| MOVIE & VIDEO REVIEWS (February 2007) |
| DEAD RINGERS (R) WARNER BROS (1988) Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas & more. Two twins who are very close & very brilliant from a young age. They study the female buddy & want to examine some of the young girls in town, but they always get made fun of. They grow up to be famous gynecologist who have invented some great medical equipment for their field. When a famous actress comes to their practice one of the twins falls in love with her. They start dating & doing everything together. The other twin goes crazy in the head & starts doing drugs & a bunch of odd things. This twin is in love with his own brother & can't handle the separation. The one winds up killing the other in a bizarre sexual way! |
| LIVE FEED (R) PLOT DIGGER FILMS (2006) Starring: Mike Bennett, Randy Bird, Greg Chan, Stephen Chang, Mike Ching & more. Five friends embark on a night out for adventure in the Philippines. They head to a local bar, where one of the guys bumps into someone there & they almost get killed, until a stranger steps in. He saves them & tells them to leave. The 5 friends then head to a porno theater. They get separate rooms, so they can perform sex acts on each other. They all get locked in the rooms & then comes the fun part. In comes some huge masked who watches all these things on hidden cameras in the rooms. The film reminded me a lot of HOSTEL, just not as good! www.LIVEFEEDthemovie.com |
| PULSE (PG-13) DIMENSION FILMS (2006) Starring: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez, Jonathan Tucker & more. A group of friends get suspicious when one of their friends becomes secluded from everyone. His girlfriend goes to his apartment to find him hanging by his neck in his bedroom. After a few days she gets an email from him asking for help. Even though he has passed the weird thing was that her computer was unplugged. A bunch of her friends start dying off in many different ways. Everyone who gets these emails starts acting strange. The emails are coming from the dead, who are trying to find their way to this side & take over the world. They start emerging through all different electronics & come after the living. This was good, but the original Japanese was better. www.PULSEthemovie.com |
| SNAKES ON A PLANE (R) NEW LINE CINEMA (2006) Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchand, Flex Alexander & more. The best film title for a movie that explains the movie perfectly to come along in awhile. Jackson is an FBI agent who is transporting a witness to a murder on a plane from Hawaii. The crime lords who know he is on the plane devise a new unheard of attempt to kill the witness & everyone on the plane. They load all different types of snakes in the cargo & spray the lays that the passengers where with some stuff that enrages the snakes to break free & attack the people on the plane. Everyone is trying to survive & kill the than I thought it would be. Check it out! www.SNAKESONAPLANEmovie.com |
| THE COVENANT (PG-13) SCREEN GEMS (2006) Starring: Steven Strait, Laura Ramsey, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch, Chace Crawford & more. A group of four guys are turning 18 & are discovering they have special powers & are trying to control them. They find out their families are from a covenant of witches & warlocks. When some new people come to the college they go to, things start changing. Friends start acting weird & strange things start happening to them. They discover that this new guy is the fifth part of this covenant. They start doing battles with this new guy who wants to steal their powers & become all powerful. The film was OK, but it's worth watching. www.sonypictures.com/movies/THECOVENANT |
| THE DESCENT (R) LIONSGATE FILMS (2006) Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora Jane & more. A group of female friends who are adventure seekers. After one of the girls husband & child are killed in a car accident. A few years later the girls decide to go cave dwelling. They find a undiscovered cave they go exploring. During the exploring they discover some unsettling things in the caves that there have been people there before them. They soon are being hunted down as prey by these creatures in the caves. They are slowly being devoured, but some of the girls fight back & start kicking some serious ass. This film was really good, lots of suspense, action & lots of blood & gore. definitely one of the best low budget b-movies ever! www.THEDESCENTfilm.com |
| THE HITCHER (R) ROGUE PICTURES (2007) Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough, Kyle Davis & more. I wasn't sure about this remake being any good, sometimes the remake is never as good as the original. This film was great! It blew away the original big time. The story was more in depth, intense & more suspenseful. A couple of teens are heading to Mexico for spring break when they pick up a hitch hiker. He reveals he is going to kill them when they fight back & kick him out of the car. The rest of the movie he is hunting down these teens to kill them. Everything in this film was great. There was enough blood to satisfy any horror fan & it was well placed & not over the top! It fits the story correctly. definitely see this film!!! www.THEHITCHERmovie.net |
| THE MAID (R) TARTAN VIDEO (2005) Starring: Alessandra De Rossi, Huifang Hong, Benny Soh, Zhenwei Guan, Shucheng Chen & more. A young girl is brought to a small family in the Philippines to become their maid. The girl comes in during this spiritual ritual time for people in the Philippines. They put food out on their sidewalk & burn candles for the dead to keep them happy & away from the living. If you mess with this process it angers the dead & She does what she can to try & escape. There is a weird twist to the film, but it does have a good story & is a bit freaky!!! www.mediacorpraintree.com/THEMAID |
| WICKER MAN (R) WARNER BROS (2006) Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker & more. Nicolas Cage plays a police officer, who tries to help a woman who is broken down on the side of the road. Her daughter & her are killed by a tractor trailer. He tries to find out who the girl was. He follows some leads to some private island where everyone lives off the land & the woman run the place. He starts investigating the were abouts of this girl. He starts finding stuff out & things start going strange. It is later revealed that there is a reason he was brought to the island. The film was better than I expected & has a different kind of ending! http://THEWICKERMANmovie.warnerbros.com |
| ZOMBIE NATION (R) LIONS GATE FILMS (2004) Starring: Gunther Ziegler, Brandon Dean, Axel Montgomery, Phil lander, Martina Bottesch & more. This was a very awful movie. I read a review of it that said it was Craptastic! This is highly true. It's about a cop who pulls over woman for no reason & takes them to an abandoned warehouse & kills them & has sex with them. He takes the bodies & buries them in the desert. A voodoo priestess makes some spell to bring back all the women from the dead & they become zombies. They go after the cop who did this to them. The story was bad, the acting was bad, the special effects was bad, this movie was bad!!! www.ZOMBIENATION.movie.com |
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