Adventure, 114 Minutes, 2008
[This is the fifth selection in my irregular, “My Wife and Kids are Visiting Relatives and I’m Home Watching Movies” film festival.]
Tag: Supernatural
Movie Review: Mama
Horror, 100 Minutes, 2013:
[This is the third selection in my irregular, “My Wife and Kids are Visiting Relatives and I’m Home Watching Movies” film festival.]
Movie Review: Scream of the Banshee
“Scream of the Banshee” on IMDB
Horror, 90 Minutes, 2011
Way back in the history times people wore metal clothes and everybody lived in the woods at night in a country called “Europe”. One of the towns in Europe was painted green and populated by bagpipe elves called Limericks. It was called “Ireland”. All that remains of this place today is legends and breakfast cereal.
Movie Review: Evil Dead
![IMDB, Evil Dead [2013]](http://depressedpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/imdb-evil-dead-2013-202x300.jpg)
Horror, 91 Minutes, 2013
It’s not controversial to say that the original, 1981, “Evil Dead” [IMDB] is one of the hands-down best horror movies of all time. Forced by it’s budget to take ridiculously successful risks it became a breakout hit and spawned a beloved cult franchise. It launched the careers of Sam Raimi [IMDB] and turned Bruce Campbell [IMDB] into a geek god.
This remake? Not so much. It’s good. I liked it. It had some issues.
Movie Review: Dark Feed
Horror, 86 Minutes, 2013
There are few clichés more common in horror than the haunted, abandoned hospital. Unless it’s a low-budget film crew using the haunted, abandoned hospital, that is. “Dark Feed” has both.
Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
“Hansel & Gretel: With Hunters” on IMDB
Adventure, 114 Minutes, 2013
This is directly in line with other high-firepower, low-respect updates of old-world classics like 2004’s “Van Helsing” [IMDB] or 2005’s “The Brother’s Grimm” [IMDB]. The formula gets tweaked but is basically the same: a hot guy and a hotter gal take on monsters with completely unrealistic steampunk firepower.
Movie Review: The Whole Damn Paranormal Activity Franchise
Paranormal Activity on IMDB (Horror, 86 Minutes, 2007)
Paranormal Activity 2 on IMDB (Horror, 91 Minutes, 2010)
Paranormal Activity 3 on IMDB (Horror, 83 Minutes, 2011)
Paranormal Activity 4 on IMDB (Horror, 88 Minutes, 2012)
I, like everybody else, heard amazing things about this series. The first movie was made on the thinnest of shoestring budgets (less than $15,000) but has since grossed over 100 million. I had never gotten around to watching it. With a fifth movie announced, four in the can and a whole day to kill I figured, “why not a marathon?”
Movie Review: Silent Hill Revelation
“Silent Hill: Revelation” on IMDB
Horror, 94 Minutes, 2012
This is a sequel to 2006’s underappreciated “Silent Hill” [IMDB]. Where the original movie was more inspired by the video game this movie attempts to merge that mostly original story with the third game. (The “Silent Hill” video game series tends to vacillate between a loosely contiguous plotline and stand-alone stories set in its universe. The third game was essentially a direct sequel to the first. For what it’s worth the second game, which connects to very little, was the best game in the series and one of the best games ever made.)
Movie Review: The Corpse Bride
Zombie alert!
See the review of “Corpse Bride” on our sister site, MoreBrains.com dedicated to all things zombie!
Hurricane Movie Review: Psychic Experiment
Horror, 93 Minutes, 2010
[Hurricane Sandy is currently causing all kinds of hell for all kinds of people. Here in Scranton, PA we’ve still got power and Internet (at least for now). We’re going to watch movies until either Sandy puts a stop to it or we can actually leave the house.]