Here are the three movies that I watched this week that I found most interesting to share:
Bloody Hell (2020)
Bloody Hell was released last year, and it’s been the only recent horror comedy that’s actually made me laugh and had some good jokes. Our main guy, Rex, has spent the last couple of years in jail for playing hero in a bank robbery which ended with the death of an innocent person. Even though he killed all the robbers, society has turned his back on him and so he decides to move to Finland to start a new life. His only problem now is the cannibal family that kidnaps him just after his steps out of the airport.
I found the plot pretty fresh; the comical way they tackle Rex’s reaction to the bank robbery and his following imprisonment I thought was original. A big part of what made this movie attractive to me was Rex’s hilarious inner dialogue with his personified conscience (which only he sees).
I love it when a movie plays with that, the best example being A. E. Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real. Bloody Hell is funny and gory, and although the ending is a bit too absurd, the whole flick is very entertaining and will leave any horror fan satisfied.
Eraserhead (1977)
I watched this crazy horror sci-fi flick for the first time this week. David Lynch put this experimental film out in 1977, and the film only gained notoriety over the years and decades. Eraserhead is a tour de force and not an easy watch. It’s probably the movie I had more questions about after finishing it, at least in my recent memory.
What’s it about? I have no clue. But if I had to guess I’d say it’s about life: being born, relationships, sex and death. No need for a synopsis, you won’t get anything out of me describing what I saw unless you watch it yourself.
It’s crazy that this movie came out almost 45 years ago. Very nightmarish and worth a watch for sure.
Wrong Turn (2021)
The new Wrong Turn remake is out, and it ain't good. I had high hopes with this one, because I enjoyed the first couple of movies from the saga and was open to a reimagining of the first one. But after watching the new remake, maybe I wasn’t so open to a reimagining. Pretty hard to f'up a movie like Wrong Turn to be honest.
A group of friends go out hiking in the American backwoods. After what seems to be an attack, they get lost and must camp overnight. They’ll discover there’s a group of people that have lived in those woods for generations and that aren’t too happy to have them around.
Alan McElroy and Mike P. Nelson tried to put a lot more on the table apart from fun kills and booby-traps, but it all feels not really elaborate and cheap. I think that the fact they called it Wrong Turn makes the movie more confusing, because that puts an idea in the viewer’s head but then the movie has literally nothing to do with the original film apart from that it’s set in the woods. Reactions and resolutions in the movie feel lazy and surreal, and I don't mean 'surreal' in a good way. With another title and better writing, they could’ve made an original flick that was its own thing, but the new Wrong Turn will just end up disappointing you, whether you’ve seen the original or not.
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