This 2010 movie is about an Iraq-based American civilian truck driver Paul Conroy, played by Ryan Reynolds, who, after being attacked, wakes up to fins he has been buried alive in a wooden coffin. The only things his attacker or kidnapper left him are a lighter, flask, flashlight, knife, glowsticks, pen, pencil, and a mobile phone.

I can honestly say it took me a while to talk myself into watching this movie. I wasn't sure a movie about a guy buried in a box would be very interesting, like what could actually go on. And I had read that this movie was all about the guy in a coffin, there were no other landscapes, nor any other actors to watch, just Ryan Reynolds. Another reason I wasn't sure if I could like or be able to watch this movie is the fact that it is a guy in a coffin, and one of the things I have always been afraid of is being buried alive. I hate admitting that I am afraid of anything, being a horror author, nothing is supposed to scare me, but being buried alive seems like a slow and torturous way to die. However, I decided to finally watch this, and I can't say I hated it.

The synopsis at the beginning of this post is basically what this movie is about. Throughout the movie the audience gets to see the panic, the hope, the anger, and the acceptance Paul goes through. This shows what a good actor Ryan Reynolds can be, especially after doing that horrible GREEN LANTERN movie. He has done a lot to come back from that movie, besides playing DEADPOOL in the movie, he has done this and he was in another movie I reviewed, THE VOICES (which is a really good dark comedy if you haven't seen it). This is just Ryan Reynolds reacting to outside stimuli, mostly the voices on the cell phone he has been left with, and the fear, the panic, the discomfort he feels, the viewer can actually feel it.

The movie itself was simple, with a few things happening to give the audience hope that he will be found and that everything is going to be okay. The ending of the story was really, really, well awesome! I was actually thinking one thing was going to happen, and it did, but I was surprised at how and what was said.

I recommend this movie, as a horror movie not so much unless you are afraid of being buried alive, more of a suspense because the audience gets to go through it all just to find out what happens.

All right, this is what IMDb has as the plot synopsis for the movie: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem. This doesn't even begin to describe what the movie is about.

In the last few months I have not gone to see many movies in the theater, partly because there haven't been a lot of movies that I have wanted to pay six dollars to sit through. This should have been one of these movies. Now, let me say that I did not hate this movie, nor did I love it, it did however make me wonder how long I was in the theater, and what in the world I had just watched.

Going into this movie I thought I was going to be watching a horror movie, and while it did have some of the elements a horror movie would have, it was not a horror movie, it was more of a suspense thriller. Watching this movie was like watching a car wreck about to happen and then happen, between a clown car and a car full of roaches. It was interesting to begin with, although you don't really like clowns, then it got weirdly creepy with roaches running all over for no reason, then it got creepier after the car accident when the roaches started climbing into every free orifice of the clowns.

This movie starts out as a very young executive transfers to another office, partly because he is needed to go retrieve the CEO, and partly because he has done something stupid and will be paying retribution for it. When he arrives at the wellness center he sees that it is full of older patients, and he is annoyed by a young desk nurse. He tries to see the CEO he was sent to retrieve, but is not allowed, then on his way back down to town the car he is in hits a deer and he is in a terrible accident.

He wakes up in a clean white bed, in clean white clothes, in the wellness center, supposedly three days after the accident. Many odd things happen. Some of the older patients seem a little off. The director of the center is a strange and stoney man. Besides the employees there is one other younger person there, a young girl named Hannah, who is there because she is "special".

The young executive, Lockhart, wanders around the facility trying to find Pembroke, the CEO he was sent to bring back to New York. What he finds is a lot of weird questions that he doesn't have the answers to.

This was a very weird movie. I went into it thinking I was going to see a horror flick, but there was a literally a butt load of naked older booty, a few uncomfortable sex scenes, and a lot of sexual innuendo. Overall this was about sex and babies and incest, which on the best of days can be an interesting combination. This movie did not pull it off. While there were some uncomfortable moments, teeth being pulled, stuff being shoved down a patients throat, awkward sex scenes that made some in the audience cringe, this was not the best movie. It was nothing like what the previews lead me to think it was.

So, if you want to see a horror movie this is not the movie for you. If you want to see a movie that has some hot old ass in it, this is the movie for you. If you like movies that are weird and make you question what the hell you just watched, this is the movie for you. If you like movies that make you feel like you have spent a half a day in the theater because it is the longest movie ever even though it is only two hours, this is the movie for you. If you like wasting time and money, this is absolutely the movie for you.

Me? I wish I had waited for it to get to the dollar theater.

The INSIDIOUS series has been pretty good. I enjoyed the first movie immensely, and the second was well done although with the twist known it wasn't as scary as the first, however, the third movie seemed to stray far from the premise and fear the first movie created.

Insidious 3 is said to be a prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family. It reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity. However, it didn't present itself as a sequel, it didn't seem to set up much for the other two movies, maybe the fact that she was shown a picture of a young boy who may have been the father in INSIDIOUS 1 and 2.

The movie doesn't offer much in the way of plot, starting as a young girl, Quinn Brenner, searches out psychic, Elise Rainier, to answer some questions about her deceased mother. It is somewhat obvious what happens after she does this.

The one huge problem I had with this movie is that the bad guy, the guy with a breathing problem (as he is called in the movie), is never developed. The audience does not know who he is, why he is in the same apartment building as Quinn, how he got to be the monster he was, and how he talked (or forced) others to do what he wanted them to do (which caused their suffering). Being an underdeveloped character made him not as frightening as he could have been, as the audience does not really know what his motivation is for wanting Quinn, or for harming others. The statement that some spirits were just filled with darkness and wanted others to be in the darkness with them just did not sit well, nor did it explain how or why he chose Quinn.

The other huge problem I had with this movie was the father, Sean Brenner, played by Dermot Mulroney. First he seems to easily fall into believing what his daughter is saying, which seems unrealistic. Then second his character was incredibly dull. Now I have seen Mulroney play good and bad characters, and I don't know if it was the writing that turned him into a dull two sided character, or if it was his acting in this one, but it was not very interesting. I found his character to be dull and flat. I would have liked a little more backstory for the family, so I could have been close to them, or at least cared a little about what happened. I mean there was a little brother who seemed to be gone for most of the movie and I wondered what he could have been doing while his sister was being tortured and his father was preoccupied with her injuries and issues.

So, this was not the best of the INSIDIOUS series. I know they are planning on doing an INSIDIOUS 4, and I hope they take it back to the horror and the suspense of the first two movies, That was what made them interesting, this one just makes them regular old ghost/possession stories.

I don't understand why there seems to always be a sequel. Not all movies need a sequel, and if one is going to be made, at least keep it in the vein of the original.

This seemed like a great departure from the original movie, as it tried too hard to focus on the children and the monster involved. I felt like this one relied too much on humor and gore or shock value to be a good movie. Just to say it was not a very good movie at all.

Premise - a mother and her two sons have moved into a house to get away from her abusive ex-husband. One of the sons has been seeing ghost children who want him to watch the videos they made of their families. The young boy, Dylan, does not want to watch them but they keep telling him that he must so that his nightmares will go away. He is dubious of this, but his brother is not. His brother wants to be a part of it all and is upset that Dylan is getting all of the attention. The brother, Zach, is just as abusive as the father, and the mother seems unable to discipline her son. At one point Zach beats Dylan quite severely and the mother, Courtney, just sends him to his room. The father eventually gets an order to get the boys and bring them home, and the Courtney goes along so she can protect Dylan. And if you have seen the first movie you know what happens when they leave one home and move to another. The Deputy from the first movie has been around all along, showing up at the house to take care of some things, which he is unable to do because of the family living there.

This movie didn't have the kick of the first. Why was the first SINISTER movie so special? Because it introduced the twist near the end of the film and because it was new. Trying to do a sequel would have been tough, but this one tries to go one step too far by involving the motivation of the children and this movie spent too much time on the backstory of the family. I would have liked this movie to go back to the original, but instead it tried too hard to be a movie about why these kids followed the monster.

Honestly, if this movie was about the kids, without the ghost kids, it would have been better. It would have been a better story if it didn't try to explain so much. It went too far and it was not very interesting. Plus, while I don't mind humor in a horror film, I felt like this one tried way too hard to be more than what it was.

I don't recommend it at all. Honestly, like ROGUE ONE I wasn't sure why anyone wanted to make this movie. I didn't hold true to the original and the scares were no where to be found. Plus it was entirely too predictable. Not good, not good at all.

This is one of those movies that I'm betting not a lot of people have seen. It was a quite film that didn't quite get a mass audience, and I honestly don't even remember it being in theaters. MOON is about an Astronaut named Sam Bell who is at the end of a three-year stint on the Moon. He, alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. Sam only has two weeks left, and he feels like he may be going insane due to his lack of communication (physical really) with other humans. What does one do when they find out they aren't really who they think they are?

Sam is an astronaut who has spent almost three years on the moon mining to produce power back on earth. Now this isn't explained in depth, so don't expect a lot of science stuff to go on. It isn't like the movie THE MARTIAN with Matt Damon, trying to science the shit out of stuff, this is literally about a man who has been stuck on the moon and who may be going insane due to the loneliness. After an accident Sam discovers that GERTY has been keeping a secret from him, and something crazy happens which is not supposed to happen.

While I don't want to give too much away by telling what happens in this movie, I do think it is an interesting idea. What happens if you realize that you aren't who you thought you were? Does artificial life of any sort (AI, Robots, Clones) get any say on if they live or die, or how they live? Should they?

This was a somewhat slow movie, there is not a lot of action, as the audience only follows one man in his descent into possible madness. But it is a good premise and the ending was fabulous as it asks some of the questions that I was asking. I absolutely recommend this when you want something that is a thinker of a film.

MALEFICENT is a couple of years old, but I am just getting to watching it now. I was interested in the film due to the horror elements (monsters and fairies), but who doesn't enjoy a fairy tale....me, I don't, I think they create unrealistic ideas of what love it. However, this was an interesting take on the old story of sleeping beauty and I was intrigued. You don't always need a man to be you knight in shining armor, all you need is someone to love you.

The movie begins with a young Maleficent wandering around the enchanted woods of her home. A human wanders in and takes something that doesn't belong to him. Maleficent is sent to make him give back what he has taken. In the end Maleficent and the boy become friends, and she believes that they have fallen in love. But, as is the truth with most humans, he had ambitions which she could never understand, and they took him away from her, until he took something special away from her (and no, it wasn't her virginity, this is still a kids movie). We think we know the rest of the of the story, betrayed Maleficent curses baby Aurora, when Aurora turns sixteen she pricks her finger, and a nice prince kisses her to wake her up. This is not exactly what happens in the movie, MALEFICENT.

Angelina Jolie did well in her portrayal of Maleficent, and Elle Fanning was excellent in her portrayal of Aurora (although the character did not need a lot of backstory). The movie twisted the story as Maleficent found herself caring for the young princess, and did not let her die in several of the accidents the princess could have died in. Maleficent does try to take the curse off of the child, but finds that once a curse of that caliber is created it is impossible to take it back. This led me to believe that the movie was about controlling your temper, because sometimes you can't take back the things you say in anger. It also seemed to be about how love can overcome all, and you don't always need a prince to protect you, or help you become who you are.

While this was a little heavy handed, I did see the value of teaching these lessons to young ones. The effects in the movie were simply gorgeous, although the fairies sent to protect and watch over Aurora could have use a little bit of work. Most of the other effects were well done.

This movie didn't take a lot of thought, and I wouldn't say it was the movie of the century, but it wasn't bad for a Disney flick. I enjoyed it, and it made me have some of the feels. I think it might be a little too intense for young children, but it does tell a good story. And it does a good representation of what the story could be.