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Scarecrow (2013) (TV) Directed by Sheldon Wilson

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 6:53 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , ,



To be honest, I have never had anything against the movies made exclusively for the SyFy channel. Even the absolutely terrible ones are still sort of fun to watch, in a weird kind of way. And really, not every movie that plays on the SyFy channel is a terrible one, such as this one also shows.

This clearly isn't a great movie but it at least entertains way more than just the average modern genre flick. While this never becomes a great movie, I still never hated or regretted watching it. It's well paced and very straightforward, which means that it never bores.

It's simplicity may bother some people but in in this case believe that it's something the movie really benefited from. It doesn't waste any time on developing characters that we know are going to die soon anyway and it doesn't ever really elaborate on anything at all, through which the movie avoids falling into genre trappings and become a silly and needlessly complicated one, with far too many distractions and pointless side-plots in it. This movie basically has just one main story and that is it! It sticks to its main story at all times, which was something I really liked about this movie.

It's still doing a very poor job handling all of its horror though. There is never a good build up to anything and also never any sense of true danger or fear, even though the scarecrow character is a pretty awesome killer in this. Scarecrows are always scary anyway and it's actually amazing that there aren't really all that many horror movies involving scarecrows out there. Normally it's never a good thing when a movie uses CGI effects for its monster but in this case it actually adds to the overall creepiness of the character. He besides has a great look, that reminded me of Dr. Freudstein, from "Quella villa accanto al cimitero". I know, a pretty obscure horror reference but I wouldn't be surprised if the film-makers of this movie had seen that 1981 Lucio Fulci movie as well.

It's not a great movie by any means but I still consider it to be a watchable enough one, due to the fact that it never bores and never becomes a terrible one with anything. Oh yes and Lacey Chabert in it, so enough said.

5/10

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Teaser trailer: Torment (2013)

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 4:54 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , ,


Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan take Cory's 7-year old son Liam up to the country for some much needed family time. When it appears as if Liam has run away, psychological suspense becomes straight-out horror, as Sarah and Cory must now confront a sadistic cult-like family who have been hiding in the house all along and have taken Liam for themselves. From: IMDb.com





 Directed by: Jordan Barker
Starring: Peter DaCunha, Stephen McHattie, Katharine Isabelle and others
Current release date:  2013

Species III (2004) (V) Directed by Brad Turner

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 11:47 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , ,





(Review originally written at 27 January 2009)

This movie can be divided in different parts. It's first halve Dr. Abbot's 'brilliant' research, while its second halve is more about Dean and its action and science-fiction elements. Not that either halve of the movie impresses much though. Besides, the fact that the two halves of the movie differ so much from each other and don't quite connect well enough, don't make the movie any better.

It's the second sequel in the Species-series and even though they have learned from their mistakes from the previous Species sequel, it still isn't a better movie. The alien is a female again and the movie features less of Natasha Henstridge, who added very little to the previous sequel. On the other hand it's lacking the characters and certainly the fine actors of the previous 2 Species movies.

The acting is really one of the biggest problems of this movie. It's simply below par and besides most actors seem to be miscast in their roles. Sunny Mabrey is a boring alien, who certainly isn't being seductive enough, even though that's basically the only point of her entire character.

Its story is also quite poor. It's a quite ridicules one that makes less and less sense, the more you start to think about it. I mean why would a doctor/school teacher put himself in so much danger by abducting an alien from the military, just so he can do his own private research on her, in order to be able to breed a new super-race that's immune of all deceases. He also drags in one of his students. Sounds like a real wacko but his character is yet a serious one. And we are supposed to care for this character? All other characters are not much better or more interesting really.

The movie as a whole is not just that interesting to watch, since it's very little special, that adds nothing new to the genre or the Species movie-series. There even is a part four. Really makes you wonder why though.

The movie is not bad looking and it doesn't feature some good effects and stuff like that but it's nothing that we haven't already seen before in any of the other previous Species movies. It makes the movie in that regard also not very special to watch.

Just skip it.

4/10

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