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Friday the 13th: Death Curse 2019 ★★★
Maybe not much plotwise, but their heart is in the right place. You can tell that they love the series. The references to the series seemed more subtle: a quick photo of “aunt Ginny” (Amy Steel) and a reference to a line by Martin the caretaker. And that's about it.
More room for a fes solid kills and the final confrontation with, admittedl,y a good idea and an equally decent approach and execution.
Hard Candy 2005 ★★★★˝
Good lord, was this intense.
The movie lives up to the premise. What you get is a very well crafted thriller about topics we as a society are not always equally comfortable talking about: torture, pedophilia, child abduction,... and even (slightly) touches upon topics like adulthood and age of consent at one point with Hayley's line about a girl being able to “imitate a woman” without necessarily being one.
The writing kind of solves the ethical dilemma by turning Wilson's character into a genuine monster where we only ever so often get a glimpse of what lurks beneath his socially adapted exterior. Page's character is painted as a sort of venging angel. In that aspect perhaps closer to Bronson in Death Wish than to the girl from Audition.
It's not gory, certainly when knowing that the film at one point involves a castration scene. Having said that, I doubt a lot of men were feeling completely comfortable when Hayley got to the actual cutting. Hence creating an atmosphere found in some great horror movies where your imagination fills in the blanks left by the movie.
Also, this is a movie that relies heavily on the performances by the main actors and they do it very well. Wilson and Page create a fascinating power dynamic where the upper hand shifts at several points in the film.
Great stuff. It got under my skin. Certainly recommended.
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