The Strongest Man in the World (1975) Movie Review

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When I get a streaming service I tend to go pretty deep into the movie catalog. It is a great way to find hidden gems and that is how I found this maze movie.

The movie is a typical 60-70’s Disney movie, revolving around an accident in a food laboratory that creates a cereal that gives the eater super strength. This leads to some corporate espionage (something that really does go on by the way) as a rival tries to steal or sabotage the formula. The movie has typical G rated comedy and over the top facial expressions from the actors. It also features a very young looking Kurt Russell in the lead role. You also get Cesar Romero with much less make-up than in his famous role and Dick Van Patten. During the testing of the formulas we get a section of the movie focused on a variety of animals solving mazes in a laboratory !

This is the type of movie you watch and if you leave the room you don’t pause it, but it is just entertaining enough to not turn off. I give it a 5.8/10. I did not find a trailer, but here is a clip to give you an idea about the movie:

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They Will Kill You (2026) Movie Review

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I would describe this movie with one word: carnage. It has long sequences of hand to hand combat carnage. If you look at this movie on IMBD it has one of the longest description tags I have ever seen:

Dark Comedy; One Person Army Action; Psychological Horror; Psychological Thriller; Splatter Horror; Action; Comedy; Horror; Thriller

The story takes place in a NYC high rise that is full of….let’s call them bad people to not spoil the movie. Our main character, played by Zazie Beetz is hired there to be a housekeeper and things….take a turn for the worse. During one long action sequence we get a chase inside the walls and floors of the building in mazelike crawlspaces. We get a lot of carnage there. The main character is well played by ZB, and the carnage is cool, but repetitive after awhile. I wanted more plot and less action personally. It is worth a look.

I give it a 6.3/10.

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Return to Silent Hill (2026) Movie Review

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I was hesitant to watch this when I saw the general overall bad reviews. but I liked the games, so I thought I would give this a shot. Little did I know that there would be a maze in the movie ! Our main character is searching for his lost love in Silent Hill. Seems like a poor location to visit…unless you are making a horror movie. The visuals in this film and the tone are good. The costumes and make-up took a lot of time. Unfortunately that time should have been spent on the script, because as I sat down to explain the movie I was lost. And so I went to research the plot and it is just confusing. Not in a Mission Impossible way that might be enjoyable, but rather a - let’s film some cool things back to back and make a movie out of it somehow kind of way.

Anyway, a little over 45 minutes into this film our character is chasing a young girl and ends up entering a maze surrounding a building. Nothing too special. It leads to a meeting with another character. It is all convoluted. Flashbacks, flash forwards, dreams, hallucinations.

I give this a 4.5/10. I wanted it to be over.

Here is a trailer for the film:

Eden Log (2007) Movie Review

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I am a big fan of Sci-Fi horror flicks. All Sci-Fi is pretty good to me, but when things get scary because of technology that is a bonus for me. This French film starts with a man waking in an underground location with no memory of why he is there or knowing where he is. Seems he is in an underground cave system that has been designed to trap those in it. One of the characters describes it as a maze. If that wasn’t enough bad news there are some really nasty creatures down there that seem to like killing people. So avoid them and try to escape.

We get a dark, dirty, underground world and our main character trying to figure out what is happening. Lots of technology. A laboratory experiment gone wrong.

I was able to watch this in English instead of French which helped, but I still found this lacking a bit. I wanted more answers and a more developed script for the idea. You learn more and more in the end but I was unsatisfied. I give it a 5/10.

Check out the trailer: