Synopsis: Based on a true story, THE POSSESSION is the terrifying story of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil.
Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
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Yep, it’s RANT time, and this time I am SURE I am not alone…
Are you as sick of 3D as I am? Every fucking time I go to the movies I am pigeon holed into seeing the films I want to see…but in 3D. It’s like they put the 2D version off the schedulle so you have to go to the 3D one…not only does that mean I pay about 3 bucks more, but I have to put those shitty glasses over my own, and keep my head perfectly straight and still if I want to ‘enjoy’ the effect! Now, don’t get me wrong, I have seen ‘good’ 3D. Resident Evil:Extinction comes to mind, Avatar, and TRON also utilized the 3D well. But when every other movie is available in 3D, it just feels ‘tacked on’.
Oh… wait, there was one more recent 3D movie I enjoyed…
Yep… Piranha 3D (the sequel was awful and had ‘bad’ 3D…) Yeah, I guess I should have used a pic of the actual piranha to illustrate my love for the movie, but really, in all honesty the best use of the 3D was in the raunchier party scenes… oh, ok… here is one that relates to the blog more:
Better? Cool, let’s move on.
3 D in the 50’s was a ‘neat’ gimmick that didn’t really ‘overstay’ it’s welcome, and in the 80’s made a resurgence for a little bit…it DID overstay it’s welcome then. Did we learn nothing from this? I think there is only ONE forgivable title from back then, the iconic ‘introduction of the Hockey Mask’ Friday the 13th, part 3 in 3D:
This was a movie that KNEW the 3D was ‘bad’ and played up on it with various ‘oh look, I’m pointing stuff at the camera’ kinds of shots. It also had the greatest horror theme song ever…EVER:
But I digress… what of 3D today? Do we really NEED to see Paranorman in 3D? NO… It IS a great movie, but 3D is just…not needed at all. It’s almost like Hollywood has decided that if the film is in 3D then it will be better, well guess what- it only will make more money because you charge MORE for 3D!!!
Simply put: If a movie is good, then the gimmick really isn’t needed. Movies like Piranha were cool with the 3D because we KNEW the damn thing was going to be bad, but we had fun at it anyway… There will always be exceptions to this rule, but lately it’s just sad to see studios tacking 3D on to every damn thing… 3D died twice as a trend already, maybe it’s time to let it go again…in 3D, as in 3rd time Dead?
Thus endeth the Rant…
I’m ‘the Zombieking’…and this topic is now DEAD to me.
So, I have to admit that I did not know how long I would be down with my recent computer troubles, so I enlisted some help to get through some of the movie reviews… so I brought in a guest reviewer, and he was not happy. I hope he helps me out in the future, but who knows… HA!
On to the review:
ALIEN ORIGIN from the B-Boys at The Asylum.
Spoiler Alert: this so-called found footage documentary sucks.
First off, let me give props to the editors for attempting to make something out of the cheap footage they had to work with. On with the review.
As an ancient alien enthusiast I probably had more reason than most to watch this flick, and ultimately all the more personal reason to hate it in the end. (By the way, I only made it to the end in order to give it the full review).
As I suspected after the trailer-like intro to the piece, there was going to be no explanation regarding the origin of anything except how the footage came to be recorded by a female documentarian, who for some reason at one point does an impersonation of a reporter for the camera, and her two cameramen while they accompany a small group of soldiers into the jungles of Belize. I won’t even start on how ridiculous these so-called soldiers are – it’s a movie so let’s just roll with it.
Wait, we can’t.
The problem here is that found footage films rely on one basic principle to sell their story: they’re supposedly real. But too quickly does this excuse to cash in on the caught-on-tape craze fall down. The first of the Blair Witch scene-steals has the cameras capturing a “visit” during the night by “something” and we see snippets of the footage, but when the crew wakes up in the morning the cameras that captured that footage have been taken by the “visitor”. The obvious question here is, you guessed it, how are we seeing footage from cameras that were taken away from the crew?
And it continues to go down river from there.
A nice money-saving, but audience-losing, device employed by the producers here was fucking up every single frame with anything alien – or action – in it to the point where it was nothing but dropped frames, glitches, sound effects and noise. Scary? Of course not. Interesting? Not at all. Annoying beyond tolerable levels? Very much so. All the footage of the cast walking and talking is in good shape though, so that’s something.
There is one outstanding thing about this flick: if you’re looking for something on Netflix to fall asleep to this one will put you out fast. Even for a found footage film, this flick is boring. That is all. The end. Cut to black.
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Wait!!! Review tack on (just like the film tacks on the last thirty second scene): They finally explain the “origin” of the supposed aliens!!! A producer of the flick must have noticed that nothing had been explained before the end because it’s explained with a b-roll shot of two cast members whose faces we can’t see and two new voices badly recorded in someone’s kitchen dubbed in over top. And the explanation for everything? Well I don’t want to ruin the movie for you.
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I guess that says it all, in good conscience, I can’t get behind this one:
If you really ‘got to have it’ though, don’t say I didn’t warn you…you can get it HERE:
