Finally, Mr. Romero has been able to bring the next installment of his zombie series to the big screen. Just as the zombies themselves have reached new heights of intelligence, so has this film series made large advancements in special effects, and been an influence for the horror genre in general. Night of the Living Dead is a classic in its' own right due to the fact that it is a gritty, gruesome low budget horror movie with an unlikely hero (a black man) during the time of release, with a kickass ending. Dawn of the Dead was a masterful display of gore effects thanks to Tom Savini, who has since then become a legendary makeup effects artist in his own right. Day of the Dead is cheesy and pretty retarded for the most part, but that's some of the movie's charm... and the gore level - WHEW! Great stuff...[more]...

This being the third and final of Park's Vengeance trilogy, it's definetely a decent bookend to a rather good series. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance was slow moving, competant, but overall a let-down for me. I found Oldboy to be one hell of a slick, stylish and classy watch, but the conclusion went a tad overboard with the shock attempts (the tongue thing was really stupid). The class of Oldboy stays strong in Lady Vengeance, with plenty of well-framed camera setups, a heavy dose of primary colors (especially green, red and blue), and Park's wry sense of humor sparks some laughs at the strangest times. I dig a lot of the jokes that came during distressed moments, such as the dodgeball in prison scene, or when she cuts her finger off and the dude is sweeping the blood with a broom. That's FUNNY...[more]...

I love the first scene in the movie. It is so totally fucked up! After that great opening, I couldn't help but hope for some more fucked up moments, and I got'em! This is an hilarious dark comedy that isn't afraid to make messed up decisions just for the laughs. Plus, it's an interesting murder mystery intermingled with even MORE interesting characters...[more]...

Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw, I LIKED IT...[more]...

I know this movie wants to be clever, and it tries to be as much of a mindfuck as its' competitors The Butterfly Effect, 12 Monkeys, or a slew of other movies with the same kind of concept. I was bored...[more]...

Good old Sydney Pollack. Can I call him Polly? I think I will. Polly's been around for quite a while, and I think his best movie was Tootsie, and by far the worst of his that I've seen was Out of Africa - aka - A Cure for the Insomniac...[more]...

Well, what would I expect from Michael Bay? Very little. I've hated pretty much everything he's done. The only movie I actually enjoyed by him was his first one, Bad Boys, and that was just watchable fluff. I would have enjoyed The Rock if I didn't get a damned headache from the endless quickcuts. It's like the guy doesn't know how to get out of the editing room long enough to keep the audience from feeling like they're on the edge of suffering epileptic seizures. He's like a 6 year old boy with a bad case of ADD. I saw The Island simply because nothing else great was coming out this week...[more]...

My dad once drove by a movie theater when I was ten and said, "That theater played the same movie for 10 years." He didn't tell me the title. Five years later, we drove by it again and he said, "That theater played Deep Throat for 10 years straight." I already knew this movie's title, because I had seen Linda Lovelace on Donahue complaining about her being abused during the making of this movie (she got no royalties from the film and was penniless by 1986...[more]...

After sitting through 20 stinking minutes of hell-ridden previews and a thoroughly disappointing pre-movie cartoon short, I was not really in the mood to do anything but walk out and call it a night. I was in a bad mood! Fortunately, I stayed. And I had a blast...[more]...

Incognito was released in 1997, and I had no idea that it came out. I caught it one day by happenstance doing some channel surfing a couple of years ago. I missed the first 20 minutes, but watched it because Jason Patric is a cool dude. I thought it was a great movie...[more]...

This is Jaume Serra's first movie as a movie director, coming (surprise surprise) off of the small screen in music videos to yet another Dark Castle horror movie remake of the week. Nothing new here. But that's expected. All that I expect to get out of this flick is some cool murder scenes, cheap thrills and Paris Hilton getting killed. The thrills were nearly non-existent. In fact, I could time exactly when every single 'boo scare' came up. It goes like this: have the camera close in on a character looking a certain direction, make the music a little scary. Have the character realize there is nothing there upon investigation, silence the music and two seconds later, have them turn around and... BOO! Didn't see the person coming up from behind, did you? Well, I did...[more]...

The first thing that I'll mention is how amusing it is to see Claire Forlani - an English actress - in a movie based in London as an American wife, complete with an American accent. There's just something strange about the dichotomy of it all to me...[more]...

Somehow the lack of a real soundtrack that is instead sporadically adorned with the latest hip-hop highlights makes the dialogue and drama fall flat on its face harder than if it was spoken on its' own...[more]...

If you don't know David Cronenberg's style, then be prepared for some gore, sex, and a deliberate pace. That's usually the way his movies turn out. There's also a good imagination, usually on a subject with disturbing undertones to go with it. He's a wacky and far out kinda guy...[more]...

Horror fans have embraced this movie from all around the globe. It's soon to get an edited release here in America, and this is kind of a big deal. The gore is extreme, but there's very little screentime used showing it. There are only about 2 and a half minutes of onscreen gruesomeness, and the rest is the tension building suspense of being pursued by a sociopathic killer. Sadly, an R rating will most likely remove a memorable head crushing explosion, as well as a few other 'goodies' that I won't mention, because I don't want to give it away. Most definetely there will be an unrated American DVD release once it's out on video. So until then, if you see it in theater, keep in mind that one whole minute will probably change the face of this movie's brutality forever...[more]...