{"id":30861,"date":"2024-10-25T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=30861"},"modified":"2024-10-25T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:45:04","slug":"review-of-a-ghoulishly-witchin-bitchin-horror-anthology-with-panache-galore-by-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/review-of-a-ghoulishly-witchin-bitchin-horror-anthology-with-panache-galore-by-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review of a Ghoulishly Witchin&#8217; Bitchin&#8217; Horror Anthology With Panache Galore: <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>LORE (2024)<\/strong><\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>B-Horror Style Movie with A-Horror Gloss &amp; Panache<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lore Trailer (2024) | Richard Brake, Andrew Lee Potts, Bill Fellows, Rufus Hound\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJlki98kS7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30937\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-group-proxy-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Succinct Synoptic Based on LORE Publicity: <\/strong>Four thrill-seeking friends sign up for one of their re-occurring horror-themed camping excursions and this one is to be led by Darwin, played by Richard Brakean, an eerie wilderness type guide. Please note: They ain&#8217;t Americans, they&#8217;re British. One night around a campfire, Darwin baits the group into telling the scariest and most twisted stories they can think of.<\/p>\n<p>Once the raconteuring begins, the storytellers regale tales of sinister spirits and malevolent demons and like. All eventually discover that their storytelling has grizzly, gory, horrific consequences they hadn&#8217;t anticipated. &#8220;Welcome to the Twilight Zone,&#8221; Rod Sterling might have said if he were alive. LORE filmmakers, however, in this reviewer&#8217;s imagination, would say after being asked: &#8220;Rod&#8217;s dead. Welcome to our hell on earth. There&#8217;s no escape. Let the heebie-jeebes begin in earnest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30926\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-1024x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-1024x539.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-560x295.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-260x137.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo-160x84.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to LORE publicity, there were three anthology segments directed by James Bushe, Patrick Ryder, and Greig Johnson. I counted four. I don&#8217;t know why the discrepancy or miscount or miscalculation because in the end it really doesn&#8217;t matter because audiences&#8217; rocks will be knocked. I\u2019m only describing two in this article &#8230; because the two I selected are more than enough for reviewing a ghoulishly witchin&#8217; bitchin&#8217; horror thriller whose ratings are off the charts. Sequel?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Segment 1: Shadows<\/h2>\n<p>I rate it A+. It&#8217;s Cringe-Wince-Squirm-Hide-Behind-the-Popcorn-Box-Quotient (CWSHBPBQ) is ferociously stellar. \u201cA story about shadows,\u201d says the first raconteur as she gets started at the campfire.\u00a0 Her Dan character, played by Andrew Potts, is frantically running for his life in a warehouse factory area from thugs whom he owes $$$. They plan to smash his joints to smithereens, cut him, oops, butcher here and there and break every bone in his body. It\u2019s late at night and the scenes of him running are effectively harrowing, meticulously rendered.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually sprints towards a specific warehouse, the kind you probably would want to avoid even in broad daylight. He makes it inside \u2026 and the storytelling rockets to an even more harrowing and nightmarish level when \u2026 out of nowhere &#8230; a demonic creature that look like a cross between the Xenomorph from ALIEN (1979) and Gill-man from THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1955) shows up uninvited, of course. Sucks blood? Eats flesh? Sucks on bone marrow? No spoilers here.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers&#8217; have brilliantly employed <em>the Chicken Little-Cassandra-OMG-Gambit (CLCOG).\u00a0<\/em> Let me describe this cinematic writing gambit using a recent nightmare I experienced after watching this movie (I&#8217;ve watched it more than once to get a hold on it and I&#8217;m still struggling): A trove of snakes are all over a kitchen I&#8217;m fleeing from as they eat a litter of puppies. I rush into a next room screaming alarms. People ignore me. Then there are shouts that I&#8217;m insane. Some start asking questions, like, &#8216;Why would snakes want to eat our puppies?&#8217; and &#8216;How do you know they&#8217;re snakes?&#8217; and &#8220;Serves you right for f*cking&#8221; with Mother Nature&#8221; and so on &#8230; so forth.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wake up screaming but I wake up shooook. Back to Dan futilely trying for agonizingly long minutes to convince the thugs and the night watchman that there&#8217;s a demonic creature &#8230; and so on &#8230; and so forth. AND I STOP HERE BEFORE ACCIDENTALLY INTRODUCING <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SPOILERS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Segment 4: Garth<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_30930\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30930\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3-560x391.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3-260x181.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lore-face-proxy-3-160x112.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garth!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cutting to the chase : Segment 4&#8217;s CWSHBPBQ is ferocious, easily earning. an A+. Garth&#8217;s a theater popcorn consessionaire\u00a0 7-foot tall at least, 300 pounds at least and gives off the impression that his IQ may be way down there in the dimwit area of the human brain. He&#8217;s been bullied for most of his working days at a concession stand in a movie theater complex at a mall. His bully of a boss is short, irritating and everyone in the audience easily knows the boss is to be, eventually, fatally dispatched.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, anxiety in the scenes of his boss bullying, mocking and denigrating him begin to ratchet up audience tension because by now an audience has been exposed to the earlier anthology segment scenes. This, the last anthology short, is infused with a concoction of slapstick humor unusually morbid, perhaps another level of black comedy and there is gore galore but not necessarily gratuitous but ample. {Obviously, the filmmakers have been ruthlessly meticulous in making this horror.)<\/p>\n<p>Three concession customers in this segment, this reviewer believes, garned palpable audience empathy, so much so that the\u00a0 wonderment about which one or ones might survive and might not be fatally, horrifically dispatched. {Ha! Anyone\u00a0 believing that should contact me about getting shares in a NYC bridge I own.}<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Go See This Movie<\/h2>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the Catch-22 tip off when you do. This reviewer has been hit with \u2013 believe it or not \u2013 PTSD-type images and visceral pulses (delayed) that Segments #2 and #3 &#8230; uh oh &#8230; might be as cinematically potent as #1 and #2, that the implied and explicit sadomasochistic <span data-dobid=\"hdw\">m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois, bacchanalia and saturnalia scenes <\/span>might not be as risqu\u00e9 as earlier imagined. Which is this reviewer&#8217;s way of saying LORE has to be scene several times to really get to the core of what the filmmakers did, didn&#8217;t do &#8230; and &#8230; so on and so forth. {&#x1f62c; Imagine a movie that has to be seen and re-seen &#8230; to get the whole picture and intent of the filmmakers.} On the other hand, authentic film aficionados are going to sign up early for the cult film status on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Directors<\/strong>: James Bushe | Patrick Michael Ryder | Greig Johnson (segments)<br \/>\n<strong>Writers:<\/strong> Patrick Michael Ryder | Christine Barber-Ryder | James Bushe | Greig Johnson<br \/>\n<strong>Producer:<\/strong> Adam Bouabda<br \/>\n<strong>Composer:<\/strong> Benjamin Symons<br \/>\n<strong>Cinematographer:<\/strong> Scott Coulter<br \/>\n<strong>Production Designers:<\/strong> Michael Coyle | John Noble<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone nonalign\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Publisher, Editor Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>GWM can be contacted at gregghc@comast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go See This Movie If one dares. This reviewer \u2013 speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth \u2013 says LORE has to be scene several times to really get to the core of what the filmmakers did, didn\u2019t do \u2026 and \u2026 so on and so forth. Nevertheless, authentic film aficionados are going to sign up early for the cult film status on the horizon. \u2013 Article Review by Gregg W. 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