Margaux

A group of friends take a holiday in a smart house, a house that is run by AI system Margeaux, a technology with murderous designs.

This film sucks, let's be honest it's flawed from top to bottom, but on a Saturday night added a few wines, it served as an entertaining kill fest. Cheesy and corny, it's not going to win any awards, but ninety minutes of humour and kills, it's worth a look.

I'll give credit for some of the kill scenes, very imaginative, a little Final Destination at times, some of the CGI however was dodgy to say the least.

Doctor Who The Flesh anyone?

It's a very bizarre mix, you imagine if this had been touted about fifteen years ago it would have been a slasher movie, one of them would have been the killer in plain sight, now of course in this day of AI obsession, it followed the recent trend for AI systems gone bad, the trouble is it's been done many times before, but better.

You can pick holes in the script all day long, you'll wonder why so many people have gone missing from that house, and no alarms have been raised.

Of all of the characters, I think Clay was perhaps the best of them, at least he was quite funny, Lexi was nauseating, Hannah was the most cliché ridden and obvious of the lot, it's a shame they were all so predictable.

6/10.

As I had the opportunity to watch the 2022 horror / thriller "Margaux", of course I opted to do so. Sure, I had not even heard about this movie from writers Chris Beyrooty, Chris Sivertson and Nick Waters prior to watching it. But I found the synopsis to be alluring.

And now having watched it, I have to say that this movie was definitely unique. Yeah, there were parts of the storyline and script that had appeal, and the movie was watchable enough for what it turned out to be. But if you step back and look at the things that goes on throughout the movie objectively, then it just makes zero sense and the whole concept is actually not a great thing. But hey, the movie made for a semi-adequate viewing experience, so there was that.

So many things that happened throughout the movie were ludicrous, and why would someone create a house with the ability to kill people, or even have a ceiling that can slide all the way down to the floor? And so many other things just didn't make any logical sense if you think about it.

The acting in the movie was fairly good, taking into consideration the limitations imposed by the script. It was a relatively small cast ensemble, so the actors and actresses had to perform all the more convincingly to carry the movie. And they did that well enough. I was only familiar with actors Richard Harmon and Lochlyn Munro.

Visually then "Margaux" was enjoyable enough. The special effects in the movie were good and helped to distract from the ludicrous concept holes of the storyline.

"Margaux" is the type of movie that you watch once, then shelf it and never return to it a second time.

My rating of director Steven C. Miller's 2022 movie "Margaux" lands on a bland five out of ten stars.

This would have been better if they didn't include CGI/VFX robot arms and white liquid. It would have made the movie more realistic and more fun to watch. With the ridiculous robot arms it was just distracting because they were just poorly done and made the whole thing seem silly instead of funny.

The characters also didn't even react much to freaking CLONES in front of them at the beginning of the movie. How can you just dismiss that and continue partying? I know some of them were stoned, but not all of them. They just giggled and continued talking like nothing fantastic happened. I know it's supposed to be a horror-comedy movie, but they should have put a bit more effort to make it less ridiculous.

This is a very comfortable movie for those who enjoyed the commercial resurgence of horror in the 90s and early noughties.

The opening scenes are very reminiscent of Kevin Williamson's I Know What You Did Last Summer and Drew Goddard's Cabin in the Woods, with a definitive nod to the original Scream at the very beginning.

Pretty people of various stereotypes gather before Spring Break to hit a surprise location. It's all pretty cookie cutter but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.

The thrills are real and deaths are unique, given the antagonist is a house (no spoiler here; that's in the preview).

There are some forgivable timing issues but the BIG lost opportunity here was to expand on what was found in the mainframe. I sincerely felt that that was the right time to delve into the origin story of Margaux and build to a more worthy conclusion.

All in all though, a worthwhile effort for what it was meant to be. Very decent 6/10

#31DaysOfHalloween2022.

Someone saw the episode of 'The Simpsons' where the Ultrahouse 3000, played by Pierce Brosnan, turns evil...and tries to kill everyone.

This is just that, ramped up to 100, in movie form...but ironically, The Simpsons' episode was only 20 minutes long, but it was still way better than this.

This had no real storyline, or character development. Full of clichés. Mediocre acting and TERRIBLE cgi!

It could almost be classed as a comedy. Awful pacing...and a horrible ending.

It did have some awesome kill scenes though!

Really starting to get annoyed with this new 600-character minimum that IMDB has implemented recently.

So even when a film has absolutely nothing worthy of talking about, we still have to stretch a review to fit the limit. Counter-productive in my opinion...as it means that a lot of reviews will be full of gibberish, just to get the numbers up!