The group reluctantly submits to the girl who with compassion. This made no sense, since they used a vote to make their previous decision. Had they voted here, they likely would have survived. This decision was costly.