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"Five Nights at Freddy's" is finally here after 8 years of development hell and what did I think of it?

Let me start off with the good. The animatronics are great. They look so good and faithful and the puppetry is also really well done. The performances are also pretty good. Josh Hutcherson does a really great job and his character was pretty well fleshed out. The directing as well is also really good. We get some pretty nice shots along with some really creepy lighting. There's a decent amount of bloody shots for a PG-13 movie which I really appreciated. There's a great scene involving people breaking into Freddy's which I thought was well done. And finally I thought the final 15 minutes was good, along creepy with some creepy scenes.

Now this is far from a perfect movie it does have quite a few problems. The first being the PG-13 rating. This movie would have benefited from an R rating. It needed more. The script also is a mess. It's a bit repetitive at times with a subplot involving dreams and it felt very redundant. I thought the character of Vanessa felt very unimportant from the movie. And finally I would have liked a bit more animatronic mayhem.

Overall despite a messy story and some odd choices, "Five Nights at Freddy's" offers enough that kept me satisfied.

"Pet Sematary: Bloodlines" is a prequel to the 2019 remake that had a lot of potential but completely losses the scares of the original story.

Starting off with the good, the movie itself is actually very well directed. The director does a really good job at creating some pretty great shots along with a nice color palette. There's a pretty good cast here. And there is some pretty bloody kills here. If you're here for the gore, there is a plentiful amount of it.

Unfortunately that's really all the positives I have for this lackluster prequel. This movie really suffers from trading creepy scares for joyless gore and dull jump scares. This movie also features some really boring characters, especially the lead. He is very flat throughout the whole movie and he didn't feel interesting even once. Most of the characters are pretty bland. The acting is fine for the most part but there really isn't a standout. The movie too is also paced very weirdly as it really just pushes through everything too quickly. There isn't enough emotional weight since everything moves for quick. This is also a very poorly edited movie. It's very messy and scenes will quickly cut without any real end. And finally this movie has far too many characters that it never takes time to actually get to know them, some are basically forgotten throughout the movie until suddenly they come back.

Overall despite some good directing, this movie falls flat and should've stayed buried.

"Totally Killer" is basically a "Back to the Future" type slasher movie and it succeeds quite often in what it does.

Starting with the good the best part of this movie is by far Kiernan Shipka. She is great in the movie and her character as well is very likeable and extremely funny. Everyone else in the movie is also quite good. The comedy in the movie is really well done for the most part. The movies got some plentiful bloody moments that had me satisfied. Along with that I thought the directing was also pretty good. There's some fun chase scenes and a pretty fun final act I felt the pacing as well was very good, it starts at pretty fast and doesn't really stop. And finally I thought they captured the 80's aesthetic very well.

Now this isn't a perfect movie and unfortunately it does have a few issues. Starting with the films plot holes. There are quite a few plot holes that are raised in the finale that weren't really explained. I thought the other characters aside from the lead were rather unlikable, well acted but still. I wish there was a couple more sequences with the killer as he actually isn't in the movie much for the middle portion. And finally the killer I felt was very obvious, they didn't do the best job at hiding it.

Overall despite some plot holes and a pretty obvious killer, I thought that this movie was still a pretty good time. It's well acted, has good comedy, and some decent kills.