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There’s more to a zombie movie than brain-eating, dismemberment, and finding clever ways to dispose of the zombie threat.
Granted, there are a lot of people out there who want nothing more out of their zombie flicks. No matter how idiotic the rest of the movie, if [...]
October 27, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: Dance of the Dead, Gregg Bishop, Indie Horror, Joe Ballarini, Prom, Zombies . Author: Justin . Comments: 2 Comments
It’s currently 3:15 am. I have to be at work (for a double shift) at 11:00am. Realistically, I should be in bed right now, catching up on some much-needed beauty sleep.
I should have come home after work tonight and gone to sleep at a responsible time. But I just couldn’t wait.
I should [...]
July 11, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy 2, Movies . Author: Justin . Comments: Leave a Comment
Lifeforce (1985)
What the hell was that?
Okay, I’ve got to admit it. Before Lifeforce was chosen as the latest (and my first) entry in the Final Girl Film Club, I really didn’t know anything about it. I mean, yeah, I’d heard it mentioned in passing, but I pretty much thought that it was considered [...]
June 23, 2008
Categories: Blog-A-Thon, Movie Reviews . Tags: Dan O'Bannon, Lifeforce, Sci-Fi, Tobe Hooper, Vampires, Zombies . Author: Justin . Comments: 2 Comments
Prophecy (1979)
Somebody should’ve shown Prophecy to M. Night Shyamalan. This is how you do environmental horror, sir. Actually, I’m going to start referring to this kind of film as “Greensploitation.” I’ve got a feeling we’ll be seeing more of these in the near future what with how enviro-conscious everyone is these days.
Ah, [...]
June 19, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: Giant animals, Greensploitation, John Frankenheimer, Movies, Mutants, Prophecy . Author: Justin . Comments: 2 Comments
The Happening (2008)
I’m really going to try to be nice about this (at least, nicer than I was on my first attempt).
I’m not sure what happened to the promising young director who brought us The Sixth Sense a few years ago, but surely this atrocity wasn’t really directed by the same guy.
I mean, I’d heard [...]
June 17, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: John Leguizamo, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, The Happening, Zooey Deschanel . Author: Justin . Comments: 2 Comments
Fuck this movie.
June 16, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening . Author: Justin . Comments: Leave a Comment
Vampires (1998)
“How do you like your stake, bitch?!”
That line, uttered by Daniel Baldwin (he’s the fat one!) is either really cheesy or really awesome. I can’t decide.
And that’s sort of the problem that I have with the whole movie. It’s got a cool concept. Vampire slayers, hired by the Catholic [...]
June 11, 2008
Categories: Blog-A-Thon, Movie Reviews . Tags: James Woods, John Carpenter, Thomas Ian Griffith, Vampires . Author: Justin . Comments: 8 Comments
The Machine Girl [Kataude mashin gâru] (2008)
If the trailer for The Machine Girl doesn’t make you want to see the movie, then there’s not much that I’d be able to do to change your mind. If that sort of over-the-top, blood-spattered roaring rampage of Japanese revenge doesn’t get your juices flowing, then I’ve [...]
June 5, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: Insane, Japanese Film, Kataude mashin gâru, Lots of blood!, Minase Yashiro, Noboru Iguchi, Roaring rampage of revenge, The Machine Girl . Author: Justin . Comments: 3 Comments
From Beyond (1986)
I’m ashamed of myself. Before tonight, I’d painted Stuart Gordon as a one-trick pony. Re-Animator. I’d seen a couple of his other films, like Dagon and Castle Freak, and…well… they were okay. Good enough. But just barely beyond the realm of awful. And his season 1 Masters [...]
June 4, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: From Beyond, H.P. Lovecraft, Jeffrey Combs, Stuart Gordon . Author: Justin . Comments: 5 Comments
The Strangers (2008)
These days, there seems to be two types of horror films in mainstream America. You’ve got the so-called “torture porn” films like Hostel and Saw. Or you’ve got remakes — either or foreign films like One Missed Call or Shutter*, or of classic horror films, like Prom Night (not that the [...]
May 31, 2008
Categories: Movie Reviews . Tags: Brian Bertino, Home Invasion, Liv Tyler, Masked Killer, Scott Speedman, The Strangers . Author: Justin . Comments: 1 Comment