Category: Ace In The Hole
Ace In The Hole #4: The Experiment Vs. The Killing Room
Ever since runaway horror sensation Saw twisted its way onto our cinema screens and inadvertently sullied the subsequent decade of horror by urging on an unseemly wave of torture porn, we’ve been inundated with a barrage of ‘people-wake-up-in-a-room’ horror films, … [Read the Rest]
Ace In The Hole #3: Buried vs. 127 Hours
127 Hours Directed by Danny Boyle vs. Buried Directed by Rodrigo Cortes How does one make a filsimply about a man stuck in a small space, and nothing more? The Plot: There have been two movies released this year which … [Read the Rest]
Ace In The Hole #2: ‘Let Me In’ vs. ‘Let The Right One In’
Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves vs. Let The Right One In Directed by Tomas Alfredson Even in a pop culture landscape littered with the bloodthirsty undead, Let The Right One In stood out as a poignant coming of … [Read the Rest]
Ace In The Hole: Planet Terror vs. Death Proof
With Grindhouse, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino made a movie in the grand tradition of Umberto Lenzi and John Carpenter. Masquerading as a double bill, the homage of ’60s- and ’70s-era drive-in flicks stitched into one shambling feature also … [Read the Rest]
