Wolf Man 2025 Film SPOILER FREE Film Review

It seems that right now the only thing that mainstream Hollywood seems to know how to do is make remakes. As have yet another remake of a classic horror movie and while this one does have some pedigree behind it it doesn't change the fact that alot of horror remakes just don't work and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE of the film that sees Leigh Whannell try resurrect another Universal monster with the film in question bring called simply just "Wolf Man" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when he inherits his old childhood house from his estranged father Blake Lovell moves his entire family from San Francisco to Oregon and while there Blake gets bitten by something that will changes his life and the lives of his wife and daughter forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us un this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it does give us something new from this character instead of just straight up redoing the original films plot this film instead does something new and different by having it be a family man that gets bitten and struggle to contain the wolf within him which is a good and to the films credit it is something that whilst it was most likely done in the original film it is also something that works for this film as he's not only just trying to protect himself but he's also trying to protect his entire family which is something that does add a layer of tension to the films plot as we all know that eventually he's going and while the film might have a few predictable plot beats in it those don't really stop the plot of the film from being an enjoyable plot with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Try as I might but there is no complete cast list for this film anywhere online as such starring in this film is Christopher Abbott as Blake Lovell / The Wolf Man , Julia Garner as Charlotte Lovell , Matilda Firth as Ginger Lovell , Sam Jaeger as Grady Lovell and Zac Chandler as Young Blake Lovell. Even tho those are the only actors whose roles are listed the film does have a fairly solid in it's own right and while at the very least one of them won't be a house hold name he is something that you'll recognize from a childhood TV show with the actor being Milo Cawthorne who of course played Ziggy Grover on Power Rangers RPM and yet even with having a fairly small amount of actors in this film the film does make the absolute best use of them as alot of them do have alot to do in the film and to be a fair a property like this one is one that works best with a smaller amount of characters as it means that the film can be more personal and that when the film does have a really emotional moment with the characters then it really does mean something as these are the characters that we are forced to spend alot of time and not be darting round to several other characters but at the same time tho this is also a property that works well with larger cast members as well as it would mean getting to see how the character of The Wolf Man effects not only his loved ones like his family for example but also his friends and others that are close to him an that's something that this film really can't do with the small amount of the cast that it has starring in this very film.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As this film does have some really good acting in it but at the same time tho given who is is not only writing this film but also directing it the acting that's in this film also isn't as good as it really could have been either as we know from The Invisible Man remake that this films co-writer and director Leigh Whannell really really does know how to get a good performance out of his actors and yet that's a skill that he seems to have lost in this film as while yes we do get some really good performances in this film that's more due to the fact that the actors that are cast in this film are a bunch of really good actors in there own right and not due to the fact that Leigh Whannell is giving them good direction with alot of this films actors just feeling either lost or incredibly miscast with the best actor in this film being young Matilda Firth as Ginger Lovell being the true standout performer in this film and is one that should she continue to want to act will definitely have a bright future ahead of her as she's just that good in this film with the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

When the makers of this film were promoting this film they very wisely chose not to reveal what the creature looks like. Which given how the creature does look works to this films advantage as to say that this films design for the character would look bad would be a huge understatement and whereas the makers of Nosferatu not revealing what Count Orlok looked like worked because the design that they had was meant to be a surprise here it was done due to the fact that the design for the character leaked online and fans hated it which is something that makes it all the more weirder when in the teaser trailer or the film and indeed all of the films trailers you don't get a good look at the creature only seeing bits of him but never getting a full reveal which would be OK if they were going to listen to the fans and change what he looked like digitally but as fay as I can tell they just stuck to the same design ad without giving much away about this creature looks like it is a design that whilst it might works for the more realistic tone that this film is quite clearly going for but at the same time it also lacks that special something that made the original design not only a great looking design but also one that is so iconic that it is still used and referenced to this very day and that's just not something that will happen with this design for the character as here the creature just looks bland and boring with there being nothing interesting about the design that makes him stick out from all of the other half human half wolf monsters out there.

This film is of course a very loose remake of the 1941 film The Wolf Man with this film pretty much only being The Wolf Man in name only. As part from the fact that someone gets bitten by a wolf and who then gets forcibly transformed into a wolf the two films have very little in common with each other and heck they don't even take place in the same country and while I personally haven't seen the original film I have see clips off of it on Youtube and it does look like a much more better film then this film and that is something that's to be expected as the original are nearly always better then the originals which makes you wonder why Universal decided to remake this film out of the fact that The Invisible Man remake made them a tone of money and that's really it and while I do give the makers of this film for at the very least trying something new with this property just because it's new doesn't mean that it's better as sometimes sticking to what works for a property is the best way to go about it and that's something that this film just doesn't do as it's more focused on giving us new things which yes is a good thing as it shows that creativity isn't dead but at the same time given that this is remake the people that are going to be watching this film are going to be expecting it to be somewhat like the original film and not so different that you might ass well as call it something different and infact calling it something different might actually end up helping the film out in the longer run as then you won't get people comparing it badly to the original film.

To put things rather bluntly this film is just bland as there's not really all that much to this film in anyway shape or from. With the films characters being uninspired with the wife being the stereotypical workaholic who barely has time for kid and the daughter and father are just cardboard cutout of better written characters and this is something that really is a huge issue and it's where having a small amount of characters really does come into effect in a negative light as this films characters are just so flat ad uninspired that your left begging for any somewhat interesting character to come along and when they don't that's when you realise that we're going to be spending alot of the film with these dull characters and if your going to make us the audience do that then your characters need to have something really anything about them that makes them interesting and that makes us want to see more of them but the makers of this film forgot to do that and as a result of that is the fact that we are now left characters that we just don't care about as the film doesn't give us a reason to care about them one way or the other and this is something that alot of remakes be they for horror films or not tend to do as they just expect the audience to rely on there knowledge of the original film to make the characters in the remake interesting which is just lazy screenwriting as it shows that the makers of this film aren't that bothered with creating good or even interesting characters as all they are instead in is cashing in on a paycheck and that's really it.

One of the things that this film gets sort of right is the relationship between Blake and Ginger as it's there relationship that really does hold the film together. As you really do need to buy them as a loving father and daughter and we see that all throughout the film the two of them really do care for each other and it's their relationship that really does get tested the most when Blake is bitten and starts to turn into a werewolf and yet at the same time due to how little we are the audience care for these characters because of the fact that this film really doesn't really give us a reason to care for any of it's characters outside of the fact that there a family and that's really it and when your whole film centers on the relationship between a father and his daughter then a great deal more effort should have been made into making sure that we actually care about them as characters as that would make the film a whole lot more better and it would make the characters more likable as well but as things stand while the relationship is done well and is built up rather well as well it's something that does feel like an undercooked idea and that if it was given more then enough time to fully develop then it is something that also could have been a really great idea as well and it's something that could have been used to mirror what Blake's relationship was like with his father but outside of one scene near the beginning and one near the end of the film the film does nothing that's all that interesting with the father and daughter relationship.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty one minuets and fifteen seconds. Which is a bit of a short running time for this film to have but at the same time tho this film really doesn't have all that much there interms of plot to cover a longer running time in the first place and as such it really does make sense that this film would have a shorter running time but at the same time tho if this film was a tad bit longer then it would allow to fix alot the issues that are in this film as it would mean that the characters would get more of a chance to showcase what it is that there personalities are even meant to be in the first place and it would mean that the relationship between Blake and Ginger could be more developed but at the same time tho is that it would also mean getting alot of scenes where nothing happens to advance the actual plot of the film as for some strange reason this film wants to make sure that the werewolf is kept hidden until the third act and it wants to make sure that Blake doesn't fully turn for along time which is great for a few minuets but it does also slow the pacing down to a crawl at certain points in the film as all your left ding is watching these characters that you don't really like just sit and wait for something to happen and that's it and that is something that does really quite get boring really quickly but the film really does pick up the pace again when Blake does turn but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film were in all honesty really lame. As all they were was just jump scares and they were jump scares that weren't even that well done as while granted you couldn't see them coming at you from a mile away alot of the time jump scares are quite alot of the time just not that scary and when you have a character who is forced to turn into a werewolf and you don't have him do anything that's all that scary then what's the point in even making this film as you could have done so much creepy and scary stuff with this character and yet the makers of this film chose just to have him jump scare people and that's it and that's not enough to make a film scary and while yes jump scares can indeed be very effective just look at the original Halloween for evidence of that but what that film did and what this film doesn't do is create atmosphere and tension and as such when a jump scare does happen in this film it's something that just does't work or just doesn't work as well it should have done as it feels like that the makers of this film but alot of effort into the werewolf design but then forgot to include some actual scares and so just throw in some jump scares and put in some spooky music over the top of them and called it a day as this films jump scares just come across as being that bad and that lazy as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall stick with the original film as this film is nothing more then a bland and average film that doesn't even know how to scare people and heck if you have the choice between seeing this film and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare this weekend go and see Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare as at the very least then you'll still be entertained by how bad that film could be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Bloody Axe Wound Film Review

There are alot of horror films released every single year and as such it would be physically impossible for people to know and watch every single one of them. With films much like the one that i'm going to be talking to you all about today going unnoticed and while sometimes that does really mean that we have a sleeper hit of a film in this case it really doesn't and so then join me as I review the film that puts a new spin on he slasher genre with the film in question being called simply just "Bloody Axe Wound" enjoy.

The plot of this film is the daughter a famous serial killer wants to follow in her fathers footsteps and will do anything to prove that she's a good killer. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was inn all honesty not that bad however tho at the exact same time this films plot wasn't all that good as the film does nothing interesting with it's unique set up which has the add on effect of making this set up seem wasted when if anything this kind of a set up where the horror movies seen in this small town actually happened is a good set up all the film needed was a decent enough script to pull off it's plot and yet the film instead feels like something that would have been made in 2020 as that's just how tired and played out the plot of this film feels like half of the time but credit where it is due the plot of this film is a very unique plot which does go to show you that creativity in the world of horror isn't dead you just have to go looking in smaller places to find it and while a bad plot will always be a bad plot you always have to give a film points for telling a story that's as unique as the plot of this film is with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Sari Arambulo as Abbie Bladecut , Molly Brown as Sam Crane and Billy Burke as Roger Bladecut. Also starring in this film is one of this films producers Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Butch Slater , Eddie Leavy as Glenn , Sage Spielman as Laverne , Margot Anderson-Song as Patty , Matt Hopkins as Mackenzie , David Littleton as Mark , Keaton Morris-Stan as Drunk Lady , Jahdey Wright as Bryant , Rena Burkhart as Hip Girl and Lizzy Cenicola as Daisy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us inn this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting being one of the things that the film actually got a lot of praise when it was released back in December of last year and it's not heard to see why that was the case as the actors that are starring in this film really do turn in some really good performances all throughout this film and while yes it would be super easy to say that Jeffrey Dean Morgan turns in the best performance as Butch Slater that honor instead goes to leading actor Sari Arambulo as Abbie Bladecut who really does have to carry the overall vast majority of this film and she does so with such ease that it's easy tot picture her playing roles outside of the world of horror as she's just that good that she could very easily make it big as a big time hollywood star and heck all of this films young actors really do hold there own and turn in some really good performances in there own right as well with the same thing also being true for Billy Burke with the acting that's in this very film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

What really should have been the main focus of this film given it's set up is the bond between Abbie and her dad. Yet the film very quickly drops that idea for no reason when it's that very idea that really should have been the core of the film as it's her dad that Abbie is trying to impress and yet because of the fact that the film drops that aspect of the film in favor for a bunch of stock teen slasher characters it then means that the film looses it's emotional core and the chance to be different from all of the other slashers that are out there and instead becomes just another slasher film only with a slightly unique twist of the format and that's really it and that's not enough to make people want to watch this film and yet if the makers of this film instead chose to focus on the relationship between Abbie and her dad and heck they even could have had them team up for a couple of kills in a fun and funny montage the film just feels like it's lacking that extra special something and when the whole film is built around the fact that Abbie wants to impress her dad so that he will let her take over the family business and become a serial killer in her own right then it means that the films plot losses all kinds of focus when the film decides to drop that aspect of the film and instead focus on the bond between Abbie and the teen characters that she's meant to be killing off which to put in bluntly just isn't that interesting to watch in the film at all.

Again to put it bluntly this films characters just aren't that good as the teen characters are just the stock teen characters from any slasher film only less interesting because of that fact. With the only two interesting characters being both Abbie and her dad and that's mainly because of the fact that one of them is a serial killer and the other one wants to be a serial killer and that's really it as none of this films characters do or say anything that effects who they are as characters as there all just busy being the stock characters from any given slasher film which would actually be funny if the film was using there stock characters traits to comment on the fact that there stock characters but it doesn't as it instead plays it all weirdly straight which makes the characters come off worse as now it makes it look like that the writers of this film were just being lazy ad couldn't be bothered to create interesting characters that we want to see more off and that we want to see make it until the end of the film and yet because of the fact that none of this films characters are interesting characters they all come off as being one dimensional characters with the same thing also being true for Abbie and her dad who despite being the most interesting characters still come of as being one dimensional as while Abbie and her dad have at least some personality none of the others do and none of the others have much in the way of hobbies or interests either with them all just being dull and boring characters that would have fitted in right at home in The Mouse Trap as this films characters are just that dull and boring.

Rant about the characters aside the closest film that I could possibly compare this film to is The Final Girls. As both films blend the slasher genre with comedy however where as with The Final Girls it was done in a tongue in cheek way that actually made fun of the slasher genre as a whole here the film does nothing with the comedy except tell the exact kind of jokes that you think that it would tell and because of that alot of the films jokes just don't work and while the film got alot of hate for it's slapstick tone it's the films slapstick that oddly works for the film as well as at least then you can tell that there was an attempt at being funny but where as when the film actually tells a joke it just falls flat on it's face with the great Jeffrey Dean Morgan telling it the joke still falls flat with this being an example f the fact that this films writer , producer and director Matthew John Lawrence really doesn't know how to tell a good joke as this is film that could have been used to comment on the slasher genre as a whole whilst still being a fun filled slasher film but because of the fact that it plays everything straight lines that could have been funny like the fact that someone gets accused of being the killer despite the fact that they were in the same room as the killer just fall flat were as with The Final Girls they at least had the courage to go all in on the fact that it's slasher comedy and because of that we got a fun filled film that despite having a few rough around the edges jokes was still a pretty funny and a pretty decent film in it's own right.

While this film can be dreadful alot of the time one of the things that it gets right is the relationship between the characters. As pretty much all of the characters relationships are developed enough to the point where you do buy them as friends and in the cases of the two characters lovers as well the issue is tho is that apart from the lovers relationship the film does nothing with these relationships once the kills start happening which makes those relationships feel pointless which does in a way make sense as they were only done so that Abbie could close enough to her victims so that she could kill them all off but even tho if your going to have a new group of characters meet each other for the first time then at the very least show us what happens to there relationships when they all start getting killed off as that would make all of the pointless amount of time that the film spends on there relationships worth it but as things stand since the film does nothing with there relation it instead feels like that there were just to give the killer some victims which would be fine if you were just doing a bogstandard slasher film or even a send up of eighties slasher films but this film promoted itself as being a film that's pretty much meant to be send up of those films and yet it doesn't do any of that and so the film comes across as being a slasher film with bad jokes in it and there for the characters relationships should have played into the film once the kills started happening and not just be forgotten about all together which makes Matthew John Lawrence seem like a really lazy writer.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and eighteen seconds. Which is pretty much the exact bogstandard running time for a film like this one to ave and to this films credit it really does have more then enough there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't take as full advantage of it's running time as it really could have done as it doesn't develop any of it's characters as Abbie looses her dream of becoming a serial killer out of nowhere and that's a key aspect of the film and was THE main selling point of the film and yet it's treated as an after thought and none of this films characters are given much in the way of character development either with all of this films characters minus Abbie and her dad being nothing but bland characters and all of these things are things that really should have been fixed at the scripting stage as it's basic film making 101 and yet the makers of this film instead chose to ignore doing basic level stuff for no reason which can and does make this film feel like it's very frustrating to watch as there is a good film in there just waiting to get out as all it needed was a push in the right direction and that's it and that's a shame because the films idea is more then enough to carry the film and make the film good but it still needed a good film making team to make it a great film and that's sadly not what we get with this film in it's current state but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However tho just like the plot of the film this films kills aren't that good not that there bad kills by any stretch of the imagination it's just that there bland a generic kills with this not really being helped that it takes a good long which before any of the main characters start getting killed of with alot of the films running time being spent on two the characters meeting and becoming lovers and that's not what you want to see in a slasher movie and while yes we do get a few good kills at the start of the film it's a good while before we even get another kill in the movie and for a film that's one hour and twenty three minuets long you really can't afford to be leaving pretty much all of your main character kills until the third act of the film as the audience expects the kills to happen all throughout the film and not during the third act and especially not after you've forced us the audience to spend alot of time with characters that we don't even like because the film doesn't give us a reason to like these characters but when the film does have a good kill it can be a pretty decent kill it's just a shame that we have sit through alot of really bad kills just to get to one or two decent kills in this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's very easy to see why alot of people in the horror community aren't talking about this film as it really is a very frustrating film to watch this is despite it having a few bright spots but even those bright spots aren't enough to save this disaster of  film as it's just that bad in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally go all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor  IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

In A Violent Nature Film Review

Horror had one of it's best years last year with alot of horror films that got released being genuinely really good films. With the film that i'm about to review for you all today being just such a film as it's a film that really did come out of nowhere and while it didn't set the horror world ablaze like the Terrifer films have done it is still a really good film in it's own right and so then join me as I review the film that quite literally puts you in the shoes of the killer with the film in question being called simply just "In A Violent Nature" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when his locket that is keeping his soul at rest is stolen Johnny comes back to life and goes looking for the teens that stole his locket. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the plot of this film being really refreshing as well as while alot of films will tell you that they've put you into the shoes of the killer this one actually does it and because of that the plot of this film does come across as being new and different whilst if you looked it from the teens point of view it's old and tired as from there point of view the killer is just attacking them in the woods for no reason and while yes the plot of this film could have been alot more better then what it actually was given the fact that this films had a very tiny budget and a debuting writer and director it's a wonder that this films plot turned out to be as good as it was as on paper this films plot could have felt tired and boring and yet somehow the film manages to pull off this plot with it being helped by the fact that this films plot is really new and different as well which is something that does keep you invested and wondering what's actually going to happening next with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Ry Barrett as Johnny , Daddy's Perfect Little Girl star Andrea Pavlovic as Kris and Cameron Love as Colt. Also starring in this film is Reece Presley as The Ranger , Liam Leone as Troy , Charlotte Creaghan as Aurora , Lea Rose Sebastianis as Brodie , Sam Roulston as Ehren , Alexander Oliver as Evan , Timothy Paul McCarthy as Chuck and Friday The 13th Part 2 star Lauren-Marie Taylor as The Woman.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films actors turning in some really shockingly good performances which wasn't to be expected as nearly all of this films actors are complete and total unknowns with the same thing also kind of being true for Lauren-Marie Taylor as well and as such it really would have been stupid to expect good performances from everybody in this film and yet that's exactly what we got as all of this films actors turn in some really good performances with it being clear that this films writer and director Chris Nash really knowing how to direct his actors and get a really good performance out of them with this being something that the film really does need as the pure concept of the film alone means that that the film requires good acting and while yes some of the films actors aren't as good as others that doesn't mean that those actors are bad it just means that the other actors in this film are better and that's really it with the acting that's in this very film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performances really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

The slasher genre is one that requires change every few years to keep it fresh and engaging for modern audiences. We saw it happen in the eighties and in the nineties and with this film we can see it again as putting us the auidence in the shoes of the killer is a really good idea as it means that we see everything that he sees and that we feel everything that he feels and it also means that we the audience basically become the killer of the film and while many people might not like that it is something that makes us feel uncomfortable and can at time be downright scary and that's horror especially slasher films can do when there done right but sadly Hollywood will never recognize this film as being game changer not because it's not using a very popular IP to do so but because of the fact that it's not being released by a major film studio and as such it can pretty much be guaranteed that when a slasher film comes out that's being released by a major studio like Universal for example then the overall vast majority will recognize that film as being a game changer when all it would be doing is following in the footsteps of this film as it's something that already happened with The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity with The Blair Witch Project introducing the idea of found footage movies but because it wasn't released by a major studio it wasn't claimed as being a game changer where as Paranormal Activity was when it was just following in the footsteps of that film.  

To be blunt 2024 was a really good year for horror films with the overall vast majority of horror films that were released in that year being really good and while yes we did get a few bad ones like The Mouse Trap for example alot more of them were good if not great. This does go to show that the more strange and bizarre ideas like the one that this film has are the ones that audiences want to see more of and that big studios should look to smaller streaming services like Shudder who also had a had in co-producing this film and look at them for ideas for there horror films as there's no way in heck that this film would have gotten made by a big studio because of the fact that it's central idea is just so strange and out there and yet it's due to that strange and out there idea that the film oddly worked as it means that alot of he things that could be considered faults with the film could also be chalked up to the fact that the killer wasn't there when we got those things with this film also going to show you that while yes some mainstream horror films like Abigail can indeed be really good films but that every once in a while you have to look at the smaller film companies to find fresh and new ideas that prove that the horror genre isn't dead but instead it's thriving and it could also be argued that smaller horror films like Late Night With The Devil and this film will do better for the box office then the more popular horror films as at least with these films your giving audiences something new and something that they didn't know that they wanted in the first place.

Just to get back on track with this film one of this films major faults is the fact that none of the teenage characters are fully developed characters. Which as was just mentioned could also be chalked up to the fact that the killer just wasn't there when we got scenes that developed there characters but because we are left with characters that are nothing short of being two dimensional characters with none of them not really being given much interms of hobbies with the only one who actually does get a hobby is Aurora as she does express an interest in yoga but that's really it and while there are hints to what the teens do when there back at home none of those things affect who they are as characters and instead feel like that they were tacked on to help the characters seem more well rounded then what they actually are with even the films killer Johnny coming across as being more of a three dimensional character then the teens are and he's the one that's not meant to be a fully formed character as the audience is meant to see themselves in him but this is something that could be chalked up to this films writer and director Chris Nash really hasn't written for a feature film before now with his only other feature film credit being as a writer and director on his segment for ABCs Of Death 2 back in 2014 and that's really it but at the same time he really should have worked on creative ways for the teens to get across what it is that makes them fully formed three dimensional characters whilst also keeping it in line with the films idea of just following the killer around as it is something that could be done you just need to be creative to get it done and that's really it.

Another fault of this film is the fact that there so many shots in the film with the killer just walking to his next destination. Which while granted it does serve a purpose in the film and they do try to mix things up a bit by having some of them be cut down by quite a bit but at the same time tho we don't need to see how the killer gets to his next destination as sometimes what you don't see is more scarier then what you do see and while this is to explain the fact that this killer is going to be teleporting to his next victim it can also make the film feel a bit repetitive and boring as there's only so long that you can see long shots of the villain just walking and this is something that should have been broken up a bit more just to keep the film from being dull and boring like maybe near the end of the film Johnny starts running or maybe we get to see something other then him walking and while yes the whole idea is to show that he can't teleport it is something that needed to be thought out a bit more as on paper having him walking to his next victim is a good idea but in actuality it is something that does keep the film from being a really entertaining film with it being like for people can't get into The Lord Of The Rings because the characters have to walk to Murdor well here it's the exact same thing and it is something that should have been taken into account as there are quite alot of scenes with him walking that stretch on and on.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty three minuets and fifty two seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have and to this films credit it really does make the most of it's running time with the film having more then there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time as well and while the film does make the best use of it's running time that it possibly could have done with the concept of this film a huge portion of this films running time is made up of Johnny walking which is something that you don't really need to see alot of the time and instead not showing him walking would allow for the teen characters to get some character development as it would mean that we could spend more time with them and there characters as while Johnny is an interesting character as he killed for essentially being different then all of those that he grew up with it's the teen characters that get short changed because of the fact that we get to find out next to nothing about them as characters with this being something that you could do whilst still keeping the core concept f the film intact as you could have Johnny eavesdrop on them while there explaining more about who they are which granted wouldn't work in the context of the film but it would help to get across who they are as characters and it would also mean that we'd get a break from seeing Johnny walking which eats up alot of the films running time with the only thing that really needed to be cut down was the ending as the scene with Kris and The Woman goes on and on for quite a while and all for no reason as none of what The Woman says adds anything to the plot of the film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is slasher film that really does mean that I have t actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film not only having some of the goriest kills but also some of the most original and actually scary looking kills as well and while yes granted this film will never be able to top the Terrifer films when it comes to having some really gory kills the kills that in this film are just as gory as well with it actually being really hard to say just what the best kill of this film even is as realistically all of them could lay claim to that honor and it would make total sense but the most painful kill was easily Ehren's death scene as he gets strangled by a saw which then cuts into his throat but the goriest kill in the film is easily that of the Park Ranger's kill as he gets paralyzed by Johnny who then take him to a log splitter and dismembers him which is just such a cool and it's something that does set this film apart from all of the other slashers out as Johnny really doesn't have a primary weapon he just has whatever it is that he can find out at the time and he makes use of all of the things that he can find by using them to create some really inventive and wince inducing kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while the Terrifer films might have captured the audiences interest it doesn't mean that smaller known films like this one that have just as gory kills as the Terrifer films aren't as good as this film is one that really does need to be seen to be believed as while yes it does have it's fair share of problems those problems could also be part of the films charm and part of the films central idea as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review ad as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Abigail 2024 Film Review

To say that 2024 was a shockingly good year for horror movies would be like that The Mouse Trap was a bad movie no duh. As we had a shockingly high amount of actually good if not great horror films come out in that year and heck even the sequel to Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey was a shockingly decent film and one of the more entertaining films that came out in that year is also the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today and so then join me as I review the film that proves that children can be little monster with the film in question being called simply just "Abigail" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of strangers kidnap a twelve year old girl and take her to a mansion where they have to stay with her over night in order to collect the ransom by her father the group discover that there is something sinister lurking in the house and that the girl has a secret of her own. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being a shockingly original idea that works really well as this films plot is one that keeps you hooked all the way through it and while it could be argued that the idea of having the characters that would typically be seen as the bad guys turn out to be the good guys and the ones that are typically seen as the good guys guys be the bad guys is an idea that's stolen from Don't Breathe here the film does breathe life into that idea by not only making the characters that your meant to really route for be really unlikable at times it also does so by giving us a genuinely good plot and a character that your meant to really hate come across as being quite likable at times as well with the plot of this film being one that's genuinely really well written as well with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Scream 2022 and Scream VI star Melissa Barrera as Joey and Beauty And The Beast 2017 star Dan Stevens as Frank. Also starring in this film is Matilda The Musical star Alisha Weir as Abigail , Will Catlett as Rickles , Freaky star Kathryn Newton as Sammy , Kevin Durand as Peter , Angus Cloud as Dean , Matthew Goode as Father / Kristof Lazaar and The Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito as Lambert.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which considering not only who is starring in this film but also who is directing this film is not a big surprise at all as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right and this films directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett really do know how to geta  really good performance out there actors something that they've proven time and time again with the true standout in this film not being any of the more established actors but rather it's Alisha Weir as Abigail who is just a joy to watch in this film and while all of the more established actors do indeed turn in some really good performances in this film it's Alisha who is just down right fun to watch in this film and if you watch her in both this film and in Matilda The Musical it would be like night and day and it's clear as day that this young girl really does have a really bright future ahead of her should she of course continue to want to do acting with the acting that's in this film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the CGI for this film is ReDefine , the legends and the greats that are currently over at Crafty Apes and Nexodus. No then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as they mainly only used CGI when a characters bursts open which is really a great way to use CGI that's not something that can be done practically or if it is done practically then it usually doesn't look as good as it could've done where as here as they mainly used practical effects it means that when they do switch over to CGI it looks really good as it's something that does look like that it was done practically and while they may or may not have been some CGI blood which usually would be seen as being a negative aspect of the film here it is something that might work as after all your not going to expose a little kid to gallons upon gallons of fake blood but if it was real then it did look really good with this film being a good case of practical effects and CGI effects blending together pretty seamlessly as it was hard to tell at points what was practical and what was done in a computer and that is how it should always be as if you an tell what was faked in a computer then it takes you out of the film where here because of the fact that the two where blended together so well it means that you can remain invested in the film.

For some rather odd reason 2024 seemed to be the year of the vampire movie with both this film and Nosferatu killing it at the box office. With this film itself starting out life as a remake of the film Dracula's Daughter and yet somewhere along the line it transformed into this film and that was something that does work well for this film as if this film did indeed remain as a remake of Dracula's Daughter then it would have fans of that film complaining that this film is two different from the original source material and yet because of the fact that it is so different from the original source material it was allowed to be it's own unique thing whilst Nosferatu on the other hand is a straight up remake of the original film of the same name and because of the fact that it has a really talented cast and crew making the film it's getting alot of praise from both critics and fans alike and it's both of these films alone that proves that if done well then vampire films can reign supreme at the box office heck even Renfield went someway to proving that point and now that Hollywood has a few hit vampire films under there belt they might now start to really consider doing a take on vampires that we haven't seen before and that can be allowed to be it's own unique thing instead of just being this film but with a new coat of paint on it as that's something that people will spot quite quickly and rather easily as well and would harm the film rather then help it.

What does let this film somewhat down is the fact between Abigail and Joey is one that really isn't fully developed. As outside of the fact that we audience find out that Joey is a mother we don't really get to see any scene with the two of them forming even a very loose bond let alone something that would get to the point where Abigail would only allow herself to be seen by Joey something which is crucial to the films plot with this this being something that could have been fixed if the film did show the two of them just sitting on the bed talking to one another yes you could still keep the menace that Abigail does bring and have that still be there but it would also show that the characters are forming a bond with each other something that would then be bother shattered and repaired when it's revealed that Abigail is a vampire and when she stands up to her father and demands that Joey to let free but as it is that bond really doesn't exist in the film and heck the kidnapper characters don't get alot of time to just bond with other either which in that case is something that does make sense as there never going to see each other again after the night is through but it is something that would help to make them seem more likable then what they actually are and given that this film is all about subverting expectations it is something that really would have worked well enough in the films favor as well but as things stand the key bond between Abigail and Joey just doesn't exist which means that when Abigail does stand up to her father and demand that Joey to let go whilst it doesn't seem out of place given what happens in the final act if the film it doesn't have that much of an emotional impact something that it would have done if they did have even a very loose bond in the film.

As with alot of Radio Silence films this film does also have a comedy element to it which is something that does work in this film. As the film has alot of really good and funny jokes in it and while it would be very easy to have the jokes in this film undercut the more serious moments in this film like what they do with alot of Marvel Cinematic Universe films here the jokes feel like that they are in service to the characters and do at times feel like that there very character driven with it oddly making sense to make this film as horror comedy as Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett really do both joke around not only when there making a movie but also when there out promoting it as well and as a result is the fact that it would make sense to make this film a horror comedy as more then likely would have had the cast improvise alot of the films more funnier moments to make them better fit there characters alot more with the best joke in the whole film being when the group is trying to come up with a plan Joey is the only one who is really talking sense and yet the group just ignore her and so she just stays downstairs because of the fact that she knows that there plan is going to backfire and when it does one of them just straight up says to Joey "don't you dare say I told you so" which was a really funny joke as you could very easily picture both characters saying something like that to each other and it's just one example of just how good the jokes in this film really can be as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty nine minuets and thirty one seconds. Which is a really solid running time for this film to have as while this film does have more then there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time it's also a film that really doesn't need to be any longer then what it already is but at the same time tho it really would help this film out a little bit if the film was even just five or ten minuets longer as that would then allow for the makers of this film fully develop it's plot as well as fully develop it's characters and the relationship between Abigail and Joey both of which do get a little bit short changed in the final cut of the film but at the same time tho if this film was even five or ten minuets longer then those extra scenes would feel like padding as they would add nothing to the overall plot of the film and would only be there to pad out the films running time when the film really doesn't need to be padded out in the first place with this film being a perfect example of less equals more as the film can say alot more with it's characters and storyline by including alot less which is something that really does work to this films advantage quite a bit with the film even taking as full advantage of it's running time by giving us characters that are both likable and that you hate both at the exact same time but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt tag the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film having some wonderfully over the top and gory kills in it and while yes this films gore won't even come close to matching the amount of gore seen in just Terrifer 2 alone but that doesn't mean that this film doesn't have alot of gore in it as it really does heck we straight up see not one but two vampire burst open at the end of the film which is just so wonderfully over the top in a goofy kind of way that it does really work for this film with the same thing also being true for this film as all of this films kills have a slight goofiness to them which work well for the tone of the film and match with the fact that this film is also meant to be a comedy with the best kill in the whole entire film quite easily being Sammy's kill as it's one that's built up nice and well over a good few minuets that it is a kill that your happy actually happens and while yes granted her kill is the least gory kill in the film it again goes back to less equals more which is something that this film really does quite well and to some really good affect as well with it making the films kills standout because of it as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of the two vampire films that came out in 2024 Nosferatu is quite easily the better of the two films but this film is one that's really fun to watch on it's own right as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images really simply because Google Images actually really has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and really plus pretty much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images really were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we really do end this review as we really always do with really our one and really true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.