Archive for the ‘Devil’ Category

Movie: Inʞubus

Saturday, May 12th, 2012


Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Inkubus is Robert Englund and not much else, too bad we've seen a similar scenario somewhere ...

A guy comes to an old police station with not too many officers on duty, and turns himself in. Of course he confesses to murders and of course he’s creepy as hell. Sounds familiar? Almost like the movie “The Traveller” with Val Kilmer, right? Well not exactly – this time the movie is inKubus, and we have good’ol Freddy Krueger here, but without the burnt-face-man ensemble and claws. Well – we already know the plot isn’t original, so is there anything good about this movie?

The best thing here is Robert Englund. He’s a great horror actor, and delivers a performance that really IS creepy. The rest of the cast stays in his shadow, and the plot itself isn’t that interesting to keep you focused. What is, is the character of inkubus (written with backwards K) and mainly for that reason it’s an interesting watch.

Still it’s not a movie I’d normally recommend – it’s a bit borring, a bit unoriginal, and a bit silly. There’s an amazing acting performance here, but not much to wrap it around. Only for Krueger’s fans.

Movie: Devil Inside

Sunday, April 15th, 2012


Rating: ★★★½☆

Funny thing – when I was walking out of the theater, I heard a great deal of complaining about this film. I found it pretty odd, as it was one of the better found-footage movies I’ve seen in a long time. Sure, it’s the “assembled found-footage” so it takes a little bit of credibility out of the whole thing. But I tried to jump into the story, believing (for a moment) that it’s real.

Exorcism movies tend to get better and better, with young girls being possessed by demons all the time. This one’s a bit different though. This time a mother was possessed, and a daughter tries to find out what had happened to her when vatican snatched her from the US mental hospital. All with her documentary guy and plenty of cameras for coverage. They travel to Rome and meet some priests who will try and help, being all natural and casual and all (too bad they have microphones attached, pretty weird, right?)

But all in all this movie actually works. It’s not overdone, not over-played and sometimes it even looks casual. Plus the plot is written well enough so you won’t guess every moment ahead of time, and you definitely won’t guess the ending. Good watch!

Movie: Exorcismus – the possession of Emma Evans

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Rating: ★★½☆☆

It seems the devil is back, after the last few dreadful "vampire years". We had the new Omen recently, a pretty good “Devil” movie, Religious from top to bottom REC2, and the awesome “The Last Exorcism”. So if people started liking exorcisms, priests and posessed little girls, why shouldn’t everyone jump on that wagon? And some more people did with the poor Emma Evans being posessed because she played with the ouija board, and sort of brought it on herself. Boo hoo!

So we had the last exorcism, the Emily Rose one, and now Emma Evans is in the house, playing FIFA on Xbox and being all posessed and sad at the same time. Too bad it doesn’t quite work because compared to “The Last Exorcism” this movie doesn’t win in ANY category. It’s simple, not scary, oddly written and the characters seem a lot out of place. It reminds me at times of Sy-Fy productions, just not the better ones. The acting is so-so, and the thing as a whole leaves the viewer impression-less. Nothing stands out in this movie – it’s just a horror flick about a possessed girl – nothing more, nothing less. If you’ve seen all the other recent Exorcism movies, then maybe you should check it out. But if you want a good Exorcism see the original from the 80′s because it’s far scarier. Almost as if the devil became more mainstream, like the one from South Park.

Not bad, not good. Sorry. I’d seriously like to see a good horror film set in the UK, but this one is pretty mediocre.