{"id":39087,"date":"2023-03-13T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39087"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:57:48","slug":"you-have-to-see-this-becky-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/you-have-to-see-this-becky-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have to See This! Becky (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Streaming on: <\/strong>Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Redbox<\/p>\n

When it comes to revenge pictures, there\u2019s no beating the wrath of a female scorned. Even worse there\u2019s no beating the wrath of female child scorned. The whole concept of a child unleashing their wrath is an underused trope in Hollywood and it\u2019s a shame that there aren\u2019t more of these pictures (There is \u201cThe Aggression Scale,\u201d though). For what it\u2019s worth we have Cary Murnion, and Jonathan Milott\u2019s \u201cBecky,\u201d a considerably schlocky but vicious bit of revenge fare that I just love.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecky\u201d stars horror heavyweight Lulu Wilson as the scornful titular character who is still coming to grips with the death of her mother. She also is being forced to begrudgingly accept her father\u2019s remarrying to a new woman. Becky is pressured in to a weekend getaway with her awkward new family. But things soon spiral out of control when their home is invaded by a group of Nazis, all of whom are eagerly looking for a key that holds access to a possible fortune. Becky accidentally stumbles on to the key and becomes the likely holder of it.<\/p>\n

The whole ordeal involving the key becomes the maguffin for \u201cBecky\u201d as it\u2019s sought after by the film\u2019s villains. This is the thin line that stands between the welfare of her family, as they are wiling to do anything to obtain the key. Soon as the pressure is dialed up, Becky is forced to rely on her wits and her penchant for vindictiveness to brutally murder the group one by one. The pair of directors really has a good time with the picture, staging a ton of brutally violent murders by the hands of Becky. She\u2019s one who is unwilling to cooperate with the Nazis, especially after a particularly heinous turn of events. What\u2019s more interesting is the casting of Doug James as the central villain Dominick.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>James has had a career filled primarily with comedic roles, but he plays Dominick (a role originally intended for Simon Pegg) with as much dramatic fervor as humanly possible. He\u2019s very good in the role, even if his motivations are a bit muddied up in the second half. There\u2019s also Joel McHale who plays Becky\u2019s tightly wound dad who works hard to ease his daughter in to the new familial situation. Once Becky begins her campaign of violence and revenge, the film becomes more and more entertaining. The way she engineers the strike back with random tools and supplies is interesting; especially the method in which she dispenses a henchman using a ruler and some coloring pencils.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecky\u201d is a film that works primarily because Lulu Wilson is so damn good in the role. Wilson has been able to turn out some top notch turns in past genre pictures, and here she progresses in to a more adult actress. The writers take what could have been a paper thin and dull home invasion flick and turn it in to an interesting look at a potential psychopath unleashing her regressed anger out on these terrible people.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no real explanation for what the key is, and or what it does, but I guess we\u2019ll find out in the upcoming sequel \u201cThe Wrath of Becky.\u201d If it\u2019s anything like its predecessor, I think we\u2019re in for a great time with Wilson stealing the screen once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Streaming on: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Redbox When it comes to revenge pictures, there\u2019s no beating the wrath of a female scorned. Even worse there\u2019s no beating the wrath of female child scorned. The whole concept of a child unleashing their wrath is an underused trope in Hollywood and it\u2019s a shame that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1717],"tags":[240,391,712,840,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-39087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yhts","tag-crime","tag-gangster","tag-nazis","tag-revenge","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39090,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39087\/revisions\/39090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}