The Windmill

If you want an Australian accent, cast an Australian. Not an English girl who's accent changes back to British every 2 seconds and sometimes sounds like she's from NZ?

It took away from the movie SO BADLY - I loved the premise and found it interesting but man, her accent really ruined it. That's coming from an Aussie who knows we don't sound like that 😂

Windmills are cool - we all know this. So naturally when I saw there was a horror movie centered around a windmill, I was all in. When I saw that it wasn't another shitty found footage movie, I was even more intrigued. After watching it, I can honestly say it's one of the more enjoyable horror films I've seen recently (and there aren't a lot of those, let me tell you). It's a slasher flick basically with an interesting setting and some creative and gory kills, at least two of which genuinely took me by surprise and gave me a bit of a jump. The windmill backdrop itself is the movie's biggest plus although I was disappointed they didn't make better use of the location scenery. Most of the movie takes place on what appeared to me to be an obvious set. Had more of it taken place where they filmed the initial windmill stuff it would have been better, in my opinion. But I guess that would have made doing proper special effects more difficult on a low budget. As it is, there's nothing really 'wrong' with the set, just that I think it would've been more effective using more of the location shooting. Anyway, the cast is good. There's a guy who reminds me of Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles. There's never anything bad about that. As I said before, the kills are mostly creative, and some of the gross-out stuff is funny. It's definitely worth a look if, like me, you are tired of most of the horror output today, which seems to be found footage and knock-offs of horror classics like Exorcist and Poltergeist.

The new Nederhorror brought to us from the director, Nick Jongerius, who brought us Frankenstein's Army (2013). A horror that wasn't my cup of tea at all but this one was stated as a throw back to the slashers.

To be honest, it does has elements of that particular genre but again, it's typical Nick to add some weird elements to the story. In fact, there's a lot of supernatural stuff going on so I really can't say that it is a slasher. There's a killer out but the elements to call it a slashers aren't in it, no point of view from the killer for example. But I do liked it more then the Frankenstein flick. The reason is that there are some gory shots here and there and the fact that the ending had a big surprise that I can't go deeper in or I would have to spoil.

Due the gore added, it's worth picking up but the supernatural stuff wasn't my thing at all. I could compare it with Jason Voorhees in the latest Friday The 13th flicks were he's still coming back again and again, he really can't be killed and that being mixed with the killer from the Hatchet franchise.

Not for everybody but entertaining enough to watch it with some friends.

Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

By first looking at the DVD cover, I presumed that this film would be a comical, putrid story of mindless slaughter. Then I remembered having similar thoughts on the cover of the movie Southbound, and seeing how that turned out my hopes lifted a little.

To my surprise, The Windmill Massacre had a well-grounded backstory, and it turned out genuinely better than I thought it would be.

Unfortunately, after seeing Charlie's Farm and now The Windmill Massacre from Monster pictures, I must say, I do feel a sharp pang of regret when I'll look upon this logo in the future. It's not that these films are intentionally poor. It is just that now I am aware that I am going to get some real B-Grade quality stories.

Similar to my stance on Blumhouse pictures. It is a bit of a raffle of what you end up with. Sometimes, you'll get the unexpected sound story, with deep character development, and the plot has enough lore that it could be branched off into additional follow-up feature films.

And sometimes, you'll end up with a real piece of garbage that you will most definitely only intend to watch once. The Windmill Massacre sits a little in the middle.

Now I'm biased here. But unless it's a full-blown comedy film, a strong Australian accent portrayed in movies sounds bloody foul. I'm not gonna lie, but every time Jennifer spoke it just didn't sit right. Luckily her acting ability more than made up for it, and she didn't have a whole heap of lines compared to someone like Jackson.

The rest of the cast was quite good, with no complaints from me. As I said earlier, this film is well-grounded and watchable. The acting itself is more than reasonable, It's got a solid past, the killings are well-paced, and the scenery is more than respectable.

My wife picked up on the film's twist in the early stages. I mean, by now we have seen so many various horror movies, that not a lot comes across as new or doesn't stand out to us. We have found that most modern-day horror films are so cliché that we can pick the moment from or scene from older horror movies.

The Windmill Massacre's story and outcome start becoming kind of obvious, and grim, but as the film is progressing, you do hope that you might see something different.

In conclusion, like the ending of Charlie's Farm, it just really destroys a lot of the fabric of the film for me. You want to see something memorable or someone to end the cycle or be the difference that ends evil's reign. That's genuinely why people write stories from the perspective of the main character.

When everything seems to be going ok. A big 'F you' moment comes up five minutes toward the end and you are left feeling like it ruined the entire film.

All in all, I am not going to watch The Windmill Massacre again, or I couldn't recommend it, but amazingly enough, compared to what I have seen in second-grade horror, it does sit in the average category for me.

5/10.

Reminding me heavily of Reeker (2005) this neat little horror is well made but sadly makes very little sense.

Telling the story of a number of people who get aboard a tour of Holland but become stranded and under attack from an unseen enemy who seems to know their darkest secrets.

The idea is quite clever, the execution is solid but where it fails is the execution and wide quantity of plot holes and unexplained events.

I wanted to like this and was certainly impressed with the quality but just couldn't get past certain head scratching moments.

Perfectly watchable stuff but it is the very definition of take your brain out entertainment.

The Good:

Decent kills

Well made

The Bad:

Plenty of plot holes

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

When hiring a nanny employees will not do an extensive background check

That kid will need SO much therapy