Monthly Archives: October 2011

When I first got See No Evil out from my local library, I was under the misconception that it was the 2006 slasher movie starring the WWE wrestler Kane, terrorizing a bunch of teenagers, possibly by growling a bit and performing fake pile drivers on them. It wasn’t. Nor was it the rip roaring disabled [...]

First things first, Mr. Brooks is not a very good film, so if all you wanted to know was whether to watch it or not, DON’T and stop reading this review now. Okay, for all of you still with me now, I can go into why it’s so crap. Psycho killer movies are hard to [...]

Do you find cows scary? Or, put another way, how do you think you could ever make a cow seem scary? Red eyes? Vampire teeth? Bolts in its neck, ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ style? None of it would really worry you much would it? And maybe that’s why this flick was always destined to fail… The film [...]

Doomsday (2008) from writer/director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers and The Descent) could easily be mistaken for ’28 Years Later’. Set sometime in the not-too-distant-future, Britain (or is it the world?) has been ravaged by a plague (sound familiar?) and as a consequence, Scotland has been fenced-off to contain the spread of the killer-bug. Like a [...]

Horror movies would be lost without small peaceful American rural towns. Think about it, how many horror movies are set in Nowhere’s-ville? You know, just past Remote Town, past the abandoned mine and just left of the massive dark forest with no mobile reception. These small towns are the staple of the generic horror film [...]

I’m not really into extreme sports. And one such dangerous activity is ‘cave diving’. As if crawling through unexplored caves, which could be endless, could collapse at any time, and have no mobile reception isn’t scary enough, some people like to swim in them. If you don’t like the whole idea, then this film is [...]