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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peña made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Decoys

Story
Aliens come to earth, that is a college in Canada, in the form of hot babes to mate with males which will make their species live on. People start dying and disappearing around the campus and a guy named Luke figures out that the hot girls really are aliens and tries to stop them.

Comments
I tried to watch this movie a few months back but couldn't take how bad it was so I only ended up watching half before I HAD to turn it off.

Later on I gave it another try and managed to watch the whole movie from start to finish but as guessed, it still kinda sucked. So how come it sucked so bad?

Well, Decoys is a movie made for an audience consisting of horny teens and if you're not a horny teenager then chances that you'll like this movie are not very high.

Great story huh, like I said it's for horny teens who wanna look at pretty girls and get a sneak peak at half a breast or whatever.

Also the actors, if we even can call them that, are so lousy it sometimes hurts to watch them "act". Some are better than others though (I use the word better losely here) but there are quite a few that are really bad and it's horrible to watch.

The movie opens up with some shitty high school rock/punk music like in American Pie which makes you get irritated and feel sick right from the start, and that's not the good kind of sick.

I must admit that the special effects are not that bad and also the alien suits looks pretty cool but that's about it.

Final Comments
If you wanna see a good Canadian movie instead of this junk, then I would suggest you take a look at Ginger Snaps.

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Decoys

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Piégés
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Matthew Hastings
WRITING CREDITS: Matthew Hastings, Tom Berry
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
CAST: Corey Sevier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Kim Poirier
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: 95 min

RATING: 2/10

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