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Scott Tostik (389 KP) rated Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) in Movies

Mar 11, 2018 (Updated Jan 10, 2019)

Bailee Madison is a bad ass (2 more)

Great storyline

A sequel that doesn't ruin the original

Some jumps and gasps and WTF's... fun for the whole family

Going into a sequel that is ten years after an origin film is dangerous water to tread into for any horror film fan. Raised expectations can drown out what you are hoping happens and it takes the fun out of the movie for you.
The second installment of The Strangers was not a fun movie... for poor Bailee Madison. She is stabbed sliced and beaten up like she has never been before. Everyone remembers her as the little girl in Guillermo del Toro's Don't be Afraid of the Dark. But in this film she really establishes herself as a young Scream Queen in the making. Defining the Final Girl role in spades.
The Strangers themselves are all terrifying giving the viewer jump scare after jump scare by just popping up at random throughout the movie, causing scream after scream in the filled theatre I was in.
Though I am positive that there will not be another installment in this mini franchise. It would not surprise me in the least to see Pinup Girl, Dollface and The eerie monster, Man in the Mask once more.
If not... the writers have done a great job keeping my interested in what happens in this movie to satisfy my taste buds for gore blood and story... and I hope in all honesty that they don't go to the well again expecting clean drinking water.
8 out of 10 knives to the back with a special twist for good measure.

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Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore

Walter J. Fraser Jr.

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At once sobering and thrilling, this illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred...

Probiotic Drinks at Home: Make Your Own Seriously Delicious Gut-Friendly Drinks

Felicity Evans

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50 delicious ways to improve your health with probiotics you can make at home. Did you know you may...

Survival: The Ultimate Practical Guide to Staying Alive in Extreme Conditions and Emergency Situations in All Environments, Anywhere in the World

Anthonio Akkermans, Peter G. Drake, Bill Mattos and Andy Middleton

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This is the ultimate practical guide to staying alive in extreme conditions and emergency situations...

Chinese Vernacular / The Weiwu at Dafuzhen

Qinghua Guo and Yuyu Chang

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Two main types of residential architecture have dominated the architecture in the Fujian region in...

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Zombeavers (2015) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Zombeavers (2015)

2015 | Action, Comedy, Horror

4.4

(9 Ratings)

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Zombeavers is more an attempted at an 80's slasher film than a Zombie movie, you have your house by the lake, your horny teens and your monsters. The narrative is almost 'by the book' and once you work out what the threat is you could pretty much wright the script yourself. And it doesn't take much to work out the threat, between the title and opening credits you know what's going on before the protagonists do.
The effects are ok, the actual beavers are obviously fake animatronics but this is probably deliberate to help with the cheesy feel of the film, there is blood but not too much guts although there is a scene with a beaver ripped in half which is quite good (I'm not going to mention the scene meant to make any male's eyes water).
As with most 80's slashers there's sex, boobs and pruds. There are a few secondary characters, most of whom have no character and are really only there to flesh out the number victims and, to be honest the main characters don't really have much, well character.
Some of the water scenes seem to be going for a 'Friday the Thirteenth' feel but, where most films would have the characters messing about and joking about the monster and thus adding to their development, Zombeavers just gets down to the action and, as it's run time is is only around 1 hour 17 there is plenty of time for expansion.
If you like slashers then you may like Zombeavers, most of the elements are there but it's predictable, slightly funny and has mostly been done before, just not with Beavers.