Category: Horror
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Sharknado: Now we know what global warming can do…
Sharknado – 2013 Director Anthony C. Ferrante Starring Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, John Heard, Cassie Scerbo, Jaason Simmons, Chuck Hittinger Screenplay Thunder Levin Who left the 14-year-old alone with the computer and the HD camera? I found my kids writing the script for Sharknado 2: The Grouchnapper Needs a Snack. I am pretty sure that Thunder Levin is a pseudonym for my…
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World War Z: Carefully plotted and executed
World War Z – 2013 Director Marc Foster Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Fana Mokoena, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Ludi Boeken, Matthew Fox, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, Fabrizio Zacharee Guidoas Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof There is a point in World War Z where Brad Pitt’s former UN Employee Gerry Lane…
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Stoker: People disappear all the time
Stoker – 2013 Director Park Chan-Wook Starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, Alden Ehrenreich, Phyllis Somerville, Ralph Brown, Judith Godrèche Written by Wentworth Miller This is Mia Wasikowska. She is beautiful, innocent, haunted, playful. She is hiding in plain sight. When one thinks they have her character is the moment they could not be…
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Evil Dead remake is better than the original
Evil Dead – 2013 Director Fede Alvarez Starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Jucas, Elizabeth Blackmore Screenplay Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues, Diablo Cody Who ever comes up with the idea of going to a cabin in the woods for entertainment? If everything goes well…you end up bored and surrounded by trees. In the remake of…
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The Last Exorcism Part II: When one “Last” is not enough
The Last Exorcism Part II – 2013 Director Ed Gass-Donnelly Starring Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, Muse Watson, Louis Herthum, Tara Riggs Screenplay by Gass-Donnelly and Damien Chezelle It’s not supercilious, but it is a little silly. It bares little resemblance to the first film, unless you count the lead actress (Bell) and occasional appearances by…
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John Dies At The End: What in the Name of Elvis is going on?
John Dies At The End – 2013 Writer and Director Don Coscarelli Starring Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Doug Jones, Glynn Turman, Daniel Roebuck, Angus Scrimm, Jimmy Wong One reaches a point where everything is a metaphor, and nothing is real. Coscarelli reaches this point in the opening moments of John Dies at the…
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – Finally, a fairy tale that’s rated “R”
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – 2013 Writer and Director Tommy Wirkola Starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stromare, Pihla Viitala, Derek Mears, Robin Atkin Downes, Thomas Mann Hansel and Gretel as children look to be less than a year apart. When we see them as adults, in the forms of Gemma Arterton (27) and…
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Mama chills despite familiar turns
Mama – 2013 Directed by Andy Muschietti Starring Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Carpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash Screenplay by Muschietti, Bárbara Muschietti and Neil Cross There is a point in most films where the viewer recognizes the patterns they are seeing in the story they are watching are familiar and well-worn. This happens early on in Mama. The difference,…
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Sinister: You’ve seen some of it before, but not all of it
Sinister – 2012 Director Scott Derrickson Starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, Nick King, James Ransone, Clare Foley, Michael Hall D’Addario Screenplay Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill Sinister is a strange name for this film, even if it is technically correct. As defined: threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous, it works. For some reason, I picture Snidely…
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