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Stay Alive
Ah Ah Ah Ah Stay Alive, Stay Alive. That famous line from that Beegee’s classic and the title of an underground survival horror game that unfortunately kills you in real life if you die in the game. Apparently. It seems like a recipe for disaster when infact quite frankly it works.
Being a bit of a computer game fanatic myself it relished the fact that I could watch geeks playing games for an hour and a half. Within minutes I thought my girlfriend would be fast asleep when infact we were both enjoying it… Read more
Death Proof
Continuing our reviews of Grindhouse, Next on the list is Death Proof, a strange story and slightly empty film that leaves a lot to be desired. Kurt Russell is incredible in this movie. He totally stole the show.
Now from my understanding, this isn’t a true Grindhouse movie, Yes, there’s grainy, clunky editing and what not, but it just feels like an ordinary Tarantino movie.
There are many, many scenes in Deathproof that just seemed to last forever with absolutely no bearing on the plot, character development, or anything else for that matter. I was really disappointed - about half of the movie in fact is complete filler, I really expected more. The opening box office weekend was a bit of a disaster, only taking in $4.2m… Read more
Planet Terror
Another Grindhouse movie from Robert Rodriguez, a pretty spectacular zombie gore-fest from start to finish. Obviously this movie was influenced by Tarantino, in typical grind house fashion.
This movie was a little better than Deathproof (review coming soon!) purely because it was action packed… never a dull moment, unlike Deathproof - Planet terror kept a solid flow and managed to keep me completely entertained. Lots of big names, Bruce Willis, Tarantino, Freddy Rodríguez to name a few - The casting for this film was spot on.
One thing I have to complain about is the editing. I understand grind house and its effect but, I felt it went way over the top on many occasions. Slightly nauseating even at one point. Read more
Paradise Lost
If your anything like the party-hard teenagers in Paradise Lost, back-packing through Brazil may sound like heaven. Although, just like their trip, this film left me in the same state as half the cast. Cold and Physically Empty. Quoted by a forgettable horror magazine as “better than Hostel” i can only hope i misread the quote instead of “better than a youth hostel” although, even that i find offensive.
Paradise Lost markets itself as an “edge-of-the-seat” ultra gorey horror. I swear, i must have blinked and missed the horror. The version of the film i watched was also advertised as the “extreme” edition, featuring only one scene i would classify as “gorey”, oooh a girls insides, i have seen worse on ER. No really, I have… Read more
Premonition
Premonition, a housewife Linda Hanson, played by Sandra Bullock is cursed by visions of the future. The movie starts off a little slow, then all of a sudden, starts getting a little ahead of itself too soon. All of this bouncing around continues and was only made worse by filler scenes and plot twists that seemed to bog the movie down.
The movie tried to grasp the philosophical reason as to why this all was happening. Linda talks to a priest but there is no indication of her religion prior to or after that scene. A lot of this plot just happened for seemingly no reason at all. There were a lot of filler scenes I found to be completely irrelevant to the movie. *Spoilers follow*…… Read more
Outsourced
Wow - this feel-good Indy film that for me, has delivered more than every movie of its genre to date this year. Grab some popcorn and get comfy because this is going to be a long review.
When asked to check out this new independent film, obviously we jumped at the chance, a free DVD screener, who wouldn’t? We were incredibly anxious for its delivery via fed-ex so, whilst waiting eagerly on the front porch for its arrival, we did a little research. (thank you Wi-Fi!)
So it seems the people behind the new movie “Outsourced” are very ballsey. If you didn’t already know, they opted to distribute the movie themselves, via there website and select theaters. I love this attitude and fighting spirit, future Indy film producers, take note. Read more
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