7 followers

100 daily readers

rank of 435

Horror Horror - by Michelle-Gellar

Drag Me To Hell

May 25th 2009 07:04

It has technically been 16 years back the allegorical administrator has got abaft the camera for a abhorrence film. Afterwards ARMY OF DARKNESS bootless to accomplish at the box office, the architect of THE EVIL DEAD authorization confused abroad from abhorrence and into the boilerplate fold. Now, afterwards administering three SPIDER-MAN films and acceptable one of the better names in the industry, Raimi has alternate to the brand he started in.

While Raimi alternate to abhorrence with Universal Pictures’ DRAG ME TO HELL, I can’t say I was cat-and-mouse with accessible arms. I acquainted blood-soaked and angered that we still haven’t accustomed our EVIL DEAD 4 and didn’t accept why he’d do DRAG instead of addition chance of Ashley J. Williams. Therefore, my expectations were acutely low and I was assertive I’d be aghast with his big acknowledgment to horror. I was wrong.

Last night my concern got the best of me as I snuck into a analysis screening of DRAG ME TO HELL in Burbank, CA. To be clear, what I saw was a actual aboriginal workprint of the film, which featured a acting score, amateurish effects, and was projected on a Digit Beta (yet to be blush corrected). To put it simply, it’s far from completed. Still, even through all of the asperous edges, Raimi accepted that he is still a adept filmmaker.

DRAG ME TO HELL was absolutely artlessly the a lot of PERFECT abhorrence blur I’ve apparent in a long, continued while. Raimi stirs a adorable witches beverage that blends gore, scares and fun into a absolute blend. The acidity of Raimi’s administering adeptness is brought out by adept alteration by Bob Murowski (Army of Darkness) as every alarm is altogether timed, every gag is delivered with a bite and all of the payoffs are altogether executed.

HELL is like a banana book appear to activity that is abounding of blush characters, crazy adumbration and bargain gags that plan every individual time. Raimi plays about with the admirers by application the gross-out agency to the max. For example, in one arena Alison Lohman starts bleeding from her mouth, and if she goes to awning it, claret shoots from her adenoids all over the place. Addition abundant gag is the gypsy is consistently is accident her dentures and blame her abominable old aperture on things (like Alison’s face). Raimi fills the cine with these gross-out moments that accumulate the drive afire from alpha to finish.

And for every bloody, adhesive and abominable scene, Raimi gives us an appropriately acceptable scare. It has been a long, continued time back I’ve accomplished an accurate jump in a movie. Typically a administrator will accept a cat jump on awning or accept a appearance bang a aperture shut – something bargain to get you to jolt. Raimi hits us with a battery of punches as I jumped ten anxiety out of my bench on two abstracted occasions. He proves that he is a adept of abhorrence and anxiety and I acclaim that any abhorrence filmmaker wannabe (pretty abundant every abhorrence administrator out there) watch this plan to apprentice how to do it right.

Quite artlessly put, DRAG ME TO HELL was a bang and confused bound from alpha to finish. Whether or not the acting is top notch, or if the adventure even makes faculty is inconsequential so continued as I’m gasping, jumping, bedlam and abject every footfall of the way. From what I saw, DRAG ME TO HELL is able-bodied on its way to acceptable an actual archetypal (considering they don’t f*ck up the accomplished version). The alone catechism I was larboard with was, “Why isn’t this EVIL DEAD 4?”

Vote

Comments (1)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Twilight

May 23rd 2009 12:36

When Bella (Stewart) relocates to the close boondocks of Forks, she meets the Cullens, a ancestors of vampires who can ascendancy their admiration to augment on humans. She avalanche in adulation with Edward Cullen (Pattinson), who sees in her the soulmate he’s been analytic for. However, so ambrosial is her scent, he accept to activity his admiration to alcohol her blood, the charlatan affiliated to the vampire’s own claimed heroin.

About three things the Twilight producers were actually positive. First, Twilight was a vampire tale. Second, there was a allotment of it that thirsted for boyish blood. And third, boyish girls were actually and assuredly in adulation with it. Indeed, American booksellers accept hailed the columnist of the saga, which runs through four novels, as the new J. K. Rowling — Stephenie Meyer’s aboriginal instalment affairs added than 5 actor copies in the US alone, and thereby allowance to ample the abandoned larboard by the ancient Boy Who Lived. The actuality that the blur adaptation arrives Stateside in what has become the pre-Christmas ‘Potter slot’ will alone addition the comparisons.

In adverse to the diabolism franchise, however, the administrator actuality manages to advance on the film’s chiffon progenitor. While a assumption of helmers accept struggled to abbreviate Rowling’s ever-expanding tomes into a comestible awning serving, Catherine Hardwicke hits top accessory from the outset, awkward through the aboriginal account and never already acceptance the aching boyhood absorption that floods Meyer’s book to overflow into insipidness. Meyer is a adherent Mormon, her account a allegory for animal abstinence, acceptance adolescent girls to burst about in a basin of affected adulation afterwards accepting to bathe in the agitated amnion of alarming boyish sex.

The author, who had final cut, anticipation Hardwicke’s aboriginal cut a little too steamy, appropriately the alternation amid Bella and Edward becomes even added intimate, Hardwicke employing close-ups and alienated the apparent beef captured by the added lenses. The director, of course, understands the boyhood admirers — accede Thirteen or Lords Of Dogtown — and she conjures one of the a lot of admirable films of the year. Former Potterer Robert Pattinson (Cedric in Goblet Of Fire and Order Of The Phoenix) is awfully handsome, as are the blow of his vampire brethren. The backdrop, meanwhile, the abundant forests of the Pacific Northwest, is absolutely breathtaking, Hardwicke sending her stars hurtling up aerial copse and biconcave into abysmal moss.

The advance achievement too is strong, Panic Room and Into The Wild brilliant Kristen Stewart consistently excellent. She is the car through which audiences are agitated on their journey, and her agog intelligence prompts a complete performance. Bella is both accessible and strong, a three-time babe in distress, acute Edward’s white-faced charlatan to save her, and yet adventuresome abundant to abandonment to crisis and forward an abiding barnacle into a aberration of desire. Said barnacle Pattinson struggles at times — it’s a ambitious aboriginal advance role, acute him to activity a abiding aseptic desire. He settles down eventually, but not afore he’s advised us to a alternation of hard-faced pouts.

Despite the attendance of vampires, Twilight is a romance, not a horror, and anyone acquisitive to bore their teeth into a dank gore-fest will be disappointed. There is action, of course, afire by the accession of a leash of abnormality neck-biters (who, causeless to say, are impossibly good-looking) that augment on the locals and animalism afterwards Bella’s blood, arch to a showdown in a be-mirrored ballet studio. Hardwicke evidently introduces these rogues early. And yet, while she does accept activity accreditation (working on Three Kings afore cutting Dogtown), the sequences are occasionally predictable, the wire-work sometimes obvious.

She aswell struggles with the delineation of vampires in absolute sunlight. Meyer’s adventure was prompted by a dream, in which she saw Bella and Edward lying in the forest, sunlight ablaze on the vampire’s apparent flesh. In truth, Hardwicke would accept admired to bewitch the scene, but it’s too important to the author. She angry to ILM, although admitting their best efforts, Edward’s spangled derma looks a little odd.

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The Butterfly Effect 3

May 22nd 2009 11:33

Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) has a gift: he's a time traveler who uses his unique ability to solve crimes by going back and witnessing murders, then directing the police to the killer. He sells himself as a psychic (because being a time traveler is just implausible, I suppose), and makes a good living from his work.

But things change when Sam is visited by the sister of an old girlfriend, a girlfriend who was murdered several years earlier, and whose convicted killer, Lonnie Flennons (Richard Wilkinson) is about to be executed. The sister brings new evidence that would exonerate Flennons, and reopen the case. Having been an initial suspect himself, Sam isn't too keen on revisiting this murder, but after visiting Lonnie in prison feels he has no choice, despite being warned not to tamper in his own past by his mentor and confidante, Prof. Goldburg (Kevin Yon).

When Sam's time jaunt goes slightly awry, Sam returns to a present that has been greatly altered; his lifestyle has been hit hard by the recession, and instead of him taking care of his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner), it's the other way around. What's more, Sam's attempt failed to identify the murderer and instead seems to have created a serial killer, who has gone on to kill a handful of other girls.

Now Sam is once again the prime suspect in the killings, and every move he makes to discover the murderer only implicates him further. The police detectives (Lynch Travis, Hugh Maguire) who had once been his clients are now his pursuers, and Sam begins to break his own time-traveling rules about non-interference, with increasingly bad results, building up to a deus ex machina ending that both obviates the entire story and sets up a faux sense of foreboding for future sequels.

Of course, if you want a story to feel particularly ominous, you title it "Revelations." And while there are revelations to be had in the climax of the film, the same could be said for any mystery adventure, from Sherlock Holmes to My Friends Tigger and Pooh. In this case, the discovery of the mystery killer leaves the viewer feeling shocked yet nonetheless slightly cheated, as everything goes back to the fire in Sam's youth that took his parents' lives.

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

I CAN SEE YOU

May 21st 2009 09:03

Graham Reznick, resident sound designer for the films of Larry Fessenden’s Scareflix line, has stepped up to the plate and written, directed, produced and edited his own feature film, I CAN SEE YOU. Opening this week at New York City’s Cinema Purgatorio and arriving on DVD May 26 (joined in both showcases by Reznick’s 3-D short THE VIEWER), it is without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory.

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

My Bloody Valentine 3D

May 20th 2009 02:11

Ok, first things first – see this movie. Now. Right away. RUN! Seriously, if you are at all interested in horror films, or just want to see a damn good 3D movie then this is it kids, this is the one. I mean, yeah, I will write my review and all but, really, if you have any interest in these movies then this is sincerely the movie you need to see. I have never seen a movie that busted all three d's in my face at once. The WHOLE movie. Yeah, I have never see a movie before that used the 3D form so well and so fully. So even if you didn't really give a crap about miners or Valentine's and such, kids, I am telling you what – THIS – IS – IT!

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (1)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Autopsy

May 19th 2009 04:22

Just a few weeks ago, I watched and advised Slaughter, one of eight declared "films to die for" from the third anniversary Afterwards Aphotic Horrorfest. I had affluence of problems with the film, but one of my pet peeves ashore out like a burst thumb: the filmmaker's clichéd best of arena classical music (in this case, Carmen) over a ache porn arena beeline out of the latest Saw sequel.

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (1)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Behind the Mask

May 18th 2009 09:49

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The Midnight Meat train

May 17th 2009 04:36

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (2)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

(Film Review) Hysterical psycho

May 16th 2009 01:45

The appellation of HYSTERICAL PSYCHO (currently arena the Tribeca Film Festival) refers to at atomic one of the characters and is a appealing acceptable description of the cine itself as well. It’s a berserk, over-the-top, berserk asperous advance of amusing and homagistic abhorrence that’s absolutely not for all tastes—but those who do adore its acidity are gonna eat it up

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Michelle-Gellar - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The House of the Devil

May 15th 2009 02:37

The administrator Jean-Luc Godard already said that all you charge to accomplish a cine is a babe and a gun. THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (now assuming as allotment of the Tribeca Blur Festival) demonstrates that in the appropriate hands, all you charge to accomplish a abhorrence cine is a babe and a house. As he did in his admission affection THE ROOST, filmmaker Ti West takes a simple bearings and spins astriction out of it through accurate ability that’s account added than any bulk of Avid-assisted alteration and computer-generated flash.