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July 30, 2008
Straying away from traditional pictures, photographer Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) decides to further explore his darker side. Equipped with his camera, he begins to track down a subway serial killer whose butcher-like tactics leave some of the most horrific and graphic images one could imagine.
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, this adaptation of a short story written by Clive Barker pits the mind of a struggling photographer against the persuasion of an art gallery proprietor (Brooke Shields) who is ready to display his latest work of art. Despite Kaufman’s girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) protesting his stalking of the serial killer Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), he enters the world and mind of a crazed murder, something that might just be too difficult for him to return from.
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
July 30, 2008
Having no ambitions was just one of the many reasons why Liz (Kate Ashfield) dumped her long term boyfriend Shaun (Simon Pegg). But when his predictable humdrum life of playing Playstation games and heading over to the Winchester with his best friends Ed (Nick Frost) and Pete (Peter Serafinowicz) is turned upside by a random zombie outbreak, Shaun stops messing around and starts taking on the zombies directly in an attempt to protect his parents and Liz.
This English horror-comedy comes directly from the minds of director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg. With both of them having written for the popular U.K. Television series Spaced, you can clearly see the sitcom style comedy stretched over this full length movie. While there is a horror element to it, the movie plays more on site gags and fart jokes than anything else. Some of them are dead on, while others flounder horribly.
Diary of the Dead (2008)
July 30, 2008
While filming a horror movie for their college course, a group of students and their teacher find themselves in the middle of what appears to be a total zombie outbreak. One of the film students, Jason (Joshua Close) decides that this is absolutely something that needs to be recorded, regardless of what happens. In an attempt to figure out exactly what’s going on and find a safe place to stay, the group first heads to their campus before realizing it’s far worse off than they were. Jason’s girlfriend Debra (Michelle Morgan) suggests her family’s house as their next location, taking them on an adventure through a hospital and a fortified stronghold as they attempt to survive and keep the camera rolling.
Diary of the Dead is brought to you by the lord of zombies himself, George A. Romero, the man behind 1968’s classic Night of the Living Dead. Unlike other Romero movies, Diary of the Dead is more self standing and has quite a lower budget and feel to it. The story does however take place within the same world as his past movies, expecting the viewer to have a good grasp of how zombies and the undead work. For those of you who don’t know, you die, you become a zombie, you try to eat people. [Read more]
Slither (2006)
July 30, 2008
A meteor has crash landed in a rural town. Unfortunately for farmer Grant Grant (Michael Rooker), the alien bug inhabitant of that meteor isn’t here on a diplomatic mission. Taking over Mr.Grant was the easy part, but convincing the body to infest his wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks) with it’s alien babies wasn’t as easy. Giving up, the alien occupied man with two first names chooses a townie instead to fill with his alien babies who are just dying to be born and wreak slimy havoc on the world.
Following up the Dawn of the Dead remake is not an easy task. So when writer/director James Gunn moved on to his sophomore follow-up, Slither, horror fans knew that they would at least have a few stomach churning events to witness. Unlike Dawn of the Dead, which he both wrote and directed as well, Slither is more of a horror-comedy than it is a horror-action movie. The originality of this movie bring it a far distance on it’s own, but the ending slows everything down to a crawl. Slither’s unique style of bizarre and grotesque imaging make it difficult to classify it with other cookie-cutter-squirm-in-your-seat style films. So coupled with the disgustingly absurd yet funny comedic styling, you’ll be sure to say “What the hell was that?” more times than they do in the movie itself.
Planet Terror (2007)
July 30, 2008
In a remote military base with Texas, an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released. Anyone exposed to it transforms into a mindless brain and flesh eating zombie. It’s up to our three unlikely protagonists, Cherry (Rose McGowan) the stripper, her ex-boyfriend Wray (Freddie Rodriguez) the mechanic, and Sheriff Hague (Michael Biehn) to not only make it through the Zombie infested night, but to take them down and save their town and the world.
One of the most notable aspects of any B movie is that it carries a generally cheese and stereotypical overtone. Blood doesn’t leave the body like it would in an action/drama, it shoots out spraying everywhere as the most ridiculous things possible happen to the people in these movies. Extreme situations beget extreme characters, right? So when it comes to paying homage to a B movie, what better way to do so then to completely over exaggerate the over exaggerated?
Get Ready To Enter The Asylum
July 29, 2008
This straight to DVD tale brings together a group of beautiful coeds who stumble upon the unfortunately true knowledge that their dorm room was once an insane asylum. To make matters worse, this wasn’t exactly the most friendly of places as the deranged physicians performed outlandish experiments on the troubled teens within in an attempt to find a cure for their mental illness.
Something has awoken the evil doctor’s ghost and it doesn’t look like he’s ready to call it quits just yet. Full of desire to finish the work he started, the crazed doctor finds himself slowly running out of patients as he tears through his former asylum.
Starring Sarah Roemer (Disturbia) and Travis Van Winkle (Transformers), Asylum is directed by David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular).
The Frog Brothers Are Back In Lost Boys 2: The Tribe
July 29, 2008
The 1987 hit, The Lost Boys is back and straight to DVD with the July 29th release of Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. The story, paying homage to the 20th anniversary of this legendary film, finds a brother and sister living in what appears to be a quiet and peace surf town in California. But after getting mixed up with a gang of surfers, they realize they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
The Vampires of Luna Bay are quick to take out anyone who crosses paths with them. The siblings, Chris (Hilgenbrink) and Nicole (Reeser) Emerson have lost their parents, leaving them to live with their Aunt Jillian. It doesn’t take long for them to get mixed up with the local Vampires, leaving Chris on a quest to kill Shane (Sutherland) to prevent his sister’s transformation after she unwittingly drank vampire blood.
But it wouldn’t be the Lost Boys without the Frog Brothers, so prepare for cameos from Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander.
The Dark Knight Is A Box Office Smash
July 29, 2008
The follow-up to director Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, The Dark Knight places actor Christian Bale behind the mask once again as Gotham’s favorite vigilante.
The Dark Knight brings the already dark story of Batman into an even more gruesome and suspenseful movie. Fighting crime has never been harder for Batman, but he has received some help from Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), his technological mastermind Luscious Fox (Morgan Freeman), his ever faithful butler Alfred (Michael Caine), and the criminally unpopular District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).
As Gotham attempts to recover from the damage caused by Ra’s Al Ghul, a new criminal mastermind enters the scene calling himself The Joker (Heath Ledger). Bringing together Gotham’s underground was the easy part, now taking on Batman? That will be the Jokers true challenge.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
July 29, 2008
Oscar nominated director Guillermo del Toro brings the epic story of Hellboy back to the big screen in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Having done amazingly visual and terrifyingly artistic work in movies such as Pan’s Labyrinth and the original Hellboy, del Toro brought the Hellboy series into a much darker and more evil world, releasing creatures never before dreamed of.
An ancient truce between mankind and the wold of elves and goblins has been broken, leaving nothing but disaster as a possibility for the future. The invisible realm’s new leader has defied his bloodlines wishes and taken full control of an unstoppable army laid to rest a long time ago. Only one group of paranormal superheroes has what it takes to stop this menace, but when the people of the world turn on them for being different, which side is truly where they belong?
The B.P.R.D. line-up chosen to defend the Earth this time, includes: the demon Hellboy (Ron Perlman), the pyrokinetic Liz (Selma Blair), the aquatic empath Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and the protoplasmic mystic Johann.
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening
July 29, 2008
There were no warning signs. Nothing to let anyone know that it was coming. But in just a few short minutes, death and destruction reign down throughout major cities. Nobody knows exactly what is causing this complete breakdown of the human mind. Could it be terrorist attacks? Biological experimentation gone wrong? We can’t be certain…
High School Science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) has decided that staying put is not the right decision. With his marriage to Alma (Zooey Deschanel) on the rocks, the two of them attempt all methods of travel to get as far away from where they were as possible. Along the way they meet up with Julian (John Leguizamo), a Math teacher friend, and his 8 year old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). The four head further into Pennsylvania in an attempt to evade this horrible experience, only to find out that nowhere is safe. But Elliot may just have discovered a glimpse of hope in this bleak future awaiting the whole human race.
The Happening is directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
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