(HORROR) Honeymoon - 2014 ***

Darkly surreal horror about a newly married couple who decide to honeymoon in the wife's father's cabin. Soon however she begins to display disturbing behaviour including sleepwalking and having no knowledge of doing so, writing down important facts in her diary and refusing to touch her husband. 

Events soon take a shocking turn. 

Absolutely surreal and strange. Definitely original. HO

Edge of Tomorrow - 2014 *** 1/2

'Edge of Tomorrow' can only be summed up as a sci-fi version of 'Groundhog Day' as a military officer is killed trying to combat aliens, but then discovers he is caught in a time loop where he combats and dies every day. He decides to use this to his advantage and better his skills with the knowledge he gains each time he fails. And then he meets Rita, and must team up with her to overpower the aliens once and for all whilst also trying to explain to her day after day of his terrifying predicament. I don't know what has happened to Emily Blunt's face, but it seems she's had half of it sucked out and if you compare it to her earlier films it looks like someone's taken a chisel to it.
I liked the premise, and found it fascinating to watch (although at times I was a tad confused) and was rather disappointed by the ending. Some might say it was a typical Hollywood one.

Under the Skin - 2013 ***

'Under the Skin' is an eerily strange sci-fi movie about an alien who preys on unsuspecting men in Scotland. Johansson is an odd choice to play an alien, but some of the scenes that strike me as the weirdest are the ones where the film crew have literally picked on real men walking about and got Johansson to drive along side them in her van and hit on them. What a shock that must've given them. Most of them look partly terrified and partly aroused.
The music is good, and the ending is sad, but the whole idea is a bit blurred. And we get shot after shot of Johansson naked or taking her clothes off, luring the hapless men into a large black pit of goo.
Still, it's quite a good idea for a movie. But absolutely bizarre to see Scarlett traipsing round windy, gloomy Edinburgh.