Showing posts with label Serial Killer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serial Killer. Show all posts

11/8/16 - Black Water Sasquatch (2014)


Well, Black Water Sasquatch didn't stand much of a chance. My initial plan was to ignore the election news and watch a real movie... but then the results starting coming in. And much like an accident that you can't look away from (a racist, sexist, and hateful accident), I was stuck. I drifted in and out of a different movie, but once it became clear that my mind was guaranteed to be elsewhere, I wanted to find something that I didn't really care about. And boy oh boy, did Black Water Sasquatch fit the bill. And fair warning, I'm writing this on the day after the election and my brain still feels detached from my body - the news and the implications of it just haven't sunk in. But even if I wasn't 100% with it, I'm still fairly confident in my assessment: Black Water Sasquatch is really quite bad.

It's kind of funny, actually. Just the other day while writing about Black Water Wilderness, I mentioned how much I'd like to see a bigfoot-slasher hybrid, where the big guy goes after victims with a knife. Well, imagine my surprise when that's exactly what happens in Black Water Sasquatch! What a Black Water coincidence! I was pretty stoked. The bigfoot here looks terrible, but apparently he kills people and cuts off their faces (!) - at first, it seemed like there was some potential for some good stuff.

11/7/16 - Psychic (1992)


Undo / Redo in blogger is a real pain in the ass, you know? I had a big write up about Psychic here, and poof - it just disappeared because I was dumb and tried to change one line. So I'm pissed, and this is going to be maybe short and probably not good. Psychic wasn't an outright bad movie, but it's not one I feel the need to revisit again in any great detail.

When I was reviewing my blog entries up to this point, I noticed a big 1990s-shaped hole in what had been published up until now - and yeah, movies from the 90s probably won't be particularly well represented here. It's just not an era that I particularly care about. I don't know if it's from me being an 80s kid and the 90s just don't have the same nostalgic value for me or whatever, but I'm not particularly interested in them. My general (*very* generic) breakdowns for genre films:

10/15/16 - Deranged (1974)


All right! Deranged is my first real pleasant surprise of the month. "Pleasant" meaning I really liked the movie - the subject matter / film itself is decidedly unpleasant. But, considering this was on the flip-side of a disc featuring Motel Hell, I went in expecting some sort of horror comedy. But it's kind of hard for a movie based on serial killer Ed Gein to be comedic, I guess.

I had no idea what this film was really about at the outset - I rented the disc for Motel Hell, so this was as close to a blind watch as you can get. Plus, from afar the guy on the box art reminded me of David Hyde Pierce. Turns out it was just star Roberts Blossom wearing someone's face.