survival-dead-poster
Director: George Romero
Year: 2009
Country: United States
The air was thick with anticipation for the North American premiere of Survival of the Dead, an event made all the more poignant by the appearance of George A. Romero himself. Given that his prior film, Diary of the Dead, was (in my opinion) a pathetic attempt at capitalizing on [...]
paranormalactivity
Director: Orin Peli
Year: 2007/2009
Country: United States
When I was seventeen years old I saw a midnight screening of the The Blair Witch Project in Sarasota, Florida at a tiny indie theater downtown. After leaving the film I went home to a pitch-black, dead-silent house, terrified out of my mind. Although no doubt bolstered by my post-film [...]
trick-r-treat-poster1
Director: Michael Dougherty
Year: 2007 (2009 release)
Country: Canada.
Warning: Minor spoilers included within
I knew nothing about Trick ‘r Treat before viewing it, assuming that it was either a remake of an eighties slasher flick that slipped below my radar, so my enthusiasm for viewing it was based solely on A) its tumultuous history, to B) the incredibly [...]
Director: Ti West
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Has Ti West heard of Alan Smithee?
Much of the hullabaloo surrounding the non-Eli Roth associated sequel to his horror film debut Cabin Fever is focused on Lionsgate’s recut of the film and West’s disowning of the final product. Apparently his cut is drastically different, possessing a much different tone in the [...]
Updates might be sporadic over the next nine days or so as my eyeballs undergo the ultimate test of endurance at Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’d like to contribute a guest post about, well, anything, send it to bmchargue@gmail.com. Beyond that, keep your eyes here for reviews and the like, as well as running [...]
The bloody home invasion flick Inside is not for everyone. Pregnant woman probably won’t like it, and rightly so. But among the horror community, it is adored and often cited as a main reason as to why French horror is superior to American horror.
Except this guy. I met him through his review, which featured [...]
Director: Karyn Kusama
Year: 2009
Country: USA
The first time I saw Juno I enjoyed it. It was quirky, fun and sported a solid cast that was in some way well-versed in the art of acting. Even (relative) newcomer Ellen Page was impressive, handling Diablo Cody’s incredibly modern and far from evergreen dialogue with panache, delivering each [...]
…while I utterly fuck up the design of the site. Trying to make it more….website-y as opposed to blog-y, if that makes sense.
I like arguing. I’m contentious by nature and therefore felt that an audio debate over a film I love/hate with someone who feels the exact opposite as I do. A few weeks ago I watched the classic Romero vision of terror Dawn of the Dead for the second time and realized I still thought it [...]
I do not like Eli Roth. I think his films are ludicrous, and the only sort of entertainment they serve is akin to that of a Jerry Bruckheimer film: mindless entertainment forgotten as quickly as it came. In the face of my extreme disdain for his films, I respect him much in the same way [...]
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