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Competitive Chef and the Cursed Ring

 Tuesday: Girl Haunts Boy (2024)

       Bea is a teenage girl living in the 1920s. At a school trip to a museum she finds a ring and ends up taking it. Outside of the museum she gets hit by a car and dies. A hundred years later Cole and his mom move into Bea's old house. Weird things start to happen in his room. Then he finds the ring and is able to see Bea while wearing it. Cole is freaked out a first and wants Bea gone. She wins him over and they become friends despite being from very different times. Friendship turns to something else as they try to figure out what happened to Bea and how it's connected to the ring. I thought this movie was alright. It's cute.

Saturday: We Live in Time (2024)

       Tobias is on a work trip when he gets hit by a car. When he wakes up a young woman, Almut, is sitting with him. She is the one who hit him. They have instant chemistry. Almut is a chef on the rise. She invites Tobias to the opening of her restaurant. Their relationship has a bumpy start but they make it work. Later Almut finds out she has ovarian cancer. She goes through treatment. They have a child together. The cancer comes back. They have to decide what they want to do. Live the best they can for as long as they can, or have her go through treatment and have it be a hard way to live. This movie was good. Although it was not told in chronological order. It jumps around a lot. It would have been better if it was told in order. I don't really see the point in jumping around so much. It's not some unique and different thing, it's just annoying.

Sunday: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

       A group of friends are on a trip in rural Texas. Sally and Franklin want to visit their grandpa's grave and see the old house. While at the house two members of the group go off to find a swimming hole. They find what appears to be another abandoned house. A monster lives within it. A large man in mask made from human skin weilding a chainsaw. One by one the group are killed till it's just Sally and Franklin. They go looking for their friends and find the monster of a man instead. I thought this movie was bad. I've heard about it for so long. I was expecting a classic slasher film. Not some weird artsy B film. The acting was bad. There are random close ups of bones, chickens, etc. I know it was made in the 70s but it's really fake. Like he doesn't even get close to them with the chainsaw. The gore, if you can call it that, isn't what's disturbing. It's the mad man and the others the group encounter. I wanted to watch this because I thought it was a classic horror film. Like Halloween or Friday the 13. But it's not. I could have skipped it.

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