Primate Film Review

A new year means a whole new host of horror films to hopefully give us nightmares and yet believe it or not we are not even a month into the new year and already a really good horror film has just come out. With this film following in the grand old tradition of making animals scary with this film taking what could have been seen as being a really campy and over the top premise and somehow making it work really well and so then join me as I review the film that is pretty much just Cujo but for chimps with the film in question being called simply just "Primate" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a chimp called Ben contracts rabis and starts attacking his owners and her friends it's up to the group to find away to survive the night. 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 one that whilst yes it does copy the plot of Cujo almost beat for beat it is still a really good story to see unfold as it's one that we don't really get to see all that much in the world of horror and to the films credit the plot of this film is one that does know when to take itself seriously and when to be a bit campy and bit funny as there parts inn this fil, where they do add elements of humor but the thing that does let this film down from a plot point of view being the fact that the films plot is a bit on a weak side so much so that outside of the basic premise of the film the film itself doesn't really have that much of a plot to speak of whatever with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film were banking on the fact that they had a chimp be the main killer of the film being more then enough to make the film and while yes that is still a really good idea the film still needed to devote more time into fully fleshing out it's plot and actually showing us key things instead of just telling us about them 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 Dexter: New Blood star Johnny Sequoyah as Lucy and The Little Mermaid 2023 star Jessica Alexander as Hannah. Also starring in this film is Troy Kotsur as Adam , Victoria Wyant as Kate , Gia Hunter as Erin , Benjamin Cheng as Nick , Charlie Mann as Drew , Tienne Simon as Brad , Ready Player One star Kae Alexander as Yoko , Amina Abdi as Susan , Albert Magashi as Matt and Miguel Torres Umba as Ben.

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. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this film something that given the films premise and the fact that one of the films main characters is a chimp is something that surely couldn't have been easy and yet they manages to pull it off really well with all of them looking right at home when acting in scenes with Miguel Torres Umba who is of course playing Ben the chimp and while alot of this films characters are perfectly well cast there are some that do feel out of place in a film like this and could have been done with being cast with someone else like for example all pf the boys that the girls meet at the start of the film as while they all do turn in a good performance in this film they all come across as being to nice when this is a film that requires someone who can play a douche character with the best actor in this film being none other then Miguel Torres Umba himself as it surely must have been very difficult acting in a heavy chimp costume and still put across just what the character is thinking and feeling all without saying a word of dialog and yet he does manage to pull that of with it being made clear as day that this films co-writer and director Johannes Roberts spent alot of time in casting this one character as he is one of the few characters that does feel perfectly well cast with the acting thats in this film really being helped by the fact that the script for this film 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 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.

Character wise this films characters do fair alot more better then the characters in this films directors other film Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City in that these characters are actually well written for the most part. As while some of them do come across as being full thought out characters there are some like the boys that do come across as being very one dimensional as characters as none of the boys that the girls meet at the start of the film have anything that's even close to being a personality which would be fine if they were there just for that one scene but the film does bring them back into movie and if the plan was to always do that then the makers of this should have taken the time to add something literally anything to there personalities as that would help make them feel more thought out as characters with the same thing even being true for the dad of one of the characters as even tho he's meant to be a main character and yet the film doesn't do anything with his character this is despite the fact that the character does have an interesting hook to him in that he's deaf and yet the film does nothing with it with it seeming like the makers of the film were only interested in the films female characters and in Ben himself which is fair enough as there meant to be the main characters of the film but at the same time tho there should have been some love and attention given to the side characters as they can make the main characters more better then what they already are in the first place and while the main character aren't all that effected by this by any means as Lucy is still a strong willed main character it is something that would have helped the lesser main characters like Hannah for example appear all the more better due to how strongly written the side characters could have been.

If you saw the trailer for this movie and it reminded you very much of Cujo then prepared for the whole film to do exactly that. As this film whilst it's clearly not a remake of Cujo you can see where they took inspiration for this film from that film as there are alot of scenes in this film that feel like they were ripped right out of that that film sadly none of which are things that can be discussed in this review as I want this review to be as SPOILER FREE as is humanly possibly but it is something that once you see them you can't un notice as the film does come across as being very in your face about where it's taking inspiration from and fair enough Cujo is a classic film so of course in your animal themed horror film your going to want to tip your hat to that film but there's tipping your hat and then there's straight up copying what that movie did whilst only changing a few things to pass it off as your own and that's something that this film did as there are alot of scenes in this film that do feel like scenes from Cujo with only a few minor changes made to them with this film being a good case of the makers of this film not really being all that subtle about where they got there inspiration from and while it is something that doesn't really hurt the film in anyway as those scenes that worked well in that film still do work well in this film as well it's the fact that the makers of this film did copy those scenes that does make the makers of this film feel alot more lazy then what they actually are and heck you could even argue that the premise of this film is a rip off of the premise of Cujo as they are both strikingly similar in alot aspects with the only thing that sets this film apart from that film is the fact that the killer of this film is a chimp and not a dog and that's really it.

This is film that whilst it might not become a big hit for Paramount Pictures it is one that could very easily become a cult classic, As the films plot is just wacky enough for mainstream audiences not to like it all that much but is just crazy enough for the film to become a cult hit as the idea of having a killer chimp trying to kill you isn't something that screams box office hit but it is something that does scream cult classic on the other hand tho as we are in January and typically good films be they horror or not don't come out at this time and with this film getting alot of rage reviews online there is a good chance that this film could be come a hit film and if it does then great as this is a film that many people will have a good time with however tho it does also mean that studios won't be able to make a sequel or a prequel to this film due to spoiler reasons and that is something that can only be seen as being a good thing as not all films need to have additional installments to them as sometimes being a one and done film is more then enough like for example M3GAN that film didn't need a sequel as it was a perfect one and done film and yet because the studios got greedy we ended up with the lesser M3GAN 2.0 as that film didn't really need to exist in the first place and if this film got a sequel or a prequel it would be the same thing as this is a film that wraps up it's main plot line in this film and therefor doesn't need to have any additional films in it but if this film did get additional films it would still be interesting to see what they do with the story and with the characters and given the fact that I liked this film I would of course go and see it but that doesn't earn that it has to happen tho.

There are some bad things to be found in this film as for a film that doesn't have that long of a running time this film does act somewhat as a slow burner when it really should have been getting going pretty much right away. With the other thing that doesn't really work in the film being the fact that they don't show us how Ben get rabis in the first place rather they tell us how it happened which isn't all that effective and yet if you look back at Cujo they show us how he got rabis and actually showed us what he was like before he got bit and yet here in this film thy don't do any of that as we don't get to see what Ben was like before he got rabis as the film opens with him already having it and therefor we don't get to see the difference in his personality which is something that would have made him getting rabis be all the more sad and tragic when this is something that the makers of this film really should have done as it is something that make us the audience feel something for Ben and heck even getting to see what his connection is like with his owners before he gets rabis is something that would have helped us to form more of an emotional connection with him as a character as then we would feel all the more sad for him when he does get rabis but for as many things the film gets wrong it gets alot of things right like for example it does know how to build up tension which is something that does make what could have been done really badly given the fact that the killer of the film is a chimp and yet it's clear as that the makers of this film really did know how best to use Ben as a character they only use him in ways that make tension so much so that the character does come across as being more creepier then what he really had any right to be.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and six seconds. Which is something that is a solid running time for this film to have with the film having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time and yet in saying this this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which is something that the film very easily could have done just by being fifteen minuets longer as that would have allowed the film to still be a slow burner and yet it would also allow for scenes that do develop the films plot like showing us how Ben got rabis in the first place with this small amount of running time even effecting the film character development as to be frank the film doesn't give any of it's characters any kind of character development with this being due to the fact that the film spends so much time with them just partying at the start of the film which is fine as you need to have the calm before the storm moment with the characters but at the same time given just how long that this film is it does mean that alot of the film needed to be about giving both it's plot and it's characters development and yet for one reason or the makers of this film thought they could still have a slow burn of a film and have that film be less then one hour and thirty minuets long and yet if the film was a little bit longer then the film would be a lot more better as it would allow for the films plot and and it's characters to get the development that they both really did need but to be fair when this film gets going it really does get going 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 that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film having alot of really good kills in it with them making good use of the fact that they have a chimp as the main killer of the film as we get to see some really creative kills in this film all of which are the types of kills that you wouldn't get to see in other film and yet they all work so well in this film with part of what makes the films kills work being the fact that the film does a good job of building up tension in the first place with the best kill in the whole film being one that i'm not going to spoil as all of this films kills but this is a film that you need to see without knowing all that much about what happens in the film and what happens in the films kills with this film making shockingly good use of practical effects something which you don't really get to see all that much in Hollywood these days and yet they all look good in this film as you can tell that the makers of this film really did put alot of thought and effort into making this films practical effects looking as good as they could have done which is something that they really didn't have to do as they very easily could have used CGI and it would have worked just as well but the fact that they didn't does show that Johannes Roberts is an old school film maker that would only use CGI when he needs to and not when he has to something which we do see alot of in all of this films really impressive looking kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a film that really does need to be seen on the biggest screen possible as while it is basically just a chimp version of Cujo it is still a really good film in it's own right as it does get so much right in the first place as that's just how good that this film really is 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 were I personally got all of the images that I personally sued 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.

I Know What You Did Last Christmas Film Review

We are little over a week into the new year and we already have a bad horror movie with us with the thing that makes this movie standout. Being the fact that it's an obvious knock off of I Know What You Did Last Summer with the only difference being this move takes place at Christmas time and not in the summer time as that's just how obvious of a knock off that this film really is and so then join me as i review the film that is a knock off of I Know You Did Last Summer which in turn is a knock off of Scream with the film in question being called simply just "I Know What You Did Last Christmas" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one year after a group of friends pull a joke on a friend that results in her death they all find themselves being killed off of one by one and have to find out who the killer is before there next. 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 bad with it being made painfully obvious what this films plot is knocking off and yet the makers of this film fail to realise that the there movie that there ripping off had a bad plot to begin with this films plot not even improving upon the plot of the I Know What You Did Last Summer rather it's coming across as being a more watered version of that films plot with the plot of the film being as bad as you'd think that it would be as it feels like that this films plot was written in about five minuets as there's no thought and effort put into the plot of the film as this films plot is at best weak as the film doesn't focus on it's central mystery something that both the original and the legacy sequel of I Know What You Did Last Summer knew to do as that was how they were going to get audiences into the movie in the first place and yet here with this film it felt like the makers of the film were instead just relying on people confusing this film for the film that it's obviously knocking off and that there for they chose not to give the films plot that much thought and effort with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is this films casting director Lauren Staerck as Cassie , Mouseboat Massacre star Shayli Reagan as Amber , A Tailor-Made Romance star Connor Horrigan as Nico and Helen Elizabeth Baird as Jules. Also starring in this film is The Wizard of Oz: The Dead Walk star Alfie Manser as Sam , Julia Quayle as Lila , Dan Robins as Trey , Ashley Bedford as Dax , Katrina Todd as Erin and Leona Clarke as Millie.

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 bad. With the fact that this films acting really bad being the kind of thing that you expect when you go into one of these films and to be fair to this film the acting in it isn't as bad as the acting in some of the other very cheaply made horror films out there as you can tell that this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance but the issue is that there this films director isn't helping as it seems like this films director Gregory William Randolph Jr. has no idea how to get a good performance out of his actors with them all feeling lost and unsure of just what kind of performance to give with the films best actor being Lauren Staerck as Cassie just because of the fact that she comes across as the only person who knows that she's in a bad film and therefor just phoning in her performance all of the time which is something that does make her performance oddly enjoyable to watch as she clearly just doesn't care about turning a good performance in this film with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so bad as it gives nine of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This film really doesn't fair all the more better when it comes to it's characters either as even tho this was the debut film for writer C.M. Wright you can tell that they had no idea on how to write good characters. As to be frank here all of this films characters are bland and boring characters that have nothing interesting about them and while fair enough this is this persons first ever feature film and so of course there not going to knock the characters out of the park on the first attempt but there still needs to be an actual attempt to make good characters as all of the characters in this film seem like the characters that you'd get in the first draft of a script and not the kind of characters you'd get in the films final draft with even the films final girl Cassie being a bland character that had the potential to be good if she was written well as the idea of someone dealing with PTSD about what happened the year before is a good idea but the film does nothing with it as it then has all of the films other characters dealing with PTSD this is a case where copying something from I Know What You Did Last Summer be it the original r the recent legacy sequel would have worked as this film is ripping off that film anyway so they might as well go all the way with it and rip off some of the characters as well and yet they don't do that when that is something that would have made the film alot more entertaining to watch in the first place with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film had no idea on how come up with good characters and while the writer of this film very well might improve in there later films if this film is anything to go by then they have a long way to go in creating good or even OK characters. 

As you can all no doubt work out from the title of this film they are ripping off I Know What You Did Last Summer. Heck even the poster to this film is very similar to that of the Last Summer legacy sequel with this clearly being done in order to confuse and trick people into buying there terrible film and not the terrible I Know What You Did Last Sumer legacy film as there's nothing in this film that feels unique and fresh as they even rip off the twist ending from Scream 2022 by having it be reveled that there are actually two killers with one of them being a female who just like in Scream 2022 is also called Amber that right there is just lazy writing as now there ripping off two movies when they were barely getting away with ripping off the one movie and while granted the makers of this film more then likely didn't have the time to fix this in the script as it feels like this film was written in five minuets they could have come up with something that's unique to this film heck even the Harry Boxley films have at least one thing that's unique about them and he's made a career out of turning Disney characters into slasher villains and yet here it felt like that the makers of this film would just look at the title of the film and think that it was I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 and they therefor chose not to give the film alot of thought and effort when they should have gone out of there to make sure that there film was still a really good film and one that was actually better then the film that it's knocking off as this film makes I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 look like a masterpiece by comparison and should have come up with an original twist rather then just straight up copy the one used in Scream 2022.

Again to be frank it was pretty obvious that this film was going to be a bad film as the title right away gives that away. Yet even with that working against it the film does manage to pull off some impressive looking drone shots quite early on in the film which was something that was unexpected as it did have some small production value to the film with the film even having some nice looking practical effects in it as well and yet even so this film does feel like it's bein held back by it's budget and while fair enough a film like this one was never ever going to be expensive to make in the first place you can tell that this film was being made on the cheap as all of the characters have the one set of clothes and there's the one main location which to be fait the film does take full advantage off but at the same time it's not the best of locations as it's just the typical house in the middle of the woods and heck even one of the characters complains about not having any Wi-Fi whereas if the film did have a bigger budget then it would be able to get away with doing alot more as we could then get more dice looking drone shots of the house and we would be able to have extra's in the film which is something that would make the world that this films takes place in feel alot more populated but to the films credit they do do the best that they could have done with this film given that it would have had a really small budget and you do see where the money went as it's all there on screen it's just that this is a film that would have benefitted from having more money thrown at it as things like the third act feel anti-climatic due to the fact that you can tell they were just running out of money at that point and its things like that that do hinder the film and stop it from being as enjoyable as it really could have been.

Much like how the original I Know What You Did Last Summer and the original Scream films had a mystery to them. This film also has a mystery to it and just like the rest of the film it's done pretty badly as we don't get to see the actual prank that caused the character Millie to die in the first place with even all of the characters being so unlikable that realistically any of the characters could have been the main killers of the film and it would totally make sense were as with the original Scream film they at least went out of there to make sure that the characters that your meant to like were actually likable people that you wanted to see more of and yet here in this film they don't do any of that with them not even giving us a good mystery as the film doesn't give us any clues as to who the killers are meant to be in the first place which does mean that when they do reveal who the killers are they have to go out of there way to explain why there the killer in the first place which at that point is far to little to late when that is something that could have been done earlier on in the film as that not only would have made the characters more likable but it also would have given us the audience a clue as to who the killers of the film are meant to be in the first place and yet because of the fact that this films characters are so unlikable that it really could have been anyone of them that were committing these crimes with even Cassie who is meant to be the films final girl being made out to be this unlikable person and yet if the makers of this film did give u a reason to actually care for this films characters and actually gave us clues to work out who the killer is in the first place then it would have made the film all the more better and it would have added replay value to the film as well.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and ten minuets and fifty seconds. Which to be fair is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have with the film having just about the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot and granted it really couldn't do that with that short amount of running time but there are direct to DVD DC animated films that have similar running times and that have more developed plots then this one with this film being more focused of ripping of both Scream 2022 and I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 then it is in giving us a well developed plot with this film not even taking the time to fully develop any of it's characters either with them all being very one dimensional characters with the film not caring to give it's characters the time that they need to be that well developed as characters when this is a film that really should have taken the time to fully develop it's characters given the fact that this is a mystery film and therefor the characters really did need to be more developed in order for the mystery aspect of the film to be more effective and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film instead chose to not give us fully developed characters and instead just chose to rip off two slasher movies which is something that will only get so fat and yet if this film did take the time that it really did need to do to fully develop both it's plot and it's characters then this film would be alot more better then what it already is 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 his 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. With it being made clear as day that the makers of this film put alot more thought and effort into this films kills then they did anything else as it's during this films kills that we get to see where alot of the budget went to as we do get to see alot of really good looking practical effects which even tho this film had a really small budget and despite that the effects in the films kills look as good as they were going to with the best kill in the whole entire film being in the films third act when we get see Cassie go nuts on both this films kills with Amber getting knifed in the side before then getting a pair of scissors in the eye and the first killer getting stabbed with a snooker cue which to the films credit is a really creative kill and is something that does look good in this film with the film kills making painfully clear that the makers of this film knew how to give us good kills but had no idea on how to give us a good film to go with those kills as the kills in the film really are the best part of the film even tho having the killer being dressed up as Father Christmas is one that's bit over played at this point in the time with the rest of the films kills being being just as fun and just creative as they were ever going to be given the fact that this film had a really small budget to begin with in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really doesn't need to be said but this film is just as bad as you'd think that it would be as while there is a decent film in here it's more bothered with being a knock off of film to a film that was already a knock off of Scream 1996 then it is in being a good film in it's own right 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 3.5 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 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.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2025 Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Horror remakes are sadly still a thing and now that Hollywood has all but ran out of all of the major franchises to remake it's now turning it's attention to all of the little known franchises as well. Case in point the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as while there might be some people that remember the original Silent Night, Deadly Night movie alot more people are going to remember it's sequel due to how bad it is and yet hollywood thought that this film was worth remaking not once but twice and so the join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film stripes away anything that made the first film feel so good and unique in the first place with the film in question being called simply just "Silent Night, Deadly Night" enjoy.

The plot of this film is some years after witnessing his parents getting killed by a man in a Santa suit a young man goes on a killing spree all over a small town. 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 not that bad as this films plot is pretty similar to the plot of the original film but at the same time it does take the first films plot in a different direction which at first does seem like a good idea as it does give this film a reason for being other then to cash in on the franchise IP but the amount of changes that this film makes to the originals plot just feels out of place and don't work alot of the time but to be fair tho this films plot is one that can get quite entertaining alot of the time due to one of the new aspects that this films introduces however tho he original films plot is all the more better then this films version of it just due to the fact that whilst yes it was a slow burn that was something that did ultimately work well in the films favor whereas here in this film it's plot takes the exact opposite approach to it's plot which robs the film of any chance to be it's own unique thing with the films pot feeling like the plot to any slasher remake as it's not that original of a plot as this film doesn't really do anything that's all that new or interesting with the plot of the film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Rohan Campbell as Billy Chapman and Happy Death Day star Ruby Modine as Pamela "Pam" Sims. Also starring in this film is  Mark Acheson as Charlie , David Lawrence Brown as Mr. Sims , David Tomlinson as Max Benedict , Darren Felbel as Grandpa , Jessica Burleson as Dana , Marina Stephenson Kerr as Rebecca , Landon McGowan Geoffrey as Liam , Coco Kolomiyets-Tohjoh as Celia , Cora Matheson as Hannah , Toni Reimer as Gail , Erik Athavale as Geoffrey Chapman , Rick Skene as Elroy , James Durham as Harold , Krystle Snow as Tara Chapman and Sharon Bajer as Delphine Anderson.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew 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 actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting being one of the more better aspects of the film as you can tell right away that the actors in this film know full well that there not in that good of a film and are just willing to have fun with their roles and that is something that does shine through in the film and eve tho alot of this films actors aren't that well known performance wise they do do a good job with there characters as there is alot of thought and effort put into there acting with it being helped by the fact that this films writer and director Mike P. Nelson does come across as being the kind of director that knows how to talk to his actors and get a good performance out of them with the films best actor being Rohan Campbell as Billy Chapman as he does do a good job of portraying Billy in a new and exciting way as it would have been very easy for him to copy what Robert Brian Wilson did with the character in the original film and yet here his performance makes it so that you not only feel sorry for the character but also can't really predict just what the character is thinking or feeling alot of the time with the acting that's in this 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 actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This film really doesn't fair all that much better character wise either as there's really nothing to any of this films characters. With all of this films characters just being really poorly done with there being nothing to them tat makes them interesting in the first place and granted the same thing could also be said for the original film but with that film they have the excuse of only really having one main character and a few side characters ad that's it here tho the film has alot of main characters and very few side characters and yet the makes of this film give none of this films characters be they main characters are or side characters anything interesting with alot of the characters are carried over from the the first film being nothing more then weaker versions of already weakly done characters heck the film could have made them stereotypes of other slasher film characters and it still would have been a step up from what we got in this film as here it felt like that the characters were treated more as an afterthought when compared to anything else in the film as the film does give alot more thought and effort into other aspects with its characters not being something that the makers of this film bothered to fix which is something that the makers of this film could have done as they could have taken the chance to fix something that could have been seen as a fault in the original film whilst still doing it's own unique thing as the idea of a remake is to redo the first film but do it better and that's not something that the makers of this film did alot of the time as the films characters just come across as being very dimensional characters and that's really it for them.

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Whilst this film is largely a remake of the original film it does make key changes from the first film that impact this film in a negative light. Like for example not only do they not make the Grandpa character a strange person who gave Billy the fear of Santa in the first place but they also have his dad drug and kill him and they cut out everything at the orphanage which means that we don't get to see what it was that made Billy snap and start killing people in the first place as when the film starts he's already been killing people whilst dressed up in a Santa suit for years at this point in time when it was more effective in the first film as we spent a good chunk of that films running time on just Billy's backstory so when he finally did start killing people it meant all the more as we'd spent longer with him as a character and yet here the makers of the film expect us to already feel something for the character without really giving us a reason to care for him and while giving Pam a bigger role in this film does make sense as she's a co-lead character in this film the film still does nothing interesting with her character as she's only there to be Billy's love interest and that's it and with the film stripping away everything that made the original be a flawed but still very unique film we are left with a film that feels more like a watered down version of the original film as the makers of this film are more focused on showing us references to the first two films then they are in giving us a film that is a genuinely good film thus making this film feel like a lazy cash grab of a film when it should have been a film that kept what made the original film unique but added new spins on them and have those new spins be things that actually made sense and weren't just added in for the sake of having them in there in the first place.

Look to be fair to this film it does add one new thing that does kind of work or would have done if they explained it a bit better. That being the fact that they now give Billy a voice in his head that he calls Charlie with it being Charlie that convinces him to kill people and even shows him not only who is evil but also how best to kill them which fair enough is a decent idea and one that does indeed work for the film as it helps to make this film feel more like a horror comedy then a straight up horror film but the issue is tho is that the film doesn't really explain why Billy is hearing this voice in the first place as it's strongly implied that Charlie is a curse that he got when he touched the man in the Santa suit that killed his parents but that's really the only kind of explanation that we get for this inner voice and it's not something that works as both this film and the original film are meant to be set in our world and therefor meant to be grounded in some of reality and yet the second that the makers of this film introduced that concept but didn't bother to ground in some form of reality it then makes you wonder why they bothered to even remake the original film in the first place as the first film didn't have aspects like that it as it was a more grounded slasher film think Halloween but set at Christmas whereas here with this film it felt like that they were trying something that they made a problem in the first place as since they cut out all of the scene at the Orphanage and made Grandpa more nicer to Billy it now means there's no reason for Billy to go as insane as does and so they gave him this voice that he hears just so that they can have a reason for him to kill people which is a fun idea don't get me wrong but it's also something that really wasn't needed as the original film already gave us the perfect excuse for him to go mad in the first place.

One of the big issues with the first film is that it wasn't as funny as a Christmas slasher film where a man dressed in a Santa suit is the killer should have been. Well whilst this film isn't all that funnier either there was an attempt ton add in more moments of humor into the film alot of which did work for this film as this is a film that should be more lighter in tone as the very idea of having someone dressed up as Santa going around killing people does open itself up for having alot of jokes and while the film doesn't take advantage of that as nobody mocks the fact that there's a guy going around killing people in a Santa suit the film does have him have some funny moments like for the example in what is sure to be the films most talked about moment for political reasons Billy infiltrates a party only to discover that everyone there including the hostess are Na*is which is something that does lead to fun a sequence with him killing everyone there all the while he's trying to avoid using a gun only for the very thing that stops him from killing people being a gun itself with this sequence even leading into the film recreating the original films decapitation scene only now instead of it being bully it's the hostess but what makes the scene political and one that certain groups of people will be talking is he fact that the people portrayed as Na*is are right wing Americans with them speaking of traditional American values which does kind of rob the scene of being more fun but at the same time tho it does make the film feel oddly topical as well and heck there's even a fun montage near the end of the film where Billy goes over alot of the kills that he did as a youth with that whole sequence being kind of fun to see.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and thirty six seconds. Which to be fair to this film to this film is a decent amount of running time however tho this film seems to be more interested in giving us a second killer for some reason then it is in giving us a good plot as while this film does have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't fully develop it's running time in the first place this is despite the fact that this film is actually longer then the original film and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film wanted to give us a second killer for literally no reason whatsoever with this even effecting the films characters as one of them Billy included get any kind of character development whatsoever with all of them being paper thin when the film should have spent less time in giving us a second underdeveloped killer and should have spent more time in developing the characters something which with it's longer running time it very easily could have done and heck it's something that the flashback with Billy in the original film did and could have done here as then we'd fully understand why Billy is the way that he is but as the film cut that whole portion out for no reason it now means that none of this films characters can be that well developed and instead come across as being one dimensional characters which is something that was OK in the original film as alot of cheaply made eighties slasher films had no character development but here in this film it's not really an excuse as slasher films today do make room for character development no matter how small that it is in the first place but I really will admit that his film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher 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 inn all honesty personally thought / felt hat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films kills being really fun to watch but in saying this tho there not as good as they could have been as by all rights this films kills should have been alot more fun and alot more gorier then what they are in the first place and while we do get some good gore alot of the time alot more of the time the film doesn't show of its gore when that would have made the films kills all the more fun to watch as people do come to a slasher film to watch not only good kills but also gore as well and yet there are some good kills that do show of just how fun that this film could be with the best example of this also being the films best kill as we get to see Billy just go nut and kill a bunch of people at a secret Na*i party in alot of really cool ways with us getting to see alot of really impressive gore in that scene as well with even the films decapitation having alot of really good gore in it as well and while the film does copy Denise's kill from the original film which was a fun thing to say and to be fair to this film it was a kill that was handled really well in this film as well as it is a kill that very easily could have been messed up and while we don't get to see any in that kill it is one that still looks really good in this very film with the film having alot of really good kills in it as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this is a film that had so much potential to be one of the more fun and crazier horror films of the year and yet it comes out as one of the more safe and boring horror films of the year due to the fact that it plays everything super safe and it feels like a generic slasher film 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 earn that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score 0f exactly a 5.5 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 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.

IT: Welcome To Derry SPOILER FILLED Review

Whilst this has not been that great of a year of horror films with there being more misses then hits the same thing cannot be said for horror shows on TV where there have been more hits then misses. With the latest hit having just aired it's final episode as I not only covered this show back when it first aired it's first episode but have been watching each and every episode as it aired it only made sense that I review the show as a whole and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the show that has a shockingly catchy theme song to it with the show in question being called simply just "IT: Welcome To Derry" enjoy.

The plot of this show is one year after a kid is killed trying to leave Derry some kids find themselves in for the fight of their lives when they have to try and survive the latest attack from Pennywise meanwhile there parents have to stop the army from destroying the only thing that's stopping Pennywise from attacking the rest of America. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good with this shows plot being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as aby all rights a horror show that based on a film which in this case is also based off of a book don't usually turn out all that great and yet here because of the fact that the plot was so interesting as you genuinely had no idea where the story was going it makes the plot of the show be all the more better because of it as it would have been really easy just to have this shows plot be nothing more then a carbon copy of the 2017 IT films plot and that's it and yet because of the fact that the makers of this show wanted to make this a prequel it means that they have to think outside of the box and come up with something fresh and new and while yes there are episodes that could be considered filler episodes like for example episode six "In the Name Of The Father" as that episode really doesn't advance the plot of the show in any meaningful way it could also be argued that that episode is the calm before the storm as both episodes 7 and this episode are very plot heavy with alot of the earlier episodes also being very plot heavy as well with the plot of this show 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 show is Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon , Jovan Adepo as Leroy Hanlon and James Remar as Francis Shaw. Also starring in this show is Stephen Rider as Hank Grogan , Matilda Lawler as Marge Truman , Amanda Christine as Veronica "Ronnie" Grogan , Clara Stack as Lillian "Lilly" Bainbridge , Blake Cameron James as Will Hanlon , Arian S. Cartaya as Rich Santos , Miles Ekhardt as Matty Clements , Mikkal Karim-Fidler as Teddy Uris , Jack Molloy Legault as Phil Malkin , Matilda Legault as Susie Malkin , Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann , Peter Outerbridge as Clint Bowers , Madeleine Stowe as Ingrid Kersh / Periwinkle , Rudy Mancuso as Captain Pauly Russo , Alixandra Fuchs as Teresa "Terri" Bainbridge , Thomas Mitchell as Colonel Fuller , Kimberly Guerrero as Rose , Joshua Odjick as Taniel and this shows executive producer Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise The Dancing Clown and Bob Grey.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With the fact that this shows acting was as good as it was was quite frankly a complete and total surprise as none of this shows actors are big named actors and alot of them really haven't been in anything all that big prior to this show and therefor it would have been foolish to expect good performances in this show and yet that's exactly what we got with all of the shows young stars being shockingly good so much so that it's not hard o picture any of them making it big as an actor should they choose to continue acting as there all just that good with the same thing even being true for alot of the films adult actors as well with the best example being Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann as he is really good in this show with him brining both a naive edge and a certain world weariness that wasn't seen in The Shining and possibly even in Doctor Sleep as well with the shows best actor being Bill Skarsgård as he not only reprises his role from the films as Pennywise but then he also plays the person that Penny wise copied the form of and yet he has to make both characters feel so different from one another and he does so brilliantly with him making for a really good Pennywise as whereas in the 2017 film him being perhaps really two scary really hurt the fact that the character was a clown here him being really creepy is actually in keeping with the show and to the shows credit Bill really does play up that aspect of the character really quite alot in his very limited screen time in the show with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this is shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance 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 show.

Doing the CGI for this show is Alchemy 24 , the legends and the greats that are currently over at Double Negative and Outpost VFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this shows CGI being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this show should have had some really poor CGI and while yes there are some effects in the shows final episode that do look a little but wonky that's to expected given the fact that this show would have had to stretch out it's effects budget across eight episodes and to the shows credit when it gets it's effects right it really does get them right with the best example of this being the supermarket scene in episode 2 as that scene was just so freaky and the effects in it looked so good that they could have been the effects in a big budgeted movie and no one would be able to tell the difference in fact it wouldn't be all that surprising if this show got nominated for awards just based on it's effects alone as they are really good with the show only really using CGI when they have to like for example in the scene where Pennywise makes Marge's eyes burst out of head as that's of course something that you can't do for real and while the effect does look a little bit wonky it does show that the makers of this show are using CGI in the right way and aren't just using to create things that they could do for real like they very easily could have done.

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Whilst there are alot of nods and referenced either to the IT movies or to other Stephen King works the one thing that the final episode does is the one thing that the other episodes of this show doesn't do and that's include a cameo from a character from the 2017 IT film As we get Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh in a quick scene just before the end of the episode with us finding out that she had an interaction with an older Ingrid Kersh which was a nice way to connect this show back to those films even tho it really doesn't need to do that as it's very firmly set in the same world as the films are but it was a nice surprise with her cameo really being the only big cameo that we get from any of the characters from that 2017 film and yet it does feel oddly right that she appear here as it is something that does feel right for her character as her character was meant to be seen as the oddball of the town much like how Lilly was seen in the show however in the show Lilly was insane due to the fact that her father died whereas here Beverly was just visiting her mother with her abusive father just before her mother and heck given when Ingrid says to her it could also be seen as foreshadowing for what happens in that film as Ingrid does straight up say that no one in Derry ever really stays dead which is a creepy way to end this first season on and yet it's also something that does feel like it's setting up the events of that film as well and while she doesn't get any lines of dialog in the episode it was nice to see Sophia Lillis back again as she was solid as that character and yet whilst we don't understandably get any more cameos from any of her friends the scene really doesn't require them to be their and it wouldn't make that much sense timeline wise as she doesn't meet the characters that would become her friends until a year later.

Whilst the scenes with the kids are the more interesting scenes to watch in the show what can be very hit and miss are the scenes with the adults and the army. As alot of those scenes are just so repetitive as for a large portion of the show the adults don't believe that the kids are being hunted by something that's trying to kill them and then you just have the army keeping secrets from every body with really the only two interesting plots coming out from the adult side of things being the fact that Charlotte does believe that Ronnie's dad Hank isn't the killer that everyone in town seems to think that he is and so she sets about trying to prove his innocence and Dick and Leroy go on these missions for the army to find these pilers that are keeping Pennywise in Derry only they have no idea what it is that the army actually wants with them as everything else from the adult's side of things is just pointless stuff that adds noting to the show and heck even alot of the stuff with the army like the fact that there's some racist people in the army which historically is accurate but it also adds nothing to the plot of this show outside of giving the townsfolk more of a reason to burn down there hangout spot in a later episode and even then that's more due to the Hank plot line then anything else and yet when you get to the kids side things all of their stuff is needed and interesting to watch as it's all about them finding out and later finding a way to defeat Pennywise which is far more interesting to watch but to the shows credit tho it does know when to show us certain scenes with certain characters as it never hangs on plotlines for that long only advancing them as far as they need to be advanced before switching to another character which is something that does keep us the audience hooked.

This show does follow the typical TV show formular of having an episode that's basically the calm before the storm. As even tho episode 6 could be seen as being a filler episode it's also one big set up for the next two episodes as it's in that episode where we see the characters enjoy there last bit fun and piece and quiet before it all goes wrong and if you thought that this show wouldn't kill of a main kid character you are so wrong because right at the start of the following episode when the titular black spot is being burnt to the ground Rich put Marge in a refrigerator in order to save her from the fire and because of that he ends up dieing with that whole opening scene being very well done as alot of it is all done in one long take which is just really impressive to see done on a TV show budget with this one death telling us that any of the main characters could die and while that doesn't happen as we find out in episode 8 that Marge is actually the mother of Richie Tozier the very fact that the show was willing to kill of main kid character was still something shocking to see and while yes they did kill of a whole bunch of kid characters in he shows first episode none of them where the main characters and so whilst it was still shocking to see them die it doesn't really tell us that any character can now die and yet with the death of Rich that's exactly what it does do as we'd gotten to spend alot of time with him as a character so when he dies we the audience feel something as well with the only thing that lets this idea down being the fact that the show doesn't kill of any more of it's main characters as they while they couldn't have killed of Will they could have killed of either Ronnie or Lilly as they as don't have ties to the films.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and right minuets and fourteen seconds. Which is pretty much the rough running time for the rest of the show as well with this episode really needing that amount of running time as it does have alot of plotlines to wrap up and to be fair this episode does do exactly that whilst also kind of setting up things for the potential second season with this episode having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with this episode using it's running time really wisely as due to this episode being the seasons finale it does have a fully developed plot with that being because of the fact that this shows plot was well developed across all eight of it's episodes and therefor when it came to this episode there really wasn't much need for any plot development to happen as it already would have happened in the previous episodes with the same thing even being true for the shows character developed as all of the shows main characters do feel really well developed but at the same time tho there could have been more time spent on developing the characters instead the show does seem more focused on developing other things and in setting up things for the shows potential second season but to be fair tho when the episode does spend more time in developing it's characters as not that many of the side characters are that memorable and while it understandable that alot of the main characters aren't that memorable as there not the main characters given the fact that this is a TV series and not a film there should have been some character development given to them but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to tit tho.

So now then as this is a horror show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With this show bein just as gory as you'd think that it would be given the fact that the main killer is Pennywise as even tho he doesn't fully appear until the end of the fifth episode there are still plenty of fun kills to be had in the episode and in the show as a whole with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show did have alot of fun with coming up with some really creative kills for the characters with the best kill in the show being Rich not because it's the most fun kill because it's not but it is the kill that is the more emotionally effective as we have had a good amount of episodes to really get to know Rich as a character and while some of the more gory kills are more fun to watch sometimes the more character driven and plot important kills are the more better with the death of Rich being a prime example of this as it's during his death we find out that he really did love Marge and she clearly felt something for him as she named her son after him and while yes granted there are more better kills out there like for example the death of Francis Shaw as Pennywise just straight up eats him and the deaths of the kids in the episode Rich's death was the one that was more relevant to the plot of the show this is despite the fact that all of the shows kills were all really well down in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if Alien: Earth didn't prove this already then this show really did as when horror shows based on films are done well then it is something that can work given the right creative team are working on the show now all we need is for HBO to greenlight this show for it's further two seasons so that we can get the full plan for this show as this show really is just that good and is more then worth watching 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 show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out 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 show being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this show 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.