A Ghoul Versus The Bling Ring

“Harry Potter: Where Are They Now? Part Three / Dueling Movies: The Bling Ring Vs. Spring Breakers!”

Click here for Part One: The Apparition featuring Tom Felton!

Click here for Part Two: The Woman In Black featuring Daniel Radcliffe! 

Today I'm going to be doing something a little unique, reviewing a movie that's going to be part of two different series: “Harry Potter: Where Are They Now?” and “Dueling Movies”. 2013's The Bling Ring stars the massively talented Emma Watson, who of course played Hermione Jean Granger in all eight Harry Potter movies as well as inspiring some of the most HORRIFYING fanfiction in the history of the Internet.

The Bling Ring was released June 14, 2013, three months after a film called Spring Breakers. In yet another case of Dueling Movies (2013 had a lot of them), both films looked to be about a group of over-privileged white girls committing crime sprees and looking as fashionable as possible while doing so.

A Ghoul Versus The Woman In Black

"Harry Potter: Where Are They Now? Part Two!"

Click here for Part One: The Apparition featuring Tom Felton!

The Woman In Black is a film based off a novella (a very short one, clocking in at not even 200 pages) written by Susan Hill in 1983. And what shouldn't be a surprise at all the film is actually a remake, although of a 1989 made for TV film and not a theatrical release. I briefly considered trying to track it down to do another Original Vs. Remake, but the DVD is WAY out of print and eBay prices are quite outrageous, so... no.

In something of a subversion for most films I review, I expect this one to be quite good as it was directed by James Watkins, a British filmmaker who EXCELS in psychological and realistic horror. He was responsible for 2008's Eden Lake, which I'll put up against any non-supernatural horror movie of the last decade.  Our next Harry Potter star is the man himself, Daniel Radcliffe. It appears he's going to go on to become one of the rare childhood stars that successfully transitions to adulthood without going ballistic, not to mention keeping his film career going by breaking out of being typecast.

Does he get off to a good start with his first non-Harry Potter movie? Or is this just Harry Potter grown up and battling ghosts? Time to hit the play button and find out, with A Ghoul Versus The Woman In Black!

A Ghoul Versus The Apparition

“Harry Potter: Where Are They Now? Part One!”

One of my favourite things to do is go through the Rotten Tomatoes annual “Worst Movies” list and find the ones with the lowest ratings. To the surprise of absolutely NO ONE the list is always dominated by comedies because of how insanely difficult comedy is to pull off, especially with the talent level of "actors" available these days.

Horror is the next genre that is always well represented on the “worst of” lists, as it is also very hard to make one that isn't pure stupidity. Which brings us to worst non-comedy of 2012 as rated by Rotten Tomatoes: The Apparition, which only earned a FOUR PERCENT fresh rating. Damn!  More importantly though, this is the first movie in a series I'm going to be doing called “Harry Potter: Where Are They Now?” where we're going to examine they films of Harry Potter actors as they all desperately try to keep their careers alive in a post-Harry Potter world.

Taking the stage today is Mr. Tom Felton, famous for playing Draco Malfoy in all eight Harry Potter films. I know this isn't his first post-Harry Potter film, but it'll be a cold day in Hell before I EVER watch Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes again. A/k/a THE single most pointless reboot franchise in film history.

Let's find out why this movie is rated lower than The Devil Inside, the Red Dawn remake, and That's My Boy with A Ghoul Versus The Apparition! Hmm... that sounds like a SyFy Channel Original movie...