AKA 75, AKA 7eventy 5ive. Like Deon Taylor‘s horror anthology TV show Nite Tales, the movie features Flava Flav as MC, who appears to spout nonsense and disappear in a flash of subpar special effects. The action begins at a kids’ slumber party/house party for adults. After the children play the game 75, which involvesContinue reading “Deon Taylor’s ‘Dead Tone’: I Have Multiple Complaints, But I Can’t Hate It”
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‘Paranormal Activity’: Love it or Hate it, It’s a Seminal Film
Katie (Katie Featherston) and her boyfriend Micah (Micah Sloat) are experiencing odd events in their home, like hearing footsteps and voices they can’t identify. Katie suspects that the demonic presence that’s been following her since she was eight has something to do with it. So she and Micah film themselves during the day and setContinue reading “‘Paranormal Activity’: Love it or Hate it, It’s a Seminal Film”
‘The Messengers’: Meh
Directed by Danny and Oxide Chun Pang. Jess (Kristen Stewart) is a teenage girl getting a fresh start on a South Dakota farm with her family: little brother Ben, mother Denise (Penelope Ann Miller), and father Roy (Dylan McDermott). She’s at odds with her parents for an incident of drunk driving, so when she beginsContinue reading “‘The Messengers’: Meh”
‘Rise: Blood Hunter’ is…well, Lucy Liu is Always Great
Sadie (Lucy Liu) is a reporter who decides it would be a swell idea to explore the sketchy neighborhood where a series of killings occurred, all by herself. (Though in her defense, no one knows they were committed by vampires.) Here’s my paraphrase of the scene when Sadie is on the phone with her colleague,Continue reading “‘Rise: Blood Hunter’ is…well, Lucy Liu is Always Great”
‘Dead Silence’: Intense enough for ‘Saw’ Fans, but with Much Less Gore
In the town of Raven’s Fair it’s a good idea not to scream, or one may lose one’s tongue to the ghost of Mary Shaw (Judith Shaw). Shaw was a ventriloquist who had the nasty habit of murdering local children who heckled her show. So the town rose up and murdered her. However, she regularlyContinue reading “‘Dead Silence’: Intense enough for ‘Saw’ Fans, but with Much Less Gore”
‘A Brush with Death’ is More Like a Brush with Mediocrity
Low budget movie, supposedly “based on true events.” Five teenage girls (cheerleaders, natch) head to a relative’s mansion for the weekend, and decide instead to visit the house nearby where a young boy killed his sociopath brother. When one of the girls disappears, the other four have to scramble to avoid the same fate. MaybeContinue reading “‘A Brush with Death’ is More Like a Brush with Mediocrity”
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