Hatching (2022 Finnish Horror Film) through use of almost exclusively high quality practical effects created one of the most terrifyingly convincing/original monster designs I’ve seen for a film this century.
Easily on par with Alien and Jurassic Park in quality, both in effects and story.
So, I watched the Black Phone and it was one of the better horror movies I've seen in 2022. There's one thing that plagues my mind though, how did the Grabber managed to kidnap Vance?
Finny and Robin sure, we saw how that went down anyway. Even if we didn't see it, I'd assume that it wouldn't have been extremely difficult for a grown man to snatch a 13 year old boy up.
But Vance? He was like 15 years old, nearly as tall as the Grabber. How on earth did the Grabber pick him up and put him in the van?
During the beginning of the movie we saw him snatch Bruce off of his bike and throw him into the van, so I'm going to assume that he did something similar to Vance. Bruce and Vance looked roughly the same size. I personally think that he possibly saw Vance walking alone and snatched him off of the street, but it couldn't have been that easy right? Although Vance was slim he looked pretty tall and we saw that he was strong too.
Hitch hiking was also pretty big in the 70's so maybe he offered Vance a ride and took that opportunity to spray him in the eyes.
From what we saw of Vance. I couldn't see him going down without a fight though. He just seemed like a very poor/risky target. He was an older child, tall, and feisty.
I am so behind, it’s inevitable at this point lmao. I’ll try and catch up on posting and watching tomorrow. My choice for the 26th of October was Hellhole on Netflix.
I rated this movie 6/10. It was mostly pretty boring, but ok. The last thirty minutes or so are where shit gets real and makes the movie worth it lol. Like for real, that ending. Wowza lol. Sorry this is a short one, but oh well lol.