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Army of the Damned (2013)
not so bad
Yea the plot is inconsistent, marginal acting, a tad bit like a school movie. But you can see that they tried. They had fun making the movie, which made fun of the genre. Scenes were stitched together OK. Lots of gore, but at least not a slasher. A supernatural slasher! candyman is in it, the guy from the hills have eyes, and a couple more ringers.
bored? TV sucks? then this is worth a watch
Troglodyte (2008)
it is what it is
It is what it is, I call them 10/90 movies because they have a nucleus of about ten percent American actors and the rest are Canadians - they need to stop shooting in British Columbia it keeps reinforcing what the Canadian accent is all 'aboot' This was a b movie, and while it was watchable, it was not very good. More gore than the opening scene in saving private ryan, but none of the acting that goes with it. People horribly killed and while they have an odd extra puking, the heroes forge ahead intrepidly.
if you can't find anything else better, it is worth a watch
Sand Serpents (2009)
we are having our own era of B movies and it is good
b movies are the fast food of the arts, and they can outsell mickey d's easily. Lots of explosives, meh, or over the top kind of acting and lots of green screen and cgi and we have our own drive in (too bad they don't still exist) The laughs and scares are the same though. For those who are tired of erudite films ad nauseum - have a bowl of popcorn instead. And you don't have to go to a drive thru.
The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016)
Pretty Good
I liked this movie. Sure it has been done 1000 times, this one was the first horror movie I've seen that had a gay character as a lead role, and not comic relief.
For fans of the genre this should be a great 'lights off, late night' type of movie.
They didn't explain the 'possession/unpossession' which seemed a little ad hoc whenever it suited whomever wanted a scary scene here, a talky scene there. So there was no system or logic or folklore to back it up.
good flick, worth a watch
Little Dead Rotting Hood (2016)
Nice Try
I am a fan of the B movie genre, so I am more forgiving than most.
This movie wasn't bad. Would be a good movie to watch if you have your buddies over for pizza etc.
The plot hung up a few times, and the storyline was so nonlinear that it caused me to say on one or more occasion ...Why is she doing this? or Couldn't this have been written a bit better? If it was then it wouldn't be a B movie.
My final answer is 'watchable' and nowadays that has to be enough.
The Pack (2015)
E for effort
I love scary movies. However, I am old and have seen so many movies that this one reminds me of the old movies back in the seventies.
the characters do such stupid things you find yourself throwing popcorn at the screen or cheering for the wolves. They were long haired dutch shepherds that look more like wolves than wolves do.
the cliche's are piled on from the flashlight that doesn't work. The phone is out! The radio don't work! I am running! oh I trip! Let me rattle some cans to see if anything is there! To the 'lets split up' The male lead crashes into a police car, beats up a wolf and then runs off, never thinking that a cop car might, just might have additional firepower like a shotgun.
They go back and forth with his deer rifle,(that looked strangely like a pellet gun) one time he would have ammo, another time, he wouldn't, his kid kept hiding bullets and they never explained why.
The wolves were inconsistent, one minute their senses were razor keen and they even cut the power and the telephone (you might glimpse the wolf wearing the yellow hard hat) the next they would walk dully past the character hiding behind the door. I can't even put that one over on my golden retriever.
Speaking of which, they heard their family dog barking early in the movie and then yipe! implying that the wolves got him for added suspense. But at the end of the movie he was alive again!
A good movie to watch if you have buddies over.
Daemonium: Underground Soldier (2015)
strange movie
This movie is a perfect example of when you have a good cast, and good spec fx budget, costumes stunts etc but absolutely no story.
All this movie is - a collection loosely kludged together fight scenes involving drug deals going wrong - instead of drugs, it is magic and demonic stuff.
I forgot to count how many because of the sometimes lengthy fight scenes that followed.
plus whomever wrote the screen play had no research on the angels and demons that were in the movie.
If you like demons doing kung fu - (I wonder how they all learn kung fu in hell?) then this movie is definitely for you
iZombie (2015)
very cerebral - pun intended
Perhaps the preoccupation with brains is why this show is so cerebral. I just watched the first few episodes. izombie has very little horror, a lot of narration, and quite a bit of cultural marxism. It is like greys anatomy or desperate housewife type of narration. Women are all heroes a la joss whedon, and the cultural marxism is self evident in the Che Guevara poster alone. Do not expect action, or horror, just one helluva lot of soap.
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
fantastic
This movie was amazing. Small sets and low production costs but all story. That's what makes it amazing. The dialogue among the characters were sometimes sad and sometimes hilarious. This is the kind of movie that keeps you interested throughout it's entirety.
SPOILER:
The colored meteorite thing that was glowing in the center of their cave hints that powerful radiation mutated this tribe. It isn't pointed to but unlike American movies, it is there for your perusal. Trogs didn't have flutes in their throats.
anyways, if you liked the hills have eyes and their remakes you will love this one.
highly recommended
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
oddly lopsided
This will surely be a favorite of the horror genre, this close to halloween especially.
who writes these stories? the devil is real but god isn't?....why?
and every congregation had an exorcist, just read malleus maleficarum (hammer of the witches)
this has been going on in many movies, hinting 'don't call upon god, he won't help you! while they are getting chased everywhere by a supernatural being
to sum up, if you are a fan of scary movies, you will like this
also if you are a fan of fellini-esque cerebral pretentious scary movies then you will like this too.
Sense8 (2015)
suqued
i never used a stopwatch but if I did the results would be half the show was licking each others faces, they should pay us for lack of content - the demographics will tell over time tarrantino esque disjointed - characters from lost were apropos however the story is told in such a way it makes golf look like porn in comparison. I don't need spoilers because the show is already spoiled. So maudlin I wonder what decade some scenes were made from. heck I couldn't tell who was who the white boys looked alike like they tried out for the same role. That is probably what happens nowadays, they give other parts to people who tried out for a role and they look like the character but in the book or screenplay the character doesn't look anything like that but they are too lazy to do another casting call. most sci fi shows have cameo roles like william shatner. Richard Simmons would be the william shatner for this show.