Awake not Woke!

Another thinly disguised genre movie that's really just there to push the woke agenda. It's pretty much impossible to review this without spoilers so I will put that at the end. The acting is all over the place but generally not great with some terrible accents as well. The gore fX look fake and unimpressive. It's very slow moving and lite on the horror. This is really here just to push feminism in general but the rainbow mafia as well. Why are the hillbilly males stereotypical, dirty, dumb and unkempt. The female hillbillies are just normal people. Well mannered, well dressed, full makeup and hair and of course also badass. By the second half the whole thing just turns into a big lesbian gay statement against masculinity. Spoilers.... The other family the closeted lesbian daughter and the suppressed by the father wife who don't really want to kill anymore. The father and son are crazed killers and love it. The lesbian daughter just happens to stumble upon the lesbian hillbilly and make out. This is of course her chance to reveal everything to her homophobic father and turn on the evil father and son, escape and go be her happy lesbian self.

I love this movie... and guitars

I had to give this one a tick of woke. It's actually a half-tick rounded up. Willie argues that Eugene would be "just one more white boy ripping off our music." Willie also gets called "mud-duck" by a white pimp in a small southern town. That's about it for the woke report. The movie itself is based on the legend of Robert Johnson's deal with the devil at the crossroads. Willie is a harmonica player that spent his life in prison over a self-defense killing of a band member. Eugene is a privileged classical guitar prodigy who is obsessed with Robert Johnson. He believes Johnson had a song that never got recorded and Willie may be the last chance to find it. Eugene breaks Willie out of the hospital, and they go on the road. Eugene is looking for a lost song. Willie is looking for a way to back out of his deal with the devil. The strength of this movie is the music. There's kind of a Devil Went Down to Georgia story at the end. It's a guitar contest between Eugene and the Devil's guitarist (Steve Vai). If you don't watch the movie, at least find the ending on YouTube. The contest is called "Cutting Heads." Ralph Macchio learned to play guitar for this part. He didn't do the actual playing, but he developed enough skill that you wouldn't know it. Ry Cooder played most of the actual soundtrack. Vai, of course, played for real. It was awesome!

Another Norwegian monster movie. The acting is pretty bad and the FX look cheap. For some reason there is a lot of blurry out of focus background scenes that are distracting. The title Kraken shows up for about 30 seconds of bad CG screen time, the rest is all cheap looking tentacles and the first 45 minutes is pretty much all setup with nothing happening. The ending is hilariously bad and the whole movie is an environmentalist monster revenge movie on evil humans destroying the ecosystem and messing with nature. There is far too much DEI casting here for a Norwegian movie where the country is 94 percent white. The opening scenes has a white male and black male, the 3 teenagers' includes a black male and the lead is a mixed Iranian Norwegian female. Speaking of this is another movie all about the females, every group is focused on female leads with background male characters, the scrawny female police officer, the mixed Iranian smart scientist, the teenagers focus on the female of the group. The only one that has a male lead is the evil corporation harming the environment.

A lot of DEI overrepresentation in casting. Leads assistant is gay. As far as I can remember there were very few white males anywhere to be seen here. At 2hrs and 7 minutes this an overly long slow moving bloated film that should of been cut significantly. Far too much time is spent trying to convince the audience this character is a famous pop superstar. Too many musical dance scenes with terrible songs and a lot of time spent on her going about her day. There is very little horror and a lot of angsty drama. How many times can you use the jump scare it's in her head and not real tactic before the scenes lose any possible affect they may of had. The lead who is pretty much on screen the entire time just isn't good enough an actor to carry the movie and despite what they want you to believe has all the likability and charisma of burnt toast. The FX are decent and there are a couple of creepy scenes but it seems like the director is more interested in making some weird statement about celebrity and fame than an actual horror movie. The best scene in the entire movie is the opening 10 or so minutes. Where's the rest of that movie, that was far better than the entire rest of the film.