Category: Horror Movies (Page 95 of 96)

I need some exorcising myself

January 1, 2006 /

Yes, well, I got around to renting The Exorcism of Emily Rose from Netflix and watched it last night. What can I say? Not scary at all, but a decent amount of suspense, I suppose. It was certainly better than that horrid turd The Skeleton Key, which was neither scary nor suspenseful and yet another fine example of Kate Hudson wasting any remaining talent on pure crap.

Anyway, I noticed I had rented the “unrated” version of this flick and couldn’t figure out what the hell could have been in it that made it an unrated cut. It’s a pretty tame horror flick by any standards, and the special effects are pretty much all dished out in one minute of the movie. If you ever saw the trailer, you pretty much saw the “scary” parts and all their effects, in other words. My problem with the scares was that they relied too much on slamming doors and quick jump cuts to something loud that wasn’t scary. Cheap seat jumpers.

But the damn thing ran too long at 119 minutes, and being “based on” a true story, I could only feel that once again some serious shit used to go down in the ’70s (1976 was when the actual tale the film is based on took place). We need fresh exorcism stories, people. Fresh scares. Enough with mining old crap and rehashing even more of it into new remakes. The original Amityville Horror was lame enough. A new version wasn’t needed. I didn’t waste me time on that, thankfully.

I do think it would be good, however, if a really gory flick came out that wasn’t made by Rob Zombie that featured a soundtrack by Christopher Cross. Could you imagine how rockin’ that would be? Someone getting an axe to the chest and Cross bleating out a love song. Someone get the studios on the phone.

Horror Movies, Movie DVDs, Movies, Reviews

“Saw” producer dies in ironic-free fashion

December 6, 2005 /

While we do grieve for the family of “Saw” producer Gregg Hoffman, who died Sunday at age 42, the news of his death produced the following conversation between me and my wife Buffybot:

MW: Did you see that the producer of the “Saw” movies is died? He was only 42.

BB: Did he die inside some gruesome, elaborate maze?

MW: He went to the hospital complaining of neck pain.

BB: From the bear trap on his head?

Man, do I love my wife. My condolences to Hoffman’s family, but that conversation was just sitting out there, waiting to be had.

Horror Movies, Movies, News

Halloween III

November 20, 2005 /

So I rented “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” from Netflix because I read a lot of stuff about it, since it’s the only one to not feature Michael Myers, etc. because the original idea for the series was to only have him in the first two and then the rest of them be independently different. Well, that didn’t happen and we know the rest. Anyway, it’s a pretty cheeseball flick with this evil dude putting weird-ass transmitters in kids’ Halloween masks that react to a special commercial shown on TV with embedded junk in the transmission to make the masks…well…I’m not quite sure what they do really. They kind of bubble up and then the kid collapses and bugs and snakes crawl out of the remains. What the hell? How does that make any sense at all? I get the suspension of belief with horror flicks, but what kind of acid was John Carpenter and his co-writers on when they came up with that idea? I expected the kid’s head to explode or something, but not have reptiles and insects come forth!

The only other interesting and wacky thing about the movie is that it features a death by a nose break. Awesome! That’s gotta be a once in a blue moon idea as well. Say what you want about the genre, but the ’70s and ’80s were at least rife with horror movies that varied a lot in scope, versus the kinds of things we’re used to these days. Even if most of ’em did suck back then, at least they had a campy feel to them that you could laugh at and scratch your head to wondering where the re-writers were.

Horror Movies, Movie DVDs, Movies

“Saw” is for suckers

November 17, 2005 /

Seen the trailer for “Hostel,” the Eli Roth movie that’s coming out next year? Sweet Jesus. Just when we thought that the makers of the “Saw” movies were the sickest people alive, along comes this happy little tale about a group of backpackers who head to this Slovakian hostel because they heard that they can live out their deepest darkest desires. And while that may be true, they have no idea exactly what it entails.

The trailer doesn’t actually show much, except for the tip of a toe in the vice of a very large wrench. And, unlike the “Saw” movies, where the victims of Jigsaw’s games are forced to commit unspeakable acts on themselves, the trailer for “Hostel” suggests that the hapless victims are tortured by someone else, someone who paid for the privilege. The worst part of this premise is that it is allegedly based on true events, though finding documentation of said events is rather difficult.

The success of the “Saw” movies is a great story from a less-is-more perspective, but it’s also a rather disturbing observation of what as a people turns us on. On the plus side, it could mean the end of the snuff film industry, since these movies have rendered them obsolete.

Horror Movies, Movies, Trailers

Million dollar babies

November 7, 2005 /

It may still be too late to save the dying box office, but it didn’t appear in its usual beat-up form after this past weekend. Strong performances by weekend openers “Chicken Little” and “Jarhead” brought in $68 million domestically, while “Saw 2,” the little sequel that could, continues to rack up a formidable box office take. To date, the horror sequel has made $60 million in just ten days, while the budget was a mere $4 million. Is cheap filmmaking the secret to reviving the box office, or is “Saw 2” just another case of being in the right place at the right time?

Horror Movies, Movie Comedies, Movie Dramas, Movies

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2026 Premium Hollywood

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑