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Horror Movie Review: Final Girl

Title: Final Girl Genre: Horror/Thriller Director: Tyler Shields IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124787/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed.   Synopsis: A man teaches a young woman how to become a complete weapon. Later she is approached by a group of sadistic teens who kill blonde women for unknown reasons. The hunting season begins.   For goodness sake. I knew it was all going wrong when Wes Bentley appeared on my iPad screen.  That deadpan expression and that draggy way of talking he has.  So, I was eye rolling within the first few minutes of the movie. Then the training sequences began and I became intrigue.  Was she going to be a spy?  Was she going to hunt serial killers? This movie was highly stylized and seemed to take on the characteristics of a play being presented on film, much like Glengary Glen Ross or Oleanna.… Continued

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Thriller Movie Review: Bound to Vengeance

Title: Bound To Vengeance Genre: Thriller/Horror Director: Jose Manuel Cravioto IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230213/ HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Do not read this review if you don’t want portions of the movie revealed. This movie was recommended to me by an author friend of mine. Given that I don’t shy away from the sometimes terrible thriller/horror movies on Netflix (except the ones that are CLEARLY Lifetime movies), I didn’t hesitate to give this one a shot. Synopsis: A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor. First of all, the protagonist was a young woman, not a young girl. Young girl implies to me a ten year old. Second, after I viewed the movie, I went back to the imdb listing and discovered that two men wrote the screenplay, which didn’t surprise me at

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