Embrace Victorian blood feuds as a genre.
Categories: Movie and Series Reviews, Thriller
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) 4/5
Categories 4/5, Horror, Movie and Series Reviews, Mystery, Thriller 
Not poking fun at the horror genre but celebrating it. Horror and comedy move entangled almost seamlessly.
Panic Room (2002) 3.5/5
Categories 3.5/5, Crime, Drama, Movie and Series Reviews, Thriller 
I vibe hard with single location movies. Panic room is easily consumed and very rewatchable. There are clear mistakes that cut it short of something great, a few frustrating choices in an otherwise enjoyable flick.
Caddo Lake (2024) 3.5/5
Categories 3.5/5, Drama, Movie and Series Reviews, Mystery, Thriller 
Clever film with an interesting setting. Maybe break out pen and paper afterwards to make sense of it, if that is your jam.
Event Horizon (1997) 2.5/5
Categories 2.5/5, Horror, Movie and Series Reviews, Sci-Fi, Thriller 
I have a soft spot for Event Horizon. Cosmic horror is just rare and kind of fun. I’ve seen the movie quite a few times, but when I watch it I know I am eating garbage. Acting, direction, script, everything is all uneven. Still, the many pieces that take inspiration from other sources have something to them.
Lets stop remaking good movies, lets remake Event Horizon.
Glass (2019) 1.5/5
Glass is so impatient with its characters that it feels detached from Unbreakable and Split. The camera jumps around, dialogue is fast and sometimes feels weak, and McAvoy is a delight to see again but even his multiple characters are shown very little patience of time.
Some strings are also pulled way too tight to get all of these characters together again, some not making sense as they are portrayed.
Shyamalan is not always balanced in his casting and direction of said casts either, and this is no exception as there are uneven performances.
Shyamalan also, once again, falls victim to having cool ideas and hamfisting his way to their execution. Ultimately it does what it always does, cool moments mixed with nonsensical ones and an overall feeling of “if only he had done a better.” The characters deserved so much better.
Twisters (2024) 2.5/5
Categories 2.5/5, Action, Adventure, Movie and Series Reviews, Thriller 
I don’t believe these people are from Oklahoma. I feel like this movie would benefit a lot from the theme park treatment: rumbling chairs and smoke in the air. Just shut your brain off and you will have more fun than me.
A Quiet Place Part II (2020) 4/5
Building off of what came before, Regan, the daughter, is now empowered and her and the movie at large are reconnecting humanity. If the first movie was about grief, sacrifice, and survival, then this one is about hope and resilience.
I’m just going to make a list here because I don’t have it in my to explain properly why I like this movie and yet have a lot of issues with it at the same time.
• Multiple times adult characters just up and leave children when everything tells us they would let them know first, if at least so that they do not follow.
• There is also a blatant misunderstanding of how a basic amplifier works and I looked really close for a battery compartment. You cannot just cut the cord off and immediately use it.
• Then there is the use of a record player as a two parter issue, one being that it is convoluted way to get attention and two being records do not just keep playing nonstop like an mp3 would. The second I can let go and assume the station had some automatic arm that was able to repeat the record.
• Oxygen tanks do not explode. Oxygen cannot make a fire, only contribute to it.
• There is a bit where a young character suddenly explores, but the characters motivation doesn’t really exist for this, and I would argue it exists in the opposite direction. I think there is a reason this scene is cut alongside another: one is good and one is not.
• The first movie showed that the creatures seemed like good swimmers. It seems retroactive to now make them die in water. It is around the hour and four minute mark in the original, the basement scene. I went back to check and the thing lowers its head in the water and slithers into it. Shallow? Sure, but that thing clearly was comfortable with water. It was submerged for almost 30 seconds of screen time. Also, Signs did it first.
That all having been said, I still enjoyed the movie and a lot of the touching sentiment was not missed on me. The list makes it seem as though I am going super hard on the movie, but I only say something because I got invested. The only truly awful thing was the amplifier, that hurt my soul. My mind says it is a 3 1/2, but my heart says to give it a 4.