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Weak Horror In Your House Features ‘Daybreakers’
This week’s Horror In Your House is pretty effin’ weak featuring two big titles: Daybreakers and Legion. While Daybreakers is a refreshing look at the vampire genre, Legion completely rips off the themes (and even sequences) from Terminator 2. See what else arrives in stores this Tuesday by reading below.
Horror in Your House
May 11, 2010
DAYBREAKERS: Lionsgate (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
TEX SAYS: Slim pickings this week, and since Legion was crap, my default pick of the week, comes this vampire films that–almost–gets it right. Anyway…it’s a helluva lot better than Twilight…just sayin’.
FLESH FOR THE BEAST: Shriek Show
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power. Welcome to Shriek Show’s meat locker of hard-core horror!
LEGION: Sony
In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael
ONE DEADLY SUMMER: Widowmaker
Eliane, a beautiful young woman, settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father. Traumatized by her knowledge that her mother was raped by three men before she was born, Eliane thinks she’s on a trail of vengeance when she’s courted by a young garage mechanic, whose father has the only clue to the identity of her mother’s aggressors. But as the story unfolds in Rashomon-like flashbacks and narrations, the tale becomes increasingly complex and leads inexorably to a stunning conclusion.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.