The Bride! Film Review

For some odd reason we seem to be getting more and more adaptations of Frankenstein then what we did get in the last few years. Yet even with the character being this iconic character the other iconic character The Bride has only appeared in one movie and even then didn't get any lines of dialog and only appeared in the final five minuets of the film in which she is the title character well now there is new film out featuring the character and not only is she once again the main character of the film she actually speaks this time around and so then join me as I review the film that is better of dead with the film in question being called simply just "The Bride!" enjoy. 

The plot of this film is when she brought back to life a young woman goes travelling America with someone named Frank trying to regain her lost memories whilst also slowly falling in love with Frank himself. 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 with this films plot being pretty thin at best but to be fair the plot to the 1935 original The Bride Of Frankenstein was also pretty thin as well but at the same time tho you could at ;east tell what the plot of that film was meant to be alot of the time whereas here in this film it does get pretty hard to work out not only if the film has a plot but also what it is as the film spends so little time on it's plot and spends more time on having this films writer , director and producer Maggie Gyllenhaal shove her brother into more of the film then what he really should be in when it would have made more sense to spend alot of time on focusing on the films plot as when the film does do that that's when the film gets to be fun as it does have some cool ideas one of which isn't that subtle and will be getting talked about later on in this review but the other of which is the fact that The Bride randomly spurts out things that make her appear to be alot more smarter then what she is and that is a cool idea but the film does nothing with it heck it doesn't explain why she does that which is something that does leave that idea to feel really undercooked with the same thing also being true for the films plot as well as the film doesn't give it the focus that it deserves with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Jessie Buckley as Ida "The Bride" / Mary Shelley , Christian Bale as Frank and Peter Sarsgaard as Det. Jake Wiles. Also starring in this film is Annette Bening as Dr. Cornelia Euphronious , Jake Gyllenhaal as Ronnie Reed , Zlatko Burić as Lupino , John Magaro as Clyde , Matthew Maher as James , Jeannie Berlin as Greta , Louis Cancelmi as Officer Goodman , Julianne Hough as Iris / Jinx and Penélope Cruz as Myrna Malloy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films actors turning in some really good performances and while it might be to early to tell just what alot of the films critics thought about the films performances it is fairly easy to say that alot of them did work well for this films tone which does seem a mixture between Joker: Folie à Deux and the original The Bride Of Frankenstein and while that combination does sound interesting in theory in reality it does creature performances that do feel at odds with each other as while both Jessie and Christian  are good in this film there are times where she goes over the top with her performance whilst he is playing everything super straight with this no doubt being a result of that that this films writer , producer and director Maggie Gyllenhaal quite clearly has no idea of how to talk to her actors to get the kind of performances that would have helped this film be the best that it could have been with the best actor in this film being Jessie Buckley as Ida "The Bride" / Mary Shelley as while she does go to those over the top places alot of the time it's during those times that she does get to shine as an actor as we know fully well what it is that we're going to get with Christian Bale and he does give the exact kind of performance that you do expect from him but with Jessie Buckley someone who isn't that well known it means that we can only be surprised and in this case it is a surprise that does work well in the films favor with the acting 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. 

Character wise there is really only one somewhat interesting character in this film with that being none other then The Bride herself. With the fact that she is the most interesting character in the film mainly being due to the fact that she's essentially a dead version of Harley Quinn with the only difference being The Bride tells what are considered dirty jokes by 1936 standards and that's it as there essentially the exact same character even Frank who it should be easy to make interesting as there are quite literally tens of films with him as the main character showing you how to make him a good character and yet here he does come cross as being a very one dimensional character with the only thing that stands out about him being the fact that he's a movie buff but only for the films of Ronnie Reed which is pretty much done just so the films writer , director and producer can shove her brother into as many scenes as is humanly possible as that aspect of his character doesn't affect who he is as a character as it's something that could very easily be removed from the film entirely and nothing that's important to the films plot would be lost where as if you changed The Bride from being this over the top and crazy person then the film on the whole does fundamentally change with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film put alot more effort into it's female characters then they did it's male characters as all of the films male characters are either dumb as a rock or don't have that much of a personality to begin with whereas all of the films female characters barring maybe one of them all have alot of personality when there really should have been just as much effort put into the films male characters as there was the films female characters.

This film does of course take it's inspiration from the 1935 classic The Bride Of Frankenstein with the film keeping to the tradition of having the actor who is playing The Bride also take on the role of Mary Shelley. Altho it was something that was done a lot less subtly in this film as unlike in the original film where you genuinely didn't know that the two characters where played by the same actor here in this film they outright say it which is pointless as the whole point of doing that was to make it look like that Mary Shelley was subtly putting herself into her own story and yet here in this film but out right saying that this is what there doing it makes what was a really interesting idea of having Mary quite literally take over the body of this woman before she becomes The Bride in the first place seem like it was done more of an afterthought and again looking back at the original film this was something that was always planned to be the case which does mean that the original film pulled of that idea alot more better as they did truly commit to it by not having an actor credited as playing The Bride at the end of the film much like how Boris Karloff wasn't credited as playing The Monster at the end of the first film as doing that allows you to buy into the film and into it's characters and having the film outright say that these two characters are being played by the same actor just doesn't work but to be fair tho the film does get credit for having The Bride interact with Mary at several points in the film and even having Mary open up the film by saying that this is the story that she meant to write but couldn't before her death was a somewhat solid idea and it's one that does get followed up on alot of times in the film itself but it's also something that should have been alot more better then what it actually was done.

Look you can say what you want about the marketing for Scream 7 not being the best out there but you at least knew that that film was coming out regardless of if you wanted to go and see it or not. You cannot however say the same thing for this film as there was only four posters released for the film and only about one maybe two trailers for the film and that's it and to make matters worse this film opened up not only a week after Scream 7 came out but also the exact same day as the newest Disney animated film came out so no one is going to see this film just due to what else is out there and the fact that Warner Bris Pictures who are usually really good at promoting films decided not to give this film alot of marketing this is something that you can see by the box office numbers for the film is going to hurt the film as despite the fact that the film had a pretty modest budget of somewhere between $80 to $90 million dollars the film thus far despite having some big named stars in it has only grossed one million dollars now fair enough the film hasn't been out for long yet and therefor the film could of course make back that big budget but when you have both Scream 7 and Hoppers taking up the top 2 spots and both of those films had a much more better marketing campaign then what this film had that is something that does make that a hard task to do with this film being one that it won't be surprising if it gets pulled from theaters within the next few weeks and dumped onto whatever HBO Max is going to get pulled when Paramount buys out Warner Brothers with this proving that Warners just didn't care about this film this being despite the fact that they bought the film off of Netflix which is quite frankly really would have been the better home for the film as they would have given the film more of a push marketing wise.

This film does of course focus on the relationship between The Bride and Frank with the makers of this film giving their relationship alot more screen time then anything else in the film. This is something that does make sense as even the original film was all about The Monster finding a girlfriend and therefor it does make sense that this film devote more screen time to there romance then what the original film did however tho this is something that does come at a cost as it makes both of the monsters in question feel alot less human as a result of it due to the fact that we don't get any scenes with either character confronting something that they want the most in the this world as instead both both characters spend alot of the films running time either running away from the cops are telling unfunny jokes as while this film is also billed as being a comedy the characters barely say or do anything that's actually funny with it being made painfully obvious that the makers of this film are alot more interested in giving the characters an underbaked romance then they are in making the film be this genuinely moving film as while the original film didn't spend that much time on its romance it did make the film more moving due to the fact that we got to see The Monster get shown genuine human kindness for the first time in his life with him even shedding a tear when he goes to sleep and yet here in this film despite the fact that there is more of an effort to give us a really good romance which is something that the film should get alot of praise for doing it also doesn't take the time to make that feel earned as there's no attempt to give the characters these moments where we do get to feel for them with this being something that does let the films romance down as if we audience can't buy into them as characters then why would we want to buy into there romance either.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty six minuets and fifty three seconds. Which is such a long time for this film to have especially as there portions of the film where nothing happens to advance the overall plot of the film and therefor this is a film that very easily could have been one hour and thirty minuets with the film having the right amount of plot there to cover that running time but not its actual running time as the film does have alot of scenes that do feel like there filler scenes as we don't need to see the characters going to see various Ronnie Reed films as the only thing that that adds is the fact that we find out thats how Frank calms himself down which is something that is accomplished in one of those scenes and yet the film keeps on coming back to that idea when all it does is pad out the films running time with the film not being able to use its running time wisely because of this as now the film isn't able to fully develop what little plot it has due to the fact that it does keep on giving us scenes that add nothing to the overall plot of the film. With those scenes being things that would have been if they were cut out of the film entirely as that would then allow for the film to have scenes in that that both develop its plot and its characters as they are all left feeling underbaked due to the fact that we don't get to find out anything about these characters with the only exception really kind of being The Bride and even then what we find out about her doesn't effect her character so it might as well as not even be in the film at all and yet if the film did remove those pointless scenes then things like the characters and plot and the characters romance all of which are crucial to making this film work would be able to be alot more developed then what they are in the final cut of the film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is 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 just OK at best. With the films kills not really being all that impressive which to be fair is something that you do expect from a Frankenstein movie with alot of this films kills involving someone being shot and there's only so many times that you can see that kill before it starts to get boring and there's not really anyway that you can do that type of a kill in really fun and creative ways but to be fair the film does mix it up once with that kill being the best kill of the film and due to how pretty good that this kill is it won't be spoiled here in this review as the kill is worth seeing not knowing how good it is with the kill in question only being good due to the fact that outside of one other kill alot more of this films kills just involve people getting shot which isn't that fun to see alot of the time with it feeling like that this film is so ashamed of being a horror film as it doesn't give us any of the things that we want to see in not only a good horror film but a good film in general and yet it's during that good kill that the film does actually start to feel like it could be a good film as we get to see just how unhinged that these two characters could be when there pushed to there limits and yet the film doesn't push them that far every again for no apparent reason with this being something that does stop the film from being as enjoyable as it could have been this being despite the fact there is some effort put into this films kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you want to see a really good version of The Bride character then go and watch The Bride Of Frankenstein as that film more holds up over over roughly ninety years later where as this film really feels like the kind of the film that could only be made in the 2020's which is something that really does date the film quite alot 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 6 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 ad 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.

Bride Of Frankenstein Awakens Film Review

The in thing right now seems to be to remake Frankenstein as we have just had one made by Guillermo Del Toro. With us getting another one in just few short days made by Maggie Gyllenhaal therefor it only makes sense that there would be a very cheaply made British knock off film made as well and well I thought that i'd talk about it as the film does have a pretty cool title yet the films director and writer can't make a good movie between and so then join me as I review the film that technically has two titles with the film in question being called simply just "Bride Of Frankenstein Awakens" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one month as his new bride is killed in a hit an run incident a deranged former surgeon decides to try and rebuild her by her using the body parts of her family. 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 the plot of this film not really having that much to do with the plot of Bride Of Frankenstein outside of the fact that it involves a bride being brought back from the dead and that's really it as this films plot is so wafer thin that it was hard to tell just what the main plot of the film was meant to be a lot of the time as the makers of this film just seemed so happy to except the fact that there making a film with a weak plot that has nothing to do with the tale of Frankenstein however to be fair to this film this film does at least try to do something new and  different with it's plot by having spend a good chunk of the films opening act with the bride and her husband prior to her getting killed off with even who killed her actually being a plot point albeit one that's done really horribly due to the fact that they never let you know that it was meant to be something that you were meant to be working out in the first place and yet even that stuff just doesn't work when you take the rest of the film into account with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Nicola Ditter as Santana , Wayne Dobson as Frank , Jack Darell as Dr. Pret and Dan Robins as James. Also starring in this film is Sophie-Jo Beman as Mackenzie , Chris Black as Chet , Jamie Cowan as Ian , Graeme Muncer as Arthur , Lauren O'Hare as Candi , I Know What You Did Last Christmas star Julia Quayle as Beth , Dracula In Space star Charlotte Reidie as Victoria and Jodyanne Richardson as Carrie.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Given the fact that this film is being written by Harry Boxley a man who was written so many bad movies that it's hard to keep count of and the fact that this film is being directed by Louisa Warren a woman who clearly doesn't know how to get a good performance out of her actors it's a wonder that this films acting was as passable as it is as all of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance but it's clear as day that they weren't given any actual direction and therefor turn in these really odd performances in the film with the best actor in the whole entire film being Nicola Ditter as Santana as at times it does feel like that she's only one that actually trying to get some form on emotion out of her character and while yes there are other actors in this film that do that as well with her it came across as being more natural whereas with everyone it felt like that they were trying to hard to get some kind of emotion out of them this is not to say that there bad actors as there not as they were all perfectly serviceable in this film however with Nicola it felt like that she was the only one who was trying to make us feel something literally anything for her character with that coming through in her final performance in this film 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 somethin that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This film really isn't helped by the fact that it's characters are just so badly written as they feel like the kind of characters that you expect to find on the first draft of a film script and not the finished script. As all of the films characters not only have the personality of a blank of wood but also to be frank here really unlikeable characters in there right as the film goes threw different phases of choosing who it wants to be a likable character with it starting with Fran being the character that your meant to be routing who with the film showing Santana's parents as being unlikeable characters but then the film suddenly shifts and instead asks you to route for Santana's family and to hate Frank all of this is being done for no reason as the film doesn't give you a reason to care for any of it's characters as they are all just blank slates which fair enough was mostly done due to the fact that these types of films are usually written filmed , edited and released very quickly and therefor they might not have had time in the making of this film to fix that issue but on the flip side of this is the fat that this is something that should have been decided right when the film was first being pitched as then everyone involved would be able to get on the same page with it not being helped by the fact that none of the characters have anything about them that help to make them standout from each other as the film doesn't give us the time to get to know them as characters and while this is understandable for the films main characters the film also does it with it's main characters as well and while this film might have been made as way to cash in on the upcoming film The Bride that doesn't mean that the characters had to be these bland characters that people are going to forget about five minuets after the film ends.  

As was mentioned at the very start of this review not only does this film have very little to do with the film where it borrows part of title but the film can't even decide on what it's main title even is. As the poster quite clearly states that the film is called "Bride Of Frankenstein Awakens" yet when you press play on the film and the films title card comes up it says that it's called "Bride Of Frankenstein" heck even the films very own IMDB page goes with this title as well which is something that quite understandably make you think that this is going to be a remake of Bride Of Frankenstein yet the two films couldn't be further apart as outside of both films having a bride that's brought back from the dead by a mad doctor these two films might as well as be two completely different films with this film not even bothering to try and recapture the gothic tone that both the original film and book are known for with the film even giving the main character of Frank the worst middle name you could ever think of as his middle name is quite simply just en with his last name being Stein which is just so painfully bad and yet if you look at the original Bride Of Frankenstein that film is not only oozing with gothic tone and looks but also goes the extra mile in making Frankensteins Monster feel more human then the rest of the human characters as all he wants in that film is a friend and that's it where as here Santana who might as well take on the role of Frankensteins Monster as it's only she that gets brought back to life wants to kill people to help cure her hunger and that is not true to either the spirit of Frankensteins Monster or to The Bride herself.

Nobody goes into one of these films that are quite obviously cheaply and quickly made expecting the film to be good as we can tell right away that none of these types of films will be good. We do however expect them to have decent sound effects in them with that being something that this film doesn't have and while yes this is also a really bad thing it's also a good thing as it does make the film unintentionally hilarious as the characters are shooting of guns that don't even sound like there guns in the first place and while yes the makers of this film would have had a really small budget to work with and therefor wouldn't have been able to afford to get some decent gun sound effects they could however have gotten them for free somewhere online and just used those sound effects are better yet just record sound effects for the gun in a way that's both safe and that makes it sound like it's an actual gun being shot as instead we end up with gun sound effects that make it sound like the characters are playing are toys and are not firing what in the film are meant to be real guns and yet it doesn't stop there as the sound effects for when the characters are hitting each other just sound like there hitting a bag of meat and not hitting an actual person with this making it look like that the makers of this film just straight up didn't care about what kind of a film that they were turning in because of it they did then they would have gone that extra mile to record sound effects that actually sound like the thing that there being attached to and while yes granted the sound effects in this film aren't that big of an issue they are things that help to sell you on the rest of the film and if they don't sound as good as we all know that they should have done then it just takes you out of the film and reminds you that your just watching a film. 

For one reason or another the makers of this film decided to make this a mystery type of film as we have a mystery over who it is that actually ran Santana down on what is quite literally her wedding night. Whilst to be fair this isn't a bad idea as it does give the film a unique hook to it and is something that could have worked really well only the makers of this film forgot to do one one tiny thing and that's actually give us clues as to who the killer is or even focus on it's mystery in the first place therefor when Dr. Pret reveals that he was the one that ran Santana down because of the fact that he loved her and couldn't bare the thought of her being with quite literally anybody else but him it is something that does come out of nowhere as while the film did indeed set up the fact that he a relationship going with all of his female students and the fact that he and Santana were genuinely in love with each other it's never established or even hinted that that he was the type of person to get jealous let alone the type of person who would go to these extreme lengths just to get what he wants and in fact all throughout the film he comes across as being the only character that somewhat has it all together and yet of the film did put more of a focus on it's mystery then it would have given us the audience more of a reason to pay attention to the film as then we would be able to look for clues as to who Santana's killer even was in the first place and yet because of the fact that the makers of this film failed to do it makes it look like that the mystery aspect was more of an afterthought and was only added in to the film at the last minuet because of the fact that Scream 7 was coming out as it has very little to no impact on the rest of the film as a whole.

Now this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and forty eight seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact bogstandard running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have in the first place with the film having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time and as was to expected from this kind of film this film doesn't really use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that due to the film having a shorter running time this film isn't able to fully develop it's plot as the film has so much setting up to do just before it even gets to the titular bride in her undead form and when that happens there's only about twenty minuets of the film left as the film goes threw every detail of how Frank and Dr. Pret get all of the parts that they need to bring her back and whilst this is something that is understandable it's also something that needed to be cut out as it adds nothing to the plot of the film and takes up screen time that could have been better used in giving us a more well developed plot heck it could be argued that that that extra running time would have been better used to also giving the characters some actual character development as that would have helped us the audience to decide on if we like the characters or not and would have helped to make them feel more three dimensional then what they ended up being as we don't get to find anything about any of the films characters which is something that makes it hard to like these characters and yet if the characters did have some character development then it would have shown that the makers of this film know how to create a good film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a horror film that means 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 films kills being the best part of the film as even tho they are still badly done to the point where it is hilarious due to the fact that when Santana does try to kill someone even tho she's meant to be scratching them it looks like that she's just reaching out to touch them and isn't really doesn't any harm to them however it's during this films kills that we do get to see some decent looking gore effects with it being made painfully clear that the makers of this film spent alot of the films budget on the gore effects and nothing else in the film with there not really a kill that you could say is the best kill as there all just the same type of kill with nothing new added to them which is understandable as it's the undead bride doing alot of the films kills herself and she can't really do that much outside of biting people and eating them or just scratching them and then eating them to death and that's really it and while that might be fine for one or two kills it is something that does get boring after a while but to be fair both Frank and Dr. Pret do get some kills as they kill of Santana's family and use them for there body parts but even then we don't get to see that much of the kill in the first place and therefor what should have been a bunch of really impactful kills instead leaves us the audience feeling nothing but empty inside in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Overall while it's of course far to early to tell on if this film is better or worse then The Bride what we can say for sure is that this film is still miles better then Dracula In Space as this film while it is still a really bad film it does have elements in it that make it bad in an entertaining kind of way in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut 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 tat this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where 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 , 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.

Scream 7 Film SPOILRR FILLED Film Review

There are alot of films that cause controversy when there being made and heck some even cause it after they've been made. Yet the film that i'm going to be talking to you all today is one of the only films to have controversy about before it even entered development with this film being one that really is either going to be a massive hit or a huge flop either one will fracture a fanbase that really wasn't divided before this film was in development and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review that sees Neve Campbell make her grand return with the film in question being called simply just "Scream 7" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a few years after the events of Scream VI Sidney has to survive new killings when Ghostface starts targeting her and her family in there new home of Pine Grove. 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 film was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of this film being about as good as it was ever going to be giving all of the issues that plagued the film behind the scenes and yet it's a wonder that the films plot was as good as it was as while yes this films plot was a very basic and bare bones plot but in saying this tho that's all it needed to be as not every slasher film needs to challenge you and needs to be this thought provoking film as sometimes just being a dumb slasher film is more then enough and that is very much the case with this film as while yes granted Scream VI did have the better plot but it was also so far removed from being a Scream plot that it might as well have been called something else and the film would have worked just as well where as here in this film the plot is only something that you could do in Scream as it is the typical Scream plot with pretty much nothing new added to it however tho this films plot does feel alot less well thought out then the plots of the previous two Scream films this is despite the fact that the creator of this franchise Kevin Williamson not only co-wrote this film along with returning writer Guy Busick but he also served as this films director on top of that 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 in this film is Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott-Evans , Isabel May as Tatum Evans and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. Also starring in this film is Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Anna Camp as Jessica Bowden , Michelle Randolph as Madison , Jimmy Tatro as Scott , Mckenna Grace as Hannah Turman , Asa Germann as Lucas Bowden , Celeste O'Connor as Chloe Parker , Sam Rechner as Ben Brown , Mark Consuelos as Robbie Rivers , Tim Simons as George Willis , Joel McHale as Mark Evans , Ethan Embry as Marco Davis , Kraig Dane as Karl Gibbs , Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.

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 film was in all honesty really good. With this being something that was quite shocking as Kevin Williamson hasn't really directed anything before now and therefor nobody would have any clue of what to expect from this film from an acting point of view and while yes there are some scenes that are better acted then others that is something that could also be said for any film and isn't an issue that's exclusive to this film with the films returning actors proving once again why they are so good in these film and heck all three of them are the best actors in the whole entire film as Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , Jasmin Savoy Brown , Mason Gooding and Roger L. Jackson have just such a good handle on there characters with Neve , Courtney and Roger being able to play there characters in there sleep and Jasmin and Mason being just as good as they were in the previous two Scream films as well but that's not to knock the films debuting actors either as they are really good in this film it's just that for obvious reasons there not as good as the films returning actors with the acting that's in this film not really being helped buy the fact that the script for the film is 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.

While the films returning characters are handled about as well as you'd expect with them acting how you expect them to where the film does falls apart character wise is with it's newer characters. As while the older characters are handled perfectly fine the same thing cannot be said for the films newer character as there's nothing memorable about this films new characters with alot of them just being so bland and generic even Tatum who has nothing that makes her standout as a character outside of who she's named after and her her mother is and that's it with it feeling like the makers of this film really couldn't be bothered to come up with new and even passable characters as they all just feel like rip offs of characters that we saw in other Scream movies and whilst this can be a good thing as it can be used to connect to sets to films together in ways that are fun and creative here they don't even do that with the characters so much so that it's hard to tell just who Tatum's friends are with the same thing even being true for the friend group in Scream 5 as well which is something that does mean that this is an issue with other Scream films and yet the co-writer of that film also returned to co-write this film and he didn't really learn his lesson on h0ow to create good side characters with this having the adverse effect of making us the audience not really care for any of Tatum's friends when they do start getting killed off as the makers of this film never really gave us a reason to care for them in the first place as they all feel like an afterthought almost as if they were added into the films script at the last possible minuet as that's how badly done that they are.

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Look there's no possible way to talk about this film without mentioning in some detail the so called controversy that's surrounding this film. As the star of the last two films Melissa Barrera who was pretty much in negations to return for this film was let go from the film after a post of her's from X went viral i'm not going to say what the the post was about or what it related but let's just say that it had something to do with a conflict that's far more complex and complicated that what anyone possibly understands with the company that now owns the Scream franchise Spyglass Media choosing not to bring her back for this film this was something that her fans just can't wrap there heads around as even tho there is a video of her confessing that she was only ever contracted to do the two Scream movies and the fact that this film hadn't even begun pre-production when all of this went down they still seem to think that she was both fired and blacklisted from Hollywood with things made worse when you take into account that the original director for the film left the film after his vision for the film fell apart when Jenna Ortega then chose to leave with the original writer and director for this film Christopher Landon later saying that he also left the film due to the fact that he received death threats and yet the people who are still on X right now saying to boycott this film are still trying to get it boycotted because of the stuff with Melissa and yet not one of them was saying boycott Scream VI when that same production refused to pay franchise icon Neve Campbell what she wanted for being in the film in the first place which is one thing but then alot more of them would start posting spoilers for this film online which is never a cool thing to do as half of the fun of a Scream film is working out who did it and one of the things that they posted spoilers for was who the killers for the film are.

Back to more pleasant things we actually do have alot more returnee's for this film as we have Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher , Laurie Metcalf as Nancy Loomis , Scott Foley as Roman Bridger and David Arquette as Dewey Riley all back in this film. With the film actually bringing them back in a creative way by having this films Ghostfaces use AI to bring them back as a way to taunt Sidney which regardless of what you think about AI on the whole is a pretty creative idea as AI can be used to create these lifelike images that could very easily trick those that aren't used to looking at a fake image and make them think that someone that they thought was dead is now coming back to get them with the only things that let the idea down being the fact that it does come at the expense of making Sidney look dumb as she does with her heart of hearts believe that Stu is back even tho she was the one that caused him to die in the first place and the fact being that the film doesn't take as full advantage of that idea as it could have done as they pretty much right away let you know that it's an AI image of Stu and not the real person when it would have been more effective to not have Gale or anyone mention that it's a fake image just to so that way they can have us the audience wonder for a little bit longer if it really is him or not only for them to reveal during the films lackluster third act that it's a fake image by then having all of the other dead characters appear as that way you keep Sidney your main protagonist from looking dumb and you get to use this pretty cool idea to as full advantage as you could possibly do at the same time.

Whilst this film is a good film there's no question about that two of the fatal things that it gets wrong is the fact that they don't give you clues as to who the killers are and the fact that the killers in this film are nobody characters essentially. As it's gets revealed that the killers in this film are Sidney's neighbour Jessica Bowden and Marco Davis who is someone who worked at a mental institution with both characters not really getting much screen time before the big reveal infact Jessica only gets about two scenes throughout the whole film before she's revealed and Marco gets one and that's it say what you will about the reveals in the last film but at the very least those killers actually got alot more screen time outside of the Ghostface costume with things being made all the more worse when you take into account that the makers of this film don't really take the time to give us the audience any clues as to who the killers are with the only thing that comes close to a clue being the fact that the images of Stu are AI and Tatum's boyfriend is working with an AI programme and that's it and even thar clue is huge misdirect in the grand scheme of things and yet when you go back to the first film there are plenty of clues as to who the killers of that film as the makers of that film knew that it was well and good to have plenty of kills but they mean nothing if the mystery isn't good and therefor they gave Billy and Stu those little moments where they would sneak a sly little look here and there at each other or one of them would say something that would act as cue for the other one to get into place thus allowing us the audience to piece it together ourselfs and yet here in this film due to the fact that the characters share about five minuets total screen time before getting unmasked none of that happens.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty seven minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which is a pretty short amount of time for this film to have as alot of the Scream ones even the bad ones last alot more closer to two hours with it feeling like that this film had a shorter running time so that Spyglass or Paramount Pictures could fit in more screenings of the film and thus earn more money from the film which isn't a bad idea in practice and yet in reality it's doesn't work as while the film does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot as the film does have to rush from plot to point without taking the time that it really needed to get there more naturally with this being due to he fact that the film does have a shorter running time with this being something that does also effect the films character development as while it's understandable that none of the returning characters would get character development as they have the previous films to get there character development yet none of the films new characters get any which is something that does make it harder to for us the audience to buy into any of this films new characters as none of Tatum's friends have anything that makes them stand out and be there own person whilst we know just as much about Tatum coming out of the the film then we did coming into the film with this being something that could have been fixed by giving the film a longer running time and yet as the makers of this film are more bothered about giving us exact scenes from the first Scream movie it does mean that both the plot and characters can't that well developed 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 a bout the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the films kills being the best apart of the film itself as we do get to see some really cool looking kills in the film with alot of the films being really creative and fun kills with us getting to see Ghostface kill people in some unique locations something which does make the kill in this film feel unique and while yes there is only so much that you can do with a person stabbing someone this film does find new ways to stop that from being boring with the best kill in the film oddly enough being the kill of the first Ghostface as there are technically three of them in this film with this first one getting killed about halfway into the film when Gale hits him with her car and while that might not sound like much what does set it apart is the build up to the kill itself as we get to see Ghostface stalk both Sidney and Tatum in there home with the girls walking inbetween the walls of there house to try and get out all the while Ghostface is stabbing into the wall to try and get them with him even catching Sidney in the arm at one point and while the girls do eventually get away thanks to the help of Mark it's Gale who gets the killing blow as she comes screeching in and hits him with her car thus killing him which is something that we haven't seen in any of the Scream films with that scene also serving as a pretty cool entrance for both Gale and the Meeks-Martin twins as well as being a really cool kill in it's own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this film isn't as bad as the critics score on Rotten Tomatoes will have you believe as while yes it is the weaker of the newer Scream films that's not something that anyone will deny it's also not bad as Scream 3 as this film is still at the very least trying to be a decent Scream film with the film more then earning it's currently 78% audience score of Rotten Tomatoes as that's how good that this film 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 that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his 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.

Scream VI Film Review

Regardless of how you feel about the movie we are now just a few short days away from the release of Scream 7. Yet alot of the folks over on X remain just as divided on that film as ever with alot of people hating the idea of existing and others such as myself being genuinely excited to see the new film as it's the latest entry in a series that we all love and yet now the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about is being dragged in the mud for quite literally no reason what so ever so then join me as I review the film that sees Ghostface join Jason in taking New York with the film in question being called simply just "Scream VI" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one year after the events of the first film Sam , Tara , Chad and Mindy and a new group of friends including a returning Kirby and Gale find themselves at the centre of new Ghostface killings and have to find who he killer or killers are before it's to late.  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 film was in all honesty really good with the makers of the film making the very wise choice to move the action away from Woodsboro as there only so many times that you can return there before it starts to get dull and boring and moving the action to New York means that the film can have this bigger plot where te killer can come out of anywhere something which the film does take full advantage of and while yes this film plot is the typical Scream plot it's what it does with that plot and set up that makes it interesting as having the whole plot effectively centre around the sisterly bond between Sam and Tara is something that does set this film apart as e get to see both character deal with the trauma of the previous film in there own way and while yes it would have been better if the film did have a much more stronger plot to it as the film doesn't really focus on it's plot all that much with the film picking up and dropping it's plot quite alot of the time it's when the film focuses on it's plot that it's story gets to be really interesting and intriguing 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 inn this film is Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter , Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. Also starring in this film is Jack Champion as Ethan Landry , Henry Czerny as Christopher Stone , Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Liana Liberato as Quinn Bailey , Dermot Mulroney as Wayne Bailey , Devyn Nekoda as Anika Kayoko , Tony Revolori as Jason Carvey , Josh Segarra as Danny Brackett , Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis , Samara Weaving as Laura Crane , Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed , Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.

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 film was in all honesty really good. With this being something that's not really all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors with this being something that is proven again in this film due to the fact that there's not a single bad performance in the whole film that doesn't mean to say that there aren't scenes that could have had better acting in them it just means that the quality of the acting in the film as a whole is one that's really quite high and heck any film has scenes in them that don't have as good acting when compared to the rest of the film but here in this film you can tell that all of the films actors both returning and new have a level of care and respect for this franchise as they all do give it there best and because of that we do get new characters that feel perfectly well cast and performances that fit the film perfectly with the best actor in the whole entire film being Melissa Barrera which yes might be a cliche thing to say but it is also the most truest thing that you could say about this film from an acting point of view as she really does nail the role of Sam Carpenter down perfectly with her scenes with Jenna being alot of the best non kill scenes in the film with the acting that's in this very 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 ill come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting thats in this very film.

Where this film really does shine is in it's characters as be they old characters or newly introduced characters this film does have some well done characters. With characters like Kirby and Sam being a good example of just how good that this films characters are as Kirby feels like how she did in Scream 4 with her retaining her wit and love of horror movies only ow she has the expirence of knowing what it's like to go through a Ghostface attack thanks to the events of the fourth film with the same thing also being true for the character of Sam as well as thanks to the events of the previous film she's now become to over protective of Tara so much so that it gets to the point where it's starting to drive a wedge between them something which does actually form the characters arc for this film as she has to learn not to be so overprotective of her sister with this being something that does make for an interesting change in her character as it does make sense that after almost being killed by someone that she would want to protect her sister due to the fact that these attacks could and in this case do happen again with both Chan and Mindy not really having any character growth inbetween the two films with them both being the same comedic relief characters that they were in the previous film with the only difference now being that Chad has a thing for Tara and that's it with the writing for the rest of the characters being fine but nothing that's to out there with both Quinn and Ethan being serviceable characters and you can't really get Gale wrong as there are five other films that pretty much tell you how to write her character with the only somewhat badly written character being Wayne Bailey and even then it's mostly due to the fact that he's not in the film all that much in the first place. 

Pretty much since the release of Scream 4 fans had been wondering what happened to Kirby as for one reason or another this character just struck a chord with them. With this film being the film that brought her back into the franchise to not only reveal that she survived the events of the fourth film but thrived because of it with her becoming an FBI agent so that she can track down and stop other potential Ghostface attacks from happening in the first place which in theory isn't a bad idea but when you take into account that she missed the previous film it is something that makes you wonder if she was good at her job due to the fact that she missed a whole slate of killings one of which included someone that she may or may not have gotten close to even the fourth film and also featured the death of someone that she would have been close to in Dewey and while yes it was great that the makers of this film did indeed listen to the fans and gave them exactly what they wanted they opened up a whole other can of worms by NOT explaining where she was during the events of Scream 2022 as she is someone who does have interest in these Ghostface killings so she would therefor want to help out when a new set of killings happens in her own hometown but credit where it is due it was fun seeing her interact with Mindy as even tho they are both the Randy character of there group of friends they do have some great banter together that do help to make this film be more entertaining as you never really know just what it is that there going to say or do next but whilst her banter with Mindy was really good it's the fact that the makers of this film don't take the time to explain why she wasn't in the previous film as they go out of there way to explain why Sidney isn't in this film and yet for Kirby they don't do that this is despite the fact that they went out of there way to bring the character back in the first place.

If there's one thing that this film should get alot of credit it's for the fact that the film does take as full advantage of it's New York setting as it possible could have done. As while yes granted Scream 3 also had a big city setting it didn't take full advantage of that with alot of the kills in that film happening inside whereas here we do get attacks that happen in New York based locations like the attack on the bodega for example that is something that could only work in this film as it would feel almost out of place in any of the other films and another great example being the scene where Mindy gets attacks on the subway near the end of the movie as that is a scene that once again could only happen in this film and it's scenes like those two scenes that do prove that the makers of this film really wanted to take full advantage of it's New York setting and because of that they helped to make New York feel like a character in this movie as now the city itself is being attacked by Ghostface an while Jason Voorhees only walked around New York for a little bit before getting killed of in Jason Takes Manhattan Ghostface actually goes to these extremes to make you terrified of being in New York and that is something that the makers of this film really didn't have to do as they could have had it be the typical Scream movie but it's now set in New York and that's it but it's the fact that they went out of there way to make New York feel like character in this film and to have attacks you could only see in this film that do help to make this film be alot more better and while yes it would have been nice if we did get to see more of New York as that would have helped the location feel alot less like Woodsboro it's not something that was really needed to sell you on the film as the very idea of having Ghostface running New York is more then enough to get you excited for this film in the first place. 

Where this film does start to fail is in it's mystery aspect as one of the things that people do go to these films for is to work out who is committing the kills in the film. Yet the film doesn't really do a good enough of not only making the killers be memorable characters outside of there roles as Ghostface but the film doesn't even give us any clues as to who the they are in the first place and yet if you contrast this with the first film we did get plenty of kills as to who was committing the kills in that film be it from Billy dropping his phone right after a Ghostface attack to all of the looks that both Billy and Stu share with each other other when Stu acts a little bit to crazy all of which might not seem like much at first but they are things that clue you into the fact that those characters aren't good guys where as here in this film we get none of that which does mean that when we do get to the reveal of Quinn , Ethan and Wayne all being the killers for the film with Wayne being more of a behind the scenes guy due to his age and Quinn and Ethan being the ones that actually kill people it is something that does come out nowhere as the film not only doesn't build up any of them apart from Ethan as suspects but they also don't give us any clues so that we the audience can work it out for our selves with the only thing that might be a clue being the fact that Quinn mentions that she had a brother that die in a car crash and that's it and that's not enough as we need more then that to go off of and yet it's something that the makers of this film fail to do which is something that does make this films mystery feel a lot more weaker then what it should have been.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and five minuets and ten seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these films and to be fair to this film it does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet in saying this tho the film really doesn't take the time that it had to fully develop it's plot in the first place with it seeming like that the characters are just doing things for random reasons as so much of what the characters do in this film is in purpose of the films plot as rather it's just an excuse to get some of them in a certain location for a Ghostface attack when that is screen time that would be better served in developing the films plot with the same thig also being true for the films characters as well as the film doesn't take the time to develop alot of it's characters with the only character that gets some form of character development being Sam and that's really it as all of the other films characters getting none whatsoever even Gale who gets a phone call from Ghostface in this film gets no character development which fair enough you could argue the case that she gets her character development in the other films and therefor doesn't need it in this film however that is not something that applies to the other characters as even alot of the returning characters apart from Sam get nothing interms of character development when it would have made sense for the makers of the film to give characters like Quinn , Ethan and Wayne character development 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 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 this film having some really good kills as the makers of the film going as over the top as they could do with the films gore without the film becoming an outright parody of itself something which it very easily could have done with the films kills being made all the more effective due to the fact that there is some small effort to make Ghostface scary something which is helped by the fact that the film is set in a location where he can come out of the shadows and attack people from anywhere which is something that is made all the more effective by the fact that there's three people as Ghostface with the best kill in the film not even being a kill as it's the subway attack on Mindy as what makes that scene so well done being the fact that the makers of the film build up alot of tension with there being alot of people on both subways dressed up as Ghostface all of whom could very easily attack one of the main characters of the film with the editing doing a good job of selling you on the fact that it could be Sam's group that gets attacked only for the rug to be pulled and reveal that it's Mindy that gets attacked with the scene in Sam and Tara's apartment being a very close second place for that exact same reason with his film being filled to the brim with alot of good kills and while yes all of the kills in this film barring one are just people being stabbed part of what makes them work so well is the tension that's being built up and that is something that this film does really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall no matter what you think of this film the one thing that cannot be denied is the fact it is a film that proves that the franchise can tell these unique stories with it's characters and still tell the typical Scream story so regardless of what you think of both this film , the next film or the previous film please keep it civil in the comments as we are all Scream fans after all an that is something that we should all be very proud of being in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google 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.