Till Death actually came out back in July 2021. But it is more of a thriller than most of the October releases so we’re going to look at it anyway.

Emma (Megan Fox) is unhappily married to Mark (Eoin Macken). She’s been cheating on him with his employee, Tom (Ami Ameen). On their anniversary, Mark takes Emma to a secluded lake house. They have a fairly nice evening but when Emma wakes up the next morning, she finds herself handcuffed to Mark. Mark then shoots himself in the head, leaving Emma handcuffed to his corpse. Besides having to drag around her dead husband’s body, Emma also has to avoid being killed by the men Mark hired to murder her.

When I first heard about Till Death, I wrote it off as one of those terrible movies where the woman gets kidnapped and does stupid things to try to get out of the situation. (I’m looking at you, Secret Obsession.) Boy, was I wrong. Fox’s Emma is smart and powerful. She manages to drag Mark’s stupid body all over the place and, as any good true crime fan will tell you, corpses are heavy. At no point does she give in or just sit and wait for someone to save her. She is always looking for a way to fix her situation.

I honestly don’t want to talk too much about this movie. I really think that everyone should watch it. Especially women. Most of the time women are portrayed as victims or someone who needs to be saved. Emma proves that women are neither. Though maybe we should all learn how to pick a handcuff lock, just in case.

Netflix has been all over the place this year. We’ve seen good movies, terrible movies, foreign movies, and things that want to be movies but aren’t. But we haven’t had a monster movie, per se. No One Gets Out Alive is the closest we have come. As you can see from the poster, Night Teeth is a vampire movie. Is it a good one though?

In the Los Angeles area, vampires have co-existed peacefully with humans thanks to a centuries old truce that says vampires can only feed on people that consent. Victor (Alfie Allen) is a vampire that has grown bored of the truce. Intending to kill all of the vampires in power, he sends his girlfriend, Zoe (Lucy Fry), and her best friend, Blaire (Debby Ryan), into Los Angeles as a distraction. The girls hire peacekeeper Jay (Raúl Castillo) to drive them for the night but Jay has to save his girlfriend from Victor. Jay’s brother, Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr), takes his place. Benny didn’t know what he was getting himself into.

I’m a little confused about what to say about Night Teeth. As a movie, it was good. But it wasn’t a good vampire movie. A lot of the actiony parts of the movie either took place off-screen or far in the background of the shot. There aren’t even a lot of scenes of drinking blood. Well, there’s scenes of drinking blood from glasses but there’s only one real scene of vampires drinking from a human. It’s almost like the vampire part of the story was an after-thought.

Instead of an action-packed vampire thriller, we are given a romantic drama. I would argue that the main plot of the story is the growing affection between Blaire and Benny. The story really is a little Romeo & Juliet-ish. Coming at it from that direction, it is a decent movie. But if they were going for a romantic movie, there should have been a bit more romance in it. There’s a lot of like half-glances and smirky smiles at each other with only one actual kissing scene. I just think they should have tried harder to show each other that they were interested instead of spending all their time hiding it from Zoe.

It’s a fine movie to watch if you have nothing else to do. Just be warned that it is a vampire movie without any real bite to it. Well, there is a cameo from Megan Fox. I guess that is something…