Bambi: The Reckoning Film Review

When you think of Cinematic Universes you usually think of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and rightfully so as that has been going on for almost twenty years now. However for lovers of horror there is another cinematic universe that is oddly doing quit well for itself with that being The Twisted Childhood Universe as those universe of films started as nothing more then a quick and easy way to make some money with Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey and yet it is still going strong with alot of the films in this universe very slowly but very surely getting better with each passing installment and well they've just released the latest entry into this universe and so then join me as I review the film that features the very first use of CGI in this universe with the film in question being called simply just "Bambi: The Reckoning" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a mother and son have to find a way to survive the forest when they find themselves being hunted down by a deer that's out for revenge for the death of it's own mother. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that' 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 inn this very film was in all honest at best lackluster. Which is something that's to be expected from these types of films but even so there plots are usually pretty decent best and yet here with this film the plot of the film was so weak that it was hard to tell just what the plot of the film was even meant to be at times as the film does make it appear as if it doesn't have one and yet when the film does focus on it's plot it's oddly enough not as fun as a plot like this could have been as by all rights this should have been a really fun plot for a movie that's so bad that it's good and yet for one reason or another it just wasn't as good as it could have been with it feeling like that it was trying to hard to to incorporate the more traditional Bambi elements but without adding anything new to them to make them interesting again and heck it could even be argued that the films subplot is more interesting then this as the Grandma called Mary does technically have a subplot which even then isn't that interesting and could be seen as being quite tasteless for anyone who knows someone that ha the illness that she has and that's really it with the plot of this film not even being really rather entertaining and as well as not even being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Game Of Thrones star Roxanne McKee as Xana , Tom Mulheron as Benji and Nicola Wright as Mary. Also starring in this film is Samira Mighty as Harriet , Alex Cooke as Simon , Russell Geoffrey Banks as Andrew , Joseph Greenwood as Harrison , Catherine Adams as Jo , Ewan Borthwick as Eddie , David Ambler as Rob , Luke Cavendish as Joshua , Adrian Relph as Michael and Big Tobz as Tyler.

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. As let's be real here nobody expects good or even passable acting from these types of films and while the acting is passable for the most part there are a few instances where the acting takes a nose dive interms of quality like for instance the acting from the actor that's playing the taxi driver is horrendously bad that it borderlines on being laughably bad and the acting from Alex Cooke who is trying to turn in a good performance but just feels like he's holding himself back from going on all out which is the kind of performance that a film like this one really does deserve with the best actor in this whole entire film being Roxanne McKee who seems to be the only one who is actually capable of turning in a good performance as while it's understandable that actor Tom Mulheron won't turn in a good performance as he's just a kid afterall none of this films other actors have that excuse outside of the fact that alot of them have barely acted in anything with even actors like Alex Cooke feeling more miscast then being a straight up bad actor with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film

For once I actually can't say who did the CGI for this film as there no effects company listed anywhere either on the films IMDB page or online. Now hen interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as even tho The Twisted Childhood Universe of films have never really used CGI before they do make the best of use of it here with them keeping the character of Bambi mostly in the shadows which does mask any of the imperfections that there might be with the effect on the character and really this is a character that could only be done in CGI as there would be no way to Bambi as a man in a suit like they did with Winnie The Pooh as it would just look to odd and with them going the full CGI route with the character it does show that the makers of these films are indeed willing to try new things and part of that does include adding in computer effects and while the makers of this film don't always do a good job of making it look like that Bambi was there alot of the time as there are times where you can straight up tell that the films actors where just looking at a ball on a stick or just straight up nothing alot of the time the times that they do make it look like that he was actually there on set the effects on the character do look really good for a low budget film as this films effects will of course not look as good as the effects that are in say Superman 2025 or Deadpool & Wolverine for example as those films had huge effects budgets but for a film that had a really small budget and therefor had a really small effects budget as well this films effects look a damn sight better then what they really had any right to be.

To give these films some credit there has been an attempt to get somewhat better with the likes of Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 being a prime example of this. With even the makers of these films being more then willing to listen to what the fans and what they are saying in order to make the next film better then the one that came before here and while Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare did somewhat continue that trend as there was more of an effort to make Peter Pan seem like an actually creepy villain here it felt like it was a case of one step forward two steps back as alot of the good work that they did over the course of Blood And Honey 2 and Neverland Nightmare just wasn't seen here in this film as the film was all mostly shot at night which granted was done to hide alot of the issues with the Bambi effect but it also makes it hard to tell where the characters are even meant to be as well where as with both Neverland Nightmare and Blood And Honey 2 you can tell right away where all of the characters were and therefore if the villain came anywhere near them you knew that someone was getting killed here tho there's nothing like that as all of the locations look the exact same with there being only two examples in the whole film and that's really it and while having the film set at night is great for tension building the film doesn't do that and to be fair it really doesn't need to either as it knows that it's a dumb horror film and isn't afraid to be exactly that but at the same time by having a more varied set of locations that you can very easily tell apart would make it alot more easier for us the audience to tell where the characters are meant to be in relation to one another.

Another thing that the previous two movies did fairly well was give us some decently well done characters. This is again something that this film just doesn't do as to call these characters one dimensional would be an insult to characters that are one dimensional as there really is nothing to any of these characters with alot of them just being there so that Bambi has someone to kill and that's really it as we get to find exactly nothing about any of this films characters be it from the main group of heroes or even the hunters that are hunting Bambi down there's really nothing to any of these characters which feels like an insult to this films actors as now the makers of this film are making an even harder task in acting essentially against nothing as they'd have to add Bambi in later now even harder as the actors themselves will have to struggle to find anything about these characters be it from their personality or what makes them likable in the first place as the only thing that makes the Xana a somewhat likable character is the fact that she actually likes and wants to spend time with her son where as his father Simon doesn't and that's it and while that is a nice thing to have and it is something that does go along way into making the character likable she she also drags her sons Uncle several miles via a caravan which is being driven by her son at high speed to get away from Bambi and when she sees her sons uncles body she shows no signs of remorse of basically sending someone to their death which is something that makes her unlikable and the Grandma Mary she gets it worst of all as all throughout the film we told and shows that sh has dementia only for her to start recovering from it by the end of the movie this is something that just wouldn't happen as once you get dementia that's it your not going to recover from it as it's going to kill you in the end and this is something that people who know someone who has had dementia can attest to.

The film does try to have to the story for Xana and Benji tie into the story of Bambi and his mother with Xana in this case acting out the role of Bambi's mother. This was a great idea as we get to see all throughout the film just how far she is willing to go in order to protect her son even if it's something as basic as not telling him that his dad who he loves dearly won't be coming with them to see his family to protecting him at several times against Bambi himself with this echoing the fact that Bambi's mother does at times when she was alive went to great lengths to protect him with the film even going out of it's way to make sure that we know that the hunters are the films true villains as while Bambi is of course the one killing people he's only doing it because of the fact that the humans took his fawn and he's trying to get the kid back something that any loving parent would of course try to do with Benji's dad Simon in this case filling in the role of the hunter as he wants nothing to do with his son with him even begging his wife at one point to take him and never see him again as all he wants to do is cause havoc and destruction in the forest lives with all of the other hunters Simon including showing such a distain for all of the other animals that live there including Thumper and while it's Benji that ultimately stops Bambi's killing spree by giving the deer the only thing in the world that he wanted it doesn't mean that the Bambi character in this one is a straight up good guy as while yes his intentions are indeed noble it's how he goes about them that makes him the villain as even tho he is an animal and therefor wouldn't be able to go about getting his kid back any other way he still didn't need to kill as many people as he did to get what he wanted as just killing the hunters would have been more then enough to justify him getting his kid back from them.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour hour and fifteen minuets and twenty one seconds. Which does make this film one of if not the shortest film in the The Twisted Childhood Universe series of films with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time but in saying that tho this is a film that really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as it doesn't develop it's plot well enough to the point where it feels like a strong enough plot to support an entire movie and as such it does at times feel like that the characters are just on repeat as they go from one location to the next meeting a bunch of people before a Bambi attack rinse and repeat and while this films plot did have all of the potential in the world to be a really good plot for this film it just needed alot more time devoted to it and to developing it to the point where it does feel like a strong plot and to the point where it doesn't feel like that the characters are stuck on repeat mode all of the time with this even effecting the films characters as all of them could have used alot of development in this film as none of them have anything that's even close to being a fully formed personality with the only thing really that makes alot of them standout is if they hate animals or not with the character of Harrison for example having a deep hatred for what is possibly his Grandma even down to the point where he's borderline abusive to her with his death being the only one that's actually satisfying as his character was just so annoying and wasn't really developed much apart from his deep hatred of his Grandma but i really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now the as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film as in all honesty pretty decent at best. As while there are alot of really good kills in this film alot of them either go on for far two long or aren't long enough for use the audience to really fully enjoy them with the best example of this film being the fact that when Harriet gets killed by Bambi he stabs her with his antlers and rips her body in half which would be more then enough to kill anyone but then the film cuts back to being just about alive later on in the film where she she then gets killed by one of the hunters forcing his knife into her throat which just ruins what was a perfectly awsome kill in it's own right all of the sake of padding out the running time and making sure that we know that the hunters are the actual villains of the film with an example of quick kill in this film being Simon's death as he's mauled to death by several rabbits only we don't get to see all that much of it as the film does lots of quick cuts and then it's all over and so we don't get to enjoy the death of a character that we really didn't like all that much in the first place sometimes going slower on your kills is better as us the audience want to fully enjoy the kill and we can't do that if the death is being cut to so fast that we can't tell what's going on until it's actually happened and while the film does have alot of really impressive gore effects due to the fact that the films is entirely set at night we don't get to see them all that much with the films best kill being the death of Harriett just due to how cool it is in the first place with the makers of this film really making the best use possible of the fact that it's main killer is a deer in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while it's hard to say if this film is the worst film in The Twisted Childhood Universe it's also quite clearly not the best entry either as it does takes several steps back from what the previous two films did so well but in saying that this there is still alot more effort in this film then there was in films like Popeye's Revenge for example as here you really can tell that the makers of the film are still trying to make a good film 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 un this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does ern itself a grand old score of exactly a 4 out of 10 from me.

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

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Film Review

These next few years promises to be a very big year for the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise as each of the films celebrates a big birthday. While this year it's the turn of A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge it's the film that came out after it that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as it's genuinely the best Nightmare sequel that the franchise has in it's original timeline as Wes Craven's New Nightmare doesn't take place in the world of the films and so then join me as I review the film that introduced the world to the band Dokken with the film in question being called simply just "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a group of young teens in a psychiatric hospital are all being stalked by the same man in there dreams and when one of his previous survivors comes to work at the hospital it's up to the teens to defeat him once and for all. 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 pretty much just ignoring the whole of the second film as Jesse and Lisa don't get mentioned at all in this movie with the films plot instead returning to the somewhat more grounded route of the first film which is something that does work for this film as it allows for this films plot to be more of a direct continuation of the first films plot and while granted this films plot isn't as good as the plot of the original film it is something that does have the same tone of that film and is easily better then the plots of any of the rest of the Nightmare sequels barring Freddy's Revenge with the film moving on the story of the franchise in a way that feels natural to this films plot like having all of the kids in the hospital be the kids of some of the parents that killed Freddy that is a great idea and while the film can't really explore that idea to it's fullest as outside of Kristen we don't really get to see any of the kids parents or home lives it is something that does add to the plot of the film as it shows us the audience that the people who made this film really do care about the franchise and aren't just willing to give it any old plot in favor of making some easy money with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson , Craig Wasson as Dr. Neil Gordon and Patricia Arquette as Kristen Parker. Also starring in this film is 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 , Nan Martin as Sister Mary Helena / Amanda Krueger , Stacey Alden as Nurse Marcie , Dick Cavett as Himself , Zsa Zsa Gabor as Herself and Robert Englund as Freddy 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. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this film as while all of the returning actors in this film are just as good as they were in the other Nightmare movies it's the films newer actors where the acting begins to shine with it being painfully obvious right from there first scenes that both Patricia Arquette and Larry Fishburne are not only a pair of really good actors who are still acting to this very day but have what it takes to become major names in hollywood something that they both did achieve with even the films more lesser known actors turning in some really good performances with Ira Heiden being really good as the typical nerdy character that he seemed to always play and both Penelope Sudrow and Jennifer Rubin being really good as well with the films best actors in this film being Rodney Eastman , Heather Langenkamp and of course Robert Englund as even tho the character of Joey gets next to no lines all throughout the film you still know what this character is saying and feeling thanks to Rodney Eastman's acting and both Heather and Robert of course know there characters so well thanks to both of them reprising their truly iconic roles as such they know what kind of performance would work for there characters and deliver some truly fitting performances in this film and while John Saxon is great in this film he just doesn't compare to Rodney , Heather and Robert when it comes to acting in this film with the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

While Heather Langenkamp would of course go on to appear in Wes Craven's New Nightmare this is the final film to feature the character of Nancy Thompson. With the character getting killed of at the end of the film by Freddy Krueger himself which is oddly enough a great way for the character to go as it does now mean that any one of the new characters from this point moving forward can now die with this being helped by the fact that her death is something that you don't really see coming due to how well edited that final third act is as it doesn't make it clear if Neil and Don succeeded in their goal of burying Freddy's remains and therefor when we see Don appear in the dream world whilst it is now a big red flag it does also make us the audience feel the exact same way that Nancy herself feels and because of that we do lower down our guard because for all we know he could be the real deal and the two of them could have succeeded in their goal and therefor when it turns out to be Freddy and he kills Nancy it does feel like a truly shocking ending to her story and while horror films do typically kill off returning characters in the sequel so that they can make way for the newer characters here it was something that catches you off guard due to the fact that both Freddy and Nancy are each other mortal enemies and with Nancy basically being a legacy character seeing her die is something that does work as even tho it comes to late in the film for it to have any impact on the film itself it still does have an impact on the franchise as a whole as now any character including can now die as Nancy herself was meant to be the ultimate good guy character.

This is a film that really does push what they could do effects wise back in the late eighties with such a small budget. As they mix up all kinds of various effects techniques from using stop motion animation to what might be some very early either blue or green screen to however they did the melting bike with all of them looking really good and heck even the makeup effects look really good as well with Freddy looking just as good as he did in the second film with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film really did want to up the dream sequences from the previous two movies and what better way to do that then to show off all of these new effects and do them in a way where they still hold up all of these later as by all accounts the shot of Freddy standing tall above the hospital should look really dated and yet it's because of the fact that it was in such a cheap way that oddly enough adds charm to the effect and while stop motion animation will always look good seeing things like Freddy slicing a message into Joey in the real world or even a puppet Freddy coming to life will always so cool not because they were new but rather because of the fact that they added something to the overall plot of the film be it showing Freddy basically coming back to life in this film or in the case of the message scene just outright taunting our heroes and letting them no where they can find his soul if they want to come and find and rescue Joey and while granted this films effects won't look good when compared to the actually good MCU movies but for the time that they were made in the films effects do hold up really well with the same thing even being true for the make up effects with Freddy himself now sporting burn marks all over his body instead of just his face like he was in the first film.

There was one thing that came to mind when watching this film for the purposes of this review and that's the fact that all of the adults in this franchise really do treat there kids horribly when it comes to them being having these actually deadly nightmares. As Marge in the first film just gets as drunk as a skunk and puts bars all over the house so that Nancy can't escape Freddy in the dreamworld while Jesse's parents do at the very least try to believe him but because of the fact that they also have another kind to think about as well they really can't believe him fully less it also frighten her as well and Kirsten's mom will literally take her to see a doctor just to get her out of her hair all the while she's trying to sleep with anything with a pulse with her even refusing to comfort her daughter at the start of the movie when Kirsten outwardly says that she's still having these nightmares again and yet she puts herself first for no good reason which does make this franchise come across as being more like the parents paying for there sins then Freddy getting revenge on the parents as this is something that is present all throughout the films as in The Dream Master and to a much more lesser extent The Dream Child Alice and Rick's father is drinking himself into an early grave and outright hurls abuse at Alice at every chance that he gets , Lori's dad is trying to give her drugs which OK isn't a bad thing as there designed to help her but it's how he goes about it that's off and while there are no parents to the kids in Freddy's Dead the townsfolk act just as weird as all of the other adults in this franchise and while what all of the adults do in this film and in the other films does come from a place of love it's also something that we see have a very negative effect on their kids as there actions leads to them being attacked more by Krueger which leads to a good chunk of them dying.

This film does have a few negative things going against it like the fact that alot of the teens aren't that well developed as characters with alot of them just being there so that Freddy can have some victims and really nothing more then that. With the other thing being the fact that the character of Dr. Elizabeth Simms is a pretty pointless character as she's there to basically serve as a secondary villain to the characters only we never see them get any form of revenge on her and alot of what she says and does in the movie whilst yes it could be seen as her actively not helping her patients but it could also be seen as coming from a place of her just not understanding the situation as well with her not even having that big of a role in the films third act as the last tine we really see her character is her firing Neil and Nancy and that's it as she puts Kirsten in the "quiet room" off screen and she never shows up again in the film which makes you wonder why the makers of this film bothered to include her character in the film at all as you very easily could have had be apart of the Amanda Krueger subplot and it would work just as well but for whatever reason the makers of this film chose to have her in a role that makes her the secondary villain to our bunch of heroes and then for whatever reason they don't show the characters getting even the smallest amount of revenge on her which does make her seem like a pointless character and one that actively takes away from screen time that could have been spent in developing characters like Jennifer , Taryn or even Phillip all of whom don't really get that much of a chance to show us what there personality is in the first place.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty six minuets and thirty one seconds. Which to be fair to this film is a perfectly solid amount of running time for this film to have as this film really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as neither it's main plot of the Amanda Kreger subplot are that well developed as both of them feel like that there fighting each other for screen time and while of course the main plot of this film will always win nine time out of ten it still does mean that the we get two plots that aren't as well developed as they really could have been as you very easily could have had the Amanda Krueger subplot be apart of the main plot for the next film as here it just feels like padding when this film really didn't need it's running time padded out as the main plot is still strong enough to carry the entire film on it's own but because of the fact that the makers of this film felt like that this film needed padding we are stuck with a pointless subplot that does nothing but prevent the films main plot from the getting the development that it really did need with even the films main characters not really getting that much development of course characters like Don , Nancy and Freddy aren't really effected by this due to them being in the other Nightmare movies but this is something that still effect the films newer characters as alot of them do come across as being quite bland and one dimensional with Will being the typical nerdy character and Kinkaid being the typical character who always thinks with his muscles and not his brains and that's it while characters like Joey and even Kirsten to some extent do have more going on for them and get some character development the rest of them including Neil and Max sadly really don't get any of that love and attention but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that re actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With alot of this films kills being not only truly iconic kills in their right but are some of the best kills in the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise not because all of them are really gory as oddly enough not all of them are but it's due to how creative and how shocking alot of this films kills are and with Freddy still being the scary Freddy that alot of people still love to this very day and not the MTV loving , more jokey and pop culture loving Freddy that he would become in the later films which is something that does make the kills all the more frightening then what they had any right to be despite the fact that alot of this films kills feature next to gore in them with the films best kill of course going to the death of Jennifer as it's such an iconic kill that to say that any other kill in this film is the best kill would be a huge let down as Jennifer's kill not only featured a unique weapon being used in this case as TV set but it also has a darkly funny joke in it with the kill itself really being something that does come out of nowhere with the build to it being nice and slow so us the audience are now left wondering just how she's going to die with her kill making it painfully clear that the makers of this film put alot of thought and effort into giving us some really creative kills alot of which we really hadn't seen before in any other horror film and it's something that really does shine throughout in the final film as we get alot of the franchises best kills because of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not hard to see why this film is as beloved by the fans of this franchise as it is as it's still a really good film in it's own and while the franchise would start to very slowly go down hill after this film it doesn't change the fact that this film was and still is the best Nightmare sequel out there 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 ser in this very film in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out 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 A Nightmare On Elm Street fandom wiki page , Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Tales From The Crypt: Only Sin Deep Review

When people typically think of comic book shows they more then likely think of action shows like The Flash or Agents Of Shield for example. Yet what alot of them don't know is that here was a comic book show in the late eighties that wasn't based of anything Marvel or DC and infact it wasn't an action show at all it was a horror show and after some time putting of doing a review from one of this shows episodes I thought that now was the right time to sit down and check out an episode of this show and so then join me as I review the episode that proves that Marty Mcfly's mum will still be beautiful in her later years with the episode in question being called simply just "Only Sin Deep" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a young beauty dreams of live away from the streets she discovers somethings are more valuable then money and fame. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. As it's not really a plot that you see played out at all which does in turn make the plot of this episode feel alot more unpredictable as you don't really know where the episode is going to be going with it's plot but at the same time tho this episodes plot isn't really that well developed with it being hard to tell what the main plot of the episode even is alot of the time as the episode doesn't really give it's central plot alot of attention but when it does that's when the episode gets to be alot more interesting as it's only the kind of story that could work in a horror themed comic book show as it's to out there for a normal horror show and to scary for a comic book show but when you combine the two together that's when you get the perfect home for a plot like this one to exist and heck this episodes plot is so good that it could even be argued that the film The Substance borrowed it's plot from this episode as the two of them do share a very similar plot line with the only difference being one of them was made for theaters and therefor could be more scary with it's plot and ideas and one was made for TV and really couldn't do as much as it could have done given it's very limited budget with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Lea Thompson as Sylvia Vane , Britt Leach as The Pawnbroker and Brett Cullen as Ronnie Price. Also starring in this episode is Pamella D'Pella as Raven , G. Smokey Campbell as Smitty , Burke Byrnes as Cop , Matthew Faison as A Doctor , Pamela Gordon as The Old Crone , Pamela West as The Date , Barry Thompson as The Doorman and John Kassir as The voice of The Crypt Keeper.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of this episodes shockingly turning in some really good performances in this episode which is shocking because of the fact that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really unknown actors with really the only big name in this whole entire episode being Lea Thompson and even then she's not that big of a name and as such it would have been foolish to expect good performances from this episodes actors and yet that's exactly what they give us with alot of this episodes actors turning in some really good performances in this episode and while it would have been super easy to say that John Kassir is the best actor in this whole episode as he does appear in all of the episodes plus all but one of the movies from this franchise the episodes best actor quite clearly has to be Lea Thompson as this episodes proves that even when she's not in any of the Back To The Future movies she was and still is a good actor in her own right and one that really could have made it big if she really wanted to with this episode being proof of that as even tho we are so used to seeing her in more comedic roles here she has to play everything straight and may god does she do it well with her performance being a really solid performance in this episode with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that al this episodes have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which s something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

The key theme to this episode is one that not only still holds up to this very day but also one that kids today could stand to learn as the key theme of this episode is as the title says that beauty if only skin deep. Something which we see all throughout the episode as the character of Sylvia is always looking at herself in the mirror and is always putting on make up to make herself look all the more beautiful then what she already is and when her beauty from her perspective starts to fade she views herself as being ugly and old this is something that due to the invention of social media kids today are going through as there being told time and again by various social media influencers that there not good looking enough unless they have there recent products and merch so much so that kids today are starting to view themselves as being ugly with this episodes key theme being something that they could stand to learn as much like Sylvia herself learns the hard way beauty is only skin deep and while that's a very cliche thing to say it's also true and that's something that is done really well in this episode and it's done well because of the fact that it's subtle thing and it's something that Sylvia herself doesn't learn as she is lost without her beauty as she saw that as her way to top and a way to get rich and famous something which due to advent of reality TV shows alot of people not just kids but people in general are trying to do as that's a very easy way to get famous but unless you have the skills to back it up fame and fortune does sadly alot of the time come at high a cost and while this episodes theme could have been handled a little bit better there's no denying the fact that's a theme that is just a relevant today as it was back when this episode first aired in 1989.

For those of you who are unaware this show is based off the comic book of the same name Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein with the series adapting stories from other EC Comics comic books like The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories , Shock SuspenStories and Two-Fisted Tales. With this episode in particular being adapted from issue twenty four of The Haunt Of Fear which featured artwork by story artist Jack Kamen while it is hard to say if the book is the better version of the story or if this episode is the better version of the story the fact that a show was more then willing to adapt alot of stories just for one show does say that the makers of this show did care about the stories that they were adapting and while this episode had to get rid of one character from the comic that this story is based on that being The Vault Keeper it's of no lose to the story as he basically fills in the exact same role as The Crypt Keeper does in this show with this show really showing us that there are alot of comic book adaptions out there that do cover alot of different genres of film ranging from light hearted comedies to horror and while this show is a horror show it is a show that as far as I can tell did adapt it's stories mostly faithfully even down to having each episode create a comic book exclusive cover done i the style of how they were done in the original comics and whilst it is hard to say if this episode is faithful to the original story what can be said is that this episode does a good job of making you want to read the original story which in turn might make you want to check out other comic books from EC Comics as well.

If there's a few places where this episode is lacking then surely one of them has to be that you can tell that this has the budget of a TV show. As even tho the show has this all star dream of producers all of whom we're able to get some fairly big names both attached to star in the episodes and direct them the look of the main portion of this episode does look cheap which is of course of no fault of the episode as the people who made this episode could only do the best with what little that they had but it's clear as day that they spent alot more money on The Crypt Keeper puppet and in making sure that that looked good and not the rest of the episode which is fair enough as the puppet is going to be the main start of the show in the first place so it does make sense to make sure that that character looks the best that he could have dine but at the same time tho there still should have been some effort into making the rest of the episode look as good as both the opening and closing scenes of the episode do as the episode goes from looking like something that should be on the big screen to looking like something that feels right at home in a TV show and when you have producers like Richard Donner , Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver all of whom are known for making these big budgeted movies and having these greats actors in them it feels weird seeing them work on a show where the episodes don't look as good as they could have been and while this could be a budget thing as they would have had to stretch this shows budget out over in this case six episodes it is still something that makes this episode look cheap and while yes granted tho you don't really need that big of a budget in order to tell the story of this episode there still could have been some effort into making the episode look like a feature film and not like that it belongs in an episode of a TV show.

The other thing that does let this episode down a little bit is the fact that Sylvia is revealed to be a pretty horrid person far to early. With this being something that would have helped the episode out quite bit if it was revealed slowly over the course of the episode and yet within the first five minuets of meeting the character we see her shoot and kill a random pimp for his jewelry whereas if we had no idea where she got it from in the first place but then over the cause of the episode saw her go more and more insane as her once famous beauty started to fade it would then be all the more shocking when she does kill her rich boyfriend Ronnie as we would have gotten the chance to like her as a character and yet because of the fact that the makers of this show chose to show her willingly kill someone near the start of the episode and then continue act in brattish type of manor it now means that we the audience aren't all that surprised when she does kill someone that she supposedly loves as it's something that we've seen her do before and while yes her reasons for doing so have indeed changed as before she was doing because she wanted to get something done and now she's doing it out of a need to pay someone back the money that she owes them it still doesn't change the fact that this is something that should have been handled differently as now we the audience aren't all that surprised when she does commit these crimes which yes might be the point of the episode but it's also not a good way to tell a story as you still want your audience to feel sorry for the main character and yet that can't happen because of the fact that we've seen her kill two people.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty seven minuets and eighteen seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the exact bogstandard running time of this shoe to begin with with the episode even having more then plot there to really cover that amount of running time as well but in saying that this episode also doesn't use it's running time all that wisely either as the plot of the episode really doesn't feel like it' being developed all that well with this mainly due to the fact that outside of the main episode the episode also has to fit in two segments with The Crypt Keeper with one at the start of the episode and the other at the end of the episode but because of that the episodes plot and themes do feel a little weightless as we don't get to see Sylvia struggle for very long with the fact that she's loosing the one thing that she thinks is most important to her which is her looks as that is something that could have been an interesting thing to include in the episodes plot with the episode not even giving it's characters alot of development with Sylvia's friend Raven just straight up disappearing from the episode so when she appears at the end and now doesn't recognize Sylvia due to the events of this episode you straight up forget that the character even existed in the first place and while the character of Sylvia is a fairly well done she does come across as being fairly one note all of the time which fair enough might be the point of the character but it also doesn't make that interesting of a character and Ronnie and The Pawnshop Owner might as well not even be characters as there's nothing to there characters at al with the only interesting thing about The Pawnshop Owner being the fact that he's doing something with the beauty that he takes rom girls and that's really it but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror episode that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I i all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. As even tho this episode has nothing all that scary about it and even the episode only has two kills which are at best OK as there just two people getting shot in the chest what makes this episode scary is it's central idea with that being the best piece of horror in the episode as the very idea of someone who is willing to go to these extreme lengths to not only become rich and famous in the first place but then also go to extremer lengths to keep her now fading beauty in the first place is something that does make this episode creepy as while there's nothing about outright scary about that idea it is a creepy enough idea that it does make the episode all the more scary because and heck the idea itself is so scary that it was outright copied in The Substance as both this episode and that film deal with someone who is trying to keep there beauty alive and well the only difference being that that film has alot more gore in it where as this episode has to rely on the idea itself being strong enough and creepy enough to keep us the audience not only invested but also scared and that's something that this episode does really well as the idea really is a creepy idea in it's own that we the audience have no other choice but to be invested as we really want to see just how it all ends for this character which is something that this episode really does get right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you like actor Lea Thompson then this is an episode that's worth watching as she really is good in this episode but at the same time tho this is episode isn't that good of an episode despite it being a great way to get people into watching this show as it's not got alot of horror elements in it and therefor it's more then likely to get more people watching it and that will hopefully get them into horror as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all o 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 Tales From The Crypt fandom wiki page , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this episode being the official Tales From The Crypt fandom wiki page simply because the official Tales From The Crypt fandom wiki page actually has images from this episode really are up and on the official tales From The Crypt fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Tales From The Crypt 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.

I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Legacy sequels or requels are now vastly becoming more and more popular in the world of horror as while it could be argued that Halloween 2018 started this trend it's actually something that started either in the eighties or the early nineties with films from the A Nightmare On Elm Street series. However it wasn't until Halloween 2018 or even Scream 2022 that they started to become more and more popular with the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being the latest to get the legacy sequel treatment which is fitting as the original film is basically a clone of the first Scream film and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that ignores the third film in this series with the film in question being called simply just "I Know What You Did Last Summer" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one year after they accidentally cause a car to fall off of a cliff a group of friends find themselves being stalked by someone who knows there dirty little secret. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that'd 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 as it is just the typical plot that you'd expect from this series with there not really being anything new added to it and while that appease people who perhaps haven't seen the original film those that did see it and love it will find the plot of this film to be repetitive like it's hitting all of the same notes of the first film and while appealing to newer fans is great as this is a franchise that isn't that well known in the first place the makers of this film had to know that alot of the people who are going to see this film are the people that have seen the original film hundreds of times and therefor throwing in something new to the plot will keep them invested and also have them wondering what's going to happen next where as the people that didn't see the original film will like this films plot as is and while the plot of this film isn't that well drawn out to the films credit it doesn't really need to be as it just needs to give you the basic premise and that's really it and that's all we get from this film from a plot perspective with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Madelyn Cline as Danica Richards , Chase Sui Wonders as Ava Brucks and Jonah Hauer-King as Milo Griffin. Also starring in this film is Tyriq Withers as Teddy Spencer , Sarah Pidgeon as Stevie Ward , Billy Campbell as Grant Spencer , Gabbriette Bechtel as Tyler Trevino , Scooby-Doo and Star Wars Rebels star Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James.

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. As alot of this films actors do indeed turn in some really good performances in this film which is both shocking and yet at the same time not all that surprising as apart from the two returning actors the biggest named star in this movie is Jonah Hauer-King and even then he's not that big of a named star as his only real big role with as The Prince in Disney live action remake of The Little Mermaid with the rest of this films actors being at best very little known actors and therefor it would have been completely foolish to expect some really good performances from any of this films more lesser known actors and yet that's exactly what we get from them as they all manage to turn in some passable performances that are alot more better then what you'd expect them to be with the best two actors in this whole entire film being both Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson with them both managing to slip right back into character almost as if they just got through playing them the first time around with it being clear as day that both actors even have some really great chemistry together that makes it easier to buy them as life long best friends as well with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the CGI for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Spin VFX , Stage 23 and Foy. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as for a horror fil this film does have some pretty impressive looking CGI in it with one of which being a huge spoiler and the other really note worthy effect being the fact that we see over the cliff near the start of the film which is something that the makers of the film pretty much would have to have done as your not going to have alot of your main actors near something where they could fall down and die for real and therefor doing it as an effect was pretty much the only way that you could do it and while the spoiler effect is a good idea it's also one that was done alot more better in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl as without going into spoilers about the effect itself is it is one that does look a little bit cartoonish for the more grounded and realistic tone that this film was quite clearly going with the film even having some CGI blood in it which never looks good in any film and it doesn't look good but those two bad effects don't bring down the overall quality of the films effects as while yes granted alot of this films CGI could have looked alot more better then what it already does given the fact that this film had a modest budget of eighteen million American dollars this film wouldn't have had a huge effects budget and therefor this films effects where never going to look that great in the first place.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you thought that Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt where the only two actors from previous films to reprise their roles then you'd be mistaken as we also get Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers and Brandy Norwood as Karla Wilson. With Brady appearing in this films post credits scene and Sarah Michella Gellar appearing in a dream sequence near the end of the film to be frank whilst it was nice seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar and Brandy pop up in this film there appearances really didn't add anything to the film as Brandy's scenes is basically there to tease a sequel and Sarah's scene is just there for the sake of being there with her scene feeling like the makers of this film where trying to copy why Scream 2022 and Scream VI did with Skeet Ulrich's scenes only they don't go all the way as in those Scream movies they at least make the main character of that movie be related to him thus giving them a familial connection where as here Helen just appears in this one dream scene to this random girl and does nothing in it as she doesn't give her any kind of advice on how to defeat this killer or anything she just appears says a few random things and then turns into a skeleton at the end of it and that's it which does feel like a waste of the character and of the actress who most likely only agreed to the role because her husband is also coming back in it as well as you could cut her cameo out from the film and you'd miss nothing that's actually important to the plot of the film where as with the Brandy cameo it at least happens after the movie is finished and is just meant to be something fun and that's really it and that's all both of these cameos should have been a fun tip of the hat to the past whilst also guiding the franchise forward for new audiences and older audiences alike as well.

Look to be frank this film does something that is going to make alot of long time fans of this franchise pretty angry and that's the fact that they make Ray someone who was the good guy in the first two movies one of the killers in this movie. As yes this film has two killers with the films other killer being new character Stevie Ward with her motive being that the person that the group accidentally killed at the start of the film being someone who was a friend of hers in rehab and since in her eyes they took everything away from her she wanted to get revenge on them by killing them all and with Ray his motive is that the town is moving on from the events of the first film and he feels that that shouldn't do that with only Stevie's motives being the only one that makes sense as she was out for revenge for loosing someone that she cared about and was even willing to let Ava live as she originally wanted to go to the police with it being made clear as day that this film is nothing more then a Scream 2022 clone which makes sense as this whole franchise is nothing more then a Scream clone but even so Scream 2022 at least did something that's actually shocking with the Dewey character by having him be killed off by ne of the films killers as having a legacy character who has survive not one but two attacks by this killer then turn out to be one of the killers in this film only screams that the makers of this film didn't care about the franchise and this is coming from someone who isn't a fan of this franchise and has only bits and pieces if all three films and nothing of the TV show yet it should be pretty obvious that you treat your legacy characters with respect as those are the characters that people are coming to see and not the newer characters and by having one of them turn out to be the killer not only doesn't make sense for that character but it's also something that could quite possibly make alot of the fans of the franchise angry indeed.

While the characters of Ray and Julie do feel like there old selves the same thing cannot be said for alot of this films more newer characters. With alot of them being just very bland and one note characters with almost all of them having next to nothing inters of a personality with the only two characters that are somewhat memorable are Stevie and Ava and that's really it and while it is understandable that you want to make both the villain and heroine of the film memorable characters you also have to make the supporting characters memorable as well as that makes the main characters all the more better because of it and yet it's something that the makers of this film don't do as there more banking on this film being hit due to it's name rather then actually being that good of a film yet if the makers of this film bothered to make characters like Danica or Milo memorable characters then it would make the film come across as being all the more better because of it as even with both Stevie and Ava there's nothing that's all that memorable about this films characters out side of the fact that one of them as one of the villains and the other is one of the films final girls and that's really it and while yes slasher film don't typically give alot of there characters anything memorable that was only a trope in the eighties and when we got to the nineties alot of slasher films did make an effort to make there supporting characters just as memorable as the main characters with the best of example of this again being the original Scream where main character Sidney Prescott had a memorable group of friends where they were all memorable characters even tho two of them turned out to be the main villains of that film and it's something that makes you wonder why the makers of this film didn't bother to make the newer characters memorable as even tho they already have a plan for the sequel they absolutely need to create memorable characters that really can carry the franchise forward should Jennifer Love Hewitt decide not to come back for another sequel.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty two minuets and forty eight seconds. Which to be fair is a perfectly solid running time for a film to have with this film even having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time however with all of that said tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as while the plot is as strong as it's ever going to be given it's set up and premise it's not one that's that well developed as the plot especially in the beginning does feel like that it's fast forward alot of the time with us the audience not really getting the chance to get to know these characters before they accidentally kill someone and then it just feels like things are happening for random reasons rather then the plot demanding that they happen like for example there's no need for them to go and seek out Julie and Ray in this movie and yet because the plot needs those characters in the story that's exactly what happens even tho the events of the film would play out the exact same way if those characters didn't appear in the film with this even effecting the films characters as all of this films characters including it's returning characters aren't that well developed as the makers of this film quite clearly didn't put alot of time and focus into making sure that they got the development that they needed due to the fact that the plot of the film for that those opening few minuets is moving so fast that we don't get alot of time to get to know the new characters and then after that there's no scenes where the characters just sit and talk and therefor they don't get the chance to be that well developed as characters and while with the returning characters you obviously have the first movies for there development so you don't really need to develop hem as characters all that much the same thing cannot be said for the films new characters but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films kills being the most entertaining aspect of the film even tho there is quite alot of CGI blood featured all throughout this film most notably in the scene where Sarah Michelle Gellars character appears it doesn't stop the fact that alot of this films kills as simple as they are are also the most entertaining aspect of the film with it being hard to say what the best kill of the film even is as all of them are really simple kills that aren't that creative and yet despite this film still does manage to have some really fun kills in it but if I were pushed i'd say that the best kill in the film is quite easily the death of Teddy as we see him get slashed by The Fisherman not far from his home but it doesn't stop there as he does try to make it back home to his parents but with alot of the steps that he takes The Fisherman stabs him with him only being a few centimeters away from home before The Fisherman drags him away and it's only then that his dad notices that something's wrong and goes outside to check on him before then getting killed off himself which is something that does make that kill the best kill in the whole entire film with alot of the films kills being some really good kills as well in there own right it's just that that one had also more going for it then it does against it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall while this film is currently making alot of money at the box office that doesn't make it a good film and while all of the films in this franchise have got low scores on IMDb this film just feels heartless and soulless as it has iconography there but it doesn't understand what it was that made all of those elements work so well in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used 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 I Know What You Did Last Summer fandom wiki page , Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official I Know What You Did Last Summer fandom wiki page simply because the official I Know What You Did Last Summer fandom wiki page actually has images from this film really are up and on the official I Know What You Did Last Summer fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official I Know What You Did Last Sumer 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.