Recent viewings

[lester1/2jr]

Eternal (2004) - this had decent enough casting and an okay if predictable story but I can't recommend it mostly for two reasons

1. it's clearly a soft core sex movie but there is no actual nudity. that's pretty stupid and

2. Most of the movie is so dark it's ridiculous.

2/5 It's about elizabeth bathory  "Elizabeeeth in the castle where was my soooul"

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Redwood Massacre" (2015)
Campers encounter a hulking masked axe murderer at an abandoned house in the British countryside. Yup, that's the whole plot. Cheap, gory slasher nonsense that we've seen a thousand times before, except this time everybody's got English accents. 
AVOID.

[lester1/2jr]

Starry Eyes (2014) - Is Hollywood actually run by Satan? naive actress finds out the hard way, spits up black liquids

as a horror movie it's really good, if it had been a little more ambitious it could have been great and said a lot more

4.5/5 suddenly apropos

[FatFreddysCat]

Since it's the last weekend before Halloween, we'd usually be OD'ing on horror movies around my house.

Unfortunately, we had to have our old dog put to sleep yesterday ... so to make my 10 year old son feel better I watched this with him while we both had a good cry.

"Hotel For Dogs" (2009)

A pair of street-savvy orphans and dog lovers (one of whom is played by a young Emma Roberts) set up shop in an abandoned luxury hotel and turn it into a secret hangout for stray pooches and the kids who love them. Naturally, they can't keep it a secret forever and soon they have to protect their pups from Animal Control and the police.
Charming, cartoony kid stuff with lots of cute canine hi-jinks, just what the doctor ordered after a rough day.

[Rev. Powell]

OKJA (2017): A Korean girl befriends a giant genetically-modified pig bred by a Monsanto-like corporation and tries to save her from the slaughterhouse. Exotic style, but familiar anthropomorphism; a perfect example of why you should not play with your food. 2.5/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

Back in the Halloween groove...

"Trick r' Treat" (2009)
Michael "Krampus" Doughterty's way-cool "Creepshow" style anthology of scary tales set in the same small town on Oct. 31st is tons of spooky fun and has become a Halloween go-to film around my house.

[lester1/2jr]

Goyle of the Risegargles - a guy from I think baywatch is an architectural history professor and goes to France for some reason. His cute agent takes him to a church which all the sudden starts spitting out gargoyles, but they find that out later (slight spoiler but not really, it's pretty obvious). People in France speak English with inspector clouseau accents.

no nudity of course and not much CGI gore either. in one scene a lady is killed and someone just throws red paint against the wall. must have run out of money? Anyway this had potential but it's just them going through the motions of this cheesy story no style really

2/5

[316zombie]

paterson. jarmusch. nuff said.

[indianasmith]

CIRCUS KANE - A random group of bloggers, horror movie critics, a scream queen, a memorabilia collector, and several others are invited to spend the night in a house of horrors which will pay $250,000 to anyone who survives the night.  They agree to the deal, thinking that means "survive the night without wanting to leave."  But no, it's literal, and they start dying almost immediately upon getting locked in the house.  After that, it's kind of an "escape room from hell" sort of story as they try to get out of the place alive.
All told, it's a fairly cheesy ripoff of the SAW franchise.  Gory, a few decent scares, cheaply done, and the cleavage-baring scream queen never does quite come all the way out of her dress. 3/5

[Rev. Powell]

SUPERPOWERLESS (2016): Captain Truth lost his superpowers and became an out-of-shape slacker who drinks too much; after his old sidekick's memoir hits the bestseller list, he considers writing his own autobiography. An indie dramedy that (surprisingly, given the premise) leans farther to the drama side; it's lack of budget, and acceptance of same, mirrors the hero's lack of superpowers. Watchable. 2.5/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Alien: Covenant" (2017)
In Ridley Scott's latest "Alien" flick, a crew of space colonists land on a seemingly-perfect undiscovered planet ... which naturally turns out to be less than perfect.
The first half of "Covenant" is a bit of a slog, spending way too much time on set up - probably due to its picking up plot threads from Scott's sluggish "Prometheus." When the chest-bursting and xenomorph nastiness finally kicks in during the second half, it's fun to watch but overall I'd rate this installment as a disappointment.

[indianasmith]

THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER - This was an interesting but hard to follow horror film that kept jumping back and forth in time.  A girl at a boarding school has visions of violence and evil that slowly drive her to madness, and she eventually kills two nuns and a roommate during a school holiday when the campus is otherwise empty.  Graphic violence and a story that is not always easy to follow; I'll admit I wish I had watched this one a little more closely than I did, I might have gotten more out of it.  3.5/5

[316zombie]

THE BOY(2016)

   not bad...not great, but not bad. greta evans( maggie from the walking dead-aka-lauren cohan) takes a job as a nannyto what she thinks is a little boy,who initially turns out to e a doll....that moves...and talks....but not where she can SEE it happen.
   rather predictable, but i'd give it a 3.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Brahms ^ I liked it but it wasn't as over the top or insane as Orphan

[316zombie]

oh yeah,orphan is TWISTED!