Kind of a hodge-podge this last week of June…
Lastly, The Dark and the Wicked
(★★★½)
This was certainly creepy and kept my attention. Maybe even too creepy at times, but I have a hard time with “ghost/unseen forces” kinda movies.
As a creepy movie, I’d probably give it 4 stars, but the whole “the devil wants this one person’s soul and somehow can’t get it without killing other people first” story just doesn’t make any sense to me. I mean, why wait for one person to die to get their soul if you can easily kill a bunch of other people? Feels like a whole lot of supernatural work for a small payoff… Are some people’s souls just worth more effort? I don’t get it.
Oh and pro-tip: if you rush to the old homestead and yer mama says she doesn’t want you there… Maybe you should just leave.
Predator: Killer of Killers
(★★★)
This was interesting. As a general rule, I’m not too into animation (well, aside from Pixar and the old LOTR and Hobbit cartoons), and the story was pretty basic, but there was some nice animation here: I especially found the Samurai portion to look good and the final part was pretty exciting.
The Predator’s, though, looked not too good… Which was a bit distracting.
Heavy Trip
(★★★★)
Now this was great fun! Ridiculous, yes, but Metal and fun!
A group of small-town Finnish metalheads are just riffing around through their days, play cover songs and record their demo. When a chance meeting, awash with reindeer blood, with a metal festival promoter ignites their hopes, they (Impaled Rektum, that is) head off on a road-trip of errors to try for their big break!
A lot of fun, very funny, and with some quite charming characters, this Heavy Trip was also a very memorable and enjoyable one.
And, thinking of the newly released 28 Years later, I re-watched 28 Days Later, for like the 10th time or something…
28 Days Later
(★★★★)
Still a classic, all these 23 actual years later. Still one of the best zombie movies, even without any zombies. And even though I always knows what’s about to happen, it’s still suspenseful… And, sadly, it still has that lame ending tacked on…
But I don’t think I really have anything to add to my old review here: 28 Days Later 17 years ago
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