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Bites | Nightstream Film Festival
185 | Halloween Kills
Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Scott Teems
Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival September 8, 2021
Released in theaters and Peacock October 15, 2021
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 46min
RT: 38% critics 74% audience
Just like the original Halloween 2, this one picks up right where we left off - with the Strode women heading to the hospital and Laurie’s house burning down with Michael inside. However, Michael is of course not dead and is back on the rampage once again. Now it’s up to an angry mob of Haddonfield residents, led by characters from the original Halloween, to take Michael down once and for all.
Next up, we’ll be watching and reviewing the listener suggested movie, The Empty Man (currently streaming on HBO).
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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184 | No One Gets Out Alive
Directed by Santiago Menghini
Written by Jon Croker (story by) and Fernanda Coppel (novel by Adam Nevill)
Stars Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca, David Figlioli
Premiered on Netflix 9/29/2021
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 25min
RT: 71% critics 63% audience (fewer than 50 audience reviews)
Synopsis
A young woman rents a room in a creepy old house. The landlord said there was only one other tenant besides himself, yet she keeps hearing crying coming from supposedly empty rooms and running into strange people in the halls. And then there are the strange nightmares she’s been having since moving in...
Next up, the long awaited sequel to the rebooted sequel to Halloween, Halloween Kills. That’s right, it’s time for more Jamie Lee Curtis and her distinguished natural grey hair kicking ass and taking names, along with her daughter, Judy Greer. I just love that those two are the leads again. Assuming the trailer hasn’t misled us. Guess we’ll finally find out.
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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183 | Martyr's Lane
Written & Directed by Ruth Platt
Stars Kiera Thompson, Denise Gough and Sienna Sayer
Premiered at Fantasia International FF August 19, 2021
Released September 9, 2021
Available on Shudder
Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 36min
RT: 93% critics 62% audience (less than 50 audience reviews)
Synopsis: Leah lives with her family in a large old vicarage. In the daytime she is mostly overlooked by her busy family but at night she has a new friend - a little girl who has started to come visit her. At her window. On the second floor.
Next up, something new from Netflix. No One Gets Out Alive is based on a novel by favorite of the podcast Adam Nevill.
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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182 | Candyman
Directed by Nia DaCosta
Written by Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld
Stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo
Released August 27, 2021
Available in theaters
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 31min
RT: 85% critics 74% audience
Synopsis: This “spiritual sequel” skips over the movies made after 1992’s Candyman and takes place in a now-gentrified Cabrini Green. Anthony and Brianna are a successful, upwardly-mobile couple who take up residence in one of the posh condos that have been built over the ashes of the infamous projects. When painter Anthony learns of the Candyman legend he becomes obsessed with capturing it in his art, but his obsession leads him and those around him into dangerous territory and he soon finds that there may be more to the urban legend than he anticipated.
Next up, well we’re not sure yet. Check back soon for an update!
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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181 | Don't Breathe 2
Directed by Rodo Sayagues
Written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues
Stars Stephen Lang, Brendan Sexton III, Madelyn Grace
Released August 13, 2021
Available in theaters
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 38min
RT: 45% critics 87% audience
Synopsis
The Blind Man of the first movie is back, living in a run-down mansion with a daughter he’s raising as a survivalist loner. The little girl, named Phoenix, of course just wants to be a normal kid, and has begun pushing back against her father’s restrictive ways. Meanwhile, a greasy crime boss in the neighborhood has set his sights on Phoenix and has sent some goons on an errand to kidnap the girl. Guess how well that turns out for them...
Next up, it’s a remake we’ve all been pretty excited for. It’s a name that horror fans have feared for years…that’s right, it’s Candyman!
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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180 | Old
Written/Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Based on the graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre-Oscar Levy & Frederick Peeters
Stars Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps and Rufus Sewell
Released July 23, 2021
Available in theaters
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 48min
RT: 50% critics 52% audience
Synopsis
Tourists at a secluded resort take a disastrous day trip to a deadly beach that kills them off one by one.
You’d better start holding your breath… on our next episode, we’ll be reviewing Don’t Breathe 2. Why would anyone still be trying to break into this man’s house?
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179 | Piranha
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by John Sayles
Stars Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Dick Miller
Released August 3, 1978
Available on Amazon Prime, Hoopla
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 34min
RT: 69% critics 42% audience
Looks like animals are attacking all the kids!
Synopsis
A failed and abandoned government experiment results in ferocious, mutant piranha swimming loose in a freshwater river. The man-eating fish leave carnage in their wake and no one is safe - not even precious, young campers.
Bobbit Worm
For our next movie, we’re gonna check out the newest M. Night Shyamalan flick, Old. We’re heading to the theaters for this one so join us in two weeks!
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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178 | Saint Maud
Written and Directed by Rose Glass
Stars Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle
Premiered at TIFF September 8, 2019
Released February 12, 2021
Available in US on Hulu and Paramount+
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 24mins
RT: 93% critics, 65% audience
Synopsis: Maud is a young nurse who has recently undergone a religious conversion after she was responsible for an unnamed but serious accident that caused the death of one of her patients. When she takes an in-home assignment with a dying former dancer and choreographer, Maud becomes convinced that her real mission is to save the woman’s soul.
Trivia
Rose Glass’s first feature film. She was named best debut director at the British Independent Film Awards
Holy shit that chest bursting scene came from a real story from an ICU nurse
Caravaggio’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”
It’s that time of the year here in the midwest when we like to watch a movie about people being killed/attacked in the water. Last year we covered the classic, Jaws. Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing 1978’s Piranha, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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