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Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives

Rob McFarland and Chelsea McFarland

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You don't need to live on a farm to raise happy, healthy honeybees. All it takes is a small backyard...

21st Century Residential Landscape Design

Dean Herald

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An informative step-by-step guide to a series of landscape architecture projects, from the first...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Phoenix Forgotten (2017) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020

Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

2017 | Horror, Sci-Fi

5.0

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For what it's worth this is incredibly, incredibly convincing for what it is. The problem is that it's actually *too* convincing - this is so caught up in crafting a dead-ringer documentary (albeit admirably so) that it forgets to actually put horror movie stuff in too until the last act when this type of movie is required to spiral out of control. Essentially a beat-for-beat ripoff of all three Blair Witch movies but with aliens instead of the witch, honestly not a terrible concept and this still ends up being way better than at least one of those films anyway. Decently immersive, brisk, and engaging for the dirt cheap prices you can find this for even if it never fully sells itself on its premise. On the one hand I appreciate that this never (bar one sole time) jumps the gun by throwing in cheap jump scares before the buildup has set in (a rarity with these things) but that buildup just lasts too damn long, no excuses. Super well put together but it needed a lot less (or at least more fleshed-out) docu-stuff with that crushingly blandass lead (who conveniently is the only less-than-perfect performance in a film chock full of expert ones [particularly Chelsea Lopez, who gives a tour de force one]) and more eerie found footage stuff with the teens. Eventually turns into exactly what you'd expect. Far from that bad, but still a shame.