Halloween 2012

Sinister

Last year I went out on a big limb.  I watched and reviewed 31 horror movies in 31 days.  A few days I doubled up on movies and took some days off from watching movies all together, but in the end I did what I set out to do and boy was my wife unhappy with me.  This year I did not attempt to repeat that feat fearing for my life.  Instead I stuck with a simpler plan.  I would watch all the … [Read more...]

Werewolf – The Beast Among Us (2012)

Werewolf The Beast Among Us

The title may make you think otherwise but this is really not that bad of a horror movie.  Except there are no scares.  Which really makes it more of a gore/monster movie, but those can be good too. They never really worry about the setting or the time of the story, just realize that their equipment is late 19th century and the dress and country side lends itself to a central Europe type … [Read more...]

The Shrine (2010)

The Shrine

There is not a bunch of guess work.  No major twist to the plot.  No gratuitous nudity (well not much at least, they get away with more than that on Fox).  Just a simple story, straight in its development.  The Shrine starts with the gruesome death of an American traveler in Poland.  His death at the hands of a cult leaves a missing person mystery that journalist Carmen played by Cindy … [Read more...]

Sand Sharks (2012)

Sand Sharks

You saw the title correctly.  This article is about Sand Sharks.  I made fun of this movie when I saw the trailer and talked about it.  Based on the trailer alone?  That is unfair.  I should not mock a film just because of its trailer right?  I should at least give it a chance before I condemn it. Nope.  The trailer was enough because the film is worse. This is not a movie that takes … [Read more...]

The Nun (2005)

The Nun

So what happens to a horror movie fan, suffering from withdrawal and having only Netflix to satisfy his horror movie needs?  Well first that same fan, disgusted by the Netflix selection checks out what is available to him through his Amazon Prime membership.  Then that same horror movie fan is disgusted by what Prime has to offer as well, but then finally settles on something, anything, in … [Read more...]

Black Water (2007)

Black Water

It's that time of year again.  For me at least, it is horror movie season.  Unfortunately if there is one thing Netflix is not good for its horror movies.  Every once in a while you get a crop of them but often times they are horror movies only in the loosest sense or they are so old and crappy as to not be worth the effort to watch them.  I have come across a few of them to share with you … [Read more...]

Hollywoodland (2006)

Hollywoodland

It was a lovely day when I decided to watch Hollywoodland.  It was still summer but a cool front had come through and the weather was fantastic.  The sun was shinning, the temperature was in the high 70's and the sun was shinning.  So why wasn't I outside?  Because I had phone calls to make, papers to write and work to be done.  None of that prevented me from watching this … [Read more...]

Half Light (2006)

Half Light

Always be weary of a movie you have never heard of starring a big name actor seemingly in their prime or not far from it.  Usually it means they are doing a favor for a friend or trying to break the type cast mold that binds them.  Seldom is it because the script was so awesome they could not pass it up.  Sometimes, but seldom.  With Demi Moore and Half Light there is the distinct possibility … [Read more...]

Land of the Dead (2005)

Land of the Dead

Sometimes you really want to see a movie and sometimes the goal is just to clear stuff off the old Netflix queue.  Guess which applies to Land of the Dead?   This movie came out shortly after the Dawn of the Dead remake which I liked so much.  George Romero should not have to capitalize on the success of anything but his own work.  In this case he got this movie done because Dawn of … [Read more...]

Immortals (2011)

Immortals

Long after the Gods won their struggle to bring peace to the heavens a new enemy has arose to bring about the return of their mortal enemies, the Titans.  The Gods in question are of Greek mythology, Zeus, Aries, Poseidon and the kind.  The Titans in this case, unlike other tellings are fellow immortals, vicious and violent.  Always the Titans are villains or evil but in this telling they are … [Read more...]