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I'm not a big gambler, so didn't really understand how the card game works, even though it explains a few tips during the the film.

Besides that, the whole story was super interesting. I loved Jessica Chastain in this film. She does a great job. One thing I really enjoyed is the speed of the way she spoke, which was a little fast but it was not too fast where you couldn't keep up. Just blunt and straight to the point speaking.

Highly recommend. Don't do what I did and look at how long the film goes for and decide to watch it another time. You'll look track of time with being so focused and intrigued with the film.

This film needed more work. The story was messy af. I felt like there was scenes that I had missed showing backstory to what the heck was going on.

I do enjoy a film staring a leading female who kicks ass, but that couldn't save this film. Every character was just ... annoying. The whole love story is weird, confusing, frustrating and boring.

I honestly don't know what the point of this film was, it wasn't great.

I felt this film started off a bit slow, and I was beginning to be a little disappointed with the little connection it had with The Shining, besides Danny being a grownup.

It does pickup and you do see enough references to The Shining where the film doesn't solely focus around everything that happened during the 1980 film. It's a really good film, that I enjoyed a lot.

The film provides great acting, story and visuals. Highly recommend.

I rewatched this recently, cause I honestly could not remember the film very clear seeing as I first watching it 15-20 years ago.

After rewatching it, it's still as good as I remember. The only thing I can fault is probably Shelley Duvall's acting which isn't the strongest. There's a scene towards the end where she's running around the hotel with a knife and her arms are just flopping around which made laugh.

Besides that, brilliant film, an iconic classic that everyone must watch once in their lifetime.

Wow.. I honestly have no idea how I sat through this. It's one of the worst movies I've seen this year.

It's a shame, because it's based on a true story which I've heard about prior to watching this on the My Favourite Murder podcast. The true story is super creepy, and interesting, but this film was the complete opposite.

The acting, script, music.. ugh. It's all so bad! All very low budget, and don't get me wrong there can be some decent low budget films, but this is not one of them.

The best thing about this film is honestly the movie poster, because that actually looks decent.

I've never read the books, so my view is just on the film alone.

The film focuses on a young boy searching for his missing dad. While trying to get his dad he comes across fairies and other fairy-tale like creatures and discovers the world is more magical that he had thought.

This is honestly one of the worst films I have seen in a very long time. I've seen some low budget films look better than this. Terrible acting, and no excitement at all. Surprised I made it through the whole, and that's only cause my OCD will bug me if I didn't finish it.

As a young child, our imaginations are big and colourful where an adult doesn't regularly question the 'out of this world' stories that a child shares. So when a young Luke begins talking to someone his mother can't see, it's all brushed off as an imaginary friend. But when things begin to get out of hand, Luke blames his new friend Daniel for his actions. Handling the situation as a parent, Luke's mother forces him to lock away his imaginary friend, trapping him inside a dollhouse.

Many years later, Luke (Miles Robbins) is now a college student, facing social anxiety and having to deal with his mother who is suffering with paranoid delusions. While Luke lives in a college dorm, he visits his mother at his childhood home and makes the decision to stay and look after her as she appears to be unstable.

While Luke looks through his belongings he comes across the old doll house and without any hard thinking he releases Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger) from his entrapment. Just like Luke, Daniel has aged and appears to be around the same age. The two get along like long lost friends reuniting, and Luke's confidence becomes stronger with the help of Daniel instructing him on what to do.

However just like his childhood, things soon become dark again and Luke struggles to get rid of Daniel for a second time, as his powers are much stronger than before. Seeking help becomes impossible, as Luke is the only one who can see Daniel and friends become scared of Luke being around them.

With no one wanting to help, can Luke break free from Daniel's evil force before any more wrongdoing is done?

Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger both did incredible jobs with their characters and stood out to me as strong and memorable.

Daniel Isn't Real is a fantastic film that actually had me surprised with how enjoyable it was. I got a low budget vibe when it started, making me feel worried that the film was going to be a struggle to get through. However, the acting was superb, the special effects are incredible and overall, the story and narrative was incredibly interesting and easy to follow. I really couldn't flaw this film, even if I wanted to.

I watched this film straight after "13 Cameras", seeing as the first film was that good and wanted to keep the story fresh in my mind.

The story continues on many years after the first film, but focuses on a new family with plenty of cameras hidden around the property. While the family try to enjoy the holiday house, they're watched by Gerarld and you get a look into why he hides behind the camera.

The film wasn't as good as the first, which is pretty common with sequels. It was still good though, however i felt it left out some things that would've answered a few of my questions.

Overall, it's still a good watch if you enjoyed '13 Cameras'

Trust me when I say this... This film is a lot better than what the trailer makes it look.

A couple rent a house from a private owner which has hidden cameras set up around the house. As the couple settle into their new home, secrets unfold as they are watched by the creepy landlord behind the cameras.

I've been seeing this movie pop up over Netflix and decided to give it a watch after a friend recommended it. When watching the trailer/preview, it makes the film look terrible, but you'll be surprised that it's really enjoyable.

I highly recommend this film to fans of horror and thriller.

YouTube stars are already had to connect with as they mostly show a fake side of themselves in videos, and here we have a movie based on vloggers where you have no real connection to these characters.

It wasn't as bad as I had imagined it would be, but it's still pretty boring with no answers and an ending that's just ... meh.

I didn't know a lot about this film before watching it, except it was horror which is my favourite genre so I was sold based just on that.

Don Koch (C.M. Punk) moves into a new home to help rebuild and fix the maintenance before his pregnant wife moves in. Don seems like he knows what he's doing with home maintenance with no mention of this being part of career, which I'm guessing it's not mainly cause he doesn't wear any protection gear. While fixing over the house, Don starts to get visits from Sarah (Sarah Yates) which starts off fun but becomes a bit too much for Don to handle.

I'm gonna start off by saying the movie isn't that great.. The makeup on some of the spooky things isn't great and looks silly. If I was Don and I started seeing liquid leak out of walls or power sockets then there's no way I would just wipe it away and think it's normal which seems to happen a fair bit with unusual activity that happens within the house.

Anyways, give this a film a miss. It's nothing amazing, all it did was kill some time.

Even though I enjoyed this sequel, I didn't find as good as the first film.

Continuing on from the previous film, Spencer (Alex Wolff) tries to fix the old game console and finds himself being sucked back into the game of Jumanji. When Spencer doesn't show for a catch up, his friends go to his house looking for him and make the conclusion he has gone back into Jumanji. The friends go into the game but with two new characters, Spencers grandpa Eddie (Danny DeVito) and Milo (Danny Glover).

I found Milo in the game to be annoying fast with how slow he spoke. I get he's an old man, but the novelty wore off quick and became less funny every time he spoke. Something I wanted to see more of was Beth's character in Jack Black's body. THAT was hilarious in the first film, and was aching to see more of it.

Overall it's still a enjoyable film, but yeah not as good as the first one.

The only reason I gave this film a watch is because of Chad Michael Murray. The trailer looked average, but I was hoping Chad would save the film, sadly not.

A group of ghost hunting TV stars head to Camp Cold brook to film a new episode. While things start off really slow, the group start to discover the history of the camp and the ghost that come along with it.

This was not an exciting film to watch. The acting was not good from most of the cast, and the run down camp still looked pretty clean with a bunch of cobwebs to make it look "old and dirty". It's pretty boring, and I feel sorry for Chad who was such a big star many years ago and now has to work in these low budget films to make some coin :(

I hadn't read a lot about this film before watching it, so I didn't know what to expect. All I knew is it had won a lot of awards and was talked about for a long time.

A film focused around a poor family who trick a highly wealthy family into hiring them for their skills.

I had no idea where this film was going to go, there was so many different twists changing things up. It's a brilliant film, and the actors all did so well. If I had to fault anything, it would be that I didn't really see a tight family connection between the poor family.

I usually really enjoy films targeted at children, but this film was so dumb.

Jake Carson (John Cena) is a firefighter who takes job very seriously and has no time for mucking around, until he rescues 3 children from a burning house. Taking the kids into the depot, Jake attempts to help look after these annoying children who seem to do everything wrong.

I watched this film as an adult with no kids, but like I said I usually enjoy kids films. This one... Was so bad. It had all those dumb and unrealistic jokes that only a child could enjoy. All three kids were annoying to watch, they seemed like the most unlikable characters. Specially the little girl, I wanted to mute the movie every time she let out that painful noise when she was pretending to cry.

It's only getting two stars for John Cena's shirtless scenes.

Do not watch this film, put it on for the kids and walk away... far far away

Now I don't know a lot about the DC universe or the comics, but from what I watched this movie was dope.

A group of villains are banded together to help take down an evil force taking over the city. That's basically it..

I thought this was so cool, and enjoyed it a lot. There was rarely any slow parts and it was full of action and exciting scenes. Margot Robbie was so incredible and fun to watch. Proud to see an Aussie go far.

After seeing the trailer, I was almost put off from seeing this because the whole story was ruined before it was released, but I'm so glad I gave it a watch.

Kate (Emilia Clarke) works at all year round Christmas store and somehow manages to survive couch surfing day by day. While spotting a confused looking man out the front of the store, Kate goes out to see what he's looking at and meets Tom (Henry Golding). After the two share an instant connection, Kate opens up and grows closer to others while enjoying the little things in life.

Even though I knew what the twist was, I still really enjoyed this film which even brought me to a few tears. It's a cute romantic Christmas story that also tackles issues such as racism. I highly recommend this film if you just want to join a film that will make you feel warm inside.

You would think with the title, they would've adapted a new story line but it starts off set before the 2004 film (also titled The Grudge) showing Fiona Landers (Tara Westwood) exiting the house where it all began. Looking back at the house with a frightened look, Fiona talks on the phone to Yoko who would later take Fiona's place as a nurse at the household which then connects to Sarah Michelle Gellar's character, Karen.

Fiona leaves Japan, and travels home to Cross River, Pennsylvania to reunite with her husband Sam (David Lawrence Brown) and young daughter Melinda (Zoe Fish). This makes it the first time that The Grudge franchise has been set outside of Japan, expanding the curse globally. However if you've seen the previous films you know loud and clear that running away doesn't stop Kayako's ghost from haunting you, and that anyone who has stepped inside that house is literally doomed, no matter where they go.

The film skips forward to the year of 2006, where Detective Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough) and her young son Burke (John J. Hansen) move to Cross River for a fresh new start after Muldoon loses her husband to cancer. Cutting short of the little details, Muldoon heads to her new job at the local police station, and is paired with Goodman (Demián Bichir) and discovers a dark history to a case that links Goodman with the Landers family.

Of course Muldoon has to put her nose into the case, otherwise this film has no story and she visits the household that Fiona and her family once lived at, which is now being occupied by new tenants. While visiting the house, Muldoon enters the household and as you can guess, she becomes instantly cursed. Unsure with what to believe is real or not, Muldoon attempts to piece together the puzzle and end the evil curse in hope to stop Kayako's ghost from tormenting her and harming her child.

I'm a little unsure as to why they didn't just call this film 'The Grudge 4', or just give it a whole new unrelated title. The film may have shared some connections and shown some homage to the previous films, but it also went in a direction with creating something new.

To people who haven't seen the previous films, I can see them enjoying this as it's almost a whole new story. But for anyone who has seen the previous films, you may not be a huge fan. I mean, it's not as bad as third film (which can't be too hard), but it's nothing memorable either.

The third instalment to the American franchise, and probably the worst one out of the bunch.

The story continues on from the last film, repeating a similar pattern from the sequel with Sarah Michelle Gellar's character, Karen. The haunted house from the first film has basically been forgotten and we don't see the characters standing outside or walking inside without a care. To keep the franchise going and the money rolling in, the film goes down the path of introducing a new family that lived in the same apartment building from the last film. The family rent out a room to Naoko (Emi Ikehata) who later reveals a twist that wasn't expected or really needed, but again.. story and money.

You can see why this film was a straight to DVD release. The CGI looked cheap, and the ghost makeup was honestly just terrible. Confused as to why they gave the position of Toshio to a young teen. The kid is meant to be 8, but looked like he had aged 5 years since the second film.

It was all just a mess and didn't really provide a lot of interesting story line to the franchise except a twist towards the end which has me intrigued to see if it's connected with the 2020 film.. Hopefully not so we can forget the direction the franchise was heading.

Back for an American sequel, The Grudge 2 explores further into the dark history of the first film and shines some light on some of the unanswered questions that left viewers a little puzzled.

Aubrey (Amber Tamblyn) heads to Japan to check in on her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who had been sent into hospital after the first film. While visiting her sister, Aubrey meets Eason (Edison Chen) who shares details on what Karen is being haunted by and decides to join him in attempt to end the curse.

The film helps look deeper into the curse and how it came about, and has now managed to not only kill anyone who steps inside the house but also any location that basically lives near those trespassers. Obviously to give more story to the film..

It wasn't a bad film, but also wasn't highly needed. It's been a while since these films were released the quality was not the clearest. My biggest question from the film is ... Did Aubrey travel to Japan with no luggage? I don't think I saw her with a suitcase or any large bag

What an interesting story line that left me unsure if I enjoyed the film..

Cam girl Lola (Madeline Brewer) has the thirst and desperation to please her online audience into pushing her up the popularity leader board. Lola doesn't really mention she's doing the job for more money, but to get closer and closer to the #1 spot.... I mean if it was me and I was on cam it would simply be for the money, my goal wouldn't be to be the Queen B. Lola discovers that there is an impostor online who has taken her identity and fooling her followers into donating more coins.

The first half of this film is really interesting, but as it gets closer to the end the explanation for what is happening is kind of ... a let down. An interesting story needs and interesting twist, but this film kinda lacks that.

Overall the film was still a good watch, but just don't expect a mind blowing ending.

With Underwater, the title doesn't leave much to the imagination, as the film starts off well... underwater. We see an exhausted Kristen Stewart with a shaved head, as she brushes her teeth in a facility bathroom on her own. While the surroundings remain silence, with a few vibrations and the occasional flickering of the lights, it isn't not long into the film where Norah (Kristen Stewart) is sent into a panic rush, as high-pressured water bursts through the walls. Leaving everything behind, Norah bolts down the halls, banging on doors to alarm crew of the danger. With no time to slow down, Norah bumps into crew member Rodrigo (Mamoudou Athie) and the two find themselves shutting themselves off from the possibility of drowning.

As the two surviving members recollect their focus and thoughts, survival instincts kick in and the two squeeze their way through tight gaps to gather with fellow survivors along with the Captain (Vincent Cassel). The small group of survivors form together, and head towards a control room as they try their luck at contacting above water for help but receive an unsuccessful response. With oxygen running low, the Captain takes authority in attempt to rescue his crew, but to get to the crew to safety, they must dive lower where they discover that they're not alone out in the deep blue sea.

Where Underwater lacks in backstory to where and why these people are deep down underwater. The film makes up for it with some suspenseful scenes and impressive looking graphics. However, I felt it was hard to build any connection to the characters, as we don't really learn much about them to grow any attachment to.

I know I'm going to sound like a broken record here, as this has been quoted so many times prior, but Kristen Stewart struggles so hard to show more than one expression. The tone in her voice remained the same whether she was scared, angry, or happy, it was all the same. Her whole performance wasn't bad, however with Stewart being the lead role in this film, she needed to deliver more as I struggled to feel the emotions she was going through.

Ultimately T.J. Miller who plays the character Paul, becomes the glue to the film with his hilarious sense of humour, his love for his rabbit plushie and strong presence on-screen.

Overall, despite my criticism, I really enjoyed this film and highly recommend Underwater to fans of horror and sci-fi.

With the new release of The Grudge, I went back and rewatched this original to see if it was as good as I had remembered.

Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) lives in Japan and works as a caretaker for the elderly people. Getting assigned a job, Karen visits the elder lady and begins to discover some unusual and mysterious behaviour coming from the house. After leaving the house, things become haunting for Karen with everywhere she goes and discovers a dark history of the house.

Honestly, for a film that came out in 2004, it's pretty good. I mean watching it now, the graphics aren't amazing, but again the film is 16 years old. I remember when the film came out that a lot of people said the original Japanese version was terrifying, but I still think this one is scary.

SMG was such an A Lister when this came out, after staring in Buffy and many other iconic movies, everyone knew who she was. She's not bad in the film, except when she runs like she's still in Buffy lol

Still would recommend this film to fans of horror. It's a great watch

Usually I'm a huge fan of these teen romance films that Netflix pushes out, but this one was like a roller coaster of emotions and I'm still not even sure I liked it.

Jodi Kreyman (Ava Michelle) is the joke of the school because of her "unusual" large height. Feeling left out and just wanting to find someone she can connect with, in comes exchange student Stig Mohlin (Luke Eisner) who shares a similar height. Jodi who doesn't seem to have any other goals in the film, drops everything including her friends to try win over the handsome exchange student.

I honestly don't know what the message was in this film... Like I get the simple message at the end, but it was done in such a poor form. Jodi ditched her only friends, and went out of her way to look good for a guy to notice her. Are we trying to teach kids that if school students are making fun of how you look, you should up your game with new clothes and makeup so people look at you in a more respectful way? The way Jodi treated her two friends was so bad. They always had her back and Jodi was so quick to turn away from them when she didn't like what was she hearing.

The ending is cute, but yeah the messages are so bipolar and all over the place.

The film starts off real creepy, but then lost me a bit with that first killing where it was a bit... meh.

The story focuses around Quinn Harris (Elizabeth Lail) who hears the stories of an phone App that tells you when you'll die. For some reason she goes ahead and downloads the App and slowly discovers it's real. Unable to delete the app or destroy the phone, Quinn seeks help from a demon expert priest (lol) to save her life before the time runs out.

Look... The movie wasn't amazing or scary to make me jump, but it also wasn't that bad where it became lame. I somewhat enjoyed it. It was a fun horror film. It was also nice to see Elizabeth Lail in the film after really enjoying her in the Netflix series 'YOU'.

Some scenes I did eye roll a bit, cause you try put yourself in the situation and if the lights go out and you're the only one in a room, there's no way you go to investigate what something is.. you get the heck out of there.

Horror fans will enjoy this, but you won't be scared to sleep at night, unless you scare super easily.