Awake not Woke!

A mix of documentary style and traditional filmmaking. The acting is good and while there is a little blood and gore the movie relies more on atmosphere and building tension for it's scares and there are some creepy disturbing scenes. There's a few jump scares but not much so if you like cheap jump scares as 'horror' then this is not for you. Pretty good story revolving around folk horror though there's some shoddy CG that sticks out sometimes. For a low budget indie project though it's pretty good. The only woke is a token DEI casting choice for one of the group of 4 YouTube streamers. She's a minor secondary character and hardly on screen I almost gave it a woke free but it's there so I will give it a 1 Recommended if you like your horror with a little less blood and guts and more atmospheric buildup.

This shark movie is as generic, cliché and paint by numbers as it gets. Group of annoying, DEI checkmark gen z friends on vacation get trapped by a shark. Another movie where everybody is unlikable an irritating so who cares if they all die. It's the usual watered down PG-13 horror movie aimed at teens. Once they get into the caves the movie shot so darkly you can't tell what's happening most of the time. The shark is unrealistic and doesn't act like any shark in existence. Out of a group of 5 friends there is one white male. No surprise he is the dumbest man-child in the group who literally almost cries when he sees someone's bloody knee from a small scrape. Normally I would give this a 1 for woke but the white male character is so comically stupid and childish it really feels like such a deliberately woke move. This is terrible and not even worth watching for shark fans.

This is a British creature horror movie mostly taking place in an underground cave system. The acting ranges from ok to a bit poor, but nothing awful. It's the usual stupid characters doing stupid unrealistic things. The underground scenes in the cave has very distracting lighting. It should be pitch black except for the flashlights and sometimes it is but others there is so much ambient light the flashlight beams are almost invisible. It's a minor complaint but it does get distracting. There's some decent creature FX but I kept thinking something was a bit off. It almost looks like 2 different people directed, 1 for the actors and 1 that did all the fx and creature shots. There were no wide shots anywhere and most of the creature shots are separate and not in the same scene as any of the actors. It feels like disconnected somehow and doesn't feel like they are in the same room or even the same environment. It's hard to visualize the scenes and what's taking place as a whole because there's everything's too close up with no wide establishing shots anywhere. I originally thought this was just some lackluster directing or lack of budget to blend the CG together. However after watching the movie and doing a little searching I found out this movie heavily utilized A.I. to generate all the creature fx. It all makes sense why everything looked off. This explains a lot. Nothing woke that I saw. It's somewhat watchable if you really like creature horror but be prepared for a heavy dose of A.I. slop.

Claims it's inspired by a true story at the start. Turns out the directors friend flew a helicopter that was shot at went into a spiral and recovered without crashing and the director decided to fabricate a movie that's complete fiction and based on nothing, so total b.s. The acting is pretty poor and there isn't really any story to speak of. For some reason they decided to blare awful rap music over a bunch of scenes that's so loud you can't hear anything else plus it doesn't even match the scenes. There's some decent action scenes and the movie looks good enough and is well filmed. It appears to have a decent budget so it's a shame this didn't turn out better than it did. The characters are too annoying especially the dumb as dirt contractor that's along for the ride. The only real woke would be some DEI casting especially in the completely miscast tiny Asian female baddass soldier who is borderline girlboss even though she's not the highest ranking one there. Might be worth a one time watch if you really like military style movies.