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My old buddy Ron Jeremy makes an appearance in that movie.....he's going more mainstream lately and not doing pron as much. He plays God.....LOL.
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Watched The Belko Experiment. A decent hack and slash style psychological horror flick in the vein of my recently reviewed Exam or the superior classic The Cube. Your basic lock people in and fuck with them stuff.
A group of Americans take jobs at a big corporation in Columbia (?? Really? Columbia? What? The Haiti and Nigeria branches were already fully staffed?). One day they come in and some military types are sending the locals home. Next thing you know the place is in lockdown and someone is playing a large scale game of Saw with them (albeit without the riddles and such). Heads explode, throats are slashed, people are beaten about heads and shoulders.
Good cast, decent production values and fxs. Excellent gore with a few hundred gallons of blood flying around. But you need to turn off the brain a bit as the storyline makes no f'n sense. Why 80 Americans in Columbia? What do they plan to learn from forcing everyone to go all Lord of the Flies on everyone else? Why do it in an expensive high rise? I really couldn't tell you why as I don't think they learned anything that drunken ASU freshman psych major couldn't. But it is still kinda a fun ride.
Stars the dude from 10 Cloverfield Lane and Hush. He is certainly making an impact in the horror genre lately.
I'll go 6 to 6.5 range just for the exploding heads.
A group of Americans take jobs at a big corporation in Columbia (?? Really? Columbia? What? The Haiti and Nigeria branches were already fully staffed?). One day they come in and some military types are sending the locals home. Next thing you know the place is in lockdown and someone is playing a large scale game of Saw with them (albeit without the riddles and such). Heads explode, throats are slashed, people are beaten about heads and shoulders.
Good cast, decent production values and fxs. Excellent gore with a few hundred gallons of blood flying around. But you need to turn off the brain a bit as the storyline makes no f'n sense. Why 80 Americans in Columbia? What do they plan to learn from forcing everyone to go all Lord of the Flies on everyone else? Why do it in an expensive high rise? I really couldn't tell you why as I don't think they learned anything that drunken ASU freshman psych major couldn't. But it is still kinda a fun ride.
Stars the dude from 10 Cloverfield Lane and Hush. He is certainly making an impact in the horror genre lately.
I'll go 6 to 6.5 range just for the exploding heads.
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Also watched Rings. As already noted in the review here, it had good moments but was overall mediocre. Ringu and the first American film in the series were classic (though I know some people here expressed disdain over them) which makes the last two disappointing.
They tried their best to take it in a new direction, and the budget allows for good fxs and production. But the characters are forgettable, and they do not develop much tension or scary moments.
I would say a 5 is about right. Too bad Samara ain't scary anymore but at least they didn't do a killer deer attack like in the second one!
They tried their best to take it in a new direction, and the budget allows for good fxs and production. But the characters are forgettable, and they do not develop much tension or scary moments.
I would say a 5 is about right. Too bad Samara ain't scary anymore but at least they didn't do a killer deer attack like in the second one!
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RIP George Romero....
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Yeah, just saw that on Yahoo. RIP to the Master.
Basically created the Zombie genre in Horror movies....
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RIP to zombie master George. Thanks for all of the rotting corpses and ghoulish undead cannibalism.
I see that a remake of Day of the Dead is scheduled for release soon. Not a big budget venture but still looking forward to it.
Also there is a project that he is listed as writer and producer on called Road of the Dead, about zombies racing cars for rich folk's entertainment! (WTF?!?). But with George's demise I assume that the project is, excuse the pun, dead.
I see that a remake of Day of the Dead is scheduled for release soon. Not a big budget venture but still looking forward to it.
Also there is a project that he is listed as writer and producer on called Road of the Dead, about zombies racing cars for rich folk's entertainment! (WTF?!?). But with George's demise I assume that the project is, excuse the pun, dead.
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I'm sure it'll still be a go.
I've seen the majority of his catalogue. I've never been a particular fan of the zombie films, so my favorite he directed would probably be Stephen King projects (Creepshow and The Dark Half, Hutton was boss in that). While he's synonymous with the zombie genre, I most appreciate him for what he did for indie films.
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Stopped watching the trailer about midway because this looks good... Don't want to spoil it any further!!!
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Starring C Thomas Howell from The Outsiders....
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Dude I love movies like this. Off to watch now.
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Has anyone seen The Blackcoats Daughter (originally titled February)?
It's by Oz Perkins, and I hated the only other film he wrote and directed (I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House). I'd hate to write someone off after a bad experience, but would like to get a thumbs up from someone here that has seen it first prior to viewing.
It's by Oz Perkins, and I hated the only other film he wrote and directed (I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House). I'd hate to write someone off after a bad experience, but would like to get a thumbs up from someone here that has seen it first prior to viewing.
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Watched Within last night.
A family moves into their new house and strange things start happening. Bed covers keep getting pulled off at night, pictures fall off of walls, furniture moves, etc etc. Parents leave the grounded teen alone at home every day so she tries to figure out what is going on.
Acting, direction, production values, fxs, are all decent. Not too much negative in general, but also fairly generic. The worst of it is probably overly creepy neighbor (the guy plays up the slime a bit too much), and the generally clueless dad. The highlights are the "bad guy", and the use of the limited areas in the house. Also the chick who played Catilina in My Name is Earl plays the stepmom (only clevage, but I always "enjoyed" her!).
Basically a shoot off of the cult classic The People Under the Stairs. They could have played it up with a bit more mystery and kept you guessing on if it was a ghost or a person, but the title and preview kind of removes the suspense.
I would go 5.5 to 6 range. Some nice moments.
A family moves into their new house and strange things start happening. Bed covers keep getting pulled off at night, pictures fall off of walls, furniture moves, etc etc. Parents leave the grounded teen alone at home every day so she tries to figure out what is going on.
Acting, direction, production values, fxs, are all decent. Not too much negative in general, but also fairly generic. The worst of it is probably overly creepy neighbor (the guy plays up the slime a bit too much), and the generally clueless dad. The highlights are the "bad guy", and the use of the limited areas in the house. Also the chick who played Catilina in My Name is Earl plays the stepmom (only clevage, but I always "enjoyed" her!).
Basically a shoot off of the cult classic The People Under the Stairs. They could have played it up with a bit more mystery and kept you guessing on if it was a ghost or a person, but the title and preview kind of removes the suspense.
I would go 5.5 to 6 range. Some nice moments.
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Also watched Don't Hang Up yesterday.
It starts up really badly because they do a character montage of some really obnoxious teenagers who make really horrible prank phone calls, and broadcast them on youtube. Predictably, one of these pranks backfires and unleashes a psycho revenge plot against them.
The acting ain't great but the other aspects are decent. Production, direction, storyline, special fxs are all ok. There isn't a ton of suspense, but there is some good slicing and dicing, and internal strife in the group.
The biggest problem is that the protagonists come off as so completely unlikable right from the first moment of the movie that you will root for the killer to kill these assholes as quickly as possible. When it does end, it is a bit predictable also.
Another Saw type rip off. Not badly done, but nothing special either. Again, the dickhead teens kind of ruin the movie though. They are even really shitty to each other.
I'll go 5.5 out of 10. Too bad they couldn't make something more out of it.
It starts up really badly because they do a character montage of some really obnoxious teenagers who make really horrible prank phone calls, and broadcast them on youtube. Predictably, one of these pranks backfires and unleashes a psycho revenge plot against them.
The acting ain't great but the other aspects are decent. Production, direction, storyline, special fxs are all ok. There isn't a ton of suspense, but there is some good slicing and dicing, and internal strife in the group.
The biggest problem is that the protagonists come off as so completely unlikable right from the first moment of the movie that you will root for the killer to kill these assholes as quickly as possible. When it does end, it is a bit predictable also.
Another Saw type rip off. Not badly done, but nothing special either. Again, the dickhead teens kind of ruin the movie though. They are even really shitty to each other.
I'll go 5.5 out of 10. Too bad they couldn't make something more out of it.
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