ZOMBIELAND (2009)
I just watched this movie tonight for the first time. Understand that I HATE zombie movies in general, but since this was a spoof of this overdone sub-genre I thought I could suspend that prejudice...
View ArticleThe Signal (2007)
This movie does not seem so much that it was made because someone had a great idea that needed to be made into a movie, and is rather more like someone needed to make a movie, and had to come up with...
View ArticleFrequency (2000)
When it comes to time travel stories, this one wins the prize for the most intelligent exploration of how changes in the past will affect the present.Back to the Future comes close, but Frequency is...
View ArticleAT THE DEVIL'S DOOR (2014)
http://letterboxd.com/barnett/film/at-the-devils-door/ A real estate agent discovers an evil presence with the house she attempts to sell. From there, flashbacks are shown of the origins of the...
View ArticleMission: Impossible II (2000)
John Woo. So, we have overused slo-mo, doves, people changing their faces, and a sort of 'ying-yang' duality between the villain and the hero. Project 'Chimera' must be stolen before the bad guys get...
View ArticleHANSEL AND GRETEL (2007) is a masterpiece!
Just finished this thing and it's the best horror-fantasy film I've seen. I may have been unlucky, though ... the last one was SUCKER PUNCH! I was quite surprised to not see this film heavily...
View ArticleS1m0ne (2002) aka Simone
A fictional persona is manufactured for the public and then its manufacturer becomes trapped by his own creation.The film starts a bit like a (barely) Science Fictional version of Tootsie, with...
View ArticleThirst (2009)
A priest with a deadly virus gets a blood transfusion and develops vampiric tendencies. The vampire blood helps him heal, but the development of blood thirst is not very convenient.I've heard of...
View ArticleThe VVitch ... a New England folktale (2015)
I missed this one because I thought it might be a run-of-the-mill modern horror movie, but it isn't. Based on written accounts of 17th century witchcraft beliefs among Puritan settlers in early...
View ArticleGame of Death, The (2000)
=12pt =12ptThroughout the past 40 years or so, one thing that movie fans could count on was that if Roger Corman had anything to do with a movie, then that flick was almost certainly a piece of...
View ArticleSunshine (2007)
A blend of The Golden Apples of the Sun, Dark Star (natch, a character is named 'Pinbacker') and, possibly, The Black Hole. I know the concept for Apples is preposterous (a rocket goes to the Sun to...
View ArticleWer
I'd been wanting to catch this werewolf film since I first became aware of it about a year and a half ago. I'd been waiting for it to show up on tv, but it just never does. I finally watched it last...
View Article"Alien Trespass"
Serious-sounding title, but really a casual 2009 homage to the sf films of the 50s, particularly "The Brain from Planet Arous" and "It Came from Outer Space" (good, if stolid "Marshal" Urp [Eric...
View Article"The Woods" ( 2006 )
A little ditty Comet TV has been showing a bit much of late, but it's a pretty good period piece.Involves a "wayward" girl circa 1965 being chucked into a boarding school for pyrotechnical...
View ArticleDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)
I was not aware of this production until I stumbled across it on YouTube:The cast and acting is very good, production values are also quite good. It is an interesting take on the oft-told tale. I...
View ArticleLast Shift
Just caught this on Netflix and, for the most part, enjoyed it. The first 30 minutes are as eerie and nerve-wracking as anything I've ever seen. About 40 minutes in the movie begins to tip its hand....
View ArticleWhat's the recent horror film with a kid who looks like Lon Chaney in London...
I saw a review of this film in VIDEO WATCHDOG a few years back. All I can really remember is a really creepy picture they printed of a little kid who looked just like Lon Chaney in LONDON AFTER...
View ArticleHouse Of 1000 Corpses - Horror Movie Facts Of The Day
Hi guys!! Let's take a look at one of Rob Zombie's film
View ArticleI Am A Hero (2015)
Anybody have a chance to see this gut-munching extravaganza from Japan? I AM A HERO received a very limited U.S. release in 2016, around the same time the higher profile TRAIN TO BUSAN appeared...
View ArticleTHE MUMMY
I haven't seen the new THE MUMMY and likely won't until its DVD release. It opened to less than stellar business in the U.S. -- came in at just a little better than half of what WONDER WOMAN did in...
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