Last Seen Contemporary Movie

[Angra]

"Excision" 7/10

Gross and original with a crazy ass main character. Traci Lords and especially AnnaLynne McCord were terrific in it.

Now I need to find more movies with AnnaLynne McCord. She was remarkably ugly in this one.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Angra

"Excision" 7/10

Gross and original with a crazy ass main character. Traci Lords and especially AnnaLynne McCord were terrific in it.

Now I need to find more movies with AnnaLynne McCord. She was remarkably ugly in this one.

I was really impressed with that one... FANTASTIC cameos and Traci Lords was great.

[Angra]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I was really impressed with that one... FANTASTIC cameos and Traci Lords was great.

It's funny to see McCord in that movie and afterwards see her in Bad Girl Island where she looks like a supermodel. Damn she was unattractive in Excision..

[Baron Von Marlon]

Machete Kills
Not as good as the first one but just as entertaining.

[Angra]

"Bad Girl Island" 3/10

I was completely surprised. A horror movie where a truck actually stops before collision. Probably wasn't in the budget.

Poor James Brolin, that good looking old man..

[ImmortalSlasher]

Train -

I glanced at some of the IMDB reviews before watching this movie. I should have listened to those reviews and passed. This is Hostel on a train basically. I now believe that the director, writer, and producers of all these bad horror movies are just a committee that maybe claim to be horror fans but go to TVTropes and follow the bad / overused blueprint. In this movie you have the stupid kids you don't care about, torture porn, evil dirty Europeans that are for some reason the new backwoods American characters, and a few crude nude scenes. And of course those nude scenes involve a club in which anything seems to go. Add in violence against women which in the old horror movies, at least the good ones like Halloween was always quick. Here you have women getting punched and kicked by large men and a few of those dirty Europeans fighting over who will rape a girl. The really bad thing is when you find out what's going on you'll ask why are the people going about doing it in this very brutal manner in dark rooms. Of course the reason is not related to the situation but because it's a torture porn movie. All of this equals a horrible waste of time modern horror "movie" if you could call it that.

[shadyJ]

The Bell Witch Haunting- the new one from Asylum. Ok, in my defense I did not know it was an Asylum picture going in. It never said that in the opening credits or anywhere. Anyway, of course the movie was terrible. But you know what, the first half hour was tolerable and didn't give much indication about how bad it was going to get. So yeah, I watched the whole damn thing. It was obviously a quick and dirty knock-off of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activities. I was expecting that. As such, I found the first half hour to forty minutes not all bad for a cash in.

The movie became so bad though. Idiotic character decisions and a near complete absence of logic.
For example why did that kid never mention to his parents that the house was built on a famous haunting site? Why not take your daughter to a doctor if she is having night terrors all the time? At least have her sleep in a different room when the room is acting funny. Or, you know, maybe move out of a haunted house. Why are there palm trees in Tennessee? Why doesn't it bother the main characters that all their friends are being murdered? Why isn't that park sealed off is murder after murder keeps happening there? Why isn't there an investigation into all those murders? You would think that cop would need some therapy after discovering body after body, night after night, in the same park. Or maybe someone would wait there to see who is leaving all those bodies there? What does the Bell Witch even want? Her purpose is never explained. Even the Ghosts actions are inconsistent and illogical. It directly murders one person and then just throws pots and pans around another.

The best scene was with that dog who wondered around in the scene where the father was having a seizure. You could tell the filmakers wanted the dog to be freaked out by the seizure and all the ghost stuff, but it thought the actor was just playing a game so it was wagging its tail and looking back and forth from the camera crew to the actor. I can't believe they left that in there. If you want to see this hilarious bit of ineptitude, the movie is streaming on netflix and you can just skip to the 59:00 minute mark, watch the dog cheerfully enter the scene in confusion as to what is expected of it.

Anyway, I'll give the movie this, it did have one good jump moment.

[adamhenderson]

Carrie (2013) 3.5/5

Was not as bad as a lot of critics have made out. I actually enjoyed it. I guess the film-makers shouldn't really get too much credit as it is very close to the DePalma version, and they are working from Stephen King's source material, but it was overall a competent film.

The Good:

- Chloe Grace Moretz's crazy face at the end of the film. It sort of borders on camp, but was awesome nonetheless. You really get the sense that she is a woman in the middle of a telekinetic frenzy!
- The bittersweet scene where Carrie dances with Tommy and actually experiences joy is just as powerful as DePalma's version imo.

The Bad:

- Moretz's doesn't really sell Carrie for much of the film. Not as well as Sissy Spacek at any rate.
- A few plot points that are just complete throwaways. Like when the nerdy photographer teaches Carrie to maximise Youtube windows, and I'm thinking maybe he might play a bigger role later, but doesn't at all.
- Julianne Moore is under utilised. She's a great actor, and I was expecting a little bit more.

The Ugly:
- Some of the visual effects are a bit tacky. Didn't like the super slow mow gore shots (such as when the bad chick smashes her head through the windshield), because they obviously CGI and didn't look realistic.

Ultimately, a good movie that is an acceptable remake for the current gen of teenagers who wouldn't have heard of the original version.

[roshiq]

Gravity (2013)



Gravity convincingly depicts the uniquely challenging works of astronauts and provides quite an amazing closer look as well as the very uncertain, eerie-hopeless nature of the space. Surely it's a visually stunning movie to better watch in the theater. The only thing is though the premise here is truly exceptional & very different than others but as a survival story including the lead character, I didn't find it as moving or as great as any other survival flicks even made in recent times i.e. Life of Pi or 127 Hours. Loved that symbolic 'human evolution' sort of ending though.

>>: B+

[Baron Von Marlon]

Escape Plan
Good but not great. Would have been average with an ordinairy cast.
Should have been made 20-25 years earlier.
Still worth the watch.
Loved the classic Schwarz moment towards the end.
They do this slow motion close-up thing and you instantly know what's gonna happen.