Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen it's Halloween which means I get to watch and review another film in the Halloween franchise and while last year I did promise that i'd be watching and reviewing Halloween III: Season Of The Witch I forgot all about that promise. As such i'm now making a vow that I will only be covering the Michael Myers as such here is my review of "Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers" enjoy.

The plot of the film is ten years after being blown up and turned being into an extra crispy piece of chicken Michael Myers is somehow back but is now stalking his young niece and it's up to the also somehow still alive Dr. Sam Loomis and Sheriff Ben Meeker to stop him for good and to make sure no more sequels happen. The plot of this movie is just a carbon copy of the original since almost everything that happens in this film plot wise happens in the original film and because of that the story is predictable as all hell.

Reprising his role from the first two Halloween films is an extra crispy Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis. Also starring in this film is Halloween 2007 remake Annie Brackett (Danielle Harris) as Jamie Lloyd , Ellie Cornell as Rachel Carruthers , George P. Wilbur as Michael Myers , Michael Pataki as Dr. Hoffman , Beau Starr as Sheriff Ben Meeker , Kathleen Kinmont as Kelly Meeker and Sasha Jenson as Brady.

The acting in the film isn't the worst aspect of this film in fact it's honestly one of it's better points since the actors are still trying there best to make the script work. However what lets the actors down is the script which as mentioned before gives them a rehashed story and little to no character to work with as such even tho both Donald Pleasence and Danielle Harris are great actors and they both do a good job in this film they can't turn in anything more then an OK performance in this film and the same goes for the rest of the cast as well.

The biggest sin that this film makes is that they kill of Ted Hollister that man was a local legend and just like Ben Tramer his name shall be etched in the history books. Honestly how this film thought that they could get away with killing of such a good character like Ted Hollister is beyond me everybody in Haddonfield loved him weather they knew it or not but now with Halloween 2018 ignoring every film apart from the original 1978 Halloween some justice can be done to such a great character and a great human being.

Yes I fully admit that i was looking forward to making a Ted Hollister joke in this review and so I just had to get to it as soon as possible. That being said tho why Dr. Loomis chose to get a bunch of drunk rednecks to help protect the town of Haddonfield (where this film and most of this series takes place) makes no sense since as a doctor he should no that given there current state and the fact that they have guns they'd end up doing more harm then good which is exactly what happens since they kill of local legend Ted Hollister.

One of the few bright spots in the film is the character of Jamie Lloyd who as mentioned is played by the seriously stunning scream horror actress icon Danielle Harris. I honestly liked this character just because there are so few horror films were we get to see a little kid be the killer's main target and it helps that the writing when it comes to this character is so good it's no wonder that the character became a fan favourite.

That being said I don't like the fact that they killed of Laurie Stode off screen since she is Michael's true enemy. As such it would have made more sense if they actually showed Michael killing her at the start of this movie plus this way we'd get to see what Jamie Lloyd was like before her mother (who is Laurie Stode by the way for those that don't know) died since we don't get to see any of that in this film which is a shame because it would have made the film more interesting in my opinion.

This film has a total running time of one hour and twenty eight minuets which isn't enough time to tell this story at all. Since you only have two returning characters and so you still have to set up a bunch of new characters as well as reestablish the threat that is Michael Myers which given that this film is one hour and twenty minuets it just doesn't have enough time to do all of that and tell a decent story if anything this film should have been at least an hour and forty minuets if not an hour and forty five minuets long but that's just what I think tho.

Now even tho this isn't mentioned in this film the character of Lindsey (played by Leslie L. Rohland) is meant to be Lindsey Wallace from the 1978 original Halloween film (which is of course called Halloween) which I guess makes sense timeline wise since this version of Lindsey Wallace would be around sixteen or seventeen years old at this point. What doesn't make sense however is the fact that they don't have Michael somebody who was trying to kill her n the first film go after Lindsey Wallace in this film.

Now then boys and girls since this is a slasher film that does mean that we have to talk about the kills in the film. Which for me were very hit and miss since for every kill that looked good and had some decent gore there was always one or two more that didn't look that good which is a shame because the good kills in this film are so over the wall that they become good just due to how insane and how fun they are to see play out in the film.

Overall while this film was indeed a decent sequel it also defiantly marks in turn in the quality of each film since each Halloween film for the next few sequels takes a dip if quality. However with that being said there are a few good things in this film all of which i've mentioned in this review but there are also more bad things about he film which i've also covered in this review and so Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers gets a 6 out of 10 from me. As for where I got the images that I used in this review from well I got them from either the official Halloween Film Series fandom wiki page or Google Images and for once I have no idea which website you should use so I say use either one if you want images from this film and as always we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

The Craft 1996 Film Review

 

Well then horror fans yesterday you all saw me take on the sequel and so it only makes sense that today I take on the original. Before you all say anything yes I did plan to do it this way just because firstly I wanted to see if the second film would come up on ahem certain websites if you get my drift and secondly I wanted to watch the bad film first since then this film will seem better by comparison and so here is my review of the 1996 film "The Craft" enjoy.

Well this film really isn't of to a good start because like the second film this film doesn't have a story to speak of. Which means that you can't really connect with the characters because the film isn't giving you a reason to. However unlike the sequel this film does give each of the four main characters there own separate story arcs which I guess kind of makes up for the overall film not having a story but at the same time the film would have been alot better if it did have a plot or story.

Starring in the film is Robin Tunney as Sarah Bailey , Fairuza Balk as Nancy Downs and future star of the Scream franchise Neve Campbell as Bonnie Harper. Also starring in the film is Rachel True as Rochelle Zimmerman , future of the first Scream film Skeet Ulrich as Chris Hooker , Cliff DeYoung as Mr. Bailey , Christine Taylor as Laura Lizzie , future star of the greatest movie ever Garfield Breckin Meyer as Mitt , Nathaniel Marston as Trey and Helen Shaver as Grace Downs.

I will give the acting this it's alot better then the acting in the sequel but to be fair that's not a high bar to reach. However just b3ecause the acting in this film is better then the acting in the sequel it doesn't mean that the acting in this film is actually good because it's not however the four main actresses in this film are so clearly having a blast that you kind of buy into there performances anyway regardless of the script not giving any of the actors anything to work with in terms of personality or actual characteristics or character.

Even tho this film doesn't have that many good reviews in fact it currently sits at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film has gone in to become a cult classic earning a die hard fan base which I feel is a good thing because there is so much good to be found in this film if you just except it for what it is which is a cheesy as hell film that just embraces and surrounds itself in everything to do with the nineties.

This film is like taking a trip back in time to the nineties just because every little thing in this film are things that you would see in nineties films. Speaking as someone who grew up in the nineties ( I really do mean it when I say I grew up in the nineties since I was born in 1990) it was weird to see all of things from that era in this film everything from the fashion to the choice of actors to the choice of music just screams nineties and I love it because of that fact.

Unlike the sequel this film actually has a well built up villain and because of that it isn't surprising when this character turns evil. This is great story and simple story telling because over the course of the film we see this character turn from a straight forward good guy to someone who could be both good or evil to finally someone who is without a shadow of a doubt evil this is simple and yet effective story telling and it works really well in my opinion.

1996 really was a good year for Neve Campbell because not only did she star as Bonnie in this film but by the end of the year she would be starring as Sidney Prescott in the very first Scream film which as mentioned also starred The Craft co-star Skeet Ulrich. Which I have to admit made there scenes together n this film hard to sit through because even tho they are both really good in this film I could only see them as Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich who was also on The CW show Riverdale by the way) respectively.

I know that this is going to sound odd but this film is actually alot more subtle with how it deals with social issues that The Craft: Legacy is. Simply because in this film they have a who;e character arc about one of the main girls who is black getting racist abuse from a white woman and they don't hit you over the head with how woke there trying to be and guess what this makes the black female main character more tolerable to watch and it makes the film more tolerable to watch as well.

This film is one hour and forty minuets and fifty nine seconds long so let's round that up to one hour and forty one minuets long. I do feel that this is a bit long for this film just because like I said at the start of the review the film has no plot to speak of which can make the film a bit of a chore to sit through at times as such I really do feel that this film should have been a lot shorter like maybe an hour and twenty five minuets just because there's nothing in this film that requires a running time that's longer then an hour and a half but that's just what I think tho.

I hate to keep on saying but unlike the sequel this film actually does deliver on it's thriller aspect just as much as it does it's supernatural aspect. I'm not kidding there are honestly some really creepy as hell scenes in this film and alot of those scenes looks so freaking cool I honestly cannot think of what I would say is the best creepy scene in this film because there are so many which could very easily get that award for me.

Overall to say that i think this film is better then The Craft: Legacy would be like saying original TV show Saved By The Bell was corny and cheesy and doesn't represent was high school is actually like no duh. That being said however this film does have it's problems which do sadly keep it from being a perfect ten out of ten however the film is still pretty entertaining despite those faults and in some cases it's entertaining because of those faults as such this film gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me and with that i've reviewed both movies in The Craft I guess you could say either series or franchise and the next horror film you'll see me review will be the fourth film in the Halloween franchise Halloween 4: The Return Of Micheal Myers which with any luck will be out this Saturday so it'll be out actually on Halloween so look for to that.

All images and gif's that I used in this review were gathered from Google Images and for once I went nowhere else for the images or gifs that I used in this review. Since I only went to Google Images for both the images and gifs that I used in this review I have to no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film. As always horror fans we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

The Craft: Legacy Review

 

Horror fans we so used to seeing sequels to our favorite horror films however we are used to seeing the next installment to any horror franchise come out withing a few years of the previous installment. The film i'm going to review today bucks that trend by a long while since the original film came out in 1996 which means the film i'm reviewing today has come twenty four years later and so join me horror fans as I review "The Craft: Legacy" enjoy.

Now here I would normally summarize the plot of the film is well as give you my opinion on the story as a whole. That right there is the film's first and one of it's biggest issues because of the fact there's no story that means that we audience cannot connect to the story because the film isn't giving us a reason to connect to them which for any film is bad and for me that's a huge red flag and trust me it only gets worse from here.

Starring in the film is Cailee Spaeny as Lilith "Lily" ????? , Gideon Adlon as Frankie and Lovie Simone as Tabby. Also starring in the film is Zoey Luna as Lourdes , Michelle Monaghan as Helen , David Duchovny as Adam , Nicholas Galitzine as Timmy Andrews , Julian Grey as Abe , Donald MacLean Jr. as Isaiah , Hannah Gordon as Ashley , Chris Tomassetti as Jeremy and Charles Vandervaart as Jacob.

Wow is the acting in this film bad and when I say the acting in this film is bad I really freaking mean it since I cannot think of one single actor who turned in a solid performance. I can however think of one actor who is clearly doesn't give a damn and is just having the time of her life and that's Gideon Adlon as Frankie who gives a really over the top performance in every scene her character is in which to me makes her performance the most enjoyable because everyone else is just bland and wooden at there absolute best.

This film is so freaking woke it's unreal because not only are all the male characters in this film evil they even have a male character only turn good after he starts acting like your stereotypical woke person and since all the male characters in this film are treated as evil a lot of the female characters are portrayed as good. Honestly this really freaking annoyed the hell of me because it felt like they made being woke more important then making an actual good film with interesting characters and all of this was done to please a group of people who are never happy and s it's pointless to try and please them in the first place.

Now i'm not going to spoil anything from this terrible sequel but I will say that this film does feature a character from the 1996 original film. The character that appears was at first according to the Wikipedia page for The Craft: Legacy was due to be via archive footage which I can confirm isn't the case the character in question appears in newly filmed footage near the end of the film and he or she only appears in one scene.

Which trust me is a great thing because there's nothing in this film that would suggest that it's a sequel to a nearly twenty five year old film. However I will admit that the plot line leading up this characters reveal was really badly done since it was something that was never mentioned or even hinted at during the entire film infact this plot line which could have lasted an entire film only gets started in the film's third act and is over just as quickly as it begins and so to me it's clear as hell that they really wanted a character from the first film to appear but they already had the script written and thus didn't want to change that much of it and so they just added this plot line at the last minuet just so they could get one character from the original film in this film.

This film is one hour and thirty four minuets long which makes the film around five minuets shorter then the original. Which for me is a good thing because like I said this film has to plot to speak whatsoever and because of the fact that this film has no plot to speak of whatsoever the film oddly feels alot longer then it is and so I have to wonder why did the film need to be this long when it could and I honestly think should have been under an hour and twenty minuets because there's nothing in this film that requires a running time of nearly and hour and thirty five minuets.

I want it known that i've never seen the first The Craft film and the only bit of footage i've seen from that first film is from The Cinema Snob's latest review which is a review of the film. As such I cannot say how good the music is in that film but in this film may god do they have some cheesy as hell music playing over scenes in this film which honestly made me laugh because the music is so bad you can't help but laugh which ruins every bit of tension that the film tries to create.

This is classed as supernatural thriller and while it does indeed earn it's supernatural label it doesn't earn it's thriller name. Since there is nothing thrilling in this film whatsoever infact the film is more focused on being like bad show on The CW that it forgets to include actually good scares instead all we get are jump scares which is fine for one scare but when that's every single scare it starts to get boring after awhile.

Overall incase I haven't made it very clear yet I hate this film so freaking much that it's unreal it's a pointless sequel and it's film that didn't need to be made. Yes there are are a few good things in the film all of which i've sadly mentioned in this review but there are a lot more bad things alot of which i've covered in this review and i'm sure that you guys will find even more issues with the film then I did as such this film gets a 2.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used for this review were gathered from either Google Images of the official The Craft fandom wiki page. Just because this website had more images from the film I have no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film just because like I said Google Images have more of verity of images from the film and lot of those images are high quality which is something that I look for when i'm making a review and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very , very unpleasant dreams.

 

  

Addams Family Values Review

 

Ladies and gents it's been well over a year since I review the 1991 film adaptation of The Addams Family which was also called The Addams Family. As such I feel that it's about time that I take a look at it's 1993 which is honestly something that i've both been planning and putting of doing for some time now however since it's halloween I feel that it's about right that I take a look at a film featuring the creepy family and so here is my review of "Addams Family Values" enjoy the review everyone and on with the review.

The plot of the movie is serial killer infiltrates The Addams Family and plans to steal a fortune by marrying Uncle Fester meanwhile Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to the worst place imaginable summer camp. I honestly feel that the plot of the first film is alot better then the plot of this film just because in this film the story doesn't work nor make sense since any member of The Addams Family would love to get married to a serial killer and the story is very weak at best in my own very humble opinion that is.

Starring in the film is Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams , Raul Julia as Gomez Addams and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester. Also starring in the film is Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams , Christopher Hart as Thing , Carel Struycken as Lurch , Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams , Carol Kane as Grandmama Addams , Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky , Mercedes McNab as Amanda Buckman , David Krumholtz as Joel Glicker , Peter MacNicol as Gary Granger and Christine Baranski as Becky Martin-Granger.

The acting in this film was honestly really good with all of the returning actors ( I couldn't be bothered listing who was returning and who wasn't just incase your wondering why I didn't mention the returning actors when listing who is in this film) turning in solid performances. Hell even the new cast members do a really good job but what lets the new actors down is thew fact that the script gives them nothing to work with which isn't an issue for the returning actors because both we the audience and the actors in question know what there characters are like and what there personalities are but the same cannot be said for the new characters since the script gives those character no personality whatsoever which means the actors do that good of a job and at best can only deliver an ok performance.

There's something really bugged me about this film and it's the fact that the plot line involving Uncle Fester (Played By Back To The Future Star Christopher Lloyd) is almost the exact same plot featuring the exact same character from the first film. Hell the film even copies scenes from the first film which to me makes no sense whatsoever since with a franchise like The Addams Family you can literally do anything you wanted and it would somehow make sense and yet you repeat a plot line and several scenes from much better first movie where's the logic in doing that.

Now there was going to be a third film in this Paramount Pictures live action Addams Family film franchise however due t0o the death of Gomez Addams actor Raul Julia the film was cancelled. I honestly think that it's a shame that we didn't get more films in the Paramount Pictures produced Addams Family live action film series just because these actors and these versions of the characters are so engraved in my head that whenever I picture these characters i'm seeing the actors from either this film or the first film and the same even goes for The Addams Family mansion since it's such a cool looking mansion.

Now this is something that I wondered last year and i'm still confused as to how they brought The Thing to life in either of these two movies. Since it could be CGI but given that these films were made in the very early nineties I doubt that's how they brought the thing to life and so the only thing that I could think if is that they rotoscoped the actor who played The Thing out of each shot except of course for his hand but that would have been very time consuming even back then and so I really have no idea how they brought The Thing to life in either of these two Paramount Pictures released Addams Family films.

Now then since this is an Addams family adaptation that does mean there are some spooky things in this film. With perhaps the spookiest thing and also oddly the funniest thing in the movie is the fact that the film makers have a scene were Wednesday smiles and you just know that when she does that she's thinking how she's going to get revenger on each and every person who bullied her at that camp since yeah both she , Pugsley and all the other outcast kids kind of get bullied at this summer camp.

This film is an hour and thirty four minuets long which in my opinion is a little bit on the long side for a film that has a very weak plot. If anything this film should have been well under an hour and a half including both the opening and ending credits. As a result of this running time and weak plot the film does feel alot longer then it's one hour and thirty four minuet running time which is a shame because there is a decent film to be found here the just needed a better plot to let that good film out but there's not a good plot in this film so there you go.

Now then boys and girls since this is a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this film. Which I honestly feel are this film's biggest selling point because my god is this film funny almost every single joke told in this film landed for me and had me laughing I honestly cannot thing of a single bad joke in this film and it helps that alot of the film's funniest lines were given to the character of Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci who was born to play the role of Wednesday Addams in these Paramount Pictures live action film adaptations of The Addams Family) who's dark and sadistic humour just works really well.

Overall while I cannot say that this film is better then the 1991 film version of The Addams Family I think that we can all agree it's much better then Addams Family Reunion. Yes this film does have it's problems all of which i've covered in this review those issues to me were apart of the film's charm as such this film gets a 6 out of 10 from me. As for where I got the images that I used in this review I got Them from either the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page or Google Images and I honestly have no clue which one is better to use since there both the same in terms of image quality.

 

 

Nocturne 2020 Film Revew

 

Horror fans i've seen alot of horror over the years and I will most certainly watch a ton more even before the end of the year. Even with alot of films either being pushed back into next year or heading straight to verious different streaming services there are still some horror films out and as luck would have a few new films from the Welcome To The Blumhouse series in Amazon Prime have been released and so here is my review of film four in the Welcome To The Blumhouse series called "Nocturne" so enjoy the review eveeryone.

Now here I would normally tell you what the plot of the movie is well as give you my opinion on the plot of the film. However for some strange reason the makers behind this film chose not to have plot which is movie making 101 you need to tell a story and when you don't do that your whole film falls apart because the auidence won't be able to connect to the characters nor will the audience be engaged because your not giving them a reason to be engaged in your film.

Starring in the film is Sydney Sweeney as Juliet , Madison Iseman as Vivian and Jacques Colimon as Max. Also starring in the film is Ivan Shaw as Vivian’s instructor , Julie Benz as Cassie , Brandon Keener as David , JoNell Kennedy as The Music Department Head , Asia Jackson as Abigail , John Rothman as Roger , Stephon Fuller as Joshua , A.J. Tannen as Mike , Rodney To as Wilkins and Ivan Shaw as an unknown character.

I'm not joking with the Ivan Shaw credit I have no idea who he is or who he's even playing in this film and IMDB is no help whatsoever since that only has his name and not the name of his character in the movie. As for what I thought about the acting in the film it was pretty decent all of the actors do a solid job but at the same time the script gives these actors nothing to work as such the actors are kind of lost since they can only do so much with the script and the film's wirter / director Zu Quirke has never written or even directed a feature film before now so the cast have no chance of turning in a great performance.

This is I believe the last of the first four films in the Welcome To The Blumhouse series but I do believe that they have another four films. When those other four films are released or even what they are at this point remians to be seen but i'm honestly all for Welcome To The Blumhouse continuing since it gives fresf faces a platform to show what they can do and having new names in the realm of horror is always a good thing.

That being said the director / writer of this film is the very definition of  new face in horror since as far as I can tell Zu Quirke who is this films director and writer have never made a horror film before now. Hell as I said this is the first feature film that Zu Quirke has made having previously only made short films which is this film biggest mistake because the whole thing just reeks of inexperince and while I won't be knocking points of the film for that it is something that Blumhouse and Amazon should be weary of in the future since it could  put people of watching future film in the Welcome To The Blumhouse series.

I'm going to be freaking brutal here this film is boring as hell and part of what makes the film boring is the fact that nothing happens for large portions of the film. Again this is film makeing 101 no matter how bad your film is your audience needs to be entertained in some way and when you add in the fact that there is no plot to this film if your like me then you'll find yourself checking to see how long is left or browsing the internet.

Not helping with the boredom (and this is something that could have been fixed with a few rewrites of the script) is the fact that the characters are just uninteresting. Try as I might I cannot think of a single interesting character in this film and that's because all of the characters are written the exact same and all have no personality to them and so all of the characters come across as very one dimensional which doesn't make them interesting it makes them bad and boring characters.

One of the semi interesting things about the film is the realtionship between sisters Juliet (Sydney Sweeney) and Vivian (Madison Iseman) with one being a highly talented musician who is highly popular and the other still being a highly talented musician but is also willing to do whatever it takes to get to the top. In a much better film this relationship would have been the centre piece of the film and delved into much deeper but it's not in a better film it's in this film and the releationship between the two sisters is barely mentioned or even touched upon until the final act by which time it's to little to freaking late.

This film is a mericifly short hour and a half long but even so the film feels like it's on for a lot freaking longer. If ahything this film should have been well under an hour long hell it should have been at least thrity minuets long at the most but nope they have to drag it out to feature length which means all of the issues that I had with the film are now major issues since if it was thirty minuets long they would have been very minor issues at best.

Now then boys and girls since this is a horror film that does mean that we have to talk about the scares that are in the film. There really aren't that many scares but to this films credit it's focus isn't on trying to scare you it's it's supernaturel angle which even tho it's not really explained either very well or at all it does mean that we do get some pretty creepy imagery take for example the above picture which is honestly the coolest image in the whole film if you ask but I do feel that the film makers could have spent more time on developing it's supernaturel angle instead of leaving it all unexplained but that's just what I think.

Overall incase you cannot tell I really didn't like this film at all for all the reasons that i've listed in this review and then some. However I do feel that this is a case of the director / writer just simply either not knowing that they were doing or just biting of more then they can chew since this was Zu Quirke's first feature film as such alot of the issues that I had with the film can simply be forgiven but this film is still pretty bad and boring in my opinion as such this film gets a 2.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from Google Images and rather shocking I went nowhere else for the images that I used in this review. Since I only went to Google Images for the images that I used in this review I kind of have no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images for images from this film and as always boys and girls we end this review as we always do boys and girls with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very , very unpleasant dreams.

Book Of Bloods 2020 Film Review

 

Horror fans there are so few new horror films that in order to get my new horror film fix I have to watch films that I normally wouldn't watch. The film that i'm reviewing today is one of those since while I do like anthology films there not really something that I look forward to watching however since there are barely any new films let alone horror films coming out I have to watch one and so here is my review of the 2020 film version of "Books Of Blood" enjoy.

Since this is an anthology film there is no one story hell there's not even much of a framing story there's just three random stories all of which aren't connected by any theme. Which is perhaps it's biggest issue since there's nothing connecting these stories and so all three fee disconnected from each other which is a shame because there are some truly good stories in this film with the first story which I believe is called "Miles" being such a good story that it could very easily make a really good and a really creepy feature film.

Starring in the film is Britt Robertson as Jenna , Freda Foh Shen as Ellie , Nicholas Campbell as Sam and Anna Friel as Mary . Also starring in the film is Rafi Gavron as Simon , Yul Vazquez as Bennett , Andy McQueen as Steve , Kenji Fitzgerald as Gavin , Paige Turco as Nicole , Saad Siddiqui as Dan , Glenn Lefchak as Balsam , Brett Rickaby as The Bookman , Matt Bois as Peter , Etienne Kellici as Miles , Cory Lee as Chelsea , Greg Fong as Kun and Sean Skerry as Lasky.

I will fully admit I had slightly high expectations when it came to the acting in this film just because i'm a fan of some of these actors and actresses and I know that they can be really great when they want to be. However this really isn't a good example of how good these actors and actresses can be since none of the scipts for any of the stories give these actors anything to work with and so they can only do so much which in this case results in performances that are at best ok and nothing more.

For some reason they chose to use CGI in the first story and yeah it really does standout by a huge mile because it's so obvious and it just looks fake as hell. I'm not kidding when I say that when I saw the CGI in that first story instead of being scared I laughed because it was that bad it was honestly laughable FuseFX who did the CGI fir the first story and i'm guessing the rest of the film didn't do that good of a job at all in my opinion and whoever gave the ok to these effects needs to be let go because there not good or even passable XGI there just bad flat out bad.

The original idea for this adaptation of the Clive Barker book of the same name was to make it an anthology series. Which given how disconnected these stories are making turning it into an anthology TV series would have worked alot better in my opinion since then you don't have to connect the stories together by anything be it theme or characters you can just jump right into the story but by making it as an anthology film you now do have to find ways to connect all of the stories which as i've said before is something that this film doesn't do at all.

Now I did my research and this is actually the second time that one of these stories has been adapted since the story featuring the Simon and Mary characters was adapted into the 2009 film called Book Of Blood. As far as I can tell this version and the 2009 film version share not alot in common with each other but I cannot say if that's true f9or the book version of the story and any of the two adaptations of the story tho.

As i'm sure alot of you know this is based on the Clive Barker book of the same name and even tho i've not seen any of the films based on his works or read any of his works even I can tell that there's something missing. I can't quite put my finger on it but there's clearly something missing in the writing since Clive Barker is known for creating these truly scary stories and while I will get into the scares soon enough to me this feels like the team behind the film, who i'm sure had great intentions didn't truly understand what Barker was going for when he wrote any of these stories or at least that's my opinion anyways.

What for me is a really bad thing is the fact that the film is nearly two hours long with a running time of an hour and forty seven minuets. This to me makes the film feel very boring since some of the stories aren't that entertaining and by some I mean the second story where there's just nothing that much happening as such if they had to make this as a feature film then it shouldn't have been no longer then an hour and fifteen minuets in my opinion.

Now then boys and girls since this is a horror film that does mean that we have to talk about the scares that are in the film itself. Which depending on the story are either one of the best things about the story or one of the worst things since the scares in the first story work really well where as the scares in the second and third / last story don't work as well which isn't a good thing since you come to a horror film to get scared even more so when your watching a horror anthology and when two of the three stories don't scare you then there's something clearly wrong with those stories and how there being presented in this film.

Overall while this film is indeed pretty creepy in it's first story where it starts to fall apart for me is in the second and third / last story. I've listed reasons as to why this is the case for me in this review but it's a pretty big issue for an anthology film since each story needs to be strong and hold up on it's own and when that's not the case for the majority of the film's stories then you clearly have an issue that needs solving in my opinion as for the overall film it gets a score of a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Wikipedia or the god of all images (that's a joke by the way) Google Images. Since the overall majority of the images that I used in this review came from Google Images I have no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film simply because while the images there aren't always high quality / high definition there's a more of a verity of them but that being said the poser which I got from Wikipedia was shockingly high quality which was something that I wasn't expecting from Wikipedia if i'm being honest since alot of the posters on there aren't high quality at all. As always boys and girls we end this review as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.