Horror October Special 2020 – Part 2

Horror October Mini Movie Reviews, part 2

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Like I stated in Part 1, I chose seven different horror categories so I would get a variety of different horror movies. Part 2 consist of vampires, a werewolf, a teen slasher, folk horror and a… well a complete shitshow.

The Lost Boys (1987)

Synopsis:
Sleep all day, party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it’s overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires that they suspect of a few mysterious murders and restore peace and calm to their town.

The Lost Boys surely has a little culty vibe to it, I’ve heard of it although I had no idea it was about vampires. 😀 One of…

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Horror October Special 2020 – Part 1

Horror October Mini Movie Reviews, part 1

Movie Mignon

Welcome to the best month of the year, October! I have a little challenge this month – to watch a horror movie every day and of course write short reviews about them. And apparently, I’ve made some very good choices this week. I chose seven main horror subgenres, one for each day of the week and they are:

Monster Monday – creature features, body horror
Teen Flick Tuesday – horror starring kids or teens
Werewolf Wednesday – all about them silver fearing hairy butts
Thriller Thursday – thrillers that are so scary that they should be in the horror genre
Folk Horror Friday – the genre that keeps me 100% city gal
Slasher Saturday – lots of stabby stabby and bright red syrup
Sunday School – let us put some fear of god in you, god and that other guy

Beware of spoilers!

Nightcrawler (2014)

Synopsis:
The city shines the…

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Mini Movie Reviews, part 27

And that’s a WRAP! 30-day movie challenge in February is all done. And yes, I watched two movies in one day just to get six mini movie reviews (I always review five movies in one post). And with this review, my challenge is complete. Not gonna lie, it wasn’t that hard to watch that many movies, I really enjoyed watching a lot of horror although they did give me weird-ass dreams. And even writing review posts every week wasn’t that hard either, which means me not updating my movie blog more often is just poor laziness on my part. I will try my best to be more consistent in the future. Thank you all who went over there to take a look, hope you support it later too. ^^ Stay tune for the next 30-day challenge, challenge intro post tomorrow! 😛

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Abominable (2019)

Synopsis:
When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him “Everest” and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.

I guess now that the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ ended, Dreamworks is trying to re-invent the wheel and what’s a better way to do that than making an animated movie catering to one of the biggest movie markets in the world: China. Nothing wrong with that, and the yeti is cute af but this somehow falls short at being the next great thing. I didn’t really care about…

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Mini Movie Reviews, part 26

Five more movies left to watch in February Daily Movie Challenge, and I seem to be able to keep up with mini reviews of these movies too. So one more to go, hope you enjoy! More horror! 😀

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The Evil Within (2017)

Synopsis:
The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.

This is definitely one of the most intriguing movie projects I’ve ever read about. I think I might have got more out of this movie if I knew about the story behind the movie prior to me watching it. At least I would have spent less time of being thoroughly confused throughout the movie. So let me tell you the story shortly. This movie is written and directed by Andrew Getty. Yes, the Getty family. Andrew is in fact J. Paul Getty’s grandson, the cousin of the Paul Getty III (the one that got kidnapped). If there ever is a passion project, this would be it. The story was based…

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Mini Movie Reviews, part 25

Aaaand we are back with mostly horror. 😀 I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely enjoying this challenge quite a bit. I feel like I got to see so many hidden gem horror films just by planning ahead what I’m gonna watch daily. Maybe I should plan ahead my movies more often. 😛

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The Departed (2006)

Synopsis:
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

For those who don’t know yet, I’m Asian. Chinese actually, but I moved to live in Finland when I was six so I’m what some call ‘a banana’ (yellow on the outside, white on the inside). XD So my pop-culture taste and my taste in movies is very much westernized, I did manage to squeeze in a tiny Asian revolution of my own into my childhood and teenage years. For over a decade I loved Asian cinema, especially the golden age of Hong Kong cinema. From the 80s to the 90s, HK made so many movies which were basically my childhood. But then something happened in the mid-90s and HK cinema was never the same. The beginning of the 2000s were the twilight of…

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