Infini is a horror science fiction movie released in 2015. It is about a search and rescue team who travel through time slips to other worlds. The company that trains and operates the slip streams are a mining company, and their practices don’t quite take the human element into consideration. One planet where mining is taking place erupts in a horrific outbreak, and no one is quite sure where it has come from.
 
The movie revolves around a young man named Whit, who has left his pregnant wife for one last job. These jobs are dangerous and they pay very well, which is why Whit has decided it do it one last time. Once he arrives things start happening and the other people on the planet begin showing signs of a sickness that makes everyone a little violent. A search and rescue team is sent to not only find out what happened, but also make sure the product is still being produced.
 
This was a very bloody movie, which was fun for a horror movie. However, the science part of it wasn’t explored as much as it could have been. The being behind the outbreak was interesting, although it has been done before, I liked how it was interweaved between the horror of what was happening, and the reality of what humans do when they see or meet an alien being.
 
I didn’t think this was a great movie, and at times I was impatient for the characters to do something together or figure things out, instead they were at each other’s throats and it wasn’t anything I hadn’t seen in a movie like this before. It reminded me of movies like Sunshine and Event Horizon, which were both better movies. I would have liked to see the characters do something new, and I would have liked less of a religious view on motherhood in this film.
 
This was not a bad movie, but it was lacking in some of the elements and originality. It isn’t a bad movie to watch on streaming, but I wouldn’t recommend paying for it.

Of course, this review will have spoilers because this is the second in a series. I can’t really talk too much about the movie without mentioning what happened in the previous movie.
 
The movie, Creep 2, was released in 2017, and I am not sure if people watched it as much as they should have. The plot definition from IMDb is: A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.
 
Everyone who has seen the first movie knows that Aaron, played by Mark Duplass, is a serial killer. He killed his videographer from the first movie at the end of the movie. In this movie, he starts with a murder, but has hired a videographer, Sara, to document his death. As the film continues on he talks about how he has lost his mojo, and how killing has become boring. With Sara he finds new life and finds that he still has an urge for something. Sara, for her part, shows that he doesn’t scare her, even though he actually does. Then again Sara doesn’t believe Aaron is a serial killer.
 
I thought this movie was fun, and I have to say I also enjoyed the first movie, Creep. I think part of this was due to Mark Duplass. I have to admit I really enjoy his acting style, as he is often weird characters, but also subtle and engaging. In this movie he takes his serial killer to a new level, and he makes the audience believe what he says. His serial killer was also written well and it was such an honest portrayal, I could honestly say that he made me think about what an actual serial killer might think. He did, in fact, make me think of the real serial killer, Edmund Kemper.
 
Edmund Kemper is honest about what he has done and why. He is intelligent, and Aaron is also intelligent, which made him seem realistic and wonderful.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and if you haven’t seen it you should absolutely watch it. First, watch the first movie. After you watch both of these you should watch anything else you can with Mark as an actor.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney is all about what the title sounds like, an invasion, of body snatchers. Doctor Miles Bennell discovers something is off in the town of Mill Valley, California. He is frightened, and concerned, as well as intrigued. Learning that several of his patients have concerns about loved one being different, he visits one, and notices that nothing seems amiss, that is until he is called to the house of a few of his other patients. What he finds there is something he doesn't understand, nor does he know what to do. With the help of his patients, Jack and Theodora, and a recently divorced woman he used to, and still does, love, Becky, they see answers and learn secrets about pod people taking over their town, with aspirations to take over the world.
 
This book first appeared as several stories in a magazine in 1954. The story takes place in 1976, and the reader can see some of the way life was in the 1950's in the 1970 version. The way the women react and are treated, like fainting flowers, is the way women were looked at often in the 1950's. This was the most disturbing part of the story.
 
The book was interesting in regards to the idea of the pod people. They had no emotions, because they weren't needed. They came down and counted themselves as parasites that wanted to survive, like all lifeforms. The alien pods do have issues, they don't last long, and they can't reproduce unless they are cloning something else, and they can't clone something they have already cloned. Once the pod people realize that the lifeforms on earth, ie the humans, don't want to die, the alien lifeforms realize they may not be able to take over the world as easy as they thought they would.
 
It is an interesting book, and it does make one wonder how humanity would survive, or what the survival instinct of humans would be. How far would we go and how hard would we fight. I enjoyed the sneaky way that the pod people inserted themselves into the lives of others, or took over the lives of others. It was also interesting because if one thinks about it, what if there are aliens here right now, and we don't know because they have been slowly taking over. It reminds me of the movie They Live.
 
I should add, I have only recently seen one the original two movies, although I have seen The Invasion (Not great) and The Thing (which is the same type of story). The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) is not the same movie as the book, although there are some things about it that are the same. For example, there is a main man, who is in love with his female counterpart. There is a doctor who says it is all mass hysteria. And there is a couple who find they are being cloned and taken over. I think the original movie might be the one that is closest to the book, so if you read the book, you might want to start there.

 SPOILERS included in this review. You have been warned.
 
I previously watched the remake of It’s Alive, and after watching the 1973 original movie I really don’t think it needed to be remade, because the remake is a million times worse than the original (which wasn’t the best movie itself). The 1973 version of It’s Alive is about a couple who have a monster of a baby. The baby goes on a killing spree to survive and get home to his parents. Frank, the father, feels an incredible desire to destroy the infant, but the mother has other ideas after she returns home and tries to start life back up. Their older son, Charlie, is left in the dark as the parents try to protect him from what happened, but in the end Charlie doesn’t need protection from his baby brother, the rest of the world, they might.
 
The original version of this movie was very different from the remake. In this version the mother hides the child for a few days in the basement of their house, only wanting to protect him. She doesn’t get to take him home from the hospital because after he slaughters the medical staff he runs in fear, whereas in the remake they take the baby home and find that the only weird things about him are his teeth and his size (he grows incredibly fast). The father in the remake doesn’t seem to take an interest in the movie, and the mother in the remake tries hide her infants murderous deeds by moving and concealing bodies.
 
One thing I liked about the original is that the father eventually comes around and tried to protect his child, unlike the remake when the mother sets the house on fire, killing herself and her baby. In the original the parents seem to really care for their oldest child, Charlie, while in the remake the kid seems to be left on his own, or he disappears and the audience has no idea what might have happened to him.
 
Since the original was made in the early 1970’s it is a little bit hokey, but the fun of it is the badly done effects and some of the interesting acting. In fact one of the best lines of the movie came from the lead detective trying to find and destroy the infant. The line was, “Hunting and killing babies doesn’t seem to be my specialty,” and I thought it was the most apropos line in the movie, since how does one justify hunting down and killing an infant, even if it is a homicidal monster?
 
I actually enjoyed the original version a million times better than the remake, and I thought it not only had a better story, but a better ending. If you haven’t watched it, look for the 1973 version, and skip the 2008 version.

2016’s Let’s Be Evil is a movie that doesn’t quite have a specific plot or outline. What it seems to be about is a young woman named Jenny, who accepts a temporary job at a research facility to help care for her ailing mother. While there she is set to watch the children in the facility as they are trained for unspecific purposes.
 
Jenny is a young woman who must find a way to care for her ill mother. She ends up getting a temporary job at this research facility. She is never told what she is doing there, nor what the children she is watching are doing there. Each day she is awoken by an alarm and must wear special glasses to view the augmented reality of the facility she is at. In reality she may or may not be in some sort of virtual reality game. Throughout the movie she tries to connect with the children and feels that she does connect with a young girl named Cassandra. In reality it is all a game.
 
This movie started out very interesting, because as Jenny and her two coworkers do what they are supposed to be doing, they don’t really learn much about what they are doing. Neither does the audience. There are suspicious things that happen throughout the movie, like lights going out, black smoke roaming over a door, and children playing vicious games on Jenny and the other two workers. The audience sits waiting for something, anything, to happen. Then when something does happen, it is both expected and unexpected.


At the end of the movie, I can’t say I was shocked. I found that the entire idea of the movie changed with the end of the movie. I didn’t think the ending was a good one, and it was frustrating to see the movie ending like it did. It was one of those movies, one where you find out at the end that the movie was just a dream. This was just like that, except it wasn’t a dream, but it was close to one of those stupid movies.
 
Now, I don’t mind a twist at the end of a movie, but I really think directors should try to make things more interesting, and stop with the ambiguous or circular endings of movies. Please, I’m begging all of you directors and producers and writers out there, stop writing the same ending in different cities and realities for all of the movies out there. Try being original! I don’t need another twist to another movie that tells me that none of it really happened at all. I’m so over that!
 
So, did I like this movie? Yes, until the end. Was it worth a watch? Yes, until the end. Should you watch it, I mean, if you don’t mind something that seems like it will be a good movie that craps out in the end? Yeah, go ahead, it’s not a long movie, and it is free on a few streaming services.