Reviews
The Streetz (2017)
go watch the preview, you'll see these are fake reviews
Since they're paying (or asking) people to give it 10 out of 10, i'm here to tell you what I can tell from the trailer. Bad acting, terrible lighting, horrible editing/color and the special effects literally superimpose 'shot glass' over top of the video footage for the back of a vehicle that was supposedly shot.
Just in case you're like meet and scour the film industry for something to watch and come across this like I did (luckily I searched on youtube for the trailer, which is actually on the directors channel), I got to see exactly what this was before catching it.
MAYBE the story is decent, but at the way it was shot in the trailer, I'd rather just have the guy tell me about the story and skip the abusive visuals. Trailers are supposed to intrigue and show you the potential... I can only imagine how bad this gets (and I can't even stand the asylum films, which look far better than what this seems to be)
You Might Be the Killer (2018)
Mixed feelings about this one
I'm not going to spoil this film with my review, or cover the information already explained on the movie's page. There is gore, but nothing to keep up with what typical gorehounds (myself included) would be satisfied with. The gore and kills are very akin to the 80's slasher flicks on their first installments, before they became franchises notorious for gratuitous dismemberment and disturbing brutality (which is why we all loved them). This film has good (intentionally bad/b) acting and a very quirky vibe to it. It's not a 'bad' movie, but maybe I went into it a little too smart. The concept of the narrative follows a 'recap' situation. Every time some dialogue happens, there's a recap where someone explains something from earlier in the narrative. The only problem with this is, if you pay attention, they're just re-using footage you've seen from before and playing through the entire scene again. About 30 minutes of this movie, maybe more, are re-played scenes. It makes an hour and a half feel like two and a half hours for me. I started skipping the scenes, knowing it would be the same exact dialogues and camera angles. There's one scene that I think plays over four times in this movie, alone. If they had chosen different angles and re-shot the footage with more elaboration or details that we didn't already know, I would have given this a higher rating, but still expected more brutality, given that it's a throwback to the exploitation buzz of the 80's horror. It isn't a waste of time, but given how many horror films I've seen, it wasn't refreshing in my opinion. I still would check out anything the director works on, going forward.