MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ Accomplishes Next To Nothing

The Last Exorcism Part 2 made me long for the comparatively breakneck pace of the first film. While there’s some fascinating stuff happening in found footage on an indie level, the mainstream features hinging on the conceit are still (for the most part) stuck in the “nothing happens for the first 80 minutes” mode. Since… Read More


EvanDickson
Mar 01, 2013 3:23am
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[Blu-Ray Review] Second Sight Films Gives ‘From Beyond’ An Out-Of-This-World HD Treatment!

Director Stuart Gordon has always been one of my favourite genre filmmakers. Overall his body of work contains a versatility and wild imagination I’ve always gravitated towards. Re-Animator still remains as the highlight of his career. Gordon’s follow-up, From Beyond arrived a year later. It’s as good of a sophomore film as one could ever… Read More


Mike Pereira
Feb 25, 2013 9:40pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Dark Skies’ Takes Twice As Long To Accomplish Half As Much

Spoiler Warning: Anyone keeping tabs on director Scott Charles Stewart knows that he has problems focusing on a single film. He was incredibly vocal in declaring that both Legion and Priest were set to be the first films in a trilogy. Both “franchises” failed. It appears that he’s learned nothing from his past failures as… Read More


MrDisgusting
Feb 22, 2013 9:00am
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[DVD Review] ‘The Mooring’ Is Confusing

“There is more to relationships than pressing buttons.” This line from the opening of The Mooring is the very first thing that struck me in this film. From here, however, it became very confusing. Not because the plot itself is contradictory or unclear, it’s more because for the 90 minute running time, it induces a… Read More


LaurenTaylor
Feb 21, 2013 9:28pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Cell Count’ Tries To Do Too Many Things At Once

Reviewed by Michael Erb When I saw the poster for this movie, two things immediately popped into my head: 1. This poster directly affects my desire to see this movie. 2. That guy has an anus where his face should be. Poster aside, Cell Count is a little hard to get a handle on. Tons… Read More


David Harley
Feb 21, 2013 9:18pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘The Nest’ is Gross in a Good Way

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper Until I moved from New England to Florida, I never saw a cockroach in person. About one year after moving into my apartment, I started seeing them everywhere. They were small suckers – German cockroaches, they tell me. Some of the hardest to kill. A few times I’ve seen ones the… Read More


David Harley
Feb 20, 2013 10:22pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Girls Against Boys’ is Incredibly Dull

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper In the ‘70s and ‘80s, rape-revenge movies generated loads of controversy as they shot up, bit off, and poured acid on the dicks of the male audience. Call it desensitization or evolution, but nowadays these films generate shrugs more than shocks. Such is the case with Austin Chick’s Girls Against Boys,… Read More


David Harley
Feb 20, 2013 9:02pm
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[DVD Review] Few Scares In ‘Paranormal Activity 4′

After a recap of the events of the second film, Paranormal Activity 4 starts on Halloween 2011. This gives us an opportune and legitimate reason for something to be recorded. However we are already getting into that far fetched territory. While a holiday may be reason for a home video, when we push beyond that… Read More


LaurenTaylor
Feb 20, 2013 8:06pm
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MOVIES
[DVD Review] ‘Sinister’ Is Flawed

Upon first inspection, Sinister appears to be a scary, complex film. After mulling about it in one’s mind, it can easily be torn apart quite quickly. The plot revolves around Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), a true crime writer, who continuously hauls his family across the United States in order to write his next best seller…. Read More


LaurenTaylor
Feb 20, 2013 7:59pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘The Factory’ is Flawed but Worth a Watch

The Factory was filmed in 2008 and is finally being released on DVD this week. Since it has been five years since filming completed, and the release was delayed since 2011, there has to be obvious reasons why. Upon initial assessment, it’s simple: the set up of The Factory is solid, but the execution is… Read More


LaurenTaylor
Feb 18, 2013 8:14pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Prison’ is One of the Better Neglected Horror Flicks of the 80′s

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper Scream Factory is releasing Renny Harlin’s 1988 film Prison for the first time on DVD/Blu-ray in the U.S. and after watching it, I honestly cannot believe it took this long. It’s better than most of the ‘80s horror films people “rediscover” on DVD. On a modest budget, Harlin and producers Irwin… Read More


David Harley
Feb 14, 2013 10:10am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘The Dead Inside’ Is Anything But

I’ve been entertained by very few musicals in my life. Sweeney Todd, Rocky Horror, The Phantom of the Opera and Evil Dead: The Musical are the exceptions. Most of the time, however, it’s just people with the constant “need” to sing about whatever the hell is going on, the lame plots, the actors/singers who shouldn’t… Read More


Pat Torfe
Feb 09, 2013 9:46am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia’ Is Pleasant But Dull And Lifeless

There’s an obstinate, willfully obtuse, part of me that wonders why this film has to be called The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia when the original The Haunting In Georgia would have sufficed. Of course I know the business and franchise maintenance logic behind it, but if these are intended to be standalone… Read More


EvanDickson
Feb 01, 2013 9:27am
MOVIES
[BD Review] Emo-Hipster ‘Warm Bodies’ Is Unique, Cute and Sorta Fun

It’s incredibly exciting to see director Jonathan Levine return to his horror roots. Since his teen masterpiece All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was buried by Dimension, among others, he’s gone on to direct some wonderful films. Now, he’s back in the genre with his adaptation of Warm Bodies, a Twilight-esque emo-hipster zombie film that’s… Read More


MrDisgusting
Jan 31, 2013 10:57am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Magic Magic’ For The Half-Crazy Horror Junkie!

As the lead actress in Magic Magic, Juno Temple brings the same wet-eyed vulnerability she displayed as the trailer trash daughter in the recent, excellent Killer Joe. This 2013 Sundance entry from Sebastian Silva––about a young woman experiencing a schizophrenic episode while on a Brazilian vacation with strangers––is anchored by Temple’s increasingly paranoid, ultimately heartbreaking… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 30, 2013 9:43am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘A Thousand Cuts’ is Thoroughly Absorbing

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper The cover of A Thousand Cuts tricked me into hating it before watching it. It features two hands bound and bloody and has that cheap Saw color filter going on. There’s even an “Unrated Director’s Cut” stamp – even though I’m pretty sure this wasn’t submitted to the ratings board. Instead… Read More


David Harley
Jan 29, 2013 8:30am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Stoker’ A Contemplative Artistic Thriller

One of the more highly anticipated films of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival was Stoker, the first English-language feature from cult fave Chan-wook Park (the highly regarded Vengeance trilogy, including Oldboy). Despite a heavyweight cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Dermot Mulroney, Stoker still manages to retain Park’s distinctive fingerprints, indicating that even… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 28, 2013 12:27pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] Cultish Thriller ‘Jug Face’ A Creepy Slow-Burn

Moderncine is a company that should receive more praise than it gets. They’ve become the model for consistency, delivering a flurry of well made independent films over the past few years (including The Woman, Offspring and Ghoul). The 2013 Slamdance Film Festival played host to the world premiere of Jug Face, a cultish thriller from… Read More


MrDisgusting
Jan 27, 2013 7:47pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] Lynchian ‘The Rambler’ Intriguing And Bizarre

Following a Sundance screening of The Rambler, I found myself discussing the film with a stranger outside the theater. The man’s dislike of The Rambler ran so deep, he could hardly convey his opinion in words, relying primarily on frustrated mumbles and dismayed head shakes to get his point across. When I asked if he’d… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 26, 2013 8:14pm
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[BD Review] Jonny Gives ‘Hansel And Gretel’ A Spin And Likes What He Sees

Walking into Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, I can honestly say my expectations were lower than the Marina Trench. After all, it looked like another Van Helsing, which I fell asleep during watching in the theater. Imagine my surprise when I not only managed to stay awake throughout the film but I also had a… Read More


JonathanBarkan
Jan 25, 2013 10:12am
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘In Fear’ Filled With Dread, Overstays Its Welcome

A pervasive feeling of dread runs throughout the first half of In Fear, a British horror movie from filmmaker Jeremy Lovering. Uneasy moans from the audience could be heard at the Sundance Film Festival screening I attended, as Lovering takes a seemingly benign situation and slowly tightens the screws. Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 24, 2013 12:32pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘Hell Baby’ Tries Too Hard For Its Own Good

It’s been hard to wrap my head around the audience reaction to Hell Baby, which had a bunch of Salt Lake City locals braying with laughter at a recent Sundance screening as I sat there in stoic silence. Intermittently raunchy and repetitive, the horror-comedy boasts a hip cast of talented comedians from a handful of… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 22, 2013 11:49pm
MOVIES
[BD Review] ‘We Are What We Are’ Fashions Tradition Into Good Cinema

The Parker family has a secret. And anyone who has seen or has a passing familiarity with Jorg Michel Grou’s Somos lo que hay already knows that secret: The Parkers are cannibals. Jim Mickle’s (Mulberry Street, Stake Land) Sundance remake of the 2010 Mexican cult classic has a story as timeless as Shirley Jackson’s “The… Read More


Ryan Daley
Jan 21, 2013 1:55am
MOVIES
[BD Review] Scary And Original ‘Mama’ Destroyed By Lame CGI And Poor Characters

In a time where filmgoers are screaming for originality, Guillermo del Toro comes through with his latest production, Mama, directed by Andrés Muschietti. It’s a horror film loaded with great ideas and multiple scares, but it’s deflated by horrendous CGI and ridiculous exposition. Mama opens with a disjointed voice over explaining that a man (Nikolaj… Read More


MrDisgusting
Jan 16, 2013 10:24pm