Before you can get comfy in your (IMAX, obviously) seat, George Miller quickly answers the question raised upon our first viewing of the movie’s trailer “Do you have it in you to make it epic?” with an abso-bloody-lutely. Within the first five minutes, gearheads flee from a “Green Place” and are being pursued by a horseback-riding (then dirtbike-driving), sharpshooting, badass of a mother with a missing kid and thirst for revenge. This is no ordinary helpless child who has been pinched though, she is resourceful and clearly takes after her mother. After all, this isn’t a Mad Max story, this is the story… of Furiosa.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Evil Dead Rise’ (2023)
We open with a particularly, classic, demonic POV as it gives us a tour of what seems to be a familiar woodland setting. However, once met with a lake-bound boardwalk – which leads to a complete stranger of a cabin – we immediately realise things will be going in a slightly different direction for Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Renfield’ (2023)
Today’s setting is the classic screen found at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, with very apt red velvet seats in order to better enjoy Nicholas Cage’s dapper Dracula. However, that’s not whose story we’re here to see, it is in fact his infamous insect-eating, sinister, servant… Renfield (Nicholas Hoult).
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Pearl’ (2023)
As we open on a quaint barn in the countryside, we realize this seems awfully familiar. However, it’s too bright, vibrant and not to mention, clean, to allow our brains to connect the dots for where we’ve seen this farm before. It’s only when we see a helpless goose perish at the end of a pitchfork – before being fed to an alligator – do we realize that we are being transported back several decades to witness the trials and tribulations of X’s much younger (but just as crazy), Pearl.
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Jacked In Recommends ‘Barbarian’ (2022)
Tess (Georgina Campbell) is visiting from out of town for the interview of a lifetime. Unfortunately, after a bit of a mix-up with Airbnb, it seems she may have a roommate… but not everything is as it seems.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Hellraiser’ (2022)
After a 4 year hiatus, a new Hellraiser dawns on the big (well, depending on the size of your television) screen and we brace ourselves, ready to be immersed in the sadomasochistic world of Clive Barker once again…
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Crimes of the Future’ (2022)
After more than a twenty-year hiatus from body horror, the legendary David Cronenberg makes his long-awaited return to the genre with Crimes of the Future (which is completely unrelated to his previous 1970 feature of the same name).
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Jacked In Recommends ‘Bone Tomahawk’ (2015)
Bone Tomahawk takes place in the small western town of Bright Hope and locals are shuck up after an outlaw wanders into their bar. However, this is only the beginning.
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11 Ways ‘Wanted’ Is Miles Away From Its Darkly Bizarre Comic Book Origins
In 2008 audiences were met with the movie Wanted starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. The story sees frustrated office worker, Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) who soon finds out he is the son of a professional assassin and has inherited his father’s superhuman executing abilities. Needless to say, the story wasn’t mind-blowing, but if you’re in the mood for a good ol’ action flick, accompanied with plenty of violence and pretty impressive visuals, it’s worth a watch.
However, when taking a look at Mark Millar’s Comic Book counterpart that inspired the movie, it’s fair to say the film is a far cry from its literary origins. Aside from the opening scene of Wesley being frustrated with his lifestyle, some characters’ names and the overall assassination angle, there’s very little resemblance at all. Set in a world of supervillains, from all walks of life, the Millarworld series touches on much more bizarre and darker territory as it follows the perspective of a Wesley Gibson who has a much more twisted moral compass.
From superheroes that you’ll definitely recognise to having a character that makes the evilest villains in history look like they belong on Saturday morning television – not to mention a criminal composed entirely of excrement – we will be taking a look at elements from the comic that they chose, for one reason or another, to leave out of the movie.
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Jacked In Recommends ‘The Platform’ (2019)
The Platform AKA El hoyo follows the story of Goreng (Ivan Massagué) and his abysmal days spent in isolation. The setting of Goreng’s confinement is The Hole, a dystopic, vertical prison, made up of numerous levels, with two people to a floor/cell and not to mention… one hell of a dining experience!
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Jacked In Recommends ‘Super’ (2010)
Super follows the story of Frank Darbo (Rainn Wilson), a luckless fry cook who has literally only had two perfect moments in his entire life. One of which is when he married his wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), a recovering drug addict.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Titane’ (2021)
As the movie opens – following a brief tour of the underbelly of an automobile – we see a middle-aged man trying his damnedest to concentrate on the road whilst his young daughter, Alexia, misbehaves in the backseat, continuing to distract him.
Before we know it, she undoes her seatbelt and the Dad skids the car to a halt, causing Alexia’s head to brutally connect with the passenger window. You start to feel like a horrendous human being as a slight grin begins to pull on your face and with that you realize… Julia Ducournau (Raw) has done it again.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Last Night in Soho’ (2021)
Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho is a psychological thriller that sees a young student who is able to travel back in time to 1960s London, how’s that for a slice of fried gold?!
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Psycho’ (1960)
On June 16th, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s rollercoaster of suspense, Psycho, first premiered in New York. On October 29th, 2021, sixty-one years later, Jacked In’s, Jack saw the horror classic on the big screen for the very first time, at Newcastle upon Tyne’s Tyneside Cinema.
The cinema’s vintage aesthetic, accompanied by the red curtain reclining just above the screen, complemented this classic, black and white picture perfectly. Despite being a movie I’ve seen many times before, when Bernard Herrmann’s score played alongside the – larger than life – opening credits as I was nestled in a velvet theatre seat; all those previous viewings fell by the wayside.
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Jacked In Recommends ‘Midsommar’ (2019)
We join Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor), a young couple amidst a rocky relationship that is about to reach its inevitable conclusion. Unfortunately, a horrific family tragedy forces the two to stay together. Continue reading “Jacked In Recommends ‘Midsommar’ (2019)”