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Just terrible, home-made zombie movie, which I found weirdly kind of fun because the people (probably friends of the director) try so damn hard to pull it off, even though they clearly have no hope at all of this being a good movie. They really do try though.
Weirdly ok bad movie about a small town besieged by supernatural occurrences after a particle collider opens up a portal to hell or some such. Pretty terribly written and meandering, the story is a mess, but kind of weirdly ok in terms of production or something. It had that sort of "this is terrible, but it's kinda good" thing in a way that made me think maybe it was a H.P. Lovecraft story, as a lot of those seem to somehow turn out strangely a little bit kinda good in a weird way. Has a cameo by Jamie Kennedy, the patron saint of bad movies that are strangely a little bit kinda good in a weird way. Not that I'd recommend you watch it or anything. But, uh, I kinda didn't mind it?
Reasonably decent postapocalyptic drama focusing on relationships among a group of people living in a remote cabin after martial law is declared in the US. Gaby Hoffman & friends. Nothing special, never would say go out of your way to see it, but not terrible, somewhat watchable if you have to kill 90 minutes.
Surprisingly enough, the first few episodes of this show are pretty good, definitely a better cop show than I remembered.
Unfortunately, though, I suffer from OCD, and I know from experience that if I watch this long enough, one of these 80s songs is going to get stuck in my head for 4 months. It's not worth that.
So I turned it off.
Too bad though, if not for that I would have stuck it out.
Absolutely pointless horror thriller in which Eric Roberts poisons a tourist's coffee to drive her insane so she stalks and kills her friends on a trip to a remote cabin, because, movie.
Unremarkable, fairly color-by-numbers captivity flick as redneck junkyard owner holds women captive in an underground cell. Ends with everything blowing up. Yawn. Weirdly, has some familiar faces like Brad Dourif, Vivica A. Fox, and John Kapelos (yes, you do know him, he was the janitor in "The Breakfast Club") Not like this is terrible, but in a world where we have "Silence of The Lambs" this doesn't even qualify as sub-mediocre. I wonder how they got name actors to appear in something so unremarkable.
Made-for-TV-movie-quality '90s direct-to-video. Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson ham it up as a deranged older couple who kidnap and imprison a young woman and hr daughter in their rural house because, movie.
Some horror movies are scary, some are just fun. Both are equally hard to pull off. This one is totally fun.
It plays like a comedy-horror but really is just straight horror. A group of christian teens in a small-town movie theater discover a porno flick in a walled-off lair in the basement that sets loose a succubus. And as silly as that sounds, it's hard to the good end of what such a silly conceit could have turned out to be.
No, it's good! Really! It doesn't aim any higher than it needs to—nobody will ever accuse this of being a great movie—but it aims to be a good, if slightly silly one, and succeeds far better than it has a right to. Good production values and acting, as well as a few deft touches and moments of well-done tension, save it from being a relentlessly silly endeavor. It…
Rather scattered supernatural tale about a father dealing with his severely autistic daughter, who is apparently channeling his dead wife, or something.
Reasonably watchable Canadian fantasy/drama series, probably aimed at teens or young adults. A young woman encounters a mysterious "therapist" who sends her back in time every episode to reconcile regrets from her life. It's fun enough, nothing great, but a little different and the cast is likeable, even when the later series tend towards the "we've run out of ideas" phase of making every story about relationships, who loves who, who's marrying who, who's having a baby, etc.
One nice thing, the series ended after 4 seasons, not because it was cancelled, but because they were at a good stopping point and felt the story had been told. That's the kind of slightly-above-average judgment that made it a slightly-above-average series.
Vaguely watchable southern gothic. Strange events surround two kids after they are rescued from playing in an abandoned mineshaft. Just on the good side of mediocre.
"Eyes Wide Shut" filmed as "The Blair Witch Project", except less.
Not the worst first-person shooter I've ever seen, not absolutely execrable like many, but without much more justification for existing than most of those movies.
Pretty decent documentary about a rap band I've always found visually compelling and musically and personally detestable. If you've ever felt compelled to sit through their videos despite entirely disliking the songs, this is pretty watchable. Also, there's some bits where they actually drop the whole pretense and just talk about things like normal human beings, in odd moments here and there. Pretty good exploration of their background and what they're trying to do, not just fan service, although there's plenty of that too. Came away feeling like they're actually pretty decent showmen and visual artists, or at least, visual stylists, and personally maybe a hair less vacantly pretentious than I thought.
Reasonably well made but overlong and very slowly paced suspense thriller, something of a throwback to "When A Stranger Calls" or "The Serpent And The Rainbow"—two older, surprisingly talky ostensible 'horror' films that were marketed as being much more exciting than they actually were. And "When A Stranger Calls" had better character study, although this one tries.
I wouldn't mind movies like this if they didn't try to present them as horror films. Even so, this kind of moves along at a snail's pace, much more talk than plot.
Typically stupid, over-broad Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers-type fare for people who find dick jokes, fart jokes, and people getting hit with semen funny, with unredeeming cameos from such comedy non-phenomenons as Kevin Nealon and Pauly Shore. If you think the idea of Nick Swardson as a adult-who-acts-like-a-child getting an Adult Video Awards award for "best taint" is hilarious, you are this movie's target audience. Just keep me out of it.
Christina Ricci is appealing in it, though. She can play a sunny disposition surprisingly well.
Playing like a combination of After Hours, Office Space, Altered States, and just a touch of Donnie Darko, this movie has Justin Long in an unusually frenetic variation of his usual nebbishy character, as an amoral and mercenary low-level lawyer for a big insurance firm, who goes to the wrong party, meets the wrong guy, and gets fed a mysterious hallucinogen that abruptly unmoors him in time and space during the most important day of his adult life, sending him careening back and forth across the paths of comically disreputable characters and friends and loved ones who no longer trust him.
It could have gone so wrong, and ultimately fallen apart, relied on contrived strangeness instead of story. But, it doesn't! Even though the film eventually fails to keep from telegraphing where it's going, it manages to balance out what could have turned into self-indulgent weirdness for it's own…
A really interesting failure for sure. A cinematically beautiful fantasy/horror film that seems like it's going to successfully hover just barely on the right side of the line between interesting and pretentious indie artsiness, as it follows the lives at several different people between adolescence on young adulthood of a pair of outcasts who are fans of a surreal children's show called "The Pink Opaque", which may or may not be leaving the screen and affecting their lives.
I say "may or may not" not to be mysterious, but because the plot unfortunately falls apart in the third act and just succumbs to overproduced indie pretentiousness, and I really don't know what happens. Which is a shame, because it's pretty well done before that, and visually very nice to watch throughout.
I would really like to put this under "Je Nais Se Quois" because it really seems for…
Incomprehensible home-movie-quality attempt at some sort of horror. Guy does drugs and freaks out or hallucinates or something. No acting, lighting, or talent to be found anywhere near this endeavor. Thankfully only an hour long.
Morose slackers in LA morosely slack around, until somewhere in the middle of a bunch of jump cuts and editing effects it turns out to be about a suicide cult or alternate realities or vampires or something?
Nicely atmospheric but pretentious and dreadfully slow film. I can't even tell you what it's about. It opens with a man saying he hasn't slept since he was 7 years old, but after that... so slow, I couldn't focus on it. I think maybe it's supposed to be artistic?
I lasted about an hour before I felt like watching a movie.
My favorite thing: a "horror movie" about a social media "influencer", shown entirely through phone screen views and security cameras. Psychotic influencer and rideshare driver (another thing we never need another horror movie about) kills passengers in hopes of views.
Weird one, though: a lot of famous faces, including that likeable guy from "Stranger Things" with the rectangular face, Mischa Barton, SNL's Sasheer Zamata and Mikey Day. Decently well-made for what it is. And rectangular-face-guy, as the psycho, does such a convincing job of being a shallow, annoying "influencer" that he's totally believable. The annoyingness is real!
This is like Hollywood's idea of "twisted enough to be cool"—hits all the numbers and hits them well, yet, is fake and shallow enough to fail to satisfy, and doesn't go far enough to actually be shocking. It's like the whole movie is in ironic scare quotes. Which may be the point.…
Almost-watchable but very cliche'd haunted house flick about a crime scene cleaning crew trapped in a hallucinatory haunted house by a vengeful Norse demon or something. "Oculus" did it the hallucinatory haunted house thing better.
Weirdly charming zero-budget amateur "horror" in which an FBI agent with the power to talk to the dead spends the whole movie talking to the dead and literally doing nothing else. Seems like a likeable guy, though.
I have a certain odd affection for this widely-panned cosmic fantasy riff on Stephen King's "The Dark Tower"... or, parts of it, anyway. It's got decent acting, with Idriss Elba and Matthew McConnaughey as the good and (very) bad guys, and a couple of passing scenes are decently well done. It sort of loses its way en route to wanting to be the beginning of a hugh, cosmic fantasy/action franchise, and the story gets a bit flabby, but still, it's got its moments. I don't understand why it was panned quite as badly as it was. McConnaughey doesn't play bad guys very often and he pulls it off here.
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