Infinity Pool Film Review

 

Horror fans every so often there comes an actress that manages to get the horror fandom so upset when they don;t get nominated for a major award. Well said actress also has a brand new horror film out and just like the film that she should really have been nominated for in the best actress category she nails it in this film as well and so then join me as I review the film that makes the Saw films look really like a Disney film by comparison with the film in question being called simply just "Infinity Pool" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a struggling writer and his wife get meet a couple on vacation they are drawn into a deadly game for the writers very soul. 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 on this very film was in all honesty really good altho the plot does seem like it's treading upon very familiar ground tho in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is The Northman and Godzilla Vs Kong star Alexander Skarsgård as James Foster and X and Pearl star Mia Goth as Gabi Bauer. Also starring in this film is Cleopatra Coleman as Em Foster , Jalil Lespert as Alban Bauer , Captain America: The Winter Soldier star Thomas Kretschmann as Detective Thresh , Amanda Brugel as Jennifer , Caroline Boulton as Bex , John Ralston as Dr. Bob Modan and Jeffrey Ricketts as Charles.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films cast turning in some really good performances altho I will admit that this film is perhaps Mia Goth's weakest performance just because of the fact that this films script gives not only her but also the rest of the cast nothing to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities is.

This film does a really good job of showing someones decent into madness and showing how it only effects them mentally but also physically as well. Which I thought was very interesting as it made the film feel alot more tense and alot more exciting as it's thing that we really haven't seen before since alot of films that deal with somebody going insane have it happen and we don't see the toll that it takes on them but here not only do we see the toll that it takes on people but it's also a key plot point in the film as well.

To me this film gave of very strong Midsommar since not only is it a very slow burn like Midsommar it's plot is also very eerily similar to that of Midsommar as well. Which is a shame because this films whole setup is very original but when you get right down to it this film comes across as a rip off of off Midsommar even down to showing a character going very slowly insane which is a shame because films are truly great films and the only thing that really sets the two films apart is the setting of both films since at their core both films are exactly the same film.

Like I just said this film is a very slow burn with this film taking it's time in telling it's story which is something that works both for and against this film. It works for this film because it allows the film to create tension and to fully develop it's characters however it works against the film because it means that for large portions of the films running time there's nothing actually happening and that does make the film boring which is a shame because when this films plot really does start to get going it is a very entertaining film but this film seems to think that you have to pick one over the other where as that simply isn't true since films like Scream 1996 and X for example both proved that you can create alot of tension and have great characters but still be a really entertaining film.

I said at the start of this review that this film makes the Saw films look like a Disney film and that's not only because of the amount of gore on display but also because of the character of Gabi Bauer. With that character being very insane so much so that she could in all honesty put John Kramer to shame since while he is indeed evil you can at least understand why he's doing what he's doing where as Gabi is just insane for the sake of being insane and is doing these evil things not to right some wrong but just because she can and that's it.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty nine minuets and seven seconds. With this films running time not really helping this film out since it is a really slow burn of a film and it doesn't have not only the story but also the amount of time needed to do that justice and as such when the films plot does indeed get going it feels like it's just rushing plot points instead of reaching them at a more natural pace which would have been helped if the story was expanded upon in the script and if the film had a slightly longer running time.

So now then since this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / resented 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 are in all honesty not that bad. Since this film really doesn't have that many kills but when it does have a kill not only is very brutal and hard hitting but it also means something for the main character as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this is a very good film its also a film that is very boring and to be honest feels like that it's trying to hard to be scary which is a shame because when it;s not trying to hard to be scary it is genuinely scary 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 means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because of the fact Google Images actually has alot of images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always freaking do with our one and true freaking goddess Elvira wishing us all some very freaking unpleasant dreams indeed.

X 2022 Film Review

 

Horror fans I think that it's safe to say that last year was pretty much a great year for horror films in general. Since even tho there was a fair share of bad horror movies released last year this is a case where there was more good ones then bad ones released with the film that i'm about to review being one of the good ones and so then join me as I review the film that took the horror world by storm last year with the film in question being called simply just "X" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a bunch of young film makers decide to make a shall we say adult film at a local farm the cast and crew find themselves in for the fight of their lives. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us on 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 rather refreshing and was the kind of plot that the slasher genre needed as it doesn't fall into the tropes that effect the plot of alot of slasher films in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is modern day horror icon Mia Goth as Maxine "Max" Minx and Pearl and modern day scream queen , Wednesday star and Scream 2022 star Jenna Ortega as Lorraine "Raine" Day . Also starring in this film is Mia Goth as Prom Night 2008 star Brittany Snow as Bobby-Lynne Parker , this films executive producer Scott Mescudi as Jackson Hole , Martin Henderson as Wayne Gilroy , Owen Campbell as R.J. Nichols and Stephen Ure as Howard.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film rather rightfully getting alot of praise for it's performances with the true standout performer in this film being Mia Goth who just simply shines as both Maxine and as Pearl and who has a very bright career ahead of her as an actress. 

As I stated as the start of this review 2022 was a great year for horror with their being more good horror films then bad horror films. Yes there were some bad horror films released last year but there were alot more good horror films released that bad ones with this film being one of the good ones simply because of how refreshing this film since it does take it's time telling it's story and it does have some really good characters in it and when you add in the fact that the script is really good as well then it's not hard to see why this film got as many positive reviews as it got.

This film pretty much made a star out of Mia Goth since she is a good as both Maxine and as Pearl with her being unreasonable as Pearl. What makes her performance standout is the fact that she alters her voice for both characters with Maxine having a more southern accent and Pearl having a more raspy voice and top of that the body language of both characters of both characters of both characters is also altered as well with Maxine being being more laid back alot of the time however Pearl is always curious as to what is going on.

While this film does have an awful lot of positives there are some things in this film that I just straight up didn't like. Take for example alot of the characters even the ones that your meant to root for just come across as being rather unlikable and the fact that alot of the characters aren't really given much in the terms of a personality and so they all come across as being rather one note and very uninteresting which might be par the course for a slasher film but it;s still a big issue since it makes all of the characters just come across as being very one dimensional.   

`You can quite clearly tell that the makers of this film have a clear love for the slasher genre since there are alot of homages to various other slasher films. Heck this film is even written like it's a slasher film from the eighties with there being a lot of nudity and badly written characters which does work both for and against the film since slasher fans do expect badly written characters however however it works against the film because of the fact that the slasher genre has evolved since then and this film doesn't reflect that by having weakly written characters and while homages are great for horror fans I can't really see none horror fans enjoying them as much.

Now then this film has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly on hour and forty six minuets and nineteen seconds. Which is a great time for this film to have but at the same time I do wish that this film was just a little bit longer simply because of the fact that the film spends almost one hour just dripping in tension and that doesn't leave alot of time for this film to tell it's story all that effectively since it means that things have to get sacrificed like giving us good or even well written characters and those are things that could be fixed if this film was even ten minuets longer.

So now then since this is a slasher 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 really good. Part of what makes this films really good is the fact that the film spends alot of time just dripping in tension and so when a kill does happen it really does scare you and when you add in the fact that this films kills were really cool to look at you end up with alot of really effective kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a film that is truly amazing and it;s one that also did start of a franchise with a prequel being released just months later and a sequel currently in development but I will admit that this film does have it's fair share of problems tho 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 means that that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

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

Scream 2022 Film Review

 

Scream fans last year the Scream franchise made a big comeback with a film that nobody knew that they both wanted or needed. While it would have been super easy for me to make this film review a tie in review for the upcoming Scream 6 I thought that since it's been well over a year since the release of Scream 5 that now would be the right time to give it a proper review now that we've all had alot of time to let the film sit with us for awhile and so then join me as I review the film that really did very successfully resurrect a dead franchise with the film in question being called simply just "Scream" enjoy.

The plot of this film is twenty five years after the first Scream movie a new set of killings start happening in the town of Woodsboro and it's up to a new group of friends to find out who this killer is before it's far 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 very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being refreshingly good and being a breath of fresh air for this franchise in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott , David Arquette as Dewey Riley and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers. Also starring in this film is Melissa Barrera as Samantha Carpenter , Wednesday star Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter , Jack Quaid as Richie Kirsch , Dylan Minnette as Wes Hicks , Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Kyle Gallner as Vince Schneider , Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin , Sonia Ben Ammar as Liv McKenzie , Mikey Madison as Amber Freeman , Heather Matarazzo as Martha Meeks , Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis 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 very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting rather rightfully getting alot of praise from both critics and fans alike and it;s really earned since all of this films cast members turn in some really good performances in this very film.

This film is all about subverting expectations since from the opening scene we see scenes and tropes that have been in the previous Scream movies and here they play out differently. Heck even the fact that this film kills of one of the main legacy characters is subverting peoples expectations since we always go into one of these Scream films knowing that Sidney , Gale and Dewey are going to make it out of the film alive and OK and so when Dewey gets killed of in this film it not only subverts your expectations because now it makes you think that if Dewey could die the maybe the other legacy characters can now die as well.

How this film handles it's legacy characters to me proves that this film was made by fans of the Scream franchise. Since all of the legacy characters in this film act like you'd expect there character to act and the same thing even goes for Billy who despite being killed of in the first movie is still just as bone chilling as ever and even tho I don;t really like that in this film he's kind of portrayed as being an anti hero it is still great to see this character back and the CGI on the character does look rather really good as well.

Speaking of Billy Loomis I really don't like that they brought this character back since to me this franchise has been very realistic. As such having Billy Loomis appear in a very supernatural kind of way takes away from that realism which is a shame because he really does get some good scenes but I feel that the film would have been overall better of if that character wasn't included in the finished film just so that little bit of realism could still be maintained and plus you'd then get the mystery of who Sam's real father even was in the first place so it would have been a win win situation.

To me this film relies a little bit two much on nostalgia for the first film which does work both for and against the film. Since it means that we get alot of great scenes between the characters but it also works against in that it means that you have to have to watched the first film in order to order to understand what;s gong on in this film and as such that means that alot of this films feels alot more like homework which is a shame because when thew film does make a reference or a joke about the previous films it usually adds something to the plot of this film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty four minuets and eighteen seconds. Which I will admit is a tad bit on the long side for this film to last even more when you take into account that this film doesn't put that much focus on the actual mystery aspect of the film which is weird because with this added time that is something that the film could have done and still have told a really well done and a really well thought story but for some reason they just don't and as such the film oddly feels a little bit longer then what it actually is.

So now then since this is a slasher 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 really good. With this films kills not only being rather intense and actually scary but this films films are also really cool and are really very gory to look at as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of all of the Scream sequels this one is quite easily better then Scream 3 and is one par with Scream 2 for me that's not a knock against this film it;s just that I love that film so much and so being on par with Scream 2 is for me a good thing 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 sch that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

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

Sick 2022 Film Review

 

For some strange reason Peacock is becoming the home of bad horror movies with They / Them and now the film that i'm about to review for you all today. I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for this film about a week or so ago I was excited to see this movie because it looked fresh different and funny but now that i've seen the movie I have to say that the opposite is true and so then join me as I review the film that is basically a rip off of the first two Scream movies with the film in question being called simply just "Sick" enjoy.

The plot of this film is during the early stages of quarantine two best friends go to a lake house so that they can quarantine together only to get caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse. 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 pretty weak at best with this films plot being so thinly drawn out that at times it's hard to tell what the actual plot of this film actually is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is The Craft: Legacy star and Pacific Rim: The Black star Gideon Adlon as Parker Mason and Bethlehem Million as Miri Woodlow. Also starring in this film is Teen Wolf star and Man Of Steel star Dylan Sprayberry as DJ Cole , Super 8 star and The Kissing Booth franchise star Joel Courtney as Tyler Murphy , Alone star Marc Menchaca as Jason and Twin Peaks star Jane Adams as Pamela.

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 all of this films cast doing their absolutely best to make this films script work well enough for them but the issue is that this films script gives them nothing to work with interms of what their characters personalities are and so the performances can only be OK and nothing more then that since the script won't allow for that.

There are alot of shots in this film in this film especially early on in this film that would have been scarier if they went with a different angle when filming. However with the shots that they chose to go with it makes the film less scary because you can see the killer coming and so there's no impact on the actual scare now because you know that it's coming and when you know that a scare is coming that makes it far less scary and far less effective of a scare and this is something that could have been fixed if you just didn't show us that the killer was present in the scene with us.

To me this film is trying so hard to be like Scream since there are alot of scenes and ideas in this film that were done so much better in that first Scream movie. This really shouldn't come to that much of a surprise since the co-writer and producer of this film is Kevin Williamson who of course created the Scream franchise but even so when your doing something that was done so much better in your most well known horror film then maybe you shouldn't do it in a lesser film like this one because all it does is remind people that they could be watching a much better film.

I will give this film this it is better then They/Them in the fact that this film is at least trying to be good where as that film was just flat out bad. Plus this films satire can be pretty funny at times but at the same time when the satire is only funny half of the time and the other half of the time is filled to the brim with cringe worthy jokes then there's something wrong with your film which is a shame because when this films satire is funny that is more often then not when the film is at it's most entertaining and when it's at it's most enjoyable.

To this films credit it does have some rather likable characters but at the same time it's characters are also very forgettable. This is really doesn't help the film out at all since even tho the whole point might be to make them likable and more like real people you also need to make them memorable for better or for worse i'm always going to remember of They/Them because they were memorable but for all the wrong reasons where as the characters in this film are just straight up forgettable and will be forgotten about by alot of the horror fandom five minuets after they've seen this film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and six seconds. Which is both a plus and a negative for this film since it means that we don't have to spend alot of time watching this pretty bad horror film but at the same time it works against the film because it now means that none of this films characters can be fully fleshed out since the film now has to rush to the next plot point which is a shame because this films characters were fully fleshed out it could have gone a long way in helping this film out in the longer run.

So now then since this is a slasher 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 pretty tame. Even when compared to the kills in other slasher films the kills in this film while they are cool to look at just come across as being lame and kind of tame to look in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this film had all of the potential and all of the pedigree that it needed to be a good solid horror film and yet it just doesn't live up to all of that potential and so all we are left with is a mediocre horror film and nothing more then that 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 means that this very film earns really does itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used 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 IMP Awards . Com , the official Scream fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because of the fact Google Images actually has alot of images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always freaking do with our one and true freaking goddess Elvira wishing us all some very freaking unpleasant dreams indeed.