Bank Holiday Weekend Movie Watching...

There's not going to be a lot of that happening today... It's Bank Holiday Monday, here in the UK, but I've got a fair bit of work to do before I go back into the office tomorrow. Now seems a good time then to have a little look at what I watched on Saturday and Sunday ;o) A couple of hits and a couple of misses, sometimes that's the way it goes... ;o)


'Haunt' (2019)

On Halloween, a group of friends visit an 'extreme' haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night soon turns deadly though and they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.

To be fair, there were some decent scares to be had here but our lead characters were far too lightweight to hang a plot off. Luckily enough, there was hardly any plot so you could just sit back and watch the leads die off one by one. But then, our villains weren't quite imposing enough to carry off the 'evil for the hell of it' routine they were going for either and the whole thing ended up feeling like a case of showing off nasty deaths to get a reaction rather than tell a story. Maybe it's just middle age biting hard, and I'm just grumpy, but 'Haunt' really didn't work for me, even though you could tell it really wanted to.


'Hell Fest' (2018)

A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.

More or less exactly the same as 'Haunt' but with a group of leads that you can get behind and a killer with some actual presence. Honestly, it made all the difference and I loved the little human touch at the end. 'Hell Fest' doesn't do anything new but has great fun doing what it does and I couldn't help but get into that. I'd definitely watch it again.


'Final Destination 3' (2006)

A group of teens escape a fatal roller-coaster crash but Death doesn't like a job left unfinished... Will any of the survivors survive what is to come?

Well, you know what 'Final Destination' movies are like so I didn't really need to ask that question, did I? 'Final Destination 3' is the only one, out of the series, that I hadn't seen so when I saw it pop up on Netflix, I thought I'd have some of that.

And...? If you've seen a couple of 'Final Destination' movies then you know what you're getting and it almost feels wrong to knock 'Final Destination 3' for delivering on that front. But having said that, it really felt like they were just lining teens up to be slaughtered with not a lot of regard for the 'death buildup' moments that make these movies so watchable for me. It was alright but very much a film where I found it easy to check my phone instead of paying attention.


'Final Destination 5' (2011)

Pretty much the same as 'Final Destination 3', just substitute 'bridge disaster' for 'fatal roller-coaster crash' ;o)

I'll be honest, I always enjoy 'Final Destination 5', it's probably my favourite of the lot, so I had to watch it after finishing 'Final Destination 3'. 'Final Destination 5' is just the better movie no matter how you look at it. The initial disaster is a lot more in your face and the deaths that follow are built up to in a far more satisfying manner. That's all I'm after from a 'Final Destination' movie and this installment is the best at what it does ;o)

I also watched 'Color Out Of Space', just because by that point, I really wanted another movie that I knew would work for me. I've posted about that before though so won't go through it again. You can click Here if you want to see what I thought of it back in 2020, my opinion hasn't changed since then ;o)

And that's your lot, movie-wise. Did you watch anything good over the weekend?




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

‘Deathworlder’ – Victoria Hayward (Black Library)

Image
Before I get into the review proper, thank you Black Library for sending me a copy of ‘Deathworlder’ in return for a fair and honest review. Talking of ‘fair and honest’… There will be loads of the latter but I enjoyed the hell out of ‘Deathworlder’ so… We’ll see how being fair goes ;o) That’s your only warning, lets talk ‘Deathworlder’… Lazulai is a world beyond the brink, its battle against the tyranids all but lost. Once-magnificent cities lie in ruin. The seas boil. The skies crack. Horrific alien bioforms devour. In mere days the planet will be consumed. The 903rd Catachan ‘Night Shrikes’ defend one of the last fortresses still standing. Led by Major Wulf Khan, to die fighting is all that is expected of them… until she is given one last mission: to lead a squad through the apocalypse and recover a piece of archeotech that may doom or deliver the entire Lazulai System. Facing insurmountable odds and zero hope for aid, the major must hold her squad together as they pick their way ...
Read more

‘Cursed City’ – C.L. Werner (Black Library)

Image
I always have these vague ‘reading resolutions’, for the New Year and without fail, they all come to absolutely nothing. I still read loads, just none of the books that I meant to… This year is panning out slightly differently and I think I’m going to enjoy it. All the books that were originally ‘out of sight, out of mind’, in the loft at my old place, are now all over my new place and wherever I look, I’m constantly discovering books that I totally forgot I had but now quite fancy reading. Books like ‘Cursed City’ for example… I’m not going to tell you how long ‘Cursed City’ was sat in my loft, lets just say it was long enough for me to totally forget it was there and buy myself another copy… Oh well. I found it on the shelf the other day (only the one copy now) and figured it was way overdue a read, let me tell you about it… Ulfenkarn is a city of nightmares. Its vampiric rulers have indulged their bloodlust in every shadow-clad alley, turning the once-proud metropolis into a charnel...
Read more

‘Day of Ascension’ – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Black Library)

Image
Page Count – 196 Pages There isn’t a lot that’s good about moving house (especially when it slowly dawns on you just how much the new place is going to cost to run, I need to get another job…) but there are some good bits if you look for them. For me, it was mostly around getting all my books unpacked and back on shelves around me again, not stuffed up in the loft where I couldn’t see them. Old favourites were back within easy reach, along with a whole load of new books that I really should have read ages ago. You can probably guess what my main New Year’s resolution will be… ;o) ‘Day of Ascension’ was one of those new books and I figured it was as good a place as any to start over in making a dent in the ol’ TBR Pile. And I’m really glad I did. On the forge world of Morod, the machines never stop and the work never ends. The population toils in the mines and factoria to protect humanity from the monsters in the void, while the Adeptus Mechanicus enjoy lives of palatial comfort. Gene...
Read more