Saw X Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

 

It's been so long since we last a Saw movie in the traditional sense and even longer since we last had a good Saw movie in the traditional sense of the word. Well now we've just got a new Saw movie that is not only actually pretty good but is also getting alt of praise from the critics as well and well as i'm huge mega Saw fan you all just knew that I had to check this film out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that is the first Saw film to be a prequel with the film in question being called simply just "Saw X " enjoy.

The plot of this film is a desperate John Kramer goes to Mexico to seek some radical treatment for his cancer only to discover his doctors are scammers and so sets about getting his form of deadly revenge. 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 honest personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty with this films plot being really refreshing but for the most part also being pretty predictable as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is franchise star Tobin Bell as John Kramer / Jigsaw and Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young. Also starring in this film is Synnøve Macody Lund as Cecilia Pederson , Steven Brand as Parker Sears , Renata Vaca as Gabriela , Joshua Okamoto as Diego / Dr. Cortez , Octavio Hinojosa as Mateo , Paulette Hernandez as Valentina , Sons Of Anarchy star Michael Beach as Henry Kessler and Jorge Briseño as Carlos.

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 Tobin Bell of course killing it as John Kramer / Jigsaw. How this man can still turn in a bone chilling performance in all of these films and not be bored with the character is beyond me with this film perhaps being his personal best performance as the character with the rest of the cast also turning some really solid performances as well.

It's no surprise that Amanda is back in this film as not only the trailers but also the official X account for Saw spoiled her return. Which is weird as the film treats her return as this shocking moment and yet all you have to do is watch any of the films trailers or go to the official Saw X account and you'll find that her return was already spoiled by the films marketing team which is such a shame as this could have been a really cool reveal as it would have been something that we wouldn't have seen coming and yet because of the fact that it was spoiled ahead of time it now just becomes something that we were waiting to see.

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There is one return that wasn't spoiled in the films marketing and that's the fact that we get to see Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman. With this return taking place during the films post credits scene and that's a return that was genuinely shocking as it's something that we never see coming but given the films timeline this films post credits scene might not necessarily work with the rest of the franchise but it's still cool to see a character from the post John Kramer era make his grand return in this film with the post credits scene possibly setting up future installments.

This films does give us a couple of other firsts for this franchise as this is the first film in the franchise to take place outside of America and it's also the first film to basically be a prequel. Which is something that I hate as it now makes this film feel pointless as we already know that the new characters will all die and we know that John and Amanda will survive thank to them being in the first three movies which means that any and all suspense that this film could have built up is now gone because of the fact that John and Amanda are main characters in the original three films but I will admit that the idea of doing a prequel to Saw 2 is a pretty good idea tho.

We have to talk about the victims in this film as this film did something that while interesting is something that I hated. That being the fact that it made all of the victims really unlikable and it made John and Amanda likable this is something that really should have been the over way around as John and Amanda while they don't for the most part actively kill one are still basically killers with John also being very manipulative where as the victims whilst not always perfect usually have something that makes them likable people and yet flipping that for this film is just something that doesn't work when you take into account all of the other Saw films.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty two minuets and fifty eight seconds. Which was a bit of a long time for this film to last but at the same time you really couldn't cut out anything from this film as alot of the first thirty or so minuets is just spent with John and giving story information that will become important later on in the film but at the same time having a Saw film that's this long makes the film a bit much to sit through and it wouldn't surprise me if people chose not to watch this film because of the fact that it is one off not the longest film in then Saw franchise but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it.

So now then as this is a Saw film that means that I have to talk about the actual traps that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual traps that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this film having some pretty inventive looking traps and while the best trap of the film will always be the trap seen in the films poster that doesn't mean that there aren't alot of a really good and really gory traps in this film as alot of this films traps are just really cool to look at in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this film is a return to form for this franchise altho there are some things in this film that the most die hard of Saw fans like myself just won't like as they don't really add up or make sense for that matter 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 7.5 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 boy 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 Saw fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page simply because Google Images actually has 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 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.

Sleepy Hollow 1999 Film Review

 

Director Tim Burton is known for directing weird and strange films but very rarely does he do a full on horror film. Well in 1999 he directed his first straight up horror film and it's that film that I want to talk about today as it's a film that I don't see that many people talking about which is a shame given who is starring in this film and so then join me as I review the film that is bound to make a alot of fandoms very happy with the film in question being called simply just "Sleepy Hollow" enjoy.

The plot of the film is Police Constable Ichabod Crane is sent to the small town of Sleepy Hollow in order to investigate a series of decapitations and must solve this mystery before his own life is taken away from him. 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 really entertaining and at times very engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane , Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel and Miranda Richardson as Lady Mary Van Tassel. Also starring in this film is Sir Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel , Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt , Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck , Sir Christopher Lee as The Burgomaster , Richard Griffiths as Magistrate Samuel Philipse , Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Thomas Lancaster , Michael Gough as Notary James Hardenbrook , Marc Pickering as Young Masbath , Steven Waddington as Mr. Killian , Lisa Marie as Lady Crane , Ray Park as The Headless Horseman and Christopher Walken as The Headless Horseman.

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. Which really isn't all that surprising as Tim Burton really does know how to get a really good performance out of his cast and when you take into account that this films cast members are a bunch of really good actors and actress then it's not really surprising that this film has a bunch of really good acting in it.

This film is of course based of off the short story "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" by author Washington Irving. With the short story itself being published in 1820 what I find truly shocking is the the original story and this film are radically different which seems odd as the original short story would be right up Tim Burton's alley as in the original short story Ichabod as an easily frightened school headmaster and yet in this film he's made into a very competent police constable which just doesn't work as the Ichabod in the original story is an underdog that you want to route for where as here he's not the underdog of his film.

The Sleepy Hollow story is also somewhat of a romance story which is also true for this film adapted as well. With this films romance not really being all that well handled as both Johnny Deep and Christina Ricci despite them both being fantastic actors just don;t have any kind of chemistry with each other not really helping the fact is the fact that this films romance really isn't well written as the two barely share any scenes alone with each other and so their relationship can't be fully developed and yet the film quite clearly wants us to want them to get together without really giving us a reason to really care about them as a couple.

At times this film feels alot less like a gothic horror film and alot more like an action film with the film having several action set pieces. Which doesn't really line up with the tone of the film as the tone of the film makes it like it's going to be a straight up horror film and yet there's an action packed third act and music that would be better suited to being in an action movie which makes me wonder if the producers of this film wanted an action film take on the story and yet Tim Burton wanted something that's a little bit more gothic and so what we got was a compromised version of both visions of this truly iconic short story. 

As a mystery film this film does fair a little bit as the mystery behind who is doing these killings and why is genuinely quite engaging. However the film offers next to no clues as to who the culprit is an so when it does get revealed and there motive for these killings is explained it really does come out of nowhere as it wasn't something that was built up in the film which is a shame as this is something that could have been fixed just by adding a few scenes with our heroes finding some clues and questioning the people of Sleepy Hollow and yet they barely do either of those two hings which doesn't make sense for Ichabod's character as he works for the police and is presented as someone who is very forward thinking and yet he really doesn't do the most basic of police work in this film in the slightest way possible.

Now the this film has / had an exact grad total running time of exactly one hour and forty five minuets and eighteen seconds. Which is both a bit to short and at the same time a bit to long for this film to last as it has ore then enough plot to cover a larger running time and yet if it was longer it would make all of the issues that I mentioned seem a lot more larger and alot more noticeable then what it already is and while this film can be quite entertaining in places there are times where the film almost drags to a haul and struggles tom pick up steam again not really helping things is the fact that this film has some pretty average pacing to it at best.

So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I inn all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Altho seeing the same kind of kill happen over and over again did start to get a bit boring which isn't really a fault of the film as that's more a fault of the short story as well but it is something that is really noticeable and it does help the film to feel a bit more boring as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this is a good film in alot of respects and the fact that they somehow managed to get this impressive of a cast is a good thing there are just so many more things wrong with the im then there are right with the film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.Now then i've talked about all 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 infact mean that this very film really does 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 the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page simply because the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page actually has images from this film up on the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page 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.

Craving 2023 Film Review

 

There are dozens of horror films released every couple of months and so it's is perfectly understandable that one or two will fall under the radar. With the film that i'm about to review for you all today being one such film as this is a film that until just a couple of short days ago I had no idea was even a thing let alone that it had already been released and so then join me as I review the film that has some really bad sound effects with the film in question being called simply just "Craving" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of people are held hostage they have to find out which one of them is a killer in order to survive. 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 review was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as this films plot wasn't all that good either with this films plot just not being strong enough to support an entire feature length film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Felissa Rose as Les , Al Gomez as Hunter , Holly Rockwell as Gail and Kevin Caliber as Mac. Also starring in this film is Ashley Undercuffler as Frenzy , Xavier Roe as Will , Likun Jing as Lo , Rachel Amanda Bryant as Shiloh , Toya Morman as CeCe , Gregory Blair as Travis , Frankie Guzman as Rudy , Miranda Bourke as Rylee , Scott Alan Ward as Jared Scott , Greg Tally as Red , Zera Lynd as Lori , Robert C. Pullman as Gerry , Kelsie Mathews as Simone , Michael Turner Tucker as Carl , Matt Weinglass as Kent , Kim Estes as Officer Shaw , Thomas Haley as Officer Washington , the films VFX supervisor Brook Hubbs as Frank , Joseph D. Webb as John and Jake Butcher as Paul.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film rightfully deserving all of the praise that it's been getting for it's acting as the acting in this film is really alot better then what it had any right to be which considering that this film cost sixty three thousand American dollars to make it truly is shocking that the acting in this film really is as good as it was.

To me this film is basically a less good version of The Hateful Eight only with that film giving us a wide verity of characters that are actually interesting. Which does mean that this films central idea falls flat on it's face as we are now forced to spend time with a bunch of characters basically in one location that just aren't that interesting or even entertaining for that matter while the opposite was true for The Hateful,Eight where the characters were interesting and really entertaining all of which added to the drama of that film where as here as the characters are just so dull and boring it ultimately ends up taking away from the drama instead of adding to it.

One of the things that this film got alot of hate for was the fact that it has far to many characters and yeah I can see why that would be a huge issue. As alot of the films characters just get lost in the shuffle so much so that when they do appear on screen you have to remind yourself that there a character in this movie and what makes things is the fact that the movie really didn't need to have that many characters in it and infact having less characters in the film would have helped save the film some money if this was a longer film however having more characters wouldn't be a good thing but given that this film isn't a long film the amount of characters that this film has in it really should have been cut down quite by alot.

It takes alot to really take me out of a movie but this film did it just by having some really bad sound effects. I'm not kidding when I say that the sound effects in this film are so bad that they make the sound effects in films made for alot less then movie sound good by comparison I get it that this film had a really small budget and so they most likely could afford to go out and record better sounding sounds but they could have at the very least have put in the effort to find sounds that don't make there production look amateurish which might sound a bit harsh but it's true and it's something that really take me out of the movie.

To this films credit it does have a lot of promise to be a really good horror film even with it's unique setting. However the film just can't live up to that promise because of how bad the characters are with the characters just coming across as being rather one dimensional and cardboard cut outs of other and better characters in other and better movies and when a film has just one major setting it's characters need to make it interesting and that's something that this films characters just can't do as there not written all that well with the only character even showing some promise of being a good and interesting characters being the first character that gets killed of in the movie.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuet and twenty seven seconds. Which is such a long time for this film with this film not really needing to be as long as it is as the films story isn't strong enough to support an entire feature length film but is strong enough t support a short film and that's what this film should have been just a short film with a handful of characters an nothing more then that but because this film is a feature length film we also get alot of padding with flashback scenes that go nowhere but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as there some kills in this 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 for the most part. As due to the films fast editing it was hard to make out what some of the kills were meant to be but the kills that we can actually see look really good with them showing of this films really very impressive practical effects in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this film did have all of the potential to be a really good independent horror film it just doesn't live up to all of that massive potential that it had gong for it 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 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 and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review 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 Image actually has 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 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.

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Film Review

 

In the eighties it wasn't uncommon for a slasher film to get a sequel with those sequel nine times out of ten being really bad. However there is one sequel out there that many people consider to be on par with the original with alot of fans of this franchise even considering this film to be the best sequel in this franchise and so then join me as I review the film that sees two old faces return to take on Freddy once again with the film in question being called simply just "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" enjoy.

The plot of this film is teenager Kristen is admitted into a psychiatric hospital where she , her fellow patients and her doctors have to face of with Freddy Krueger. 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 doing a good job of advancing not only the characters but also the overall story of the films in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this film is Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger , Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson and Craig Wasson as Dr. Neil Gordon. Also starring in this film is Patricia Arquette as Kristen Parker , Ken Sagoes as Roland Kincaid , Rodney Eastman as Joey Crusel , Jennifer Rubin as Taryn White , Bradley Gregg as Phillip Anderson , Ira Heiden as Will Stanton , Larry Fishburne as Max Daniels , Penelope Sudrow as Jennifer Caulfield , John Saxon as Donald Thompson , Priscilla Pointer as Dr. Elizabeth Simms , Clayton Landey as Lorenzo , Brooke Bundy as Elaine Parker , Stacey Alden as Nurse Marcie and Nan Martin as Sister Mary Helena / Amanda Krueger.

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. Which for this franchise isn't all that new as all of the films thus far in the franchise had some really good acting in them but it really does help that this films script is just so good that all the cast have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of all them really very naturally.

This film is a direct sequel to the first film with characters Nancy Thompson and her father Donald Thompson returning for this film. While Nancy is treated really well by the filmmakers it's Donald that I felt got the short end of the stick as the character is basically there just for an extended cameo and nothing more then that heck we don't even get the chance to fully understand why he is  the way that he is now where as we get to see a handful of scenes with Nancy telling us why she is the way that she is in this film with her leaving Springwood making sense but it doesn't make sense as to why Donald is still there tho.

This film does what alot of great sequels should do and that's expand upon the lore of the film and add to the franchises story. In this case we get alot of detail about Freddy's backstory with his mother being the victim of several assaults bu thousands of maniacs which does go along way to somewhat explaining why Freddy s the way that he is and it expands upon the story of the films by explaining that Freddy's power comes from the souls of the children that he's killed and so the more kids that he kills the more powerful that he becomes which makes him more deadly then ever and this is something that the later sequels failed to capitalize on.

The film makes great use of practical effects with all of this films practical effects not only looking good but holding up really well of these years later. With this films best practical effect being the snake that attacks Kristen as we see the snake go from presumably under the floorboards to behind the walls which is just so cool to look at as it makes you wonder how they archived that effect and while the first film does also some truly great looking practical effects as well this film took what they did in the first film and then matched it interms of quality as that's just how good this films practical effects well and truly are.

The films newer characters are somewhat well done I say that as alot of them do come across as being very one dimensional. With the best examples being Max , Phillip and Jennifer with all three characters not really being all that memorable with Max not really being given a personality outside of being the friend to the teenagers and Jennifer and Phillip are killed of to early for their personalities to really fully develop which is a shame as on paper all three of these characters should have worked and yet due to the filmmakers not really fully developing these characters and so outside of Jennifer's and Phillip's death scene there not really being given anything memorable to say or even do which just makes these characters seem rather forgettable , bland and boring and I will admit that alot of the groups dream powers don't really make sense interms of what there respective characters personality is this is despite the dream powers looking really cool tho. 

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life if me remember whatever this film running time even was I do know that for a fact that this film has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this franchise and it;s a running time that works well for this film as this film really doesn't have a whole lot their interms of either plot or story and while I would have liked it if they did stretch this films running time out at the same time they would have been stretching an already thin storyline even thinner but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher 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 really good. With this film having some of the franchises most iconic kills both of which hold up really well due to how creative are and how well built up they are and while this film does some pretty bad kills those are very few and far between with the film having more great kills then it does bad ones in my freaking opinions anyways /at least.

Overall out of all of the many sequels that this franchise this one is quite easily the best one as Freddy is still scary and everything gets advanced in a way that feels natural and organic 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 an 8.5 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 and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Image actually has 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 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.