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Movie Reviews: Tales from the Hood, The Gathering, Blood Moon
With Halloween around the corner, scary movies are the ones we have been watching. We decided to go into the movie archives (our movie shelf) and pull out some movies that we hadn't seen in a lnog time...long enough that basically when we saw the DVD title, we couldn't remember what the movie was about. Allof them were good. Two out of three were very good and I would recommend them to you.
Tales from the Hood is a movie of stories. Much like Twilight Zone - The Movie, Cat's Eye, and Creepshow, there is an overall story that surrounds a few other stories. I liked the stories in Tales from the Hood. The language leaves a great deal to be desired and it has some bloody moments, but the stories are very good and if you can get your ways past that and the very bad language, you will enjoy the inventive scary tales!
The Gathering with Christina Ricci, is a very good movie. It has spooky elements, but the overall story is not scary. Instead it is a story of wrong choices, punishment, and redemption. There are some gruesome scenes and it is definitely not a movie for children, but the story is excellent and I highly recommend it!
Blood Moon aka Wolf Girl was the final movie. I have to tell you, with a title like Blood Moon (which it turns out is the Canadian title), we weren't expecting a lot. And since neither of us could remember the movie, though presumably we had watched it at some point, we figured we probably didn't remember it because it wasn't good. But quite the contrary. This movie was very good. It is not your usual horror movie, though it has creepy elements. This is a story of a freak show. And you will see some amazing things in this movie. This is also a story of how who we are inside is more important than our appearance. This movie is really, really good and I highly recommend it.
