Hey, hey, Horror Nuts! Welcome to another edition of WTFHM!
So, have you ever been actually glad you grew up poor? Like, have you ever experienced how the other half lives in a way that made you go, "Wow, those fried bologna sandwiches weren't so bad."
I mean, it's one thing to come into money, right? Like suddenly acquiring wealth is a different animal than being born into money. Your life is basically moving through a world where you can do just about anything you want, like traveling or world domination.
And then when you get demons involved it becomes a whole thing. Anyway...
This week's movie!
The Privilege starring Max Schimmelpfennig, Lea Van Acken, Tijan Marei, Milena Tscharntke, Lise Risom Olsen, Roman Knizka, Horst Janson, Nadeshda Brennicke, and Caroline Hartig.
Okay, so somewhere in some affluent part of Germany, a kid named Finn(Schimmelpfennig) acquired some pretty serious mental issues. Like he and his sister getting attacked by a smoke demon until she takes a header off a bridge, serious.
Which, as you can imagine, would fuck a guy up.
So, as a result, he and his twin sister are in therapy and no, that isn't a plot hole. You just aren't really supposed to notice, I think?
Okay, it's kind of a plot hole. Moving on.
Anyway, they and apparently every kid they know are in therapy and taking these special pills which, I don't know what they're supposed to do, but our protag is 'hallucinating' pretty heavily while he's on them.
Anyway, after witnessing some really weird shit with his family apparently auctioning off his naked sister to an old naked woman, Finn decides that something really weird is going on.
He also finds a weird tequila worm in his pills which turn out to be some kind of devil fungus.
It's around this point that the movie goes off the rails and suddenly there's a failed exorcism and a threesome, and ghost demons...just random stuff happening that doesn't really affect the core plot of the story very much.
What it all eventually comes to is that their rich affluent parents have developed a psych pill that's really infused with devil fungus. They use the devil fungus to invoke demons that take over their bodies and live their rich lives and...
Okay, let me just get into what worked and what didn't because I just don't have the energy to do a full synopsis here.
The Good
This was a pretty slick-looking movie. I mean, the CGI was a little hokey, but not so much that I would slide it in the low-budget category of movies. The special effects were decent.
The set designs were pretty good, too. You really did have the feel of our characters being a bunch of rich kids living in a rich world.
I'll also give this one points for diversity. Like there weren't a whole lot of diverse characters, but considering the story primarily centers on one family, I'll take a couple of brown faces over none in this case.
The Bad
There's really only one bad thing about this movie and that's the ambling nature of the plot. I mean, if you've ever talked to someone who couldn't stay on track with their story, this movie was basically that.
We jump from the main plot to an exorcism
Into a threesome...
To possessed middle-aged women murdering people...
To suicidal frenemies...
Oh, and there was a rave at some point where Finn takes a buttload of acid, he trips at the rave, sees some messed up stuff, we move on.
I don't know what the trend is lately for adding an inordinate amount of seasoning to horror movies. Usually, I'm down for lots of kookiness in horror movies, but lately, it's all been just a lot of noise and I've been like...
I'm just saying, this movie makers' focus needs more focus.
All that said, I'm not gonna raspberry this one for one reason and one reason on. It stuck to a very important point that when a filmmaker gets it, I've gotta give them props for it:
You can't kill a thousand-year-old demon/monster/whatever by accident
Or Luck. Or a plucky attitude. Or a big gun or an army. Ancient creatures of evil are ancient for a reason. All you can really do is delay the inevitable.
So, yeah, that being said:
Okay, so, next week's movie! Fresh! A movie that keeps popping up on my Hulu, so I guess I better check it out!
See you next week!
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I mean, it's one thing to come into money, right? Like suddenly acquiring wealth is a different animal than being born into money. Your life is basically moving through a world where you can do just about anything you want, like traveling or world domination.
And then when you get demons involved it becomes a whole thing. Anyway...
And then when you get demons involved it becomes a whole thing. Anyway...
This week's movie!
The Privilege starring Max Schimmelpfennig, Lea Van Acken, Tijan Marei, Milena Tscharntke, Lise Risom Olsen, Roman Knizka, Horst Janson, Nadeshda Brennicke, and Caroline Hartig.
Okay, so somewhere in some affluent part of Germany, a kid named Finn(Schimmelpfennig) acquired some pretty serious mental issues. Like he and his sister getting attacked by a smoke demon until she takes a header off a bridge, serious.
Which, as you can imagine, would fuck a guy up.
So, as a result, he and his twin sister are in therapy and no, that isn't a plot hole. You just aren't really supposed to notice, I think?Okay, it's kind of a plot hole. Moving on.
Anyway, they and apparently every kid they know are in therapy and taking these special pills which, I don't know what they're supposed to do, but our protag is 'hallucinating' pretty heavily while he's on them.
Anyway, after witnessing some really weird shit with his family apparently auctioning off his naked sister to an old naked woman, Finn decides that something really weird is going on.
He also finds a weird tequila worm in his pills which turn out to be some kind of devil fungus.
It's around this point that the movie goes off the rails and suddenly there's a failed exorcism and a threesome, and ghost demons...just random stuff happening that doesn't really affect the core plot of the story very much.
What it all eventually comes to is that their rich affluent parents have developed a psych pill that's really infused with devil fungus. They use the devil fungus to invoke demons that take over their bodies and live their rich lives and...
Okay, let me just get into what worked and what didn't because I just don't have the energy to do a full synopsis here.
This was a pretty slick-looking movie. I mean, the CGI was a little hokey, but not so much that I would slide it in the low-budget category of movies. The special effects were decent.
The set designs were pretty good, too. You really did have the feel of our characters being a bunch of rich kids living in a rich world.
I'll also give this one points for diversity. Like there weren't a whole lot of diverse characters, but considering the story primarily centers on one family, I'll take a couple of brown faces over none in this case.
The Bad
There's really only one bad thing about this movie and that's the ambling nature of the plot. I mean, if you've ever talked to someone who couldn't stay on track with their story, this movie was basically that.
We jump from the main plot to an exorcism
Into a threesome...
To possessed middle-aged women murdering people...
To suicidal frenemies...
Oh, and there was a rave at some point where Finn takes a buttload of acid, he trips at the rave, sees some messed up stuff, we move on.
I don't know what the trend is lately for adding an inordinate amount of seasoning to horror movies. Usually, I'm down for lots of kookiness in horror movies, but lately, it's all been just a lot of noise and I've been like...
I'm just saying, this movie makers' focus needs more focus.
All that said, I'm not gonna raspberry this one for one reason and one reason on. It stuck to a very important point that when a filmmaker gets it, I've gotta give them props for it:
You can't kill a thousand-year-old demon/monster/whatever by accident
Or Luck. Or a plucky attitude. Or a big gun or an army. Ancient creatures of evil are ancient for a reason. All you can really do is delay the inevitable.
So, yeah, that being said:
Okay, so, next week's movie! Fresh! A movie that keeps popping up on my Hulu, so I guess I better check it out!
See you next week!
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"It's around this point that the movie really starts going off the rails..."
ReplyDeleteTHAT point?! I literally almost spit out my tea from laughing.