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Deep Fear (2022)
Wished it was better
I expected something like Outpost instead we got this.
The look of the movie is awesome and the actors are doing a great job.
BUT ...
what could have be done better is character development and storytelling.
We have a far overstretched first act but do not get to know the characters.
Who is the girl? What does she want and dream of? What were the graduates studying?
I didn't even notice that they graduated.
Racism could have been a big theme. The skinheads were scary.
What I would have done ...
Make them all history students instead of drug addicts living in the sewers. Show what they want early on.
One is searching for her brother who disappeared.
The girl-protagonist is in love with two guys and can't decide.
The third guy is secretly in love with her and tries to get her.
There is a racist skin head.
And then there is the history teacher who wants to lure all his female students into his bed.
And then this class is going on the history excursion of their life.
There has to be a sin. All good horror movies need a sin. Greed and lust always work, but there is also pride and too high self esteem a.s.o. Smoking a joint on the other hand is not sin enough.
The students are examining the catacombs and soon they find out, they are not alone and history is quite alive. All of them are killed one by one.
But that is not what we got.
There was an unnescessary bar scene, a toilet scene where she bought drugs, then staying overnight, a dream and then finally our protagonists entered the catacombs, where they were not even close to getting to the point where they encounter the monster.
You could easliy skip the first 30 minutes without losing any vital information.
When they encounter the monster they are not even wondering why there is a nazi zombie in the catacombs. Or a bunker. They accept it like they accept thst they are out of water.
The premise is actually good - a nazi bunker below Paris. But what is the message? Not to go into a nazi bunker below Paris? Every kid can tell you that ...
3 graduates want to do something special together the night before they part. They should have done a threesome and called it a night ...
Witchtrap (1989)
Like Stephen King's "Red Rose" but far worse
So bad that it is almost good. As a fan of mild horror like "Ghostbusters" and "Night of the Demons" I enjoy movies like that a lot. And when I saw it, I found so many similarities to "Red Rose".
Spoiler alert:
A haunted house with a troubled past, which is discussed throughout the movie by self acclaimed history "experts".
We have a team of parapsychological scientiest with various different parapsycholigical abilities.
The blonde voluptous girl who dies first.
A female teamleader who ist obsessed with her work/career and her need to have success, who is even risking her love's/husband's life to achieve her goals - and fails in the end.
Characters who are fooled by their own imagination.
An ending which leaves you speechless ...
If I was allowed to guess, I would say Mr King saw the movie, laughed to himself and decided: I do exactly the same but much much better. And actually so he did.
I read in the section above that the script was written in 6 days and the movie shot in 17 days. For that fact I would give the movie a 10 out of 10. But it could have been better so 6 out of 10. And because it is a classic which can teach you how to make a better movie.