Friday, February 21, 2014

'The Hills Run Red' Movie Review



Film-school student Tyler is obsessed with the lost horror film The Hills Run Red, which
is considered to be the most frightening horror film that has ever been made. It was released
only once after it was made, but then it was never shown again. The scariest part is that each
death in the movie was absolutely REAL. People really were killed in this film. The strangest
part, though, is that the director of the film, Wilson Wyler Concannon, and the movie
both have disappeared without a trace. Tyler has been doing everything he
can to gather information on the lost film so when he finds out that Concannon's
daughter works at a local strip-club,  he decides to meet with the girl and see what she knows about the lost film, which she played in when she was a little girl. The girl also told him that each death in the film was absolutely real. 
 She decides to take Tyler and his friends to where the movie was filmed, not mentioning to them that the killer from the movie, Baby-Face, was still lurking in those woods.



I watched this movie a long time ago during my freshman year of high school (which was when it first came out) and loved it when I first saw it, but seeing it again many many years later was almost like seeing something brand new. This movie was absolutely brilliant. The story, the plot, the characters, basically the whole entire concept of this movie was absolutely phenomenal. 
One reason I really enjoyed watching this movie so much was the fact that the slasher franchise is pretty much dead, nobody makes slasher films anymore, and if they do they just remake one from the 80’s or 90’s, it’s ridiculous, but this movie took slashers to an entirely different level of insanity and personally this movie to me was a masterpiece.
I give it 5 out of 5 stars.

Monday, December 23, 2013

'Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave' (Movie Review)


The Return of the Living Dead movies have always been some of my favorites. The overall silly-ness and blood and guts really makes this sequel one of my favorites. 
A college boy discovered two mysterious canisters hidden away in his uncle’s basement. Curious to know what was inside, he had his friends run some tests on the barrel in the lab, only to find out that the canister contained a deadly chemical. Thinking it was just a new type of hallucinogenic drug, they mass produce the chemicals into pill capsules and start selling them to their fellow classmates. As the days progressed, and more and more kids start dying, they finally figure out what the chemical really is; the answer to re-animating the dead, or turn humans into brain hungry zombies.
The first of the Return of the Living Dead series was released in 1985, and is still a better film than this. I did enjoy “Rave to the Grave”, but it just doesn’t hold up to the original three. 
That being said, I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

'Prowl' Movie Review (2010)



Prowl is a 2010 American horror film about a young girl who dreams of escaping her small-town life and encourages a group of her friends to accompany her. On their way to the big city, however, their van breaks down and they’ve decided to hitch a ride in the back of a semi-truck. Everything has been fine for a while, until the driver refused to stop. That’s when the group of friends discovers cartons and cartons filled with blood. As the truck takes them to a dark, abandoned warehouse, their panic turns into terror when they start being hunted by blood-thirsty creatures.
The story itself was a good one. However, the camera qualities were a bit poor along with some of the acting, which made the movie itself seem like a college student-film project. The creatures (I’m assuming were vampires) did look remarkably scary, so the make-up job they did for the film was a plus. I give this movie 3 out of 5 stars.


Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Top 5 Best Classic Horror Films

5) Fright Night (1985)


    'Fright Night' has always been one of my all-time favorite classic horror films. It's eerie, creepy, gory, and an amazing vampire story.
The main character of the movie (Charlie Brewster) is just an ordinary sixteen year old boy with raging hormones just like any other teenage boy, but the only problem is, he suspects that his neighbor might be a vampire. When he finds out he’s right, he tries to do everything to stop him from getting to the people he loves the most. I first watched this movie when I was eight years old and I remember it scaring the living shit out of me. Alas, I will never forget what a masterpiece this movie is.


4) Evil Dead (1981)




                    
                  If you’re a horror fan and you haven’t seen the original ‘Evil Dead’, then you are not a true horror fan. Despite how this movie scared the hell out of me as a child, the more I watched it, the more obsessed with it I became.
Written and directed by Sam Raimi starring Bruce Campbell, this film is about five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods who find an audiotape and a book entitled “Nekronomicon” or Book of the Dead, unleashing a legion of demons and other evil spirits, causing demonic possession, which soon leads to a very gruesome end for the college students. Before ‘Evil Dead’ came out, it was originally a short film by Sam Raimi and the rest of the cast called ‘Within the Woods’.


3) The Exorcist



'The Exorcist' is another classic horror film that I saw for the first time at eight years old, but this one didn't scare me, I just thought it was really bad-ass. I've seen this movie over a hundred times, and it's always been my favorite horror film. 
Directed by William Friedkin, and a film adaption from the novel by William Peter Blatty, this movie deals with the demonic possession of a twelve-year old girl and a mother who is desperately attempts to win back her child through an exorcism with the help of two priests.


2) Halloween (1978)


John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ actually stands alone as my all-time favorite slasher film. The first film out of the whole series I’ve seen was Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. After I watched that one (and I was seven at the time) I decided to watch all of the Halloween movies, and when I did, they instantly became my favorite.
Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, the plot begins with a six-year old boy named Michael Myers who brutally stabs his sister to death, and is soon after placed in a mental institution. Fifteen years later he escapes, returns home, and stalks teenage girl Laurie Strode and her friends, killing them one by one to get to her. 


1) Night of the Living Dead (1968)



This film I actually watched for the first time when I was six years old during a thunderstorm. Did it scare me? Well yeah, I was a little kid at the time, but that didn’t stop me from thinking it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, which it was.
Written and directed by George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a cult classic about two siblings, a brother and a sister, who take a road trip to place a new flower reef on their grandfather’s grave, only to find when they arrive that something very odd was going on, and that’s when the girl’s brother was killed by a zombie, leaving her no other option but to run until she found a safe place to hide, and it wasn’t before long until she took shelter in an abandoned farmhouse with five other people and a sick little girl, who was bitten by one of the zombies. Do any of these people get out alive? Watch and find out.










Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Walking Dead season 4 episode 1 Review:



We're all probably thinking the same thing about the season 4 premier of The Walking Dead, and what we're all probably thinking is; WHOA! I bet most of us can agree that the episode's events are definitely not what we expected, which made the episode even more interesting.
The new episode of The Walking Dead had more viewers than anyone could possibly count, which pretty much says itself how amazing it was, but this isn't the only season 4 episode 1 review on the web; there are countless people who thought the episode was slow, and it was just a little bit, but there is a reason for that, which being that they need to introduce the season rather than just jump into all the action, which I definitely agree with.
The end of the episode is what got me the most. What is going on? What happened to Patrick? The only explanation I can think of at the moment, and I might be wrong, but my theory is that the virus is beginning to go airborne, but is that really what's happening? Does #TeamPrison have an epidemic on their hands? We'll have to watch the rest of the season of this flawless masterpiece they call a show.


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

'Curse of Chucky' Movie Review:


When I first heard that there was another Chucky movie coming out, I was skeptical because of how silly Seed of Chucky is, but  Curse of Chucky was absolutely astonishing, and just outright fucking awesome!
In my opinion this movie, along with Child's Play, is the best one in the entire franchise. At first I thought the new style Chucky doll looked kind of weird at first considering the fact that his face looks perfectly restored, but the cool thing about that is it actually explains what happened later on in the movie.
I've read a lot reviews that other people have wrote about it saying that it's "boring", well honestly that is not true. I didn't have a hard time keeping my interest whatsoever, and the story was phenomenal.











I do have one question though that I kept trying to answer myself the two times I watched this movie;
why didn't he bleed when Nika stabbed him? All in all it was an awesome movie. If you're a Chucky
fan then you definitely have to watch Curse of Chucky. Trust me, it's absolutely worth it.





Sunday, October 6, 2013

'Salem's Lot' (1979) Movie Review:


Only four words should describe the original Salem's Lot: amazing, scary, eerie, and just flat out one of the most creepiest old vampire movie I've ever seen.
Based on the 1975 horror novel by Stephen King, it's about a young writer named Ben Mears who decides to return to the town of Salem’s Lot (the town he lived in age 9 through 13) to discover that the town’s residents are starting to become vampire.
The film was actually a TV miniseries, and it was overall phenomenal. I loved it, however, the story seemed a bit drawn out which made it extremely slow at first, but it’s honestly worth watching because of the frightening things that start to happen from the middle to the end. I’m proud to own this movie for my horror collection.