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A guy named Bear is in love with his friend Nikki. After chickening out on telling her again he goes to an apothacary to find her a gift and finds the"One wish Willow" a magical branch in a box. After his last failed attempt to tell her he jokingly makes a wish on the willow and breaks it wishing for Nikki to love him more than anything in the world. This hopeless romantic gets what he wished for and so much more. Be careful what you wish for. A dark, psychological horror mixed with a little bit of the supernatural and romance.
Non Spoiler review.
This movie was definately a thrilling movie. It blends really well with a psychological and supernatural horror movie. Curry Barker did a great job on his first real big project. The ending was something left to be desired for us personally but non the less still good. The withering of Nikki aka Freaky Nikki and the unravelling of Bear was hard but thrilling to watch to say the least. There were many twists and turns and things you find out that made our face scream....oh shiiiiiiite!! We do feel like it was a little over hyped because i mean we have seen this concept played out in alot of movies and well shows for example Supernatural did a good one that was very very similar " Wishful thinking" Season 4 Episode 8. In both the episode and the movie, the plot kicks off with a magical or cursed object (a wishing coin in the show, a "One Wish Willow" in the movie) that allows a hopeless romantic to make his crush fall in love with him. In both stories, the wish comes true, but it strips the girl of her free will, turning her unnervingly obsessed with the protagonist. Of course this movie was way more gory , intense and well new . However what sets this apart is the acting honestly and the ending. The actors and actresses were really stellar in this movie and we believe they are going to go very far.
Overall we give it a 8.5/10
Thrills: 8/10
Horror: 8/10
Originality 5/10
Acting 10/10
Cinemotography 9/10
This was a well written, directed, and played out movie. We will be watching this again.
SPOILERS BELOW PLEASE LEAVE IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT !!!
We were impressed by the movie but to be honest with you it wasnt the movie that made us go bleh... it was the people who watched it. The amount of unnessisary philisophical bickering people did over the movie was crazy. The movie was great but they were tearing it apart and made it into a whole men vs women thing and the man and the bear thing...Curry Barker said it was about co-dependency, poseessive love, and toxicity of some relationships and how far it can go. Along with that it was about being careful what you wish for and from a Simpsons episode ( Treehouse of Horror 11 ) that he had seen with a monkey paw. He avoided making Nikki's transformation look like a standard spiritual possession, aiming instead for a deeply unsettling but realistic psychological deterioration. He didn't have a deeper meaning than that. He likes to leave things up to interpritation stating that maybe the one wish willow was not all bad it just depended ont he wish.The guy at the apothacary made a wish and his wish came true and it has worked out well for him as well as when bear forced his friend to make a wish and it was for a billion dollars and that came true. Sadly for Bear he was selfish and obsessed with Nikki so his wish of " I wish Nikki loved me more than anything in the world " was taken very serious in the willows eyes and became something possessive, obsessive, and took away her free will and the ability to live for herself... her obsession created by him became something very scary when the wish Nikki took over. Leaving the real Nikki unable to break free and be herself , who mind you she was sleeping with his best friend and neither of them told him , obviously was not in love or even liked Bear . She kept snapping into the real Nikki and at one point asked Bear to kill her because she didnt want to be a slave to the wish anymore. Bear in this aspect was again selfish and instead of wanting to reverse or fix it he kept trying to make it work event hough he knew her feelings were not real...they werethe wish Nikki...which made everything worse. UNTIL She killed the one girl that actually liked bear alot and wanted to be with him. He then started to think well now i gotta fix this. He should have done that from the start and none of it would have happened and would have went back to normal. At the end he put the one wish willow down on the table and left the room to go end it all ( overdoe on his meds) when after taking them wish Nikki breaks the willow causing bear to become in love no matter what with her...wish Nikki and Wish Bear were together....however him dying from Overdose caused the wish to leave and the real Nikki was back in the real world having to deal witht he consequenses of someone elses actions. Which for her that must really suck.
Anyways. The movie was good only one sex scene which was kinda uncomfortable because he is having sex with someone he knows is being held against her will but at the same time not. The real Nikki didn't want it but the wish Nikki did and so that part was uncomfortable to think about. In Bear's defense he didn't thhink it was actually real however he should have found a way to stop it when he found out she didn't aactually love him and it was just the wish.
People are comparing it to the man and the bear and in this aspect i understand why but at the same time it isn't a man vs women war it is a take on toxicity in relationships when you both feel trapped by your feelings and yet you stay together when you know you shouldn't. Anyways, it is a great watch and i highly suggest people seeing it. It was alot of fun!
We went to see the Backrooms the past weekend and we don't have alot to say but we will say it anyways lol.
First lets give a synopsis shall we and a little backstory but i wont go into detail because i know too much and can talk about it forever.
This movie is done by A24 and Kane Parsons, who is known as Kane Pixels on YouTube. Who did a bunch of found footage, movies or little shorts about The Backrooms.
Just a little back story on the Backrooms they were invented in 2019 on a thread on an image board website called 4chan , and the Backrooms were usually portrayed as like impossibly large , extra dimensional complex of empty rooms, Liminal spaces and empty and eerie vibes. They're in the creepy pasta genre. At this point there are thousands of levels. Each level has a different intensity and has different monsters in it. Some are safe zones, some are slightly safe, and then there are some that are danger zones , and then some that are just run , get out. You know , clip in , which is basically you just fall into these rooms , universes , worlds dimensions , and you never know which one you're gonna end up in , but the most known is level zero , which is that yellow toned office , liminal space that you see in the movie.
Okay, now back to the movie. So this movie had a lot of good points to it , which are they got the look and the eerie feeling down very well. They also got that since of someone is watching you feeling correct as well. The bad thing is, is they focused on this man's back story for about an hour of the entire movie and when he found the back rooms it kind of went into that a little but then it didn't really tell you anything about the place they were in unit the very end. This man goes on a journey after he's getting divorced and finds this room inside of his furniture store in the wall started glowing. So he walked through it, then he started getting curious and kept going back and then he brought other people in and then they found the monster which the monster was incredibly disappointing because I was expecting a certain thing considering we've seen and read all of the back history that I could. Then he stays and leaves this weird message on his therapist's answering machine. So she goes to find him at his furniture store and ends up finding the Backrooms where he taped a door and goes inside, ends up finding him and strange things happen and then she has to run from this monster, which was incredibly disappointing. Then she ends up where the workers are and they tell her a little bit about the space, but they also don't know much and then it just ends. They could have literally done this movie in 30 minutes. They went into none of the other spaces , really , except for a brief five minutes where they went through maybe two other zones , but it was all connected to level zero , which makes no sense but ok. It was basically, here's this guy, he's going through a hard time, he's an alcoholic, he finds the Backrooms and he goes in and goes nuts. Then this person comes looking for him and finds him and he's nuts , then she finds the workers and boom done the backrooms. This should have started. The movie should've started when she found the workers. Honestly, the entire movie could have been down to 30 minutes as an intro to the actual movie. Or if this is going to be a series, I can see it being a start to a franchise. However, It took way too long to get to the point and I literally wasted about an hour of my time. The I could have squished it together in thirty minutes would have been fine.
Aesthetically , 8/10
Eerie vibes 7/10
Cinematography. 7/10
Plot ....5/10 felt unfinished
Horror 2/10 had no horror to it really
Overall 5/10 dissapointing
Scream 7 was finally here and we get to see it in all its glory. We have waited to see what they are going to do with this one and with the recent boycotts becausse of a boycott campaign protesting the November 2023 firing of actress Melissa Barrera. Spyglass Media Group dropped Barrera from the franchise following her social media posts concerning the Israel-Hamas war, which the studio described as antisemitic also causing Jenna Ortega and the original director Christopher Landon to quit as well.
Their counter was bringing back Neve Campbell and Mathew Lillard along with a new Director who wrote the 1,2,4, and 7 screenplays for it. Despite all the boycotts it is hard to get die hard Ghostface/Scream fans to not go see it because the movie and i quote " The movie is not a reflection of the actions that had happened prior and while we all hate the things that transpired and we love when people stand up for what's right, we still are allowed to enjoy something that we as millennials and some after grew up loving. Its is a part of our life and to be able to see these characters come back, the nostalgia it brought to our hearts , and the sheer love we have for our original soundtrack, ( which we get to hear a few songs that hit home so hard) , and original actors coming back....mostly Mathew Lillard (we all love you Mathew) was to hard to pass up." Now was it worth it?? Well lets talk about it.
This movie was all the above and kept you on a wild ride. Took you back into memory lane bringing in a lot of people that we had previously seen and even some we saw die. For me even though i don't like some of the characters that they brought back it was still fun to see them.
Plot " When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, she must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all. " Now diving deeper into the plot.
The movie was so good and interesting. nostalgic and just great chase scenes, brutal kills and the slash factor was pretty awesome but the reveal was TERRIBLE!! The Ghostfaces were unrelatable, nobodies, that made no FREAKING SENSE!! I was so frustrated seeing who the killers were that it made me almost so done with the movie. However .... the ending with Sid telling Gale that she loves her, trusts her and all that was really sweet and heart touching. You also see that some people survived you didn't expect to. It was a happy ending for everyone while also not being because Tatum is now traumatized just like her mom was...the cycle had restarted.
NOW FOR MY THOUGHTS!!!
Slash Factor : 8/10 some brutal kills and some awesome sound and special fix.
Horror : 8/10 it gave you horror , suspense , thrills and chills,
Reveal : 2/10 worst reveal in the series...at least the others made sense
Plot: 8/10 till the ending 5/10
Overall movie gets a 7/10
This movie was great for your nostalgia, great for the kills, thrills, and suspense. All up until the end of it i was invested. The characters ( except the Ghostfaces ) were all well developed and i liked the mix of older characters and the new characters. I absolutely think the best thing to happen to Scream 5 and 6 was The twins Mindy and Chad and was pleasantly surprised when i saw them come back. It was nice because i adore those and it was a nice way to feel like Randy who was one of my favorites and who is literally me come back too. Gale was there representing herself and Dewy ( rip my handsome sweet cop ) . The Chase scenes were also fast paced and pretty epic. Also something about Sidney being such a bad ass made my heart thump not gunna lie. Goes to show you that you should always be honest with your kids for the most part and if they someday may be chased by a Ghostface teach them how to defend themselves. Is this the last one?
Kevin Williamson indicated that Scream 7 is not the final chapter, suggesting the story could continue beyond this installment. Neve Campbell, who returned to star as Sidney Prescott, has reportedly already pitched ideas for a Scream 8. Despite controversies, Scream 7 performed well at the box office, making a, which makes a, which makes a "Scream 8" a very likely, possibility..
So who knows however in my opinion...please stop...PLEASE STOP!!! The only way i would like to see a new one is if a certain someone ( previous Ghostface ) actually came back and there was a standoff with Gale, Sid, the Ghostface and t ends where it started. That would be watchable. No new people just the people who have been in it previously 1-7. Anyways, i encourage you to go see it if it is a thing you have loved since day one because you will enjoy it more than those who just started watching it when Scream 5 and 6 came out. Old school fans appreciate it and new people don't understand the role it played in our lives growing up so they don't have that time to appreciate it plus they came in on a whole different plot and storyline that i personally didn't like as much. However we will get to rating the Scream Series in another article. Please watch and enjoy and if you don't enjoy it i get it but to each their own.
Happy Slashing my friends!!!
Scream 7 was finally here and we get to see it in all its glory. We have waited to see what they are going to do with this one and with the recent boycotts becausse of a boycott campaign protesting the November 2023 firing of actress Melissa Barrera. Spyglass Media Group dropped Barrera from the franchise following her social media posts concerning the Israel-Hamas war, which the studio described as antisemitic also causing Jenna Ortega and the original director Christopher Landon to quit as well.
Their counter was bringing back Neve Campbell and Mathew Lillard along with a new Director who wrote the 1,2,4, and 7 screenplays for it. Despite all the boycotts it is hard to get die hard Ghostface/Scream fans to not go see it because the movie and i quote " The movie is not a reflection of the actions that had happened prior and while we all hate the things that transpired and we love when people stand up for whats right, we still are allowed to enjoy something that we as millenials and some after grew up loving. Its is a part of our life and to be able to see these characters come back, the nostalgia it brought to our hearts , and the sheer love we have for our original soundtrack, ( which we get to hear a few songs that hit home so hard) , and original actors coming back....mostly Mathew Lillard (we all love you Mathew) was to hard to pass up." Now was it worth it?? Well lets talk about it.
This movie was all the above and kept you on a wild ride. Took you back into memory lane bringing in alot of people that we had previously seen and even some we saw die. For me even though i don't like some of the characters that they brought back it was still fun to see them.
Plot " When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, she must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all. " Now diving deeper intot he plot.
Starting with Sidney and her daughter Tatum which we find out the whole reason Tatum was named Tatum, obviously because of Sidney's best friend who was with Stu in the first Scream, and you see Sidney works and owns a cute little coffee shop. She has not told Tatum anything about her past trying to protect her ( it bites her ass in the end ) The husband is Cheif of police which makes sense for her to marry that lol. You see Tatum and her friends hanging out just like Sid and her friends at the same age. Senior year just like Sidney and we know Ghostfaces seem to be sooooo sentimental lol. So we know how that goes am i right? She gets a call one day and its from...dundun duuuuuun Woodsboro, California.. Low and behold the biggest screams, gasps and love when our boys pops up on Camera....Stu Macher. Seeing Mathew Lillard again made my heart sing. He tells her he is at her daughters high school and he is going to take her and her friends down just like he did to all her friends back then.
We go through him at her high school in theater class getting ready for a play. Neve calls papa bear Police man and they all head that way only to find unalived teens but Tatum is still alive. Many call are made form Stu to Sid and many chase scenes between Ghostface and Tatum, Ghostface and Sid, and Ghostface and the other kids who were not killed. Not to mention one of our favorite reporter GALE WEATHERS ( Courteney Cox ) and 2 of my favorite people from the previous Scream. The brother and sister who were Randy's neice and nephew Mindy and Chad Meeks Martin. Roles: Mindy is known for inheriting her uncle’s role as the horror-movie-savvy expert, while Chad serves as a protector and athlete within the "Core Four" survivor group.
The twins ended up with Gale as assistant " shadow" reporters and Camera men. They ended up hanging out with the teens and Gale of course with Sid. Gale and Sid find out some news about a mental Hospital that Stu might have been in after one of the Ghostfaces were taken out. They go up there and find out a man named John Doe was there and he looked like Stu. The guy even said that he was pleasant to be around and that John and the Ghostface they took out were best friends. SO After 30 years Sidney finally agreed to giving Gale an interview to draw out Stu or whoever is pretending to be Stu at this point they just aren't sure. Interview got hard but Sid walks off because it was getting to her when she gets another call and has to leave. They all end up leaving meanwhile back with Tatum and the others Ghostface is in action. Yes more dead teens but Some of course survive even if it wasn't without injuries. Tatum runs to the coffee shop only for Ghostface to know the code to get in. Right there we know someone under that mask is close enough to Sid to see the code... thats crazy right....ok...
Tatum ends up getting captured and roped and tied to a chair outside their house in the backyard just like the first kill ever in any Scream movie. They wanted you to feel that again and we did. 2 Ghostfaces show up and here we are to the big reveal. All while papa police man has been attacked and we think...oh no is he dead. WITHOUT SPOILERS i will say the rest. We all know Ghostfaces don't survive so i know i dont have to tell you that but in this house " finale scene" you see past killers on the tv and Sid's phone and we find out ....AI HAS ALOT TO DO WITH THIS>>>>BULL>>> Seeing the old Ghostfaces were pretty cool though. Now for the big reveal....DISSAPOINTING>>>>>>>
The movie was so good and interesting. nostaglic and just great chase scenes, brutal kills and the slash factor was pretty awesome but the reveal was TERRIBLE!! The Ghostfaces were unrelatable, nobodies, that made no FREAKING SENSE!! I was so frustrated seeing who the killers were that it made me almost so done with the movie. However .... the ending with Sid telling Gale that she loves her, trusts her and all that was really sweet and heart touching. You also see that some people survived you didn't expect to. It was a happy ending for everyone while also not being because Tatum is now traumatized just like her mom was...the cycle had restarted.
NOW FOR MY THOUGHTS!!!
Slash Factor : 8/10 some brutal kills and some awesome sound and special fx.
Horror : 8/10 it gave you horror , suspense , thrills and chills,
Reveal : 2/10 worst reveal in the series...at least the others made sense
Plot: 8/10 till the ending 5/10
Overall movie gets a 7/10
This movie was great for your nostalgia, great for the kills, thrills, and suspense. All up until the end of it i was invested. The characters ( except the Ghostfaces ) were all well developed and i liked the mix of older characters and the new characters. I absolutely think the best thing to happen to Scream 5 and 6 was The twins Mindy and Chad and was pleasantly surprised when i saw them come back. It was nice because i adore those and it was a nice way to feel like Randy who was one of my favorites and who is literally me come back too. Gale was there representing herself and Dewy ( rip my handsome sweet cop ) . The Chase scenes were also fast paced and pretty epic. Also something about Sidney being such a bad ass made my heart thump not gunna lie.Goes to show you that you should always be honest with your kids for the most part and if they someday may be chased by a Ghostface teach them how to defend themselves. Is this the last one?
Kevin Williamson indicated that Scream 7 is not the final chapter, suggesting the story could continue beyond this installment. Neve Campbell, who returned to star as Sidney Prescott, has reportedly already pitched ideas for a Scream 8. Despite controversies, Scream 7 performed well at the box office, making a, which makes a, which makes a "Scream 8" a very likely, possibility..
So who knows however in my opinion...please stop...PLEASE STOP!!! The only way i would like to see a new one is if a certain someone ( previous Ghostface ) actually came back and there was a standoff with Gale, Sid, the ghostface and t ends where it started. That would be watchable. No new people just the people who have been in it previously 1-7. Anyways, i encourage you to go see it if it is a thing you have loved since day one because you will enjoy it more than those who just started watching it when Scream 5 and 6 came out. Old school fans appreciate it and new people dont undertadn the role it played in our lives growing up so they don't have that time to appreciate it plus they came in on a whole different plot and storyline that i personally didn't like as much. However we wwill get to rating the Scream Series in another article. Please watch and enjoy and if you don't enjoy it i get it but to each their own.
Happy Slashing my friends!!!
Synopsis:
Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
Director
John Patton Ford
Writer
John Patton Ford
Stars
Glen Powell Margaret Qualley Jessica Henwick
Release Date to theaters February 20th, 2026
This is a suspense, thriller, with some comedic vibe to it. It kept you on your toes and had a nice twist at the end. you are made to think that something is going to happen but then something does happen but it is something you probably wouldn't Have thought about at all. It is like there are 3 lives he is living and none of them seem to align with each other so they are kept seperate. It does teach you a lesson as well about life and i amd not sure if it suppose to but it really does make you think about it.
My take on the plot:
So he is child of a mother who was in a very welthy family and at 18 she had gotten pregnant. Her father told her its either get it " taken care of" or she is cut off and out of the family. She chose to keep her baby and so her father kicked her out of the family. She moved out and moved away from the family and lived her own life, working hard, living in a low budget area of town, and raised her son as high end as she could with all the teachings she could afford. He grew up well mannered and very proper. His mother ends up getting sick and at a young age she passes after he had met a girl he started dating. They were young yet he was still in love with her for a long time growing up. The broke up and grew apart because he ended up in foster care. Fast forward to him growing up and getting a nice job in the city selling suit and tailoring for high end people. He meets the girl again from a while back turns out she is a whole mess of mind f*ckery. She is married but she tells him to ask her out later and see whats happens. He ends up moving on and his job tyells him they are sending him to a warehouse and boy does he not like that. So in a depression he started thinking about what his mom said back in the day about promising that he would live a life he deserved and he wouldn't stop until he does.
He remembers that he is a part of the wealthiest family and that when all the higher up family member born before him pass away he inherits all the money from said family. The one thing his grandfather never did was write him out of the will. So thats when the fun starts. He devises plans to get rid of them all and its just a wild ride. It gives you so many fun twists , comedic moments, some serious, some romance, and best of all its an A24 movie without a gratutious amount of sex scenes...there isn't any and that was suprising to me. They like to over sexualize everything for some reason.
Anyways it was a fun movie definately not for children it is rated r for violence and even though the violence is funny it is still ruthless lol.
We thuroughly enjoyed this film and i would say a great A24 film and our rating would be
8/10 Pretty fun to watch and we recommend watching it even if you dont go to a theater and want to wait for streaming it is worth the watch.
Lets talk about the plot shall we ?
Dracula (2026)" refers to a new Gothic romantic fantasy film directed by Luc Besson and starring Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, and Zoë Bleu, releasing in North America on February 6, 2026, focusing on the prince's transformation after his wife's death and his quest to reclaim her from death. It's a fresh adaptation or re imagining of Bram Stoker's novel, exploring themes of power, immortality, and eternal love, following earlier versions like Coppola's 1992 film and Robert Eggers' 2024 Nosferatu.
A 15th-century Prince Vlad renounces God after the murder of his wife while fighting a war in the name of God. Thus God cursing him to becoming the immortal Dracula. Centuries later, he hunts for his lost love in 19th-century London while being pursued by a relentless priests.
This is your basic plot and for what it is worth this movie is actually a pretty good take on a re imagining for Bram Stokers. There were a lot of things that they changed obviously but most of the were subtle and I think for the movie it was trying to be the changes they made were pretty good and went well with the plot of the story. The guy who plays Dracula was such a good actor ( despite being a very gross crier lol ) he was able to display so many emotions and make us feel those emotions. The acting in general was actually very good. So I'll give the acting in it a 8/10 . The cinematography was also really well done it was visually beautiful and I love all the Costuming. You know Costuming is something I love when it comes to anything really so the cinematography was 8/10 and the Costuming was a 8/10 so to be honest everything as a whole made this movie an 8/10 . It is worth the watch and it focuses mostly on the love aspect of Dracula and his Elizabeta!
DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT SPOILERS!!!!!
This movie starts out with a Vlad and his wife having sex yet done tastefully ( accept when they are playing around with food and then they get all gross with it ...ew) it doesn't even show them naked really. Just a fair warning. However it is important to the movie. It is their love tale and then it goes into the war that Prince Vlad had to fight in and Elizabeta had to flee from and never made it out of . So in this movie I wanted to talk about a few changes that they did that were kinda odd to me but also kinda worked. They took Lucy out of the movie and Renfield. They also removed the vampire bride girls that try to devour Jonathan in the original. Now the look they gave him was great he was very reminiscent of Gary Oldman's Dracula portrayal but not exact and I liked that . Mina is still Mina but the way they brought Lucy without being Lucy is ....A mental facility captured a woman named Maria and brought her in and then called in a priest ( who I believe I suppose to be Van Helsing but they don't say it ) to come and check her out. Turns out this woman is a Vampire and is in search of her master. Mina shows up to the facility and informs them she is there to see if her new friend Maria was ok. After the priest had found a picture of what Dracula's wife looked like he sees that Mina looks almost identical and then they keep a close eye on her. They speak to her and discuss how she feels like she doesn't belong in this time and she explains how she met Maria which was at Maria Wedding with Henry who was her soon to be husbands ( Jonathan) I cant remember if they said close friend, brother, or business partner. Anyways that is how Maria and her met. Maria was trying to help her master find his wife in this time and just so happened to find her. Meanwhile back at the castle , Jonathan shows up at the castle of Prince Vlad and offers Vlad to buy a piece of land and real estate in Paris and Vlad aka Dracula says enough talking for the night after they ate a bit and then he showed him to his room and then told him not to leave his room ( just like in the other one ) and again Jonathan does not listen only this time....the brides were replaced by cute as hell ( I think they are ) Gargoyles and they are like 3 feet tall and his minions so cute I love them so much. Vlad comes down as the Gargoyles are stringing him upside down and he says " I told you no tot leave you room "and that he is hungry so he is going to eat him. He asks Jonathan what his dying wish is and he says to hear about Dracula and all that he is . He wants to know his story and so that when Dracula tell his story about his life and his adventures to finding Elizabeta and creating this cologne that draws woman in as if it were the most potent pheromones ever. It basically entrances them and makes Dracula irresistible and them to rave him to basically devour him. Jonathan says you cant kill me because you know what love means and I am about to be wed to the love of my life and shows him the picture of Mina and ....well we know what happens from there. Vlad spares Jonathans life because he brought him his Elizabeta but throws him in the dungeon where he ends up escaping. Vlad goes to Paris free's Maria after eating a bunch of horny nuns and becoming young again. Maria goes convinces Mina she is fine and arranges a meeting for her master and Mina to meet. He charms her and yet she still refrains from him yet doesn't want to. The priest and doctor find Jonathan and find out Mina is in trouble and they tell Mina that he is not a nice man he is a Vampire and killer . She doesn't want to believe that . She goes to her room and guess who is there? Vlad ya you know!! He is like I will leave and she is like yes please and then she stops him and they speak more and then she realizes she does know him and she does love him and then remembers who she really is . He takes her back to their castle in Romania . At the end the priest gathers, Henry ( Maria shows up and they end up killing her ) and Jonathan go after Dracula to get MIna back with an army of people. The priest finds Vlad and tells Vlad I am here to save you and that by killing himself he frees everyone once bitten and he free'd Mina's soul from damnation which he is her damnation. Vlad realizes this. He decides amongst the chaos of war they brought to him after many died that he will let the priest kill him to save her soul and then he does. It ends with Mina crying over his ashes and Jonathan seeing it realizing she will never love him the way she loved Dracula and walks away. Vlad's ashes lift and blow out the window and up to the sky as everyone exists the castle you see several children covered in white paint walking out looking gray almost and I assume it was what the Gargoyles were before they were turned. They were free'd as well.
It is a true love story and I would say for me it was a solid 8/10 would watch again!!
Synopsis::: The story sees siblings Finney and Gwen, along with their friend Ernesto, head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp.
OK WHAO ....this is the first thing i can say !! I am not gunna lie i am starting to believe that Blumhouse is becoming my favorite production company! This one is virtually nothing like the 1st one. I will say it puts a twist and spin on everything that you wouldn't expect. We learn alot about the grabbers past and it includes his real name and origin. It focuses mostly on the sister Gwen, her boy interest Ernesto, and her brother Finney. In 1982, four years after Finney killed the Grabber, his sister Gwen begins having dreams where she sees murders that happened at Alpine Lake Camp in 1957. Finney, Gwen, Ernesto Gwens love interest head to the campsite to be counselors and of course to Investigate the Camp, their mom and the history, and the grabber!!
Jason Blum i would love to meet you. This movie didnt have to over sexualize anything, they gave you suspense, thrills, chills, jumpscares, depth, great character development and a new story that connects to the previous story so well. It gives us what we wanted to know for the most part about the history and origins of the Grabber. The only thing it never answered or maybe i missed was....why did the Grabber do what he did??? Why?? I just want to know that lol. The acting was well done and I thoroughly enjoyed this one way more than i did the 1st one and i thought that was pretty good too. I give it an 8/10. It is solid and i think 100 percent Worth it !!!
Synopsis::: The story sees siblings Finney and Gwen, along with their friend Ernesto, head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp.
OK WHAO ....this is the first thing i can say !! I am not gunna lie i am starting to believe that Blumhouse is becoming my favorite production company! This one is virtually nothing like the 1st one. I will say it puts a twist and spin on everything that you wouldn't expect. We learn alot about the grabbers past and it includes his real name and origin. It focuses mostly on the sister Gwen, her boy interest Ernesto, and her brother Finney. In 1982, four years after Finney killed the Grabber, his sister Gwen begins having dreams where she sees murders that happened at Alpine Lake Camp in 1957. During one, she receives a call from her mother Hope, who at the time of the 1957 murders was having similar dreams. Finney who had been acting out alot and basically becomes another Robbie, from the previous movie, takes concern to what his sister says and reluctantly when she comes to him and asks him if he would come along with her to the camp and say they want to be councelors so they could investigate the warnings and visions her mother had been making her see. They ask dad and reluctantly, after dad telling them that he remembers that their mom use to work there along time ago, he finally agreed to it.
She, Finney, and Ernesto end up going to the campsite but get caught up there in a blizzard. No one can go out or come in and this is suppose to be for the next couple of days. When they get there is are only 4 people at the camp the two head guys/owners, groundskeeper Armando and his niece Mustang. They helped them in and got them to their beds and fed them. During this night, she receives her initial calls on the black phone in her dreams, which are from the spirits of the three boys who were previously stalked and murdered at the camp's lake by none other than the Grabber himself. After being burned by one of the boys she wakes up and goes running into the boys bunks and ends up crawling in bed with Ernesto who tries to help her go to sleep and confesses his basically his love for her. They then wake up the next morning...get in trouble and told not to sleep in the same bunks it can get then in trouble. The start to further investigate the camp and the grounds.
On the second night, Finney receives a call on the camp's dead payphone, this time from the Grabber. Obviously calling from hell lol since he isn't alive Finney knows that, the Grabber swears revenge, blaming Finney for forcing him to kill his own brother and for ending his life. Moments later, Gwen is violently attacked in her dream by the Grabber. This is not like a normal dream this was also happening in real life . He was Freddy Krueger'ing her. Finney, Ernesto, and Mustang manage to save her. The shaken group gathers in the camp's chapel, where Armando and the others realize they must find the bodies of the Grabber's victims from Alpine Lake Camp to loosen his power over the dream realm. After thinking about it they then figure out the missing children are frozen somewhere in Lake Maru. They also learn that Armando, Hope, and the Grabber had all known each other at the camp long ago. That same night, Gwen dreams of the Grabber. He then reveals Hope did not commit suicide and he actually killed her, he had staged it to look like a suicide.
Meanwhile, Armando begins searching for the boys' bodies. The next day, Finney's and Gwen's father Terrence arrives, having borrowed a snowplow to get there. Gwen confronts both Terrence and Finney on their abuse of alcohol and drugs to avoid thinking about their traumatic pasts. They decide to stay to defeat the Grabber and put the murdered boys to rest. They head over to the lake searching for the boys. Gwen prays to Jesus to keep her alive and succeed in her mission to find the boys. As they search, Gwen ends up falling asleep again and is attacked by the Grabber. The Grabber also attempts to murder Finney, Terrence, and the others present. Gwen locates the boys' bodies beneath the ice by jumping in the water and using the same abilities to move things in her sleep and hep bring the boys inside barrels to the surface. Once the boys are found it removes the Grabber's power. Finney, Gwen, and the spirits of the murdered boys attack the Grabber, and he is dragged beneath the frozen lake. The next day, as Gwen, Finney and Ernesto prepare to leave, Gwen answers a call on the payphone, in which Hope tells Gwen that she is proud of her. finney then hugs Gwen and they leave...the End
Now here are my actual thoughts of it.
Like i said up top i love most of everything that Blumhouse does. Jason Blum i would love to meet you. This movie didnt have to over sexualize anything, they gave you suspense, thrills, chills, jumpscares, depth, great character development and a new story that connects to the previous story so well. It gives us what we wanted to know for the most part about the history and origins of the Grabber. The only thing it never answered or maybe i missed it was....why did the Grabber do what he did??? Why?? I just want to know that lol. The acting was well done and I thuroughly enjoyed this one way more than i did the 1st one and i thought that was pretty good too. I give it an 8/10. It is solid and i think 100 percent Worth it !!!
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's created by Scott Cawthon and the sequel to the 2023 film adaptation.[5] The film was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon. Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Theodus Crane, and Matthew Lillard reprise their roles from the previous film, with Freddy Carter, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones joining the cast. Set a year after the previous film, it follows Abby Schmidt (Rubio) as she reconnects with her animatronic friends, leading to events that reveal the origins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. ( taken from Wiki ) This one is heavily influenced by the 2nd game in the series.
(First movie recap please skip if you haven't seen it yet )
If you have seen the 1st movie ( spoiler for the first film just in case you havent seen it before then you know that William Afton was locked inside the freezer at the franchise Freddy's Fazbears Pizzeria. He was locked inside the Springlock Golden Bonnie aka Yellow Rabbit. Springlocks activated and crushed him obviously we know he was unalived at the end with the kid inside Golden Fredddy locking him inside the freezer. Then to recap a bit more on the other characters. We end with Abby and Mike getting help from the kids inside the original Animatronics from the 1st movie....Freddy, Chica, Bonnie and of course Foxy.. to take over and get rid of William afton and Save Abby from being unalived. Don't forget we find out that Vanessa is his daughter ( totally different from the game lore ) and ends up getting stabbed by her father William as she also tried to save Abby and Mike. Then we end with Vanessa in the hospital as well. Abby is sad because her friends are left at the pizzeria and we are unsure exactly what happened to them after the whole event.
( This is back to FNAF 2 )
This movie was everything i wanted and more. It was such a cool twist and take on the games while making it its own Lore as well. I loved seeing all the characters and the new security room come to life. The river boat ride was a nice touch. The carousel is there, where you see Balloon boy at at the beginning in the games and everything. The security room is to a T and it is glorious. The new twist on posessing people is really awesome. They found a way to blend movie and game together so well and bring the game lore and movie lore together. I am not mad about it. However, i digress and actually like how the new characters fit into the story, even though its strange to us game fans sometimes, it is well done and i can repect it for sure and enjoy it. The acting 9 out of 10 ( I think the girl who plays Abby needs just a little more experience but she did good though). Suspenseful and jumpscares galore!! Would love to go back and see it again. The sfx of course was great and the way it was shot was perfectly chosen and timed with such a great ominous cinematic viewpoint. I visually enjoyed this. The nostalgia from being a advid Freddy's gamer really was felt during the entire movie as well. The action scenes were short but they were nicely done and fun as hell to watch!! The sounds from the animatronics are nostalgic and beautifully done. I got excited everytime i heard a noise. The movie altogether was a 9.5/10 !!! I suggest seeing it in the theaters but if you wait then you wait and its gunna be good then too !!