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Kraven the Hunter: Average Guy Movie Review

After a brutal lion attack Sergei Kravinoff is saved from death by a young girl and the rare serum gifted to her by her grandmother. The serum not only saves his life, it heightens his senses and increases his strength to superhuman levels. Searching for purpose and looking to get as far away from his criminal father as he can, Sergei becomes ‘The Hunter’. Utilising those newfound skills, he looks to rid the world of evil men. So the Sony Spider-Man Universe ( SSU ) has come to an end. And it is about as far from a glorious death as you can get. Kraven the Hunter  is yet another pretty standard origin story for a  Marvel character owned by Sony , in which said character does not get to meet the Web-Head. This one - which  inexplicably opens to the soundtrack to  The Hunt for Red October -  centres around a rather uninteresting family dynamic in which a father attempts to keep his children close by continuing to be the despicable man they have always loathed. Su...

Sound of Addiction | Average Guy Movie Review

A mercenary team - known as the 'Vipers' - is tasked with extracting a young girl named Maria (Tetta Sanders) from a secluded country home, and the cult that resides there. The only problem; the cult have taken their experimentation with recreational drugs a bit far, and the resultant effects have a certain undead quality.  Sound of Addiction   (SOA)  - which you can watch below - was inspired by the rise of Fentanyl in the USA and the zombie-like effect it has on its users. It's a horror short with an action twist. From the moment the boys (Jamie Clark, John Mortimore, Aaron Mackenzie, Sam Seeley, Will Bowden) leave the van to begin their approach to the target building there is a sense of eerie foreboding that descends over the film, leaving our heroes feeling oddly exposed. The tension rises slowly. All of which the tight, up close and personal filming style only compliments, with the directors putting the viewer right alongside them. On top of its creepy, horror vibes...