Review: Kristy (2014)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This time I’m reviewing a film suggested by Ghost Pirate,
aka Kainan Becker…
College girl Justine works hard to support herself at Bryce
College, where she studies. During Thanksgiving, her boyfriend Aaron goes home
and Justine has plans to stay on campus with her roommate, Nicole. Out of the
blue, Nicole's father invites her to Aspen, while Justine remains in the dorm.
One night, Justine drives to a convenience store to buy supplies and meets
Violet, who threatens her. Shaken, Justine returns to campus, where she soon
finds herself being hunted down by Violet and three hoodlums from a cult.
Justine has to fight to survive.
Now I have to confess that though this film was suggested by
Kainan Becker, he saw it because it was a suggestion mentioned on Rebecca
McKendry’s podcast. I have to admit that this piece of information gave me
pause when it came to viewing this film, given my history with McKendry and the
fact that she helped kill Fangoria (Yes, I
know it is back, but the new owners brought back all the people who
killed it in the first place with their social politics bullshit…). I also
heard she along with Christopher Alexander and Bob Martin got my bio and credit
for my Camp Crystal Lake Novels pulled as well as had me banned from Wikipedia.
So, to put it simply there is zero love lost. But on with the review because I
decided fuck the bitch and her opinion…I’ll give my honest opinion.
Ok, I’ve seen a lot
of films like this that are varied in how good they are. The Strangers and
You’re Next come to mind. This film is really middle of the road to me. I was
entertained, but this film in no way expands upon this subgenre in any way. I
have to say that Haley Bennett did an excellent job as Justine but of course
she did because she was literally the center of the film. The killers were
literally just there to take up space. I wasn’t impressed at all with the lot,
especially creepy girl with the lip piecing. Shit, the film was mainly Justine running
from the three killers and having the music make you jump. When it is the music
that brings the scares you are in trouble. I honestly got annoyed with that
whistling shit too. My associate, Mr Highland, uses that routine when he
dresses like a clown and pranks people. It’s real amateur time.
So, even though Kainan and McKendry thought this film was
the shit I was not impressed other than the actress and the last ten minutes of
the film when she started being tactical and started killing the fucks that
were hunting her. Sorry, no
recommendation here unless you are a social justice warrior and think Rebecca
is bitchin’…
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