by: ahf
Posted on 07.29.10 in All Horror Films
Release Date: 2010

Piranha 3D trailer:
After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents

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Director: Alexandre Aja
Writer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, Dina Meyer, Brooklynn Proulx, Quinn Lord, Jessica Szohr, Jerry O’Connell, Paul Scheer, Cody Longo, Riley Steele, Eli Roth, Ricardo Chavira, Christopher Lloyd

by: Kevin Kreepshow
Posted on 07.29.10 in All Horror Films > Supernatural
Release Date: 2002

When two escaped convicts brutally murder her parents it sets in motion a chain of events that will change Sara’s world forever. This paranormal thriller from Michael Bafaro, both writer and director, wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen but, it left a lot to be desired. It’s fairly low budget with no effects whatsoever. Cars crash off screen. People get shot off screen. I can forgive low budget if the premise is good. Unfortunately the premise here isn’t. The entire 11:11 bit has been done to death, even Uri Geller did a bit on it. Granted this is the first time I’ve seen it done in film but, that doesn’t change the fact that it feels like an off brand 12/21/12 concept. If this movie had been released before everyone started focusing on 2012 it might have made a bigger impact but, today it just seems weak in comparison to the much larger social phenomenon of 2012.

The protagonist, Sara Tobias, did not engender any sort of empathy in me. Usually I can identify with the protagonist in a movie like this but, the script just piled on a bunch of trite problems that have been done to death in a thousand other flicks before this. If it had just been the tragic death of her parents or her nearly being raped or even being the freak at school I could have felt a connection. With all of them piled on the poor girl I couldn’t help but feel that she needed to just die and get it over with. I actually found myself hoping that at some point one of the bizarre and lethal incidents that were happening to the people around her would happen to her as well. To her credit Laura Mennell, the actress playing Sara, seemed to be giving it her best effort but, I think even she was struggling with the ridiculous weight of circumstance placed upon her character.

My last real bone of contention is the final sound mix. This is another indicator of this movie’s shoestring budget. There is a real problem when I have to turn my television up full blast to hear dialogue at normal levels only to be nearly deafened by background noise three minutes later. I understand budget constraints but seriously does it cost that much to normalize volume? I honestly can’t say I’d recommend this movie to anyone I like, which includes my readers here, but, if you have no other options and need to kill an hour and a half or you just want to torture someone then give this movie a try.

by: KFear
Posted on 06.08.10 in All Horror Films
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This looks interesting enough.  A new British Slasher called Deadtime.  Enjoy this intriguing trailer!

by: Dylan
Posted on 06.02.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense
Release Date: 1999

Never before has a security personnel had this much unrestrained power. Jericho Cane – a former cop now working in private security – storms through End of Days with less check and balances than the president, entering crime scenes, stealing and hiding evidence from the police and conducting his own investigation of key witnesses without ever more than a cursory comment from the deputy.  At the start of a film, Cane hangs off the bottom of a helicopter flying over downtown Manhattan, and towards the end, he stops by his work and leaves toting a grenade launcher. I understand he’s guarding high-risk and/or wealthy individuals, but I’m pretty sure even the president’s secret service doesn’t have access to that type of military-grade weapon (a quick Google search confirms the secret service use primarily pistols, along with some shotguns and submachine guns, but no grenade launchers).

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by: Letitia
Posted on 05.24.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher
Release Date: 1983

The 1983 slasher movie House on Sorority Row has pretty much every element you’ve seen in a slasher movie since then: clever-but-unlikely death scenes, girls at various levels of nakedness, the slutty girl/virginal girl combo, and the unstoppable faceless killer who can be everywhere at once. Although it’s completely predictable (with a few nice twists), House on Sorority Row is also incredibly fun–it does what 80’s slasher movies do best–it sells its gore and goofiness with a sense of humor. Although it lacks the real terror and interesting social commentary of Black Christmas (another early sorority house slasher), it’s worth a viewing to see how the college slasher genre invaded popular culture.

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by: Obaid K
Posted on 05.21.10 in All Horror Films > Exploitation > Slasher
Release Date: 2006

Maladjusted characters and plenty of 70s-style sleaze and violence are what make this modern send-up of the classic exploitation film worth a watch, but only if you’re a fan of the genre. Aside from a vague religious theme there isn’t too much going on, but what it lacks in substance it makes up for with some good interplay between its cast of (for lack of a better word) scum – an armed robber, a pedophile, coked-out strippers and an enigmatic homeless man, to name a few. Timothy Muskatell puts on a great performance as Remington, the criminal trying to work his way into the lives of Mindy and her son, and offsets his nasty demeanor with a good dose of humor.

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by: KFear
Posted on 05.19.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Slasher
Release Date: 2002

There is something that is so painfully real about Angela Bettis’s portrayal of May.  You could say that there is a little “May” in all of us because May is ambitious, curious, shy (her dominant personality trait), and vengeful.  Bettis also gives what is perhaps the best female performance, ever, within any genre of horror.  Will her performance be as memorable as Jamie Lee Curtis’s roll in the first Halloween?  Probably not…but it deserves to be.  I can say this because the character and the life that Bettis brings to May is so real, and three dimensional, that it is impossible not to relate to her on multiple levels.  True, we probably felt THAT shy in grade school, but for some people, like May, that shyness never really goes away.  Bettis is exactly the female version on myself of when i was in 3rd grade…but really…this film is excellent.

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by: KFear
Posted on 05.19.10 in Horror Short

http://vimeo.com/11784656

A link to a nice horror short by Robin Kasparik.  It’s gotten much appraise in all the right places and most importantly…it’s kind of creepy!  It reminds me of A Drop of Water, a famous Mario Bava short.  Enjoy this!

“I think it is really first rate work – direction, designed, acting, all worked.”
Tony Randel, director – Hellraiser II

“Terrific job.”
William Malone, director – House on Haunted Hill

by: Deborah Beech
Posted on 05.07.10 in All Horror Films > Werewolf
Release Date: 2006

Unquestionably the most exhilarating element of any werewolf film is the transformation into the wolf. The human body as host for the untamed monster that rips its way out of human flesh, developing into a bloodthirsty animal intent on destruction is incredibly terrifying and exhilarating. Unfortunately, this film was billed as a werewolf movie, but with a 12A certificate Blood and Chocolate (Katja von Garnier UK, Germany, Romania 2007) is anything but horror driven. Consequently, what this film suffers from, and what the werewolves seem to strive for is identity. There seems to be confusion as to what genre of film this is, possibly due to the fact that this is based on the book of the same name, written by Annette Curtis Klause with a core audience of young adults and teenagers. Adapted as a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, who also wrote the screenplay for The Ring (USA 2002; Gore Verbinski); it appears to have lost its focus. Is it a teen angst story set against a gothic backdrop or a re-imagined take on Little Red Riding Hood? Either way the focus is on an adolescent female, fighting hormones and her ‘family’.

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by: AthenaY
Posted on 05.05.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher > Thriller/Suspense
Release Date: 2010

One thing is certain about Judith:  A Halloween Tribute Short Film– the creative voices behind the film are passionate about John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic. This short film is a labor of love by director/producer/cameraman Josh Hasty and writer Kenny Caperton.  Not only is the unique camera style from the original Halloween replicated, but the entire story is filmed in the same home where the classic film took place.  Judith is meant to offer fresh perspective on a very minor, yet important character whose role in the original Halloween was extraordinarily memorable, despite her very minimal screen time. (Warning: minor Halloween spoilers ahead.)

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