{"id":13533,"date":"2024-03-24T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:42:46","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13533","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078259\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Shout\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-1028x1536.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3-1371x2048.jpg 1371w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-3.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105414\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Single White Female\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-768x1144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-1031x1536.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3-1374x2048.jpg 1374w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2-3.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27179894\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Year of Darkness\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-768x1063.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-1109x1536.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-1479x2048.jpg 1479w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-3-scaled.jpg 1849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107254\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Goes to Hell\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-1377x2048.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5-3-scaled.jpg 1721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078259\/\">The Shout<\/a> is strange and moody and pessimistic, and it gets under your skin even if you&#8217;re not exactly sure you can say what it&#8217;s supposed to be about.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Roger Ebert was probably more forgiving of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105414\/\">Single White Female<\/a> than I might have been when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/single-white-female-1992\">he wrote<\/a>, &#8220;No genre is beyond redemption or beneath contempt, and here the slasher genre is given its due with strong performances and direction.&#8221; Maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve seen some slasher movies I&#8217;ve enjoyed more, or because I think the performances here are fine but nothing special. There&#8217;s a mad, off-the-rails energy here that the movie rightly embraces, but it&#8217;s also strangely kind of forgettable.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27179894\/\">The Last Year of Darkness<\/a> never feels like a documentary, which more often than not very much works in its favor. Occasionally, it can cause the movie to feel a little aimless, as it sets no agenda or even appears to be following a specific narrative. But it also paints an intensely intimate portrait of these few people at this very specific place and time, essentially just by hanging out with them and living in their world.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107254\/\">Jason Goes to Hell<\/a> is definitely <em>one<\/em> way to have taken the <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> series. It&#8217;s just very difficult to imagine the bizarre sequence of miscalculations that would have been necessary to think it was a <em>good<\/em> way, or that the finished movie was anything close to comprehensible. It&#8217;s more interesting than a lot of its predecessors in the series, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any good. A miss is still a miss, no matter how big the swing, no matter how lousy the other batters in the lineup. What this feels like is a very different kind of horror movie poorly grafted onto the <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> template, then chopped up in the editing bay, either because it ran too long or because somebody had the good sense to realize the performances and story made not a lick of sense. At least <em>Jason X<\/em>, for all its faults, had some <em>fun<\/em> with its bizarro take on the series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063049\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Head\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5154288\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prevenge\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6-2.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4267026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/7-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hell House LLC\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/7-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/7-2.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15458866\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8-1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ox-Head Village\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8-1-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8-1-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8-1.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063049\/\">Head<\/a> even a movie? It&#8217;s something, all right. Whatever that is, it&#8217;s more than a little arty-pretentious, very much of its time, and it all kind of just washes over you more than anything else.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5154288\/\">Prevenge<\/a> is darkly funny, sometimes surprisingly tender, and good fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s hard to tell if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4267026\/\">Hell House LLC<\/a> gets some parts of the found-footage horror format exceptionally right, or if there are are just some parts of the format that are exceptionally hard to get wrong. The movie has its share of creepy moments and jump-scares, and marrying the format to the haunted house attraction is a neat idea. But it feels very padded, doesn&#8217;t do anything genuinely interesting with that idea, and really flubs the ending.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15458866\/\">Ox-Head Village<\/a> is an oddly haunting, occasionally violently gory, meditation on loss and betrayal and kinship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076740\/\">Sorcerer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098546\/\">UHF<\/a>, which I&#8217;ll be the first to admit make for a  strange double feature. <em>Sorcerer<\/em> is an incredibly tense film, a great &#8217;70s update to <em>The Wages of Fear<\/em>, and <em>UHF<\/em> is just silly, goofy fun, even if a few of its gags maybe go on a little longer than you remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shout is strange and moody and pessimistic, and it gets under your skin even if you&#8217;re not exactly sure you can say what it&#8217;s supposed to be about. 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