Movie Reviews

Engrossing, well-done documentary about a set of identical triplets, adopted separately at birth and never informed they had twins, finding each other at 20, and discovering later that they were the unfortunate victims of an unpleasant plan.

Neighborhood kids vs the empty house—or is it?—of a mean old neighbor. Billed as "horror" on Tubi, this is actually an animated feature aimed at kids, although it's probably a little too scary for some kids. It's decent for a kids' film, though, good enough for this adult to sit through and be a little amused by.

Whoa, I seem to have struck a vein of watchable horror movies on Tubi.

This Australian teen scream is actually pretty creepy for the lightweight genre, and in terms of story it veers a few degrees off the normal path for a teens-messing-with-the-supernatural flick.

A group of Australian teens conduct a ritual using a corpse's hand and find it possesses them. So what do they do? They party and have fun with it, laughing as each in turn's eyes go wide and they start gibbering and lashing out, until things start to turn a little too scary. From there on in it handles reasonably standard group-of-kids-dogged-by-a-supernatural-force tropes with decent enough atmosphere and acting to make it stand out a little from the crowd, and be more watchable than you'd expect.

Third film in the X trilogy (the second being Pearl: An X-Traordinary Origin Story). Not really a horror movie, more of a vaguely Tarantinoesque thriller (and also Tarantinoesque love-letter to filmmaking), although it definitely has a few moments moments of over-the-top graohic horror movie gore. Like 'X', this movie kind of punches above it's weight, and a decent cast of B and B+ actors (Giancarlo Esposito, Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon in an aunusually greasy role). A porn actress trying to break into mainstream acting is stalked by someone with a beef against her.

I'll give it to director Ti West. I harbor a long-time grudge against him for the underserved popularity of the boring, execrably derivative, and insubstantial all-style-no-substance throwback film "House Of The Devil" (which I see I've disliked since even before I started writing movie reviews, as I've never…

A lone hiker pursued by a monster from a crashed UFO.

You know, I kind of liked this movie. First of all, there's virtually no dialog, maybe three or four words spoken in the whole movie. The lead actress has to convey a lot with just her facial expressions, and mostly, pulls it off well enough to somehow be a little more engaging than you'd expect from such a high-concept bit of fluff.

Unfortunately the "monster" spends most of the movie in human form, played by a miscast hipster-looking dude.

I dunno. It's not great, and might have worked better as a short film than a feature, but, I did like it ok. It was a little different, and a little entertaining, even if the monster was more annoying than scary.

Slow-starting but ultimately decent hard sci-fi mockumentary about the discovery of a near-earth wormhole, and the transhumanist effort to transplant scientists into artificial bodies for the voyage through. Not that well acted at points, and overall nothing to write home about, but decently watchable.