Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Halloween Kills (2021) in Movies
Oct 19, 2021
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While training after hours in her high-school, the aspiring singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously...
Dean (6927 KP) rated Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) in Movies
Jan 6, 2018 (Updated Feb 12, 2023)
The Sfx and action scenes are pretty good. It is very funny though with group dynamics, body swap, role reversal going on. Largely thanks to Jack Black and Kevin Hart. Overall a fun light hearted action comedy with a big budget production that's very entertaining.
Blind Side
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Buford the bullfrog is dead! Connor Westphal, the feisty deaf publisher of the weekly EUREKA! Jumps...
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Love is in the air in the quiet Los Angeles County city of Vista Beach, home of computer programmer...
Knot What You Think
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The newest member of Martha’s close-knit quilting circle has an eye for couture. But when the...
Star Wars, volume 3: War of the Bounty Hunters
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David McK (3632 KP) rated Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, #2) in Books
Nov 9, 2025
The second in Derek Landy's 'Skulduggery Pleasant' series (after Skulduggery Pleasant), this - for large part - feels juvenile, very much aimed towards a younger audience.
And then we get short, sudden shocks of pure body horror, enough to give (I imagine) the more sensitive young reader nightmares.
So, if it was a movie, large parts PG, maybe, with certain other sections more like an 18.
Anyway, knowing that (and with that in mind), it's enjoyable enough, continuing on the story of Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain that was started in the previous novel, with plenty of plot threads left hanging open for the sequels.
Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Unrest (2006) in Movies
Aug 14, 2019
In the film Unrest Writer/Director/Producer Jason Todd Ipson follows a group of new students in a Gross Anatomy class. At first the students are shocked by the disfigured cadaver in front of them, but soon begin the dissection they are required to do.
The appearance of the corpse they are working on becomes a source of fixation for one of the students named Allison (Corri English), who becomes convinced that something is not right with the body they are working on, as something tells her that things are not as they seem.
Allison’s concerns are dismissed as her being overwhelmed by her first encounter with a body, and she is told that her concerns will soon pass. Soon after, one of the dissection group is affected by a freak accident, and Allison becomes convinced that there are evil forces at work, and that nobody will be safe until the mystery behind the corpse is settled.
As the body count rises, Allison and her friend Brian (Scot Davis), face a race against the clock and the supernatural to find the cause of the unrest and make things right, before they end up the next victims of a vengeful specter.
Unrest is a very impressive debut for Ipson, who himself was a promising surgeon before turning his talents to directing. The film is well paced and has plenty of tension and suspense without resorting to the clichéd horror staples that have become all too common.
The plot is refreshingly original and deeper than most films in this genre attempt to achieve, as its complexity is deceiving simply. The film can be taken as a simple scare fest, but for those willing to look beneath the surface, there are deeper layers to the film that tackle areas such as the afterlife, intuition, possession, second sight, and the supernatural. While all of those have been covered before in various films, few have ever combined them in such an intelligent fashion that allows the audience to reach their own conclusions on the topics the film introduces.
The cast is solid especially Davis and English who take what could easily be stock characters and infuse a sense of purpose which helps the audience relate to them and their situation.
While the film might have what appears to some to be plot holes, the film is actually a clever examination of the spirit and afterlife, and delivers the goods. While much has been made about the alleged use of real body parts in the film, Ipson is careful not to let his film become a gratuitous gore fest and uses blood and carnage only in the amounts necessary to propel the story.
Unrest is a very solid effort that marks the emergence of a talent to be watched and will delight fans of the genre who want some intelligence with their horror.