We are 258 days away from Halloween and to celebrate, we have a special episode of the show for all of you as I checked out the latest indie horror film Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey which was directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and it stars Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Craig David Dowsett, and many more.
To check out what I thought about the film, please check out the podcast version, but please be aware that there are going to be spoilers. You can check out the podcastby visiting these links: Amazon, Anchor, Spotify, Stitcher, Pandora
Check out the Podcast version with spoilers by visiting these links: Amazon, Anchor, Spotify, Stitcher, Pandora. One aspect of horror that has always intrigued me more as a child was the idea of something being based or inspired by a true story. We know that when they based or inspired, it means they don’t completely know everything that happened, but they have enough source material to recreate what they believed happened hence why it always says based on a true story. That is definitely the case with the film that I chose for today which is available on Amazon Prime called Smiley Face Killers. The film stars Ronen Rubinstein (Orange Is The New Black) as troubled but very handsome college student Jake Graham, who believes that he is going insane as he rightfully feels he is being stalked by someone or something, but none of his friends believe him while college students are disappearing everywhere and later found dead in the ocean. The film also stars Mia Serafino (Zeroville) as Keren, Amadeus Serafini (Scream: The TV Series) as Gabriel, Crispin Glover (Back To The Future) as Hooded Figure, Ashley Rickards (Awkward.) as Alana, Garrett Coffey (Manson’s Lost Girls) as Adam, Cody Simpson (Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2) as Jake, Daniel Covin (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as Devon, Rachel Crowl (And Then There Was Eve) as Woman Killer, and the film was directed by Tim Hunter (River’s Edge) and it was written by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
First, the thing that attracted me to the film was the fact that they said it was written by the man behind American Psycho and directed by the man behind River’s Edge. River’s Edge is one of my favorite 80’s films and American Psycho is just legendary so of course I was going to check this out. There is a whole theory out there called the Smiley Face Killer theory that was developed by a former police officer who was making connections between all of these deaths that were made to look like suicides and the fact that smiley fasces were spray painted at every sight which authorities turned down the idea and immediately just ruled it all suicides even though all of the people dying were predominantly white males in college who were believed to be good looking. That is one factor that makes this film all that much creepier is whether there were killers or not and how they were never caught. That will leave chills running down your spine and the film definitely tried to capitalize on the idea. They did a pretty decent job, but the fact of the matter is this van has been following you everywhere and for almost the whole entire film you are clueless that it’s even there? That was one of the things I found hard to believe because I am always weary of my surroundings and that’s horror 101. The opening sequence is pretty gruesome and the film flows a little slow, but when the last 20 minutes of the film are pretty intense. I think it’s worth checking out so I am going to give the film an B for a final grade.
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