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Don't Look Up is a 2009 horror movie directed by Fruit Chan and starring Reshad Strik,Eli Roth,Henry Thomas and Rachael Murphy.
In Romania years ago, a woman made a pact with the Devil to bear him a child in return for the love of a powerful man. She kept her promise and the child was born and called Matya. In the village where she lived, the locals were horrified when they saw the mark of the Devil on the child and took the girl and tortured and killed her. She is said to have haunted the village since. In 1928, a movie maker called Bela Olt(Roth) is making a movie about Matya with an actress called Lila Kis(Murphy). The cast and crew of the film vanished and the movie was never found.A filmmaker called Marcus Reed(Strik) and his producer Josh Petri(Thomas) go to Romania to make a movie about Matya. They bring their crew with them and go to the original place where the 1928 film was made.
Strange things begin to happen to them and Marcus has weird visions of Matya etc. The rest of the movie is pretty much people getting killed etc and Marcus wondering if Matya has come back for revenge. I thought that this movie was not good. I didn't really like it at all. It was dull and a bit too obvious for my liking. It just wasn't well made. I wouldn't watch it again. I would skip it unless you like really bad movies. It gets a 2/10.
The Conjuring is a 2013 horror movie directed by James Wan(Saw franchise,Insidious) and starring Lili Taylor, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Ron Livingston.It is based on actual events.
The story revolves around a couple called Ed and Lorraine Warren(Wilson and Farmiga who investigate the paranormal and they are called in by a family who are being haunted. Carolyn (Taylor) and her husband Roger(Livingston) move into a house with their five daughters in 1971. They think that the house will be a new start for them. Things start to go wrong immediately. Their dog dies and Carolyn notices that she is bruised. There are noises in the house and one of the daughters sees someone who attacks her.One of the daughters has an imaginary friend who talks to her.It becomes obvious that something is very wrong in this house and the family are at their wits end. They find out about a ghost hunting couple called Ed and Lorraine Warren and Carolyn approaches them and asks them to come and see if there is anything they can do.
Ed and Lorraine come to the house and realise that there is something very evil in the house. They agree to try and get evidence of it and see if they can help the family. They need to get evidence of the ghost before they can go to the Catholic Church for an exorcism. They stay in the house and set up equipment to catch the ghosts. They discover that the house was once owned by a witch who was very evil and that she put a curse on anyone who takes her land. Carolyn is possessed by the witch and she tries to attack her own daughter and kill her. Ed and Lorraine have to perform their own exorcism and try and save Carolyn from the demon.
This was a very good movie and I really liked it. It is old school horror and it bears more than a passing resemblance to The Amityville Horror. It reminded me of that movie what with the family moving into a new house and the daughter having an invisible friend. It is spooky and there were some great scares. I love these kinds of movies when they are made well and this is. I liked the story and the acting was good. There was very little I could complain about here. I highly recommend this. If you are looking for gore and brainless fun, then this is not for you. If, like me, you are delighted when you find a horror movie that you can actually enjoy without reaching for the fast forward button, watch this. You won't be disappointed! I am giving this a 9/10.
The Ouija Experiment is a 2011 horror movie directed by Israel Luna and starring Justin Armstrong, Eric Window and Carson Underwood.
This film is another home movie horror with shaking cameras etc etc. It concerns five people who decide to get together and use the Ouija board. You just know that nothing good is going to come from this!
Brandon(Underwood) is filming the event for his film class. He goes over to Michael's(Armstrong) place where he has a Ouija board. With Michael are Lynette(Swisyzinna),her brother Calvin(Window) and Calvin's girlfriend, Shay. Michael explains the rules of the board to them. He tells them that when they have made contact with a spirit, before they leave, they have to say goodbye to it or else the board is open and any spirits could come through. They all sit down and start. They make contact with a little girl called Gracie and chat to her for a while. Then they say goodnight and promise to come back and talk again tomorrow.
The next day, they talk to it again but due to an argument, they don't say goodbye and it is only later that Michael says goodbye. Weird things start to happen to each of them. They wonder if they have unleashed something evil from the board. Calvin is the first one to die and one by one, they get killed by something malevolent. Michael looks up in his attic and finds a scrapbook about a little girl called Gracie who was killed in the house by her mother who then killed the neighbour who saw what she had done and then herself. They brought back the mother and she is angry. They face off with her and they realise that they have to burn the Ouija board to get rid of her. She chases them etc and in the end it is just Lynette and Michael left. They get the board into the fire and burn it. The demon disappears. Michael sees Gracie and the neighbour and they are happy now. He realises that he is dead and Lynette is alive...
Not a bad effort and I thought that it was entertaining enough. It is not great, but not dire either. I have seen way worse. I liked the idea and apart from some awful acting, this film was watchable. It had its spooky moments and I found it was good fun. I give it a 5/10.
The Amityville Haunting is a 2011 horror movie directed by Geoff Meed and starring Luke Barnett, Jason Williams, Amy Van Horne and Tyler Shamy.
This movie is a found footage horror and it is the same as all of the others you have seen. It starts with a family moving into the Amityville house. Strange things happen and they see spooky things etc etc. The reason I am not going into details for this movie is that it was crappy. I could see it all coming and there was little scares or originality. It was boring. One of the kids has a camcorder and he films everything that happens in the house. You just know that there will be some ghostly occurences and doors opening etc.
The Amityville story or whatever you want to call it has been done to death and this movie is just a reminder of that.
I loved the original Amityville Horror with James Brolin and Margot Kidder and some of the sequels were enjoyable too, but when you count how many bad movies have been based on this house, you realise that it has to stop somewhere. Anyway I'm sure there will be another reboot sometime so we will have yet another Amityville movie!Do yourself a favour and skip this movie and revisit the original. It is much scarier, there is better acting and it is a classic. This gets 1/10. Very poor.
Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror/thriller movie directed by Jamie Blanks.Blanks also directed Urban Legend, Valentine and the remake of Long Weekend. It stars Robert Taylor,Nadia Fares and David Lyons(Revolution).
The story is pretty simple. Rob(Taylor) and his French wife Pia(Fares) are going out boating one day and they get lost in the middle of nowhere during a storm. They discover a house and they go inside for some shelter. They discover that there is marijuana growing in the shed and Rob thinks that this was a mistake.
The owners come back and they are not pleased to see them. Jimmy (Lyons) and his brother Brett(Mathew Wilkinson) are backward yokels and they are amused but they have guns and other weapons on them so they are not nice guys. They are threatening and even though they don't say anything outright, Rob knows that something bad is going to happen. They try to leave, but Jimmy and Brett won't let them.
They humiliate Pia and then tell them that they will have to spend the night in the barn. There are no phones around so they are stuck. They make a break for it, but get caught. They break Rob's leg so he is useless. Pia is inventive so she sets about making some booby traps to catch them. Brett is the first one to die. He gets caught in one of her traps. The father of the two boys, Poppy wants Pia for himself so Jimmy brings her up to him. She does something to him and he dies. Jimmy is the last one left and he is harder to kill. Rob and Pia try to escape and they eventually take care of Jimmy and escape. This film was decent and I liked that the victims were inventive and killed the bad guys. It was a good thriller and I would recommend it. I like Australian horror movies and this one is entertaining and well worth a watch. It gets a 6/10.
The Running Man is a 1987 Sci-Fi movie directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura,Richard Dawson and Maria Conchita Alonso. It is based on a Stephen King novel of the same name.
The year is 2017 and America is a police state.There is a game show called The Running Man and it features a criminal who has to survive being hunted and attacked by different warriors. If they escape, they are supposedly free to go. A police man called Ben Richards(Schwarzenegger) is accused of a crime that he didn't commit and he is sentenced to jail. 18 months later, he and some others escape from the jail. They go to a rebel camp where some resistance fighters are.He meets the leader, Mic(Mick Fleetwood) who wants him to join, but he doesn't want to. He go to his brother's place but finds a woman called Amber Mendez(Alonso) living there. He takes her hostage, hoping to escape, but she shops him in and he is caught. She works for the TV company who makes The Running Man. She thinks that she is doing the right thing but later, she wonders.
Richards is put into the game show The Running Man as a contestant and his two friends from jail are there too. Richards makes his way through the warriors as they attack him. The audience are amazed as nobody has ever survived so long. Amber is discovered snooping through files at the TV station and put into the game show too. There are access codes to the games system and Amber gets them. The shows presenter Killian(Dawson) is stumped and he creates a computer generated video of Amber and Ben dead to placate the audience.Amber and Ben get kidnapped by the resistance and they go to their hideout and give them the access codes so they can get into the system. They show that Richards is innocent and that the past winners of the show were killed anyway and not freed.Richards takes care of Killian and Amber and Ben walk away from the show together.
This was an entertaining and interesting movie. The baddie Killian was good and I liked it overall. Not an Oscar winning movie, but good fun. If you like Arnie movies, then you will enjoy this! I give it a 6/10.
Scary Tales is a 2013 horror movie directed by Geno McGahee who also directed Family Secret and Rise of the Scarecrows.
This movie is an anthology which is similar to Twilight Zone episodes or Tales from the Darkside which I like. There are four tales of terror. The movie begins with a group of old high school friends who are having a reunion in an isolated cabin in the middle of the woods, so the setting is spooky already! Tim(Tim Pieciak) has called his old pals to the cabin. They are Butch(Forris Day Jr), Wendy(Kate Lago) and Susan(Jaki Valensi-Lauper). Tim talks about the past and he seems to think that his best days are behind him. Tim is getting a divorce and he is going to lose his cabin. His life is at a standstill while the others are happy enough with their lives. He seems bitter over the way that they have moved on and he hasn't. They decide to tell each other scary stories....
Tim begins with THE BULLY. Richard(Bill Boughton) is a nasty bully who beats people up for small reasons. He gets fired from his job and loses his girlfriend after he attacks a poor man and really hurts him. He doesn't seem to care at all. He is visited by a strange man in a suit(Mike Lauper) who knows all about him and his nasty behaviour. He tells him that the cops are coming to get him, but he can escape from them if he agrees to play a game with him. If he wins the game, he is fine, but if he loses, he will be in trouble. Richard agrees. Unfortunately for Richard, the game is not what it seems and there are some nasty surprises in store for him!
Next, Butch has a tale of terror for the pals. His is called CURIOSITY KILLS. It is about an eerie house which was in the middle of the woods. There are no roads or driveways up to it. The story begins with a young woman called Amber(Leeann Aubuchon) who has an argument with her stepfather, Sam(Ray Surprenant). He is a pervert and he tries to come on to her. She is disgusted and pushes him away, but he is eager. They have an altercation which results in him trying to choke her. Her cousin Mike(Josh Tienson) shows up and tries to help, but Amber stabs Sam and kills him with a scissors. She and Mike run away from the scene and head to the woods to hide out. They discover a strange house in the woods and they enter it to get out of the cold. They think that there is nobody home, but they are wrong. There is a girl called Alice(Savanah Lee) and her mother May(Charlotte Lewis) there and they seem a little strange. What is their secret???
Susan is next with her story called MAJORITY RULES. A guy called Steve(Steve Adams) and his two pals Phil(Richard A. Smith) and Jamie(Dave Sauriol) are scam artists who go around playing poker games with unsuspecting marks. They have cheated many players out of their money and they are
going to keep doing it . Steve tells them that he has the perfect man to scam. He is called Mark(Brent Northup) and his is a rich guy who likes to gamble. The game is set up and Mark comes along with his money. He thinks that the game is above board and when he discovers that it is not, he demands retribution from them.They have a choice to make- give him the money which they could never do or kill him. They decide to kill him. They think that they have it all sorted, but they are in for a nasty surprise...
The last story is from Wendy and it is called THE BRIDGE. There is a bridge in town which is supposed to be haunted. The local legend is that if you cross it, then you will see the Devil or demons. People have gone missing while crossing it.Bill(Logan Lopez) and his dad, (Martin Du Plessis) are chatting about his college life and Bill is doing a project on the local legend about the haunted bridge. His grandad(Ed Reed III) is sitting in the living room and he never speaks a word, but when Bill mentions the bridge, he speaks and tells him to go out there and walk across it to see what happens. It is eerie. Bill tells his girlfriend,Sue(Crystal Aya) all about it. They go and see her cousin, Sarah(Sarah Supernaut) who knows about supernatural things and she tells them that years ago when the railway came to the town, the ruthless developers took over all of the area and put people out of their homes etc to make it. The bridge was reportedly haunted because of all the misery caused. Bill finds out from his dad that his mother died on the bridge and this makes him determined to go out there and find out the truth for himself. Will he be another victim of the curse???
The movie ends in the cabin with all of the pals chatting and some strange things happen, but I will not give away the ending so you can enjoy it for yourself! This was a very good movie. I always like anthologies and I enjoy different stories in the same movie. I liked each story and I enjoyed the tales very much. As I said, it does remind me of the old Twilight Zone episodes and the stories are each very well written. Having seen FAMILY SECRET and RISE OF THE SCARECROWS, I was looking forward to this movie from horror director Geno McGahee who very kindly let us have a copy of his movie to watch. He does low budget movies well and this one was even better than the last. The writing was good, the acting for the most part was good and I did like the creepy stepfather, Sam in the segment CURIOSITY KILLS. I think that this is worth a watch because sometimes, low budget horror movies can be more entertaining than the big budget ones. This has it all- killings, good stories and the occasional chuckle. I would definitely recommend this if you can get a chance to see it as I did enjoy it and I would watch it again. I was impressed with this film so watch it if you like low budget horror like I do! You won't be disappointed! It gets a 8/10.
The Watermen is a 2011 horror movie directed by Matt L.Lockhart and starring Jason Mewes, Luke Guldan and Tara Heston.
This movie is pretty easy to sum up. There are fishermen who are called Watermen and they go around on a huge trawler murdering people. That is the gist of the story. I will still run through the basic plot anyway. A group of young people are going out fishing on a large boat which is being steered by a captain and they are joined by Trailor(Mewes) who knows something about boats. There is Mike(Guldan) who was a coastguard so he knows a bit about the sea too. There is his brother Bret(Tyler Johnson), three girls- Diane(Heston), Chrissy(Ashley Myers) and Lisa(Joy Glass). They are having a great time when suddenly their electrics are cut off. There is something wrong here. I wonder what it is.... Then their water is gone. They are marooned in the middle of the water.Until....Along comes a fishing trawler with some very dodgy looking fishermen who hand them a container of water which they drink down.Oh yeah, it is the killer fishermen and the water is spiked...
The group wake up after being doped by the fishermen and they are being held captive. The rest of the movie is about the fishermen chasing them as they escape and there are some kills etc. It turns out that the fishermen are killing and cutting up people and selling them to the public as fish bait. At least they are coming up with a novel way to make some money! Mike, Bret and Diane manage to escape, but guess what? They are picked up by a boat and rescued. They thought that they had killed the mad fishermen, but they didn't.. Oh let's hope that there will be The Watermen 2(not!!!!!). This movie was bad. It just didn't cut it. The premise wasn't too bad, but I found that it was just silly and boring after a while. I just lost interest but I stayed with it until the awful ending...Don't bother with this unless you are a glutton for punishment! It gets a 2/10.
Man of Steel is a 2013 action movie directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane and Michael Shannon.
The story of Superman is known to everyone, so there is no point going into too much detail about how he came about. Krypton is a planet which is going to be destroyed as it has used up all of its natural resources and cannot survive. Jor-El(Crowe) and his wife Lara have just had a baby boy and he is the first natural birth on the planet in years. They fear for his safety so they send their so, Kal-El to Earth so he has a chance. They give him a genetic codex of the Krypton race and let him go. A baddie called General Zod(Shannon) and his crew are out to cause havoc and he kills Jor-El. He gets caught and he is put in a prison called the Phantom Zone to cool off! Krpyton is finally destroyed when the planet explodes and Zod and he crew are released.
Kal-El lands in Kansas where he finds a family.You know the story. He is called Clark Kent(Cavill) and he wanders the earth working in crappy jobs. A reporter called Lois Lane(Adams) is in the Arctic doing a story on a government discovery of an alien ship. It turns out that it from Krypton and Clark wanders aboard it and meets a hologram of Jor-El. He tells him where he came from etc. Lane comes aboard and she sees all of this and he rescues her when she gets into trouble. She writes a story about it for the Daily Planet but her editor rejects it. She finds out who this superman is but she keeps his secret which is handy. I didn't like the fact that Lois finds out who Superman is so early in the film. It didn't seem right to me.
Anyway, Clark embraces his superhuman side and becomes Superman. Zod arrives on Earth and threatens to kill everyone unless Superman comes with him. He does so. They are seeking the codex but Superman won't give it to them. Little do they know that it is in him and they fight to get it. The rest of the movie has awesome fights and special effects. I suppose that the old Superman movies can't compare in this way, but I have to say that I liked Christopher Reeve as Superman. Cavill does a decent job and he looks strong etc. Adams was likeable as Lois Lane. Shannon was very good as Zod. He is a good baddie and I liked him in this film. The movie ends with Clark starting work at the Daily Planet and of course, Lois already knows who he is, but will keep his secret. Hmmm. Not sure about that, but all in all, it was enjoyable.Lots of fighting and great special effects. I give it a 7/10.
Silent Scream is a 2005 horror movie starring Melissa Schuman,Scott Vickaryous and Shanti Lowry.
A group of college students are going to a cabin in the woods for a vacation(original!!!) and they
are the usual mix of idiots and bimbos. They arrive at the cabin and one by one they start to disappear. There seems to be a killer in the woods and he is waiting to murder them all in different ways.They
begin to wonder who the killer is. Is it one of their own? They are chased by the killer and they lock themselves into the cabin to survive. They are all killed until there is only one left. The twist in this movie is that the students were taking part in an experiment arranged by their psychology professor. They are all alive and well. Then at the end of this, they are really going to a cabin in the woods and the professor is the one who is stalking them.
This movie was bad. It was so devoid of originality that you knew what was coming next. The twist was silly and it was just boring. I would avoid this if you get irritated by stupidity. The characters were not likeable and they did stupid things. It was just too by the numbers for me. I will give it a 2/10.
Single White Female 2:The Psycho is a 2005 thriller sequel to the original Single White Female. It is a low budget, straight to DVD movie. It is directed by Keith Samples and starring Kristen Miller, Brooke Burns and Allison Lange.
Holly Parker (Miller)is working at a PR firm with her best friend, Jan(Burns). They are competing for a promotion and things get dirty when Jan sleeps with Holly's boyfriend, David(Todd Babcock). This splits Holly and David up and she is no longer pals with Jan. She decides that she is moving out of the apartment she had shared with Jan and into a new one with a woman called Tess(Lange). Tess seems like a quiet, shy person with little confidence. She and Holly become fast friends. Holly goes back to work and she tries to get her life back on track. She and David have to see each other as he is a client of the PR firm and Jan still works there so she can't avoid her.
She tells Tess what happened and Tess seems to want Holly for herself. She changes her hairstyle and she wants Holly to be with her and not have anything to do with Jan or David. Unfortunately, Holly makes amends with Jan and David which does not go down well with Tess. She is becoming possessive and jealous. Holly discovers that Tess has a murky past and that her friend in high school committed suicide. Tess murders Jan and she tries to kill David. Holly finds out that Tess is a psycho and that she
will do whatever it takes to have Holly as her only friend. She tries to kill Holly too, but she doesn't succeed and David and Holly end up moving into their own apartment in the end of the movie.
Warning!!!This movie is bad. The acting is terrible and it is so cheap that it is just crappy. I liked the original movie Single White Female with Bridget Fonda, but this is just a cheap rip off with nothing great to speak of. It is just poorly made and boring.Avoid....It gets a 2/10.
Pieces is a 1982 horror movie directed by Juan Piquer Simon and starring Christopher George, Linda Day and Paul L. Smith.
The movie begins in 1942 with a young boy making a nude jigsaw. His mother comes in and sees what he is up to and she shouts at him and is disgusted with him. He is furious with her and murders her. The police come and don't realise that he is the one who killed mommy! Cut to forty years later. It is 1982 and at a Boston college, the kids are dying. There is some maniac on campus going around with a chainsaw murdering people. The cops are called in and Lieutenant Bracken(George) is on the case. There is a weirdo called Willard who they think is the killer but he turns out to be just a weirdo.
The killer is putting pieces of the nude jigsaw together. He is using human body parts to make his own bizarre puzzle. A former tennis ace called Mary(Linda Day) goes undercover at the college to catch the killer. She is working with the police. She can't figure out who it is until in the end it is revealed that the Dean of the college is the killer. He gets Mary alone and he tries to kill her, but the cops come in time to save her. She has been helped by a student called Kendall. They find the sewn together body parts. They kill the Dean and as Kendall has a look at the patched up corpse, a hand reaches up and grabs his testicles and rips them off for some reason! What a weird ending to a movie, but I have to say I didn't see it coming!
A fun slasher movie which was worth a watch. I liked it and I would recommend it. The ending was amusing and if you can get your hands on this, watch it. You won't be sorry. I love a good 80's slasher movie and this one gets 6/10.
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