Scaretober-Movie Review: Saw

10 / 26 / 1710 / 14 / 18

Hey!
For the month of October I’ve dubbed it Scaretober in which I will be blogging every day in October. No, it’s not just random blogs in October but specifically scary movies movies. I’m definitely not one of those girls that enjoys scary movies by any means in fact this is a HUGE challenge for me since I’m such a wimp when it comes down to it. Some of the movies reviewed will be super scary and others will just be 90’s cheesy scary compared to today’s standards. There will be a few days during this month that I will be putting up more than one posts, because sometimes you can’t hold any awesome back when it comes to the blog.

Today’s movie is Saw.

I had about this movie so much before, but had never seen it so I thought that I would give it a shot. Oh yeah, I know I’m behind on post regularly so some days you may see more than one post as I’m trying to catch up. Back to the real reason you are here.

Here’s a quick run down of this 2004 movie. The opening scene of the movie a man awakens in a dilapidated darkened bathroom very confused as to what happened. When the lights in the room turn on suddenly he sees another man in the room along with what appears to be a corpse in the middle. Both of the men are chained to pipes on the sides of the room. The men tell each other their names and then they find a tapes in their pockets and one man finds a bullet and a key. After both men try the key in their locks they then notice the rape recorder and gun in the corpses hands. The first man’s tape tells him to escape and the other man’s tape tells him to kill the other man in order to save his family. Upon listening to the tape again the find 2 saws in the toilet tank and one of the realizes they might know who the killer might be. The movie flashes back to a crime scene where the media and the police first discovers the Jigsaw killer. The police find one victim that actually survived her capture. Meanwhile, the one man’s family is being held hostage by another person. After that the movie flashes back to present day and after that the movie moves rather quickly toward an ending.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. Why do all the horror movies end in what feels like an incomplete way? I have so many questions about this movie that I can’t seem to find anyone to answer, so let me know if you have seen this movie and can answer my questions. Definitely recommend this movie, I would definitely say I understand why people revolve their Halloweens around Saw movies.

I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see what other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here. Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!

Scaretober-Movie Review: Monsters

10 / 14 / 1710 / 14 / 18

Today’s movie is Monsters.

This is yet another Netflix recommendation and if you have been following me for a while you will remember how much drama Netflix caused. Still we move on, don’t worry I have more movies coming that are better, I think.

Here’s the rundown on the movie: This 2010 British movie opens with text talking about NASA finding the possibility of alien life and bringing back samples. The space craft that brought the samples back exploded and the samples were strewn over Mexico. Flash forward several years to the US and Mexico government trying to contain the creatures. In the movie what appears to be the next day a man named Andrew travels to a hospital in San Jose, Central America to find a girl named Sam, who is his employers daughter. Andrew is given orders to take Sam to the coast so that she can get back to the US. Sam calls her dad to reassure him that she’s ok and then she and Andrew get on a train to the coast. Andrew actually admits to Sam that even though he’s a photographer he hasn’t had his big break yet. The pair is told to get off the train since the track is taken out half way to the coast. They walk for awhile and then are taken in by a local who tells them that the ferries stop running in 2 days. The pair stays the night and then makes it to the ferry dock the next day. The official at the docks tells them that there is only one seat left on the ferry and that it costs $5000 and that the last ferry leave the next morning. The pair stays the night in the town and things get a little weird between them. Andrew stays out a little longer and ends up sleeping with a local who robs him. By the time Andrew and Sam get back to the dock the ferry has already left and there are no longer tickets available. The official tells them that they could go to the infected zone for money, and so Sam pawns her engagement ring to get them passage.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. I can say that this is one of those forward backward movies where the director shows you the end, except that you won’t know that its the end until the end of the movie. Overall, I wasn’t impressed with the movie. You never really see the alien creature and nearly half the movie is shot during the night. I suppose that I understand that the alien creatures only come out at the night, but at least use night vision. I would recommend this movie only if you were interested in aliens , but overall it is not an impressive alien movie.

I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see wat other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here. Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!

Scaretober-Movie Review: Jaws 2

10 / 12 / 1710 / 14 / 18

Today’s movie is Jaws 2.

When I did the view of Jaws, I knew that I would need to do the whole series no matter how bad it got. Yes, this series still makes me afraid of the ocean and deeply afraid of sharks, so you probably won’t hear about me going into the water anytime soon.

Here’s the rundown on the movie: This 1978 movie is done a few years after the original movie. We find ourselves back on Amity Island several years after the first movie happens and Sheriff Brody’s children are slightly older. The town welcomes the opening of a new hotel to the area and Sheriff Brody is still avoiding the ocean as mush as he can. The first shark attack in the movie is of 2 divers after discovering the wreckage of the orca. The next shark attack is of a speedboat and a surfer with the shark taking down the surfer first before circling back for the driver this time there are witnesses to the attack, but they don’t notice the shark. The shark gets bruises from this attack. A few days later a whale carcus washes up onto the shores of one of the beaches and Brody’s oldest son, Mike discovers the body. Sheriff Brody goes to the mayor and the town council and asks them to close the beaches due to the shark attack. The mayor and the council refuse and Brody takes it into his own hands to watch the beach. After an embarrassing false shark sighting Brody is fired as Sheriff and his two sons sneak out of the house to go hangout with their friends on a boat.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. There’s another ambiguous ending in which the shark dies, but the people aren’t in safety. Sorry, if that’s a spoiler, but it is what happened. At this second movie, I was particularly annoyed by the mayor and council for not believing Sheriff Brody on the shark attack. How can you be so unfeeling about people’s lives?!? It’s even more annoying when his own sons don’t believe him. I suppose I’ll keep watching the series even though it’s beginning to annoy me more than scare me.

Scaretober-Movie Review: A Haunting at Silver Falls

10 / 12 / 1710 / 14 / 18

Today’s movie is A Haunting at Silver Falls.

I had about this movie before, but had never seen it so I thought that I would give it a shot. Oh yeah, I know I’m behind on post regularly so some days you may see more than one post as I’m trying to catch up. Back to the real reason you are here.

Here’s a quick run down of this 2011 movie. At the beginning of the movie, it claims to be based on a true story. You then see a young girl running through the woods when she appears to be grabbed by someone or something. Flash forward 20 years and a girl named Jordan has just started living with her aunt and uncle since her father died from cancer and her mother died when she was still young. Jordan and her new boyfriend, Larry decide to go to a party near Silver Falls. Larry tries to get Jordan to do drugs to seduce her and then tells her a few stories about Silver Falls including that it is ghost town , USA. Soon the party gets broken up by the cops and leaving Jordan and Larry get separated. Jordan wanders in the woods and finds a silver ring on the ground and puts it on her index finger. When Jordan gets home and tries to take the ring off she realizes that she can’t. Apparently the owner of the ring is a dead girl and she has followed Jordan home and wants her ring back. A few days later at school Larry wiggles the ring off Jordan’s finger but then is suddenly appears back on her finger, like it’s suppose to be there. Soon mysterious things start to happen around Jordan’s house that make her aunt and uncle worry about her and order her to see larry’s dad who’s a psychologist. Things start to make very little sense toward the end of the movie.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. Why do all the horror movies end in what feels like an incomplete way? There was so many holes in this movie that simply didn’t add up, like why didn’t Jordan just go to the town library to look up information on the deaths in Silver Falls. Why doesn’t the father of the twins appeal his conviction since he knows that he’s innocent? Why is all the time he’s in prison is he allowed to keep his ring? Overall the movie has some pretty good jump scares , but there’s no gore or any blood at all. If you were interested in the movie I would recommend you watching it, but overall it wasn’t a great movie.

Scaretober-Movie Review: The Host

10 / 10 / 1710 / 14 / 18

Today’s movie is The Host.

This 2006 Korean film was one that made an appearance on Netflix. If you have read my series in the past you will know that I have some doubts about the reliability of Netflix. I thought that I would still give it a chance this year.

The film begins in the year 2000 when an American pathologist orders his Korean assistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down the drain leading to the Han River. Flash forward 2 years later an 2 fisherman are fishing in the river and see a mutated fish and release it back into the river before it bites them. The fisherman leave catching nothing. Flash forward 4 more years and a guy is about to jump off the bridge when he spots something moving in the water before he jumps and decides to jump anyway. Later in 2006 a man named Gang-du Park and his family run a food truck near the river. When he is delivering food to some customers a monster appears out of the water and chased people around before grabbing his sister, Hyun-seo. The waterfront park is closed off after the incident and the family is thrown into quarantine. Gang-du repeatedly tells authorities that his sister is alive and that they need to find her. The family eventually escapes from quarantine to look for the girl in the sewers, Gang-du’s father is killed by the monster and found by the police in a shoot-out. Gang-du is then also captured. Gang-du’s brother and sister escape police custody and continue the search for Hyun-seo.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. This movie was pretty terrifying ,but also predictable since if you have watched any scary movie on contagions you will soon realize that the government tries to hide or contain the viruses in the worst way possible. The creature in the movie is also never really identified and the way it kills and captures humans is especially interesting. I felt that this movie was a bit too predictable in many ways.