Nextflix Reviews - The Limehouse Golem

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I remember seeing adverts for this when it hit the cinemas and it looked pretty good to me so as soon as I saw it pop up on Netflix I watched it with my girlfriend. Set in Victorian London before the days when Jack the Ripper terrified the city there was another serial killer gripping the populace with fear and morbid fascination. They've been dubbed the Golem after the killer left a part of a Rabbi's anatomy on the page of a book in a section about the Jewish folklore creature of that name. 

Bill Nighy plays John Kildare, a vice detective moved to homicide as they are clueless, and need a scapegoat to shaft if the killer is not caught. Rumours about Kildare have damaged his reputation so he is chosen to take over the case and shoulder the blame. Assisted by local police man George Flood (Daniel Mays) they get an emphatic lead that points to the killer being one of 4 men.

This leads to another story altogether, one of the suspects John Cree has been murdered, poisoned, and the blame has been placed upon his wife Lizzie. Kildare is convinced that she killed her husband after discovering that he was the Golem and seeks to prove it so she can possibly avoid being executed once these extenuating circumstances come to light. Kildare and Flood follow through the clues, question the living suspects and through interviews with Lizzie, Kildare gets into her history finding out how she met John Cree.

This takes us into her story, from a harsh early life she manages to find a place and begins to thrive in the theatre. She meets and becomes good friends with Dan Leno a star in the music halls and is taken under his wing. John Cree is a theatre critic and aspiring playwright who becomes besotted with Lizzie. The historical story crosses over with the present day investigation as Kildare struggles to identify the killer as Lizzie's husband before she feels the cut of the hangman's noose.

I found this to be a very enjoyable movie, the actors are all excellent, the settings and plot are engrossing and there is a bit of gruesome murder too, so something for everyone. Erm... well not for kids though... obviously!

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Nextflix Reviews - Tau

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Julia, (Maika Monroe), awakens in a cell along with 2 other prisoners, all of them captured to be tested and experimented on by Alex, (Ed Skrein), a cold, enigmatic science genius who is working on perfecting artificial intelligence. Seemingly without morals or emotion, Alex has implanted devices into his captives necks that collects data from them that needs to be tested and eventually extracted, a process that will prove fatal. 

Julia manages to free herself from the cell but is still trapped in Alex's house which is full of high tech drones and a security robot that stops anyone from escaping. These are controlled by an earlier AI creation, Tau, who Alex commands to make Julia take on a series of mental tests every day when he is out of the house.

The company he works for are on a deadline and time is running out, he has only so many days to test and remove her implant. The countdown is on for her to try and escape before she dies. Her only chance of escape is to convince Tau the AI to help her. Can she find more humanity from a computer than she can from the emotionless Alex?

I don't want to give any spoilers so I'll leave this review like that, it's a good film though with a cool concept, decent script, good acting and it's well paced. There is some gore but it's more a sci-fi thriller with some good tense scenes than a horror. Can Julia convince Tau to go against it's programming and help her? What makes a person a person? 

I was surprised when looking at the cast to find that Gary Oldman voiced Tau, I certainly never recognised him.

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Also starring Maika Monroe

    

Nextflix Reviews - A series of Unfortunate Events

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I vaguely recall there was a film of this a good few years back now, with Jim Carrey I think, and I know this is based on a set of 13 children's books by the author Daniel Handler using the pen name of Lemony Snicket but I haven't read them at all, so I've no idea how closely the 2 series, so far, of this TV show mirrors them. 

The story is narrated by Lemony Snicket himself he provides exposition and links the 'events' together telling from a historical stand point. Along the way he promises that the outcome and fate of our young stars is one of perpetual doom. It follows the 3 talented Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and toddler Sunny who are orphaned due to a terrible fire that guts their family home. They are adopted at 1st by their evil distant relative Count Olaf a hammy actor and all round terrible human being who has a gang of strange followers in his theatrical entourage. He is aware of a sizable inheritance soon to come the children's way and plans to seize it for himself. The children manage to get away from him and are passed on to be fostered by a procession of quirky relatives all the while being pursued by Olaf and his cronies.

This is a world where the children are smart and capable and most of the adults are daft as brushes who can't see through the ever improbable disguises of the Count. For two seasons they've travelled around passed between friends of their parents and unlocking some secrets about their parents lives and a secret society they belonged to called The V.F.D., some agents of whom try to assist them whenever they can.

Along the way they also meet the two surviving Quagmire triplets Duncan and Isadora whose lives seem to strangely parallel their own in many aspects, they lost a sibling as well as their parents in a fire. They become allies helping each other out of terrible situations of the Count's making. 

The tone of the show is very dark and comic but very strange, I am probably not at the right age to get it, it kind of seems too dark for me I am surprised kids like it but then Grimm's fairy tales of old were a lot darker than we eventually watered them down to. So it seems kids can deal with darkness, discomfort and even death in their entertainment a lot more than I would've suspected!

The 1st two seasons of the show have aired on Netflix so far and have covered the tales from the 1st 9 books of the series. It's seen them visiting an outlandish set of scenarios and characters such as the world's most prestigious snake expert, a house tottering precariously on the edge of a cliff, a wood mill staffed by hypnotised workers, a frankly horrendous orphanage, the penthouse of a pair of trend obsessed millionaires, a village full of bird loving loons, a hideous hospital and a failing carnival that decides to hold a raffle to decide which one of their freaks to feed to the lions to boost trade!

At every step they are hounded by Olaf with the situation they are in seemingly getting grimmer and grimmer. They certainly are 'unfortunate' that's for sure. Season two ends with an almost literal cliffhanger which may well leave you gasping to see the 3rd and I assume final series as this is set to cover the last 4 books of the set.

For me it's not compulsive viewing really, it's something to have on but the wackiness of the characters and situations doesn't really tickle my funny bone. I suppose it must entertain on some level or I wouldn't have continued watching it. I will certainly watch the last season just to see what happens to the children, Narrator Snicket always suggests that their final fate will not be a happy one, with even the title music suggesting we 'look away' as the story is not a pretty one. I assume they'll be a happy conclusion after all their hardship but who knows what these crazy kids are into nowadays and how it will end!!

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Nextflix Reviews - Cargo

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I think this is the full-length version of a short film that was doing the rounds, being shared on Facebook a while back. It starts out with a couple Andy & Kay and their baby living in a house boat on the river in Australia. They are scavenging for supplies as they go with their only interaction with other people being when they float past a family who pull a gun and eye them warily. 

This is a zombie movie, they've done the escape to somewhere remote part already before the film starts and have it relatively safe now, but maybe they got too comfortable and complacent and disaster strikes. Something bites Kay and she has 48 hours before she turns, Andy desperately tries to get her to a hospital but things go from bad to worse. Andy is now left alone and is himself infected, he desperately has to seek a way to get his daughter Rosie to safety before he turns. 

He meets other people along the way, all eking out an existence in a pretty barren remote rural landscape. There are zombies around but not enough at 1st to seem like a major problem, Andy has to be more wary of the living as some may have a shoot the bitten on sight policy. He is advised by a school teacher to leave Rosie with a mob of aboriginal people who have deserted the towns to go back to the old ways, away from the sickness that has overtaken civilisation.

As so often happens in these movies the living often prove to be as big a threat as the dead, with Andy having to avoid both on occasions whilst also trying to fight off his descent into zombiedom! It's a countdown all the way, can he find a safe haven for his child before he decides to have her for lunch? He does find an ally along the way, Thoomi an aboriginal girl and they have to learn to trust and help each other to get by.

This stars Martin Freeman of Sherlock, Hobbit and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame in the sort of role that I wouldn't expect to see him in, mind you he's in that film Ghost Stories too which is meant to be pretty scary and it's definitely on my one to watch list.

This film is a good story, but it doesn't really feel like that much of a horror, the zombies hardly ever get close enough to be that perilous it seems. The tension doesn't get ramped up as high as I imagined it would be either, I imagined Andy would be struggling hard with not eating Rosie but he never even gets close to it. Overall a cool enough movie but I think it missed a trick or two along the way.

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Other films starring Martin Freeman

   

Nextflix Reviews - Killer Mermaid

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My horror movie howler sense is going off like crazy as I start to play this movie. It's probably going to be a stinker I reckon, all the actors have Eastern European names, so no stars I've heard of and one of the main sponsors/backers (I don't know what they are you know them company names that come up before the movie starts), is Jerry's Catering! They must have pumped some money in as their logo is on a speedboat they use and is focused on as the boat pulls out. Product placement? Kind-of!

Doing a bit of research this 2014 movie seems to be sometimes known as Killer Mermaid singular and sometimes plural and it also seems to be known as Mamula and also Nymph.

It actually starts off reasonably OK, like every horror should with a double death. A guy leaps into the sea seemingly enticed by what I assume is a mermaid's siren call and goes under the waves, his panicked girlfriend beseeches what looks like a fisherman for help and he kills her with an anchor through the neck, so it's not just the mermaid who is killer in this movie.

We're then introduced to 2 women Kelly & Lucy who are meeting with their old school friend Alex and his fiancé Yasmin and we have to put up with some boring catching up, getting to know you sequences. We see Kelly & Alex re-ignite a past spark behind Yasmin's back, they also spot a creepy fisherman, (who may be the killer), and make a good joke/horror reference to the "I know What You Did Last Summer" franchise. We've not seen any mermaids yet but we do see another murder, a drunk guy get's anchor hooked in mid-piss, poor fella. They meet up with Boban and they make plans to go visit an old military fortress on an island called Mamula, an old man Niko overhears their plans and warns them against going, telling of the fortress's past as a Nazi concentration camp and also speaks of the Scylla who he claims once took and ate six of his crew, although it sounds like he is quoting a poem when he says this. Is Niko the fisherman we've seen killing 2 people now? 

Needless to say in traditional horror movie fashion they ignore his warning and go to the island where they find out that the fisherman is already at the island and now they've arrived he won't let them leave, alive! He bursts their dinghy stranding them and proceeds to hunt them down. Is he the only danger on the island though or does something else lurk there?? (It's not much of a spoiler really, after all look at the title of the movie!)

Despite my initial thoughts it's not a bad movie, there is a bit of good gore, some reasonable CGI, creature make-up and the acting is not too bad but it's far from memorable, it won't make anybody's all time favourite list at all. I suppose it's a unique enough idea for a film with the cast running from a mad man with an anchor whilst also trying to resist the siren call of the flesh eating Scylla.

In Greek mythology Scylla is one of two monsters that live either side of a narrow strait, the other being Charybdis, they lived just an arrows range from each other. There is an idiom about being between Scylla & Charybdis meaning to escape or steer clear of one peril you may venture too close to the other. I kept wondering if they'd run into Charybdis in their flight from Scylla, you'll have to watch the film yourself to find out what happens.

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Movie Review - Vixen (The Movie)

Vixen was created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner and debuted in July 1981 in Action Comics #521. As I mentioned in my video I didn't think she'd ever had her own run of books. It was intended to give her a series at one point when she 1st emerged but it was forced to be cancelled. 

She has featured primarily in team books such as The Justice League and The Suicide Squad. I can't recall her from Suicide Squad at all but it seems she joined them initially to get revenge on a murderous smuggler then when she was struggling to control her animal side she stayed on a more long term basis, she also had a romance with the Bronze Tiger, (a long time squad member), for a time.

In 2008 she had a 5-issue mini-series called Vixen: Return of the Lion which chronicles her 1st return to her home village where she confronts the warlord who killed her mother and has since taken over several Zambesi villages.

I did a bit of research now on this and found that indeed this DVD is made up of 2 season's of a web series that streamed on CW's online viewing platform with 15 minutes of added footage and a couple of her appearances from Justice League Unlimited and a featurette as added DVD extras. Each season ran for 6 episodes of 4 - 7 minutes in length which you think might make it seem a bit jumbled being compressed together on one DVD as a full length film but it works fine I think.

Cover art of Justice League of America: Vixen #1 (January 2017).
Art by Ivan Reis.

It is set in the Arrowverse which is the name given to the DC TV shows continuity which air on the CW network. The original cast members of The Arrow & Flash TV shows turn up many times in the cartoon and are voiced by the actors who portray them in the live action versions. So we see guest star outings from Flash, Arrow, Felicity, Cisco, Atom & Black Canary. Also as I am not at all caught up on the live action franchises I did not know that Mari McCabe/Vixen has also got a live action version, played by Megalyn Echikunwoke, (who also provides her voice for this film),  she looks very much ideal for the part going by this picture of her.

She has so far only appeared in 1 episode from Arrow season 4 but an ancestor of the character was played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers in season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow. I must have seen that I am sure but forgotten about it as Mr Memory is NOT my superhero name!!

Amaya Jiwe is Mari McCabe's grandmother

Another bonus with the DVD is that it comes with a digital download on Ultraviolet so you can watch it on your devices on the go. I've got quite a catalogue of Super films on my Flixster account now, I just wish they all came with that option.

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Nextflix Reviews - American Horror Story

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This is another cool show that's well worth watching on Netflix. It has six seasons ready and waiting for your viewing pleasure. Each season is an ongoing story arc with a different horror tale to tell. In order the seasons are Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, Hotel & Roanoke. It is unique show as far as I am aware as there is a regular ensemble cast over most of the seasons who play different roles from season to season. Only two of the cast have appeared in every season Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson, the latter was a medium in series 1, a gay writer consigned to an asylum in 2, the headmistress of a school for witches in 3, conjoined twins in 4, the ghost of a dead junkie in 5 and an actress starring in a documentary re-enactment show in 6. Series 7: Cult, which I am sure I heard is based on the US elections, has been released although it's not on Netflix yet. If it's anything like the 6 series I have seen so far it should prove to be most interesting and entertaining. Series 8 & 9 have also been confirmed and will be set in the future apparently!! 

Other reoccurring cast members include excellent turns from Angela Bassett, Jessica Lange and Kathie Bates who act their socks off as various larger than life characters. The plots are all twisting and turning and full of memorable and crazy characters. I will give a quick synopsis of each season but so much goes on in each of them that you need to see it for yourself really. 

Murder House is your basic , (although it's far from basic really), haunted house story. A family moves into a house with a bloody past and have to suffer due to it's history both from the living and the spirits of the murderers and the victims that presided there.

Asylum, set in the 60's, is the story of a writer who goes into a run-down insane house for a story and ends up stuck there and sees all the deprivation and depravity that occurs within it's walls. It features subplots of mad doctors, possession and alien abduction of all things!! There is even a random big song and dance number that is truly surreal.

Coven tells of a school of witches that has existed in New Orleans  since escaping there after fleeing from the Salem Witch trials and has a long and chequered history. The current small crop of students are a disparate lot with petty differences all looking to graduate. Their supreme witch returns suddenly to upset the status quo and to facilitate her own personal agenda.

Freak Show is set in the 50's and tells of a struggling travelling group of freaks and their trials and tribulations. There is murder afoot as well with 3 separate outside forces set on targeting people from the show and in the surrounding town. Foremost of these forces is a killer clown named Twisty.

The Hotel of the 5th season is inhabited with vampires and serial killers and their victims and ghosts of serial killers and their victims and a transgender bartender! Lady Gaga won awards playing as The Countess a vampires who lives in the penthouse.

Roanoke is the filming of a re-enactment of a haunting event for a TV programme called My Roanoke Nightmare. The cast filming the re-enactment are plagued by their own horrors similar to those that affected the people they're portraying. With cannibal locals, Celtic witch goddesses and ghostly residents of the historic Roanoke settlement hounding them they'll be lucky if they get out alive.

As horror goes it's not really overly gory or horrific I don't find, it's kind of teen level horror I'd say PG-13 or something but maybe I am numb to it after 40 odd years of watching horror movies. it's been a while since I watched it now but I'm pretty sure there's a fair bit of nudity so probably don't go showing it to your kids.

Most series run for 12/13 episodes and sometimes the stories do have a sense of being a little dragged out with extra elements seemingly thrown in to prolong the story but I don't mind that really as the over the top craziness is great fun as far as I'm concerned. 

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Nextflix Reviews - Before I Wake

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Mark & Jessie a couple who lost their own child adopt another, Cody, who's had an unfortunate life. He lost his mother and then has been in a string of foster homes with not much success even being abandoned by one couple to fend for himself. He's a sweet kid and the couple soon take to him and he seems to be settling in nicely.

There is something a little odd though, we soon learn that he has an odd fear of sleeping, using stimulants to keep him awake. It seems that his dreams have effects in the real world, he has psychic powers or something that makes his sleeping visions manifest. When he does sleep for the 1st time it's beautiful as he dreams of butterflies much to the wonderment of Mark & Jessie. Later he dreams of Tate, the child they lost which seems like a miracle to them helping to aid them with the healing process perhaps although Mark thinks Jessie is taking advantage of Cody to see her son again causing a little friction between them.

The visions he projects soon start to take on a more sinister turn, as he has dark dreams, where his own personal nightmare, the Canker Man turn ups. Can his new family keep him safe from this terrible apparition, can they themselves survive it?

I thought this was a decent film, with an interesting premise and some nice chills, the acting and effects were good and the explanation tied it up very well at the end. It's only a 15 so don't expect it to trigger too many nightmares itself unless you are squeamish, although just because it's not super gory at all perhaps the concept of it might just makes your own dreams a little uneasy.

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Nextflix Reviews - Plan Z

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Yet another zombie movie, there are so many, I assume it's because anyone can make them almost with a bit of make-up and a few cameras. There are so many about, with greatly varying levels of budget and quality from mega-budget movies like World War Z to ones like Colin reputedly made for like £30 or something like that!! This one comes from Scotland and seems to be very much from the cheaper end of the market but you know how it can be with films sometimes you instantly think, "Oh this is worthless crap" or you think "hmmm this looks like it might be alright!" I kind of expected to think the former straight away but this actually isn't too bad. It's not mass over the top action, one guy, Craig gets the heads up about what is happening and has his Plan Z of what to do in a zombie outbreak. First off hoard some supplies and wait it out, then once the chaos dies down a bit venture out to a quiet, secluded place to set up a safe haven. He see his neighbours die but bides his time before eventually venturing out and finding another living person, Bill, who he lets into his home and tells him his plan.

There's a lot of sitting around chatting and agonising and blurry long shots of zombies, I suppose to keep the make-up budget down. It's pretty minimalist and quiet to start off with, Bill remembers back to the start of the zombie outbreak hiding in a restaurant toilet while his girlfriend and other patrons are eaten outside. There's a lot more fear and anticipation of zombies attacking rather than any actual undead action. Later on when they venture out to seek sanctuary the action hots up slightly although the story jumps forward in time suddenly which is a bit unusual, one moment they are meeting with a new person the next they are in a group surrounded and desperate.

Long story short, it's pretty low budget but it's far from the worst movie I've seen, the atmosphere of fear is quite cool and the character interaction feels real for the situation they are in. The zombie fighting sequences could have a bit more tension and gore maybe but more than likely the budget didn't stretch too far for that. I think they did a reasonable job actually, it won't be a film that will live long in the memory but it was enjoyable enough to watch at the time as they played to their strengths.

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Nextflix Reviews - Toast of London

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This is an absurd comedy with protagonist Steven Toast (Matt Berry) who is a hammy luvvy actor (and a bit of a twit), going about his days looking for new work, doing voice overs, starring in the worst play ever produced and looking for sexy lady time whilst getting into all manner of surreal scrapes. Stuff like losing at poker to Andrew Lloyd Webber and having Michael Ball set on him, spontaneously self-combusting publicists, dog-napping for mental movie stars, murderous theatre producers, blow-football with prostitutes, laxative ads, cyclopean directors, Bruce Forsyth plastic surgery cock-ups, joining the Masons, possessed house guests and nuclear subs. Every show features an impromptu music number as well which are just odd.

Regular recurring characters include homophobic fellow actor Ray "bloody" Purchase and his wanton wife (who Toast is nobbing regularly and often getting caught in the act); his bonkers agent Jane Plough who always finds him terrible jobs; his house mate Ed Howzer-Black; his stuffy chauvinist army brother Blair and Clem Fandango & the guys in the voiceover sound booth who seem to like messing with him.

Originally broadcast on Channel 4 all 3 seasons, (19 episodes) of this daft but funny show are available to stream now on Netflix. A fourth season has been hinted at but not confirmed at all yet.

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Nextflix Reviews - The Outsider

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This film stars Jared Leto of not so popular Joker in Suicide Squad fame as Nick, The Outsider a westerner or gaijin, in the world of Japanese mobsters set in a post WWII era. He starts out in prison, we never get to find out how he came to be in the prison or much about his past at all really, apart from one small scene later in the movie. Whilst there he does a favour for a Yakuza member, Kiyoshi and is welcomed into the fold upon release. It soon becomes apparent he has a violent streak in him which makes him fit right in with his new associates, although as an American in post-war Japan and not having a vested interest in the Shirumatso family many of them do not really appreciate his presence. Kiyoshi perhaps feels an obligation towards him as he helped him in prison.

The pace of the movie is pretty slow in the main and the dialogue is quite minimal but it is far from boring. The movie charts his progress trying to gain acceptance, with mixed success, into his new family life among his new brothers learning their harsh rules and customs. The 4 watch words being honour, respect, loyalty and obedience all to the backdrop of a long running animosity with another family which slowly builds to a head where that code is tested.

Much of the dialogue is in Japanese so prepare for a lot of reading and they also do a lot of talking with their fists, knives, swords & guns too so expect a lot of blood and violence. I really thought it was a good film, two hours well spent.

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Nextflix Reviews - I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

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Lily (Ruth Wilson) is a private palliative nurse caring for an elderly patient Iris Blum (Paula Prentiss) who is in her final months and wishes to die in her own home rather than in an institution. Blum was an author in her younger days and is confused, calling Lily "Polly" which is the name of one of the characters from her most well known book, The Lady in the Walls. Whilst staying in the quiet house the nervous Lily who is timid and easily scared begins to suspect the house is haunted. She begins reading Blum's book despite knowing she is normally too scared for such things.

The book claims to have been narrated to Blum in 1960 by Polly herself a former tenant of the house who has been dead some 100 years or more and somehow I guess communicates her tale from the other side. The mystery as to what befell Polly is not cleared up in the book as Polly seems to not remember just what fate became her. This film doesn't really have any surprises in it, the only surprising thing is how could such a nervously inclined woman ever become a nurse? I swear she'd be scared by a bedpan she's so wet!

As I put this film on I quickly realised that I had watched it before sometime, it was so familiar but I guess it just wasn't that memorable at all as I had to watch it again to remind myself. I can see why it never stuck in my mind, it is so slow, it tries to create atmosphere but rather than creating any dread or feeling of foreboding or mystery the pace of it just had me pondering what to watch next. If you want scares, or any sort of horror then this probably isn't for you. If you can handle glacially slow quiet brooding but ultimately not much happening films than give it a watch. For me the most interesting facets about this movie are it's title and the fact that Paula Prentiss was 2nd lead in the original The Stepford Wives, the old classic sci-fi movie from 1975. Also the director Osgood is the son of Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame. That's just 2 films you'd probably be better off watching than this one in my opinion.

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Nextflix Reviews - Happy!

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So many people have been telling me to watch this or posting up encouraging comments about it on Facebook that I had to check it out. It's based on comics by Grant Morrison who I have to admit I'm not a massive fan of. I know he's very popular and lots of people think his work is marvellous but I never really got on with his stuff that greatly. I don't hate it at all I just don't find it as fantastic as many people seem to. Thinking about it, I think I find his non-superhero comics to be pretty cool but when he does super hero comics I find his plots convoluted. I've not read the original source comics of this show at all but knowing how comics to movie/TV show conversions normally go I wouldn't be surprised if they are twice as mental as this is.

So Nick is a washed up, alcoholic ex-cop turned hitman, he's a total mess but he's still a smart-mouthed bad arse. He gets on the wrong side of the local mob guys as they think he has a password they want. Also his daughter Hailey, that he never knew existed, is abducted by a mad Santa. Lucky for her she has an imaginary friend a blue flying Unicorn called Happy. Happy finds Nick at just the right point, he's had the right amount of drugs that night or his dodgy ticker and getting shot has put him close enough to death to be able to see an imaginary being. The science (?) doesn't matter, it happens deal with it! What follows is a violent, funny, whacky journey as Happy persuades Nick to help him and they fight through mobsters whilst trying to track down Hailey in a world of strange and disturbing kinky weirdness. Along the way he meets up again with his ex-wife Amanda and his ex-partner and also ex-lover Meredith.

This is essentially a buddy cop drama, with two parties with wildly different approaches and it could also have been done as a programme for kids. This is NOT aimed for kids though nope, not at all. Nick has a lot of enemies and he seems to be always outnumbered but manages to fight his way through them in very hands on bloody ways. 

The original comics are just a 4 issue run, this series is 8 episodes long and a 2nd season has been commissioned. There were pointers as to where the series will be going in the 2nd season and it could be interesting. This 1st season was a fun watch, but I wonder if it really has enough legs for a 2nd run. I think they covered all the possible jokes about imaginary friends in this one but I will definitely check it out when it arrives and I hope they'll be able to prove me wrong.

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