Halloween Kills (2021): Just no.
Don’t Let Her In (2021): By the standards of a contemporary Full Moon production, this Ted Nicolaou sexy demon subtenant sixty minute movie is practically a masterpiece. By more exacting standards, it does at least parse as an actual movie with a plot, half-way professional acting, sensible camera setups and production design somebody apparently thought about for more than ten seconds. Watching it, I found myself vaguely entertained, which is much more than I can say for most of what Charles Band’s cohorts have crapped out in the last decade or so. Let’s hope it’s the beginning of a trend.
The Deep House (2021): I found this to be a movie much closer to my tastes than Alexandre Bustillo’s and Julien Maury’s other effort of this year, Kandisha. At the very least, monster and story here intrinsically belong to one another. It’s a rather minimalist film when it comes to plot and character development, though, and mostly relies on its underwater photography and its creepy setting, never really going beyond what you’d expect a film about a haunted house underwater to do. One could easily argue this one could have been done more fruitfully as a sixty minute film, cutting out a couple of sequences of our protagonists slowly swimming through the creepy house; one would not be wrong.
On the other hand, the film oozes an atmosphere of decay and a bit of dread, and has at least a handful of unforgettable shots, particularly in its final third, so if you’re going in more for the film’s mood and the way its visuals create said mood, you might very well leave completely satisfied, like me.
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