Entertainment Swindon

M3GAN:

AI is all over the news at the moment, we’ve let the cat out of the bag and now it’s up to us to keep it in tow…. Will We succumb to the fate of Terminators nuking the world and travelling back in time to stop us saving the world? Will we let a computer take over the control of our Nukes like in War Games? Well, we’ve already started building robots with AI capabilities, and we cant help but love our gadgets and cool toys, so its not out of reach that we will end up at some time build a cute robot toy like M3GAN, so lets hope she doesn’t turn out to be a psycho like in this new movie that is a definite thumbs up to watch this Halloween if you’ve not seen it already…

Meet M3GAN, a prototype lifelike AI robot who is brought home by its inventor Gemma who is also now the guardian of her 8yr old niece to be her companion and sort of babysitter. But this is the movies, and we certainly ain’t in Kansas Toto!

Of course it all goes wrong! M3GAN becomes obsessed with the niece and overly protective, so anyone that upsets the niece better watch out as you will inevitbly fall prey to M3GAN.

This movie is camp and gruesome at the same time, theres some great murder scenes by M3GAN who is capable of overriding its programming and turning into an obsessive psycho killer. A great toy to buy for your child!

IT:
Rare that the reboot is ever as good as or even better than the original, but this reboot really does pull it off!

Stephen King short story IT is a cross between Halloween & The Goonies.

IT showed everyone how creepy clowns really are, the film directed by Andy Muschietti follows the Losers Club, a group of kids that have all grown up, but have been drawn back to their home town.

Back in 1988, big brother Bill makes a paper boat for his little brother who sails it down the rainy street, only to sail into a roadside drain. In his attempt to save his boat Georgie sees a clown who drags him down the sewer.

Bill and his Loser Club friends investigate Georgie’s disappearance, only to learn that the town has a history of disappearances all tied to a clown called Pennywise.

Fast Forward to adult life and the Loser Club is back together in their hometown to face down their fears and trauma to go up against Pennywise.

Interview With The Vampire:

Neil Jordan’s lavish 1994 gothic horror made a star out of 12-year-old Kirsten Dunst and further established Brad Pitt as a bona fide Hollywood A-lister but it’s Tom Cruise, playing against type as decadent, ruthless vampire Lestat, who steals the show.

Based on the novel by Anne Rice, it’s fair to say that Interview with the Vampire did much to build up the “sexy, angst-ridden vampire” trope that has since become a staple of film and TV – for better or worse, there’d be no Twilight or True Blood without it. But this isn’t just some romanticised goth-friendly depiction of the conflicted, beautiful children of the night – it’s also a creepy film with some outright shocking scenes.

From Dusk Till Dawn:

Does horror get any schlockier than undead exotic dancers? It does when you don’t see them coming.

Robert Rodriguez’s endlessly enjoyable From Dusk Till Dawn starts out like a standard Tarantino crime caper (complete with an acting role from the motor-mouthed director himself): bank robbers, quotable dialogue, lots of swearing and Harvey Keitel. But before too long, things take a huge swerve to the left and the full-on vampire slaying begins.

Naturally, the cussing continues to an incidental soundtrack of gunfire and gruesome death. And the aforementioned vampiric stripping scene – an unforgettable appearance from Salma Hayek.

The Fog (1980):

John Carpenter not only directed and co-wrote this rollicking supernatural slasher movie – he even composed and performed the evocative synth score. When a thick bank of fog rolls off the ocean, it’s not just low visibility that the residents of California coastal town Antonio Bay need to worry about. There’s also a band of hook-wielding revenant sailors residing in the pea-souper, and they have bloody vengeance on their minds.

Like so many horror films of its time, it’s since been rebooted (and badly rebooted at that), but the original remains an enjoyable watch – even if it never reaches the heights of Carpenter’s other early horror efforts The Thing and Halloween.