Blood, Drama, Guts, Action and Comedy are just some of the elements that “Lowlife”, the directorial debut from Ryan Prows, balances for more than an hour and half to bring us a story that pull no punches in order to show us the worst of the people, and that it could be happening everyday in the lower class neighborhoods of Los Angeles without anybody noticing. Told in a way that will remind us of Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”, this film has also interesting characters, a fast steady pace, and several details that will warrant a second viewing.
First me meet “Monstruo”, a disgraced Mexican Luchador that woks as an enforcer for “Teddy Bear”, a dangerous, ruthless criminal, and besides having a problem controlling his murderous rage, he is also obsessed with protecting the family legacy that his wrestler mask represents. We then meet Crystal, an obsessive hoarder and owner of a little rundown hotel, that trying to save his alcoholic husband’s life, accepts an organ from a unexpected donor. Lastly we meet Randy, a convict just released from prison, that besides wearing a problematic tattoo (to say the least) on his face, gets unwillingly pulled into a new crime, risking going back to prison, or something worse.
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Que onda raza! En esta ocasión vemos como las vidas de un luchador, un exconvicto y una obsesiva acaparadora se complican y entrelazan por culpa de un carismatico criminal en “Lowlife”. Aprendemos lo que es buscar venganza en tierra de indios con “Mohawk” y vemos a un cinico investigador paranormal poner sus creencias a prueba con “Ghost Stories”.
Durante la parte final del conflicto conocido como “La guerra de 1812” entre los Estados Unidos y Reino Unido, en los bosques de Nueva York, vemos que la tribu Mohawk a pesar de sufrir varias perdidas a manos de los Norteamericanos, siguen manteniéndose neutrales en el conflicto. Oak y Calvin Two Rivers, dos jóvenes guerreros, tratan de convencer a los jefes de la tribu para unirse a los británicos, a petición de Joshua, un emisario de Inglaterra. Al ver que el consejo sigue firme en su decisión de permanecer neutrales, Calvin decide atacar por su cuenta un campamento con soldados Norteamericanos mientras duermen, pero un pequeño grupo de soldados sobrevive y se lanzan a cazarlo. Esto pone en peligro no solo a Calvin, Oak y Joshua, sino a toda la tribu Mohawk, pues estos soldados bajo la excusa de buscar justicia no dudarán en matar a cualquier nativo que se encuentren en su camino.
For several years Professor Phillip Goodman has been dedicated to debunk scammers claiming to be psychics and to expose supposed supernatural incidents. One day Professor Goodman is contacted by a renown psychologist and paranormal investigator called Charles Cameron, who has been missing for decades and also inspired Goodman to choose his profession. Cameron, now very old and sick, ask Goodman to investigate three cases that even he can’t explain and that has caused him to questions his own life’s work.
Y en este nuevo experimento social (entiendase, otro episodio hecho al aventón) vemos porque no debes andar echando maldiciones cuando te hierve la sangre en “Pyewacket”, aprendemos que las cortes son un infierno no importa en que pais (o religion) prefieras con el filme “Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds” y vemos como los juegos cachondos para pubertos se vuelven cosa de vida o muerte en “Truth Or Dare”.
After dying saving a girl from a building on fire, Kim Ja-hong is taken by 3 guardian spirits to the realm of the afterlife, where for 49 days he will judged in 7 trials, each one in the hell corresponding to the crimes of Betrayal, Violence, Filial impiety, Murder, Indolence, Deceit and Injustice in order for Kim Ja-hong achieve a chance for reincarnation. At first the guardians are confident that Kim Ja-hong, being considered a Paragon, will pass the trials without problems, but just as the first trial concludes, the guardians start to realize that Kim Ja-hong has made some questionable choices in life, which could make his journey a lot harder than expected, and destroy the chances for the guardians themselves to
Y en esta ocasión les hablaremos de “A Quiet Place”, una pelicula que nos muestra un apocalipsis muy original, donde los parlanchines serán los primeros en desaparecer cortesia de unos seres muy peculiares.
