| HORROR MOVIE REVIEWS (February 2006) |
| HOSTEL (R) LIONS GATE FILMS (2006) Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljokova, Jana Kaderabkova. This was the #1 film the first week in the theater & there's a good reason. This is a great film. This film goes back to the original formula for Horror movies, but adds lots of intelligence of recent Horror films. The story follows 3 back packers as they explore Europe in search of getting laid & wasted. They run into a guy who knows a great place in Slovakia where they can do anything they want. As they arrive in town & at their HOSTEL they are greeted by beautiful European women. They take them out to a club to party & then bring them back & have lots of sex with them. Weird things start happening to them & they keep meeting different strange people. Eventually they find them selves separated & in some abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. Unfortunately they find out they are there for people who are on a "Murder Vacation". These people pay lots of money to torture, deform & kill humans. This film was a little slow to begin with, but it kicks in & kicks hard. This is one of those films that will be talked about for years by Horror fans. This is a must!!! www.HOSTELfilm.com |
| VENOM (R) DIMENSION FILMS (2005) Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Laura Ramsey, D.J. Cotrona, Rick Cramer & more. A man becomes possessed by 13 evil souls after he saves a woman from a car crash. She tells him to get her suitcase in the back & he becomes trapped in the car. The suitcase holds 13 snakes which were used in a voodoo ritual to suck the evilness out of dying people. He gets attacked by the snakes & the souls enter his body. He returns from the dead & is evil as hell. He starts to terrorize & kill all the towns children in a classic Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers style. Some of the story had slow spots & some of the acting was a little bad, but it was still a decent flick with some really cool death scenes & good gory special effects!!! www.VENOM-movie.com |
| UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (R) SCREENGEMS (2006) Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi & more. In this sequel we get to see some of the history of the vampire & the lycans (werewolf) & how each race came to be. There were two brothers Markus (bite by a bat) & William (bite by a wolf) who start the whole race & also the war between the two. Kate is the death dealer, who's family built the tomb of William & is the only one left who knows where it's located & how to unlock it. Markus is after her & now she must do battle against both species. There is a lot more information unraveled in this film but there are also new mysteries as well. There was a lot of good special effects, action, blood & a really good storyline in this film. I really liked this sequel a lot better than the first & the first one was great. If your a fan of the first film then you'll love this one as well! www.sonypictures.com/movies/UNDERWORLDEVOLUTION |
| CRY WOLF (UR) ROGUE UNIVERSAL PICTURES (2005) Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalcki, Jon Bon Jovi, Sandra McCoy & more. A girl is murdered in the woods near a prep school & the killer is never found. Some kids at the school decide to make up a story about a serial killer who is stalking the students at the school. As they make up more & more lies about the killer, people start dying off in the same fashion as said in their emails they are sending out. The prank becomes really serious & out of control. There is a twist at the end of the film that keeps you guessing all through out the movie. This turned out to better than I was expecting it to be, & was a decent horror film!!! www.CRYWOLFmovie.com |
| THE FOG (UR) SONY PICTURES (2005) Starring: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, Deray Davis, Kenneth Welsh & more. This is about a small island town off the coast of Oregon, where everybody knows everybody. There is an unveiling of a statue of the four founders of the town. Some mysterious fog rolls in & blankets the entire town. It turns out that the fog holds the ghost of a ship of people who the four founders robbed & burned to death. The ghost are back to seek revenge on the towns people. The story was a little week & had some wholes in it here & there. The acting was weak as well. The best part of this film was the special effects. There was noting too great about this film & was actually kind of a let down. I've never seen the original so I don't know how it stacks up to the won from the 80's. www.escapeTHEFOG.com |
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| VISITOR Q (R) ALPHAVILLE / CINEROCKET (2001) Starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Shoko Nakahara, Fujiko & more. I was a little taken back by this movie because I wasn't expecting anything like this. This is a very bizarre film. This is a Japanese film about a father who is a failed former T.V. reporter. He tries to do a documentary about violence & sex among youths. In doing so, he has sex with his daughter, who is a prostitute. He also films his son being humiliated & hit by classmates. "Q" is a stranger who gets himself involved in this bizarre family's actions. His son beats his mom, has sex with her & is also a prostitute & a heroin addict. The mother always squirts breast milk on the people she has sex with. This was a very strange movie. It's a little slow at times & you need to read subtitles, but it's definitely a weird viewing worth checking out!!! |
| SAW II (R) Twisted Pictures / Lions Gate Films (2005) Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Franky G, Glenn Plummer & more. I loved the first film, so I was hoping to love this film. I did. Sometimes sequels never live up to the first one. This one surpassed it. This time there are more victims trapped in a house that is being pumped with poison in the air. They must find their way to escape the house & survive. The police find the killer from the first film & he toys with them about where the victims are that they can see from video monitors he has set up. There is more twists & surprises in this film as well as more gore & blood. There is even another good twist at the end of the film as well. This was probably the best movie I saw all year long & has the best tag line for a movie! "Oh Yes, there will be blood!" This is a must see for any fan of intelligent horror films!!! www.SAW2.com |
| SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE 2 (R) New Horizons Home Video (1990) Five sorority girls find an old house that they eventually buy & want to turn into their new sorority house. girls spend the night & will help the movers in the morning. After the girls shower & get settled they start getting creeped out by the weird neighbor, who keeps poking in to see what they are doing. They find a Ouija board & start messing around with it & then some really weird stuff starts happening & the girls start getting murdered chicks in showers (for the typical horror movie cliché) Worth at least one watch!!! |
| SPIDER BABY (UR) American General Pictures (1964) Starring: Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K Redekker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner. This film is about three women who are the last generation of a family with a strange disease. The girls digress mentally to the age of ten as they get older. The chauffeur takes care of them & covers up their problems. Trouble starts when distant relatives arrive to get the families estate. The movie was a little slow, but it was weird enough to keep you interested. Not the greatest film, but worth checking out at least once!!! |
