Horror/Suspense
paranormal activity is supposed to be a real look at true scary events inside a haunted house.
Everyone keeps saying that paranormal activity was not scary at all and it was cheesy, fake, had bad acting, etc. However I completely disagree. I was scared during the entire movie and I was clinging to my couch in terror with each new scene, or each time the characters embarked on a new part of their journey. I know that Katie and Michah aren't the best actors, but if the film is supposed to be real, why would they need to have amazing talent like Denzel, or Gweneth? Overall, i think the movie was very suspenseful, and completely horrifying. I could not stop thinking about it when I went to bed at night. It was pretty neat that the movie made imagining things scarier than actually seeing them on screen. INTENSE! I was scared to death, but loved it.
Scott Stewart's "Legion" starring Tyrese Gibson and Kate Walsh, is about a war between fallen angels during Earth's endtimes.
The only hope for humanity's survival lies inside the womb of a woman named Charlie (Adrianne Palicki), who, along with many others, has taken shelter in a small New Mexico diner.
Great graphics and action scenes make this film a good way to spend an hour and forty minutes. See it for yourself to decide if you are for or against the nature of humanity.
This is, undoubtedly, a film that can change the minds of believers and nonbelievers alike in Armageddon, and the realistic graphics and intense scenes either make the viewer REALLY prepare for Earth's pending endtimes or just leave them with a slight nightmarish vision, but, in an intelligent way, of course!
Military robots guarding an upmarket mall. Teens locked in overnight. What's the worst that could happen?
In many classic horror movies , the actual horror component derives from the protagonists’ fear of the unknown, as well as the viewers’. For example, Ridley Scott’s Alien. No-one’s encountered the life form before, and like the crew we’re clueless as to what it’s actually capable of. No-one could have guessed at its dinner party-ruining abilities, so it comes as a real shock when John Hurt starts to feel ‘unwell’.
With Chopping Mall, writer/director (and voice talent) Jim Wynorski doesn’t worry about such tease and shock tactics. Right from the word go, the horror is clearly going to be derived from robots-with-frickin’-lasers-on-their-heads. It’s all laid on.
The robots-with-frickin’-lasers-on-their-heads are actually the ‘Protector 101 Series robot’, a fact we learn thanks to a handy information reel at the start. Never again will a human put on a grey uniform and take abuse from hoodies. The Protector 101 has it covered.
Instead of using heavily armed AI entities to guard, say, military installations, the Protector 101’s end up guarding an upmarket Californian shopping mall. Aside from giving us an inaccurate pun for the title (I didn’t spot any actual chopping in the film), it allows the plot device of having a bunch of randy teens locked in overnight at the mercy of these low-rent ED-209’s. Of course, ED-209’s major design flaw (crap legs) is made more baffling given that a whole year earlier, the Protector 101’s maker decided to use sweet tank treads. No toppling down stairs for these beauties.
As the flat-headed menaces stalk and, yes, kill their fleshy teen enemies, a moment comes upon us which changed my impression of the whole movie.
It’s got an exploding head scene. Surely the holy grail of horror since Cronenberg walked onto the set of Scanners and uttered the words ‘You know what would be cool, eh?’.
I’m not even sure how a robot-mounted laser beam would make a head actually explode (I’m no physicist), but that one moment created the biggest ‘Whoah! Wind it back!’ I’ve heard from my pals in years. For that reason alone, I would give the Chopping Mall five for five. And that’s without getting to the superb cameos of legends Angus Scrimm and Paul Bartel.
Sadly, upbeat performances can’t overcome a lacklustre script , and over-engineered haircuts lose the film three of those five marks. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jim Wynorski now works in adult movies where such comments are less career-hampering.
Enjoy Chopping Mall, but scrub yourself clean afterwards.
Noted liar Fess Dorsey witnesses a murder and soon finds out nobody believes him.
A 2009 low-budget feature from Michigan, this film ultimately succeeds in its goals of telling the twisted story of Fess Dorsey (amusingly portrayed by director/writer Wilbur Scott), a cantankerous old man who has lost his job and has to move in with Claudia Echanova (Melissa Green). He witnesses a masked man in the forest about to decapitate a body, and is unable to convince either the police or his nephew (his former boss) of what he seen. Twists in the story compound when the same masked man turns out to be Claudia's friend Nelson (Tim Sabin), who shows up to visit.
While a very funny film in the first half, as the film goes along, the tone shifts to more serious as Fess grows more angry from frustration.
The cast is able, and outside from a few technical issues, the film holds up fairly well for the notable lack of budget. Great twist ending, too.
A mediocre college project full of plagarism
I'm a bit dumbfounded @ the reviews this movie has gotten - a lot of good reviews. Much much better horror/scary/thriller movies have gotten worse reviews.
This film would be a good college project, but fails as a feature film. Just about ALL of the "scares" are taken right from the movies The Grudge and The Exorcist.
I went with women who are usually easily scared and we all came out of the movie a little annoyed. It's unoriginal, uninteresting, low budget, and the viral marketing and good reviews it has only leads me to suspect that the production company has hired one of the best PR firms around and bribed the critics, or modern Americans prefer cheaply made college project films that steal ideas from original movies.
A young couple goes to bed for three weeks in a row
This movie is a case for the Better Business Bureau. I saw the official trailer which pictured a theater full of frightened people. I am convinced that the occasion was a field trip from a school for the developmentally disabled.
Nothing frightening happens in the movie. Nothing. Ever.
It's too late for me to boycott this movie, although I have written down the name of the director and I will boycott him for life for his participation in this PR farce. I beg you, gentle reader, to boycott Paranormal Activity for me.
The only reason I am giving the movie one star is because the screen was not actually blank.
Biggest Let Down of the Year
The tedious domestic bullcrap and the less than amateur acting really took away from the overall enjoyment of the film. I was really disappointed. I wanted to be scared out of my mind for nights. I was only scared a little at the movie and scared to death early this morning(but mostly due to paranoia and an overactive imagination). The movie was repetitive, too unrealistic and too goddamn predictable.
The suspense factor was thrown out the window around the third or fourth night. We, the audience, know the ghost is going to terrorize the couple each night. We know something is going to happen, so when it does the effect isn't the same.
The "hauntings" happen over a span of 21 nights. The couple even says they've been happening weeks before they set up the camera. Even Katie states she's been affected by this demonic presence since she was a child. Anyone in their right mind would have left the house and sought out help. Even if the 'thing' follows Katie, she should have left. Sleep in a church for Christ's sake.
The concept of the movie was good, but the execution was awful. If the happenings occurred over a few nights, even a week, the movie would have been far better. However, it is a great alternative to the saws and gorey slasher flicks out there.
On a scale from 10 to 1, 10 being superb, the movie scores a 6.5 for storyline. The suspense ranks a 7. The acting, however, scores a 4, Katie overacted and underacted throughout the duration of the movie. Overall I give the movie gets a 7 points out of 10.
Anyone who is logical and has a good common sense should not see this movie. You will over analyze everything and most likely see all the flaws this movie has. Don't be misled by the over exaggerated statements. Paranormal activity is far from the scariest movie ever.
Film review
Transformer
It is one of the fantastic film I have ever seen. It is a fantasy film directed by Michael Bay. The film tells the story of two robots with opposite intentions: the good Autobots( one of the robot) intend to protect the human while the evil Deceptions want to destroy them. They both are able to change into a variety of objects including-cars, trucks, planes, mobile phones and other technological creations. This fantasy movie works because it builds suspense right up until the end.
At the beginning of the film the narrator tells where robots are from and why they have a war. The main reason of their war is to get a mystical talisman( the Allspark) that will provide unlimited power to whoever possess it. Megatron(one of the evil robot) eventually tracked the Allspark to the planet of earth during the war with Autobots.
The film begin when Sam Witwick, nicnamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car who is actually one of the Autobots named Bumblebee. Bumblee depends Sam and his girlfriend Michaela Bana from the Deceptions barricade before the other Autobots arrive on Earth. They are searching for the Allspark. And the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military base in Qator. Sam and Michael are taken by the top-secret agency sector 7 to help stop the Deceptions but when their understand the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world. There is also scenes between Sam family that is rather amusing in a goofy kind of way.
This film is an action piece from start to finish. It is filled with wild special effects, an explosive soundtrack that is unforgettable. The transformers are gigantic, colourful and they crash, explode and emote.
The main actors Sam and Michael( who is a really cute and pretty girl) are excelent. Their manner of performing seems perfectly natural. Their facial expressions show us truly feelings what they have during the actions.
The score contains 12 songs from various rap and rock music groups that are mixed together. You can listen the popular American rock band Linkin Park that appears at the end of the film.
It looks like a perfect film but sadly it has one of the biggest disadvantages it is too long.A film of this genre should never go beyond the 2 hours but this one is even more. If the film had cutting out 45 minutes it would be worth of needless battle scenes.Surely, it will be a good start.
This film is added to the fantasy. Maybe someone thinks it is boring and meaningless but it is not. This film is not only exciting and inspiring fear. It rather shows reality of the nowdays. The reality of our lives values, about things that we most like and dislike(money, friendship, belief in yourself, betrayal). I thoroughly recommended this film for teenagers. Adults can appreciate it too. It is worth of seeing. Do not miss it!
An attractive couple goes for a nice weekend getaway near a beautiful lake only to be gradually terrorized by a group of young hoodlums.
During Thanksgiving a few years ago I remember listening to my cousin speak to my uncle about the movie "Culigula" starring Malcolm McDowell. He spoke of the brutality of the film being offensive and downright appaling, even to the point of hindering its own artistic integrity. My uncle defended it, claiming that the camera work and editing of the film had far outreached any claim for
the "smut" title that the film had accumulated so widely in the world of criticism. I finally watched a clip of it the other day on youtube, the one in which McDowell smiles gleefully as helpless victims' heads are chopped off by a giant death machine while the crowd enthusiastically throws eggs at the head-only-exposed faces during the poor bastards' last moments. I chuckled a little, rewinded it, and decided that my uncle may have had a point.
Culigula is not a horror film, yet it drenches viewers with terror as they watch McDowell desanctify every aspect of humanity that has ever been pedastaled by our moral society. "Eden Lake" on the other hand, is as pure and uncut as horror comes, only this time, the villain is not masked nor supernatural nor psychopathic, the latter of which Culigula himself had been labeled.Nope. Our
villains are our children of course. Beaten, bruised, affection starved, and hopelessly lost. During Lake's last moments, as our female protagonist stumbles into the midst of a woodsy house party, covered in literally blood, shit, and sweat, the viewer does not get any kind of impression that the character has been saved. The grown-ups hesitantly take her inside and clean her up as she
begs for the ambulance and police. We sit there and think, "how in the hell is this chick going to explain to these people that she has just been terrorized by a bunch of kids?" Well, outside the cinematic landscape it's actually quite simple, but in this case we can at least associate with the sheer anarchy present in the scene, and only hope for the best. Oh and did I mention that "Eden Lake" pissed me the fuck off?
As previously mentioned, the villains are kids. Did I say villains? Well I guess there is only one villain, but with multiple child-henchmen to carry out his malicious thoughts. Oh and I mean malicious. Some of the more prominent aspects of this kid's resume include knife torture, securely fastening grown men to tree stumps using rusty barb wire, and peer pressuring his lesser pals into helping him do so. Only something doesn't quite feel right about this whole nihilism thing. Mainly it's that from the start, these kids are portrayed as a couple of regular hoods, spitting, blaring rap music, smoking pot, and starting unnecessary confrontations. So how did we go from "nobody loves me so I'll be as rude and loud as I want" to "the world is cold and desolate and needs to be destroyed!"? Well apparently it's because of a dead dog.
"Eden Lake" will have you turning your head, fists clenched, teeth grinding as you watch its plot points unravell. It will saturate your head with its themes of nihilism and apocalyptic glory, and in all probability will completely horrify you. So in the genre of horror films, it has earned an A++ for its efforts. What Lake won't do, as so many of my favorite horror films have accomplished
in the past, is make sense. Brutal violence and excessive gore can be found in most 1980's monster movies, including the ones that we now laugh at. So how does transforming the cheeseball monster or maddened redneck in those laughable films to "lost children" warrant the issueing of a bold socio-political statement in the form of a horror film? I guess it's the mean dad we see at the end
of the movie, or perhaps the exaggerated gullibility of all the villain's lesser kind. Darwin? Nope. Nietzche? Not exactly. I was thinking more along the lines of Bush.
The Infected is a 2009 British post-apocalyptic horror film. The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the release of a highly contagious virus and focuses upon the struggle of two survivors to cope with the ruination of the life they once knew.
A low-budget zombie pic by director Calum Rhys and writer Rob Byrd that's a tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their understanding of the infection's nature. A very well-made genre film with great performances and wonderfully staged sequences.
