I second watching Skinamarink alone in the dark. The thing with Skinamarink is that you will either be absoutley terrified or bored out of your mind, no in-between.

As the world's number one M3gan fan, I saw M3gan 2.0 day one in the theater. I definitely enjoyed it, it was really fun, but I do not understand how Blumhouse thought it was going to be a success. The horror elements contrasted with the comedy were what brought people to the first one and basically dropping horror all together was obviously going to turn a lot of people away. The first one also had the benefit of less competition due to releasing in January, and I think they really overestimated M3gan 2.0's potential as a summer movie. The being said, it had alright action, the characters were still very fun, and it had some jokes that I genuinely loved (especially the random Steven Segal bit). Normally based on how poorly it performed I would not expect another sequel, but there is a spin-off called Soulm8te that is pretty far in to production which Blumhouse might use to gauge if there is any interest at all left in the property, so maybe if that does well there's a chance for more M3gan. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

I've watched a lot of movies since my last message, so I'll try to go through them really quick. I watched Brain Damage, an exploitation b-movie from the 80s about an evil parasite that takes over a guy's body and gives him drugs so he can use him the eat people's brains. The parasite is a puppet named Aylmer who I love very much. It's a lot of fun aside from an unfortunate sexual assault "joke", but that's just how 80s exploitation often is. Next I watched Them!, a monster movie from the 50s about giant ants. It came out in the same year as Godzilla and is also about the results of nuclear warfare, so it is difficult not to compared them, which definitely doesn't do Them! any favors. Still, it was pretty enjoyable. I feel like both of those movies are ones that you basically already know whether or not you'd like them based on their descriptions.

I saw an early screening of Shelby Oaks, which if you don't know is the new movie made by youtube movie reviewer Chris Stuckmann. It was bad. I didn't know how long it was going in, and there was a point in the movie where I thought "okay, this has been pretty bad so far but now it's actually going in a direction I kind of like, they may be able to pull off an okay third act" And literally right as I thought that the credits started.

Next I watched the two Rob Zombie Halloween remakes. The first one was kind of interesting when it approached it from the angle of "Micheal was only a child when he killed his sister and was sent to a mental institution. No matter how dangerous he may have been, that can't have helped him mentally" but then it becomes a normal Halloween movie and goes downhill fast. The second one is not perfect, but it keeps more of it's compelling ideas throughout the movie unlike the first. It's also only like half handheld footage instead of almost the whole movie like the first, which is much less distracting.

I finally saw Him, and everyone else is wrong about this movie. No, it is not subtle, but it's message is still interesting and it delivers it in a way I found very effective. And it doesn't spell everything out for you, just a lot of the themes regarding religion and football culture. There's still a lot to dig into regarding obsession, race, and a lot of other things. It was also just really good at building a tense atmosphere. The ending was a little silly, but that just felt to me more like a welcome release from all of that tension. I very much recommend it, especially if you're someone who's been around a lot of football culture.

The last things I watched were Intruder and Dead and Buried, two 80s b-movies with some incredible effects. Intruder was very fun and completely filled with tons of great practical effects for each kill. Dead and Buried had a lower quantity of effects, but they were all fantastic. One of them is now probably one of my favorite effects shots of all time now. I'd mention other things, but really the effects are the main reason to watch both of these movies. I'm going to stop talking about them now because I've already used the word "effects" 5 times now.

Over the next two days I'll be watching some vampire movies, so I'll see how those are and probably write another huge message in like a week.