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 [...]
Friday 20 May 2011 |
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horror, suspense/thrillers
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 [...]
Friday 04 Feb 2011 |
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blu-ray, drama, horror, movie reviews, recommendations
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.
Friday 28 Jan 2011 |
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horror, movie reviews
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.
Thursday 13 Jan 2011 |
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comedy, horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
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.
Thursday 30 Dec 2010 |
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action/adventure, horror, movie reviews
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 [...]
Friday 24 Dec 2010 |
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horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
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 [...]
Thursday 07 Oct 2010 |
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horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
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 [...]
Friday 04 Jun 2010 |
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blu-ray, horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
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 [...]
Friday 14 May 2010 |
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action/adventure, blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy
“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.
Thursday 08 Apr 2010 |
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comedy, foreign films, horror, movie reviews, recommendations