THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1

I got to see The Strangers Chapter 1 today and was so eager to see it because it has been so long since we've had a new Strangers movie. I was so surprised that they would come back with a new one because I thought the franchise was quiet and done for good. I thought it was over after the second one, but I'm glad it did. The Stranger's Chapter 1 is very similar to The Original Stranger's Innocence, where it's the same plot where it's a couple in a strange town they've never been in. The car breaks down, so they don't have a car, and the girlfriend wants something to eat. Hence, the boyfriend leaves her at the house and gets her something to eat, so she's alone in the dark, eerie town with barely any cellular connection, which is bound to be the most traumatic experience. She's in the house alone. She's hearing noises and thinks she's seeing things, but she is still oblivious to it on the way up until someone knocks on the door (it made me so happy hearing this again). A girl asks whether Tamara is here, and the character Maya says no, but the mystery girl walks away. During this conversation, you can't even see her face, so it's Maya talking outside the door to a dark figure. It looks terrifying there in the dark. There are just trees around, no one near, and no neighbors. It's eerily quiet. It's sickening, puts you into her perspective, and makes you want to be like girl, close that door!

A lot of the movie was just basically containing running around trying to evade these crazy trio mask killers and it started to get repetitive and boring quickly I think maybe because since I've seen the first and second one and they've had that same style of action happen and plus with the weak jump scares it was just overplayed and kind of dull in a sense but it wasn't the worst I've seen but I definitely was expecting more for a reboot and I wish we would've gotten to see him more fighting instead of just running away from these killers I wanted more fight scenes more action more dialogue and interaction with the mask killers I think it would've made the movie just a little more intriguing but what I did like was we got to see a little more personality of the mass killers than we've seen ever before which made me really happy I loved that we got to see them the leading mask killer which is a man and he's very much playful and trolling and he's conniving in the way that he comes up with scaring them and taunting them in it's so awesome to see because they already have barely any dialogue as it is so for you to just interact with the way that you walk or the way that you look for Maya and Ryan and how you plan to scare them and even turning on the record player it's humorous it's trolling it's crazy all in one and it's so thrilling to see. And we get to see that pinup girl and man in the mask have some romantic connection, which is so insane and funny and unhinged to see while torturing these people's lives. I love it; we now know they have a connection. Overall, the film is good. It's not great, but it's chapter 1. It's not the ending of the story. It's the beginning, and we all need to be patient for the second one to kick up the action and dialogue and wait to see what happens. It has the potential to be excellent. The worst part of the movie for me was the ending. I wanted more than what we got, and I wouldn't say I liked the waiting game for the next one. I know it will be a while, but it's good to let people digest what we just saw. You know the anticipation will be more, and more people will want to see how this plays out and how it ends, so it's both good and bad, but it's a movie to see.

Don’t mess with Tamara

I have been into 2000s horror movies recently, and I came across a film that I've never seen but always saw the cover of it. I never clicked on it because I thought it was stupid and not really to my taste, but I finally decided to give it a try, and thank God I did! I watched the movie Tamara a few days ago, and I am obsessed with her!!! The movie is about a high school, antisocial, socially awkward girl who is constantly getting bullied and picked on at school. The only person she enjoys being around is her teacher. Still, the people in her class make it so miserable for her, even in that classroom around the teacher. One night, her classmates decided to prank her in a horrible, embarrassing way that I hate for her. They set her up in a cheap motel and filmed her online. She passes away that night, and how her classmates took care of it is so trashy and dehumanizing, and this causes her to come back alive from the grave and haunt every single person who has done her dirty. She taunts, kills, and tortures all of these people until it has gone way too far. Her teacher begs her to stop and says this isn't like her. I agree; that wasn't Tamara. The camera at the beginning of the movie is sweet and just looking for friendships. But when you are tired of being tired, this is the result. It is such a great movie. I don't want to say how it ends, so you should watch it instead!

SEVEN

I watched the movie Seven for the first time and didn't know why it took me so long to watch it. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman star in a crime/ mystery movie and do such an exceptional job with their wives as detectives. Gwyneth Paltrow is also in it and plays Brad Pitt's wife. She has very little saying in this movie, but still makes the biggest impact and motives. Recently, I've been working on watching more classes that I haven't seen because, believe it or not, there are a lot of classics that I have yet to watch, which is crazy to think. So I watched Seven because I had seen a post of the best crime movies. I kept seeing Seven showing up everywhere, so I was like, yeah, it's time to sit down and watch this.

The director is David Fincher, who also directed Fight Club, Gone Girl, and Alien 3. I love the Alien franchise, so I had a good feeling I would like Seven. Still, I have yet to see Fight Club, which is on my list! The movie is called Seven because there is a serial killer on the loose killing people and essentially inspired by the seven deadly sins, which I think is so different and insane, and I love it. The movie reels you in very quickly from the beginning, But I believe you are more locked in during the last 40 minutes of the movie. It’s like you don't want the film to end. The ending is insane and twisted, so unexpected. It's one of the greatest endings to a movie I have ever seen. I don't know why it took me so long to see this. Still, this is officially on my list as one of the best movies ever.

We need to give Art more credit

Is Art the Clown ever going to get his flowers? We don't give him enough credit in the horror community, and he needs to be more acknowledged. Hundreds of slasher characters have done crazy great work throughout film. Still, for me, I feel like Art the Clown is so different from everyone else with the way that he jokingly kills people or taunts people before he kills them and how he feels no pain or emotion. You could hit him with the most enormous truck you have 50 times over, and he will still be on the floor laughing and smiling like nothing has ever happened. It's wild. It's funny, creative, and psychotic, but it makes you love him more. I love the clown's humorous torture style, and it almost reminds me of Ghostface in the Scream franchise because he is also hilarious in his creative way. Those two are so different from the others, and it's genius, and it makes you want so much more.

When I saw Terrifier in 2018, I felt disgusted, confused, and intrigued. The movie was great. It was different. It was scary. Everything was all at once, and I wanted more movies, so when the second one came out, I fell in love with it; I love that they still use the same visual filter in the film. I love that we got new characters in a new, more in-depth background of those characters, and if you think the kills were insane in the first one, the kills are a whole other level. In the second one, I saw there were reports of people passing out, throwing up, and getting carried out on a stretcher. I mean, it was just something I've never seen before. Terrifier 2 is one of the best slashers of this time, making you ready and eager for something next. I'm so glad we're getting a third one that takes place during Christmas. It sounds like it will be diabolical, and I am here for it. I am all here for Art the Clown destroying the world.

Call Me By Your Name

I thought I would never see the movie Call Me by Your Name because it wasn't on my list of films until I saw a TikTok that said It is one of the saddest movies ever, and I'm like, okay, then now I have to see it because that is tempting to me and I'm so glad that I did. First of all, the cinematography alone from the script is perfect. I could watch a silent film of it and still think it's one of the best romance movies ever. The soundtrack is also just impeccable. It's mixed with many piano and guitar chords that are so well meshed. I still listen to the soundtrack today; it alone will make you feel blue. It takes place in northern Italy, and it's summer. It's vibrant out. Everyone's out biking, swimming, fishing, hiking, and in the garden and having a summer garden party. It's beautiful; it perfectly represents romance, summer flings, and summer love. There's a young boy named Elio, played by Timothée Chalamet. He's very confused with himself and lost in his feelings and emotions, trying to navigate those feelings, which is done so beautifully and realistically because I think we're all, you know, Young and lost and confused with everything and anything. Then he meets a boy named Oliver, who is living with them for the summer, and they have such a unique relationship at first. It's playful to watch. It's fun to watch, sweet and light.

When they start getting involved romantically, it's hilarious that Elio tells him I thought you weren't interested in me. Oliver reiterates the same thing back to him, and it's so natural because these real-life conversations happen to so many of us. And so they decide to call each other by their name, which means that you are mine and I am yours, and we are one entity, which is sweet and very different. I don't want to spoil too much, but towards the end, Oliver leaves to go home, and it's wintertime. It's cold in Italy; the aura is different. You can feel it, and Oliver calls the family and tells Elio the news that Elio does not ever want to hear. The last 30 minutes of the film are heartbreaking, and the emotions feel so real. Elio is sitting by the fire and is crying to himself. He's not saying any words, just crying while watching the fire. To Me, this is him reflecting on the summer. He is trying to regain the warmth to feel like he is back in the summer. That is gutwrenching, and I believe everyone has felt that way before. What is also worse is that while he is crying, his family is in the background setting the table, talking like nothing is wrong, which is entirely accurate. In real life, the world doesn't stop for you because you are going through something. Everyone still lives their own life, not caring about the next ones.