A new and much shorter month, though plenty of movies to watch.
Like last time, stuff with an asterisk (*) is stuff I watched for the DVD Lounge. Except that this month I got ‘The Crazies’ on Blu-ray! That was pretty awesome.
Okay, here we go:

Boy it seems like it took me twelve years to finally sit down and watch ‘The House of the Devil’, a modest little horror movie that has sort of been lurking in the fringes since sometime last year, quietly asking to be seen. There’s nothing really outstanding about the film on the surface – no [...]

The release day for the remake of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is steadily approaching and that there to the left is the new poster. Interesting – though predictably – they’re starting off with an image of Freddy. Let’s face it – you don’t know anyone else in the movie. And by [...]

Here’s a great poster for ‘House of the Devil’, a movie I cannot wait to see:

That is almost as good as the original poster:

Or the second one:

Is there any chance this movie can live up to all this cool design?

In thinking about listing every single movie I watch all year, the resulting final post seemed impossibly long. So instead, I’m going to list all the movies I watch each month in order from worst to best, then at the end of the year take the top three of each month and figure out [...]

As you know, the year isn’t over until I’ve had my say on the movies. Or at least the ones that I’ve seen. I still haven’t managed to avoid the real dregs of the year. Maybe it’s just that they are easier to see. G.I. Joe, The Taking of Pelham 123, [...]

Now at first you may expect that ‘The House on Sorority Row’ and ‘Ghost Machine’ are two movies with absolutely nothing in common, but you’d be mistaken. Because I’ve reviewed them both. BAM! Expectations totally exceeded.

‘The House on Sorority Row’ (review) barely squeaks by as the winner in this particular face off, [...]

I ain’t tryin’ to backlash on a movie I haven’t seen. Especially one that I want to see. But people are getting a little too excited about this a-here movie. So if you feel like you might be one of them, herewith – a de-hype-ing:
People – Avatar can only be so good, [...]

I like scary kid movies. Even the bad ones, if that’s not redundant. Kids should always be good, innocent, sweet, and cute. So when they turn all murderous – as all kids always do – it’s especially sickening. That’s the built-in goodness of all scary kid movies, whether it’s The Bad [...]

That’s right – I’m about to watch Wrong Turn 3 which, if you’re keeping count, is the third installment in the Wrong Turn series. Most people didn’t like the first movie. Loads more never even saw the second. And now here comes the third and, since it hasn’t been released yet, even [...]

Continuing where I left off…
Which brings us to ‘The Blair Witch Project’. I’m not sure there’s a horror movie with a lower-budget and a bigger response. The fact they were able to pull off such a gigantic prank for so long – that it was an actual documentary and this actually did happen [...]

Without a doubt, ‘Friday the 13th’ ups the ante in terms of production value – it’s as slick as a barrel of oil and a hundred thousand times more expensive. But that wasn’t hard to do – the original movies looked fairly dipped in mud half of the time. One could argue that [...]

Word on the street has been that ‘Cabin in the Woods’ was going to be some kind of defining moment in slasherdom. As Whedon himself has said, it will be “the horror movie to end all horror movies”.
But based on the ad campaign…

…this doesn’t look like territory that hasn’t been fully explored [...]

I know there are bigger things going on in the world and that this post should probably be about how MJ saved us all from doom, but instead, I’m gonna talk about something closer to my heart – ‘Night of the Creeps’.
Specifically, the thing going on at Amazon.com, wherein if you buy certain horror movies, [...]

A couple weekends ago me and K headed to Baltimore to check out a double feature at Bengie’s Drive-In. The line-up was ‘Up’ and ‘Terminator Salvation’. The day before ‘17 Again’ was thrown in for good measure and I think that’s a pretty genius triple feature. You have one movie that’s good [...]

So there’s a review for a movie called ‘Nightmare Castle’ up over at The DVD Lounge and if you look closely, you’ll see that it was written by me. If you have a second, click on over and check it out, maybe leave a comment or two and help support my pack-a-day DVD habit.
There [...]

There’s something that just tires me out when I try to lay my thoughts down about a movie that no one probably had any high hopes for except for me. Saying you’re disappointed in ‘My Bloody Valentine 3D’ is like saying you’re disappointed that the ball you threw into the air fell back down [...]

Thinking about low-budget one location horror and how it gets made and how it gets made well. First movie that always comes to mind is ‘Evil Dead’, which is pretty genius as low-budget one location horror goes. There’s not a slow moment in it and most of it is really just one guy [...]

Hysterical Psycho – Trailerby dreadcentral

So Fox Atomic is folding and when I first heard about that, I was ensaddened. Mainly because this is a company that was focused on putting some horror out in the world and it’s pretty bad when a genre company can’t keep things afloat. But then, looking back at their roster lately – [...]

Watched ‘At World’s End’ last night with K and though we’d both heard our share of bad reviews for this one – most of them based on the fact that this sucker is so long – we figured that, this being home video, we could break it up into chunks and maybe it wouldn’t seem [...]

In my post about the Wachowski’s Speed Racer a few months ago, I mentioned that I thought the last two Matrix movies were terrible. Then Brian Crane had to go and spoil my know-it-all-ness by saying he rather liked the last two movies, sending me into a reconsideration spiral – if Brian Crane is [...]

If you’ve been lamenting the sameness of comedies at the movies, then it’s time to put up or shut up.
Go. See.

As reported by just about every site in my blawglines (Pulp 2.0, for instance), Marvel Studios is apparently going to start up a writing program – a one year deal to develop new talent for Marvel movies. But check out the quote about the terms:
“Among other things, the contract gives Marvel ownership over everything [...]