Movies seen in 2025

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Renfield (2023) - It's okay. Nicolas Cage has some good lines and funny faces. For some reason though the movie has this whole plot about the mob and the cop and her dead dad that takes up a lot of time and would have been better with more scenes of Renfield and Dracula together. Feels like a lot was cut from it. I can tell these things. There's some funny over the top gory action bits. It's fine. Could have been better.

 

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Heretic (2024) - Horror/thriller (I don't know how they're classed) where two young Mormons missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) end up trapped in the house of a maniac determined to break their faith (a fantastic Hugh Grant in his best performance since Paddington 2.) I liked it a lot: the three leads are excellent together and it's extremely tense all the way through. Some really long scenes of just Hugh Grant being menacing with great reactions from the two girls, never felt like it dragged or went too long. You don't know quite where it's going and there's (possibly increasingly outlandish) twists as it goes. I guess the only complaint is how utterly crazy Grant's character's plan is and the insane level of planning that must have gone into it, but that's the kind of thing horror movie villains do, isn't it? I highly recommend it. Probably the only horror movie that will ever have Hugh Grant doing a Jar Jar Binks voice.