The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Movie Review.

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is a 2021 horror movie and the third film in the Conjuring series. It is directed by Michael Chaves and stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.

We are already familiar with The Warrens so this is a continuation of their investigations into paranormal activities. This time, they are at a house where a child is possessed by a demon. He stabs his father in the leg. A priest arrives and the Warrens tell him to exorcise the kid. The demon is strong and he almost takes Ed(Patrick Wilson). Lorraine is affected by this. The demon goes from the boy who is called David, into his sister's boyfriend, Arne(Ruairi O'Connor), who is also there. Cut to Ed, who is in hospital after the ordeal. He has had a heart attack. He knows that the Devil has gotten Arne. Arne is acting strangely and he is also seeing things. Arne murders his landlord by stabbing him twenty two times. He claims that he was possessed when he did it. He is caught and arrested and put into prison, The Warrens believe that he was possessed when he committed murder.

David and his family move into a new house. David is almost pulled into his bed by something. Lorraine Warren(Farmiga) looks around David's house and finds a totem. Ed tells her that David and his family are cursed by it. They visit a retired priest called Kastner(John Noble). They show him the picture of the totem and he shows them his collection of satanic items. Arne continues to see things in prison. The Warrens speak to a homicide detective and he tells them that he has seen the totem before. He tells them about a case of two girls who went missing. The relic turned up at one of their houses. He is looking for a girl called Jessica. The other girl is dead.

Lorraine has a vision and she sees the two girls. She sees one girl kill the other. She tells the police that Jessica fell into the river. They find the body. The homicide detective believes that Lorraine can see things. She and Ed break into the morgue and Lorraine touches the dead body but she doesn't feel anything strange. She is looking for the person who placed the curse. She sees the woman in a vision. The woman tries to make Arne kill himself but Lorraine stops her. Lorraine visits Kastner and he reveals that he has a daughter, Isla. This was prohibited by his vows as priest but he raised her anyway. She had a fascination with the occult. He tells her that there are tunnels under his house and maybe her lair is in there. They need to destroy her altar to break the curse. Isla shows up and she kills the priest.

Lorraine finds the altar. She tries to destroy it. Ed figures out where she is and goes to help her. Isla catches Lorraine trying to destroy her altar. Ed turns up and finds her. Lorraine hits Isla with a rock but she manages to get control of Ed and tries to get him to kill Lorraine. It doesn't work and Ed smashes her altar. He saves himself, Lorraine and Arne. The demon arrives and it takes Isla's soul. All is well.

There is a scene at the end where Ed puts a cup he got from Isla's altar into their museum along with their other creepy objects. We find out that Arne serves a short term in prison and marries his girlfriend. 

He is apparently back to normal.

This was a pretty good film. I didn't think that it was as good as the first film or the second. Saying that, I liked it. These films are always quite good. If you enjoyed the other two, then you will enjoy this. The acting is fine. The story is interesting and there is enough to keep you entertained. I will give this a 6/10.

Edge of the Axe Movie Review

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Edge of the Axe is a 1989 horror movie directed by Jose Ramon and starring Barton Faulks and Christina Marie Lane.

The film opens with a woman being killed at the carwash. Cut to a woman who is alone in her house. She has a farm with pigs. She finds a pigs head in her bed. Her husband goes to the Sheriff about it but he isn't interested. A man called Gerald(Faulks) and Richard(Page Moseley), an exterminator,are going to investigate a bad smell coming from the cellar in a bar. They go down and they find the remains of a local woman. The cops come and take her away. The Sheriff doesn't seem too worried about it. He says that Paddock is a quiet town. Gerald meets a girl called Lillian(Lane) and she likes computers, just like Gerald. A local woman is murdered and her body is found on train tracks. The Sheriff thinks that it was an accident at first. He asks questions around town and he talks to a man called Broderick who slept with the dead woman.

Gerald gives Lillian his computer. Another woman meets her end. Gerald has a list of the murdered women on his computer. The lady who has a pig farm gets killed and one her pig's heads is put in her bed. Richard is with a woman called Susan on the lake when they discover a severed head. The killer is after another local woman and the Sheriff has no clues. Lillian tells Gerald about a cousin of hers called Charlie. She pushed him off a swing when they were children and he was brain damaged afterwards.

He ended up in a mental institution but he was released. Lillian worries that he will come and get revenge on her. She looks for information on him. She wonders if he might be the one killing women in Paddock.

Richard's wife, Laura, is the next to meet the killer. Lillian is home alone and she hears noises. It turns out that Gerald is there. She accuses him of being the killer. He turns it around and says that she is the one who was hit on the head as a child and who was in a psychiatric hospital. She denies it and the two end up fighting. She has an axe and she tries to kill him. he chases her and they run outside where the cops are pulling up. They see Gerald chasing her and they shoot him dead. Lillian makes out that she is a victim and they believe her. They pin the murders on Gerald as Lillian smiles...

This was an entertaining film. It wasn't as good as I had hoped but there were some good moments.

I thought that it would be better. There are some twists and turns but the ending wasn't great. I liked it but it is a middle of the road slasher, in my opinion. I will give it a 5/10.

Mardi Gras Massacre Movie Review

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Mardi Gras Massacre is a 1978 horror movie directed by Jack Weis and starring Curt Dawson and William Metzo.

A man approaches two ladies. He says that he is new in the city and he wants something different. He has a lot of money. He asks them who is the most evil girl in the bar. They tell him that a hooker called Shirley is. He says that he has a place and he offers Shirley two hundred dollars to come with him. She can't turn that down so she goes to his place. He orders her to strip and he ties her to a special table. He dresses up in robes and he pours oil on her. He tells her that he will sacrifice her. He kills her. Her body is discovered and the cops are called. The coroner tells them that it is a ritual killing. The cops ask the bartender about it. He tells the cops that she gave him some money to hold for her. They talk to a pal of Shirley's and she tells them that the guy had an unusual ring.

The investigating cop is Sergeant Frank Hebert(Dawson). He meets another hooker called Sherry and he has dinner with her. He also sleeps with her. The killer, John(Metzo) picks up another lady and he kills her. Frank has another case to investigate. The killer goes to pick up yet another girl but he gets in a fight with her pimp and he stabs the guy. He decides to visit a different bar. He meets another pimp who offers him one of his girls. She goes with him to her place but he decides that he likes her and she doesn't deserve to die. He tells her to go, but she won't. He is annoyed so he kills her. The cops are under pressure. Mardi Gras is coming up and they worry that the killer will strike again. They scour the bars. This time, the killer wants three girls and he is going to kill them on Mardi Gras. Frank is in the crowd but so is the killer. He takes three girls and one of them just happens to be Sherry.

The three girls are drugged. Frank goes to the bar and asks the bartender about Sherry. He tells him that the same guy was there and he took Sherry and two other girls with him.  Frank finds out where the guy lives and he has cops and firemen with him. They break in and they find the girls. The killer runs off. The cops chase him. He takes a cop car and he ends up driving it into the river. The cops don't find a body, just his ritual mask.

This film isn't great. It has some bad acting and the plot is a bit silly. I can't say that it was terrible, though. It was entertaining in some ways. It is worth a look if you enjoy low budget horror films plus this was termed as a 'video nasty'!! I will give it a 4/10.

The Last Slumber Party Movie Review

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The Last Slumber Party is a 1988 horror movie directed by Stephen Tyler and starring nobody you would know.

A man dresses up as a doctor and he kills a teenager. The cops come. A group of teens want to have a party. They want to have it at Linda's house. Cut to the killer doctor who murders a nurse at a mental institution. Linda's dad is a doctor. The party is in full swing. Some boys show up. Linda's dad has to work at night at the hospital so the teens are alone. The killer doctor is wandering around Linda's house.  The guys are going to scare the girls. One of them climbs up the window and the doctor kills him. The killer makes his way through the teens.

Linda's mother tells the teens that they have to go to bed. There is some weird dream scene that makes no sense. One of the girls, Chris wakes during the night. She wakes the others. Someone is calling the house. It is the dad. Bodies are turning up all over the house. Linda gets stabbed. Chris finds two guys dead and she wanders around the house while the killer follows her. You would think that she would head for the door, but no, she just wanders around. She does get a knife, though. She doesn't call the cops or go for help. She stabs one of the guys by mistake, but it doesn't seem to worry her too much. The killer doctor comes along with his eyes bulging, looking all menacing and crazy. Chris goes back to get another knife. WHAT!!! She actually starts to wander around again. I think this girl needs to die for being so stupid.

The killer finds her and holds up his scalpel and stares at it. How scary. Chris looks at her knife too. Is it a duel??? She stabs the doctor and doesn't seem too bothered. Suddenly, she falls, for NO REASON.

Linda's dad returns home. The killer doc is carrying bodies around the house. The dad gets a call about a psychiatric patient who has escaped. He has to go back to the hospital. Chris is alive. She continues wandering around. Linda's dad gets murdered.  Linda's dad is floating in the pool. Chris gets killed(finally). Oh, yes. It is a dream. WHAT. It turns out that it has been a dream, but oh no, then the phone rings and Linda finds out that there is an escaped patient wandering around. She goes outside and the killer doc slips inside the house. He gets Linda. There is a scream as the doctor holds up his scalpel.

What to say about this. Hmm. It was bad, really bad. The story was stupid. A lot of things made no sense. Why was that girl wandering around the house when she could have run off. There were so many stupid things happening and then it is all a dream. Silly. It was all over the place. The acting was terrible. It is just a mess, totally. Avoid. I will give it a 2/10.