Reviews

Maybe there was no way for me to like the ending of EVIL's final season because I didn't want it to end... and while some finalities in the show I was okay with, others felt a little too rushed, convenient, or downright absurd.

Some things weren't cleared up at all. It needed a fifth season. Heck, you could do a spin-off on Andrea alone!

Now, I've read from some reviewers that they hated the daughters, that they were annoying, etc., but I liked them personally. They were smart, but also just kids and curious like cats. Imagine the kids just as a bunch of kittens running around, getting into trouble. Yeah, I had no issue with them.

So, when I say I am a little disappointed with the season, that was perhaps unavoidable, and perhaps my expectations were too high. Still, it coasted into easy ports to wrap it up, probably to cut down production costs, and it shows because I think anyone watching this show deserved something better in the end.

Because look, the evil is in the world, Leland is alive, the antichrist is alive, and the 60 are alive... in conclusion, I believe they're fine ending the fourth season this way, but it doesn't work as a series finale.

This type of thing always leads me to a little uncertainty when it comes to giving a final IMDb rating because many things along the way start to fall flat if the ending does, because they were only held up on the promises of development and fulfillment, in which there was very little, in the end.

In the end, I wanted to rate EVIL higher; missed potential, perhaps, because it feels like the 4th season starts well, with some great points along the way, but in the end, they turned in work that was just good enough.

If you watched the series, do you agree?

I really liked it, the writing for Cher's character felt a bit disjointed in some ways in that she's very protective of her kids but also very neglectful of them at the same time yet thinks to give toothpaste out on Halloween felt a bit out of character, she's intensely independent but afraid of any conflict to the point of moving at the slightest conflict but gets with the first guy she meets a burly man like Bob Hoskins, she's a walking contradiction.

Then Winona's character is 15 who manages to seduce a 27-year-old and he never seems to act like that's inappropriate even when he just leaves her and no one bats an eye, but then he moves to California and stays in contact and still there's no real emotion about it.

She's young and rather flighty like her mom which makes sense as she jumps from one extreme interest to the next, but overall, they never have any real feelings for the men in their lives which can make an aspect of the film feel rather hollow and again, disjointed.

I think it taints my love for the film in a way, throwing it off kilter, but maybe if they had a cat I'd feel better 🙂 Overall I would say it had some beautiful elements but I'd rate it no higher than a 7 for these reasons.

Otherwise, it was on its way to getting a much higher score from me.

MY REVIEW OF BEHIND THE SIGHTINGS...

Everyone I've seen discussing the movie, Behind the Sightings, has hated it ever since it came out. But, being me, I like to make up my own mind, so I watched it today, and honestly, I think the movie is full of a lot of great elements. There's a lot of funny stuff, stupid character choices by Todd, specifically, but overall I find it pretty entertaining.

I went in not expecting much, which helps. So it starts out okay, but then it all turns to crap.

The clowns remind me a bit of the ones from Hell House, LLC... some cross-over would be kinda cool maybe for a future movie...

I think the problem I have is that you would think they'd go into this backwoods and dangerous place at night at least armed. Characters who have so little awareness and intelligence make for a pretty dumb movie, and I am sure this is a big part of why so many hated the movie. It feels like they didn't really spend time to write a good script.

One of the reasons ALIEN is such a classic is because Sigourney Weaver's character is so intelligent and supports a smart script where people do their best to figure things out and survive, which is entirely missing from most found footage films and I think it'd be nice to change that.

No sane person with a wife that hot would have brought her out into the middle of the woods to chase clowns, completely unarmed.

This goes so far beyond suspension of disbelief as to warrant the hate it gets.

So, from the humor and aesthetic, this movie clearly has A LOT of potential, but it wound up just absolutely sucking because the script is just so bad.

What a waste.

My score: 2/10.