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(tv series) Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 shows the disaster of this festival up and close

Although I have already seen a full length documentary about this disaster of a festival, my friend recommended me this three part tv documentary series about debacle called Woodstock in 1999.

Thirty years after original Woodstock which happened in 1969, original promotor Michael Lang wanted to revive the feeling of peace, love, unity and positive energy, found sponsors and decided to make Woodstock happen again. The line-up was totally great featuring Metallica, RHCP, RATM, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Kid Rock, Offspring, but also Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and James Brown as a kind of bridge between old and new generations. It was all well imagined, 250 000 crowd on former abandoned airfield and airbase in upstate New York with three days of superb music, fun and feelgood. What could go wrong? Well, everything! My personal opinion that the main idea and engine of promotors for this festival was greed and not original Woodstock ideas and their fault is equal that crowd of rowdy assholes raped, pillaged, burned and destroyed everything beyond imagining. I have never seen something like that. It also confirmed to me that Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit it total redneck asshole, what I have known before. If you watch it you will know why. I also blame main sponsor and I can’t let in my head thought of water denial to crowd in Summer heat and putting such prices to bottle of water. This is a great documentary and I think Woodstock brand is buried and gone. Good riddance to it as well.

(movies) Bodies Bodies Bodies(2022) starts as fun, but could have been so much more

This started as your usual slasher movie with a group of friends inhabiting big house in the woods, bathing in pool, just having fun and enjoying themselves. Enter Sophie and Bee, gay couple who just arrived and Sophie was absent for a while with drug problems. We can see some tensions between the group, like especially between Sophie and Jordan. Storm rises and our heroes move inside and start to play a game called Bodies bodies bodies, with false murderer killing someone and others have to investigate the case. When their host David gets killed for real, they search for culprit, paranoia and tension, also body count rises….

Well, this one was directed by Halina Reijn, Dutch actress known for starring in Paul Verhoeven´s Black Book, also in Tom Cruise´s Valkyrie among other movies, also written by Sarah DeLappe and it was somewhere, I think it was on Bloody Disgusting page advertised as LGBTQ slasher horror. I don´t see why, because besides some bisexual storylines, besides main two characters being gay, there is absolutely nothing that indicates that. First half of the movie, as killings start it was fun to watch with characterization of protagonists evolving, discovering kept secrets, hatred, envy and other ugly feelings that came to the surface. It was also fun to think for me as a viewer who the killer might be, playing with thoughts although the ending twist is kind of disappointing with let down. I think that they wanted to make something different with this one than your typical slasher movie, but the direction they went could have been so much better explored. But, this is not bad movie indeed. But, could have been so much better.

(movie) Horror In The High Desert(2021) – there is hope for mockumentary/found footage!

Just when you think there is no more hope for found footage and mockumentaries, the vast sea of boring lookalikes and clones has expired its reign and there is a void. But, not anymore. This little movie, directed and written by Dutch Marich shows how can you make a good and creepy movie with little budget. Well, the movie is a mockumentary about disappearance of Gary Hinge(Eric Mencis), who was an experienced outdoor expert and vanished in the desert of Nevada. There are couple of interviewees like Gary´s sister Beverly, private investigator Salerno and couple of Gary´s friends who talk bout what could happen and we find out that Gary discovered something really creepy in the deep desert when he smelled smoke and stumbled upon a little cabin. Last third of the movie are videos of Gary´s last night and then movie turns into found footage run and scare action. The villain(s) look awesome that little minutes we see them on screen and overall atmosphere is ominous and hopeless, almost made me believe that really happened. The only illogical hole in the script for me was: someone drove Gary´s pickup truck on the other side of desert to fool authorities, but how did he or they get back to where they live, far in the desert? On foot? Anyway, this is a superb movie. Chilling and creepy. Recommendation.