Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Demon Wind (1990) - Imagine if Evil Dead was missing the magical ingredients that made it such a classic and instead was a dull but colorful collection of cute girls and gory effects? I really wanted to like this, but it just...lies there. 

A guy brings his cute girlfriend and other friends to a rural shack of some kind to have a showdown with his Satanic ancestors. Why would he do that? Why when ( slight spoiler) one of them gets killed do they not talk about it at all? What exactly are they trying to DO? It took me 3 nights to watch because the story and motivations are just so thin. That said, if you like having movies on in the background and/or talking over them, this would be a fantastic choice. It's got lots of state of the art special effects and even a little bit of nudity.

It has a fairly high Google users rating, probably a lot of people who fell asleep watching it on cable.

2.75/ 5

The last half hour was relatively strong.

[M.10rda]

How'd you like the badass Siegfried & Roy life partners?

[lester1/2jr]

They were magicians for 5 seconds.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Vigilante Diaries" (2016)
A former black-ops assassin recruits a team of fellow bad-asses to assist him in a private war against a powerful Armenian mob organization.
This low budget action junk sports an impressive cast of D-listers like Michael Madsen, Jason "Clerks" Mewes, and Michael Jai White. It starts off promising, but drags on far too long and goes off in so many random directions that it completely stops making sense around the halfway point. Skip it.

[Dr. Whom]

X (2022)

Now there is film title that is impossible to Google.

In 1979 a small film crew rent a secluded farmhouse to shoot a direct to video porn movie (which was then cutting edge technology) However the elderly couple they rent it from (and their trained alligator) have murderous intentions.

It starts out creepy enough, and then suddenly turns into a slapstick slasher. Quite enjoyable, also because it touches on themes like aging, sex and relationships. Like many modern movies, it takes its time to get going as nothing much happens in the first half hour or so. However, you do have a creepy atmosphere, Mia Goth is positively delicious, and you get some (soft) porn action, so there is that. It does mean that, when the action starts, they have get through the rest of the cast at a brisk pace.

This was the breakout movie for Mia Goth, who, I now know, is actually called Goth.