Netflix has recently released one of the most terrifying horror originals to date with an eight-episode French horror series called Marianne.
This film kicks things off into high gear right off the bat with very environment rich scary vibes. Things start off with creaking, old radio sounds, and even a caged crow that sets the tone for how things are going to turn out in this series. Set in an old fashioned French house things get dark quick but I won’t ruin the first few minutes, so you will have to watch and experience that for yourself.
Our main character of this story Emma Larsimon who is a successful horror novelist is the center of attention in this epic horror that will keep you on the edge. The horror series that has made her so successful and rich to boot is also probably haunting her and driving her insane.
Emma’s books about a demon’s wife are based on her real life nightmares from her teenage years. Emma now grown up and long moved out of her childhood home goes back to the broken-down coastal town of Elden to check up on her parents. This checkup quickly turns gruesome for Emma as her past quickly catches up to her and the nightmares she had are now haunting her once again.
As with all horror movies, shows, and stories the delivery is key to bringing a good scare to the audience. Director Samuel Bodin is a fan boy of the old school eighties horror films so his understanding of how to scare an audience is superb. The eerie coastal setting, mixed with the author of successful horror stories as the main protagonist is genius and extremely well executed in this series.
This series also had excellent camera footage and great use of drones that were used to grab some amazing shots of the rocky coast line, and dead winter trees that really added a level of suspense to the show.
One of the best parts of the show to me was the main character Emma as she was extremely complex, tough, demanding, and very self-centered. She has spent most of her life dealing with these nightmares and has used it to become a horror author rock-star per say. If you are looking for a show with a strong cast, great story and loaded with suspenseful terrifying moments, then you definitely need to check this show out.
Netflix wasn’t shy about showing new things coming to the show as they also previewed a clip of the Robinsons turning the Jupiter into a “Space Sailboat” to cross a sea on one of the planets they’ve landed on. It looks like Season 2 will see the Robinsons exploring multiple planets in the five-planet system they discovered at the end of Season 1, and also find out more details about the origins of the mysterious Robot and where it truly came from. I’m sure throughout the 10 episodes of Season 2 we will see more surprises and mysteries that the Robinsons will have to uncover and of course get themselves out of those tricky situations they are oh so good at.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters quickly sets the tone that it won’t be the same thing we’ve seen in the past. 2014’s Godzilla rebooted the classic king of monsters for modern audiences, but the latest portrayal of the iconic monster gives us huge monsters everywhere within the first few minutes of the film. If you came to see monsters, then you came to the right spot as this film is loaded with a more classic outlook on Godzilla and other monsters from the past.
Monsters everywhere in this film! Besides Godzilla, we get to see classics like Mothra, Rodan, and the Hydra King Ghidorah but this time with a little more classic thrown in that takes you back to their origins. As for Godzilla, as we saw at the end of the 2014 film, he is clearly set on the side of hero and ready to do battle to help protect humanity. If you came to see an award-winning film loaded with Academy Awards and the best acting you’ve ever seen then this isn’t the film for you. This is purely an action-packed monster film loaded with HUGE monsters destroying everything they touch. The human interaction between the monsters is well done in most scenes, between the moments of fear to the occasional understanding that Godzilla is here to help. All in all the actors pulled off a fun and exciting movie that was a blast to watch and fun to see what the director had around each corner.
We came to see Godzilla kick some monster butt, and this film delivered on that more so than any other to date including a massive monster battle including an exciting, final battle between all the monsters. King of the Monsters keeps you engaged with its story, monsters, explosions, and more…..and if you are a Godzilla fan then this movie is everything you could have possibly hoped for. The film looks absolutely amazing with its impressive beasts, to technology it brings. One major thing King of the Monsters did was to give the audiences MONSTERS and a lot of them as the 2014 Godzilla film was a bit lacking, but I’m excited about the next installment…..that is if they pursue the little hook they left at the end of the film.
One of my favorite series on Netflix over the last few months has definitely been The Haunting of Hill House. If you are a huge fan of the novel from Shirley Jackson written back in 1959 then you need to see this adaptation of the popular horror novel. One of the best parts about this show is the drama it brings to the screen, but also a level of terrifying moments that truly dig deep into the roots of the horror genre.
When the kids are young and still living in Hill House, they continually get visions of ghosts, zombies, and a tall slender man, but these visions follow them into adulthood, but most of these ghosts they face seem to be of their own making. There’s a complex theme throughout the story concerning the house’s complicity in all of the kids’ failings as adults. This is where the show begins to take a really scary turn as things begin to manifest in the adult’s lives, and the plot really begins to thicken with a rich story.
Olivia like here children are affected by the house, but you also see a woman who is losing grip on reality which could be due to a troubled marriage, and stress of raising her five children. The director did something brilliant through the telling of the story and how things unfold to create a doubt in your mind as the viewer. You truly aren’t sure if what you are watching unfold on screen is because of a crazy family with mental issues, or if this family truly is seeing ghosts and have been living in a haunted house. Personally, the Haunting of Hill House has been one of the best Netflix original horror series released to date. Season 2 can’t get here fast enough to continue the unfolding of America’s most haunted family and haunted house.
One of the most iconic horror characters in history has got to be Stephen King’s IT and the first ti
Speaking of those childhood memories, let’s talk about the story of the Losers Club, those seven kids who got locked into a summer nightmare back in 1989. Filled with disappearance after disappearance of young people throughout the small town of Derry, Maine these seven kids have a whole host of fears they have to tackle and face, along with that clown named Pennywise, now played by Bill Skarsgard who brings a whole new personification of scary to this story!
IT spends a significant amount of its lengthy running time on each of The Losers’ Club’s personal experiences with Pennywise in sequences that are both gruesome and horror inducing. One downfall to the film is the repetition of how each kid begins to face their specific “Phobia” and how they resolve it. The typical horror movie, oh look something scary down that hallway moment, where someone wonders off alone to go check it out. Pennywise being a monster clown, of course, takes advantage of each of those perfectly timed moments where someone wonders off alone to invoke fear and torment each of the kids. But even if you notice the pattern, each set piece is different enough to be scary and brings each character a well deserved moment of terror in the film.
Ok, so let me start this post by saying I’ve thrown the idea back and forth for years now of whether I do film & TV reviews. It’s always come down to NO not right now as I’ve just got to much going on and I didn’t want to add to an already full plate.
From there, as the show unfolds we get to meet the cast and overall feels like a Scream movie, but different and same all at once. Weird I know, but the parallels to the first film’s characters; Sidney, Billy, Stu, Randy and Tatum in Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), Will (Conner Weil), Jake (Tom Maden), Noah (John Karna) and Brooke (Carlson Young), as these kids from “Lakewood” begin to realize a killer is among them. The show throws some other characters into the mix, including a mysterious new guy in town Kieran (Amadeus Serafini) and Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus), who was the victim of some recent cyber bullying.
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