Having skipped the prequel Rise of the Lycans, Kate Beckinsale returns to rock skintight leather and kick quite a bit more butt as beautiful bloodsucker Selene in Underworld: Awakening, the slick but strangely spiritless fourth entry in the nearly decade-old vampires-vs-werewolves franchise.
Read More action, blu-ray, David, DVD, Fantasy, horror, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Stephen Rea, Theo James, UnderworldThe 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 horror [...]
Read More Brad Anderson, David, DVD, Hayden Christensen, horror, Jacob Latimore, John Leguizamo, Mystery, R, Thandie Newton, thriller, Vanishing on 7th StreetIt’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 was published [...]
Read More blu-ray, Chloe Moretz, drama, DVD, Fantasy, horror, John Ajvide Lindquist, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Let Me In, Matt Reeves, R, Tomas AlfredsonAfter 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.
Read More crime, DVD, horror, Mystery, Noah, R, SawBoobs 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.
Read More Adam Scott, Alexandre Aja, comedy, David, DVD, Elisabeth Shue, horror, Jerry O'Connell, Piranha 3D, R, Richard Dreyfuss, thriller, Ving RhamesMilla 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.
Read More action, adventure, Ali Larter, blu-ray, David, horror, Milla Jovovich, Paul W.S. Anderson, R, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Wentworth MillerWritten 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 [...]
Read More Devil, DVD, Geoffrey Arend, horror, Jeremy, M Night Shyamalan, Mystery, PG-13, thrillerThough 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 sweater of [...]
Read More A Nightmare on Elm Street, David, DVD, horror, Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Mystery, R, Samuel Bayer, thrillerWith his somewhat wolf-like appearance, Benicio Del Toro seemed to me an ideal choice to play the title character in Universal’s update of its 1941 horror classic. But the mumbly Oscar winner actually proves to be the weak link in this otherwise handsome, if bloody, production that represents the first R-rated effort from director Joe [...]
Read More Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Danny Elfman, David, Emily Blunt, horror, Hugo Weaving, Joe Johnston, Jr., Lon Chaney, R, Rick Baker, The Wolfman, thrillerIf Blade and Gattaca had a baby, it would be Daybreakers. Set in a near future where most of the population are vampires with only a handful of humans to feed off, similar to the ratio of monkeys to humans in Planet of the Apes. A scientist at a giant corporation who operates “blood farms” [...]
Read More action, blu-ray, Daybreakers, drama, DVD, Ethan Hawke, horror, R, Sci-Fi, thriller, Willem Dafoe