Tag: horror

Movies, Short Shrift TheaterLeave a comment

Short Shrift Theater: The Sleepover

Derek

sleepover
THE SLEEPOVER takes us to a town where all of the tropes of the standard slasher movie are very real and known to the citizenry, the job of babysitter is not something that just any pimply faced teen can do. Oh no, my friends. To be a babysitter in this town one has to be a bad  mama jamma who can go toe-to-toe with any hard to kill masked, blade wielding freak that happens to show up primed to murder anyone he meets. And woe be the young whippersnapper who doesn’t take the suggestions that the babysitter gives about making sure your room is secure.
Continue reading “Short Shrift Theater: The Sleepover”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Reviews, TV, TV Reviews1 Comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dracula The TV Series (Episode 1)

Derek

dracula0
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52%
Directed By: Steve Shill
Written By: Cole Haddon
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Kretschmann and Nonso Anozie
Network: NBC

Synopsis:It’s the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He’s especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night – useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan… until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dracula The TV Series (Episode 1)”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews3 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nothing Left To Fear

Derek

nltf00
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0% (Critics) / 22% (Audience)
Directed By: Anthony Leonardi III
Written By: Jonathan W.C. Mills
Starring: Clancy Brown, Anne Heche, Jennifer Stone
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis:NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR was inspired by the legend of Stull, Kansas. Wendy (Anne Heche), her husband Dan (James Tupper of “Revenge”) and their kids have just moved to the small town of Stull, Kansas, where Dan is the new pastor. But in this sleepy community of friendly neighbors, a horrific series of occurrences awaits them: Their teenage daughter (Rebekah Brandes of Bellflower) is being tormented by grisly visions. Her younger sister (Jennifer Stone of “Wizards Of Waverly Place”) has been marked for a depraved ritual. And deep within the heartland darkness, one of The Seven Gates Of Hell demands the blood of the innocent to unleash the creatures of the damned. Ethan Peck (“10 Things I Hate About You”) and Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) co-star in this demonic shocker featuring original music by producer SLASH and inspired by the real-life paranormal legacy of Stull. (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nothing Left To Fear”

Movies, Trailers2 Comments

Trailer of the Day: Paranormal Activity – The Marked Ones

Derek

paranormal-activity-the-marked-onespng

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is an upcoming spin-off to the Paranormal Activity series, being described as a “cousin” to the series. The film will be released in January 3rd, 2014 and will be written and directed by Christopher Landon, who wrote the screenplay for Paranormal Activity 4, which featured hints on the film’s storyline. – Rotten Tomatoes

Continue reading “Trailer of the Day: Paranormal Activity – The Marked Ones”

Movie Reviews, Movies, Remake Rumble, Reviews3 Comments

Remake Rumble: Embrace of The Vampire (1995) vs Embrace of The Vampire (2013)

Derek

embrace0
The 411: Charlotte, a timid and sheltered college freshman, is seduced by a centuries old vampire unleashing the inner desires that Charlotte never even knew existed inside of her.
Continue reading “Remake Rumble: Embrace of The Vampire (1995) vs Embrace of The Vampire (2013)”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Escape From Tomorrow

Derek

eft00
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Randy Moore
Written By: Randy Moore
Starring: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez
Studio: FilmBuff

Synopsis: In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father’s sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Escape From Tomorrow”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews2 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Byzantium

Derek

byzantium0
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61% (Critics) / 53% (Audience)
Directed By: Neil Jordan
Written By: Moira Buffini
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis: Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Byzantium”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: I Spit On Your Grave 2

Derek

I-spit-on-your-grave-2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0% (Critics) / 28% (Audience)
Directed By: Steven R. Monroe
Written By: Neil Elman and Thomas Fenton
Starring: Jemma Dallender, Yavor Baharov, Joe Absolom
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis: Katie is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of modeling. When she innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into an unthinkable nightmare of rape, torture, and kidnapping. When a twist of fate finally frees her from her captors – beaten, battered, bruised, and broken, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive her ordeal, but to ultimately find the strength to exact her brutal revenge. – (Source)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: I Spit On Your Grave 2”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, ReviewsLeave a comment

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fright Night 2

Derek

fn2a
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)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fright Night 2”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Reviews4 Comments

Curse of Chucky – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

Derek

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)

Continue reading “Curse of Chucky – Good, Bad & Ugly Review”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews2 Comments

Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jug Face

Derek

jugface0
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)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jug Face”

Good Bad & Ugly Reviews, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews3 Comments

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

Derek

atblml00
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)

Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane”