4 Movie Weekend

I've been so lazy, at least I've become adament on my career path. So anyway, I went to my local Big 10 rental store and took 4 movies. Renting them was dirt cheap too so thats awesome, especially since Blockbuster rental places prices still are suckish. (If you can find them) There was a great variety of movies, including some cheap B-movies I'd never heard of. Those are always awesome to find. The movies I got were
The Echo Game
The Occupant
The Innkeepers
The Wicker Tree

All of them were fun to watch. Echo Game was one of the movies where you like the story line enough but the choices of what's happening aren't that great. It's about a lesbian couple who have a daughter who comes from an old supposedly dead girlfriend. People suddenly show up and begin asking about the old girlfriend questioning her death. The daughter begins acting weird and the girl in the new relationship is dragged back into the worries of her old one. Sounds like a basic semi interesting plot line I suppose.

The things I didn't like about it is firstly, all the killing. Spoiler alert* The teacher lady is killing people she doesn't need to be killing. She's been on the run for 20 some years  but she kills people for no reason and leaves the crime scene a bloody mess yet she hasn't been caught?! And the way she kills makes her need to kill more. She doesn't bother questioning any of them. The kill scenes are horribly cheesy too.

The Echo Game was a reference to the psychic powers people had. There are some inconsistencies I think with the dialogue. I bring it up now because when they were discussing the echo game they said: *Spoilers
Echo was the word for the powers.
To make experiments sound less harsh to the children using their powers they would call them games.
So what's the Echo game?
I don't know it's not anywhere in my notes. (Which by the way it was. You get to read about it on his notes)

There was this other thing which I probably only mistook about the little girl's biological mother so I won't go into that.

The Occcupant was a bit trippy at the end. I'll get there later. I really enjoyed this movie. It's about a guy who was going to move in with his sick grandmother. Before he actually steps foot into the apartment, she dies. A lawyer gives him the advice to move in and hole himself in the apartment until a court order says he can take over his grandmother's lease.

The movie is one of those things where you can't tell if what happened was because of the supernatural, the landlords trying to kick him out, or him just being taken over by cabin fever.

The movie follows his deteriorating mental status as the days go by. This movie may not be particularly scary to people, but certain incidents can put that little sense of uneasiness through the body.

There are some comical relief parts that play well in the story and aren't completely obnoxious, unless you count the freeze frame they do at the end of each day. There are some (well, many) unanswered questions, but I suppose they don't come immediately to mind while watching it.

The Innkeepers was a great movie. It is a real horror movies. The parts that should be scary, are scary. The parts that aren't have this ringing true to life feel about it. While the characters are awkward and unknowledgible, they keep youu interested.

The ghost story itself is mundane, but they way it's played out is new (to me). I suppose it is a half/half horror/comedy. I don't want to mislead anyone on that point because some moods can't deal. Don't let the comedy part turn you off though.

The Wicker Tree. Hearing the name will of course bring another movie to mind. The Wicker Man. (The original) Of course this is because they are done by the same director about pagans or celtics. The story itself is very good. I enjoyed the movie. The only thing I can think of to blast it that it was made as a sequel to the original Wicker Man. The issue being the way they go about the ceremony. Unless I'm confusing the Wicker Man movies, they never sealed the harvest maiden in wax before. In The Wicker Tree there's a whole collection of them.

I don't understand the cannabalism orgy thing either.

I've been busy with work, entering school, an internship, halloween, birthdays. I'll try to write more often.