Frankenstein's Army (2013) Movie Review

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This movie has a pretty cool concept. What if Doctor Frankenstein was working for the Nazis and was in charge of experiments to make super soldiers (or maybe just a mad scientist using his writings for inspiration). A group of Russian soldiers goes on a mission to track down a secret lab and stop them. When they reach the underground secret lab ( to someone unfamiliar it feels like a maze) they are met with some really inventive creatures. Like, hey let’s replace an arm with a weapon type stuff. It is a sci-fi horror concept film that is not serious at all. I would classify it as mindless entertainment (and you see plenty of brains throughout!).

Unfortunately, once you see the monsters there’s not much left to keep watching for.

I give it a 5/10.

In Fear (2013) Movie Review

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When I sat down to watch this movie I knew it was a horror movie but I had no idea it would become a maze movie. The movie takes place in the UK and follows a new couple (2 weeks) on a trip together. They decide to go to a country hotel on their way to meet friends. And they get lost. And remain lost. And our character says these roadways are like a maze. And they are right. This movie reminds me of Vivarium but taking place in a car in the UK. Overall this simple low budget movie works. It has tension at times and is worth watching. Yes, it isn’t perfect, and despite the short length could have been cut by about 10 minutes.

I give it a 5.4/10.

Woman in the Maze (2023) Movie Review

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A woman works for a real estate company and takes a business trip to check out some locations in Jerome, Arizona. Jerome just happens to be America’s biggest ghost town. And the enormous old house she rented is haunted. That is the set-up for the movie. We also learn at some point that the house doesn’t want to let her leave, well except for the first few times she enters the house - then it seems to be perfectly fine. Why did the haunted house change it’s mind ? I have no idea. Did I consider going back to rewatch part of the movie to see if I missed something ? No. Do you go to the dentist for fun ? The only thing holding this movie back from awards is bad acting, a weak script with holes, a lack of scary scenes (there are some nice scary mirror scenes), and a bad ending. The poster is cool. So there’s that.

So, the house, when it finally traps our main character inside turns into a maze. Sadly, that just isn’t enough to save this movie. If you want to check out similar the house is a maze movies I suggest The Night House, Relic, Thir13een Ghosts, You Should Have Left or Grave Encounters if your prefer an asylum to a house.

I give it a 4.3/10.

Catacombs (2007) Movie Review

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A woman visits her sister in Paris, because who wouldn’t want to visit Paris with a free place to stay and a tour guide ? Why visit the Eiffel Tower when you can can go underground to a secret rave in the catacombs of Paris surrounded with millions of skeletal remains ? I wouldn’t do that. But our characters do. I mean as you enter a sign reads “Arrête! C'est ici l'empire de la Mort”. Anyway, our character leaves the rave and gets lost in the maze that is the catacombs. And something sinister is after her. We have a lot of darkness, shaky camera, flickering lights, running, and screaming. And bones. Lots of bones. What we don’t have is a good horror movie. If you want to watch a good horror movie that takes place in the catacombs of Paris, choose As Above, So Below (2014).

I give it a 4/10.