{"id":8890,"date":"2017-08-28T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:34:07","slug":"shrine-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/shrine-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shrine (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how you get on Netflix, and you aren’t sure what you want, so you decide to go for something you have never heard of, but you want to avoid the movies with a rating under 2 stars, and you start to realize that damn near all of them have 2 stars or less, and then you get desparate and try talking yourself into some sleazy movie, but then you see a cover and you give one last effort, and there it is, 2 and half stars! You found your movie. That’s the Shrine for me. As a matter of fact, it is sitting at 3.3 stars currently. IMDB has it at a 5.4 so all in all, I consider that an aggregate average of around 6.<\/p>\n

So what is this movie about? A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, and then shit gets real. Does that even sound like a good idea? Let me reiterate, “investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice” and you don’t think you are a prime suspect to get got? That’s why horror works though. You can have the smartest of the smart get got, or the dumbest ambitious morons just go along for the ride, and either way, it’s fun. I’m not sure I need to provide a synopsis of this movie. They get there, they piss off the community, they get captured, a mask with eye spikes get hammered into a girl’s head and well, you will have to see what happens next. It’s surprisingly not bad. This isn’t a classic, but on a day off, you got a buddy over, looking for something mindless to have on for background noise as you chat and occasionally pay attention and then get involved in it by the end, this is a good choice. This movie stars Aaron Ashmore, some may know him from Smallville or Warehouse 13. There’s a enough gore and violence to tide you over, although not much nudity, a little side boob. I think most will like this if they give it a chance. More importantly, when I go to IMDB, the section up top called “People who liked this also liked…” 4 out of the 6 movies I saw because of this movie, and all were good to great. Grave Encounters (Definitely awesome abandoned asylum with a ghost hunters flair), The Loved Ones (I already reviewed and loved, Stake Land (Haven’t got to yet, but probably will, fun new take on vampires), and The Woman (which is pretty fun if you aren’t a terribly pretentious asshole). That is a full day of good movies from that recommendation. Anyway, lets give the Shrine a 6.0 and maybe more upon further viewings.<\/p>\n

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