The Horror Returns - THR Quick Reviews - Ep. #1: As The Village Sleeps (2021)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the first episode of THR Quick Reviews. I'm your host, Brian. With these quick reviews, they could be five minutes, they could be 10 minutes, 15, who knows. I'm just trying to throw them out there. I do watch a lot of movies, some of them I want to talk about, and I'm going to give this a try. The first movie we're going to talk about is As the Village Sleeps. I believe this was a 2021 release, if I'm not mistaken.

Starting point is 00:00:54 Let's go to Google for a quick synopsis. A birthday celebration takes a turn for the worst when a strange party game gets out of hand and triggers a deadly fight among a group of family and friends. Hmm. All right, let's head over to RMDB, see what their synopsis is. A smart yet naive college girl. organizes a birthday celebration at her stepfather's cabin,

Starting point is 00:01:20 bringing together a volatile group of friends and family. While playing a mysterious party game, nightmares blend with reality and the friends struggle to survive as the living game attacks and turns them against each other. I guess that's what the movie was. and let's see this is starring Chloe you guys know how I butcher names

Starting point is 00:01:53 Camamere Winnie Doe Mark Adam Gauth Michael Gunn Shia Luna Tyler Menna Lucas Daniel Oligan Oliver Rotono

Starting point is 00:02:12 Eleanor Cereval and so on. This is directed by Terry Spears and written by Chloe. Bellad. I'm sure I butcher every one of those names. I apologize. First initial thoughts.

Starting point is 00:02:37 The movie starts out pretty strange. You get a scene with a female and I don't know if it's her boyfriend or friend, brother, family. member, I don't know, they're kind of driving. She hasn't pulled over. She has this car. She's going to go burn it or bury it or whatever. And then she gets attacked by what seems to be some kind of werewolf. Cool. I'm into I'm into werewolf movies. Then we kind of jump into a whole other thing with the group of friends that are staring at a house. The main girl, it's her families or her father's home that he owns. And it's built on. a reservation and nobody's really likable in this movie you just can't get behind anybody they're gonna have a party they have some guys coming over the guys come over they're in a band come to find out one of them is the main girl's ex-boyfriend you got that whole kind of backstory that really doesn't go anywhere then you have the

Starting point is 00:03:47 main girls, I'm assuming her step-sister, who is Native American and shows up with her, I don't know, her friend, boyfriend. I don't know. They never really establish anything in this movie. And they have, obviously, a rocky relationship being that the father married somebody else, and they're not really close. and she invites her to stay for the party. They party.

Starting point is 00:04:21 They play this weird game called, I can't remember, lynch the wolf or something, which they don't explain the rules. The game makes no sense. And then by the end of the night, one by one, people start disappearing. What makes you think is by a, some kind of wolf or werewolf, but you never see anything.

Starting point is 00:04:50 You never see the wolf. You never really see anybody get killed. Nothing's ever explained. Like I said, the characters are completely unlikable, annoying. And then the movie ends. They somehow get through the game by changing the rules, which doesn't make any sense. and that's the end of the movie. Whoever survives, it survives.

Starting point is 00:05:22 They kind of just act like everybody that ended up missing doesn't really matter. And then credits roll. Like I said, these reviews are going to be very short. I can't recommend this movie. The plot was weak. The kills were weak. They mention a wolf. You never see that.

Starting point is 00:05:48 certain characters are introduced in this movie and they go nowhere with it. They mention a reservation and Native American folklore, which they never get into, which would have been super interesting if they did. But like I said, poor execution, characters are not likable, weak kills. I can't give this a recommendation. So if anybody wants to watch this, this is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. You are a prime member. It's free. So if you're somewhat curious about it, check it out.

Starting point is 00:06:32 Yeah, that's pretty much all I got to say about this first review. So forgive me if I sound a little nervous. This is my first time kind of doing this on my own. so I'm going to give it a try. I'm going to work it out here. But yeah, thank you for tuning in. Always appreciate everybody that listens to us. And if you guys want to check out more of our shows,

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The Horror Returns - THR Quick Reviews - Ep. #1: As The Village Sleeps (2021)

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