Awake not Woke!

A hidden gem this is not. A 1976 horror film that's average at best. The acting is not great although Brand gives an ok performance as Judd the creepy hotel owner/killer. The story is nothing new, the kills are fairly generic with about what you would expect from a 70's indie horror as far as blood and gore goes, passable but that's about it. The croc looks pathetically fake as do the outdoor scenes of the hotel. It looks like a badly lit stage shot, nothing looks real. There is a very young Robert Englund here but he doesn't get much to do really. This may be ok if you are really bored or looking for some background entertainment but don't expect much out of it. Nothing woke here.

I didn't realize until about 30 minutes in this is actually a sequel. The main couple and killer are lesbian and there is some minor DEI casting choices. This is anything but horror, it's a crazy woman who kills social media influencers. The acting and writing is all pretty bad. She is the dumbest killer ever, she has half of her face covered in a huge birthmark and is anything but inconspicuous yet obviously follows people around in public acting suspicious. She takes her victims phones and posts to their accounts after killing them even using her own laptop. Her girlfriend at the beginning is immediately suspicious of her for no reason as she hasn't done anything at that point to cause her to be. The whole thing is so slow and boring with lots of melodrama. There is no suspense or tension in anything. The whole movie plays out like one of those bad lifetime channel thrillers. There is a scene with what I am assuming is from the first movie with a survivor being interviewed saying she's done all this before in Thailand and she witnessed it and saw her as well as have camera footage of her yet nobody believer her or is able to find this very unique looking individual. The kills are very few and even they are unoriginal and bland. I made it 45 boring ass minutes of this and decided to move on.

Another bad series. I decided to check this out even though I knew it was cancelled after 2 seasons. Supposedly a dark comedy horror fantasy series this fails at all of them. The acting is average, but all the characters are unlikable or annoying. Nobody acts or talks like these people do. The daughter who is supposed to be in high school is clearly played by an actress in her 20's. While I don't care or get offended by swearing in movies there is a point where it's just ridiculous and over the top distracting. There are so many F bombs as well as everything else in this it's just silly. The wife randomly bangs the younger handyman in the kitchen and 3 months later the husband is acting like nothing big happened and is pretty much begging her to have sex with him. I mean really, 3 months and they kind of treat it like a running joke around the house. The humor is weird and never funny, the so called 'horror' consists of jump scares and loud noises. The cinematography and camera angles look like a cheap CW show. Actually now that I think about it other then the language it's all very tame and PG-13. I made it through 2 episodes and that was enough. It may get more woke as it goes on but in that time the only woke I really saw was maybe some DEI in secondary characters, the cuck husband and the next door neighbors are Asian and the daughter immediately goes after the Asian son. I'm actually surprised this made it a second season before getting dumped.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of the classic science fiction films of all time. Reviewers have said that in a time of men in monster suits and close-ups of oversized spiders, this film stands out and I agree. The main flaw I've always felt is that the people of Earth are so dimwitted, arrogant and self-centered that they utterly disregard Klaatu and Gort, even after they're told Earth will be zapped into oblivion. It somewhat annoys the viewer, but if we take a step back, nothing has really changed in modern times. And, no. I haven't even watched the remake. What a disgrace. I wonder if they packed it full of woke ideology, though.