Posts Tagged ‘horror’

Coraline is a stop action 3D film based on the novella by Neil Gaiman. It is a classically styled fairytale – a horror story for children. I haven’t seen stop motion photography in years (Nightmare before Christmas ) and this is some of the best there is. Read the rest of this entry »

Re-Cycle is a Cantonese fantasy-horror movie that was released in 2006.  Why am I reviewing it?  Because I liked it a lot.

I’m a fan of  asian horror and have watched a lot of it just recently, but Re-Cycle was the first one to go straight off the horror rails and into something completely different that made me cryyy!

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The Unborn is one of those movies that I think needed to either be shorter or longer. A great use of some Jewish Mysticism – not a lot of movies take those myths to the screen. With Gary Oldman in it, I really expected to be more impressed. Its good enough but what the hell was the great Oldman doing in this film?

Not much.

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White Noise 2: The Light (2007) is the sequel to the widely-panned 2005 movie White Noise.  How it actually got made, with the terrible reception the first movie recieved, I don’t know, but I have to say I’m glad it was.

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As a fan of ‘horror’ movies that emphasize creepy atmosphere and psychological disintegration over blood and gore, I was recommended the Spanish film The Orphanage. Directed by J. A. Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro — who gave us the magical and surreal Pan’s Labyrinth — this movie revolves around a woman (Laura) who returns after several decades to her childhood home, an orphanage, with the dream of reopening it as a home for disabled children. In this quest, she brings along her husband and their adopted son, who has a tendency toward making imaginary friends. They soon find that the orphanage is not the idyllic place Laura remembers from her childhood.

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The Happening, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and reaching theatres in June of 2008 is about a natural disaster at first thought to be a terrorist attack, and like so many of his movies, the director does not concentrate on the actual plot. He goes after the thing that actually makes people feel the suspense and horror – the characters reactions to the things going on around them. Read the rest of this entry »