RussHog

Weapons reminds me of the best Stephen King stories meeting peek Hitchcock cinema. It's a horror mystery that takes place in a small town where 17 children go missing, and different people in the town are trying to solve what happened to the kids.

Our main hero is a teacher who is suspected by many in the town of being in on the kids disappearance, but she suspects one of her students may have been involved. To prove her innocence, she begins to learn more about him and the mysterious house he lives in. The second main hero is a father of a missing child who investigates the teacher on his own but can't prove anything...so he sets off so solve the case by using ring footage of the night of the disappearance to make a map of where the kids might have gone.

Along the way, we meet a slew of interesting characters who interact with these two protagonists, and each character provides their own unique perspective into what happened the night the kids went missing. Although these characters are in a terrible situation, and as an audience member you feel the palpable horror permeate in this film...but it's also got moments of terrific humor, humanism, heroism...and a villain who is an all time classic.

There are moments in this movie where the audience gasped at what was happening because the plot twists were so crazy and we were just left held to the screen to find out just what the heck is going on. The script keeps you glued for the full 2 hours and 20 minutes and never lets up...and thankfully the script also never makes a bad decision in the end and you get one heckuva satisfactory conclusion.

Weapons, much like Sinners earlier this year, is an instant horror classic. It's got the best of all your favorite horror movies, plus some stuff you've never seen before. The acting is terrific, the characters are likable, the mystery and suspense and horror are memorable...and the final act brings it all home.

Together is a movie about a couple who are having trouble in their relationship, and they are about to find out if they really want to be together...or not.

They move from the city to a smaller town and not far from their home is some strange dark liquid in a cave - and when you drink the liquid it turns two or more living organisms into one entity.

Although there are some wonky script moments, surprisingly, this film held my interest the whole time. I liked the two main characters, and the horror of them coming "together" was really well played and most people in the theater were pretty shook. (In a good way).

There are a few good laughs during the more dark moments, that def helped alive the tension of some really messed up moments. So, this movie is disturbing but it's never too gross or unpleasant you can't stomach it, and it relies on a good script, production value, and acting to hold your interest. I liked the final twist and turn and the end, and there as one I didn't see coming...and I guess horror film twists pretty well.

Overall, this was a solid scary movie about the dangers of sticking around in a toxic relationship.

Untamed is an ok made for TV (or in this case) streaming mystery. There is nothing new under the sun, but the production value is pretty good (besides the terrible BG CGI - especially in the pilot). The plot is that this young girl dies under mysterious circumstances, and our hero (Eric Bana) has to team up with a rookie park ranger to hunt down the killers.

This show has every trope in the book, and you know who the real villain is the second they appear no screen. But still, the acting and overall mystery are good in this show and I found myself engaged with these characters. There were some twists and turns outside of who the mystery villain is - so even if you guess early there are still some good surprises.

One really cheese thing about this show is there is a masked killer, and we later see the hideout they are in...and they have their mask just hanging out on a table. I mean, do people just hang in this cave in a park with a mask on a table?

Anyhow, Eric Bana holds this show together with a really solid performance, even if it's kind of cheesy sometimes and the writing makes it convenient he is a good ranger when the script needs him to be, and a bad ranger when the script needs him to be.

I would recommend this over most other scripted showed on Netflix these days, and I'd definitely watch a second season with all of these characters.