In A Violent Nature: Like Friday The 13th Without Any Of The Charm And More Walking

Written by Luke Barnes

Summary

The slasher film is defiled.

This film reads as being made by someone who hates slasher films. They don’t just hate them they have no respect for what they are or for those who like them. In this person’s opinion they need to be deconstructed and remade. This film lazily clings to slasher tropes whilst hating slashers with every fibre of its being.

It lacks the comedic campy charm of a slasher film, instead it tries for the pretentious air of an art house film but it fails to be anything more than puddle deep. This film thinks to reinvent the slasher genre by taking away any of the fun or joy of it and replacing it instead with long drawn out shots of someone walking, and I mean long scenes of walking. It’s solution to re-invent the slasher it appears is to make it boring.

Not only that but the traditional teens and silly young people that would make good fodder for our slashers and now replaced with clear adults who possess no charm and can barely act. These characters are at best grown worthy, with there being several scenes such as cancel culture’s not real and an incredibly unrealistic awkward and forced lesbian romance that came out of nowhere because it’s 2024 and we need that, these scenes make you realise that the writer lacks talent.

This film quite clearly thinks it’s more than it is, it is an example of everything wrong with art house cinema, a sad  waste of talent and a film few will like.

Overall, a terrible charmless affair, that is cringey at best and dull at worst.

1/5

Pros.

It has one good kill

Cons.

The characters are awful

It is boring

There is no fun to be had

It has pacing issues

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Everybody Dance

Written by Luke Barnes

Summary

Children with different disabilities find joy in the art off ballet.

This film is incredibly important as it highlights the power art and dance has to enrich people’s lives. The subjects of this documentary are never presented as victims rather as people with a passion. It’s incredibly important within the narrative of this film that the people featured are never defined by their disabilities but rather their drive to and determination to be great at ballet.

I found this feature to be charming in many ways, it is a very affable tale and it is easy to like the subjects as their enthusiasm for the art of ballet is very palpable. Before watching this I had never been very into ballet but after watching it I am certainly more interested than I was before.

I think what I like most about this film is that it shows off how film as a medium can be used to show the happiness and joy that exists all around us everyday in the world, but that we might not see as we are too busy living our lives and doom scrolling.

Overall, a must see.

5/5

Pros.

It is lovely

It is uplifting

It makes you passionate for ballet

It is the feel good sort of thing you need to see to be reminded of the good in humanity

It never treats its subjects as victim but rather as people

Cons.

None

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