Awake not Woke!

Considered to be an influential early slasher from Italy. I watched the subtitled version and the acting is not great but about on par for 1970's horror. Several of the kills are later copied almost exactly in the original Friday the 13th. There are some pretty inventive kills for the time and a couple of very brutal gory deaths with great FX. I found the movie to be a bit boring overall but it's worth a watch if you're interested in the beginnings of the violent gory slasher genre to come. Nothing woke.

This is completely pointless and has virtually nothing to do with the previous movies. It's a standard slasher set in the 80's with none of the supernatural overarching themes. The acting is terrible and worse than the previous entries never gets the 80's right. Using music and props alone doesn't do it. The clothes, the hair, the dialogue the attitudes everything is wrong. The story is garbage and nonsensical. The kills are boring and bland. There is the usual to much DEI overrepresentation and of course the white female lead is attracted to the mixed Spanish boy. Even if for some reason you like the original trilogy this is much worse and nothing like those.

Well that was a complete waste of time. This series finished with one big giant garbage wokefest. This was so bad after about 30 minutes I started watching the rest on fast forward just to see if it ended as I suspected it would. It's set in 1666 and for some stupid reason they decided to use all the same actors from the previous 2 parts but to play completely different roles. The acting is terrible and the accents are laughable. At no point does this ever feel like something from 1666, everything is way off from the language to the way people look to the attitudes, it's a bunch of Gen Z morons larping. The story is an absolute nonsense woke wet dream. The same mixed race sister and her black brother are back again this time with a white father, in 1666. The mixed sisters white lesbian girlfriend is back and there is a lesbian oral sex scene. Multiple instance of white men attempting to molest, rape or otherwise assault women and men are just in general bad and women are good. The entire series plot comes down to the evil religious homophobic white people are to blame for everything. The evil witch isn't really bad and is just the victims of the patriarchy and evil religion suppressing her lesbian love, IN 1666!!! This completely destroys any slight watchability the previous 2 parts had. Utter garbage!!!

Part 2 of a 3 part series. Continues directly after part 1. The DEI black brother and mixed sister with her lesbian white girlfriend are back but in minor roles the bookend the main story here. Ziggy character is the modern angry, aggressive, generally nasty unlikable modern feminist character. Almost the exact same character as the main one from part 1 actually. I immediately hated her as she is such a terrible person. Alice is another annoying female character and there is some general girl power stuff and DEI casting choices but nowhere near as woke as part 1. They got the music, clothes and aesthetics right for time but that's about it. The language, attitudes camera angles and everything else is off and just feels like modern kids playing a part. The story is cliché but it does move along the main overarching plot nicely. There are some pretty brutal kills and some decent blood and gore FX. However writing once again is just not very good. You know there is a killer on the loose and you go running around camp alone screaming loudly trying to find people. Character breaks her ankle with the bone sticking out the side of her leg and just pushes it back in and is up and walking with barely a limp then climbs up a rock wall face unassisted. Another character takes an axe swing to the leg and later is running across a field. Character is stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen with a large butcher knife and dies for about a minute and is brought back by CPR. Despite these problems I actually think this is a little better than the first one maybe a 3.5 but not good enough to round up to a 4.