Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. (IMDB)
What could I possibly say about this legendary cult movie? Maybe, I could start by saying that it is a cult movie for several good reasons. They don’t make them like this anymore, putrid, gore, oppressing and raw.
What started like a low-budget horror movie shot by Raimi and his friends for fun resulted in the first chapter of a franchise that redefined possession horror. The Evil Dead delivers a gruelling experience with its creepy atmosphere and some of the most violent scenes in horror movies. The camera work of Raimi is masterful, especially when the darkness from the trees starts chasing people, knocking everything in its way, simply magnificent!
Something that this first chapter is gonna imprint on the rest of the franchise is that The Evil Dead is just a zombie flick, nothing more. It never takes itself too seriously. I mean, a girl gets raped by a tree, what more do you want? It almost makes fun of the entire genre and you’ll feel that even more as the character of Ash will develop.
As for Ash, Bruce Campbell is fantastic. He starts shy in this first movie but he will become the ultimate zombie bashing machine throughout the franchise.
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th. (IMDB)
We don’t like psychological dramas, even if they’re borderline horror. So why did we watch Split? There’s a simple reason: because Anya Taylor-Joy plays in it.
McAvoys overacting is just superannoying and cringe.
As usual with M. Night Shyamalan, the script is too far fetch, the entire movie feels like a cliché-ridden abduction thriller, constantly interrupted by bullshit psychology.
Two highly-trained operatives become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within. (IMDB)
The Gorge has everything to be a great movie, the plot is intriguing and Anya Taylor-Joy is fantastic. There are definitely two sides to the story. While the romance works quiet well, the horror part feels a bit week. Since the first part of the movie is where the romance happens, it’s a strong start. Unfortunately, what follows is weak. The horror feels like a huge déjà-vu with a bad cinematography and poor CGI. The mystery isn’t very mysterious, since we’ve seen it a hundred times.
It’s gonna sound weird but I would have preferred it if they would have just made a purely romantic movie happening on top of the Gorge without any explanation about the monsters.
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. (IMDB)
With such a casting and such a budget, much more could have been expected from this movie. But I don’t know why, I had the feeling that it would end up being slow, overly dramatic and boring. It’s almost as if I’ve developed a spider sense that warns me of bad movies before I watch them. I should have listened to my gut feeling and skipped this one. Not that it made a big difference, since we’ve slept through the entire second half of the movie.
The only positive things about Nosferatu were the performances of Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgård. Wouldn’t it have been for them, I don’t think that we would even have seen the first half of the movie.
The story of a group of teenagers in small town Texas who unleash a deadly force after playing the famous game in an abandoned house where a grisly massacre once took place. (IMDB)
It’s certainly not the creepiest movie that we’ve ever seen, far from it. But it’s a good horror flick with teens. Kaylee Kaneshiro (Legacies), Tanner Stine and Justin Long kind of carry the movie. The other girls appear to have been casted more for their willingness to kiss other girls while playing the infamous game than for their acting talent.
On a side note, I’ve never seen or heard of anyone playing that game. I have no idea how it became “infamous”. Just like “Bloody Mary”, it’s probably a game that has been played in the 70s and that makes an exploitable idea for an horror movie.
Anyway, while not being the greatest horror movie ever (does it even exist?), Spin the Bottle is a decent teen flick that nicely fills a Saturday evening. Sometimes, I wonder if I should expect more than that from modern days cinema.
