The Invisible Man Movie Review

The Invisible Man is a 2020 horror movie directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Aldis Hodge.

Cecilia Kass(Moss) is a woman who lives with a very wealthy man called Adrian Griffin(Jackson-Cohen). He is a controlling and abusive man and she wants to leave. One night, she executes her plan and she leaves. Adrian tries to catch her as she leaves, but he fails. She finds out later that he has committed suicide. She is going to get five million dollars from him. She is living with a friend of hers called James Lanier(Hodge) and his daughter, Sydney. She has to go and meet Adrian's brother, Tom(Michael Dorman) to arrange the money. He says that he didn't like his brother either. She feels that she can move on with her life when strange things start to happen. Things move around and she gets drugged. There is something weird happening.

Cecilia begins to think that Adrian has something to do with it. She says that he was a genius in optics and that he was working on something that could make him invisible. She thinks that he is the one who is tormenting her, but they think that she is crazy. Someone writes a nasty email to her sister and this makes her turn her back on Cecilia. Someone hits Sydney also and this prompts James to take Sydney away. Cecilia looks around the house and she finds Adrian's phone in the attic. She senses that he is in the house and he really is there. He attacks her but she throws paint on him so she can see him. She goes back to the house that they shared and she finds his invisiblity suit. Now, she is sure that it is him. She goes to meet her sister, but someone slits her throat and drops the knife into Cecilia's hand so she is charged with the murder.

Cecilia ends up in a mental institution. She is also pregnant. She gets a visit from Tom who tells her that she can get out if she agrees to go back to Adrian. She realises that he helped his brother to frame her. She lures him out by pretending to kill herself. She runs off when he grabs her. He kills the staff at the hospital and chases her. The invisible man goes to get James and Sydney. Cecilia intervenes and she uses a fire extinguisher on him. It turns out that the figure was Tom. She knows that he conspired with the brother. Adrian is found at his house, tied up. He claims that Tom was the one who was responsible. Cecilia knows that this isn't true. Adrian claims that he was kidnapped and held by his demented brother. Cecilia decides that she has to catch him out so she agrees to meet him to talk. She realises that he hasn't changed and she goes to the bathroom. The camera catches her leaving and then it shows Adrian killing himself. Then she reappears and she is horrifed. She calls the cops. James wonders what happened and he spots an invisibility suit in her bag as she is leaving. He decides to let it go. It turns out that she took Adrian's spare suit and made herself invisible and killed him but the camera shows that he killed himself. She leaves happy that he is finally out of her life.

I liked this film. I think it is probably more of a thriller than a horror,but it had some creepy moments so I will let that go. I liked the story. It was interesting and I enjoyed this one. It is creepy that someone could be watching you and you can't see them. I liked the idea of that. All in all, this is a decent film with some good eerie scenes and tense moments. I recommend it and I will give it a 7/10.

Charlie's Farm Movie Review

Charlie's Farm is a 2014 Australian horror movie directed by Chris Sun, who also directed Boar. It stars Kane Hodder, Tara Reid and Bill Moseley.

The film begins with people who are hiding on a farm. They are getting picked off by someone. They all get killed. Cut to a group of friends who want to go on a roadtrip. They are Natasha(Reid), Melanie, Jason and Mick. Jason and Mick want to go to a haunted farm called Charlie's Farm. A family died in there. Natasha and Melanie don't know about their destination. They set off and the stop at a local pub to ask directions to the farm. A man called Blue lives in the area. Mick asks him about the farm. He tells them not to go there. He was there when the family was killed. The locals don't want people bringing it up. One of them tells them where to go and they leave. When the girls find out about where they are going, they are not happy. Natasha doesn't like it at all.

Mick tells the story of the family who lived on the farm. They were called John Wilson(Moseley) and his wife, Meredith. They were killers and cannibals. They had a son called Charlie and he watched as they murdered and ate people. The locals showed up at the farm. They were tired of what was going on. Blue was amongst them. They want the Wilson's to stop the killing. They shoot John dead. Meredith takes Charlie and that's all Mick knows about it. They call a friend of theirs called Tony(Hodder). He knows the area. He tells them that it is a bad place and that backpackers disappeared around there. He gives them directions. They reach it. They look around. It is a creepy place. Melanie finds a teddy bear. There is a flashback to Meredith and Charlie. She hides him while the locals catch her. They kill her as Charlie watches.

The group camps inside the house. Melanie wakes up at night and she sees a man. The next morning, two backpackers arrives. They are called Alyssa and Gordon. They talk to the group. Melanie realises that the teddy bear she found has gone. She tells them that there was a figure in the doorway last night. They think she was dreaming. Everyone sets off exploring.. Mick and Melanie finds a mineshaft. There is a terrible smell coming out of it. Gordon and Alyssa get killed. Tony is worried about the group. Mick and Melanie see Charlie(Nathan Jones) which is bad news for them. They end up dead. Natasha and Jason talk about Charlie and they hide. Tony shows up and he just happens to run into big bad Charlie. They have a fight. Jason sees and he tries to help but he gets killed. Tony gets killed by Charlie. Natasha is left and she has to run.

He catches her and she gets knocked out. She wakes up in a box in some sort of tunnel. She wanders around. There are loads of bodies in it. Charlie arrives and she hides from him. She manages to get out of the tunnel and the local guy Blue shows up. He has a gun with him. Of course, this isn't enough to stop the monstrous Charlie and Blue ends up joining the dead. Natasha grabs the gun and she shoots Charlie. She runs off and gets to Blue's truck. She isn't safe for long though. Charlie rises yet again and he impales her on the shotgun. She is taken to add to his collection of bodies in the tunnel.

This was a fun film. I liked the story of the farm and the cast weren't bad. The addition of Kane Hodder was welcome. Charlie himself is played by Australian former wrestler Nathan Jones who also showed up in Chris Sun's other movie, Boar. I liked that movie too. This is a decent movie with some gore. I enjoyed it overall and I certainly recommend it. I will give this a 6/10.

Houseboat Horror Movie Review

Houseboat Horror is a 1989 Australian horror movie directed by Kendal Flanagan and starring Alan Dale and Louise Siversen.

The film starts with a group of people who are going to shoot a video in a place called Lake Infinity. They pick up a hitchhiker who is going to meet up with her boyfriend. They drop her off and she meets a killer and is murdered. The group heads up to the lake. There are more people coming also. The killer is watching. They are renting houseboats. There is a local forest ranger guy who isn't happy about them wrecking the area. People have gone missing in the area before. The group consists of a rock band and their entourage. The forest ranger meets a sticky end at the hands of the killer. The killer had newspaper cuttings about a child who was burned on set by a film crew in an accident. He is very angry about it.

The band make their video and party. The killer is following them. He starts to get rid of members of the crew one by one. They meet a weird woman called Zelia(Siversen). She says that she heard them. She tells them that she was an actress and there was a fire on the set and people were burned. They think that she is crazy. The killer gets onto their boat and disconnects the radio so they can't call for help. They still have a two way phone and they call the person who rented them the boats. They tell him that some people are missing from their group. The killer doesn't stop and more die, one is killed with a horseshoe! It turns out that Zelia is working with the killer. Someone loses their phone, so the group are helpless. The killer starts his final assault. Bodies are piling up. He fails to kill two of the group and they escape as he falls into the water. The movie ends with the killers hand coming up from the water, so we know that he isn't dead.

Now, this film is very cheaply made, but it is actually not bad at all. I like Australian horror movies and this one was pretty decent. It is cheap, yes. The acting might not be up to much but the kills are actually good for such a low budget affair. I enjoyed this one. It isn't the best slasher film ever but it is certainly worth a watch if you enjoy Aussie horror, as I do. I recommend it and I will give it a 5/10.