animosus_liberatio Reviews

My Encounter with Evil (2022– )

Needed better production quality

[4/10 · 8 November 2022]

So the whole series covers the stories of 3 women who have been possessed / touched by evil. A few things irritated me.

1. If you do not speak Spanish just click to read the subtitles. The dubbed in English version is horrible because you can hear the native Spanish while trying to hear the translation. I'm fine with subtitles but you cannot look away when you need you constantly need to read the screen.

2. Prepared to be confused what story you are watching. They should have just done 3 episodes where each episode highlighted a story but instead mashed all 3 stories into four episodes. Why is this a problem, you may ask? The first story starts with her name on the screen Jesse. Okay cool, this is the person's story. Then boom... we start another story, nothing to transition into the fact that we are now watching person #2's story. They could have put the person's name up like they did on the first story to clue us in that we are talking about the next person. Then again a new story starts just as story 2 was having a peak in the storyline... who are these people talking now? Oh they are telling story 3. Gotcha. In the other episodes they flashed names on the screen to show they were telling a different story when they felt like it.

3. After figuring out what story I was finally watching I realized it was because watching the person's whole story from start to finish would have caused the writers to work harder. There's a lot of growling, long jerky possessed scenes, and clips of "real video" that became a bore quickly.

4. I watched this not knowing what to expect. If it were better organized it would have been better. I was raised Catholic and these stories are bs. If you were possessed, you wouldn't be going around giving detail to detail on your story AND specifically what demon infested you. Those would be things you bury and not talk about otherwise you are just opening another door for them. "Oh you are talking about me? Cool, I'm heeeeerrrre" this is just coming from my background. Not my current belief system but whatevs

I would have given this a higher rating if the stories transitioned better. I feel that it did the segments an injustice. 1 story an episode would have kept the story nice and clean.

Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers (2019)

Found footage may have been more believable

[1/10 · 13 June 2022]

This guy doesn't have crappy cams like most of us would, he's working with very expensive stuff.

Then the guy just goes to the dark web like he's been doing it for years. The item says it's not for sale only for trade, then he buys it? What did he trade?

The spirit box to listen to the spirit/demon through radio waves is amusing. Even on the ghost shows on television make the wording seem more plausible.

I lost it and turned it off when he claimed that it was 80 outside and he normally sets his thermostat to 70 something and it's 48 in the house on the morning.

Next scene he's wearing normal clothes. I would be so cold, he's not even wearing a sweater or jacket to warm up. Where I live 48 degrees means you will see a little bit of your breath. You won't see it as well as when it's 28 but you will still see a little.

I was over it. Lost time. Not even sort of interesting.

Level Up (2011 TV Movie)

Think Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

[6/10 · 23 January 2012]

I'm almost midway from watching the first episode and I thought I would look it up on IMDb, mainly because one of the actors looked familiar. For some reason I could swear the actor Jesse Usher was on a a show from Disney that he was the main character.

If you watch the first episode keep in mind, it's campy and silly and it doesn't take it's self serious. It's a kids show and it's "fantasy" and the weapons look goofy as all heck because it's supposed to be the kids that built them. I was a little old to be watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the past, but I did see an episode and this kind of reminds me of that. So far this is something I would let the kids watch. There is just mild video game violence, no blood, just kids hitting trolls and such with goofy looking weapons. I will probably watch this another time with the kids. It is much better than some of the other kids shows I have seen.