Death of Me

‘Death of Me’ is a 2020 horror movie currently streaming on Netflix, starring Maggie Q (Fantasy Island), Luke Hemsworth (Hickok), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep), and Kat Ingkarat (Locked Up). Two Tourists (Q, and Hemsworth) vacation at an island paradise. They stop at a local bar and have a local drink only to blackout and not remember the night, they ended up videotapping the night and find out one of them killed the other when they go back and look at the footage.

I read an article on Creepy Catalog saying this is the best current horror film to stream on Netflix, so I had to check it out. I didn’t even know there was a third Hemsworth brother until this film, he’s like the Wish version of Chris Hemsworth, sorry Luke but it’s true. Whoever on Creepy Catalog considers this the best Netflix has to stream either didn’t watch it or they don’t know good horror. It has an interesting concept, but that’s about it. It fills the rest with blood and gore, and random flashes of what they consider scary images. Random blood and gore, doesn’t make a good horror movie, it needs to have a good story and this is where this one falls flat. I would skip this one all together, I give it a 4.5/10.

The Lighthouse

‘The Lighthouse’ is 2019 horror/drama that can be currently found in Redbox. ‘The Lighthouse’ follows the story of two lighthouse keepers who are on the job for four weeks while waiting for their relief as they slowly slip into insanity. ‘The Lighthouse’ has a very small cast, it’s only a two person cast made up of Willem Dafoe (The Boondock Saints), and Robert Pattinson (Twilight).

‘The Lighthouse’ was nominated for several awards and won several as well. It is also highly rated on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic. It’s filmed in black and white and the use of light and shadows give it an old school look. The movie itself is very odd, the acting from Dafoe and Pattinson is solid, and both men play their parts very well. However the movie is filled with random flash scenes, such as Pattinson having sex with a mermaid, and octopus tentacles. The two hour run time feels much longer, more like a three hour movie. It has you guessing what is going on through much of it. I feel if you like artsy type movies, this one will be up your alley. Even though the acting is good and it’s highly rated, for me it’s a pass. I give it a 4.5/10.

Brahms: The Boy II

I was skeptical about ‘The Boy’ when it came out in 2016, especially being pg13. It looked dumb and dull, but I gave it a shot anyway. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed it, I even own it on DVD now. The ending is fantastic, and brings the entire thing together. So ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ being out now, I was more than excited to go see this. I have been waiting for it’s release date.

Not a real big cast in the film. It’s led by Katie Holmes (Dawsons’s Creek), and also stars Ralph Ineson (The Witch), Owain Yeoman (The Mentalist), and Christopher Convery (Gotham). We didn’t really need a sequel to ‘The Boy’ since everything was wrapped up in the first film and I didn’t really see what direction they could go it, but I was excited to go see it. The movie begins when a break in occurs when a mother and son are home and the dad is away at work. The son is scarred from the event and goes mute, the father thinks it will do his family some good and gets them out of the city and rents a house in the country side. The house is the guest house for the Heelshire manor. While taking a walk in the woods the son discovers Brahms buried, and digs him up and brings him home. Now in the first film Brahms is broken, that’s one of the major things to happen that causes everything to hit the fan. This one Brahms is complete, which they address, the caretaker puts Brahms back together. Which bugged me at first, but okay I can deal with that. Then they take a complete u-turn and go a complete different direction than the first film. In ‘The Boy’ he is just a normal doll, and it sets up for the big twist ending. That’s the whole point of the film. In ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ it’s more than just an old creepy doll, it’s a supernatural entity. Other than going against the first film ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ is dull and boring, and just seems to drag on. It’s the sequel we didn’t need or ask for, and hopefully it falls into obscurity because ‘The Boy’ is a great film. I give it a 4.5/10