I been told I should review more newer movies. Well, there’s a reason for that. The few I’ve seen and not reviewed? They kinda suck. So I tend to stick with the older ones, which also can kinda suck. But this one came up on the radar a few times in a matter of weeks, so I took a peek. Nicolas Fkn Cage? And it’s an evil one? Alright. Let’s roll.
Early 1970s. Winter. Remote house. Girl. Creepy Stranger. Bad Karaoke. Cut forward about 20 years. Young FBI agent Lee Harker still seems a bit green as she heads out into the field with her partner to do some door-knocks to try to get info on some recent killins. She seems to be a bit more tuned in on to where such evil may lurk. She kinda nails it. And with the next case, it seems to have some some ties to her past. She...doesn’t seem exactly stable. And the odd coincidences happening around her don’t help settle her nerves. She gets rather breathy. And the latest batch of murders gets her even more...unsettled.
This? Not bad, as far as a modern horror movie is concerned. Bit of a mash-up between David Fincher’s “Seven” and, well, a mash-up between some Ari Aster cribbed from Roman Polanksi. I won’t say which ones, we’ll just let those go unmentioned as is to keep it at least somewhat mysterious here. Some good unsettling atmospherics goin on, with Cage going his top fuckin psycho creeeepiest here. Strange that I just watched another movie that starred the director Osgood Perkins, son of Norman ‘Psycho’ Bates. He does a pretty good job tying a few different pieces together here, maybe a little lacks in logics but pretty solid in the extra level the story has to offer. Plus, creepy dolls always makes things...creepier. And the ending is pretty well done. For a 2024 film, it didn’t completely suck. Congratulations!
