Reasons You Should Watch ‘Trap’ ASAP

I love horror movies and even thriller/suspense films.  Here are Mike Anthony’s Reasons for Watching Trap on Streaming ASAP.  It’s the latest flick from M. Night Shyamalan.  Sure, his name either creates excitement or causes some eye rolls.  Ever since “The Sixth Sense” viewers have wanted a film that has a powerful twist ending like that Bruce Willis-led movie packs. 

Well, I think he’d done that several other times in an impressive fashion.  Although I do agree he’s had many misses as well.  But we’re not going to focus on that here.  This is all about “Trap.”  I’m going to discuss it and just give you only 1 spoiler, that’s barely a spoiler.

(SPOILER ALERT).  Let’s get it out of the way.  "Trap" starts with a father (played by Josh Hartnett) driving his daughter to an arena to go see a concert.  The pop star Lady Raven to be exact.  Within 20 minutes we find out that the building is swarming with police FBI and all sorts of law enforcement. 

We also realize that the man they’re looking for is Josh Hartnett.  I won’t tell you why, just because it’s fun to watch it play out.  But that’s your spoiler.  And also……that’s your twist.

What I mean by that is that we find out early on that although Josh Hartnett seems like a loving father and good guy, he’s the one the authorities are after. 

It’s not revealed in some big twist at the end of the movie.  There’s no big twist revealed at the end of the movie.  What M. Night gives us in Trap is a true thriller with some action and suspense to keep us wondering if Josh Hartnett will get arrested or not.

I love that he made this movie, not following his typical formula.  And I think it works well.  There are so many tense moments, not graphic, just tense.  And there are so many scenes where you don’t even know who you’re rooting for. 

It’s a fun one right around Halloween, but also good any time of the year.  I recommend streaming or renting "Trap" as soon as you can. My wife and I had a lot of fun watching it and talked about it for a while after it was over!

I wanted to put a list together of Iron Maiden tunes.  They’ve been in the news recently, so I thought I’d show you 5 Amazing Iron Maiden Songs.  They’ve got way more than that which are awesome tunes, but these are ones that always stick out to me.

It was so sad to hear about the passing of vocalist Paul Di’Anno.  If you don’t know the name, he was on the first two full-length studio releases from the metal powerhouse.  I have to tell you, for as much praise as Bruce Dickenson gets (and rightfully so), Paul was amazing in his own right.  He has a deeper range, but could still hit some crazy high notes.  I thought his voice blended nicely with the tunes they were writing back then.

Of course, Bruce is the voice most of us think of when we think of Iron Maiden.  He’s got that power metal style down to a science and still sounds wonderful when performing live.  Over the years, Maiden has experimented and tried various types of songwriting throughout their catalog, but they seem to almost always come back to epic rockers that have many twists and turns and several sections, that make me wonder how easy it is to remember the parts when they play them live!!

Whether you’re strictly into the first few albums or are enjoying their latest effort Senjutsu, you can’t go wrong.  They have that solid beat from Nicko McBrain and those amazing riffs, it just works perfectly.  They’ve influenced so many other bands that have come out, but to this day, Maiden is still one of the real masters of metal.  They just do it so well.

So I thought we could take a look at 5 songs that just plain rock and are a fun ride to listen to.  Let’s get into it!

Such a cool tune. Not as quick and with that uptempo typically heard in Maiden tunes. But this one is incredible!

A really intense sounding rocker with some awesome vocals from the late Paul Di'Anno.  It's from their debut which just bangs!

A medieval sounding metal tune?  Yep.  It's got some aggressive vocals from Bruce and some really cool riffs throughout!

Such a cool opening riff.  Then some powerful vocals with an infectious chorus!  A great piece from Powerslave....maybe my favorite overall album?

Bruce is back in this one!  And you can tell he's back with a vengeance.  Ok that was corny.  But this has such an earworm for a hook....you can't help but sing along!