Thursday, 22 September 2016

Blair Witch (2016)



I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the 2016 version of Blair Witch is actually NOT a re-make of the 1999 classic mother of all "Found Footage" films but a loose sequel.

Set in 2016 a group of young 'uns once again enter the Black Hills Forest, led by James, the much younger brother of Heather from the original movie who is looking for some sort of answers to her disappearance all those years ago. The Scooby Gang in completed by three friends and joined by two locals and "experts" on the Blair Witch.

Right from the start there are references to Rustin Parr - a man who was "possessed" or merely obeying the Blair Witch and killed seven children in the 1940s , making one stand facing the corner as he killed the other. This reference was featured in many of the fake documentaries around the time but I don't think it was mentioned in the original film, hence confusing a lot of people with the ending.

There is no mention of any of the events in Blair Witch 2. We presume that just didn't happen. It did, and you know it did, we just wish it didn't.

So in the 2016 sequel we get a lot of the same stuff - lots of blurry camera action as the kids run about scared out of their tiny minds screaming about such and such. People go missing, strange noises are heard in the night and the forest itself seems to have a mind if it's own. A lot of similar stuff as the original movie as well as far too many false jump-scares.

As the gang moves deeper into the forest they become confused, disorientated and one by one start to go missing.

However this time round, seventeen years on audiences need a bit more so we do actually get some scary stuff instead of just leaving it all up to what you don't see as in the original. There is also the advantage of technology as not only do the gang have Go-Pros and GPS but a drone - of course all of this fails so they just end up running in the dark while filming it.

Once again we encounter the house in the forest presumed to be the home of Rustin Parr and here *spoiler alert* we catch the odd glimpse of the witch herself. Spooky stuff.

I will say that for a sequel with big scary boots to fill it does stand up, even on it's own it would still stand up. Where as the 1999 original left lots up to your imagination and we still don't really know why the things that happened did or who indeed was behind the killings of the three young film makers - the 2016 Blair Witch only does that up to a certain point before actually moving into the realms of "...and here is the scary thingy".

It retains a lot of the suspense, there are still unexplained happenings, it's much more visual but still keeps within the same vein that you'd expect. What can I say other that - I was not let down!

9/10 Masks.

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

The Shallows (2016)


Since the success of Jaws people have been trying to make another decent shark movie. Maybe Deep Blue Sea aside (for the Sam Jackson scene alone) - not really any of them have been good.

The Shallows, now if you've seen 2010's The Reef and/or 2003's Open Water then you've seen this film already.

A girl goes surfing, gets wounded by a shark and ends up stranded while said shark swims about like it's got nothing better to do than try and eat her. As I'm sure that's exactly what sharks do.

If I'd never seen anything like this before then I'm sure it would have been an OK film. Sadly I have so it was just a bit of a yawn.

2/10 Masks


Monday, 19 September 2016

Cabin Fever (2016)


So let me just start off by saying that I have not actually seen the 2002 original version of the Eli Roth movie - so I had nothing to compare it to. Apparently it's something of a classic so maybe I should brush up and check that one out.

This 2016 remake apparently follows the same original script making only some changes that Eli Roth wanted to have in the original version.

A group of youngsters travel up to a secluded cabin for a chilled get away - which as we all know in horror film world just means that they're all probably going to die in one way or another, probably just as they start having sex.

So - one of them encounters a man in the woods and, ooops! He accidentally shoots him. Angry shot man comes for him later and finds him in the cabin but, this guy has some sort of infection and spreads it to some of the others.

The virus seemly eats away at your flesh and turns you a bit loopy - of course everyone starts getting infected and those that are not fight among themselves about what to do with the infected. Add to that a rabid dog lurking around and the townsfolk hell bent on stopping this infection from spreading.

Like I said, in horror movie world, you just don't go to a secluded cabin with your friends.

I really liked the slow burn of this one, you got to meet the characters and it didn't hit you in the face but built up at a great pace leaving us to the conclusion.

I will check out the remake but for a first time watching on this one, not bad at all.

5/10 Masks


Sunday, 18 September 2016

31 (2016)



This long-awaited movie is without a doubt Rob Zombie's return to form. He's done a Tarantino in so much as he basically exploded onto the horror world with House Of 1000 Corpses and followed it up with The Devil's Rejects, which we all of course loved with a passion but he painted himself into a corner and put sadly his best work out their first and setting the bar very high for whatever came next.

Halloween was great but  the sequel... hmmm. Then the man just confused the hell out of us with Lords Of Salem. Personally I believe it to be an awesome movie and to be looked at as one that's not just there to give us what we want.

On to 31 - It gives you what you want. It's everything that Rob Zombie movies have led us to expect. We have the "maybe it's the 70s" flares and tight sports tees, 70s rock playing, tons of vomit-inducing violence, dirty psychopaths wearing human flesh and of course, Sherri Moon Zombie prancing about in next to nothing.

Again it borrows a lot from classic slasher films of the past - our heroes are a travelling group that encounter and are kidnapped by a gang and taken to "Murderworld" - a cross between Hostel 3 and Running Man.

Each member of the group are given survival odds by the overlookers who are betting on how long they will last as they are set loose in the compound to be hunted by a series of killers. A Spanish Nazi clown, two chainsaw-wielding clowns, the bastard offspring of Harley Quinn and Dr.Frank-N-Furter and the elite "Doom-Head".

Of course it's a ride of blood, guts, 70s FM classics and legendary soundbytes for future Death Metal albums.

While I take my head out of Mr.Zombie's rear for a while I will say that it is very familiar in style to his first two films, in fact some scenes are way too familiar as if they've been shot before. Overall however, you'll probably love it!

8/10 Masks



Monday, 22 August 2016

The Purge - Election Year (2016)


The third instalment in the Purge film franchise, in which I'm sure you already know - once a year everything becomes legal including murder, giving the citizens a chance to let of steam and basically go bonkers. This has, in the story helped the economy and led to a better life. However it is argued that all is happening is that they are getting rid of the less fortunate.

Well, if you've seen the first one then you already know this. If you've seen The Purge : Anarchy you know this again.

The third movie, The Purge : Election Year pits two politicians in the year 2022 in line for presidency  (one for, one opposed) against each other as the "for" leader decides that he's going to do away with the "against" during the purge as it seems that she has a chance of getting the vote and thus stopping the purge.

So we have her assassins trying to do away with her while she escapes and hides. There's a bit of a sub plot involving the resistance to the purge and the usual masked kids running about hacking at people.

The first one was a great idea, two didn't really cut the mustard and three...well, no, not really needed.

3/10 Masks.


Friday, 24 June 2016

The Other Side Of The Door (2016)


Remember that episode of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon is dismayed at how Gremlins had only two rules that were both not followed thus leading to the cast deserving everything that they got?

Well, The Other Side Of The Door is like that, but with half as many rules.

Sarah Wayne "that-one-out-of-walking-dead" Callies (who for some reason is living in India) has recently lost her son in a car accident where she was forced to chose between saving her son (fail!) or her daughter (sexist!). She's all upset and guilty n'stuff to the point of trying to take her own live...again another fail.

She has this wise old Indian housekeeper (slave owner too!) that tells her about an old temple in her home village where there is a door to "the other side". Not sure how the contractors built that in but there we go.

At this door you can talk to your dead loved ones through it. BUT...you must NEVER open it. Guess what ol' Prison-Break-Face does?

Kiddy comes back all spooky n'stuff, there is a nuddy man speaking gibberish and things die all over the place.

Not scary really, a wee bit creepy but for the most part just stupid. Do not open the door!! You had one rule!

Door Supervisor - Phil Tippett.

1/10 Masks


Wednesday, 22 June 2016

The Conjuring 2 (2016)


About ten years ago I bought the very cheap DVD in the sales, "Tomb Raider 2" - The review/blurb on the cover had only one magazine quote; "Better Than The First One".

...and that's where we are with The Conjuring 2. It's better than the first one. If we remember The Conjuring, it was one of those horror films in the vein of the Hollywood blockbusters of the time, Insidious etc. It fell flat and was a bit poo and spawned the spin-off "Annabelle", which was also poo.

What it did have was a basis in "reality" with the introduction of Ed and Lorraine Warren - the real life Scooby Gang who's most famous "case" was perhaps The Amityville haunting.

The Conjuring 2 focuses on British soil with the case of the Enfield Poltergeist, a real life case in the 70s which had some great photos and footage come from it and a lot of speculation surrounding it. Eventually dismissed as a hoax TC2 makes light of this and of course puts it's own spooky spin on it.

The previous home owner seems to be taking control of one of the children, we have things being thrown about, children flying, possessed voices and of course apparitions. 

We've got our usual jump-scares (one did make me jump like a small child) and much like the best horror movies of the day we've got a bunch of news stories such as a man dying then vanishing after watching TC2 and a woman getting possesed in the cinema.

Back in reality however what we've got it quite a solid spooky film that while it works stood alone also expands on The Warrens, should you wish to get a deeper meaning from it. It dares to break away from our standard "Horror-Wood" mold (no Lin Shaye!) and could see a turning point for semi-decent big budget horror.

8/10 Masks









Saturday, 18 June 2016

Before I Wake (2016)


Well.... After the trailer that happened sometime last year I have been looking forward to this one as it looked awesome! The verdict? Dude seriously! Horror films should NOT have a happy ending or try to carry some sort of message - they should be pure gore and scare. Full stop.

So the concept. Amazing. Kate Bosworth and (back with a vengeance at the moment for some reason) Thomas Jane are a couple that lost their child (another common theme with horror at the moment) and adopt a young boy, Cody.

Cody is obviously an oddball - he never sleeps. When he does he dreams and the dreams come true - like really true at the time when he's dreaming them. We have a bunch of fairy-light butterflies flapping about and that sort of stuff. It's sweet.

However his nightmares come true as well. Including his personal demon "The Kanker Man" who...is scary as hell and eats people. After a few nightmares The Kanker Man actually eats the locals..nom nom nom.

With the couple missing their son, they realise that if they get Cody to dream about him, he returns for a brief period. This little trick by the way, has been tried and tested with Cody's previous foster parents. But when they get the nice, they get the nasty - including, you guessed it - The Kanker Man.

So this is the premise. It's great and we have some awesome creepy bits. As Cody can only dream up what he's seen and as he's quite young there are some awesome bits such as a dead wife from his imagination, with a spooky fixed-smile doll face. A woman gouging eyes out of a child etc.

However - the plot goes into the area of......lame!

There's a reason for The Kanker Man, there's a reason for everything, and when we get to the end and it tries to go into happy-ending mode, turn off. This ruins the whole movie, last 20mins should literally be fed to The Kanker Man.

Great concept, ruined by the Hollywood style ending.

6/10 Masks.


Hush (2016)


Straight to Netflix is the new "straight to video" - however, since the TV shows Netflix puts on are pretty good it doesn't always mean a direct drop in quality.

Hush is one of those films that has just about enough in it to be interesting. The home invasion concept is something that we've seen a lot of and the premise is a good solid base to work on.

Maddie is an author that lives in relative isolation - she lost her hearing in her youth and has been totally deaf since then. One evening her friendly neighbour comes to visit and is promply hacked to bits by a masked psycho on her way home.

The home invasion then starts with our masked man realising that he's picked on a deaf victim so is able to perform some creepy stuff such as taking her phone and sending photos from it to her home computer. Also he can sneak around. This potential for suspense however is quickly dispersed when our invader reveals himself.

What then follows is your bog-standard cat and mouse routine with not a lot of excitement or unexpected happenings.

There's another death but that's it and it all comes to a rather dull and predictable end.

If you're looking for something to fill your time while washing up then this is fine, it's not terrible it's just that the novelty runs dry very quickly and then we're just left with the sort of thing that we've seen many times before.

4/10 Masks




Friday, 20 May 2016

The Offering (2016)


This movie is also known as "The Faith Of Anna Waters" for some unknown reason like many films, one title is never enough.

Summed up....

Our heroine, Jamie, goes to Singapore after the death of her sister to investigate said grissly end. It turns out that the sister, Anna killed herself live on video and told her daughter that she would return in seven days.

Anna's ex-husband teams up with Jamie to delve into this death when it's revealed that another girl did the same killy-death-on-video thing, also claiming that she'd be back in seven days.

Then comes a secondary plot where two priests think that the Biblical Tower of Babel is going to be rebuilt and the church websites are being hacked by an unknown something.

Back in plot 1, the daughter is visited by spooky stuff (thinking it's her mum coming back) and the two detectives discover satanic marks and what seems to be a plan to bring back an ancient demon.

So we have a lot of plots and stuff going on and overlapping. Our film creator is left spinning a lot of plates and dosn't quite carry it off. There is simply too much in too short a space of time. When we do get to the crunch, it wasn't worth it really and we're left with a big bag of over-used cliches and rip-offs.

Overall the tone of this was quite good and full of promise, quite a few jumpy scares and a drag-you-in story, until it all goes to plop.

The Offering started to bring something new to the table and then just dragged it away. Maybe with a re-cut or an extended version we could get a quite decent film but as it's been released it's not amazing.

Not bad, just not amazing.

4/10 Masks




Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Intruders aka: Shut In (2015)


Home invasion films are one of those genres that it's really hard to make a good movie with. Some, such as You're Next or Mother's Day (even Them) work well where as others come off like a low budget version of Panic Room.

Intruders is one that makes it hard to tell. It's not up there with the greats, it does try to bring something new to the table buuuuutttt....meh.

Basically, you have a woman who is scared to leave her house. So much so that when her brother (who is terminally ill and that she is looking after) dies, she can't even bear to go to the funeral.

Thinking that she is away and knowing that she has been left a great deal of money - a trio of burglars sneak into her home with hopes of finding the loot.

What they find is our heroine  - who has not been using her paranoid time shut away in vain and has rigged up a bunch of R-Rated Home Alone surprises.

That's the basic plot. Not much else to tell, A few good splats and crunches but really not much else to keep you hooked.

1/10 Masks



Monday, 16 May 2016

#HORROR (2015)


#Horror (HashTagHorror as it's also known) was one of those films where you know that you're just not getting that time back. In fact you could guess this about 15mins into the film.

Summed up - the film opens with a few throat slashings and then turns into a pile of massive annoying smelly donkey plop.

There's a group of spoilt rich girls in a big posh house running about being mean to each other. There's some sort of underlying thing about "a social media site" which seems to pop up but you never find out what it is or why, or how it's relevant. The girls are constantly on their phones but then decide to lock them up.

They dress up, they are mean to each other, they get drunk, they dance - basically you're watching a bunch of annoying 12-year old girls mucking about and having a party, just waiting for the slashy-man to come murder them all.

But it doesn't happen until like... the last 10mins! Even then you're a bit confused as to what the hell went on.

No suspence, no shocks, no action, very little plot. Summed up - #wasteoftime.

1/10 Masks





Friday, 13 May 2016

The Veil (2016)


The makers of this kinda-some-star-flick made a very sensible move. They were going to produce this as one of those "found footage" films and then some bright spark piped up and said "wait a moment....that would be awful!". So they made a normal film instead. Hooray!

What we have is (another and so soon) movie based on the Jonestown religious cult and their leader the Reverend Jim Jones - in fact in The Veil, the leader (played by Thomas Jane) is called Jim Jacobs.

Our cult have all killed themselves 25 years previously, which would make their rather hippy 70s looking cult actually based in the early 90s assuming that The Veil is meant to be set in modern day. They do all seem to be wearing plaid shirts and moaning a lot so it might be based in the 90s.

The cult, known as Heaven's Veil seemingly all took their own lives leaving only one survivor, Sarah Hope (that one out of American Horror Story) who is approached by a group of film makers (led by Jessica Alba) hoping to capture her story.

While carrying out their Scooby-Gang investigatings they notice other video cameras in old pictures from the cult's time and go back to the Heaven's Veil camp in search of the previously unseen footage from them.

This previously unseen and unfound footage is found in the first room they come to, organised alphabetically and numerically, on a shelf labeled "previously unseen footage tapes". Next to it is a perfectly working projector and a screen... you know how these things are.

The films show a series of experiments carried out by Jim Jacobs trying to push his body's own limits and conquer death. Free the spirit from the body, go beyond, all that jazz. Of course when you mix conquering death with religious nutters and a scary old camp...you get spooky ghosts and possession.

The history and true purpose of Heaven's Veil is revealed, including some very unsurprising secrets of the Scooby-Gang.

Kinda slow, kinda dumb, not really very scary or surprising and mutiple false endings to rival The Return Of The King. Saved only really by Thomas Jane's performance as Jim Jacobs.

4/10 Masks




Thursday, 12 May 2016

The Boy (2016)


Here at HBTS I have been pretty strict about never posting spoilers - however I feel that by sticking to this I am restricting my reviews quite a bit so may bend this - so...

**Warning - May contain spoilers!**

The Boy was an interesting flick, it was hard to guess which path it was going to take when there were so many ways that it could have.

The story focuses on Greta, an American nanny who has re-located to rural England to look after the boy,  Brahms. Upon meeting the family she notices that they are quite elderly and then when she meets Brahms, that he's actually a doll. A doll you say? That's right, a doll.

The family treat him like any other boy and lay out a list of rules for Greta to follow when they go away. Loving the big house all to "herself" and putting the doll to one side, Greta's peace is disturbed when spooky happenings start around the house - seemingly Brahms can steal clothes,  move, cry, and make snacks.

Malcolm, a local delivery chap that comes by for the odd flirt tells Greta that Brahms was a real boy that presumably died in a fire about 20 years ago, he'd always believed that the doll was the family's way of coping with the loss, but that (the real) Brahms had also been thought to have murdered a local girl before his death.

Greta thinks that maybe Brahms the doll carries the spirit of Brahms the boy and sets about following the rules on his list and generally having an OK time, since Brahms seems not to want to case her any harm.

So once the plot has unfolded we're left wondering which was it will go - is the doll possessed by the spirit of Brahms and if so is it friendly? Or is Brahms still about? Did he have some kind of power or was he "special" - many references are made to the real Brahms being "different".

One thing for sure is that the blank face of the doll is creepy as hell in the old house and moments of what seems like normal life (as normal as it can be when you're caring for a doll) are just waiting to be disturbed.

The surreal atmosphere is punctuated with a couple of jump-scares and The Boy was good enough to keep me watching. I wasn't over-keen on the ending but you can't have everything - felt that it changed the mood a little too much. Still, a good enough little odd horror.

5/10 Masks




Tuesday, 10 May 2016

FLASHBACK - Terrorvision (1986)


 Since I've been rather neglecting to update this page as much as I'd like I have decided to throw in the odd "Flashback" section which will highlight some old classic scares you might have missed. Today - the 1986 "classic" - TERRORVISION!

Set in the 80s at the dawn of satellite TV we have an alien monster that is simply too destructive and dangerous to be kept on his own planet, so what do the aliens being terrorised do? They transform the beast into pure energy and beam it out into space. It instantly bounces round the cosmos and ends up beaming straight down into the Putterman family's brand new satellite dish.

 The Puttermans are made up of two swinging sex-obsessed parents, a heavy-metal-mad daughter and her boyfriend (called just "O.D" played respectivley by the awesome Jon Gries and Diane Franklin), along with an insane survivalist grandad and his faithful sidekick their youngest son, who spend most of the movie running about playing solidiers.

Once the alien beast has been beamed to earth it proceeds to be able to live inside the magic of  TV and in time manifest itself outside of the TV box and of course then.... it kills everyone.


As soon as the beast has fed he is able to shape-shift parts of his body into those he has eaten in order to lure in more victims. Which is both awesome and gruesome, sort of a slapstick version of Society (not seen it? That'll be my next Flashback then)

What makes this flick so great is the gooey darkness and camp 80s comedy that come with it. The gore comes hand in hand with the laughs and makes for a messy, cheap special effect ridden slime-fest.

Since the action takes place  mostly round the house there is some outside influences. There's Medusa, a large-breasted TV host (a poke at Elvira no doubt) who wants to get a look at the monster and an alien from the beasts's home planet that tries his best to stop the spread of the beast and to save mankind (and fails).


So bad that it's bad but great - you can probably find this flick on the internet in a second....enjoy!

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)


Of all the movies that are filmed with an iphone attached to the waving arms of an inflateable-dancing-man, Cloverfield was certainly one that worked for me. Never revealing anything about the monster, or why it was there or where it was from  -  a true monster movie.

When the first teasers for 10 Cloverfield Lane popped up, people were "is it Cloverfield 2?" We soon found that, yeah kind of but maybe not, and now we don't know really.

What we sort of have is....Remember the movie Signs? It was about an alien invasion but only through the eyes of a small farm family. Like, a worldwide event viewed through a hole in the wall. Imagine this but with tons of suspense, grit and you not spending the whole film trying to guess the end.

Michelle, our leading lady gets into a car crash and ends up waking, seemingly trapped in a bunker. Her captor, Howard (as I'm sure you know by now, brilliantly played by John Goodman) as scary and intense as he is unreadable.

Being ex-military and a survivalist, Howard belives that the US has been attacked by either an Asian country, their own governmant or oddly enough, something from outer space. Outside is unsafe, they must survive in the bunker.

Where as Michelle was taken to the bunker against her will the other house guest, Emmett is gratefull to be saved and to have survived (and will continue to survive) "the attack".

So what follows is a claustrophobic "three men in a diving bell" style slow-burn where it's not 100% clear who is the crazy one or who can be trusted. Things are revealed which twist and turn but like the setting of 10 Cloverfield, the plot never lacks space and minimal simplicity.

We're spolier free here at HBTS so nothing about the end but...wait and see!

8/10 Masks

Thursday, 31 March 2016

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)


Jane Austen's not so subtle critique of the "landed gentry" of the 1800s is well known by both schoolboy and servant, in fact anyone that has been interested in or been forced to study literature.

Very much like her own way of making what would these days pass for "ooo burn" or "lols" of that society. It's a great book, but just not a very interesting one.

A few years ago someone decided to do us all a favour and add zombies and martial arts to the book, instantly making it 100% more awesome.

Translating this into a movie just had to be done and what a splendid feast it is - can't really give you spoilers as the general theme won't leave much to guess once you've read the title. Needless to say Mr.Darcy and the Bennet girls are packing an undead-slaying arsenal.

The plot follows some basic themes and story of the original, just obviously with a world covered in zombies instead - which are a nusiance for the well-to-do.

If you're unfamiliar with Austen's work this might shoot over your head and just seem like a bit of an odd zombie flick - if you're paying attention then the cast and writing will have you bent over laughing.

Probably something of a novelty that may wear off, this could however save kids doing their English GCSE's for decades.

7/10 Masks

Thursday, 24 March 2016

The Witch (2016)


One of the many "we've been waiting since the trailer" movies that finally falls in my greasy lap... The Witch.

Like that other movie about a witch from the 90s, how much I liked it only snuck up on me afterwards. On the outside, The Witch is a very bleak and simple film about a family in the 1600s that is cast out from their village for one un-puritan reason or another. Staring at corn ears or something.

Moving out to the countryside and building a farm their newborn is snatched from under their noses during a game of peek-a-boo (the evilest of games) and taken by what we presume is a witch.

What follows is a sort of "who-is-it" game where the children get taken or possessed and strange things happen, evil and witchcraft is suspected and maybe one of the children is in league with the devil. Two creepy twins that talk to and play with a black goat maybe doesn't help. It's all very slow and very character-focused with not much action or revelation until the last 15 minutes or so.

The whole feeling of the film is not a million miles from 2009's "Antichrist" for it's minimalist tone, which does add to the tension.

Ralph "Finchy" Ineson plays the father of the family in one of his first roles where he's not Finchy I believe.

Where as it's not jump-scary or reliant on effects and gore it sits with you and the tension builds and sucks you in. In the end Finchy beats the Witch by challenging her to a game of throwing a copper kettle over a pub.

Ok that may not happen. The climax will win you over though. And that's Blockbusters.

8/10 Masks

Monday, 21 March 2016

The Forest (2016)



Oh and the trailer was SO promising....

Well here we go, a little hiatus from the blog and I'm back to watching "horror"... The Forest however is not one that is going to make me lose any sleep, although it did manage to make me waste an hour and a bit...

I thought that this was one of those remakes of an Asian movie where they just use the same location and actors but crowbar a few American actors in, ie: The Ring, The Grudge etc - so I was quite surprised to find out that this was an original piece.

Sarah (played by Natalie Dormer aka "that one out of Game Of Thrones") has lost her sister Jess (also played by Dormer, 'cos they is twins) after she travelled to Japan and has gone in to the Aokigahara forest, famous for people going there to top themselves.

Worried that this might be the case that suicide is on the cards Sarah travels to Japan and goes off in search of her sister, despite being warned by everyone not to go alone/off the path/etc and because as in all films no one has a f**king mobile phone. Instead she relies on her "special twin sixth sense" which is about as much use as asking the cat to do the washing up.

The forest is filled with spooky ghosts and stuff and apparently will make your senses imagine things that would make you drive yourself to death...which is pretty good as the forest does as advertised and will actually help you along the way.

Anyway, she bumps into this other American bloke, and they go off in search of the missing sister and spooky stuff happens but it's not that spooky and then a massive pile of "well I saw that coming about an hour ago" happens and then it's the end.

And unlike Game Of Thrones she keeps her kit on throughout whole film. A few predictable jump-scares but beyond that, meh.

4/10 Masks


...The Return Of HBTS!

There's been a delay I know...but we'll be back in a day or so!