Monday, October 31, 2022

Hits & Misses Halloween: Nekrotronic




Hit: What the Doom movies should've been vs what we ended up with.

Hit: This film's bad ass intro.

Hit: This film's hilarious narration by David Wenham.

Miss: Now I hate to be that guy but necromancers are (undead) mages who commands anything that's dead and/or reanimated. And yet we don't see none of that in this movie. So why exactly are these demon hunters called necromancers?

Hit: Howard and Rangi reminds me of Earl and Val from Tremors.

Hit: Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Monica Bellucci!

LOL: Rangi is basically playing Discount Pokemon Go.

Real Talk: *Finnegan sucks the soul out of a man.* Suddenly I'm getting Lifeforce flashbacks.

Hit: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Wenham!

Hit: Finnegan before sending a demon after Howard: "Rip, tear, kill, eat..." Someone on the writing team is clearly a fan of Doom.

Hit: I love the concept of transferring demons into other people via internet. Kinda like what some Twitter users wish they can do whenever they wanna cancel someone for wrong think.

Miss: Basically these "necromancers" have force powers, so Discount Jedi.

Miss: Rangi gets shot in the head by possessed human.

Real Talk: *Howard tries to run away from Molly until he's hit by a car.* Been there before...

Hit: And now we have ghost Rangi, nice.

Hit: Finnegan in a demonic voice after Howard hesitates to do what she says: "Don't be a pussy, Howard! Just plug in the fucking cable!" I just love Monica's acting in this movie.

Hit: Howard: "My mother try to force feed me a soul through a hole in the back of my head." Molly: Really? Well I'm glad she didn't." Torquel: "If she did we have to force feed you with a bullet through a hole in front of your head." 

Hit: Bad ass anti-possession suits.

Hit: *Torquel revealing BETSI* Now that's a big fucking gun.

Real Talk: Despite how fool proof Molly's plan to steal a Necropod. I had a sneaky feeling it'll go to shit somehow.

Miss: *Rangi makes a loud thud that spooks Howard into activating an EMP device too soon.* And would you look at that, Molly's plan went to shit. 

Hit: Molly and Torquel opens the Necropod to find severed head. And suddenly I'm getting Alien flashbacks when Molly talks to the head.

Miss/Hit: Howard tries to get Torquel's soul out of Finnegan's network only to make her head explode. But despite how mess up it was that was awesome.

Real Talk: When I watched this film with my friends, one of them points out that Howard looks like Discount Tony Stark. And I kinda agree.

Hit: Torquel's new look after being revived from the necro-pool is very beautiful. 

Miss: The populace nearly had their souls sucked out by Finnegan. But after Torquel stops her, they just went on about their business as if nothing happened. Not even questioning why they were staring up in the air with blue light shooting from their mouths for some reason.

Hit: Finnegan's demonic form after the necro-pool is freaking impressive. Credit to the make-up and costume department for such an amazing effort put into it.