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Infestation (2009). After the rather cool opening credits rolled by, the first couple of lines of dialog seemed sorta clunky, giving me that "bummer this is gunna suck" feeling. Instead, that dialog turned out to be a wonderfully awkward and wry sense of humor that was kept up throughout. Haters of horror sci-fi comedies stay away, as this is a fun and central character driven comedy first, horror and sci-fi a close second. The story itself does not get all caught up trying to explain to the viewer exactly what is happening, and we are left in the same discombobulated place as our unlikely heroes. Loved the end, BTW. The acting was first rate for this genre; that poor blonde is not acting poorly, but instead her awkward responses only serve to make her almost psycho creepy. The direction is solid, and the relative newcomer Kyle Rankin does much with this low budget that was incidentally was shot in Bulgaria. The effects were pretty effective, sans that over-the-top CGI feeling. Overall this fun sci-fi proved to be a mighty entertainer. Mercie beaucoup.
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Glad you enjoyed it, too - I thought this was a blast! Just bought it cheap, too.
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Carriers
I went into this moving thinking that it would be a zombie movie, but instead it was a disease/infection movie, which isn't necessarily such a bad thing... This isn't a monster movie; when people get sick, they die. That's it. The film focused more on the survivors of the plague as opposed to the plague-infested monsters that one gets from your typical zombie film. It's actually one of my favorite parts of zombie films - how the survivors are just as monstrous as their zombie counterparts (example: My favorite part of
28 Days Later are the commandos that we meet at the end of the film.
In
Carriers we see a desperate dad trying to keep his daughter alive (played artfully by
Christopher Meloni, or who I like to refer to as
Elliot), bleak doctors trying to find a cure, and other survivors who really add color to this post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The biggest problem with the film is that it's the survivors that we run into (mentioned above), but not our four main characters who lead us throughout the film that keep me interested. I was just not interested in them. Sure, you have a Chris Pine who does a decent job of being the martyr survivor who has to "keep it together" and the cute and charming Piper Perabo (who, with no bar-dancing, unfortunately keeps her clothes on), but they're more stereotypes than anything else and the movies unravels more like a boring drama than an interesting infection-survivalist tale. I REALLY wanted to see more shreds of a post-apocalyptic society then the drama of 20-somethings dealing with their relationships...
I have a hard time giving this both a GREAT or a POOR review. I think that people will enjoy it but I, for one, found it kinda sorta boring and lacking.
3/5.
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I Sell the Dead
Wow. Really disappointed with this one. It had gotten a decent review from
Rue Morgue Magazine and Netflix Users give it a 3/5, so I thought that this might be a fun horror comedy... I like Dominic Monaghan (my little hobbit), and I was psyched to see Ron Perlman in there, too, but there's something about this movie that, quite frankly, just felt forced. I'm not sure if there was a level of subtlety that they were going for that I missed or if this was just a poorly written, acted, and directed film. Rom Perlman didn't belong at all and the movie just seemed really distracted and wanting for some kind of direction... It felt disorganized and ultimately not really funny... Or scary.
Really pretty bleah. I didn't even make it through.
2/5.
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Triangle
Wow.
First, thanks for the recommendation, V and others who watched this movie. This is a perfect little indie horror movie; it's everything that movies like
1408 and
Identity could and SHOULD have been. A great little mind-bender with awesome writing, flawless direction, and amazing acting, especially from Melissa George, our heroine.
What I really liked about this movie is that I initially thought that this was going to be one of those faux-intellectual horror films that are ultimately disappointing and predictable... HOWEVER, even when I THOUGHT I knew what was going on (thanks to too-revealing marketing), this movie still surprised and shocked me. I don't really want to say too much, but suffice to say there were a few moments that actually made my jaw drop. GREAT movie. HIGHLY recommended.
4/5.
Edit: Sorry these pics are so big - I edited them in Photobucket and in my account they're showing as 250 X 371 pixels - Not sure why they're HUGE here.