Clown (2014) - Spoiler Free.

Starring Eli Roth. 

A typical horror/thriller movie of a white suburban, wealthy family who have been unaware of an unknown curse nobody else has heard about apart from creepy, middle aged men. Meg (Laura Allen) has set up a birthday party for her son, Jack (Christian Distefano), who is obsessed with clowns...for some reason. The clown Meg originally hired for the job is unable to make it, bringing home Meg's husband to hurriedly find a clown costume to take over. I'm assuming he's some sort of architect or land owner, as he goes into one of his multiple houses to find a very old and very pretty costume in one of the basements to make it to Jack's birthday just in time as "Frowny the Clown". Except, when the birthday party is over, he can't take the costume off and it begins to consume him so the demon can feed. 

For a movie called "Clown" and about clowns, it actually wasn't half bad. This might have been because I jumped into the movie thinking it would be bad for obvious reasons so I could have a nice laugh at it, but that's not what happened. Now, as a thriller/horror...this is bad. The first half of the movie was just a comedy. No gory or sadistic action going on there, really. Just "Frowny" continuing his life and trying to figure out how to get the costume off. The second half was a bit more exiting, but nothing to keep you up at night or to make you jump. It's something someone who was starting to watch horror movies would enjoy, but no horror-movie-fantic would be raving about any time soon.

Gore factor was minimal. Bit of blood, bit of guts, but if you molded that together, it would probably create a five minute YouTube clip and even that might be pushing it. Plot line was probably a 4/5 out of 10. It was something I have heard before, something I wasn't gripped into - it was very under-complex, it was the skeleton structure with none of the meat or vessel added to it. Jumpscares, none at all. Luckily for me (as someone who really hates movie sex/nudity scenes), there was no sex or nudity at all. 

Overall movie rating 5/10. 

Would I watch it again? No.

Apartment 143 (2011) - Spoiler Free.

I'm going to give credit to the director and the actresses/actors of this movie at the end of this post, so fear not, I'm not ignoring them. 

Anyway, this was a 1.5/5 star movie on Netflix, and after checking out a few positive reviews, me and my boyfriend Austin decided to go ahead and watch it - let me tell you, it was worth it. 

It's not the most amazing horror/thriller movie you will ever see, and especially with the word "Apartment" in the name, it can't be mind-blowing, can it? It was decent and definitely worth watching though. 

It's about this little family - the father Alan, the daughter Caitlin, the young son Benny and their cute little dog Zelda - who temporarily move to an monitored apartment over the weekend after noting some paranormal activity taking place in their household, shortly after their mother died. 

A lot of people commented on this movie saying it was slow and I have to say I disagree, I actually thought it was very fast paced and if they meant the story was slow, I only kind of agree - the story was released at a reasonable pace, and was probably the most interesting part of the movie, although not too filled with information. I feel like they could have added a good section more to the plot to make it more interesting.

I don't know why they thought the damaged relationship between a teenage girl and her father after a major death in the family was a huge thing to focus on. Of course, we do learn why their relationship was important to note during the scene of interrogation, but if this in any other sort of circumstance, people would overlook it and put it down to guilt and having feelings they don't know how to deal with, as one man in the movie pointed out and everyone else ignored. Alan's abusive behavior throughout the movie was also a dead give-away to what happened previously before the activity had started to happen, along with Caitlin's snappy comments here and there, and Benny's comments to the camera early on in the movie. 

I think this can easily be compared to Paranormal Activity with the way the family setting is and how the cameras are, but it's easily better then Paranormal Activity - I mean, not to say that I didn't like that movie, it just wasn't given enough to make me want to see it again.

As the actual jumpscares, horror/thriller aspect of this goes...not great. I watched this in a house on my own with moody lighting and in partial darkness, I wasn't scared and I am quite easy to scare when it's dark. However, I do think it had a good thriller aspect but not the best I have ever seen. 

This movie is a 3/5 overall and if you just want something okay to watch when you have nothing else to watch, go over to the UK Netflix and have a fun hour watching this. ;)

Director - Carles Torrens.

Fiona Glascott as Ellen Keegan. 

Rick Gonzalez as Paul Ortega. 

Kai Lennox as Alan White. 

Gia Mantegna as Caitlin White. 

Damian Roman as Benny White.