This is Bill Paxton’s directorial debut, and it’s magnificent. A perfect example of horror without gore. It’s all implied. High tension throughout the movie. Terrific performances by all. The ending hits you with a wallop as the story comes to a head with one ingenious twist after another. One of my all-time favourite horror films.
“Well, my gauges must be wrong. I’ve got a wind blowing due east. Now what kind of a fog blows against the wind?”
A young woman receives a grant to study the habits web-chat users on a Chatroulette type site and along the way she witnesses a murder. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it’s not terrible. The gimmick of having almost the entire movie from the point of view of a webcam …
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Incredibly fresh at the time when you consider that the writer came up with a lot of the werewolf folklore that we still follow today and the fact that a character actually has to ask, “What’s a werewolf?” Wonderfully complex and sympathetic performance by Lon Chaney. I liked that Randolph Duke was in the movie. …
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This movie is stunning. The most exciting film where nothing happens. It’s a cat and mouse chase movie without the chase. Completely dialogue driven. It feels like a filmed play set in an interrogation room. So many twists and turns. Is he the killer? Is he not? Fantastic performances especially from Hugo Weaving who is …
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“Aren’t you a little young for full-contact?” “Aren’t you a little old for video games?”
A ’70s cult horror classic gets a midnight showing and soon, film and reality collide as footage of the theatre patrons getting killed start getting spliced into the movie. Light on budget, heavy on gore. A worthy entry into the already crowded slasher genre; it deserves a bigger audience.
An okay documentary about various people suffering from sleep paralysis and end up envisioning that they are being visited by shadowy figures. Interesting subject matter told through interviews and reenactments. The thought of the reality is much scarier than the film’s execution. Hoped for better.
People hard on their luck are invited to a dinner party which turns out to be a deadly competition of Would You Rather. Clever little flick with a very eclectic cast which includes an Oscar nominee, a Barden Bella, a Trailer Park Boy, a TV super-villain, a porn star and cult horror legend, Jeffrey Combs. …
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