Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-23 (Monday)

On 6/24/2025 5:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 

What did you watch?

 I was out pretty much all of yesterday, so nothing.
 

This is a multiday catch up.  I watched:
Terrifier (Amazon Prime) 2016 horror movie.  I have been well aware of this franchise for a while now.  I've had no interest in watching any of these movies.  But I went to a horror convention this weekend and the star of the franchise was there so I decided to watch them.  First up David Howard Thornton stars at Art the Clown.  He never speaks and pretty much just tortures and mutilates people throughout the movie. Not my thing.  I mostly avoided looking at the screen and just listened to the screams.  But I got it out the way.
Terrifier 2 (Amazon Prime) 2022 sequel which picks up where the last movie ended.  Art the Clown was killed at the end of the first movie, but he's supernaturally brought back by an evil spirit or something.  I don't know.  And he's once again silently torturing and mutilating people, this time on Halloween.  And they've added a young brother and sister to the story to go up against Art.  Still really not my thing, but I'll say this was trying something.  It's sort of like how the first "Friday the 13" was a straight slasher flick, then it morphed into a supernatural slasher film series.  I think they were trying to do the same thing here with this franchise.  Once again I mostly avoided the kill scenes and just listened.  There's a third movie that came out last year, but Amazon doesn't have it.
M3GAN (4K disc) 2022 movie about a doll with AI that bonds with a little girl then goes on a killing spree.  The movie holds up very well.
Child's Play (4K disc) 2019 remake that swaps out a cursed doll voiced by Brad Dourif for a doll with AI voiced by Mark Hammill.  The AI bonds with a little boy then goes on a killing spree.  This was not good.  It was mostly background noise with the director's commentary.  I could tell from the commentary the director had no idea what he was doing.  At one point on the commentary he even said he didn't know why the doll was doing what it was doing, but it was in the script.
The Studio (AppleTV+)  I started watching this recently and made it through the first 4 episodes.  The series stars Seth Rogen as the new promoted head of a film studio and follows his wacky adventures behind the scenes.  The series is full of celebrity cameos.  It's sort of like "The Player" or maybe that old Fox show, "Action."