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3 from Hell (2019)
Nope
God this breaks my heart. What an awful movie and such a sad way of killing some of my favorite characters of the horror genre. This sequel says absolutely nothing. It is as unnecessary as it is stupid. Well, movies like Halloween, Child's Play and Friday the 13th have numerous unnecessary sequels so what's the difference? The firefly family are humans. Humans die. Specially after being shot 20 times. It was a fine ending to Devil's Rejects and should've been left alone. Well, for some unexplained reason they're back to do absolutely nothing. Zombie has no idea what to do with the characters or the story. He undid everything he accomplished in Devil's by stripping these amazing characters of their purpose and turning them into pointless, unimportant killing machines. I felt such a connection to them on Devil's and this time around I couldn't care less what happened to them, I just wanted this whole thing to be over.
I'm glad Captain Spaulding wasn't on this film or else his essence would've been butchered as well. Oh, and Sheri Moon Zombie keeps getting worse. The woman can't act to save her life.
Hereditary (2018)
WOW
This movie is incredible. I love the horror genre due to its versatility. There's infinite ways you can scare or creep out your audience and the beauty of it is that the most effective type of horror isn't the "in your face-ghost-vampire-zombie-guts-blood" type of horror. And this movie does nothing but prove it. It's suspenseful where it needs to be, gory in the right places, tense, moody, macabre, dark, scary, creepy and sad, all perfectly timed.
The acting is incredible, the score is outstanding, the script is impecable. It's a beautiful piece of cinematography, don't miss it just because it's not what people expect from a horror movie.
It Chapter Two (2019)
Not perfect but still pretty good
It chapter 2 is a good movie. Not perfect by any means but still stands up on it's own. It's not a sequel, it's the second part of a whole story which is too long and complex (as is the book) to fit into one continuous film, hence the 3 hr running time. A lot of bad reviews derive from this fact so let me tell you something. We are watching a movie based on a 1200 page book with 8 main characters (It+losers club), and I'm not counting Derry which is a main character in of its own. You have to develop 8 main stories, not once (Childhood), not twice (Adulthood) but three times (Flashbacks). You have to intertwine them and elaborate on a lot of detail. Granted, there is A LOT of dragging in some parts but you can't tell a story that has so many details and it's so complex in less than two hours. It just wouldn't stand.
The casting and acting are both outstanding. The under-use of Skarsgard as Pennywise is criminal, this movie needed more of him on screen. King's cameo is genius. Very tasteful and surprising not to mention well deserved.
They definitely went overboard with the CGI and poorly timed comedy. It takes away from the dark and ominous mood of some scenes. Also, Too many CGI loaded jump scares, it desensitizes the audience and turns horror into comedy.
But despite its flaws, I welcome this movie to my list of top horror movies of the last 20 years. It's a very well crafted, adapted, produced, acted and shot piece of cinematography that does absolute justice to the book that birthed it.