Trailer of the Day: The Lazarus Effect
A group of medical students discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. – Source
Tag: horror movies
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Bigfoot Edition
As seems to be a habit in Hollywood, a year will come along where more than one movie comes out that focuses on the same subject matter. It happened with TOMBSTONE and WYATT EARP, it happened with DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON, it happened with WHITE HOUSE DOWN and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN and it happened again this year with Bigfoot centric found footage films WILLOW CREEK and EXISTS.
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Late Phases
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 64% (Critics) / 39% (Audience)
Directed By: Adrián García Bogliano
Written By: Eric Stolze
Starring: Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, Lance Guest and Tom Noonan
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Synopsis: Ambrose McKinley, a cantankerous blind vet, moves into a retirement community only to learn the residents there have been dying, not from old age, but from dog attacks. After surviving his own encounter with a canine one night, Ambrose comes to believe the assailants are much more than mere dogs. – (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Housebound
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95% (Critics) / 75% (Audience)
Directed By: Gerard Johnstone
Written By: Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru and Cameron Rhodes
Studio: Xlrator Media
Synopsis: Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. The home that her mother thinks is haunted. However, when Kylie too becomes privy to unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether if she’s inherited her mother’s overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who’s less than happy about the new living arrangement. – (Source)
Bad Movies That Rock: Don’t Open Till Christmas
Devil Horns Rating:
What’s It About?
It is Christmas time in London and someone is killing anyone who dares to wear a Santa Claus costume. Will Scotland Yard be able to bring this maniac to justice or will this bloodshed become an annual tradition?
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Trailer of the Day: It Follows
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind. – IMDb
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: [REC]4 Apocalypse
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró
Written By: Jaume Balagueró and Manu Diez
Starring: Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Paco Manzanedo and Ismael Fritschi
Studio: Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing
Synopsis: The television reporter Angela is rescued from the building and taken to an oil tanker to be examined. However, it is unbeknown to the soldiers that she carries the seed of the mysterious demonic virus. – (Source)
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Tusk
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 40% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Kevin Smith
Written By: Kevin Smith
Starring: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez and Johnny Depp
Studio: A24 Films
Synopsis: When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him. – (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Babadook
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96% (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Jennifer Kent
Written By: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
Studio: IFC Films
Synopsis: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. – (Source)
V/H/S Viral – Good, Bad & Ugly Review
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Written By: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo, T.J. Cimfel, Ed Dougherty, David White
Starring: Justin Welborn, Emmy Argo, Emilia Ares Zoryan
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Synopsis:After watching on the news that an out-of-control ice cream truck is being chased by the police around the upper LA area, killing people and wrecking havoc among the way, a group of teens hell-bent on capturing the next viral video set out to chase the van. Things go from bad to worse when the content inside the van is revealed to be several tapes with bizarre stories, including that of a deranged illusionist who, after obtaining a demon-powered cloak, sets out on a killing spree; a garage scientist that manages to build a machine and open the door to a parallel world, where he and his double find out that their worlds are dangerously different; and the story of teenage skaters who unleash hordes of demonic foes after desecrating a ritual site in Tijuana. – (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Zombeavers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Jordan Rubin
Written By: Jordan Rubin and Al & Jon Kaplan
Starring: Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins and Rex Linn
Studio: Epic Pictures
Synopsis: ZOMBEAVERS is an action-packed horror/comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin. – (Source)
The Best Horror Movie Franchises Ranked By Me
Earlier this week I saw that there was a list ranking the horror movie franchises on Gawker and thought it would be a good idea to do here. My rules however are a bit different than what the folks at Gawker used. For my list the rules are as follows:
1. To qualify as a franchise there must be at least 3 movies released.
2. Remakes of movies can be counted as part of the franchise.
3. “VS” movies (like Aliens vs Predators and Freddy vs Jason) are not counted.
4. Must be horror flicks. Duh.
So on to my list.
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