Stay Alive
Posted by Tom in New Release DVD on 16. Oct, 2007 | 5,445 Comments
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 [...]
Paradise Lost
Posted by Tom in New Release DVD on 13. Oct, 2007 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Resident Evil Extinction
Posted by Tom in New Release DVD on 09. Oct, 2007 | 5 Comments
Resident Evil. Possibly the most successful video game to movie franchise ever?I struggle to think of anything more successful. Although, as with all sequels, they have a tendency to get considerably poorer as they progress.
The original Resident Evil was a very easy to watch, brainless horror. Plenty of blood and gore, and a vaguely interesting, [...]
Atonement
Posted by Tom in New Release DVD on 06. Oct, 2007 | 7 Comments
Atonement. The satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury. Amends. After consulting my Collins English dictionary I can safely say that this film could have been named nothing else. Based on the superb British novel by Ian McEwan of the same name it tells the story of fledgling writer Briony Tallis, who, as a [...]
Flight of the Living Dead
Posted by Tom in New Release DVD on 05. Oct, 2007 | 27 Comments
Take one digital versatile disc, one very versatile director and one plane. Fill it with every feasible over the top character stereotype under the sun, drown from tip-to-toe in blood and await they’re outlandish exit. It sounds like any other zombie cult classic (possibly swapping the plane for a mall) and to begin with, I [...]
