| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead - Unrated | June 10, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Dead of Night (Deathdream) (Night Walk) (The Veteran) (Whispers) - R | June 7, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Laid to Rest - R |
A truly fun slasher. Though it breaks no new ground in terms of story, it does innovate to introduce a technophile murderer and uses this to help explain away some of his superhumanish aspects. The script does retain just enough thrill and twisting along with some human and relatable characters to be far superior than standard horror fare. There are some really cool gore scenes and blood coloring is dead on. |
June 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Kill Theory - Unrated |
I was going to be nice and give this a two, but when I didn't remember a damn thing about this movie and I just saw it the night before, well that's under-2-worthy. Actually now that I recall more, some of the gore is not so bad and is a bit fun. Still nothing here you haven't seen 50 times before 50 better ways in 500 other movies. Not mediocre enough to enter the cheese realm, and yeah, there is nothing else to say about this forgettable waste receipt. |
June 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Drag Me to Hell - PG-13 | June 1, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Unrated | May 23, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Antichrist - Unrated | May 23, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Poe - G | This IS a joke? Please, please, please jokey jokey jokey. If it's not, and it gets made, and I know I've said this before, I will give up on the film industry completely. | May 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Metropia - Unrated | May 23, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Lovely Bones - PG-13 | May 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Pandorum - R | May 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Blood: The Last Vampire - R | May 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Plague Town - Unrated |
This is pretty incredible for a low budget feature. At the conclusion of this film, I definitely decided that this is one fictional horror town I NEVER want to end up in; I'd rather face Leatherface to be honest. Now the downers. The acting is at best lukewarm. The makeup varies in effectiveness from "you need to reapply that" to "okay that's acceptable for an amateur"; in a few wide shots, it is clear that the production couldn't afford/bother to makeup the antagonistic children. The effects crew seems to do much better with the blood, keeping coloring and flow pretty consistently good. The characters often make questionable decisions, but what is this genre without such idiocy on part of the characters? You can feel that these people are truly stranded and surrounded. The town, once revealed, is just as eerie and backwards as you would expect. The girls' ritual performed on the surviving Brit is quite satisfyingly sick. This is one of the better indie efforts I've seen in a long time and I wouldn't be surprised to see a large budget American remake in the pipeline. |
May 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Dead Snow (Død snø) - Unrated |
A wholly average movie until the zombie Nazis show up. Granted it takes them 53 minutes to appear, but it is worth the wait. The makeup jobs are awesome, and blood on snow is always beautiful. In the very bloody and action packed conclusion, the film clearly gives tribute to Dead Alive (one of the characters was even wearing a t-shirt earlier on). The wide shots of the zombie army are utterly eerie. |
May 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Meat Market 2 - Unrated |
Super Z movie so of course WTF abounds here: a vampire with a bowcaster, public domain Halloween music, loops of generic zombie/horror moans, pointless shower scenes featuring unsexy nudity, acting beyond amateurishly atrocious, a necrophiliac character, sound worse than thought possible, names of famous zombie directors/genre contributors being dropped randomly, unnecessary cannibalism (by the still human population), inexplicable sex scenes, thirty different blood colors and none of them close to realistic, and a zombie/human massacre for the ending. Some of the makeup is pretty damn cool, but for every decent zed head, there are ten more that even a kid would be embarrassed to be on their first Halloween doing their own makeup. The coolest part of the movie is the settings used in the first part of the movie. It's almost sad how easy it is to find apocalyptic settings in the every day real world, and this production manages a few that are beyond awesome. The story concept is not so bad: in the undead future, renegade fundamentalist militia groups seek to start a new world of exclusively white straight people. They also experiment on zombies and humans and eat flesh. Most funny is a feast scene where someone picks a penis entree and dips it in wine for added flavour. If you like z movies and you HAVE to like z movies to find anything worthwhile here, this may have entertaining parts if you're beyond intoxicated and out of decent z movies to watch. Laughably bad. |
May 19, 2009 | N/A | |||
| X-Men Origins - Wolverine - PG-13 |
As a lifelong Wolverine devotee, I must say I am pleased. Also I will say that this is more of a 'Logan" movie than it is a "Wolverine' movie. High hopes for a sequel. Liev Schreiber is fantastic as Sabretooth, can't believe how buff he got. Also, this film should have been tited Wolverine: Origins. I was sick to my fanboy stomach when I saw my local had printed X-Men 4 on my ticket stub. Though hopefully that X-Men Origins preface means there will be other characters' movies *AHEM* *cough* *hack* Magneto. Deadpool and Gambit are fucking awesome. The fight scenes rock my cock. I don't care how scrambled the storyline is, it's just as comprehensible and annoying as the published comic dreck. Cinematography looked great. Fanboy wad all over this seksy flick! Also, I believe THIS: http://www.flixster.com/movie/wolverine/reviews/her69eyes?lsrc=MD-LOG-FR-REV-MORE is the review you should read before viewing or reviewing this movie. It best expresses my sentiments, except better and without any effort on my part. |
May 18, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Aftermath: Population Zero - Unrated | May 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Star Trek - PG-13 |
Gets that extra star because I have post-movie high from it, which Wolverine did not deliver unto me. A reason to keep movie theatres open well into the next generation. Let me preface and say that I'm not a Trekkie, but a Star Wars geek who has much love for Star Trek TNG and has seen the original series. I've seen the other Star Trek movies, but I only understand and remember their details long enough to get through the movie. It seems that Star Trek writers always delight in concocting wildly confusing scripts and then writing it off by saying "well, the drama's there and any possible continuity issues will likely be sorted out to satisfaction by some Trekkie somewhere since half their fun IS decoding all this indecipherable quantum scifi shit anyway". That sentiment holds true for this movie too. I understood it enough to sit there, enjoy it, and have a good idea what was going on, but I certainly could not produce a storyboard or even a sensible synopsis. It looks beautiful, and the actors all look, with the exception of Chekhov's replacement, and some even sound the same as the actors who came before them. I think every real fanboy is delighted to see Simon Pegg in a Trek film and thus vicariously feel the power of epic win for what studios regard as a mere fanboy. I hope they make shitloads more of these, and now I actually have respect for J.J. Abrams as a creator (but I have no interest in Lost and haven't seen MI:III yet); previously I only respected that he has amassed a vast fortune and industry power and got to do a TED talk. It was great to have Leonard Nimoy bestow his blessing on this, and I teared up when he got to read the "space, the final frontier" bit. Thoroughly enjoyable, and more like a ride than a movie. Makes me have hope for the potential of the action genre (I haven't had faith in action since I was a preteen and still mentally deficient enough to be into the genre). |
May 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Right at Your Door - R |
"Right at Your Door" is American dirty bomb version of the British atom bomb film "Threads", except it is not nearly as frighteningly powerful. I often wondered what happened to the kid in "Empire Records" who blew the register money in Atlantic City, well turns out he's in low budget flicks and doing a damn good job at it. He manages to eek out that careful balance of caring for his wife while simultaneously secretly caring about his own life slightly more. The beginning is tense and fast paced, but is quite misleading as the middle begins to get slow until it almost stops and so slow indeed that you expect a death scene to come soon. Instead, another bit of thrill is injected, which steadily rises to the twist conclusion. The photography could have been a hell of a lot better, and the handheld technique didn't have to be so obvious. If the production could afford all that plastic and masking tape, it could have afforded some steadicam attachments. The deadly toxic ash and the quarantined neighborhood are nicely done though. The one weakness is that in the beginning when the main character is trying to reach his wife, the streets are quite bare and not littered with panic, which is the main tell that this is a low budget venture. Some may criticize the art direction on the primary set, but I think it is done incredibly well because it uses the same materials that a real person forced to improvise would use. The film tries to tug at many emotional heartstrings, and it succeeds in the first reel in conveying the panic and then the dilemma, but it never drives home the worry of contamination and death. Despite the lack of overall terror (especially when compared to a film like Threads), I like the ending and thus give this an additional half star. |
May 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Zombi: La creazione, (Zombies: The Beginning) - Unrated |
Here's another Z budget zombie crapfest I've gotten added to the Flixster database (and the Zombie Movie Database as well (zmdb.com) This is Bruno Mattei's last film, and everything you'd expect from the master of low budget zombie action. The plot is absurd, though heavily recycled. The dubs are intolerable. The makeup is half-assed but somehow charming. The end veers off into some unrelated scifi territory, and offer some truly odd bits of costuming and set design. If you like Z movies, this is a good intoxicated weekend watch, but put against any other film standard, this is beyond intolerably bad. |
May 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Zombie Diaries - Unrated |
A completely handheld zombie movie that I like. How often does someone who so much hates the handheld horror style and is so critical of anything zombie movie remotely like a movie done this way? Not since "Diary of the Dead". [REC] did NOT meet my standards by any means. I might get accused of bias towards slow zombies and non-linear storytelling, but both of those things, done right, makes for a better film than a decent linear verite with fast zombies. Leave full real-time verite for serial killer movies, and fast zombies for cheap-o apocalyptic scifi thrillers or horror genre parodies. There are cooler zombie shots in this than in "Diary of the Dead". Obviously the closeups of Diary were better, but the hordes in this scare and shock like the original "Night". This movie has one of the best nightshot scenes in horror film (when the farm-camp becomes unraveled), definitely the best indie work I've seen (yeah, I like the angle and orchestration **way** better than the ending of "Blair Witch"). For zombie lovers, a must see that captures the strangeness and insanity of surviving in a zombie world. Don't know why they're re-making [REC] into Quarantine instead of just putting this movie, as is, out in American theatres ('tis a British film). |
May 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| This Side of the Truth - Unrated | May 14, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Piranha 3-D - Unrated | May 14, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Bay of Blood - R | May 13, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Threads - Unrated | May 12, 2009 | N/A |
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