Nameiscensored Reviews

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Clown will make you startled

[7/10 · 4 April 2024]

Nothing is eternal, as hadn't been eternal archetype of clowns. For a long time they had been deemed as an exaggeration, epitome of comicality and clumsiness, until, at last, they've yielded to dark fantasies. The change in their disguise evoked completely different emotions. It was no more laugh they brought, it was fear. Apparently, such a new vision of clowns had seemed so enticing for Chiodo brothers, that later they would make their own movie, their brilliant "Killer Klowns from Outer Space".

The movie is deeply ironic and it's more a comedy rather than a general horror,for the lack of gore or significant violence and its predominant silliness which permeates the plot.

Speaking of the plot, it is special. It tells a story about a town that happened to be visited by extraordinary ugly clowns,who came from space to satisfy their insatiable hunger for which they snatch and kill people all around the place.

Unfettering inventiveness, mind-boggling bizarreness and its ludicrousness is what lies at the foundation of the reviewed movie. Originality and uncanniness of excellently crafted costumes form indelible memorability. It is a movie that stands out. Yet, the same strong side, which is supposed to always ensure a positive effect, brought up to extremity, starts a reversible process. That being so, the genius of this film might not be up to everyone's alley. Sure, for some truly earnest personalities, adhering only to the laws of logic and reason, it will seem too facetious and absurd. If you shun anything which falls under the definition of "goofy" then, probably, this watch is not for you. Even I, who quite enjoyed it, from time to time had the feelings of over the top silliness.

One quite irksome thing that you will encounter is the movie's objectively bad quality of VFX. It hardly looks convincing and only adds more unrealism to the picture.

There are some nuances that "Killer Klowns" have, but they are redeemed by its overall idea. To say that this movie is unique is to say nothing. The plot is nothing of its kind and this,undoubtedly, is what makes it worth to be given a watch.

Splice (2009)

Untouching,superficial and plainly bad

[2/10 · 29 March 2024]

I feel nothing but repulsion when it comes to this movie. If the filmmakers' intent was to make it ride mainly on viewer's empathy and vested interest for a main character's development in alien environment, then it completely failed.

Throughout the whole film I couldn't shake off the thought how unconvincing looked Dren's character, both graphically and artistically. Bad visuals, especially when they are to be used in almost every scene, drain out any realism from the picture. Incompetence of VFX personnel or through-going willingness of producers to cut the corners, made eye changes some of the film's peculiarities, whenever camera angle was going from straight to profile. Besides, realization of Dren being played by an actual human would never never get out of my mind. It never felt right or good. It was simply unable to provide any kind of immersion and hence be an object of captivation.

If the first half serves you up an intriguing, though hardly satisfactory, sci-fi movie, kindling your interest with the unknown product of experimental science, then the second half will bore you with its lingering and unexciting drama.

Even if it is not my personal quibbles to reflect a horrible state of this lack-luster, and I think it's fair to call it that, then it certainly will be it's objectively whopping flop in terms of box office.

Overall, untouching,superficial and plainly bad.

Society (1989)

Bizarre,fun and kinky!

[8/10 · 11 March 2024]

Society... No other word, not even death, can be so powerful and striking. For us, who live our whole life surrounded by people, society becomes a reality in which its multitudinous sentient elements are granted an indubitable to us likeness. Abandoning domains of skepticism we fall into a pit, where we start deeming them as a priori our kindred or ourselves to be the same as them. Those that do remain critical in this respect have being notoriously imputed to conspiracy theories."Society" appears to be just one of them.

"The truth is out there" have they been telling us. In response to it, authors of "Society" catering to a community of conspiracy theorists decided to present us their own perspective on the truth, which is quite untypical.

A great plot that revolves around a guy and his family, which as we learn has quite "unearthly" secrets hidden from their son. The mysteries get revealed to us as we keep watching, providing clearer understanding of who the family members actually are, what kind of nefarious activities they are engaged in and how they are affiliated with the so-called Society.

I personally loved "Society" and I praise the fathers of its brainchild. Of course, it has some inconsistencies in story telling, and I guess by the end of the movie you'd have some questions like "Why all this stir for just a one guy?", but it's worth watching for its idea and originality. The ending scene alone is one of the most memorable scenes in cinema.

All in all, those who seek mysteriousness, bizarreness, kinkiness and fun "Society" will be a nice guarantee for all of that.

Creep (I) (2014)

I'm terribly spooked

[5/10 · 8 March 2024]

First thing to mention about "Creep" is its neat title. Mark Duplass' acting sure comes a long way from being the best, but regarding the movie's synopsis he deftly handled the task of playing a creepy weirdo, whose play would beget in you uncomfortable sensations,mostly of which would be embarrassment. As for the latter, to a great part, it has to do with the stunning ability of Mark Duplass for jumpscares so frightening, that seeing one of them will send you in a perpetual paralysis. Unless, you have impregnable bravery like me, who'd managed to go through all 2 hrs of 2019's Cats, the paralysis will only be from cringe. As the movie proclaims to stand on the genre of horror, it's expected to use particular methods of intimidation to be as much disturbing and believable as possible."Creep" seemed to me like the one of those that try to be disturbing, meanwhile not representing itself as a comedy, but apart from such found footages as "Rec" or "As above,so below" it doesn't do it very great. Half of of the film is dialogues gradually unraveling uncanny character of Mark Duplass' hero and at first glance which look like a nice ground for something big, as by the end of the first half everything makes you think that the rest of the film will be a slasher of some kind,where a main character tries to escape from the murderous captor. We don't get to see that, and instead receive,what i think, not a very fortunate decision of film makers of simply letting the main character leave the antagonist's house without even showing it to us. The movie could have been great if not for its protracted dialogue part, not long enough suspense that every time draws to childish and completely predictable jumpscares, its weak attempts of intimidation, all that, only to witness a cloddish and much expectable main character's death in the end.

It Comes at Night (2017)

What comes at night?

[4/10 · 26 February 2024]

This is the question that probably everybody,thrilled by the title of the movie, predisposed themselves with, longing to figure out the mystery behind it. Meanwhile the old trivial adage "don't judge the book by its cover" might not be the most fitting to describe my, as well as,i presume, many others' quite unpleasant situation, i was definitely misleaded by buying into this budding and enigmatic naming. This,after all,has turned up to be nothing of this sort. From the first seconds the movie sets you up with its eerie atmosphere - a terrifyingly ill old man whose body is covered with sores,as it's revealed later, another incalculable victim of a deadly virus that has paralyzed our civilization; then it is boy's nightmares, in one of them we get a quite unnerving jumpscare of the dead old man. This is exactly where your anticipations about the title are first being met, maybe something supernatural might be involved - felt i. However, once you're past this moment, there's probably nothing in this movie that would firm up this claim,beside the scene where a dog mysteriously rushes into the deep woods as if chasing down the evil spirits, though this part never gets revealed to us. Anyone who's seen entirely the film would know that there's pretty much nothing else that would hold a status of mystery. Once again, the title of the movie "It comes at night". After watching the whole picture, the question "what is IT that comes at night?", which also serves as a promising premise, doesn't get a full answer. Was it the survivalist,that tried to break into the main character's house? Was it the bitten dog, that eventually has led to a disaster for both families? Is it a metaphor for this very disaster? Or was there no "It", the option that i myself prefer to go with? One might say that it was the exact intention of the writers to leave it to us,viewers to come up with our own interpretation,but for me such an excuse is feeble, as putting the title such as the movie has, makes it unavoidable for viewers to think of something dark and cryptic. In reality, thinking of it in such a way would not let you be entertained,and this movie, even regardless of its misleading naming that fails to meet your expectations, doesn't come,at least for me, as entertainment. All in all, i reckon, my current rating could have been higher, but just a tad, if it hadn't been for this title, but even apart from that, the narrative itself doesn't shine with originality, and to a great part is boring, making "It comes at night" to be not more than passable.

Leviathan (1989)

Underwater copycat

[3/10 · 24 February 2024]

It wouldn't be much of a stretch to geuss that it was the success of "Alien" movies that purported writers of "Leviathan" to go by the already trodden way in hopes for getting their own handful of green,but with one change in the course - instead of outer space, this time bringing story down to seabed. They've made their own monster, but much of it still resembles old xenomorph paired up with Carpenter's the thing - it's just an amphibian alien that as before uses human body to emerge from, but now also making its victims morph into one being. Though, it's not the very speculative originality of this movie (it'd be fitting to also mention similar DeepStar Six, which had come out a few months prior), that my main complaint is about, but its falling below the line of mediocrity execution. The movie just doesn't work, it completely falls short in playing with tension, it simply doesn't deliver suspense the way that it was brilliantly done in the same Alien. And predictability of the movie and that completely out of place soundtrack makes no good for the scene as a whole. IMHO, there's nothing this movie has to make it worth watching in 2024 as it appears to be a not-delivering concoction of Alien, The thing and The Abyss.