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Witchcraft Motion Picture Company Presents: Horror Anthology - Volume 1 (2022)
Short spooky and to the point!
TLDR; a charcuterie board of tasty little horror videos that feel like a good two sentence horror story.
This was a refreshing style of horror movie. I've seen many horror anthology movies, and this creeps up high on my favorite horror anthology movies list. It was like an 8 course dinner of movies. Small bite sized dishes that leave you overall satisfied at the end. The stories each gave a fresh twist on some old horror tropes, and introduced some interesting concepts that could be further played with in longer productions. All of the stories are very open ended leaving much of the plot to kind of inferring the situation in each clip. There's no beginning middle end story line, the audience is just thrust into the middle of these situations and are mostly left to finish the stories in their own imaginations. I can understand why some people dislike this format, but I thought it was neat. It was thought provoking and I loved imagining the whole story around the glimpses you get of these narratives.
Reptile (2023)
Even the star studded cast couldn't save this. (Spoiler only at end of review)
I had high hopes that this would be a cool thought provoking movie. Right away it was obvious this was a slow burn with some cool payoff at the end, and I'm always down for the slow burn and for a movie to be bad when there's a great payoff or wild plot twist. This movie didn't really do either.
I'm writing this a week or two after watching the movie, and it was so boring I don't even remember what it was about. I had a friend over when I watched it who agreed this was a bad movie. To be sure he went home and tried to watch the movie again to give it another chance. He turned it off after 30 min because even being home alone with no distractions the movie still sucked.
Spoiler: disappointingly there are no reptiles in the movie.