I was laughing my ass off at the scene with Sharon Stone at the end. She reminded me of Weird Al in the "Eat it" & "Fat" videoes. ::big grin::

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6/10

John Wick (2014)
B/C
Jason Statham type action flick with Keanu Reeves.
Lots of ass kicking and some sweet kills but the (bad) CGI blood is a bummer.
Some roles were miscast and the better actors got smaller parts. Best acting was by Ian McShane (Al Swearengen, Deadwood).

Dark Summer (2015)
Somewhere in between meh and crap but I'm sure some'll think it's ok.

"Out of the Dark" 5-6/10

An american family living in Colombia is haunted by dead children.

A horror movie with a budget, nice production and decent actors. Too bad it's a one-trick pony when it came to scares. Loud noises in your face. Pathetique.

Pretty meh, yes.




"Dark Summer" 6/10

Fairly entertaining story, but the scares didn't work the least even tho the movie really tried to.

gutshot straight

a modern film noir starring george eads (nick stokes from csi) , its a very nice looking movie with a decent performance from eads. 6/10.

JACOB'S LADDER (1990). Some good scenes here and good performances by Tim Robbins and the late Elizaabeth Pena. However, the film drags on and quickly becomes a lukewarm take on "Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge". **1/2

"What We Do In the Shadows" 8/10

"Some people freak out a bit about the age difference. They think, what's this 96 year old lady doing with a guy four times her age? And, you know, I don't care. They can call me a cradle snatcher. Who cares?" ::big grin::

I know I'm pretty late to the party here, but I only recently found the time to finally watch Under The Skin. Absolutely fantastic movie, and even more bizarre than I had anticipated it would be. I really appreciate that people are still willing to make movies that work on atmosphere and intrigue, as opposed to heavy dialoge and constant action. Plus, with this and "Her", Scarlett Johansson has finally silenced the people insisting that she will never be considered a "good" actress. Good job all 'round.

Yeah, the part was pretty amusing. It had the "over done" feel to it.

Hmmm, I have not heard of this one and I would like to check it out.

I rarely ever turn a movie off because I thought it sucked soo bad, I only lasted 20 minutes with this one. I thought it was HORRIBLE and I can't believe Johansson even bothered with it. I've enjoyed several of her movies but lately she's been making some real stinkers.

I totally understood Johansson picked this role. This was her Cast Away. Only thing missing was Wiiiiilsooooooon!! ::big grin::

Unless I see something really good and surprising like Triangle, I'm not going to post reviews for a while. I want to get more stuff done so I can watch a horror movie per night in October. Kind of going out for now with some forgettable ones that do have pretty actresses in them. You can almost call it "The Friday the 13th remake actress show." First up -


The Julianna Guill Double Feature -





Too bad these movies aren't as fun as this image. It's from the bad Friday the 13th remake. She plays almost the same character in both Altitude and Mine Games. They have kind of similar plot elements too.


Altitude -





When you see this poster what do you think? I thought Lovecraft, Twilight Zone, and good sci-fi horror movies or TV shows. But sadly the movie feels like a 90210 "horror" movie with a Lifetime / LMN network twist. Maybe the director should have told the actors to watch some old Twilight Zone episodes. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is far better than this one. In fact 30 minute Twilight Zone episodes have a far tighter feel for storytelling as a whole compared to this 90 minute movie. They should have used the first 10 or so minutes to show the relationship between the main characters. Twilight Zone was very good at setting the scene and mind set of characters almost immediately since they didn't have that much time. But here they want a reveal to be a surprise for some reason. To generate conflict I guess. The important characters aren't very likeable either. Jessica Lowndes is beautiful, that's really the only reason why you like her in the movie. Same for Julianna as the pretty blonde girl. As characters they are pretty bad. One supposedly has a boyfriend but he doesn't seem like it. And the other I guess is cheating. The male characters are stereotypes. Jock, musician, and geek.

The final twist when you realize where they are going with the story is a big "why?" or "are they serious?" Because a good story that does something like this would put the elements or hint at something early on. Like I mentioned, those Twilight Zone episodes get you in the mood early on from the title sequence. It's like Altitude used that poster as a tease to rope people in and then have the modern teenager / young adult stuff through almost the whole movie.

Maybe if the director or writer made the story only for Jessica or Julianna it would have been better. Or at least more enjoyable. Look at the remake of When a Stranger Calls. That's a pretty bad movie. But it has Camilla Belle in a beautiful setting and house. Perhaps the plane in this movie could have been a luxurious private design and Jessica was co-pilot or the person asked to help fly. At least create the story with a bigger plane or another passenger that can fly. I swear Jessica's character looks behind her more than she looks in front and she's the one flying in a cloud, without radio contact, and at an unknown altitude. At one if not more points she actually gets out of her seat to engage in conversation and argue with her friends! It's crazy and makes zero sense.

There is another older movie that has a coming TV show this year that does a similar twist as Altitude. I don't want to drop a spoiler so post if you've seen Altitude and want the name of the movie / TV show. But it's a far, far better movie where you care about and feel for the characters more than in Altitude. Only see this one if you want to see Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, or are curious about that poster monster. And even then you can look that stuff up online.


Mine Games -


I think the setup is good but for this type of movie I think you need to decide if you are going to go serious or slasher. It's like they weren't sure during the movie. A movie like Triangle (http://horror.com/forum/showpost.php...postcount=2442) gets it. It's serious and the tone is right from the get go. Mine Games bounces back and forth. If they wanted to use the slasher tropes with the twist they should have gone all out. All the characters should have been mentally compromised from alcohol or drugs. For example, one time I went too far with alcohol and thought skeletons were going to come through my door. In this movie only the ethnic girl gets hallucinations and I think she's supposed to be Native American or a fortune teller. It's one of those typical Hollywood things.

Mine Games starts off with usual things you see other and better horror movies. The trip to the cabin, nice overhead shots through the beautiful outdoors, a group of friends, the supply pickup, etc. Basically the sort of setup that Cabin in the Woods, a movie I'm not that fond of, made a point of showing how tired it all is. Parts of the movie and character elements reminded me of The Descent. Except they explore an abandoned mine for no reason. They don't just take a few steps in either. They go deep into the mine multiple times and even play around in it. I guess common sense of old abandoned mine equals dangerous doesn't click with these people.

The movie kind of feels thrown together. Ideas from other movies quickly put together. There was one seemingly out of place sex scene and only after watching some of the movie again hearing a throwaway line did I realize the identity of the couple. Still I think the continuity of the movie is messed up as there is something shown at the beginning of the movie that hints at something. But it can't possibly be as that would break the timeline.

Maybe it's the budget. I was looking around for more stuff on the mine walls. There could have been more with that mine. More back story. Perhaps another person knowing about it or hearing about some area legend. It's a trope but you need that sometimes. Even Triangle has the one line that basically tells you what is happening.

In the end, there is no why even though that's not always needed. But there is no unsettling feeling at the end like in Triangle. It just ends kind of similar to The Descent's American ending. It's like they saw certain movies and thought to make their own version with slasher elements but didn't realize that they needed to make an actual movie not just rip from others.


* By the way, no Julianna nudity in either of these. I guess she decided that the scene in the Friday the 13th remake was enough and the best we get is her in a bikini in Mine Games.
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Amanda Righetti Special





Return to the House on Haunted Hill -


I barely remember The House on Haunted Hill remake and I haven't seen the original movie. From what I remember, I didn't think the remake wasn't that bad. Amanda Righetti is really pretty here. I kind of remember her in that Friday the 13th remake. She's hardly in the opening segment and when the twist happens I was pretty much detached from the movie at that point. Here she's front and center figuring out what happened to her sister. The movie might not be the best but it's not horrible or offensive either. Jeffrey Combs has a quick bad guy role. The main bad guy or at least the main human bad guy is pretty good too. It's an ok time waster while eating dinner.

How about giving your opinion on movies in a couple of words? Or just one? Saves a lot of time and we still get an opinion from a fellow member.

Psycho Killer With Some Kind Of Mask (2015)
Sucks!
Crap.
Meh...
Cool.
Sweet!
Awesome!!
Epic!!!

There's a movie coming out this year called Lady Psycho Killer. It's starring famous actors such as Ron Jeremy, so you know it'll be good.

If it wasn't for your post I would never have known. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ::big grin::

I don't know if you're for real or not but I was just making stuff up.
I'd like to think I'm good at it but I'm too chaotic to write a script or book.

Oh I'm for real. ::wink::

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"The Remaining" 7-8/10

Started out really promising kicking off the action already after 10 minutes of introduction. Sadly after 25 minutes the movie ran out of steam and continued in a mid tempo pace for the rest of the movie. It also felt like the writers had no idea where to go with the story after the first half hour and the whole thing ended up feeling like a pilot to a very promising apocalyptic armageddon series.

In the end it will probably end up in the same category as Vanishing on 7th Street, which is a pretty good watch but fairly forgettable in the long run.

"The Scarehouse" 7-8/10

Not the best acting, but a fun watch nevertheless. By the cover you'd think this would be a slasher but it's more of a torture flick with some dark humor added.

Is this from 2014?

If you're to believe IMDB, yes.

"The Ouija Experiment 2 Theatre of Death" 2/10

Wow, that was... Wow.

Worst idea for a story ever.

If you've seen the first movie. You haven't? Well, just keep it that way.

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5/10

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7/10

I was looking forward to Altitude and thought the poster was good. I felt people should be warned that the movie isn't very good. I personally like to know a bit more about a movie in reviews. Someone on HorrorDVDs mentioned this same thing when posting which movies people watched during Halloween. Posting a list vs posting a list with thoughts.

Many times I see what people watched here and I have to check the movie on IMDB to see what it was about. Or they post the poster art and a number review and I think the poster looks good so I look that up.

If I posted a review on the Friday the 13th remake for example and just said "Crap" wouldn't you want to know why? Most horror fans will check the movie out anyway. But if I gave a paragraph or so maybe it wouldn't be a immediate watch. And you could watch something better instead like a Triangle for example.

"Mother's Milk" 6/10

Lovely title, lovely movie.

A story about a woman held captive by her slightly sick milk-loving captor.

Bon appétit.

feed the gods

2 brothers go backto the town where they were "born" only for people to go missing due to a mountain "monster" no real tension, scares or substance. 5/10

"In a Heartbeat/Bloodshot" 3/10

Except for a dream sequence at the end I failed to see the horror in this long bore of something that should've been a 15 minutes short.

I believe this movie will only appeal to die hard Danny Dyer fans, unless you're in the mood for an awful bad romance.

I'm just saying that one word is better than nothing at all.

I think you have a lot more patience than I do. That sounds like something I wouldn't have been able to finish.

Coz if I'd given up on it I wouldn't have been able to write this review, would I?::big grin::

Very true. Your pain is our gain.

"American Sniper" 9/10

Since American Sniper managed to get an Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture I figured I'd give it a shot.

For a Clint Eastwood creation it stands out for being under one and a half hour long. Still it's able to tell a good story that's really entertaining and has some highly intense moments.

Now, I don't believe it has a chance of actually winning the Oscar statuette (coz... Boyhood.::roll eyes::), but it's still a damn good watch.

I'll see if I can do something clever.

"Borgman" 8/10


A movie that shows the devil as quite an organized and manipulative trickster.

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Dead Snow 2


I knew this movie had to be awesome, but I had no idea it would instantly become one of my all time favorite movies. This movie kicked ass on so many different levels!

I just watched a trailer for this. Can you tell me if he shoots the kid picking up the RPG? You can put it in white text. I just don't want to wait a long time to find out the answer to that. = )

Send you a pm.

I didn't care for Borgman, I liked the first half then the last half was kind of ehhhh

Sinister 6/10

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6/10

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The Seventh Continent (1989)

Sheesh. Painful. (But in a good way... I think.) Regardless, it's a tough one to shake.

8/10