Horror This Weekend

The biggest horror this weekend is that EVERYONE will flock like gulls around mouldy bread to see THE HANGOVER PART II. I have nothing against sequels but even the lacklustre ad campaigns reek of originality. Many people I know are planning on seeing this movie and many if them will gleefully tell me how much they loved it and sure it's not as good as the original and I'm a film snob and think I know everything about films and you know what, it won't be their fault.

I avoided the first film for quite a while as most modern gross-out comedy disappoints me but when undid get around to seeing it in Sky I really liked it but I KNOW they can't do this again without doing something different. Changing the location does my work and acknowledging that "we did it again" does not work for me. The film makers have let everyone down and the money you'll give them only rewards this.

I'm sure everyone who enjoys PART II on opening weekend will find it hollow and disappointing once they but the DVD or watch it again in a years time but for me the horror to experience is to watch people allow themselves to be cajoled into this and then gloating at me about it. Fine I'll be watching my BLACK SWAN blu ray.

Primal

I've heard many opinions that Australia's PRIMAL is brutal and brilliant but I'm here to reveal that it is in fact utter balls. It doles out horror cliches and baffling character motives like it's amateur hour seemingly only the cinematographer had a clue what he was doing because the writing, direction, editing and effects are just crap. And even at that he/she is only getting credit for not making this look like it was a shot on video number which most of the rest of the production seems to suggest. There's one sequence, a few minutes in a runtime of under 90, that has some horror quality that when the lead squealing female is trapped in the truck and the muscular lead, now eviled up, stalks aound it. It's nothing spectacular but does highlight that PRIMAL could have been a tense, dark THE DESCENT style horror flick instead of the crazy and outright sloppy derivative drivel on offer. I hoped for THE RUINS not a ruin.

This film had left me with such a hard off that I think it's disappeared into an innie!