American Mary (2013)

A surgical med student, Mary Mason (Katherine Isabelle), is falling behind on all of her bill payments.

In order to continue paying for her  schooling, Mary apply's for a job as an exotic dancer at a local club but due to her medical experience, she is asked by the club owner Billy (Antonio Cupa), to help him stitch up a person he has held hostage for $5000 in cash, no questions asked. She agrees, stitches the victim up and takes the money on her way out the door.

She is contacted the next day by one of the girls who works in the club to do an unorthodox cosmetic surgery. After some hesitation, Mary decides to take the job and decides to make the world of underground body transformations her new full time job.

This one was written by the Solsa twins (whom also portrayed the German twins in the movie) and  found the dialogue to be excellent throughout the film.

My biggest gripe with this movie is that, in my personal opinion, it should not be considered a horror. There were a few parts that had a bit of blood in it, but really nothing that I would claim to be horror.

The reveal of the torture to her victim was neat but really didn't do much for me otherwise.
The movie also seemed to follow the typical pattern of girl get raped, girl exacts revenge and so on which made this one unfortunately predictable with no twist ending to give me a last minute change of opinion.

There was nothing special about this film with the exception of the character dialogue as I mentioned earlier and will have to rate it as a 4 out of 10.

Seeing as there is no re-watchability to this, it's really a one shot deal. So I hope you are able to enjoy it more than I was able too.

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Contracted (2013)

Written and directed by Eric England, Contracted is the story of a young woman named Samantha,  who is drugged and raped at house party that is being thrown by her friend.

After the wild night, she starts to piece together what had happened to her and ends up believing that her rapist, a man named B.J., has given her an STD. But what she has received from him may be far worse than anything she could have ever imagined.

Written and directed by Eric England. Starring Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams and Joshua Petrino.

One of the best surprises I have yet to find in the horror genre on Netflix. I do not know who is rating these films, but they need to learn a thing or two about a good horror movie.

Everything about this movie was on key right from the start. It had me guessing as to what could have been happening to her right till the reveal in the last scene.

The scare factor was not there but the cringe factor definitely was which  completed the whole horror experience for this movie and I would absolutely watch it again in a heartbeat.

The acting was top notch, as was the dialogue and the camera work. It was very beautifully shot.
I have nothing but great things to say about this one, considering I was expecting a 1 star movie and got a surprise 4 to 5 star which I could not be happier about.

With all my praising being said and done, I will have to give Contracted a 9 out of 10 and a definite suggestion for anyone to watch this if they get a chance to.

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Lovely Molly (2011)

Okay, I am going to try and describe this movie for the review as best as possible to have it make sense to some degree and to make an attempt at not ruining it for anyone who wants to watch it.

Molly, (Gretchen Lodge) is a girl who just got married and decided she wanted to move into her childhood home where her father had died in when she was still very young.

Her new husband Tim, (Johnny Lewis) is a truck driver and must leave a lot of the times for work. Once he leave for his first work week as a married man, strange things start happening to Molly that progressively ruins her day to day life.

Directed and written by Eduardo Sanchez, Also written by Jamie Nash and starring the aforementioned Gretchen Lodge and Johnny Lewis.

Now, I hope that was enough to get you through without really killing any of the story if you choose to watch it. Here comes the possible spoiler alert part.

I was kept intrigued to watch what was happening the entire time but was confused as all hell due to the fact that there are several factors that come into play that could have caused what Molly is either doing or going through.

The biggest issue I am having right now is that I don't think I liked it, nor did I hate it by any means. I understood exactly what was going on throughout the film but just could not figure out what was the actual cause of all the random scenario's that were happening, although all the reasonable options were presented to you as  very good possibilities.

The acting was pretty good in it and some of the scenes made you wonder what the hell was going on. All in all I have to give this one a 5 out of 10 and that's only cause I seriously do not know if I liked it or not.

But if you're looking for a head scratch-er directer Edwardo Sanchez serves one up for you in this one.
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