Collected Twitter reviews

One line reviews are now posted to my Twitter, I will collect them occasionally and post them here in a more convenient format. They will be edited for readability. A lot of these films were watched on Netflix (Canada).

See No Evil: if you can get over the fact that it's a WWE film and give it a chance, you'll find a very slightly above average film. Nice cinematography, if you can ignore the MTV cuts. I wish they would've made better use of Kane's size. The mother character reminded me of Jason's mother.

Exam: not really a horror flick but sold as similar to Cube and Saw (it's not). Good direction, good acting, poor writing, horrible reveal.

I'd heard about the Happening but never seen it til last night. I'm seriously amazed, that was just awful. Music was good though.

Hatchet II: excessive gore even for me, uneven acting, waste of an excellent plot idea, unnecessary exposition scene(s). Kills were unique.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose was better than I remember. Better than most exorcism movies thanks to some solid character development.

You expect some quality issues when dealing with something called Megashark vs Crocosaurus but wow.

Dead End: The good: interesting script, nice slow burn with kills, offscreen violence, realistic reactions by characters. The bad: uneven acting, horribly nonsensical revelation/resolution, inappropriate music, boring direction, no boobs!

What Lies Beneath. The good: the two leads, the first half was full of some legit chills, capable direction. The bad: every thriller AND horror trope imaginable, too many misdirects, predictable second half, horrible ending.

I don't even know where to start with how bad Martyrs was. Good direction and makeup and that's about it. No message, no twist, no good guy winning. It was like the writer/director had some interesting ideas, wrote 2 movies then tried to cobble them together.

The Experiment (remake): another terrible American remake of a great foreign film. Dropped all plot and character development for violence. Good performances from most of the cast, but the script was just awful and the direction was boring at best, such a waste of good material.

Nightmares in Red White & Blue is a pretty good look at American horror, Romero gets too much attention as usual. Interesting parallel between the 00's remake frenzy and the reliving of certain social and cultural events of the time of the originals.

Red Dragon was about as good as I expected. Fantastic performances by Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson, would like to see them paired again. Too much Hannibal imo. I want to go back and watch Manhunter now and see how it compares. Haven't seen it since just after Silence came out.