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Tag: Horror
Movie Review: Troll Hunter
Drama/Comedy, 97 Minutes, 2001
As my hordes of imaginary regular readers know I watch a lot of bad monster movies. So many, in fact, that when an actual good monster movie sneaks in I sometimes have to consider: is it truly a good movie or have I abused my pallette to the point where even mediocre seems good by comparison? Can a dog that eats cat-turds truly appreciate filet mignon?
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Movie Review: A Trio of Shark Schlock
Shark Night on IMDB (Horror, 91 Minutes, 2011)
Sand Sharks on IMDB (Horror, 86 Minutes, 2011)
Swamp Shark on IMDB (Horror, 85 Minutes, 2011)
It’s been a while since I’ve treated myself to a nice, relaxing crappy-movie marathon and I decided to, since I’d queued several, set my will against a trio of shark-themed fin-fests. Will I survive? Will I turn them off in disgust and return to “Skyrim” (they do need me there, what with all the dragons and unpludered crypts)?
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Movie Review: The Thing
Sci-fi, 103 Minutes, 2011
I’m a huge fan of John Carpenter’s 1982 classic “The Thing” [IMDB]. Thirty years later the ground-breaking practical effects are still just as creepily effective. The performances are some of the best ever seen in horror and the pacing and staging has rarely been topped.
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Movie Review: Black Death
Drama/Horror, 102 Minutes, 2010
First, a warning: at first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise, but this is a straight historical thriller. There’s no monsters, zombies, vampires or any other supernatural elements. While the tag-line promises the “ultimate battle against evil” all we really ever get is some borderline atheism and a few scenes of 14th century torture.
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Movie Review: Uninhabited
Horror, 93 Minutes, 2010
Meh. I couldn’t get into this one. Basically it wandered around the point for a while then ended poorly.
A couple decide to get dropped off on an uninhabited island for two weeks. But – ohmygosh! – there’s a ghost on the island. How do we know that? Via the worst exposition technique ever, of course: they find an old journal detailing the only interesting events in the film. Events that we get to hear about, but not see.
The main characters are just punching-bags throughout the entire movie. They display almost no survival instinct at all. It’s like watching baby seals get clubbed. Clubbed by a ghost.
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Movie Review: YellowBrickRoad
Horror, 96 Minutes, 2010
I did like this – quite a bit actually – but ultimately it collapses under its own weight and that’s a shame. It starts out strong but fragments at the end and wobbles unsteadily between horror movie cliché and attempts at introspective depth.
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Movie Review: Teeth
Horror, 94 Minutes, 2007
This is an excellent movie but not for the squeamish or faint of heart. There’s very little actual gore here, but what there is disturbingly, ball-crunchingly effective. This is a movie that – especially for men – may strike too close to home.
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Movie Review: I Couldn’t Do It
Dahmer vs Gacy on IMDB (Horror, 91 Minutes, 2011)
Retardead on IMDB (Horror, 102 Minutes, 2008)
Zombie Driftwood on IMDB (Horror, 75 Minutes, 2010)
[This is counts as reviews 14, 15 and 16 for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-and-kids-are-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
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Movie Review: A Five Pack of Schlock
Sharktopus on IMDB (Horror, 89 Minutes, 2010)
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid on IMDB (Horror, 90 Minutes, 2011)
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus on IMDB (Horror, 85 Minutes, 2009)
Dinocroc vs. Supergator on IMDB (Horror, 87 Minutes, 2010)
Mega Piranha in IMDB (Horror, 92 Minutes, 2010)
[This is the eighth through twelfth review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-and-kids-are-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival. Since these are all basically the same movie I combined them into one review.]
