I took a trip to the cinema at Rochester to see Silent Night, Deadly Night. The river was low meaning the tide was out some distance. You can tell when the river is wanting water when the mud flats are entirely visible. I took a picture of the bridges that span the Medway at this point.
After I have watched a film I rate it on IMDb. There is a whole communication about how the rating system works and you should read it. In the old days I used to post the rating on Twitter but I haven’t been a part of that “community” for over two years now. Although I do WhatsApp and Reddit I don’t do any other type of social media and I’m thankful for it. I am often waaay out of the loop on things happening in the village or locally but I keep myself to myself and most of these things don’t matter.
I stayed in the theatre watching this film because I wanted to see how they ended it and not because I thought it was a good film. I do think the film was very dark and spent a lot of the runtime moaning about light switches and how modern life means we don’t have to wander around in the dark or use low powered bulbs. Maybe the darkness was a cinema error or maybe it was a deliberate film-maker’s choice but it was annoying. I’m pretty sure you can make a film scary without it being dark. Having said that I didn’t think this film was particularly scary. If anything it was a rather dark version of Judge Dread. There’s a lot of killing and the best bit was about halfway through when it was deemed important to the plot that a bunch of Nazis had to die.
I won’t be watching this film again and I won’t be recommending it to others. It wasn’t great. I know there’s a market for this sort of film but it isn’t me. You could make a really intelligent film with the same premise and it would be amazing, but I suspect it would also require courtroom scenes and as we know justice can take a rather long time.