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Savageland (2015)
It's all in your Head...
Here's the theory, the scariest yet beautiful place in this whole universe is our imagination., and this movie will help us to prove this theory.
Found footage/documentary, since blair witch project and paranormal activity was dominated horror genre in recent year, but it was hard to mention a good one , either it was too cliche, repetitive, meaningless or as simply as didn't scary at all. With all my disappointed, then, i decided to give it a go with this movie.
i was expecting a few teenager, using their camera, drone, google glass, will make a stupid trip into a haunted land, and they got eaten or killed one by one by a ghost, which is recorded on camera.
But, this movie didn't deliver this. it was just series of interview about what happened in some little town which lost all of its resident in one night.
there's no ghost. monsters, serial killer caught on cams, really...
if there's no explanation, that it was a movie, maybe some of us would believe it was a real events. without no well-known actor, i felt that i watched some real interview.
but, the best part was not about the concept. but how this movie played our imagination, what really happened in those town is reveals by the series of chronological interview, and that made me imagine the tragedy that killed 52 persons. there's no explanation about what's really happened, but it was just happens. i didn't think i ever watched similar movie. it has no jump scare moment, cheap CGI, disturbing score, or even a protagonist, but i didn't need it to enjoy a movie as a whole package.
kudos!!
Estranged (2015)
Surprisingly good
I just watched this movie without knowing the cast, except James Cosmo from Braveheart. i wasn't expecting much about this movie since i never heard anything about it, and i thought it would be another meaningless thriller. and i was wrong.
This movie is about a young girl who came back to her estranged family after got amnesia in motorcycle accident.
Sure, there was "to good to be true moment", when a family with some revenge agenda suddenly got their perfect moment ( a daughter from a man that raped your wife, go back home to you and got an amnesia, how could it be made up?), but the bad things ended up just there. at the very beginning we got introduced to the family , everything just didn't feel right, but the movies reveals its darkest secret in perfect pace. not in a rush.
I watched movie like this before, like The Visit. but, the different was, i just know that they aren't her family, because this movie didn't try to hide it. but, what best is their motives and twist (the ending was awesome), and how all of this is provided to audience. the acting is surprisingly good, especially James Cosmo, who could deliver intense performance, and i think be one of stand out factor.
i enjoyed this movie, it is worth to watch.