Tag: Horror

Movie Review: Insidious

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“Insidious” on IMDB

Horror, 103 Minutes, 2010

With almost no tweaking this could easily be a remake of “Poltergeist” [IMDB].  Although the haunted house angle (which was completely superfluous to begin with) is abandoned early the plot has all the same touch-points.  Josh and Renai’s son, Dalton, enters into an unexplained coma that appears more like normal sleep than anything medical.  Surrounding this are terrifying visions and things that go bump-in-the-night.

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Movie Review: I Spit on Your Grave

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“I Spit on Your Grave” on IMDB

Horror, 108 Minutes, 2010

This is not a movie for a first date… or a third for that matter.  Or, in fact, any week were you might want to actually have sex… on second thought make that any month.    This is a remake of the controversial 1978 classic horror movie of the same name [IMDB].  Often mislabeled an exploitation film the original was anything but sexual.  (While I’m sadly sure that some people must enjoy this kind of brutality it was clearly not the intention of the film to cater to that audience.)

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Movie Review: Knife Edge

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“Knife Edge” on IMDB

Thriller, 90 Minutes, 2009

The grunting, slobbering core of this movie is an unwieldy, multi-tentacled plot that drags itself into your living room, sits in your favorite chair and demands, “what kind of snacks you got?”  It sits there eating your food and throwing what it thinks are insanely clever ideas at you for 90 minutes then gets up.  That’s when you notice the smell and the movie’s core, noticing your look of disgust, admits: “By the way, I shit in your chair.”

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Movie Review: Circle of Eight

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“Circle of Eight” on IMDB

Horror, 83 Minutes, 2009

I was a little put off when this started up and I discovered the production company was “Mountain Dew Green Label Studios”  About 20 minutes in we also get treated to some elaborate art created primarily with Mountain Dew.  Yes, this is a movie funded by soda pop and featuring soda pop.  (Although, to be fair, they really weren’t that heavy-handed about it.)

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Movie Review: It’s Alive

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“It’s Alive” on IMDB

Horror, 80 Minutes, 2008

The original “It’s Alive” [1974, IMDB] is a camp-horror classic.  It was over-the-top, silly and just serious enough to keep it from completely disappearing into obscurity.  The idea is simple: a woman gives birth to a mutant baby that kills people.  This 2008 remake take the same premise and tries to make a straight, emotional horror movie.  It pretty much fails completely.

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