Archive for the Tag 'horror'

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

THE WOLFMAN – Reviewed by David

With 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 [...]

DAYBREAKERS – Reviewed by Noah

If 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 [...]

TAXIDERMIA – Reviewed by Boy Bunting

“It gets absorbed.”
“It finds a role in the body.”
Lines spoken by a pivotal character late in Gyorgy Pálfi’s Taxidermia, they could mean anything. A commentary on pre- and post-Soviet Hungarian individual and cultural identity or which filmic genres are stirred into this surreal mix.

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