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| Movie: | Night Watch, Day Watch, The Haunting, Flesh & Blood, Blade Runner, Nikita, Salem's Lot, Lady in White, Gorky Park, Jaws, Innocent Blood, Goldfinger |
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| Director: | Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Lars von Trier, John Landis, Timur Bekmambetov, Pedro Almodova, François Truffaut |
| Quote: | All these moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain... |
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Fritt vilt (Cold Prey)
Unrated
I thoroughly enjoyed it. No big review as it's just another slasher but it was very well done.
The star of it all is Ingrid Bolsø Berdal who plays Jannicke. She looks a bit like a mixture of Sigourney Weaver from Alien and Milla Jovich from the Resident Evil films depending on the camera angle. She's definitely hot whatever the case though.
If you want to see how the Europeans are doing horror now then this is for you. Do not watch the dubbed version though, use the subtitles!
Sympathetic characters and brutal deaths in snowy Norway. Just what you need during the unbearable heat of summer.
Fritt vilt II (Cold Prey 2)
Unrated
I enjoyed this almost as much as the first one. Some of it was a bit ludicrous as it started to become like another Halloween or Friday the 13th sequel but Jannicke was a kick-ass hottie again and that's all that I really cared about.
Good gory death scenes and characters you care about. You can't go wrong really.
End of the Line
Unrated
This was completely different to what I expected. I thought it might be a cross between Deathline and Midnight Meat Train but it ended up being all about a load of religious nutters believing that demons are going to take anybody who they leave alive.
There was a kind of twist where the demons could actually be real (as shown on the DVD sleeve which ruins it for everybody) but it's still one of those films where you are left to wonder a bit at the end.
Performances were very good and it had some nice gore too. I wasn't completely happy with the ending but it all entertained me. It's Canadian so it has that "feel" about it if you know what I mean but it could just as easily be European because it's a lot better than any of the American films that I've seen this year or last year.
The heroine of the film, Ilona Elkin, reminded me a lot of Shannen Doherty which is no bad thing. In fact it's just down to her performance alone that I liked this a lot more. Some of the other characters were a bit "two-dimensional" but that's just the way of horror films anyway.
"End of the Line" is a solid 6 out of 10. There's some good use of tension and atmosphere. I recommend it.
Blindness
R
It was very reminiscent of the first episodes of the BBC's Day of the Triffids but even more like the "Blind Alleys" segment of Amicus' Tales from the Crypt (1972).
I enjoyed it for the most part but it was overlong and it didn't have a lot of horrific action or anything really sexy in it. There were a couple of brief sex scenes but they weren't very graphic.
It's tempting to think of it as being like a really long apocalyptic Twilight Zone episode such as "The Shelter" since it's all about what happens to people and how they change for the worse during a crisis. There's no real moral here though.
Julianne Moore looks really old and is a lot more freckly than I thought she was. I'm glad she didn't get naked or anything because I think it would have made me throw up. She does a reasonably good job in her role though the script makes her more annoying than she should be.
I've given it 5 out of 10. It's pretty average with a couple of inspired moments but, as I said, it's nothing that you haven't seen before.
The Grudge 3
R
While not the biggest fan of The Grudge remakes or even the originals, after re-watching the first 2, I got quite interested in seeing how the story was going to end.
Unfortunately, with Takashi Shimizu no longer directing the third installment, things didn't so much progress as stagnate in the Chicago apartment building that was already seen in Grudge 2.
While not a totally awful movie, the atmosphere just wasn't the same and the characters were a lot more irritating. Everything looked a lot brighter too (presumably to show off all the pretty young faces) which meant that there just weren't enough shadows for the vengeful ghosts to jump out of.
Instead of jump scares, The Grudge 3 went for a lot more gore and is the first one in the franchise to be R-rated. I will admit that the gory bits were nicely done but there was nothing overly inventive about them.
The biggest problem I had, other than none of it being at all scary, was that this one brought in the Takeo character with a possession storyline that was far too reminiscent of The Shining. Gil McKinney is just not enough of a Jack Nicholson to make it work and it all seems not only forced but very incongruous.
I didn't actually find any of the acting performances all that credible though anyway but that has been the problem with all the Grudge films. They've all just relied on the gimmick of the little white boy who screeches like a cat and his long haired mother with bulging eyes. There have never really been any attempts at anything other than routine performances and the stories have been so all over the place that it's been hard to feel anything for any of the characters anyway,
To its credit, The Grudge 3 is more linear and not filled with dozens of flashbacks and changes of location. It's easier to follow and, despite Emi Ikehata's horrible almost French pronunciations of every "the" word as "ze", it's a lot easier to listen to without Sarah Michelle Gellar's whininess. As much as I liked how Sarah Michelle Gellar looked as Buffy, I've never liked her voice. But that's a moot point since she isn't in The Grudge 3 at all and Emi Ikehata is a lot better looking anyway.
Without giving too much away, The Grudge 3 doesn't make enough use of Toshio and Kayako. One scene with Toshio was so ludicrous that it threw me right out of the film but all the scenes with Kayako do that because I'm warped and think that she's hot!
As I said, this one is all about bringing Takeo into the story before setting things up for a whole new "Grudge" or "Curse" (I still don't know why they translated Ju-on as "Grudge" which seems a silly word to use in the context of what these movies are about). By the end of it all, you can almost feel the producers champing at the bit to make The Grudge 4.
Personally, I hope The Grudge movies stop here before they end up going the same way as the Saw franchise. There's only so much that you can wring out of the same characters (especially if the only interesting ones are already dead) before it ends up as silly as yet another parody by the Scary Movie gang. Oops, too late...
Anyway, to sum things up, The Grudge 3 was an entertaining film but was by far the weakest of the American versions. Fans of The Grudge will probably still enjoy it but it could have and should have been a lot better.
It wasn't boring but it was very miscast, had a lot of plot holes, and wasn't very effective as a horror movie at all. It went straight to DVD and that in itself says all you really need to know.
Drag Me to Hell
PG-13
I've just watched "Drag Me to Hell" and couldn't get into it at all. So much for Sam Raimi's triumphant return to the horror genre.
Some of it was like "Evil Dead 2" (camerawork, demons, makeup etc.) but it was all so boring that I kept falling asleep. Yeah, there were severe pacing problems. It's aptly named because it really does "drag".
In the moments when I did wake up it was only because of loud noises in the soundtrack and not because I cared about anything that was happening to the main character (whose name I can't even be bothered to type since you'll never hear of her again anyway). It all just felt cheap like "Army of Darkness" (for obvious reasons) but without a Bruce Campbell to carry it off.
I didn't like the actors (especially the blonde girl with her eyes too close together like a Wallace and Gromit character), didn't care about the story (such as it was), and, well, it was just bland. There's some really crappy CGI just to make me (and everyone else) even more disappointed too.
It's obviously also just a lame PG-13 so it isn't realistically gory or scary. As a fully grown man, I need my horror to be a lot more adult. The only thing I did like was that the cat in the film looked a lot like my own mackerel tabby - Willow.
This film just failed on all levels to entertain me. "Masterpiece of horror cinema", my arse! I'd rather watch "Thinner" or "Curse of the Demon" instead.
I've given it 2 out of 10 and that's being generous.
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Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor)
R
Great stunts, brilliant use of CGI, and there are even one or two love stories going on amongst all the action. This is simply one of the best films that I have ever seen. Watch out for the very important drop of blood!
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Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)
R
Some interesting ideas and very charismatic acting will keep you interested especially as it's a film that you may have to watch more than once to understand everything that is going on.
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Them (Ils)
R
The action is real edge-of-your-seat stuff which doesn't let up until the end. Until the final 10 minutes you don't really see or find out who the "them" are. What makes it worse is that it's all very believable!
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Salem's Lot
PG
Definitely the best Stephen King miniseries and the most memorable. David Soul does a credible job as Ben Mears, James Mason is also suitably icy as Straker, but not enough is made of Barlow, his Nosferatu-like master.
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The Haunting
Unrated
Thought by many to be the best haunted house film ever made, it is sadly becoming quite dated. Great use of sound makes up for never actually seeing the ghost and adds to the dark and uneasy atmosphere.
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An American Werewolf in London
R
A witty amalgam of previous werewolf movies and fully fledged horror make this the best werewolf movie to date.
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bdgrl42posted 1 day ago -
hahaha drag me to hell, went to the theatre to see it, haha, kindof sad i went but kindof not, lol
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Direct Contact
by Agnesthis is a low budget and NOT a good one..some scenes is so corny and embarrassing that I had to look away..and the acting is terrible..it starts out pretty cool but it's all down hill after that..some of the cues were so ridiculous that it made me laugh..
but I give the movie one star because I love Dolph Lundgren!Hey, MAYBE you should see this!
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Dungeon Girl
by Agnescrap crap crap...what a joke..I couldn't do nothing but roll my eyes, laugh and wonder, what the h**l is this!?!
this is the true story about Natascha Kampusch, the girl that got abducted and lived with her kidnapper for 8 years, before she escaped..
I hate when they do this, when they take a dramatic true story and make a crap movie out of it..this could have been a great movie, an interesting, dramatic and thrilling film, but instead it's like the creators of this movie is high on something, I barely know what this movie is suppose to be..it's a low budget of course, but that doesn't mean that it have to be bad, but this one sure is..and on top of everything: the acting was horrible..I don't like to bring a movie down like this, but it really is BAD..Hey, you should really NOT see this!
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Thanks for the heads up on the horror board, Dean! I'll check it out. I fuckin' hated the grudge btw..ha-ha!
Sallyposted 2 days ago -
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Zombieland
by JohnnyDirector: Ruben Fleischer
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Plot: In the horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss -- but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying' bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.
Genre: Comedy | HorrorHey, you should really see this!
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Atonement
by JohnnyThere are many aspects of "Atonement" that I found disappointing. Going in, I thought the film was going to be a glossy, but predictable story. I figured it was boy and girl fall in love, get torn apart through a misunderstanding, suffer through the war and the only suspense would be whether they are able to get back together after the war. That's not the story. As predictable as that story is, it was better than the one in the film itself.
Hollywood has recently decided that two people who are hot for each other represent true love on the screen. There is no chemistry between James McEvoy and Keira Knightly. There is a moment and then there is a misunderstanding, then there is sex and then he's carted off to the army. McEvoy's woes are brought about by his character's own stupidity and therefore, I could not empathize.
I won't give away too much of the plot because it is badly flawed and I don't feel like rewriting it. I found the title "Atonement" to be ironic given the twist or surprise that the story throws at the audience toward the end.
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The film is beautifully shot. The war scenes are confusing madness and the English countryside is a great canvas for filming whether the scenes are inside or outside. But that beautiful scenery cannot make up for a story that did not convince me that the two lovers were in love as much as they were merely hot for each other. It also doesn't make up for some truly stupid moments that are needed to push the story in its direction. Finally, excellent photography cannot make up for a film that doesn't understand the point it's trying to make.Hey, you should really see this!
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One Week
by LYNNJust seen this movie.. it was such a good film.. Sad, funny, and touching. Don't know what I would do if I was told I was going to die.. Maybe the same thing he did... It was set in Canada and I have never been there and just by looking at the scenery as he is taking his trip, its quite beautifull.. maybe thats where I would take my roadtrip..
Hey, you should really see this!
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I recommend you see...If you dig pirates, gore or David Warner, check this out.
I guess if you're a Michael Caine fan as well.posted 5 days ago
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