Harrison Ford said it best: 

“It’s not magic. It’s commerce.”

Cruel for the sake of being cruel. Attempts to provide a very Halloween II (Rob Zombie) character study but gets terribly lost. The kills are graphic, and most of this just feels entirely miserable. It’s much more akin to the first than the second, at points really shies away from the main narrative just for multiple gross-out moments that get kinda stale. Gore doesn’t really get to me, so I just felt pretty bored throughout most of this, not really seeing the need for a franchise at this point.

Cool split diopter shot though.

Kinda conflicted on this one, has some cool ideas but the execution is a bit clunky. Decent watch, Hunter Schafer is incredible.

So happy for Channing Tatum.

MaXXXine is a majorly disappointing conclusion to Ti Wests X trilogy. A very mediocre project which then leads into one of the most misguided third acts I’ve ever seen. Maxine Minx is a very shallow character, and while Mia Goth is great as always her performance is not enough to justify the lack of depth. A film which can’t find its own identity, and feels like it wants to try to be anything else. MaXXXine is a real bummer of a conclusion.

Feels pretty unnecessary and very repetitive with its narrative; at the same time however, this film is able to strike a balance between being entertaining and (at times) heartfelt. The characters presented have motivation but ultimately are pretty shallow, luckily Joseph Quinn and Lypita Nyong'o are giving really great performances and are able to excel on screen. Definitely better than what I was anticipating, but hard to say if it’s anything really special.

Absurd, yet still somehow kind of underwhelming. This doesn’t really kick into full gear into the third act, and is filled with some of the worst characters and dialogue this franchise has offered. Fun enough to get by, but fails in most areas that differ from the title characters. Adam Wingard has seemingly struck gold in helming this and the previous film in this “monster verse” franchise. While I’m happy he’s doing large scale projects, a huge part of me wishes he’d go back to something smaller like “You’re Next.”

It’s always nice seeing Dan Akroyds face.