Awake not Woke!

Lots of potential for an old school 70's grindhouse slasher. The movie looks great and the cinimatogphay is spot of this style. The FX are well done and there's some disturbing kills. However the lead female's acting is pretty poor. The Dolly character who never speaks and has a mask on the entire time has to rely on physical acting and again it's not very good. The character isn't really scary or threatening, it just comes of as goofy and silly. Then there's the woke aspects, Dolly is played by a nonbinary they/them loony. All the males are useless and just there to be killed. The lead female finds a white male tied up and tortured so she frees him and he just instantly grabs her and goes full rapist. In the end it's just a woke, cheap Texas Chainsaw ripoff that's not worth the short 70 minute runtime.

A woman wakes up trapped inside a moving rv trailer and can only talk to her captor driving through a speaker. It's a very low budget movie with most of if taking place inside the camper and only a couple of actors. The acting is ok but the surprise is easily figured out very early on. It's another movie that requires characters not to withhold information or say and act ways that aren't believable. It also gets boring pretty quickly as very little happens for the first 45 minutes or so. I didn't see anything woke but it was losing my attention by the halfway point so I could of missed something. It's not awful but I was pretty bored with it.

Woke Mommy, Soft Daddo

*Other Mommy* pushes the usual woke inversion: career mom as the masculine provider, soft “Daddo” as the feminine male caretaker. Kids need a father who models masculinity and a mother who models femininity. Swapping those roles just leaves them without clear examples of how they will grow into one. Chastain’s face is so tight, uncanny and pure Hollywood product that she was able to pull off the monster without makeup. Her trying to play a normal mother looks about as natural as a mannequin sitting at the dinner table.

It starts out somewhat promising and seems like it will be a retro throwback to 90's early 2000's supernatural horror. Unfortunately it also has all the problems as those low budget movies did. While some of the acting is ok a lot of it is hilariously bad. The practical FX look decent but any use of CG looks really cheap and poorly done. The story is standard fare and very cliché. It's far to long at almost 2 hrs. and drags on at a snails pace and gets very boring quickly. Woke consists of DEI overrepresentation and the usual feminism. All the white males are either villains or idiots.