Latest "Just, Don't" Articles
Movie Reviews » Just, Don't

Superterranean

One of the most boring "thrillers" I've ever seen.

An injured climber in Scotland wakes up in a mountain shelter. He tends to his injuries, and in a few minutes another climber shows up, and they talk.

And talk.

And talk.

And that's literally all they do.

About 80 minutes into this 110 minute movie, they finally start talking about some horror or drama element—supposedly some beast is roving outside and wants the climber. Why did it take 80 minutes to get to this? Finally, in the last 20 minutes, they get into some supernatural elements.

I get the sense this was a 15-minute short that the director/writer/star narcissistically thought deserved to be a 2 hour movie. It didn't. Might have been a cool 12-15 minute short, if they'd gotten to the ending.

But, I mean, literally 80 minutes of two guys in a room talking before the…

Movie Reviews » Just, Don't

Brain Dead (2007)

Strictly sub-"USA Up All Nite"-quality garbage splatstick "horror comedy" garbage about an assortment of cardboard-cutout cliche characters stuck in a cabin while an amoeba from space infects people outside, turning them into zombies. Includes such low-lights as a zombie tearing a man's head evenly in two halves, or punching straight through a woman's head, leaving her staggering around with a giant hole that you can see all the way through where her face should be. Imagine a film that aspires to be Peter Jackson's worst early movies, and fails even at that. Avoid.

Movie Reviews » "Found Footage" crap

Underground [2023]

AVOID. Dreadful first-person shooter spends the from 30 minutes showing girls partying. By 35 minutes they've taken a shortcut through a tunnel and one fell in a hole, but 45 minutes is way too late for the plot to start.