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Full admission: I have never played the game so I cannot comment on how true it is to the source material. What I can comment on was how much I enjoyed this movie despite hearing only negative things about it. Until Dawn tries to straddle that genre line between horror and comedy that was so masterfully done by Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness.  We follow a group of friends, Clover, her ex-boyfriend Max, her pals Nina and Megan, and Nina's boyfriend, Abe. They are retracing the footsteps of Clover’s sister Melanie who had gone missing. They take shelter from a freak storm at a visitor centre in Glore Valley, an old mining town that fell victim to an earthquake in the past and is now a nature reserve.  While waiting out the storm, they find a notice board with the faces of various missing people and a guest book with their names, including Melanie. And that’s when strange things start to happen. The storm takes on a life of its own to prevent them from leaving, a giant beast ...

Tom Hardy’s Venom series of films comes to its conclusion with 2024’s VENOM: THE LAST DANCE. We see lovable loser Eddie Brock and his alien symbiote friend Venom on the run from the authorities following the events of the last movie LET THERE BE CARNAGE. Hunting this duo is also a threat from beyond the stars: a creature known as a xenophage which is the predator of Venom’s species.  Blindingly fast, able to leap into the stratosphere in a single bound and with a literal woodchipper mouth, this CGI mass of teeth and tentacles is only the first in an invading army. Something about venom having something in his genetic code that was never known before, that is needed to free some Knull character who we never heard of before. Which is kind of weird since this Knull is supposed to have been the creator of the symbiotes and Venom helped imprison him.   This is just one of the many frustrations I have with this “trilogy” as a whole. Each new entry was done by a different creati...