At 4/10/09 09:59 PM, Corky52 wrote:
I'd like to apologize to you for being so inactive, but as I let you know I hadn't had the time to actually do anything horror related so I didn't have anything to post in the club. Luckily I found some time this weekend to watch some movies.
Here are the list of movies that I will post and review here. I'll review one a night so that will be a post for every movie. :)
28 Weeks Later
Amuzement
30 Days of Night
Quarantine
Dannie Darko (I don't know if this is spelled right. I also don't know if it's horror, but I think it's the best place for it)
So first I'll review Dannie Darko. Again, I don't know if it's spelled right.
I personally thought it was a great movie. Something that kept me very interested and it was one of those movies that you really had to watch closely to understand it. Also, if you watch it several times you find a lot of information and clues in the movie that you may have missed before. Not really scary, but just a really good movie all together. It's basically about time travel. The whole thing is one big paradox and I don't plan on giving away any spoilers so that's basically all I'm going to talk about it. I really do recommend watching it though and I give it a 10/10.
Hey, I'm glad you had time to see some more horror films. I've also seen Donnie Darko recently, and I loved it. The plot, though confusing, was very inventive. The atmosophere in this movie mixed together with the great acting was a recipe for a new age classic!
I haven't seen Amuzement or Quarantine, so I can't wait to hear your reviews. I own 30 Days Of Night, but for some reason I haven't watched it yet, so I'll eventually see that regardless of its review rating.
I've seen quite a few new horror films recently too, which I'll soon post reviews for. Since 3/11/09 I've seen The Monster Squad, Virus, P2, Trackman, The V Word, Absurd (Anthropophagous 2), Sounds Like, The Church, THe Wizard of Gore (original), Drive-thru, Die Screaming Marianne, Last House on the Left remake, Are You Scared, Washingtonians, CAtacombs, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Suicide Club, House by the Cemetery, Nightmares in a damaged Brain, The Prowler, Deadly Spawn, and Pieces.
I know it is quite a lot, but first off I saw Drive-Thru on Fearnet, Absurd, THe Wizard of Gore, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Suicide Club, House by the Cemetery, and Pieces online. Next, Virus, P2, and Are You scared are my sisters. Also, The V Word, Sounds Like, and Washingtonians are part of my Masters of Horror season 2 set that I got for Christmas. I've had the Church for a while, but I just hadn't felt like watching it until recently. Same with Catacombs, which was a gift from the end of last year.
Therefore, the only ones I actually bought were The Monster Squad, TrackMan, Die Screaming Marianne (which was really part of a Pete Walker quadruple feature), Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, The Prowler, and Deadly Spawn.
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is a movie that I had been looking to see since last month when Funkybob wrote his review for it. I found it on a website that sold it together with The Prowler, Deadly Spawn, and Maniac together for $12.00! I had already owned Manaic, but it was well worth the price to buy it again. THe only problem was they were not factury sealed. Instead, they were all converted from VHS or tv rip-offs. Though I usually don't buy movies without their cases, it was still nice to see these films. I will eventually write a review for each of them.
Now, If anyone has actually read all of that dribble, here is the reward, which you may find much more interesting. Two weeks ago I went with my friend to see the Last House on the Left remake in theaters! I had been looking forward to this movie for over a year and I couldn't wait to see how it compared to the original. At first, I was excepting a very toned down film, but what I saw was brutal and shoking! Though it didn't follow Wes Craven's master piece to the key, this film definately took on a life of its own. I thought it was amazing. The deaths were creative, the atmosphere was very clastrophobic, giving the movie an overall intense feel. This was definaetly my favorite horror movie remake thus far, and I would love to go see it again, even though I probably won't get another chance to see it until it comes out on theaters. If you are a fan of the original, or you just want to go see a really great horror flick, Dennis Iliadis' remake will not disappoint!!!