Eye Rolls and Unexpected Laughter

Its been an interesting start to the annual October Film Freakout Month.

I’ve had a subscription to Disney Plus for a little while, mostly because its the only streaming service I will tolerate in order to watch American Horror Story, even though its like 3 seasons behind...

Unfortunately, Disney Plus has a very limited collection of spooky and scary movies, I attempted to watch 2 or 3 before realising I had actually seen them. While this got in my way, I still managed to find 6 horror movies.

In this article I will be reviewing and rating the following films; The Menu, Ready or Not, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Boogeyman, Grimcutty and Antlers.

In each review I will describe the story and what I liked or didn’t like about it, keeping spoilers to a minimum.

For those who do not care about spoilers or who have seen the film, I will be including a pop down section for each review where I talk in more detail about what I specifically liked or disliked about the film, spoilers included.

Lets go.

Movie 1: The Menu

We watch as a young couple join several others on a private island restaurant experience.

The man seems to know a great deal about the head chef and his restaurant, unable to stop himself from fawning over the man and his food the entire film.

Once everyone is inside and seated, the courses begin, and every course is stranger than the last, until it hits such an escalation, that the guests begin to question their safety.

It’s a fantastic tongue in cheek comedic horror, like Chef’s Table turned murderous.

Regardless of how insane the situation becomes, the guests still remain themselves, when people from other walks of life might try other tactics, these guests remain enchanted by the curtain, oblivious to the man behind it.

Ralph Fiennes does a great job of playing a man who has had the life drained from him, serving people who have never truly appreciated the wealth of their experience. His gentle, at times quiet mannerisms make him appear more likable and human, but this demeanor turns cold, it becomes malevolent.

Every other actor also does an amazing job, especially Nicholas Hoult, who is just about unbearable as this character which is fantastic given I know other roles he plays, and this is far from them. The character he plays is hilariously insufferable, you automatically want to hate this guy. There’s an art to that.

Funny, ridiculous, with a somewhat satisfying ending.

4/5 stars.

Spoilers ahead!
Towards the end of the film, our protagonist discovers the decorated past of the head chef in his own cottage on the island, allowing her to piece together his hospitality roots, and connect to him in some form.
During the preparation for the final course, she stands up and delivers a speech about how dissatisfied she is with the food, and that she is starving and demands to have better food.

The chef hears her out, asking her what she would like to eat.
She tells him she wants a burger, not some fancy deconstructed thing, but a real, fast food, cheap ass cheese burger with fries.

We observe as the chef prepares it himself, and for the first time all night, he begins to smile, connecting with his culinary beginning, a fast food venue.
He prepares the burger, and serves it to her. She takes a bight, and exclaims “now that’s a cheeseburger”, then goes on to express that her eyes may have been to big for her stomach, and can she have the food to go.

The chef prepares the go bag, gives her a gift bag and copy of the menu, smiles at her, and she leaves the building.

Later we see her watching the destruction of the restaurant from a boat out to sea, as she eats her cheeseburger.

While I can piece together why they chose this and why this specific character was allowed to leave, I was left feeling like the whole thing was ultimately very goofy. However, the tone had been this way from the beginning, very cheeky and taking the piss.

As much as I want to give it 5 stars, the whole concept felt very wacky and at times emotionally innapropriate. I think I was mostly bothered by the lack of tactic by those trapped in the situation, but at the same time that is also acknowledged and made fun of within the story.

If this was purely a comedy, I would give it 5 stars, but because it is horror, it does not slip far enough over the edge for me to be satisfied with it.

Overall, massively entertaining, but something I would only rewatch with friends.

Movie 2: Ready Or Not

This film revolves around a very wealthy family, whom our protagonist is going to be marrying into. Her boyfriend is hesitant and nervous, and various family members of his are chattering about how brutal and cold blooded their family is.

After the marriage ceremony is complete everyone flocks into the family mansion, and her new husband informs her that it is family tradition to play a game of sorts at midnight with the family. It’s a ritual they do when someone marries into the family, little does she know just how much of a ritual it will be.

The family and her sit down at a massive table, and a box is handed to her.

The history of the box is revealed, and is tied directly to the original source of their familial wealth.

She is told to draw a card, as members of the family explain what cards they drew during their wedding night, “I got chess…I got checkers…”etc.

She pulls the card “Hide and Seek” which is apparently the only card in the deck that means “Game of Human Sacrifice”.

Oblivious to the meaning of this card, our protagonist has a laugh and begins getting ready to play a fun game of adult hide and seek, oblivious to the family’s intensions.

Meanwhile, her husband has an angry conversation with his family about the situation as they arm themselves with ridiculous weaponry, ready to hunt down the bride.

It is reasoned that dire consequences will arise if they do not complete the ritual, and they attempt to keep the husband on lockdown.

What follows is a ridiculous trial of will for the bride, and a hilarious challenge for the family, as many of them are utterly incompetent gun users, creating more havoc for themselves then they do the bride. They are completely desensitized to this situation, not one of them questions the morals of the situation, despite some being recently married into the family. They all do their best to “participate”.

Our protagonist is defiant, at first terrified by her circumstances, she becomes angry with them. And her rage powers her through.

A hilarious, attention gripping story, I give it 4/5 stars.

Spoilers ahead!
The husband for the most part tries to get her free of the family, but once he see’s his brother dying from a gun wound inflicted by that mans own wife, he begins to falter. Then he stumbles on our bride beating his mothers head in with the very card box she was given at the beginning.
This seems to send him over the edge, and he completely changes his tune, grabbing our frantic and exhausted protagonist and hurling her onto the sacrificial table. He then attempts to do the sacrificial stabbing on his own, before once again the protagonist escapes and wields her own knife against them, huddled in a corner.
It is in that moment that the sun rises, and dawn has official begun, meaning that the ritual has failed.
For a moment nothing happens, they all shield themselves from the light, terrified at first, and then when they think its safe, a member decides they still have to kill the bride.
The member who declares this raises her hand in violence, only to actually and literally explode in a spatter of blood. Once it happens, the members of the family panic and start to scatter, exploding all over the place, the husband of our bride attempts reconcilliation, just before he himself explodes.
Our bride looks to a chair, and sees the ghost of the very man who gave the family the box, the man who ordered them to play the games and do the rituals. He looks at her, nods, and dissapears.
The flames of a fire set earlier begins to ravage the house, she walks outside the house, sits on the front steps of the property, lights up a cigarrette and stares into the distance as law enforcment arrive.
I have 2 issues.
One, I dislike the ending, as much as it is hilarious, I think it would have been more interesting if there was no real satanism at play, and it was all in their heads.
Two, as much as I wanted a different ending, that ending only works out well if the boyfriend isn’t a gigantic piece of shit. Firstly, he lies to her about the nature of his family. Then he lures her into a situation where she has no idea she is in danger. THEN after everything has gone to shit and his family are copping their punishment for being murderous scum bags, he has a change of heart and attempts to murder his brand new wife.
After all that, you can’t really have them all exist without her destroying them, you don’t just forgive murderous intentions just because you find out the satanism wasn’t real afterall.
This makes the ending they did choose better to stomach, but having the satanism be real dampens just how messed up this situation was.
Oh you can’t blame them satan was totally real and they were born into it, blehhh.
NO.
If I could rewrite that ending, I’d have the police be arriving just as they’re about to sacrifice the bride, only for dawn to begin and them to all realise that all this messed up nonsense was because of a stupid fairy tale.
I would have loved a sequence where the entire family is taken down, their previous murders revealed, their wealth completely taken over, with less relatives alive now than when they started.
But aside from the ending, something I usually have an issue with, this was a very entertaining watch, and it kept me laser focused.

Movie 3: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

I know I know its an old one and its more of a thriller, but thrillers can be horrors to some!

The film begins with a very pregnant woman attending a mid term examination at a new gynecologists office, the nature of the examination becomes obviously inappropriate and extremely creepy.

Frikin trigger warning for what ever this nonsense is.

This was actually the worst part of the film for me, the scene is viscerally upsetting with a full-blown breast examination followed by an internal examination, and we see the camera pan to the gynecologist’s hands where at first it looks like he has a glove on, but he removes it, before inserting his hand, gloveless, into the woman.

The nature of this interaction is clearly sexual and predatory, and when she goes home devastated her husband tells her she must come forward with her allegations so that other women don’t suffer the way she did.

Believe me I was very confused about where the heck all this was going.

We follow as the news starts to play, describing an ongoing lawsuit after a woman alleged sexual misconduct against a prized gynecologist, and now several other female patients have come forward with their own allegations.

The camera pans to the gynecologist who did the examination, watching the news, and he promptly shoots himself in the head (off screen).

Later we see the couple reading a newspaper covering the death of the man.

Enter Mrs. Mott, the very pregnant widow of the gynecologist, we see her in a meeting with lawyers talking about her husbands very limited left over wealth.

She attempts to gracefully leave, but faints on her exit.

It is revealed that due to a birth complication, her baby was still born and the medical team were forced to perform an emergency hysterectomy.

This is a pretty rough scene, the actress is incredible and portrays a woman experiencing extreme grief and loss of body autonomy well, almost too well. Trigger warning for that scene.

This woman has lost her husband and her baby and her fertility all at once, its enough to make someone go insane.

Which is pretty much what happens.

She seeks out the original woman who made the first allegation, and sells herself as a nanny looking for work. We can tell that she is good at lying and at putting up a façade, and soon convinces everyone that she is the help that could not come at a better time.

But the nanny has a desire to slowly destroy this woman, she believes her to have murdered her husband with her actions, deluded about the fact several other women came forward, deluded about the fact he was essentially cheating on her in his predation, she only feels that her life was stolen from her, and now she intends to steal this woman’s life.

There was one major thing that bothered me about this film, and it is unfortunately a spoiler. For any information on that, check out the panel below.

This movie gets a 4/5 for me, it has a well paced story with a very well established motive for the antagonist and a family that is overwhelmingly likable.

I actually like the ending of this story, a rare find, it leaves no leaf unturned and everything comes full circle. It is satisfying.

Had it not been for the one stupid scene, set up and overly emphasized as a brilliant scheme, I would give this 5/5.

But you can’t always have it all.

Beware of spoilers!
My eyes were bugging out of my head as I watched the camera follow our crazed nanny as she sets up a truly stupid situation in the newly built greenhouse.
There is a mechanism that you hand turn in the greenhouse which moves the frames of glass at the top to open and close, to lodge it into place you have to pull on a lever which secures it.
The nanny turns the mechanism to its fullest capacity and pulls the lever, then she eases the lever off a little and places a shovel against it gently, moving behind the greenhouse door and swaying it to see if it will hit the shovel, which should force the windows that are currently completely open to fall ubruptly and smash.
As I watch this all I can think is “What possible damage does she hope to achieve here, is she trying to create a situation that would hurt the children so she can claim the mother is unsuitable?” But no.
Later on a friend of the mother realises who the nanny is and rushes to the home to tell everyone. She is met with the nanny who tells her the mother is in the greenhouse.
The friend walks briskly to the greenhouse, opens the door wide and the mechanism is hit.
The glass shatters.
We see a camera perspective that puts the friend wayyyy inside the greenhouse in this moment, far further than the doorway, which would mean she had set off the machanism but had some kind of time to walk forward before the glass shattered? Which is unplausable.
Then we see the glass fall down, shattered and the friend raises her arms above her head, sheltering herself from the onslaught of glass.
We see the nanny watching, she was cutting up an apple, and walks out with her knife. She enters the greenhouse slowly, hesitantly, before walking back out and continuing her errands.
Later police are looking inside the greenhouse and we see a shot of the friend, on her back with large shards of glass impaled and sticking out of her torso, limbs and face. Her eyes wide open.
I was flabberghasted, no one talks about it being weird or sus, its just accepted like yeah the glass fell and impaled her, like what??
I sincerely doubt that glass falling like that from that height would have enough force to impale someone, and surely with the way she was standing it would be in her skull? Not the front of her whole body?? Jaggard piece of glass sticking out of her leg like she was next to a glass explosion.
Stupid.
My only thought is that potentially it wasn’t the glass that killed her, but the nanny when she went out with her knife to check, but the cops aren’t suspicious, which makes it look like the friend just died because of this glass trap, which I just can’t believe!
It really broke the immersion of the story for me, and left me feeling annoyed that the moment was so anticipated and so stupid.
This could have been a really messed up situation had the daughter run inside the greenhouse, it could have added to the idea that the mother was not capable of being a good parent, and developed the nanny character as someone who would put children at risk just to own them, making the character even more interesting.
Aside from this one thing, the movie was great.

Movie 4: The Boogeyman

A family struct with grief over the recent loss of their wife and mother has to deal with a whole other type of grief in the form of an entity that comes after people’s children.

After the loss of their mother, sisters try to live their life as best they can, which is all uplifted when a man walks into their house unannounced begging their father for help.

Their father, a psychologist, recognizes the man’s despair and takes him in, setting up a last minute session with him. But when the man explains his children’s deaths are linked to him, the psychologist begins to fear the situation and excuses himself from the room to call law enforcement.

Once he leaves, the man disappears, and is later found hanging from the inside of a closet, dead.

From that moment on, the youngest daughter begins seeing things in her room and under her bed, and soon her eldest sister begins unraveling the mystery, looking deeper into the strange things happening in their house.

The creature was very interesting, and I think there was room to make it into less of a supernatural thing and more of an alien invasion, its instincts are to devour the children of those who do not care, feels like an invasive species to me. And they seem to multiply if they spread their goop far enough, if it is goop….its hard to tell if its goop or something else…supernatural black mysterious stuffs...?

I do believe they showed the creature too much, mystery is always preferred in monster movies because some of the fear is not knowing exactly what you’re up against.

I personally think it would have been more satisfying to have only glimpses of the eyes and face be visible for most of those shots (some of which are very creative and fun to watch) with a main reveal towards the end of just how crazy this creature looks.

It is predatory, it hunts and causes panic, lets its prey rest, only to scare them awake again, forcing it to always be alert, sleep deprived, and exhausted. It also mimics voices, a trend I’m seeing in horror movies ever since Annihilation came out with its terrifying bear monster.

3.5/5

While the monster was intriguing, I was bothered by the stupidity of this psychologist father, and the flow of the film was rough. I wasn’t super entertained, and I have no room for stupid endings.

Omg spoilers look out
The worst part about this movie is the way the father treats his children, he dismisses his youngest daughters fear and pain and tells her she’s seeing things that aren’t there, instead of being curious and kind considering this is a girl who just lost her mum and just had a strange man die in her house.
He has no empathy or understanding of how attached his daughter is to his wife’s memory, and attempts to chuck out her art supplies and clear out her art studio, the only part of her left behind. This greatly distresses the daughter, and he does not care.
He never cares, and that is part of the lore at hand, this creature targets the children of those who stop paying attention and stop looking after them, but this man is a psychologist and should know better than to insist his daughters be happy and normal after all this horrible stuff has just happened to them.
The acting from the daughters was great, the father’s character was awful and honestly unredeemable by the end of the story for me, even though they try to redeem him, this girl doesn’t forget…

Movie 5: Grimcutty

This was hysterical from the moment I saw the creature.

A family is going to their son’s recital, and the parents decide that the whole family will leave their phones at home for a detox day.

Their daughter is upset by this as she is trying to create a business streaming videos and creating content, which her parents do not understand or ask her any meaningful questions about.

During the recital the daughter sneaks off with a friend to look at the updates on her latest video post. While she does this their two fathers talk about news in the area, specifically the recent incident where a child stabbed his mum because of an internet trend known as Grimcutty.

The parents, terrified by the possible internet threat investigate further, finding an image of the creature and searching for how kids are getting access to it.

Once home as a family the parents begin lecturing their children on the internet challenge and explain that no matter what something online told them to do, they must not harm themselves of do bad things for an internet challenge.

Perplexed by the situation, the parents show the kids a photo of the creature.

Soon after the daughter claims to have seen the creature coming towards the house and walking through the door.

The police are called, they explain that they’re getting calls all over town about this thing, the daughter is believed to have either made it up as a prank, or has already somehow fallen victim to the Grimcutty challenge.

Later she screams as she sees it pop out from under the table in full view of her family, when she notices no one else right next to her saw it, she is confused and realizes it seems to only be visible to her.

Oh my god, the monster, Grimcutty, is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen since the werewolf make up in Ginger Snaps. He’s got these ridiculous white gloved hands that look like some kind of mickey mouse shit. He has this stupid round head and honestly it just looks like some Scooby Doo villain dressed up ready to have the mask removed.

“Father Montague! But why are YOU running around pretending to be GRIMCUTTY???”

“You see I hate the children, I wanted to give em’ all a good scare, get the smart phones taken away in mass so they pay attention in service…. and I would have succeeded too…if it wasn’t for YOU CHRONICALLY ONLINE TEENS!”

“Bake em’ away toys.”

But getting back to the nonsense at heart.

The parents decide to do a full blown digital lockdown, and present a safe given the title of “Detox Box” where the kids are forced to put their electronic and internet accessible devices into the box.

The situation continues to escalate, Grimcutty seems to appear more and more in the teen protagonists space, forcing her to seek out fellow peers to discuss the situation.

Many children have already been taken to hospital with “self inflicted” knife wounds, some of them in a seriously dire situation. The school holds an assembly about the situation, and during that the teen protagonist and a friend go to a school mates house to use his laptop to investigate.

2/5 stars.

This was the most obscene and stupid concept I’ve come across in all my years of horror movie watching. When explaining the movie to friends they all said the same thing “So this Grimcutty is just a fucked up guy running around in a costume right?”

Oh dear friends how I wish that were true.

If you want to know the specifics of this concept and why its so stupid, read the spoilers section below.

Ah spoilers!
Grimcutty is a manifestation of parental hysteria.

Gonna let that sink in for a moment.

Yes, so at some point in the film the protagonist is like “Omg Grimcutty totally only hurts people once their parents start freaking out, Grimcutty is powered by our parents fear!”

I had to pause the movie and think, was this true?
Ok, so Grimcutty only appears when they show the girl the image, they are already worried about her a lot (for no real good reason) and so Grimcutty goes after her and not her brother because the brother doesn’t worry the family.

The parents freak out about her not wanting to put her phone in the detox box, which summons grimcutty to stab her in the bathroom.

Once the parents see a recent shared image from a house party on the news, they notice their daughter is in the background, once they start racing over and panicking, grimcutty turns up and starts chasing the girl throught the house.

Once the parents get to the house they get a ping telling them their son has logged on to the internet with a different laptop he kept hidden from his parents.
They drag their daughter back to the car and fly home, in a panic for his safety, it is then that we see the younger brother at home and grimcutty is standing right behind him.

The son is hospitalised, and so is a friend of the teen, at the hospital it seems many of the kids at the party have been taken there to be treated for stab wounds after their parents freaked about about the shared video of kids pretending to be under the influence of grimcutty as a joke. The hysteria seems to have caused grimcutty to come after everyone.

This is the moment our teen is super smart and figures it all out.

Once I pieced all that together, I burst out laughing.
Ok, fine. Lets fucking go. I pressed play.

Earlier in the film the teen and her friend are trying to figure out why everyone’s parents are saying the same thing, like “the Detox Box” and the language used around leaving behind social media, and how to handle this issue.

She tracks the language back to a Mommy Vlogger, who has written blog posts about the detox box and other parenting methods. One of the posts titled something about Grimcutty has been removed from the site.
The teens theorise that she is the first person to have interracted with the Grimcutty phenomina and that they think she was the mum who was stabbed by her child from the beginning of the film.

The teen eventually finds the address with the help of her brother and travels to the location, the mommy blogger answers the door, claiming she knows nothing about Grimcutty and that her blog is not being operated currently. When she refuses to give more answers and shuts the door, the teen investigates the house, slipping inside and discovering the horrorifying state of the womans son.

He has been locked inside his room, and furthermore, locked inside a closet covered with padding. The boy is so malnourished and soiled his body collapses into the doorway as the daughter opens the door. He tells her to put him back before she finds out, but the mother walks in, armed with a gun, and forces the daughter out of the room.

When the teens mum arrives, she goes into the house hearing her daughters screams.

After they leave the house, they have a heated confrontation, before her mum settles down a bit. Then she realises what her daughter said in the house, about the boy locked in a closet.

As a nurse, she insists on going back into the house to do a wellfair check on the child, when both mothers stumble into his room to find him in the air, being strangled by something neither of them can see.

The mother still insists her child is sick, and won’t lower her gun, when the child is free he runs into the hall where his mother is and stabs her for the second time.
After she has been stabbed and her attention is no longer on her son, Grimcutty dissapears and the son takes a giant sigh of relief.

Going back to the hospital, the mother attempts to reason with the teens father, who is getting angrier and more irate by the second after finding out about his sons secret laptop and the types of searches he’s been doing.

The mother tries to calm him, suggesting he should take a sedative shot to calm down.

Once he see’s his daughter all of his wife’s comments are ignored as he goes after her with the shot. Grimcutty follows them the whole time.
The sequence ends in them outside, she has stabbed her father by this point to try and get distance from grimcutty. The father, broken by his daughters actions, walks onwards towards her, until he sees her lifted off the ground by something he cannot see.

He takes the shot, and passes out, and Grimcutty vanishes.

And the moral of the story, is don’t take away your kids devices, at the very least you’re putting them in a more dangerous position by not having access to immediate emergency support. Lol jk.
The moral of the story is stop freaking out about your kids and let them be kids.

I cannot begin to express how boring and stupid this was, once again another silly story about parents not believing their children.

I will say this, if you have young teens who want to watch a stupid horror movie that they will absolutely tease their parents about, this is a big winner.

The gore is minimal (except it can look like self harm so beware of being triggered), the monster is stupid and looks like it should make a squeaky noise if you hit it, and the general plot was just painfully slow and annoying.

At least I had a good laugh at its expense though.

2/5 stars.

Movie 6: Antlers

Oh Antlers, how much potential you had, squandered by poor writing.

Antlers is the story of an ancient myth come to life.

While making meth in an abandoned mine, two men encounter something deep in the caverns, something that destroys one of the men, and leaves the other man barely alive.

While this is happening, the son of one of the men sits quietly in a Ute, waiting for his father to return.

We then switch perspectives to a sister and a brother who have recently reunited in their family home, a home the sister once fled because of extreme abuse she faced from her father.

She has returned to mend things with her brother, the towns sheriff, and to continue her job of being a teacher at the local school.

The boy from earlier, is a focus in the classroom, he is bullied and targeted by other kids, and he is very quiet in class.

The teacher keeps an eye on him, and after he is called to stand and read a story he wrote in class, she becomes even more concerned for his wellbeing.

The atmosphere of this film is great, its dark and stormy and damp and cold.

You get a real sense for how isolated and alone the boy is, and every detail of the film calls back to that sense of loneliness.

The boy is a wonderful actor, and his role in the story is fully cemented.

My issue with the film is divided across two aspects.

The first is the nature of how the creature or beast works, it’s a little confusing, and the ending is filled with questions about what it means and how it works. I hate unresolved endings.

The other issue I have is the account of abuse from the Sister and Brother, the film is trying to link this woman to the young boy through their mutual experiences of abuse and neglect.

But the woman’s experience is complicated, we see flashes of memories hinting at what happened but it is not explicit or clear what that abuse was.

Later she verbalizes the account of the abuse at a very inappropriate moment, suggesting her brother never experienced the extent of abuse she did. He simply responds with “You don’t know what he did to me.”

The conversation about abuse ends there, which is very jarring.

If the whole point of her coming back was to mend things with her brother, shouldn’t they actually talk about that?

The story presents a situation where this woman can step in and help the boy the way no one stepped up to help her. This is a reasonable motivation for this woman to have, but its presented as her having experienced flat abuse, and refusing to let it happen again.

But the abuse has already happened to this child, the child is already traumatised, they don’t really require saving so much as they require genuine nurturing and kindness.

By the end it seems like they force the child to be with them, rather than the kid wanting to be with them.

The ending depicts the same messed up situation, just under the control of this sister, who seems oblivious to the real feelings of this kids, and the feelings of her brother about this change, or the fact that maybe she isn’t ready to help a kid like this.

Its just….ugh it lacks any real ending. It lacks an emotional connection. It lacks the audience shouting at the tv to save the kid, it lacks the emotion of a child finally finding safety with someone else.

Because horror movies are OBSESSED with ending on a question.

Which I hate.

Once again. Own your ending, and own it right.

My favourite movie of the week was the Menu, with Ready or Not as a close second place.

Its hard to screw up comedic horror, the edgyness of murder with the energy of Adam Sandler is usually a hit, the balance works out.

“Serious” horror has a few more hoops to jump through that the other films just didn’t make.

The Boogeyman had a good monster with way too much visibility and an ending that screamed “the end…question mark?????” which I despise. Own your endings. Own your lore.

The concept of a father refusing to acknowledge the seriousness of that specific situation was both crigey and infuriating.

Grimcutty….what a disaster. A manifestation of parental hysteria, my friends burst into laughter just on hearing my description of this one. Once again, a crigey “moral of the story” for parents hating on our generations smart phone reliance, which is the very thing that almost gets everyone killed.

This was the biggest joke of a movie so far, but at least I laughed at it, unlike Boogeyman, that was just sadness without resolution. I’d still be mad at my dad for that one.

Then there’s Antlers, certainly not the worst film of the week, but I was very dissaponted in the direction it took, with such a strong beginning, it really falls off towards the end, and I find myself feeling a lack of connection towards everyone in the end.

This was a wetting of the pallet, it is now time to delve into more serious territory.

Next week I will be watching films that look genuinely suspensful and interesting to me, instead of just finding what ever I haven’t already seen on Disney plus.

Lets hope the scares turn up a notch in the second week of Spooky Movie Mayhem.

Please enjoy the collection of stills below that I found of Grimcutty while writing this article