Posts tagged Horror
Devil
Apr 20th
Devil
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writers: Brian Nelson & M. Night Shyamalan
Release Year: 2010
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Detective Bowden is still brokenhearted for his wife’s and son’s death from a hit-and-run five years before. He’s sent to investigate a suicidal person who jumped off from the top of a skyscraper onto a truck.
In the meantime five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. Communication in the elevator is out of order but the guards, watch the individuals via CCTV as events develop. Tensions in the elevator are high, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden takes the case. With no way to contact the trapped persons he tries to work out who they are and realizes he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the trapped in the elevator as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.
Albert’s Review: “One of the best Horror movies for 2010”
Rating: 
(7.5/10)
Nadia’s Review: “A very good film with a surprising ending”
Rating: (7.5/10)
Legion
Feb 5th
Legion
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Writers: Peter Schink, Scott Charles Stewart
Release Year: 2010
Genre: Horror | Action | Fantasy | Thriller
A diner in the middle of the desert becomes the improbable battlefield for the survival of all human race. God loses faith in humanity, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. The world’s only hope is in the hands of a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Albert’s Review: “Before I watched this movie I had a lot of expectations about it and I was a little disappointed, but it’s still an entertaining movie to watch”
Rating: (5/10)
Nadia’s Review: “The film starts very nicely and very intriguing that keeps you want to watch it, but during half the film the plot lacks a bit.”
Rating: (5.5/10)
Carrie
Jan 23rd
Carrie 1976 (Stephen King)
Director: Brian De Palma
Writers: Lawrence D. Cohen & Stephen King (novel)
Release Year: 1976
Genre: Drama | Horror
This Classic Horror Movie is based on a novel by Stephen King, Carrie is a movie of a young girl with telekinesis, who has the power to move objects by the force of her mind. She’s bullied all the time but Carrie’s revenge is the focus of this edgy and smart horror film. This Movie made Sissy Spacek a star and featured John Travolta and Amy Irving in their first important screen roles.
Albert’s Review: “A Stephen King Classic Movie, enjoyed watching it but still not the best Stephen King’s movie”
Rating: (7/10)
Nadia’s Review: “A nice film to watch, featuring a young girl that seems to have low self esteem but also has ‘supernatural powers’. Also this film features John Travolta when he was still very young which makes it ideal to all John Travolta’s fans to watch!”
Rating: (6.5/10)
The Collector
Jan 1st
The Collector
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Writers: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Release Year: 2009
Genre: Crime | Horror | Thriller
The Chase family moves to their new home in the middle of nowhere in Detroit. Arkin gets the job to fix the windows and the doors. His wife has some serious debts with mobsters and needs money fast. Arkin plans to heist the safe of Michael Chase during the night to raise the money for his wife. Problem is that when he arrives in the house, he finds that a brutal criminal has imprisoned the family and planted traps everywhere. Arkin has to find a way out of the deadly house to save his life.
Albert’s Review: “Great Movie, it’s definitely one of the best horror thriller movies of 2009”
Rating: (6.5/10)
Nadia’s Review: “A good film with a surprising plot. Also, this horror movie has various genuinely tense and sick moments.”
Rating: (7/10)
The Loved Ones
Dec 18th
The Loved Ones
Director: Sean Byrne
Writers: Sean Byrne
Release Year: 2009
Genre: Horror
The movie starts with Brent Mitchell trying to avoid an injured man in the road, but ends up wrapping his car in a tree, killing his father. Regularly confronted by his mother’s collapse after the accident, he tries to escape the problems with marijuana and heavy metal music to try block the pain and guilt. Unhappy and out of luck, at least he got his girlfriend Holly to cheer him up. But his plans are let down by a distressing series of events that take place under a mirrored disco ball which involving pink satin, glitter, syringes, nails, power drills and a secret admirer. He has become the prom king at a horrid, brutal event where he is the entertainment.
Albert’s Review: “I thought it was going to be another crappy teen horror movie, but it turned out to be quite a good sick and bloody movie.”
Rating: (7/10)
Nadia’s Review: “I did not expect this film to be so good! The film even starts in a great and astounding way. The plot is built around teenagers and has quite a surprising twist at the middle of the film which exposes the drama of the film and makes it more intensifying. A definite good film.”
Rating: (7.5/10)
The House of the Devil
Dec 11th
House of the Devil
Director: Ti West
Writers: Ti West
Release Year: 2009
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Based in the 1980s, the movie is about a college student Samantha Hughes. She is desperate for a job so she takes a strange babysitting job. Her first day coincides with a full lunar eclipse. When she goes and finds out there’s no baby to look after she starts to suspect. She slowly starts to realize that her clients harbor a terrifying secret, they’re planning to use her for a satanic ritual.
Albert’s Review: “Enjoyed watching this movie, interesting story.”
Rating: (6/10)
Nadia’s Review: “A good film. The plot is well made and keeps you on the edge to watch it till the last second.”
Rating: (5.5/10)
Piranha 3D
Dec 4th
Piranha 3D
Director: Alexandre Aja
Writers: Pete Goldfinger & Josh Stolberg
Release Year: 2010
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
An underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric piranhas, the timing was relly bad as it happened during Spring Break lake party. In this movie unlikely group of people must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed inhabitants.
Albert’s Review: “Not a bad movie but it lost the focus of the story.”
Rating: (5.5/10)
Nadia’s Review: “Piranha 3d is not a family friendly film. This film would have been much better if the context of the theme was not so much explicit.”
Rating: (4.5/10)
Rosemary’s Baby
Nov 28th
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Ira Levin & Roman Polanski
Release Year: 1968
Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery
Guy Woodhouse and his wife Rosemary move into a dream apartment, but they don’t know about the bad reputation of the building. They make friends with the neighbors which are an elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet. Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Weird things start to happen like that of the mysterious death of a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom, Rosemary has strange dreams and starts to hear strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Rosemary falls pregnant and she starts to suspect that her neighbors have special plans for her baby.
Albert’s Review: “A 60’s Horror movie Classic, if you ike horror movies from that era you must watch it.”
Rating: (8/10)
Nadia’s Review: “A great film that keeps you on the edge to see the whole film.”
Rating: (7/10)
The Grudge
Nov 21st
The Grudge
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Writers: Stephen Susco & Takashi Shimizu (film “Ju-On: The Grudge”)
Release Year: 2004
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
After Yoko didn’t show up for work, Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an American exchange Nurse-student living in Tokyo with her boyfriend. Karen is sent to check on Emma an American old lady, who recently moved to Japan with her son, daughter and daughter in-law Jennifer. Karen is distressed by the old lady’s unusual behavior, she never talks and sleeps throughout the day. Karen fids out that the house is haunted by a curse, a curse that will kill anyone who enters the house. After numerous horrendous deaths, she finds herself locked in a race against time to save herself from the curse of the The Grudge.
Albert’s Review: “This movie scares the shit out of me every time I see it, one of the best horror movies produced lately”
Rating: (8.5/10)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Nov 20th
Book of Shadows
Director: Joe Berlinger
Writers: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
Release Year: 2000
Genre: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Jeffrey a man from Burkitsville, Maryland wants to make money on all of the hype from the first movie. He opens a “Blair Witch Hunt” tour, which shows clients different locations from the original movie. A group of college students decide to take the tour, and end up in Rustin Parr’s house. The group decide to camp for the night, but in the morning they find out they didn’t sleep at all and they forgot anything that happened the previous evening. The group go back to town but they brought something with them.
Albert’s Review: “It’s an ok movie but nothing compared with the previous one.”
Rating: (5/10)
Nadia’s Review: “I expected more from this film, considering that it was the second one and the first film was very much better even the plot.”
Rating: (5/10)
