Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Premonition 2007


I don't know if this is truly a horror movie, rather than kind of a thriller bordering on sci fi. I liked it until the ending. I did not like the ending they choose for the movie, and it kind of ruined it for me. There was an alternate ending that might have saved the movie for me, that was a little more vague, and you could have filled in what you wanted it to be.



It was interesting, but a bit choppy. Hard to figure out how pieces were there, then not. That the future events that she hadn't affected yet, influenced past events where she had not been there before yet. Yeah, it's one of those, but interesting.



I could have easily lived without seeing it though, as well.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Gone But Not Forgotten-2004 TV


I really doubted this movie, and didn't think that any of the three that I got from Netflix would be anything, especially this one.



My only hope is that it is an adaption of a Phillip Margolin novel, who I enjoy as an author but mainly as a large step up from Mary Higgins Clark. One of those plots with many twists that are made somewhat more plausible by this author than others that try this. This movie was done by Hallmark (another mark against it in my former opinion) in 2004 and directed by Armand Mastroinanni (I have started to appreciate how important it is to pay attention to who the director might be, haven't heard of him before, but thinking now that I will keep my eyes open.)



Very well told "mystery" of 172 minutes. This is a long time to keep my attention folks, and it did that. It is your serial killer mystery of something that starts up again (seemingly) 10 years later, a mystery man, various mystery woman, and secrets that go to the top. And despite the corniness of all that, I found it quite good.



I give it a 3 out of 5 stars. Mainly because of the commercial quality of it, whereas I like some horror movies and mysteries to be a bit more gritty and weird. So some might really prefer something like this to say, Texas Chainsaw Masacre, which interested me even more after I saw the documentary on how the project was done, and the lack of funds et. I was never going to watch that movie until husband got me the documentary. Course this movie is nothing like this, just disclosing why my ratings might seem weird to some who do not value some "weirdness" in their horror/mystery movies.