Month: January 2009

Monsters

Stay Alive (2006)

I have to admit a soft spot for films where you can’t imagine how the actors delivered their lines with a straight face, where words that tumble out of their mouths have you gasp with amazement and simultaneously hoot with laughter. Stay Alive is one of those films. Just to be clear, Stay Alive is […]Read More

Infection Zombies

The Vanguard (2008)

First things first, I really wanted to like this movie. It’s English, its independent, it has zombies, it has a bearded anti-hero with hatchets, I mean what more could you ask for? Unfortunately it turned out that there was quite a bit more I could have asked for including slightly better acting, better make up […]Read More

Ghosts

One Missed Call (2008)

Japanese horror + bad CGI x nonsense = One Missed Call. The only thing scary about this film is the ringtone that heralds the missed call announcing your death. Actually, there is something scarier about it, how ridiculous the story is and how poorly executed it is. People are getting phone calls and the message […]Read More

Zombies

Planet Terror (2007)

I’m always on about how great old horror movies are. And I also like to bore my friends with my dreams of how somehow, film makers could bring the classic horror elements from the iconic movies of the 70’s and 80’s into modern films and make horror great again. Up until recently, this was all […]Read More

Psychological

Captivity (2007)

You can just imagine the meeting at the film studio that lead to this movie being made. I am sure an over fed, over paid, suited up film exec stood in a giant boardroom in L.A with a bunch of other guys who all looked exactly like him, and said “People like torture films, people […]Read More

Zombies

Day of the Dead (2008) Review

Who knew that a remake of Day of the Dead came out this year? Having stumbled across its existence, I certainly wish I didn’t. Though to call it a remake would be too high a compliment. This is a remake only in the sense of whoever wrote it may have been told about the original […]Read More