A group of strangers are trapped in a malfunctioning elevator and what follows is a series of mind games as one of them is the Devil. M. Night Shyamalan has a producer and story credit for this film. The idea very much has a Shyamalan feel, but the execution is very different. This was a …
Years have past and the killing has started again. The gore level is increased, but the story and plot have taken a step back. The ending seems pretty contrived and one of the revealed killers is grossly miscast. It’s not nearly as good as the original, but it’s not terrible.
Not the first found footage movie, but it certainly helped launch the phenomenon. I first saw this at an advanced screening, and the crowd was really into it. Tense, scary, low-key. The theatre helped continue to fuel the fear fire by placing rock piles and branch clusters in the lobby and along the sidewalk outside …
A quiet Belgian immigrant is left alone in an apartment while her sister travels to Italy. And soon the isolation drives her to madness. Polanski’s classic. Catherine Deneuve is stunning as the young woman slowly losing her grip on reality. Beautifully shot.
A travel journalist partakes in a crocodile-watching boat tour while on assignment in Australia and he gets more than he bargained for. We’ve seen this before; it’s just Jaws with a giant, aggressive crocodile. However, we haven’t seen one from the director of Wolf Creek. Much better than your average killer aquatic creature feature. Strong …
Each Halloween movie can be described with two “S” words. Carpenter’s: Suspenseful & Subtle. Zombie’s: Savage & So fucking violent. While the story stays mostly true to the original, the tone does a complete 180 and drops the suspense and adds pure brutal gore. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It helps separate …
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A woman becomes obsessed with a Ouija board. That’s it. That’s the movie. And it’s boring as whale shit. I hate Ouija movies that can’t even pull off the movement of the planchette without it looking really obvious that the actors are pushing it.
A couple of PIs break into a house to search for a missing student and they discover a large VHS collection. So what do they do? They watch ’em of course. This is the second installment to the popular horror anthology series. It’s loud; it’s chaotic; it’s dizzying; and my god, it is ever violent. …
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A wealthy young woman and her aunt travel to a French estate to meet with the family into which she plans to marry, completely unaware of a beast lurking on the property. Wikipedia describes this as an erotic fantasy horror. Well, there’s more whoring than there is horror. As for the beast? Anyone see Your …
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This is the strangest episode of River Monsters I have ever seen. Flying piranhas, really? If this movie wasn’t based on a true story, I’d be calling bullshit. This film is so bad, I almost walked out of the screening… in my own house.
