1 A review: Sinister

So , this is rather a late entry on this movie review because i believe that this movie is no new to any of you there. And it's been two weeks(?) since i actually watched it with my sister.

It is a horror story that revealed about an ancient cult that prey on children after the children killed their families brutally. This story started when a true crime novelist found a box with Super 8 films and projector at the attic of their new house. He watched the films that contains horror stories which at first all showed happy innocent families finally killed brutally in various ways. This novelist , Ellison then used the story to write his new novel.

The story was kinda flat at first as it focused on the footage that this novelist, Ellison watched in his working room in the house. The footage of course disturbing enough to watch but somehow, i do hope at first that this novelist could unfold who was responsible towards the murders and why it was done so and produce a hell of a novel based on these murders. For some reasons , Ellison thought that they were all related. My hope was kinda twisted when i preferred Ellison to bring his entire family to move out as what his wife, Tracy insisted when their children , Ashley and Trevor were terribly disturbed with bad nightmares , ghost of a girl, Stephanie, and eerie sleepwalking.

The story reached its climax when as we had watched tonnes of horror movies before ,(if you are a fan) the hero himself would be greatly affected. But it is not like we thought that he would be tempted to murder his family because we should keep in mind that this cult preys on children only. So, Ellison was also disturbed probably the worst than his family did. Irony is, his wife was never gotten into any disturbance. The only thing that she concerned of is  her children and her annoyance over her husband when she found out that the house they moved in was the house where all the families in the footage was killed. 

Well, since the Bughuul, owh, i didn't explained about it. It is the boogie man in this story that preys on the children. He has to get either one of Ellison's kids. I was first thought that if it has to be, it got to be Trevor since he was the one who was badly affected by the moving. But, guess who found new friend in the new house? Ashley found Stephanie, a ghost of a girl that hung all four of her family at the front yard of the house. 

I wouldn't say that you would be happy for its ending, because the history would always be repeated in horror movie since the films and projector just can't be destroyed. Eventhough so, all the thrills, the screams that you would be having a lot, a quick laugh when Ellison and Tracy was arguing about the house, watching this movie would worth it. Well,  this movie was claimed to be the most scariest horror movie of the year. 

I said, 3.5 stars.

1 Being a Parent

 Being a parent, would you bring your young children to see R , P13, SG18, SX 18, SP 18 movies? 

My sister and I went to see the movie Sinister last Thursday night and we picked out the center seats well, to get a clear and balanced wide look at the screen. From the counter when we were picking out our seats, we could see that next to both of our seats was fully booked.  We thought that it was okay to bunk in and went with the packed row by the way.

We were 10 minutes late to go into the cinema, and when we got to our seats finally, i was taken a back when i saw the row was actually seated with 5 young children ,3 boys and 2 girls with a father and the mother. The father sat at the end while the mother sat at the other end of the row. The children by the way were separated by our seats. We took it as they didn't come together to the movie, like two different families that liked it so much violence movies. 

Holy crap. 

What was these parents thinking when they decided to bring out their children on weekdays night, it is not even a school holiday night to watch such movie with their children? lacking of knowledge of the movie's content? It was clear that the GSC put rating on the movie Sinister, P13. Means parental guidance is suggested for viewers under 13. Those children , for God's sake was like 6-9 years old ,obviously. 

Have these parents actually just lost their mind? No babysitter? 

Or is it because the cinema should have put R rate on the movie, so that it will be restricted enough for children to go in. I was surprise by the way, the movie Ted was one of the movie that was put in the list that they displayed for parents not bringing their young children to watch. Sinister had been MIA in the list. Shocker.

Throughout the movies, I can't be more frightened, more shocked, more suspenseful for the storyline, for i was being so busy checking out the girl's expression who sat next to me and the father. FYI, the movie claimed to be most scariest horror movie of the year! O boy, she sat there covering her face with her jacket throughout the movie. Her brothers, were doing the same too except they were occasionally peeking out from their shirt to see where the story goes. There's none interesting scene in the movie entertaining for these children.

I saw once the boy who sat next to the father pulling his father's shirt several times, I don't know  how many times he already did that. But, the father seemed like , he just shussh the kid and the boy was back covering his face with his shirt. The father steadily seated as if he was watching the movie with a damsel in distress in the cinema. I can't enjoy the movie enough seeing this real scene happening next to me. 

I almost asked the girl to bring her father home if she can't take it anymore to be sitting there. But, I was scared that the parent would yell at me for being busybody and accused that i don't know a damn thing about hardship on parenting, giving me the no-babysitter speech. Huhhuu...so, i chose to keep sitting in uneasy, until the movie ends. 

Do you have such experience ? If 'parental guidance' are stated , how do you draw the line of the explicit contents to allow your children to watch such movies. Should the personnel in the cinema ticket counters responsible to remind parents who wishes to bring in their children ? What if the parents snap back? I think what taken most of  these personnel (like my guts) aback with this action, are the reaction of the parents. We were scared of how the parents react, for we always heard parents know what's best for their children. But , parents are human too...

The dilemma goes, parents raises their children differently.

Stay tuned, I still have review for the movie. For another entry, of course. I hope parents will read the movie Sinister 's content review (even if it's not from me), first before bringing their young children to sit together on the couch for a Halloween night , or any days.

0 Abraham Lincoln :Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln. What can i say about this man? The greatest president of giant country, America of all time.

First time i saw the trailer on tv, my eyes set on his very name then the vampire then the hunter. Irony. But, the trailer really shows that no one would regret buying the ticket to watch the movie.

This movies tells the untold stories about the secret life of Abraham Lincoln. The young him. What the people today hears, knows or read about him is just a part of his life. This movie starts when his mother killed by vampire and since then, he is going to hunt the killer of his mother but he fails until he meet this vampire who dying to kill his kind. This gives a little twist on the story line towards the climax of the story where one would think that Abe should have just kill him. But for Abe he is his 'wise man'. His master to be exact.


It also gives a touch of romances on the parts where Abe meets Mary Todd, his wife and where the scene shows that Abe needs Mary in his life and she could be very helpful in his fights for the nation. You have no idea how this great man could also be so in touched with his emotions. Especially when his son died of vampire bites too. But who would not shed tears when one lost their child, right? By the way, i am wondering if Abe really lost his son in reality? Despite of the vampire shitting bites.

Action packed with war scenes and axe-silver bullet gun shootings has never been this perfect. Sends me shivers and one can tell that you are not bullshitting about this when the whole cinema crying in shocked in most of the action scenes. Scenes that i love most is when the first time vampires army are sent to the war, disappear in a blink. Then when the captain blink open his eyes, his whole troops are finished by the fast creatures. But, it was quite funny anyway because the he was like striked by a really bad whirlwind but when the whirlwind finally resides, he still stood there untouched, clueless. At first, i thought that maybe because he was one of them too. Because, Adam, the chief of vampire said, "maybe it is God's trick. That vampire cannot kill a vampire." But i was just exagerrating the already exagerrated story of Abe. As a strong macho character.


Another scene that is worth eye catching is the dusty scene of running horses where Abe finally satisfy his vengeance over Jack Barts ( why do this kinda name often possesed by the villain? ) who bites his mothr to death.

By the way there are many more action scene that is so great it freezes you on the sofa. Questions mark arises when Abe's former boss and become his best friend, Mr Speed on his loyalty towards Abe also gives the story some twists when he goes telling Abe's and the gang's plan on transporting the silver weapons and bullets to the only lady in the vampire troops. Why oh why must in any stories of good versus evil must there a backstabber? And the backstabber must be a close friend? By the way,what makes this story different is that, this is only a set up planned carefully by the Abe's gang to avoid attentions from the women that was recruited by Mary to transport the weaponary.

Overall, i give 3.5 stars out of 5. It is a movie of action, fantasy, thriller and horror all at the same time. Seriously, it was a good story to watch though through the entire movie, i looked i was froze on my seat while leaning my head to my husband's shoulder. But, what goes in my mind was that, i think it is very funny to imagine that one of America's greatest president was a vampire slayer. He might be very good at catching spinning axe as if the axe is a boomerang to him but i couldn't stop myself from giggling when i think about how insanely creative the filmaker was to made up Abe has an untold stories about him, and the bomb is that he was a vampire slayer. I was like, NO, he can't be. He wouldn't kill in coldblood. The idea of Abe as a vampire slayer to me like it was impossible and way too ridiculous. Funny. Hihihihi...now he is a vampire hunter? I do not know about you, if you say, it is not ridiculous to me, well good luck with that.

I might stop giggling if someone would tell me that there is chances that he might be one. Still, i just love him in his wisest president character. Seriously.

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