Gasp!

      This week I have decided to watch a movie that I have been wanting to watch for a while now and it is called The House, a Netflix original anthology movie about the stories of three different houses and their inhabitants.      This movie Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Goth as two voice actresses in the movie. Any movie that I have seen with these two incredible actresses are going to be creepy, yet whimsical which is what The House is giving.      I will say conceptually this movie is beautiful. Felt and stop motion? Sign me up! However, this movie is split into three parts, and I really only gasped at part one. Part one made me squirm a bit, but the other two parts were very mid.     Visually this movie is quite stunning, but other than part one of the movie it felt long. I wish the other two parts had the umph like part one did, but overall I give it a 7/10.

      This week's movie is Spellbound, a murder mystery from 1945. Spellbound takes place in a mental hospital in Vermont and stars Gregory Peck as John Ballantyne a man with amnesia who begins to blur past memories involving a murder and his childhood. Then there is Ingrid Bergman who plays as Dr. Constance Petersen, a new psychiatrist who just started a new job at the mental hospital who tries to help John disconnect and remember two past memories that are colliding.  I was never interested in old movies before. When I tried to watch them when I was younger I had hard time because I thought they were boring. I mean it's in black and white, and I am a lover of bright vivid colors. However, I was wrong. The story is alright, but just because a story is alright does not make it a "not so bad" film. I feel they are over dramatic, and I believe that is what made these films so exciting, and for me quite comical.  There is a scene that I feel should have won an...