Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
August 8, 2008
Over half the of the horror movies produced have been made with the hopes of becoming a cult classic. Unless the movie happens to be a big budget production, which even then we are starting to see attempts to make those movies more cult like (Grindhouse), many directors ruin their film striving for this goal. That’s not the case with Repo! The Genetic Opera. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, this symphony of terror plays perfectly off of the worlds interest in such demonic individuals as Sweeney Todd with his obsession for fresh meat pies. This is the story of a future where one can easily purchase replacement limbs, but those who do so on layaway will find that their organs won’t be removed so kindly if they can’t manage to keep up with their payments. The film has so far received an amazing response at the Fantasia film festival, making it fairly confusing as to why it will only see theaters in limited engagements under Lions Gate Films this November.
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?
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