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The Black Phone 2021 ★★
Overhyped and overrated.
Ethan Hawke's mask looked good, though.
Fight for Your Right Revisited 2011 ★★★★
A pretty funny sequel to the classic music video for "Fight for your right". The "Beastie Boys" keep up the shenanigans in a comedy short featuring an impressive cameorama. See how many celebs you recognize.
Must watch for Beastie Boys fans. And it's available on Youtube.
She Walks the Woods 2019 ★★½
The trailer intrigued me and the opening looks promising. I mean, how can it not with a group of paintballers/soldiers/generic men in kaki clothing either chasing or being chased by something. A quite Aliens-like scene come to think of it. except that there is no Ripley monitoring and by the end, everyone is dead.
The downside: afterwards, it's followed by a by the numbers found footage flick about a group of survivalists creating a web series (your excuse to keep filming). They go filming with a former classmate of one of them, a guy named Dennis. Turns out she is more interested in Dennis than in the series. Fair enough.
But this might be useful in the tension. Now the most use they get out of this subplot is that Mike and Brad seem less eager to save Dennis and rebound on Hope. The movie also never shows how they find the footage of the opening scene. While that could well serve as (one of) the first wtf-moment(s).
Does that make it all bad? Of course not. For the little we see of it, they get a good looking monster. With a limited budget, they also managed to squeeze in one or two solid gore effects. That's notable in a genre like found footage.
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