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We actually ended up watching Sting before we left on vacation after I found out we would be able to see Arcadian at a local theater here in Maine after all. It's gonna cost a lot more than usual, but it's a vacation so meh. Seeing that tonight or tomorrow night.

Sting was fairly good. Nicely done little creature feature sort of movie; it's nice to see one that isn't about sharks. I think the first parts of the film are probably better than the later ones. It never takes itself too seriously and there are some humorous parts in there too; I liked the main character, well, I liked her a lot at first but by the end she was just sort of okay. If you like creature horrors, this one should be one you'd enjoy too; it doesn't do anything special or take chances, just a well-done by the numbers experience.

We also watched a shorter horror film in flight called Arctic Hollow; it's only about 70 minutes... and yeah. Just... not good. I would say kinda bad. It's sad because I know this is probably a really low budget movie but it shows. Sometimes when you have a low budget, you have to make a film that hides that fact. It's not hard to do; but it does mean you can't tackle certain concepts and this film is guilty of that. It's basically a "hollow Earth" influenced movie; and this was made with like a shoestring budget and there's just no way it can pull it off. Both the writing and acting are pretty bad... music is kinda out of place a lot of times. I wanted to like it because I would say maybe the first 10-15 minutes so paint this as a slow burn movie with perhaps a way to execute a smart story with a little bit of money, but no. So corny and cringey in the last act.