CARLITO'S WAY (1993). One of DePalma's better films with compelling Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Luiz Guzman and a too short Viggo Mortenson performances. ****1/2

Saw "Ouija" last night. I thought it was OK. Lots of jump scares, but no true scares. I didn't hate it. I may buy the DVD. Then again, I may not. ::stick out tongue::

I always wondered why the hell they started that movie with the ending... ::confused::
Also loved Sean Penn's performance.

"Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort" 5-6/10

Started out promising with a young guy inheriting a huge old hotel in the middle of the woods. Unfortunately he brings a bunch of young friends you couldn't care less about and it all goes Friday the 13th fast, meaning people are either having sex or doing dumb adolescent stuff. I hate that.

But for a 6th movie in the franchise it wasn't that bad a watch.

Sinister 2012 8/10
I love this movie. It's really creepy; especially the music!

The soundtrack was arguably the scariest part, especially during the BBQ film. I give the movie a 9/10. I wish I could find it on DVD somewhere because I've looked at a bunch of movie stores, and I couldn't find a copy.

"The Taking of Deborah Logan" 7-8/10

After seeing the cover on Neflix again and again starring back at me I finaly gave in. Glad I did.
Roshiq, you've already said it all, so all that's left for me to say is thanks for the recommendation. Nice to see a minimum of shaky cameras in a good mockumentary.

Mirrors
 

I'm slightly disappointed by this one. It started out as a sort of slasher, then quickly turned into investigation, then into supernatural. Slasher movies aren't necessarily my favorites, and I don't like how it quickly turned into an investigation movie and a boring one at that. Investigation in horror can be done right if it's coherent and interesting, which this one was not. The Ring is a great example of an investigation horror film. When it turned into supernatural, that was more of what I was expecting from this film, but it still wasn't terribly entertaining or even scary in the slightest. I think this went more for the "cool effects" route. Speaking of which, the mirror effects did look great, and it was probably the best part of the movie... but if the special effects are the high point of a film, I don't think you're gonna get any quality entertainment.

C

The sequel has a pretty cool mirror scene in an elevator. Go see it, right now!

FIVE ACROSS THE EYES 2006

Five teenaged girls get lost driving, while taking a shortcut through "the eyes", and stop to ask for directions. They have a minor fender bender in the parking lot but leave regardless.

What follows is a whole other level of road rage. This movie pushed my comfort levels. It was sadistic, bloody and distorted. But it was different. Pretty decent soundtrack, too.

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"Witching & Bitching" 7/10

Damn, you need to read fast to follow everything that's being said in this spanish horror/comedy. Luckily it's a fairly easy story to follow even if you can't read, but all the "funny" lines will go over your head of course.
It takes the movie more than 50 minutes before all hell breaks lose, but then there's still an hour of craziness left.

"Ouija" 7-8/10

Yea, I thought it was pretty decent as well.

Sure, the last half of the story might have been a little cheesy and some of it didn't make much sense. But what the fuck, it had some good scares throughout the movie and the last 15 minutes were quite intense.

You're kidding right?

I thought the first 10 minutes were actually really scary, but everything after that just ended up being flickering lights, people appearing behind doors, and discussions about the ouija board.



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If the mother was trying to protect them from getting killed, and the daughter was trapped and needed to be freed by cutting the threads over her mouth, then who the fuck killed Isabelle, pushed the guy into the mirror, and kept writing "HI FREND" everywhere? It wouldn't make any sense with the context of the movie for it to be another spirit because there were no other spirits mentioned in the film.

I didn't care about all the plotholes as long as the movie was scary. And it was. I believe what really spoiled it for you was all the crying teens in the theater. ::wink::

Maybe... I just hated the story. I think a movie that isn't scary can be salvaged by a good plot and good atmosphere. Oculus wasn't very scary, but it's my second favorite horror film because it had an interesting story and a very disturbing atmosphere surrounding the mirror.

Dead Silence
 

All of James Wan's movies have different tones, but this one was by far the strangest. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this weird horror movie. It had a couple very effective jump scares and a lot of good tension. This plot was very weird and crazy, but it was simple and interesting. The twist at the end, though, was pretty unnecessary which I didn't particularly like. I recommend this one if you like Wan's other films; it's on Netflix too.

B

Roadkill; The Last Days of John Martin, 1994. 10/10

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Ricky 6, 2000. 7/10

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Red Room 2, 2000. 8/10

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Agreed. I thought this was well made and builds to some genuinely scary scenes. Story, characters & plot don't have much depth, but still manages to be engaging supernatural horror.

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Sanctum 2011 (on netflix)

6.5/10

If you like exploration & survival films, & the like: cave or underwater films, I think you'll enjoy this. It's what I'd call "reality horror", or just plain a personal disaster film (like your own personal Towering Inferno).

I think it was well shot & well made. Good cinematography, sets, sounds. The acting is solid when you accept the characters are a mix of hard-ass explorers, Xtreme sporters, survivalists & rich asshole types. Realizing that, I thought the stoicism was mildly realistic character development, enough for the type of film it's trying to be (it's not Terms of Endearment).

Most of the scenes are very real, and the rest plausible -- in that area of 'who knows unless you're in that extreme situation' plausibility.

Looking at the ratings & reviews at large, I think most are being awfully harsh; as if they were expecting 'James Cameron's Titanic' in a cave. Cameron didn't write or direct it, he just funded it.

The Borderlands (2013)

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A decent Britt found footage with one hell of a weird ending!

>>: B

Zombeavers (2014)

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>>: C-

Eliza Graves aka Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

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Fairly decent but a typical Hollywood treatment for an Edgar Allan Poe story. Jan Švankmajer's Lunacy (2005) was also loosely based on the same story which I think was a more interesting & better adaptation.

>>: B

If you are are a completist - there is another film based on Ricky Kasso besides the Van Bebber one called Black Circle Boys. It's not great though.

I've read people all over the internet hate it, even Whannell hates it, but I don't see why. I may buy this on DVD if I find myself wanting to watch it again, which seems likely.

900th post :P

The ABC's of Death
 

I actually had to stop watching this one partway through, and pretty early at that. I stopped watching after F because I didn't want to suffer through about 20 more segments. Only 1 or 2 of the segments I watched were passable, A and D. I don't think it's fair for me to grade this since I didn't finish it, but I don't ever plan to watch the rest of this movie.

Think that's as far as I got too. It would've been good if the filmmakers took it seriously

Almost all of them just looked really unprofessional. Youtube videos have better quality than the ones I saw, especially C and E.

I agree!! I thought this was a very well made movie, one that you find yourself really feeling the characters. I wish there more like this!!

Piranha 3D - terrible movie!! Especially the floating piece of "anatomy". I'm guilty of watching the whole movie though ::embarrassment::

The same thing could be said about R movies.......

Excellent movie!! Yeah, I'ma HUGE Viggo fan and it would have been nice to have seen more of him in this flick!

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I think that I enjoyed the cinematography more than anything else. I thought the movie was well done, it was not meant to be a horror movie, just a good thriller.

Yeah, Black Circle Boys was pretty far out there....

Most recent movie for me:

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

A+

Excellent movie!! I enjoyed this one as much as the first one. Mickey Rourke rocks!!

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6/10

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7.5/10

as above so below
 

Anyone else think as above so below was a total piece of garbage with a good concept? There is a full review on my web page ofpipesandpens.com

No

Jessabelle (2014)

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Good story and there were some decently done creepy set-pieces but overall not as much scary as I thought. And for that I think the thriller aspect or that mystery surrounding about the ghost's identity dominates the 2nd half more than the horror aspect or scare parts. Nevertheless, it was a good flick and I liked it.

But there's one thing that's bugging me....::big grin::

**SPOILER AHEAD**
May be the ritual had something to do with it but how come a ghost or a spirit grows old over the years? According to our known myth about the ghosts...the aging for a spirit or a soul stops just at the point of death but here the original Jessabelle dies as an infant but her corporal ghost returns as a young woman to haunt & posses the other Jessabelle! I understand it'd suck but they could work with an idea something like this...only her boyfriend dies in the car crush, the unborn child somehow or miraculously left unharmed and then when a devastated Jessi returns to her childhood home the infant ghost of the original Jessi starts to haunt her & tries to posses the body of her newly born child...:halloween:

>>: B+

Ouija (2014)

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As a for a teen horror flick, surprising it turned out a decent time waster. Liked the way they kept it all simple & there wasn't any annoying character at least. Expected the final showdown would be more atmospheric & creepy but anyway, overall it was okay & fairly entertaining.

>>: B

VAN HELSING (2004). Had heard this was bad, but words did not do justice! Way too much CGI and it wore me out with all the stupid never ending action scenes. Decent Univewrsal like opening, but all downhill afterwards. Avoid this and watch something better. *

How can you not that was probably the most stereotypical movie i have seen in years. Every character embodied those sad moronic people who have no idea what to do. And it even seemed to rip doom at one point.

I thought shrooms was a pretty good head tri though.

I can totally see where you're coming from, F for Fart was incredibly bad and left a bad taste in my mouth. However, though it stands out as the weakest short-film in the anthology.. there were a handful that I felt were worth watching. Many disagree with me, but I still feel that the second film was considerably stronger and contained a broader variety of horror themes that suited my tastes. Not the best movie ever, but blows the first one out of the water for sure.

Jersey Shore Massacre

Okay, so I wasn't expecting much in watching this "film". I've only seen a few episodes of that trashy "reality" tv series, but I was at least hoping for a good tanning bed related death and I got what I wanted. The movie as a whole was rather awful, but there is a brief scene where the idiots sit down to watch a movie called "Fat Camp Massacre" featuring a fantastic character called "Cupcake the Clown" and THAT was truly the highlight of the movie!! I seriously demand that they make "Fat Camp Massacre" a real thing because that was totally golden and I'd love to see that! This movie though, utterly terrible.. aside from the excellent movie-watching scene with the epic cupcake clown "cuttin calories the ol fashioned way".

That is a great idea... Id watch something like that. Speaking of cutting calories the old fashioned way what was your take on thinner? I personally thought the blood pie scene had to be the highlight.

If you could learn how to type a sentence, I would take you more seriously.

I liked it, and I agree about the blood pie. Great casting too! It has to be one of the better adaptations of a King novel, in my opinion. My personal favourite, is "Needful Things".