Great! I'm glad you liked it!

::big grin::

"Frayed" (2007) 6/10

Nasty intro, nasty ending.

Army of Darkness -

I went in thinking that I wouldn't like this one as Evil Dead started off mostly serious then ventured into more comedy for the sequel. But I think Army of Darkness is the most fun and enjoyable movie of the three. It's horror comedy and feels like a big fantasy adventure or one of those Pirates of the Caribbean movies at times. With Army of Darkness you could almost skip the first two since once again there is a retelling of the first two movies with yet another actress playing the girlfriend character. And the end of Evil Dead 2 is changed a bit for the beginning of Army of Darkness.

Ash has a bunch of great lines and is funny and cool throughout the movie. This movie is where I think his character becomes iconic. Or at least popular enough to get action figures, comics, and other pop culture items. I'm going to watch it again one day. It might be something I buy down the line.

Now to watch the new TV show.


The Pyramid -

* Disclaimer - I like pretty blonde girls and Egyptian stuff. I might never go to Egypt again considering the situation there. It's been dangerous since I went years ago and it never seems to be perfectly or at least reasonably safe. I still have good memories of the country. Even though I thought I was cursed at one point! Anyway a movie about Egypt with deserts, pyramids, and exploration is a movie for me.

I can't remember if this movie was sold as found footage. But like maybe most of these movies or the ones I've seen, it gets dropped after a while for the sake of the movie. The Pyramid is not the best movie, it's not perfect. It could and should be better. Maybe they were rushed or just making it for a cash in with the found footage. I don't know. Many things about the Egyptian characters' backgrounds are historically wrong I think. I haven't studied it in years. But it has one of my favorite Egyptian characters in it and although the history is incorrect, I think they were chosen for the look over anything else. It's entertainment first and history second or of little concern. Which is a shame. As if you are going to go down a historical route it should be accurate.

The Pyramid is your basic explore a dark place and get lost story. However the pretty blonde girl gets a slasher type partial nudity underwear scene early on. Also there aren't any real unlikable characters which is cool. The odd thing is the blonde girl and her Father are both supposed to be experienced archaeologists and they are doctors. But how they get lost and what they do seems kind of silly. But this is a lost area type horror movie and one of those money talks situations I guess. Once the horror and exploration starts it seems to be influenced a bit or has some moments that reminded me of The Descent. Not enough to be a rip off but if you've seen or like The Descent you'll pick it up. Things happen, people get injured, traps, etc. I think the movie will have more effect on you if you like exploring or have explored pyramids and similar areas. It might not be the best movie but it doesn't have to be if you like the stuff I mentioned in my disclaimer.


Does it matter? There are tons of horror and other movies that I missed. I just never got around to it, didn't know about them, or they weren't high up on the watch list. And there are other movies I watch too. I just don't review everything or post because it's not horror.

No, it doesn't.
Like I said, I'm just curious. Don't mean anything bad by it.

Oh no you dI'nt!

::stick out tongue::

THE SICK HOUSE 2008


A convoluted and dreary dark mess. Due to a potential biohazard a dig site is shut down. The site is an old orphanage. But overnight a....oh never mind.

"Absolutely Anything" 8/10

A Monty Python movie starring Simon Pegg, how could it go wrong? Well.. it couldn't.

Not very original (Bruce Almighty), but an entertaining and amusing story throughout. Tho, I must say there's very little Python'ish about it.

Unbroken (2014)

The non-fiction novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is an incredibly riveting, moving biography of Olympian and prisoner-of-war Louis Zamperini that I believe is an important book to read. Naturally, a movie based on the book was inevitable; the film adaptation does do its subject justice, even if it's only sporadically compelling. Unbroken is a bio-pic about the life of Louie Zamperini in World War II, whose bomber plane was shot down, and he was forced to survive on a raft for 47 days. He was then captured by the Japanese and placed in various camps for over two years, where he was severely abused until he was rescued at the end of the war. There are a lot of great things about Unbroken: the spectacular cinematography, breakout performances from the entire cast, an explosive opening act and some genuinely moving scenes throughout the rest of the film. Angelina Jolie directs the film in a surprisingly graceful way. Despite some obviously unpleasant war scenes present in the film, Unbroken is a beautiful movie to look at. An opportunity that the film misses, however, is the effects of the war on Louie. His battle with alcoholism and PTSD is never mentioned in the film, and although it would have made the movie longer than it already is (137 minutes), there should have been an emphasis on those ideas. Even if it doesn't resonate as strongly as it should, Unbroken is compelling enough to do justice to its subject matter and a must-watch if yo're a fan of World War II movies.

8/10

Last Shift, 2015. 8/10




The Babadook, 2014. 8/10





The Shrine, 2010. 7/10

I rewatched this recently-ish myself, but I don't remember that scene... ::confused::

It's not, its a hidden picture on the UK Blu/DVD release of the film. I used it cause the picture is creepy. : )

::big grin::

It is a little unsettling yes. ::big grin::

The Sleeping Room, 2014. 7/10

Devil's Pass

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The CGI was a little SciFi-y... but I enjoyed it. Even though the 'creature' was a Gollum/Nightcrawler love child. -shivers at that pairing-

Thanatomorphose, 2012. 7/10






This was pretty good. Rémy Couture did some of the FX. It had maggots and the music beautiful.

Dead Snow II

How was it? I've been going back and forth on watching it. Started to watch it a while back, but was too drunk to finish.

Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)

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>>: C-

It's like part one on steroids. The humour, the gore, everything is amped up, and considering how far the first one went, that's really saying something.
There was a thing or two about the movie that I thought was a little stale, or maybe I should say had been done before, and better, but as a super huge tribute to Bad Taste era Peter Jackson, it's a blast.

It's worth a watch, but I think getting too drunk to do so is always a solid option!

Classy ::big grin::

It doesn't happen often ::stick out tongue::

Excellent film i thought

Baby hasn't been sleeping so we've been watching the Hellraiser series. Just finished the ridiculous Hellworld and while it wasn't great, I'm surprised at the how much I've liked some of the other sequels (I had only seen the first couple). I was especially surprised at how well a couple of them that weren't written as Hellraiser films worked as decent to above average psychological horror flicks.

I feel like I'm the only one who actually enjoyed Hellworld. ::big grin::

Jeepers Creepers

Condemned (2015)
First half was pretty good after that it becomes kinda meh.
Too bad.

The Visit

Like most of Shyamalan's films: lame.

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The Fourth Kind 9/(10

Was it entertaining, or just plain lame?

Amalthea inspired me to watch The Fourth Kind, so I did.

The Fourth Kind (2009)

It's always a bit fun when a found footage movie affirms to be real footage and sticks with that claim throughout the film. You get to play along with the filmmakers and hopefully get a satisfying horror flick out of it. Movies like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project did this well, but some movies are a bit too ardent about their authenticity and come off as silly. The Fourth Kind fits somewhere in the ladder category. In The Fourth Kind, the town of Nome, Alaska is plagued by mysterious disappearances, murders and suicides in the early 2000's. A psychologist, Abbey Taylor, head hypnosis sessions with various patients whose stories seem to have distinct similarities, and Abbey realizes that she might be tormented by the same thing that afflicts her patients. The film mostly mixes found footage with dramatized versions of the footage, sometimes showing the "real" and dramatized portions side-by-side. For the most part, it's just aggravating. You'll hear the same dialog from two different actors at the same time on occasion, which begs the question why they didn't either go all-in with the found footage. The found footage scenes are the most intense parts of the films. Not necessarily scary, but they are visceral enough to be memorable. The dramatized scenes are melodramatic and dull. Surprisingly, the movie would have been much better if it was completely found footage. The Fourth Kind has some effective stretches here and there, but it's mostly a half-baked affair.

5/10

Perfect summation for my feelings about it. It could have been pretty great but the filmmakers needed to figure what the hell kind of movie they wanted to make and stick to it. It was kind of all over the place at moments, but managed some eerie and effective atmosphere. Sadly, not enough of it.

Agreed. ::big grin:: And this was mine...

Yeah, 5 out of ten, all around. A perfectly average film. Oh well, Amalthea liked it, so it has an audience.

It got all 4 of us to audience it. Good marketing. ::big grin::

Wait, I think I work with a guy who audienced it. We're five strong now.

Ant-Man (2015)
C+
Has its moments but overal it was just another superhero movie.
The fighting scenes are starting to feel like the fighting in the old Batman series.
"Kapow! And it's getting boring. Or I'm getting old.

The Hallow (2015)
B/C
Could've been great.

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Final Destination 5 7/10