Showing posts with label thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thriller. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2008

Horror Movie Reviews - I Am Legend And More

I Am Legend

Will Ian Smith stars as the possibly last adult male on Earth after a virus have turned everybody into raging zombie-like creatures. This Richard Matheson narrative have been filmed before as "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston. This is not a large action bonanza, but rather an bosom film about loneliness. There are some good touching scenes in a bare New York. Unfortunately the CGI animals look pretty bogus - like Gollum on steroids. Grade: 3 out of 5

Apartment 1303

Standard Asiatic shade horror. A miss looks into why her sister committed self-destruction by jumping from the balcony of flat 1303. And yes, once again we have got a shade with long hair. Some cool scenes, but it's just not enough. There are better Asiatic horror movies out there. Grade: 2 out of 5

30 Days Of Night

I don't like lamia movies. With that said I have got to acknowledge that I actually enjoyed this movie. The scene is creepy as a little Alaskan town is plunged into 30 years of darkness. And the sheriff played by Josh Hartnett have to support the miss he loves against blood craving vampires. Get ready for blood, slaughter and somewhat chilling vampires. The termination suited the film well. Grade: 3 out of 5

Solstice

Ghost thriller without any existent suspense. This is an American refashion of the Danish thriller "Midsommer." A teen miss seeks to bring out the secret behind her twin sister's suicide. This is a film that expressions and Acts like it's going to be good, but unfortunately it's not. And the "big" uncover at the end is nil particular either. Grade: 2 out of 5

The Black House

Fairly original (at least the first half) Asiatic psychopath-horror. An coverage agent suspects a adult male have killed his ain boy to accumulate the coverage money. The agent looks into and happens out the atrocious truth. "The Black House" is slow and a spot creepy. The movie's subject is: "what is human?" A good inquiry indeed. Pretty solid horror movie. Grade: 3 out of 5

Saint Ange/House Of Voices

Low-key Gallic horror/drama. A cleansing adult female gets at an abandoned orphanage. Soon she detects it's haunted by the voices of children. The film have great atmosphere, and is hauntingly beautiful. Unfortunately the book is weak, and there's not much departure on - nil chilling anyway. Grade: 2 out of 5

Friday, August 10, 2007

Horror Movie Reviews - Dead Silence and More

Dead Silence

Get ready for some creepy puppets. A immature adult male tax returns to his hometown to happen out the truth about his wife's murder. Was she really murdered by a ventriloquist's dummy? Storywise it felt like I was watching an episode of TV's "Supernatural" (and that's not a bad thing.) Some suspenseful scenes, but overall the film didn't appeal to me. But I have got to acknowledge the termination was cool.

Grade: 2 out of 5

The Host

A monster film that was a immense hit in Korea. Toxic chemicals poured out into the drainage make a mutant monster in the metropolis river. The monster rises and spreadings terror in the city. The action/horror scenes work well, but the film also have a eldritch comedy tone of voice that I really disliked. Some good CGI though, and a really cool monster.

Grade: 3 out of 5

Reeker

A clump of friends on a route trip end up in a deserted state town. One after the other they're attacked by an wicked creature. The twist-end works, but we've seen it before. This is a nice low-budget effort.

Grade: 3 out of 5

The Baby's Room

Spanish film (original title: The Habitacion Del Nino) about a couple with a babe moving into a new house. Soon they detect a apparitional physical thing in the nursery. This film trusts on pure temper and psychological tension, but it's not awful enough. But one scene with the babymonitor really had me on the border of my seat.

Grade: 2 out of 5.

Pulse

This is the American refashion of the Asiatic horror film "Kairo". We see Kristen Bell (TV's Veronica Mars) in this ghosts-in-the-computer techno-horror. Eerie doomsday-feeling, but scary? No, not really.

Grade: 3 out of 5

The Toolbox Murders

Tobe Hooper's remake/reimaging of the original film from 1978. A immature couple move into in a run-down apartment edifice where the tennants are killed off with tools from a toolbox. Get ready for creepy ambiance and some gore. This is a film many people hate, and quite frankly I don't understand why. This is a solid, quite chilling slasher. That's what I believe and I'm sticking to it.

Grade: 4 out of 5

Stay Alive

Some teens playing a computing machine game unleashes wicked powerfulnesses and happen out that if you decease in the game - you decease for real. I believe the book was better than how the film actually turned out. Almost no panics at all.

Grade: 1 out of 5

Into The Mirror

Asian horror where a security guard seeks to work out homicides linked to mirrors at a shopping mall. I love some of the creepy mirror scenes, but the film is slow and there's not much departure on. The concluding scene lingers in my memory. Chilling.

Grade: 3 out of 5