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The Invitation (2022)
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SPOILERS AHEAD
This film is bad. Really bad.
It follows the story of Evie, played by NathalieEmmanuel who sends off a DNA test to discover a long lost English cousin who just happens to be in America in the same city as her.
So they meet for lunch, he invites her to a wedding in England for her to meet all the family. She gets there and meets Walter De Ville who is really Dracula and I'm boring myself just writing this.
There's no surprises the main twist is Evie is to be the 3rd bride of Dracula because the last one killed herself. The only reason we are given as to why Dracula needs a 3rd bride is "they've always worked better in 3's".
There's a sub plot in which Dracula kills all the maids, we dot know why this is he just must really hate the help oh and don't expect it get to the reveal quickly, it takes an hour yes an hour before you see any vampires and by this time not only have you figured it all out but you really don't care.
It all ends with Dracula's house getting burned down and the end sees Evie and her mate back in America going after one of the survivors. This is done as a comedy sketch for some reason - "I've got a bat. Get it? Because they're vampires." This is the actual last line of the film despite there being no humour in it thus far.
It's a mess. Poorly written, poorly directed, the acting is terrible. The only good thing in it is Sean Pertwee as a butler looking as if he's embarrassed for us that he's actually in this mess. Avoid.
The Tunnel (2011)
TANGLES!!!!
This is a really well made found footage horror about a cover up by the Sydney government and the documentarians who seek to expose them. Things do not go according to plan when the crew go underground only to discover the politicians were right to abort all plans. I won't say any more for fear of spoilers.
I gave this a 7 because I found it really effective and claustrophobic. The filmmakers explain early on why they are filming everything which covers all bases, I find sometimes in found footage horror this sort of thing takes you out of the experience especially when there's only supposed to be one camera but there end up being multiple camera angles, this film does a good job of explaining that.
My only criticism is there is a character called Tangles which I found to be a rather hilarious sounding name. There is a point in the film where they are looking for him screaming out his name and I couldn't help but laugh as this part of the movie is supposed to be serious but the sound of another man shouting "Tangles!!!" Over and over again had me in stitches.
All in all a solid found footage horror with a daft character name that distracted me.
TANGLES!!!!!!