The Last Lovecraft Directed by Henry Saine Last night, the 2010 Toronto After Dark Film Festival kicked off, and much to the delight of horror fans, this year’s selection offers a healthy dose of aliens, ninjas, mad scientists, zombies and. of course, castrations. Needless to say, conservative movie goers will stay clear of the Bloor [...]
—————– Red White and Blue Directed by Simon Rumley Movies rarely open with more promise, nor fizzle out more disappointingly, than Simon Rumley’s Red White and Blue. A bizarre, intermittently effective movie that suffers from a surplus of characters, ideas and outlandish plot elements, Blue is the rare film that simultaneously exhibits serious talent and [...]
“La Meute doesn’t reinvent the backwoods-freak show formula, and although it is short of big jumps and signature moments, it does have something undeniably entertaining about it.” La Meute Directed by Franck Richard While Hollywood has been busy on gutless remakes of classic fright flicks and Japan still buried in carbon copy knock offs of [...]
Dream Home Directed by Ho-Cheung Pang Probably the only horror film to involve the housing crisis, Dream Home wastes its creative concept by being unfortunately muddled. Though the protagonists’ obsession with owning a home at the sacrifice of her family and moral integrity could have been fascinating, the film is ultimately shallow and confusing. Despite [...]
“Watching the duo’s onscreen bro-mance recalls best of the Apatow brand and places them alongside the most memorable protagonists in any genre piece.” Tucker & Dale vs Evil Directed by Eli Craig Backwoods horror is a sub-genre that can be safely labeled “oversaturated.” The formula should be familiar to even casual horror fans: city slickers [...]
The Violent Kind Directed by The Butcher Brothers In The Violent Kind, members of a motorcycle gang are terrorized by supernatural forces while at an isolated cabin. A mostly disappointing evocation of classic b-movies, the film nonetheless shows a lot of creative potential. Blending gang violence, apparent demonic possession and crazy science fiction, the film [...]
“A film that like it or not delivers exactly (and only) what its title implies which is enough to lure the most satiated genre fans.” The Human Centipede (First Sequence) Directed by Tom Six An all-too-familiar setup finds a couple of pretty American tourists (Ashley C. Williams and Ashlynn Yennie) stranded in the woods when [...]
“The Revenant is outrageous, jaw-dropping, genre-busting filmmaking filled with audaciously grotesque special effects and witty black humor. It is the Re-Animator of a new generation and guaranteed to become a cult classic.” The Revenant Directed by D. Kerry Prior The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq, gets up out of his [...]
A Serbian Film Directed by Srdjan Spasojevic It would be easy to dismiss A Serbian Film on the grounds of its boundary-pushing imagery. “Disturbing” does not begin to cover some of the images and scenarios the film presents, and the anger they inspire can easily hamper judging the film on its merits. At a very [...]
“Despite its minor flaws We Are What We Are is without question, one of the finest genre films of the year.” We Are What We Are Directed by Jorge Michel Grau The completed version of Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are had its North American premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival and left [...]
“When it starts gearing up in intensity it becomes quite an engrossing pic, but thrill-seekers may be disappointed with its lack of jumps, jolts, scares and screams.” Possessed Directed by Lee Young-soo You may have already read about this film but under a different name – Possessed has gone through several titles since its initial [...]
“In this day of gutless remakes and reboots Monroe stays shockingly true to Zarchi’s vision and delivers a product for better or for worse worth the effort.” I Spit On Your Grave Directed by Steven R. Monroe The original I Spit on Your Grave was made under the title Day of the Woman and played [...]
“Dynamic, relentless and funnier than it’s predecessor, Ip Man 2 is the flashier, hipper and better looking of the two.” Ip Man 2 Directed by Wilson Yip (Yip Wai Shun) Continuing the narrative straight from where the first film left off, Ip Man 2 sees our titular hero (Donnie Yen) reprising his role in the [...]
——————– The Human Centipede (First Sequence) Directed by Tom Six For a movie whose entire premise is more or less spelled out in its title, The Human Centipede is a surprisingly elusive proposition. Despite the sordid particulars, Tom Six’s debut is emphatically not a horror film, at least not in the modern sense. It rejects [...]
While sloppy at times, Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her is an often delicious trifle, of which the core ingredients are so rich that the film is as much fun as any of Zemeckis’ comedies (if not quite as polished). Death Become Her Directed by Robert Zemeckis Although it managed to walk away with the Best [...]
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Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)
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This Movie is Broken
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Fausta: The Milk of Sorrow
MIFF2010: The Illusionist
Piranha 3d
The Switch
Afterschool
Rampage
Stonewall Uprising
Toronto After Dark 2010: Doghouse (Review #1)
The Expendables
Toronto After Dark 2010: Last Lovecraft (Review #1)
