| HORROR MOVIE REVIEWS (December 2007) |
| AN AMERICAN HAUNTING (PG-13) LIONS GATE FILMS (2005) Starring: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'arcy, Matthew Marsh & more. This movie is based on the one actual recorded event of a haunting that killed a man. The movie takes place in the old days on a small plantation home. A small child is haunted by some scary ghost hauntings. The hauntings just keep getting worst & start getting very violent. None of her friends or family believe here, until they actual witness one of the violent haunting first hand. The ghost starts attacking other members of the family especially the father. The father is the one who gets killed by the ghost. The movie was pretty decent & had some freaky parts, but I was a little let down by it. I thought it was going to be much scarier, but it's still worth seeing. Check it out if you like true ghost stories www.ANAMERICANHAUNTINGonline.com |
| GRADUATION DAY (R) TROMA FILMS (1981) Starring: Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker, Michael Pataki & more. When a young college girl on the track team is pushed to finish her race in under 30 seconds, she wins, but then collapses & dies on the track. Her sister returns home from the marines to speak at the graduation her sister would have attended. Days before the graduation the rest of the track team members are slowly killed killings kick in. This wasn't the greatest horror flick, but it wasn't too bad for the time of it's release. Most TROMA fans will dig this film! |
| MAN-THING (R) ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT / MARVEL (2005) Starring: Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson, Rawiri Paratene, Steve Bastoni & more. This film is based on the MARVEL comic of the same name from the 70's. The story takes place in the swamp lands where a rich oil millionaire has built a drilling factory to suck the resources of the land dry. The locals don't like the oil drillers there & are afraid of the things in the swamp that come out at night. There is an old Indian legend of the creature who merges himself with the plantation & seeks revenge on those who destroy the land. Everyone who goes into the swamps never seem to return. This movie is kind of like the movie SWAMP THING & seemed to stay pretty much true to the comic book. Worth a few viewings!!! www.scifi.com/MANTHING |
| MIRROR MASK (PG) SONY PICTURES (2005) Starring: Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee, Dora Bryan & more. MIRROR MASK, follows the journey of a young girl, whose family works in the circus & she hates it. She makes an awful wish about her mother, who then falls ill & is placed in a hospital. The girl then finds herself in a magical world, where she has switched places with an alternate version of herself. The girls must find a mystical "Mirror Mask" in order to return home. Along the way she has many encounters with some very WONDERLAND meets THE WIZARD OF OZ. I really liked this film a lot & thought it was done extremely different & very good. Neil Gaimin did a great job in writing this story!!! www.sonypictures.com/movies/MIRRORMASK/index.html |
| SILENT HILL (R) COLUMBIA / TRI STAR (2006) Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger & more. When a young girl suffers from sleep walking spells & night terrors, her mother decides to take her to SILENT HILL hospital for special treatment. Once they head that direction they entire a time lapse portal to an abandoned town. The daughter runs off & the mother must try to find her. In her search to find the missing daughter, the mother encounters some strange town folks as well as some strange burnt up zombie like creatures. She must do battle against these things in order to save her child. The film is based on the popular video game. I thought it was a decent film, but just didn't turn out as I was thinking it would. www.sonypictures.com/movies/SILENTHILL |
| SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3: TEENAGE WASTELAND (R) ANCHOR BAY (1989) Starring: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J Pollard, Mark Oliver, Sandra Dorsey & more. This is the third installment in this film series & probably the worst of all three. The camp where Angela slayed all those people is now reopened with new owners & a new name. They try to bring rich kids & poor kids together to unite the youths. Well Angela is disguised as one of the campers, she previously killed so she can return & continue what she started. This one has some cool death scenes, but most of the dialogue & story along with acting is very cheesy & poor. This is a cool viewing for fans of the series, but if your expecting a great horror flick, then stay clear of this one!!! www.SLEEPAWAYCAMPfilms.com |
| SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE 3 (R) NEW HORIZONS (1990) Starring: Brandi Burkett, Hope Marie Carlton, Keely Christian, Maria Claire, Maria Furd & more. In this third addition of this series a bunch of girls decide to have one last slumber party in the one girls house before she moves. As in the other two, all the girls come over, get drunk order pizzas, dance, some get naked & then all get murdered. The plot is the same in all the films, with slight twists here & there. This one followed along that same path, except the girls were better looking, there was a bit more nudity, some better killings & a slightly better story line. There were some cool death scenes, but this was still a cheesy 80's slasher film. All be fans of this genre will dig this film, it's the best of the trilogy!!! |
| SUICIDE CLUB (R) TLA RELEASING (2002) Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase, Saya Hagiwara, Hideo Sako & more. This is a cool Japanese film about 50 girls who commit suicide all at the same time by jumping off a platform in front of a moving train. When cops start investigating the bizarre suicide, more & more teens start killing them- selves as well. A bunch of teen at a school joke about it & then all jump from the schools roof. Others they have all been chosen to join. There were some pretty graphic parts in this film & some really detailed & gory special effects. There was even a little humor tossed in at times. This was a really cool film & highly recommended for fans of mystery & horror films, with some weird twists!!! |
| THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER (R) DIMENSION FILMS (2005) Starring: Edward Furlong, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Danny Trejo & more. This is the fourth CROW movie, which was only in the theaters for one week. The film was better than I thought, but still a little lame. I didn't think there were good choices for the roles. Furlong, was pretty bad as the crow, Tara Reid is a bad actress & Boreanaz was too over the top & over acting as the cheesy bad guy. The story is the same, some bad guys kill the guys girlfriend & then him. He comes back to life to avenge their deaths & make everybody pay. I don't know if it's cause I just loved the original so much & thought Brandon Lee was perfect for that role or what, but each new CROW movie just seems really bad & doesn't do the first one any justice at all! Not the worst movie out there, but definitely not a great one either!!!! |
| WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (PG-13) SCREEN GEMS (2006) Starring: Camilla Betle, Tommy Flanagan, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty & more. This is a remake of the 1979 horror film of the same name. In this film a young teenage girl goes to baby sit for a wealthy doctor & his wife in a huge fancy house. The house has all these really cool features in it that are not in a normal home. The girl keeps getting prank phone calls from some stranger who keeps saying things to her to let her know he is watching her. She starts getting freaked out & calls the police. They say they will monitor the phone calls & eventually find out the calls are coming from in the house. She must try to escape & save the children & herself. This wasn't really a scary film, but more of a suspense thriller. It was done pretty well, but was a little draggy in the beginning. This is still worth checking out though!!! www.sonypictures.com/movies/WHENASTRANGERCALLS |
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