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Kim Pook (101 KP) rated American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) in Movies

Oct 14, 2020

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This documentary is told through video clips and police footage regarding a missing mother and her children. Shannan is shown in a montage of social media videos talking about her happy family and everything appears normal, they are a family of husband, wife, 2 children and a dog.
After a friend is unable to contact Shannan, the police are called as well as Chris - Shannans husband-who come out to her house and find no trace of anybody in the house, it's like the family vanished into thin air, even a neighbour has no footage of them on his surveillance camera to show of anything suspicious. That neighbour does suggest, however, that something seems off with Chris but it is brushed off.
As the documentary continues, it becomes evident that the neighbour had every reason to be suspicious.
It's certainly a different way to tell a story, as usually it's told through interviews given to the camera or interviewer, so I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it. It turned out I found it just as interesting as a regular documentary if not more, because of watching everything unfold in reality. It was an interesting watch that's for sure, but the outcome is very sad.

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ClareR (5686 KP) rated I Am, I Am, I Am in Books

Jul 30, 2020

I’m going to have to stop saying that I can’t read non-fiction, because clearly I can. This book was a quick, addictive read, and I vacillated between feeling voyeuristic and horrified. Maggie’s encounter with a man whilst she was walking on a mountain path, resulted in me telling my husband all about it, in detail. He asked me why I was reading it, it sounded horrifying (it was, but that’s where I stopped listening to him!). Another encounter whilst backpacking in South America had me holding my breath, and her illness as a child was upsetting in a different way - as all stories involving sick children do now that I have my own. The last story about her daughters serious allergies and many ‘blue light’ dashes to hospital, resounded with me in particular, and I found myself close to tears. Whilst my own child’s medical condition isn’t life threatening, he has certainly been hospitalised, had serious operations, and had his near death experience (luckily just the one). This is traumatic enough, but to have to be ever vigilant must be emotionally and physically exhausting.

I hesitate to use the word ‘wonderful’ when talking about a book about seventeen near death experiences, but I loved reading it, and would definitely recommend it.

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Kim Pook (101 KP) rated Slender Man (2018) in Movies

Aug 25, 2020

From the start it is evident it is a low budget movie. It doesn't have much of a storyline to begin with, just a group of teens hanging out and talking nonsense. Skip to a new scene where they are all having a getogether in one characters bedroom where they all decide it would be funny to summon slenderman - a creepy guy with long arms who takes kids. The video they watch to summon him reminds me very much of the ring, only not as disturbing. Anyway they all go to sleep thinking nothing of it and one member of the group starts having nightmares and a week later another girl, Katie, disappears during a school trip. The remaining friends make it their mission to prove that slenderman is responsible and to get Katie back.
Some of the encounters with slenderman are pretty strange, but some scenes really stuck out for me, such as one particular scene with Wren in the library. Although the fact that she didn't even tell Holly about it annoyed me.
I felt the movie did have potential to be good, but unfortunately many scenes fell flat and for this reason I can only give it 4 bombs.