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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fright Night 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 100% (Audience)
Directed By: Eduardo Rodriguez
Written By: Matt Venne
Starring: Will Payne, Jaime Murray, Sean Power
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Synopsis: By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri’s chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and “Evil” Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a “new moon virgin,” which just so happens to be Charley’s ex-girlfriend, Amy. They enlist help from Peter Vincent, the vampire hunting host of a reality show called “Fright Night,” to drive a stake through Gerri’s plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death. – (Source)

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Curse of Chucky – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Synopsis: After her mother’s mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Maniac

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 47% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Franck Khalfoun
Written By: Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur
Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo
Studio: IFC Midnight

Synopsis: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop’s deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Prisoners

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Written By: Aaron Guzikowski
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dexter Season 8

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Developed By: James Manos Jr.
Starring: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar, Desmond Harrington, Yvonne Strahovski and Charlotte Rampling
Channel: Showtime

Synopsis:A Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Insidious Chapter 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 37% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: James Wan
Written By: Leigh Whannell and James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey and Lin Shaye
Studio: FilmDistrict

Synopsis:The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jug Face

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 37% (Audience)
Directed By: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Written By: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Starring: Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Kaitlin Cullum and Sean Young
Studio: Modern Distributors

Synopsis: Jug Face tells the story of a pregnant teen trying to escape a backwoods community when she discovers that she may be sacrificed to a creature in a pit. – (Source)

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Remake Rumble: I Spit On Your Grave (1978) vs I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

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The 411: A comely female writer heads to the seclusion of a country cabin to finish a novel and ends up being brutally gang-raped by a band of locals. After the attack she proceeds to get her revenge on her attackers, taking them out one-by-one.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Among Friends

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 38% (Audience)
Directed By: Danielle Harris
Written By: Alyssa Lobit
Starring: Alyssa Lobit, Jennifer Blanc, AJ Bowen, Christopher Backus and Kane Hodder
Studio: Grindstone Entertainment

Synopsis: Scream queen Danielle Harris steps behind the camera to direct this horror comedy about a group of young friends who are drawn together for a murder mystery party that quickly becomes a bloodbath. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Riddick

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59% (Critics) / 75% (Audience)
Directed By: David Twohy
Written By: David Twohy
Starring: Vin Diesel, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bautista and Karl Urban
Studio: Universal

Synopsis: Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick’s past. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 36% (Audience)
Directed By: Jonathan Levine
Written By: Jacob Forman
Starring: Amber Heard, Edwin Hodge, Whitney Able, Luke Grimes and Anson Mount
Studio: Radius-TWC

Synopsis: Starring Amber Heard and Anson Mount, ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE is about a group of high-schoolers who invite Mandy Lane, “a good girl” who becomes the object of everyone’s affection after returning from summer break, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to mysteriously drop one at a time. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Frozen Ground

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Scott Walker
Written By: Scott Walker
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, Dean Norris, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and John Cusack
Studio: Lionsgate

Synopsis: THE FROZEN GROUND is inspired by the incredible true story that follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe (Nicolas Cage) as he sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for 13 years. As the bodies of street girls start to pile up in Anchorage, fear strikes a chord with the public. Risking his life, Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer before the next body surfaces. When a seventeen year old escapee (Vanessa Hudgens) reveals key information about the case, Halcombe is finally on the trail of the killer. But will he catch him in time to save the next victim? – (Source)

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