Archive for the 'horror' Category

RUBBER – Reviewed by Will

Rubber is a movie about a car tire that suddenly wakes up in a garbage pile in the Mojave Desert and starts rolling along, soon discovering an appetite for murder and some gruesome psychokinetic powers to sate it. I’m sure I’ve lost some of you already, which is fine–this isn’t a movie [...]

VANISHING ON 7TH STREET – Reviewed by David

The characters in Vanishing On 7th Street spend most of the time running away from shadows, a notion that initially may sound as silly as seeing people flee from the wind in The Happening, but one that, in the capable hands of director Brad Anderson, gets turned into a nicely low-key hair-raiser of a [...]

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 – Reviewed by David

The micro-budgeted horror hit from 2009 gets turned into a big-studio franchise with Paranormal Activity 2, a prequel very nearly as scary as its predecessor despite costing 20 times as much to make and featuring a few too many tricks of the Hollywood trade.

LET ME IN – Reviewed by Mordecai “Foster” Grant

It’s not easy to believe in evil anymore. Evil acts from evil intent? They occur everyday, would that they wouldn’t. But evil bound in its own genetic helix? As its own reward? For its own sake?
This is a broad attack to take in reviewing a horror film, but since Bram Stoker’s Dracula [...]

SAW: THE FINAL CHAPTER – Reviewed by Noah

After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former bossRR
Someone once said, “The difference between good pornography and bad pornography is the addition of plot.” I think it might have been Gandhi.

PIRANHA 3D – Reviewed by David

Boobs and blood go hand-in-hand in Piranha 3D, director Alexandre Aja’s perfectly stupid but surprisingly fun rehash of the 1978 Joe Dante classic about those nasty little man-eating fish that, while hardly the scariest of horror flicks, may make you think twice about going skinny dipping.

THE LAST EXORCISM and CASE 39 – Reviewed by David

Hollywood apparently can’t get enough of evil children, because this week on DVD we get two–both of them girls–in horror flicks of varying quality. The one in The Last Exorcism, a Blair Witch-meets-Exorcist affair, is a sweet but possibly possessed Louisiana teenager, while the brat in Case 39 is an actual demon, one who makes [...]

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE – Reviewed by David

Milla Jovovich resumes her sexy gun-toting, zombie-butt-kicking ways in fantastic fashion in Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth and easily most entertaining entry in the horror-action franchise based on the best-selling videogame.

DEVIL – Reviewed by Jeremy

Written by M. Night Shyamalan, Devil is a film about a mixed crowd of angry everyday people who get stuck in an elevator. Catch is, one of them is the devil. The film had an interesting premise but the amateur script immediately struck me as something that Shyamalan wrote in the course of a few [...]

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – Reviewed by David

Though this slick reboot of the horror franchise featuring razor-gloved boogeyman Freddy Krueger never even comes close to replicating the uniquely unsettling eeriness of the 1984 original, it still makes a pretty decent fright machine.
Jackie Earle Haley takes over for role-originator Robert Englund in donning the familiar fedora and red and green [...]

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