Sinners Film Review

To say that last year was a good year for horror film would be a huge understatement as we got alot of really good and sometimes even great horror films last year. With the film that i'm going to talking to you all about today being one of my favorite films of the year not just in the world of horror but just in general as it was just that good in the first place and while some people might say that this film was over hyped i'd argue differently then that as there are more films that hot more hype then this film did just look at K-Pop Demon Hunters as proof of that and then join me as I review the film that is basically just a remake of From Dusk Till Dawn with the film in question being called simply just "Sinners" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when two identical twin brothers open up a Juke Joint on opening night they really have to fend for there lives when the place and it's patrons really are attacked and turned into vampires. 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 not really being fresh in a certain sense as it does copy the idea of From Dusk Till Dawn but it is original in the way that it tells that same idea as here the whole film is told from the point of view of African Americans in the early 1930's which is something that does open itself up to alot of story potential which to be fair to this film is something that the film does take full advantage by having several other stories all take place as well and by having alot of the characters deal with the kind of racism that is still around to this very day and that is something that does help to make to make this film repeated plot line seem new and original again with the thing that lets the films plot down also being one of the biggest strengths that being the fact that the film does spend a whopping forty minuets just on having the brothers set up the place and hire all of the staff and that's it which is something that could be seen as being dull and boring as nothing new is added to the plot but it also works as it sets up all of the key characters in the film as well with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring inn this film is Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore and Miles Caton as Samuel "Sammie" Moore. Also starring in this film is Wunmi Mosaku as Annie , Jayme Lawson as Pearline , Omar Benson Miller as Cornbread , Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim , Peter Dreimanis as Bert , Lola Kirke as Joan , Li Jun Li as Grace Chow , Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore , Yao as Bo Chow , David Maldonado as Hogwood , Helena Hu as Lisa Chow , Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie , Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton , Emonie Ellison as Therise , Hailee Steinfeld as Mary and Jack O'Connell as Remmick.

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 the fact that this films acting being so good not really being something that's all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own right and even alot of the films more lesser known actors turn out good because of the fact that there acting opposite some really good actors with the fact that this films acting is so good being helped by the fact that this films writer , producer and director Ryan Coogler really does know how to get a good performance out of all of his actors a skill that he has shown of in all of his movies and pulls of again here in this film as all of this films actors are just simply a joy to watch in this film with the films best actor being none other then Michael B. Jordan as he has to play two completely different characters in the same scene as each other and yet make both characters feel completely different from each other something that would have been a hard enough task for any actor to do and yet he pulls it off tremendously with Smoke really being the more careful one of the two who is always quick to fire his gun where as Stack is the more lighthearted easy going one who would rather charm you then shoot you with the acting that's 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.

Doing the CGI for this film is Storm Studios , Rising Sun Pictures , Industrial Light & Magic , Base FX , Outpost VFX , Light VFX and Baraboom! Studios. Now 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 all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the film not really having that much VFX in it and yet what little VFX are in this film work so well as it's blended in with the films live action effects with really the only VFX shot in the whole film being the flames that engulf the vampires at the end of the film and that's really it as nine times out of ten VFX is only used to extend things that were on the day or in the case of Michael B. Jordan make it look like that he's talking to himself when in actuality he's talking to a body double which is a really convincing effect as it is something that does make you wonder how they managed to pull of the shots with both of the twins in the same shot and yet it's something that does work really well in the context of the film as this is how VFX should be used as all there doing is enhancing what was already there on the day of filming and that's really it and that is something that will all of this films VFX age alot more slowly as it is hard to tell what it is they did for real and what was done inside of a computer outside of the fact that they light the vampires on hire as your obviously not going to light a real human actor on fire but even then the effect is so convincing that it does end up working really well in the film.

When this film came out it got alot of praise for being original and while yes granted there are some original elements in this film one of those elements is sadly not the films plot. As you can tell right from when the vampires first enter the film that this film is going to be nothing more then a redo version of From Dusk Till Dawn and yeah it plays out in the exact same way that that film played out and heck even both films have alot of the films action take place in a bar with the only difference being that this film uses mostly African Americans and that's really it and heck even both films have one of the brothers get turned into a vampire fortunately people have started to catch on that this is another version of another movie but it is something that makes you wonder why the makers of this film tried to borrow elements from that film and then pass it off as there own idea and heck even several reviews on the films DVD call this film an original idea and while yes the film does have alot of original ideas in it that's fair enough but the central idea for the film was one that was already done in the mid nineties and yet movie critics both in America and over her in the UK are trying to pass this film of as an original idea now granted this is Ryan Cooglers first original film as alot of the films that he's directed and wrote the script for are based off of pre-existing IP's but even this film can't be called fully original as it's just not granted he might he might have been inspired from From Dusk Till Dawn and wanted to tip his hat to that film in which case fair enough but there's tipping your hat then there's outright copying it and this is something that this film just barely does.

There's no way to get around this as one of the films central themes is racism which given when this film takes place in is something that does make sense. As we see not only the brothers but also Grace and her family expirence it as well and it is something that should be talked about due to the fact that all of the vampire characters at first are not only all white people but some of them are even members of the KKK that actively abuse both of the brothers with this theme being handled alot more subtly then what you might thing it would as he film doesn't outright say that this is what there talking about rather they'll have just a few characters say something to one one of the other characters and that's it with the rest of it being told through visual storytelling which is something that does make this arguably more effective but to be fair to this film tho it is something that really wasn't needed in this film as while yes back then people were alot more openly racist to people we go to the movies to escape real life issues and while yes people have the right to talk about whatever it is that they want to talk about in their own movies it is something that should be down with caution as this is something that very easily could come across as being very heavy handed with this being something that does almost happen to this film as like was mentioned alot of the films white characters are racists and those that aren't get turned into vampires with there being no middle ground as all of the African American characters are all presented as being the good guys with there being no middle ground for them ether and yet if the film did show characters from both sides being either evil or good then it would have given them some wiggle room when it comes to the films main theme.

There was one shot in particular that really did blow alot of people myself included away that being the oner where they have the characters dancing in the bar and the camera just keeps going incorporating not only different styles of music like rock and jazz but also adding in modern characters to show how music can touch people of different generations. With the one long take lasting about five minuets of screen time as it ends when the camera pans up to the sky with the bar in fire and the people still dancing and then ends on a close up of Remmick which was just such a cool shot and it's one of those shots where it does make you how they did it due to the fact that there's so much that goes into pulling of a shot like that not only from a practical point of view but also an effects point of view as well and yet the makers of this film did pull of so well with it really being the best shot in the whole entire movie just due to how much things that it has to incorporate in to it with the fact that they add in people from more generations being something that you might notice upon a first viewing but it is something that you notice a second time around as it is something that does highlight how music can touch people of any generation and while yes the whole shot might be seen as being a dream just due to the fact that the bar isn't really burning down it is something that does help the sequence look all the more visually impressive then what it already is in the first place and the fact that it ends up on a close upshot of the films main villain is a subtle way of telling us the audience that the characters have had there fun and that it's time for them all to suffer.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and seventeen minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which for a horror film is a bit on the long side as the film really didn't need to spend as long as it does in just showing us how the brothers got there bar in the first place as you very easily could have dine all of that in just the first ten minuets of this film but to be fair tho this film really does have more then plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place with the film using it's running time as the film does fully develop it's plot with alot of the films plot development coming from the scenes prior to the vampires attacking the bar as we get to see just what music means to these characters and how it could possibly come into play in the rest of the film with the film even giving it's characters alot of character development as well with alot of their character development oddly enough coming in the films opening forty minuets which show us just all of the characters relationships to each other and how much they mean to each other something that would have been lost if the film did loose those opening forty minuets as while the seem pointless on the surface as nothing happens plot wise what we get in those scenes are these smaller character moments that help to fully flesh out all of the films characters and that is something that is key to making both the film and it's characters work as without those scenes we the audience wouldn't have a reason to care for it's characters and want to see them make it out of the film alive and well 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 not really having alot of kills in it the ones that it does have work so well s the film does give us time to let us get to know there characters and therefor when they are killed of we do feel something for them with this being something that this film does do kind of well as while the film does have alot of pointless scenes before the kills take place it's those pointless scenes that give us a chance to get this films characters in the first place with the best kill in the whole film being when Remmick and his crew of vampires start to attack Smock and Stacks's bar in the first place as while Stacks has already been killed at this point seeing him go toe to toe with his brother while the rest of their friends are quite literally fighting for their lives which is something that does make that sequence really worth watching and heck we do get some really impressive looking gore effects in that sequence as well and while yes granted the film does have some really impressive kills in it as well they just can't top the pure madness that is that one sequence as it really just so good with the film worth watching just for that one sequence as that's when we get to see all of the vampire carnage that a film like this should deliver with it doing so in spectacular fashion in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall both this film and Weapons have proven that not only can original films be good but so can original films in general as all you need is the right creative team behind them to make them as good as they could have been and that's exactly what this film had as this creative team made this films as could as it really could have been 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 thigs 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 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.

Frankenhooker Film Review

For some odd reason whenever a character gets popular especially in the world of horror the only thing that alot of these low budget filmmakers seem to think is the funny thing to do with them is to turn them female. Which granted worked well enough for The Invisible Man but it is something that really is oddly also done with Frankenstein as that's the very thing that the makers of the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today did and so then join me as I review the film that oddly enough has a quote on the poster from an actual Ghostbuster with film in question being called simply just "Frankenhooker" enjoy.

The plot of this film is sometime after he accidentally kills his fiancée Elizabeth an amateur scientist called Jeffrey Franken tries to bring her back to life by using parts of other peoples bodies. 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 feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with the films plot basically being a cult hit film version of the plot from Frankenstein only now it's set in modern day 1990 and that's really it and to be fair that's all this film really needed as you can tell right from the plot of the movie that this films plot was never going to be that good as the film does spend a shockingly high amount of time just in setting up the plot of the film then it does in actually telling us the plot of the film which is something that does make huge portions of this film plot feel unneeded and nothing more then filler but at the same time tho it's those scenes that do add to the films camp factor as this is a film that by the title alone you just know is going to be campy and have elements of camp in it and while the films plot isn't as good as it really could have been it's also not as bad is it perhaps should have been either as you really can tell that the makers of this film really are paying a loving homage to certain aspects of the Frankenstein story which really is fair enough but at the same time tho it really does rob this film of the chance to be it's own unique thing with the few unique ideas that this film does have feeling very rushed and thrown in at the last second with the plot of this film also not really bein really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken and Patty Mullen as Elizabeth Shelley / Frankenhooker. Also starring in this film is Charlotte Kemp as Honey , Lia Chang as Crystal , Jennifer DeLora as Angel , Heather Hunter as Chartreuse , Kimberly Taylor as Amber , Shirley Stoler as Spike , Louise Lasser as Mrs. Franken , Joanne Ritchie as Mrs. Shelley , J. J. Clark as Mr. Shelley , Carissa Channing as Dolores , Helmar Cooper as Detective Anderson , Joseph Gonzalez as Zorro and Paul-Felix Montez as Goldie.

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 feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As while this film was never ever going to win any kind of awards for it's acting or it's plot you can still tell that this films actors were at the very least trying to turn in a good performance as they all do a passable job of portraying there respective characters with even untrained actors like Patty Mullen who had done a few other films before retiring from acting after being in this film and Charlotte Kemp being really good in there respective roles with the best actor in the whole entire film being James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken as he does get alot of the films more darkly funny lines all of which he does manage to pull off really well with him really carrying this whole film on his back as alot of this films actors are models with no acting expirence and yet you still can tell that he's having a blast in this film with the only thing that really lets down this films acting is the fact that all of this films actors do feel lost with it feeling like that that this films director and co-writer Frank Henenlotter really had no idea of how to direct his actors with the thing that really does let down the overall the quality of the acting that's in this very film being he fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this fi9lms 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 lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this film does about as well as you'd think that a film like this one would do as none of the films characters are really memorable but there also not forgettable either. As characters like Jeffery and the titular character are indeed very memorable characters with both character displaying traits that do help to make them stand out alot like for example Jeffery inorder to calm himself down alot of the time will drill a hole into his own head which is a uniquely funny and quirky idea with the character even frequently questioning on if what he's doing is the right thing or not which was something that we don't really see in a horror films and yet here even tho it was mostly played for laughs is still something that this character does still process a basic understanding of right and wrong and with the films titular character when she eventually brought back to life by Jeffery the only things that she can say are the things that the girls that Jeffery killed to get the parts that he needed last said to him which again is a unique idea and yet it's one that doesn't get fully explored in this film as it's one that's mainly played for laughs with the films characters being let down by it's side characters as all of them come across as being very dimensional characters at best as none of them have anything interesting about them that makes them stand out from one another even Zorro who it could be argued is the films main villain doesn't have anything interesting about his personality outside of the fact that he has clear anger issues and that's really it with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film were just banking on people watching the film because of it's title and not because of the fact that it has memorable characters or a decent plot in it in the first place.

As you all can no doubt work out or the films title this film is a more modern retelling of the Frankenstein story. However unlike Young Frankenstein which took it's inspiration from the 1931 movie this film seems to take it's inspiration from both the book and the film only it does nothing new and funny with them when it really could have done plenty of funny things just with the 1931 movie alone and yet it instead chose to tell the most basic and uninspired story that it could have done and yet if you look at Young Frankenstein as even tho that film is pretty much just that original film but told in a more comedic tone they chose to keep on playing it straight and do things lie they most likely would have done in the original film to make the comedy all the more funnier which had the adverse effect of making the films plot seem new and original as well and yet here in this film despite the fact that it's set in the nineties everything about this film just doesn't feel right as they could have gone to new and interesting places with the original material and yet outside of the last names of both Jeffery and Elizabeth there's nothing that really makes this film feel like a Frankenstein parody which is where the film shines it's best as does give a chance for us to see these truly iconic scenes but done in a nineties fashion and yet the film only does that once in the whole film and yet if the film adapted scenes from the original novel which they would have had every right to do but instead of playing them straight they instead played it up for laughs then it would have made this film feel like an original take on the story as it would have been lovingly poking fun at what made the original novel work so well in the place and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film instead chose not to go that route with this film which does leave us with a film that doesn't feel as good as it perhaps could have been.

This film was never destined to be a hit film as just by the title and plot of the film alone it was always going to be a cult film. With it eventually becoming exactly that and that's exactly where this type of film does thrive as it then allows the film to go to those weird and out there places that more mainstream films just would never do and yet because of the fact that this film does indeed go to those places be with Frankenhooker only being able to say the last thing that the owners of the parts she's now wearing said or the fact that her insides are quite literally just made up of electricity everything about this film just screams cult film and while yes there might be other better cult films out there this one does deserve it's credit as well as this film did indeed do some wacky and out there stuff all of which are things that do work in the film and even the fact that the makers of this film managed to get a quote for the poster by Ghostbusters icon and star Bill Murray is more then enough to make this film feel like a cult film and heck this film even could have had a sequel as there places to go with the story that would have been just as wacky and out there with the rest of the film and while this film does indeed put more of a focus on it's horror then it's comedy the films comedy is still pretty decent in it's own right the film having plenty of dark jokes that will manage to get a smile out of people with perhaps the ending of the movie being the best joke of the lot which i'm not going to spoil as its a joke that you really do need to see in order to believe as it is a joke that does fit the movies more wacky and campy tone with the only thing that does let the films comedy down quite a bit being the fact that the films really doesn't go all the way with alot of it's jokes.

To put it frankly Jeffery's plan was never going to work in the first place as his plan revolves around him finding fresh parts to rebuild his girlfriend. Which he does find by killing hookers but due to the fact that he promised to rebuild them as well it means that he was always going to be killing and rebuilding the same people so he would have found himself in a never ending circle that would have seen him being driven mad due to the fact that he would killed alot of people whereas if he just said that he wasn't going to rebuild the hookers then he could have ended the circle when he rebuilt his girlfriend as that was his original goal but due to the fact that he also promised to rebuild these girls who he barely knows as well it means that eventually he'll either get arrested by the police due to the fact that he would have killed alot of people or he would been driven insane either way it was a plan that was never going to work in the place but you could argue that that was the point of the film as well as the fact that that's also a problem with the original source material as both Jeffery and the original Dr. Frankenstein have this weird obsession with death and due to the fact that this film is meant to be a comedy and therefor giving him this rather outlandish plan is something that does work for a comedy but interms of the context of the film it's not something that works all that well and is something that should been worked on a bit more longer in the films script then what it was but as the makers of the film were far more interested in setting up the plot of the film rather then giving the character a good plan it is something that does make the characters plan feel more like an afterthought.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty four minuets and sixteen seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have and again to be fair to this film this film does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place however tho as was to be expected from a film like this one 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 with the film being a slow burner when it really doesn't have the time to be that as the film spends around an hour just on Jeffery trying to get the right parts which would be fine if this film was nearer two hours but it's not and therefor that's something that should have been done by the thirty to forty minuet mark as that would have allowed the film to fully develop it's plot with this even effecting the films character development as well as the film doesn't take the time that it really should have done to fully develop it's characters and yet if the film did take the time to fully develop all of it's characters then the film would have round up being all the more better because of it and yet because of the fact that the film is clearly alot more focused on being a slow burner when it really doesn't have the time to be one it does mean that we are stuck with both a plot and characters that aren't as well developed as they really could have been with both of these issues being something that very easily could have been fixed if the film was ten or even twenty minuets longer 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 not that bad. With the film having kills that are alot more better then what they really should have been given the fact that this film had a very small production budget but given the fact that Frankenhooker basically kills people with electricity it does mean that the films kills do end up being alot more better and more comical then what they really had any right to be and yet even with all of that mind in mind it's not Frankenhooker that has the best kill in the film rather it's Jeffery as when he's trying out the girls for the parts that he needs they all get into bag and find a drug that he's been preparing to give one of them due to the fact that it kills the user within minuets of taking it and yet because they all take it they all end up blowing up really creative ways all of which do yes look cheap but that's something that does add the humor of the scene as you can tell right away where the film replaces the actor getting blown up with dummy with that being something that makes the film more funny to watch and while the film does indeed put alot more focus on it's horror aspect then it does it's comedy aspect it's the fact that all of the films kills are ever the top and corny that helps to make them more funny then it does outright scary and that is something that does make the films kills stand out all the more in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this film isn't anywhere close to being good given the films title that is always something that was always going to be the case and to be fair this film is alot of fun to watch this is despite the fact that the film does have alot of flaws in it that prevent this film from being great 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 that I personally used inn this very review well then boys and girls and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co . Uk , 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.

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.