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This is really absurd and crazy carnage! The main character is covered in blood and has a cleaver stuck in his leg! It's funny, brutal (acid!!) and quite interestingly conceived. I had fun. 8/10.

It's a weird and strange film. The whole thing is so muddled that at times I got lost in the reality-dream. It was presented in a cluttered and uninteresting way, and most of all I didn't even enjoy thinking about it, I didn't care. It's not badly shot or acted, so it's not an outright dud, and the film will probably find its fans. Those who like mystery movies like The Butterfly Effect might enjoy this one. Unfortunately, I didn’t. 4/10.

An excellent Swedish post-apocalyptic shorty with freaks that look great. Technically perfect, the atmosphere is dense, it has a beautiful cinematic look and I want a feature film immediately. It should work! 8/10.

Surprisingly decent stuff. Maybe a bit longer than it should be, but definitely interesting. A story about a boy who suffers from some kind of disorder and can't stop eating, in fact he eats everything that comes his way and it escalates a bit more towards the end. Chilling, weird, slightly creepy and actually quite original. 7/10.

After the first episode, it’s clear this is not for me. You look forward to another post-apocalyptic story with a rather interesting hybrid idea and you get a drama with fantasy elements but without fantasy? The family-children feel doesn't fit at all. I wish the hybrids would grow up and start a proper hunt, this will stay very much away from perhaps everything. Filmed quite nicely, but that’s par for the course for every Netflix series. Maybe for families, but I'll pass on this one. 5/10.

Quite nicely shot, with a beautiful jungle and a good Jonathan Rhys Meyers, that's it. It's extremely slow, nothing much interesting happens, the story didn't draw me in at all, the action is almost absent (at least there is one severed head at the end), and the suspense and atmosphere are also lacking. For me it was actually a pretty useless film that I didn't need to see. Jungle adventures with the indigenous people have been done elsewhere and better. This is a film that my grandfather would put on in the evening on TV because there is nothing else on. 4/10.

The main character notices an abandoned wardrobe that someone has thrown away and decides to take it to her apartment, but soon strange things start happening. After a slower opening, a pretty solid and chilling haunting arrives on the scene that is surprisingly effective and sufficiently creepy. Better than most contemporary horror films. 7.5/10

Another overrated cheap oddity. Watching Caveat, I thought it could have half an hour less, because the two hours running time is just too much, and when it was over I realised it was only eighty minutes long. Yeah that's a bad calling card. Caveat is a kind of slow burn easy going atmospheric drama about a man who takes a job for a few days to take care of a mentally unstable woman on an isolated island in an isolated house. Not everything goes according to plan and soon he wants to get out of it all, but it's too late. It's very minimalist, set in a single house that's pretty ugly. There is a twist, but nothing major. There is no gore, not much in terms of scares, I think there is only one. There are a few atmospheric sequences (walking through the house in the dark with a torch), but it's all marred by a completely weird and nonsensical ending that buries the film one level down. Plus for the stuffed rabbit, which is pretty creepy, but could have been there for more than five minutes. Most of the time it's this a weird walk around the house with nothing significant or interesting happening, and I just don't like that very much. The film may find its fans. 4/10.

One of the most anticipated horror films of the year is over, so how did it turn out? I think it's pretty clear that without top director James Wan, the third installment won't be revolutionary and it was obvious a year ago that there would be a clear drop in quality. On the other hand, even though it's worse than the first two films, it's still the best thing to come out of voices in a haunted house genre and I'd love to hear the arguments of anyone who disagrees! That 40 million budget is way over the top for a horror film, so the technical side is once again awesome and to see such an "expensive" and beautifully made horror film after a long time after cheap shit like Djinn, The Night, Unholy and Saint Maud made me happy. After La Llorona, Michael Chaves redeemed himself a bit, though the scares are quite uninteresting and few – on the other hand, everyone is grumbling about them, why complain now that they are absent? The atmosphere is solid most of the time, the acting is again spot on, the crime plot with its mystery and supernatural overtones is intriguing, there were a few minor plot twists, and the finale in the catacombs has a decent pace. The lackluster music is a bit of a downer, and Wan's string accompaniment and creative camera forays are slightly lacking, too. I was also a bit bothered by the fact that compared to the second film, which had the Crooked Man, there is no distinct villain here, though the hulking guy in the morgue was pretty creepy, but he was only there twice. The third installment of The Conjuring still has its interesting moments (the opening exorcism and the wink at The Exorcist is awesome!), and I take the occult-witch touch as a nice change. A black sabbath, faith, innocence, a lover!! It has its merits and it's definitely above average in the genre even with the times being what they are, so those two star reviews are totally out of line. More ingratitude and disrespect for the genre similar to Army of the Dead. 7.5/10.

My prayers have been answered in the Barcelona Cathedral and finally the Spanish have a great action thriller that takes the best of John Wick and Korean gangster films! It may be a straightforward revenge of two brothers that gets half the people in Barcelona screaming, but I don't mind that at all because the film serves up exactly what an action fan wants, and that's a bunch of dead bodies (triple digits!) and one action scene after another (there's like 12 action scenes!). There's a great main character, a guy you can smell the fear and death on, he's tough, his punches hurt even me, and he's definitely a great guy to root for. Also a great villain a sort of mix of a Spanish Yakuza with great henchmen (a Japanese!). The action is nicely varied, alternating between interesting locations and a different weapon each time. I liked the fight in the toilet, the one in the parking lot with knives, the finale with the katana, the fight in with the Japanese guy, the fight in the narrow corridor, and in the house, and the highlight is probably the workshop, with screwdrivers instead of knives, pliers and an angle grinder! There were a few Wick-like headshots and plenty of R-rated action. It goes from one action scene to the next, there is no room for anything else and thanks to the Spanish package, it doesn't look as stupid and naive as an American action movies. The visuals, the blistering pace, the fine music, the great main character and bad guys, and the well shot action make Xtreme a proper action flick that won't disappoint fans. Anyone expecting drama, emotional blackmail, philosophizing, romance, melodrama and other shit is in the wrong place. Netflix scored and the best Spanish action movie ever. 8.5/10.