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Jinn is a fantasy/horror flick from 2014. I would say it’s mostly horror though. I use the term fantasy more for films like Willow. Happy little tales that takes the form of fairytales. This is much darker. With that, I’m not saying that a fairytale or a fantasy movie can’t be dark. I just wanted to elaborate a little bit on that so you won’t get the wrong impression of this demonic film. Domenic Rains...
God’s Not Dead is a movie from 2014. There are things that I love about it and things that I hate about it. Among the things I love is the underdog fight against society and rules that you deep down know it’s wrong. The little man stands up for what he believes is right. The story is about this kid taking a philosophy class in college or the university or wherever. His professor starts of...
What is Begotten about? Well, God commits suicide and there’s born a woman from His body – Mother Earth. This woman then gives birth to a son who is dragged through the landscapes with a rope around his neck. Faceless and cannibalistic creatures torment him in various ways. I’ll admit that the synopsis is very sparse, but that’s more or less what it’s all about. And it’s not very clear at all. If the possibility...
Lucifer has a really strange concept. It’s basically about the Devil, the root of all evil proving that it’s not so at all. Every episode, at least in the earlier seasons started with the text that the Devil – Lucifer Morningstar, was tired of ruling in Hell and therefore had taken some vacation in Los Angeles. Where else you might ask? At first, he’s only there to party, have lots of sex and drugs, and...
I learned something watching Orcus, or rather after I watched it and started to do some research for this review. To be completely honest with you, I had absolutely no idea what Orcus meant. And it’s funny really, I was making a youtube video the other day where I kinda complained about all movies using the name Hercules from roman mythology even though the name in greek mythology actually is Heracles. And they use greek...
Hellhole is a Polish horror movie but I must confess that I saw the English dubbed version. I can go on and on about how I hate what the Germans do with movies. They dub everything, or at least they used to. That’s why it’s always an adventure buying a German edition of a movie or series. You never really know if it’s English friendly or not. I guess most of DVD and Blu rays...
X is apparently a very scary letter. Ether if it’s Prisoner X, Citizen X, or even Planet X, there’s always a mystique to it. I understand that that is the whole point of course. But I still find it odd that we use this particular letter to describe something that is unknown to us, something scary och horrifying. I’m sure there are other examples as well. Very Strange Prisoner X starts out as a very...
The Moment After was a movie about people disappearing. The Moment After 2 is a movie about something completely different. Well, not completely different of course as it is a prolonging of the concept started in the first movie. There’s absolutely no record of people disappearing though. It is like that part of the story never happened. Or maybe we were given enough explanation in the first one? The Moment After 2 is more about the conflicts between the government...
This is a typical example of a movie that makes us believe it’s something else based on the cover art. To me, this looks like an end of the world action flick but once it gets going it’s more about these people disappeared. It’s a mystery from start to finish and nobody knows when really happen. There are different theories to the event though. None of them are really satisfying. The Moment after is a...
Thor: Ragnarok is the third installment in the series. That means that even people like me, that barely saw the comic with this hero, knows a bit of the story and characters. As a Swede, I know a thing or two about Norse mythology though. But I guess that’s really no benefit since they have changed quite a few things in these films. Of course, the main hierarchy is still there. In other words, Odin is...
