Horror Films:
Night (2019)
Heading out to find a new victim, a serial killer finds a young girl and brings her back to his lair in order to torture her for a legion of followers online only to have his hands full with trying to ensure he can stay focused on the task at hand.
A series of short interconnecting slasher stories detailing horrors in suburban locales: a teen desperate for a hookup is stalked by a serial killer; a woman housesitting for a friend learns why she was warned from entering a special room; a man staying at his friends' house learns the chain letter urban legend he's involved in is real.
Tales from Six Feet Under (2020)
Arriving in a cemetery, a figure known as the Visitor reveals how the proprietors ended up six feet under: a guy begins playing with a Ouija board which connects him to a dark entity; a frustrated film student trying to present his latest project won't let go a killer new idea; a woman wants to meet up with an old flame which means she gets followed by someone or something sinister.
Overall, this was a pretty solid short. The central premise is intriguing enough to provide a rationale for their stupidity in entering the house while also allowing for some nice atmosphere with the scenes of the camera-man crawling through the darkened house. As the video-camera recording everything contains the only source of light in the scene, it adds a nice eeriness to the situation as the ethereal laughing and running footsteps in the distance. With a chilling-looking doll to cap off the suspense this aspect gets put to good use here. The one downside here is that the brevity of the short means that there's very little in the way of actually explaining things. The only way we know the owner of the house is gone is through the pre-determined synopsis which also informs us of the intent behind the individual actually attempting the robbery. With nothing in the way of actual purpose for stealing the doll or how he learned of its existence, there's a decided lack of context for everything which makes what happens not that terrifying.
Overall, this emerges as a pretty solid continuation of the series. The opening recap and eventual aftermath of the dolls' attacks are shown rather nicely here making for a logical extension of the events from the previous segment while also managing to showcase some solid and fun gore-gags for the kill. That stands out the most with this one with the brutality on display here which is incredibly well-done for this type of genre effort with all the splatter and exposed inner organs on display in the segment. There's not much to dislike here, mainly only in the fact that so much of the running time here is slightly redundant and unnecessary. Taking out the opening and closing credits plus the recap to show how he got into this situation, there's not much in the way of original content here which basically amounts to the attack and resulting aftermath that could've been tacked onto an existing segment as this amount of original footage seems to make for a questionable release strategy. Still, that's really all that stands out here and isn't even that detrimental anyway.
Heading out to find a new victim, a serial killer finds a young girl and brings her back to his lair in order to torture her for a legion of followers online only to have his hands full with trying to ensure he can stay focused on the task at hand.
Anthologies:
Urban Fears (2019)
A series of short interconnecting slasher stories detailing horrors in suburban locales: a teen desperate for a hookup is stalked by a serial killer; a woman housesitting for a friend learns why she was warned from entering a special room; a man staying at his friends' house learns the chain letter urban legend he's involved in is real.
Arriving in a cemetery, a figure known as the Visitor reveals how the proprietors ended up six feet under: a guy begins playing with a Ouija board which connects him to a dark entity; a frustrated film student trying to present his latest project won't let go a killer new idea; a woman wants to meet up with an old flame which means she gets followed by someone or something sinister.
Shorts-
Overall, this was a pretty solid short. The central premise is intriguing enough to provide a rationale for their stupidity in entering the house while also allowing for some nice atmosphere with the scenes of the camera-man crawling through the darkened house. As the video-camera recording everything contains the only source of light in the scene, it adds a nice eeriness to the situation as the ethereal laughing and running footsteps in the distance. With a chilling-looking doll to cap off the suspense this aspect gets put to good use here. The one downside here is that the brevity of the short means that there's very little in the way of actually explaining things. The only way we know the owner of the house is gone is through the pre-determined synopsis which also informs us of the intent behind the individual actually attempting the robbery. With nothing in the way of actual purpose for stealing the doll or how he learned of its existence, there's a decided lack of context for everything which makes what happens not that terrifying.
Overall, this emerges as a pretty solid continuation of the series. The opening recap and eventual aftermath of the dolls' attacks are shown rather nicely here making for a logical extension of the events from the previous segment while also managing to showcase some solid and fun gore-gags for the kill. That stands out the most with this one with the brutality on display here which is incredibly well-done for this type of genre effort with all the splatter and exposed inner organs on display in the segment. There's not much to dislike here, mainly only in the fact that so much of the running time here is slightly redundant and unnecessary. Taking out the opening and closing credits plus the recap to show how he got into this situation, there's not much in the way of original content here which basically amounts to the attack and resulting aftermath that could've been tacked onto an existing segment as this amount of original footage seems to make for a questionable release strategy. Still, that's really all that stands out here and isn't even that detrimental anyway.
Camo vs. Genevieve
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