Amber Alert

09 February 2013

Amber Alert

This is an independent film released in 2012. I watched this on Netflix Instant. The main characters are Sam and Nate, two friends who like to go on adventures with each other. Sam's brother, Caleb is taping this one. 

They start out to drive somewhere to spend the day. They pass an Amber Alert sign that is posted above the highway.  Nate immediately spots the car and Sam immediately gets obsessed with following the car. Nate tries to blow it off as it being just another child custody case gone wrong.  Sam calls the police who are slow in responding.  While snooping around the car at a gas station when the car owner is inside, Sam spies a little girl in the back seat. Sam is on a mission to help the child no matter what. 

It seemed to me a majority of the film is Sam and Nate screaming back and forth at each other, which was annoying to me.  Also Nate is constantly yelling at Sam to stop and she does not listen.  

I liked that the movie did move along and not go off track.  It seems a lot of independent films lose their focus and this one didn't.  It was solely about the Amber Alert and three people in a car trying to respond to it.  I also liked that the ending was not what I was expecting, although it did seem to just end all at once.  

I thought it was a good decision to not show the little girl throughout the movie and let you kind of wonder here and there if she was real.   Good ending.  Not a blockbuster film, but I enjoyed it and would watch it again.

I give it a shaky 4 stars.

Inkubus

06 January 2013

Inkubus

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Demon invades the local police station.

Robert Englund, we need to see more of you! Good movie on many different scales, but not great. Robert Englund was successful in creating a fearful character who could pop up at any time and do incredibly distasteful things.
The other actors didn't fare so well. But the story and the gore were decent. (Listal review)
I love Robert Englund even though some of his appearances have been interesting. This one is good and I believe he did well with making Inkubus a scary fella.

Grim Reaper

Grim Reaper

 

Grim Reaper / Amazon Instant Video

Young woman hit by a car who was supposed to die 

tries to cheat death by getting past the Grim Reaper.

The beginning was a tad foggy as to what was going on. The storyline became clearer as Rachel woke up in the mental hospital. I wish the characters at the hospital had been fleshed out more. There was potential for you to care if they died or not and that didn't happen.
The end of how Rachel gets out alive (or not) seemed lame at wrapping the whole grim reaper thing up.
Great ending moment though. (Listal review)
I watched this on Amazon Prime Instant. Members there gave it 2 stars. I give it 3. The storyline deserved more and the characters could have definitely been fleshed out more. The end at the hospital would have been more suspenseful if you gave a hoot about the characters. This is not what I would envision as what the Grim Reaper would look like, but I did like the latter parts where he was walking around without his robe. Haha, related to a mummy I do believe.... maybe his mommy is a mummy.....bahahaha.
There has to have been a better way to have done the "taking Rachel to the edge of death" to change her fate. Which did it??? The last minute was a good one.

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