Horror october #3
Oct. 3rd, 2017 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beer_good_foamyLittle Evil, another recent Netflix original. Adam Scott of Parks & Rec and The Good Place plays a guy who's coming to realise that his brand-new stepson isn't just having issues with the new man in his mother's life, but is actually genuinely the Antichrist. So now he may have to kill a six-year-old to save the world, and explain it to his wife as well. Basically a comedy version of The Omen, school uniform and all.
This was certainly a lot more fun than yesterday's movie, and there are definitely things here that work. I just wish it had gone just a little more over the top; as it is it feels a bit too much like a 90s Steve Martin movie (as opposed to an 80s Steve Martin movie) with some added horror elements. And no Steve Martin, even if the cast isn't bad (Clancy Brown!). For all the hellfire in the plot, the whole thing is just a bit on the lukewarm side. But, y'know, entertaining and a good game of spot-the-movie-reference.
I really feel like a classic tomorrow, though.
This was certainly a lot more fun than yesterday's movie, and there are definitely things here that work. I just wish it had gone just a little more over the top; as it is it feels a bit too much like a 90s Steve Martin movie (as opposed to an 80s Steve Martin movie) with some added horror elements. And no Steve Martin, even if the cast isn't bad (Clancy Brown!). For all the hellfire in the plot, the whole thing is just a bit on the lukewarm side. But, y'know, entertaining and a good game of spot-the-movie-reference.
I really feel like a classic tomorrow, though.
