SHREW'S NEST
Well-constructed, well-paced Spanish horror film with lots of neat elements - Chief among them the performance of Macarena Gomez shifting from nuanced eccentricity to outright craziness to scary psychopathy. Also the grisly last half hour which takes off very suddenly from the relatively genteel first hour as well as the various family twists (even if they are easy to see coming). If the female character in REPULSION had a daughter, it would be like this film. Very good and I liked the implication at the end that the craziness has been passed on to the next generation.
Slow burn horror that spends time on the set-up has quite a challenge. It needs to build up interest in the plot and the characters. Luckily, THE HARVEST does that with excellent performances by Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon as well as quite a nasty revelation about what is occurring. Worth sitting through until the end.
THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
This is not a horror movie per say although it has moments of creepiness that are greater than other recent horror movies I've seen and the ending twist certainly felt like something from an M Night Shyamalan film. The story of three sisters returning to their childhood home after their mother disappears in a lake nearby and the weirdness that ensues. A lot of red herrings and stuff that could have been left out for greater narrative coherence but strip those distractions away and it is an interesting movie.
STUNG
Humor trumps gore and cheap special effects in this mutated wasp b movie. Lots of exploding bodies and sick jokes. Not boring but nothing new here. Big plus point - The presence of the always reliable Lance Henricksen - His face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
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