Adam Nevill's The Ritual heading to movies land

Great news, finally!!! Having known that, I felt the need to post it on my blog.

The Ritual by  the super talented Adam Nevill to be adapted into a movie produced by Andy Serkis. Great news, can't, can't wait. Please check the link below regarding this amazing news.

Adaptation of Adam Nevill's The Ritual to be produced by Andy Serkis: Published in 2012, author Adam Nevill's novel THE RITUAL told the story of four friends from college who head off into the Scandinavian wild ...

10 Cloverfield Lane, where monsters live.

10 Cloverfield Lane proves to be really good, captivating and outstanding. A solid story, a brilliant cast (John Goodman's performance is highly praised with every  movement and breath.) The confinement of the place, the paranoia and suspicion building up, the development of the story before reaching the climax captivate all senses. It combines different genres together: apocalyptic kind of science fiction and the tension of psychological thriller. Monsters of different kinds meet together to create a movie that will keep you attentive and alert until the last minute. Tension keeps going higher and higher until teeth -biting - knuckles moment actually happens.

The movie begins with Michelle gathering her stuff and leaving her boyfriend before crashing her car. She wakes up and finds herself chained to a wall in a concrete room in a basement turned into a bunker owned by Howard (Goodman) who claims that he saved her from the world upstairs that doesn't exist anymore. An outsider chemical attack or maybe an alien invasion has made the air poisonous and wiped out the earth; according to Howard,  no one could ever survive this attack,  and that is confirmed by Emmet, a survivor, who fled to Howard's bunker.

With her doubts and suspicions  about what actually  happens, Michelle and the viewer can't decide what to believe: is Howard telling the truth or is he lying? Is he just harmless odd fellow or some kind of sick pervert kidnapper? Howard is safe or he is creepily dangerous? A human or a monster?

The movie gets plenty of surprises for the audience that will keep unwrapping them until the final scene and when they think that the mystery  is resolved, another one comes in. A well crafted image of the three characters is represented. They are shifty in their claustrophobic environment and horror and paranoia will engulf their seemingly camaraderie they are obliged to have. They struggle in their own ways to survive the dangers that lurk outside and inside as well.

Nice music tracks that go well with the situation and a perfectly built bunker to enhance in viewers  a feeling of unease and a sense of being trapped.

10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie to be watched savourly. Because it has everything to keep your nerves  on the edge. Adrenaline will boom. Highly recommended.

Lost Girl: Amazingly epic.

And another book by Adam Nevill that will leave you breathless gasping for air from the first chapters until you reach the last one. Rare are those who can achieve that and excel in delivering it "impeccably" but Adam does it once again with Lost Girl; His books deserve to be considered epic because they are in one word EPIC. Like its precedents, Lost Girl is not an easy read! It challenges your mind to absorb what is laid before! it is a ride made in hell, it takes your hand and walks you to the cliff before pushing you into the abyss of its horrors! Horrors that vary from terrifying supernatural to the dark side of the human nature! Adam proves again that horror doesn't reside only in the haunted apartments or about ghoulish figures or creepy shadows or with the demonic entities; similarly or maybe more terrifyingly, horror resides in our depravity, comes from our derangement and lives in our narcissism. Horror is what we are capable to inflict on each other with no mercy.

In Lost Girl, it is year 2053, the world is collapsing and crumbling fragment after another! It is a world torn by wars, defeated by climate change, stricken by food and water shortages, invaded by the massive number of refugees, affected by pandemics and diseases; where every corner is infested by human traffickers and pedophiles, reeked by depravity and sex slavery and where King Death gang "reigns supremely" with no rivalry! Before all this, the Father engages in a journey of guilt and fury and revenge to save his daughter who was abducted two years back. A JOURNEY OF BLOOD!
The father's name remains anonymous in the book, that was a clever approach from the author to strip the protagonist off everything relating to his old personality and his character and traits; the father is nothing but the father of the lost girl and that's how he defines himself "he is only her father'', an oblivion to what and who he was before, because for him nothing else really matters. He is the Red Father driven only by his grief coiled with a flaring anger and engulfing revenge to find his daughter. His transformation into a "vigilante" is ultimatum, punishing and destroying every culprit who comes in his way. A morbid determination that will keep pushing him in his quest until the end.
And yes the Book has a supernatural side: what is that patron who lurks waiting in the deep darkness of the after death, you wonder, and what are the signs that confine the Father to his antagonist Oleg?! I should add as well that I found the father's surreal dreams in chapter 19 and the creepy mural depictions in the chapel along with the hallucinations of Oleg Chorny disturbing and scary! Every detail there leaves you with an eerie sensation, though too blurry to define it!

Another thing that makes Adam's books special is his deep and strong characterization of both protagonists and their antagonists! And here the reader will see that antagonists in King Death gangsters. A horrid picture is drawn about their atrocities inflicted by their lieutenants and creepy rituals daubed by their seers on the walls! Growing tension and fear the reader feels for the Father in his hunt and run from them, unfathomable is the doomed destiny if they capture him. Among the various themes of the book are the ominous and the philosophical ! Ominous of the doomed future that awaits us if we continue our destruction and philosophical about Nihilism and existence of man where the sentence ''L'homme devant la mort" simplifies this existence. We are nobody before death, nothing but a smudge in this world, simply a dust!
And speaking of details, Adam has an eagle's eye for everything and he delivers his observations in his fine impeccable way. In Lost GIRL, humans shed humanity, only greed and depravity rule! they are rodents, they are reptilians with calculating beady eyes and slithery skin. The descriptions in chapter 13 in brief surpass the physical limits of the book and transform every word into living pictures before the reader's eyes. The Grotesque comes in the flesh!
What I liked the most about the book is how the author depicted the fatherly love for his child! His guilt, his struggle, his despair and hope, etc. it was perfectly done, very genuine without mere exaggerations or embellishment.
Needless to say that the writing style is astonishing as always for the author is one of the finest! Book lovers, this is a book that you will never forget, a book that will leave its mark for sure, my advice for you is to grab it and read it Now😊🤓! extremely and highly recommended!

The invitation, where death awaits.

No seats for Batman vs Superman last week got me to see Karyn Kusama's new psychological thriller "The Invitation" , an indie movie with a tiny budget , that was amazingly crafted, and in my opinion, deserves to be among the winners.
A thriller that will slowly build up the tension around unsettling suspicions and delirious paranoia. Again a movie of the mind and its tricks and its madness before grief and loss and what do we do to overcome a tragic situation.




The protagonist... Will doesn't feel right about the dinner party that he is invited to with his girlfriend Kira. Something in the air seems odd and weirdly awkward about that lavish dinner thrown by his ex-wife Eden with her new husband David to reunite their old friends. Will stands alone confused and wary. Maybe it is the locked doors and new barred windows of his old house are making him suspicious or maybe it is just the painful memories of his lost son that turn him paranoid. But again the is not feeling comfortable with that strangely cheerful behavior that Eden shows or is it just the grief that is actually still there and never faded. And that will trigger worrying questions that need to be answered, weird behaviors that scream for logical explanations; is he going crazy of sadness or there is something sinister going on? A cacophony of images and sounds will go wild in Will's head and the presence of the couple's pair of guests Sadie and Pruitt will just intensify that and worsen his inner conflict.
A beautiful music and good soundtrack that go in harmony with the creative imagery displayed on the screen. Talented cast whose performance should be highly praised. Logan Marshall-Green(Who looks like an American Tom Hardy, the similarity is just killer) presents a heartbreaking picture of a father tortured by loss and sadness and anger and maybe the first scene of Will mercifully killing a coyote that he hit with his car summarizes his feelings between deep sorrow and buried anger. Another character caught my attention is Sadie, portrayed by Lindsay Burdge, a frail woman with an odd behavior that is reminiscent of a mentally broken and disturbed person, a cult brain-washed member.
Beautiful movie, well-crafted story, solid characters that will not disappoint you FOR SURE. 
Special shoutout to everyone who appreciates a good movie experience