THE UNBORN(2009) Casey is a young lady who is being haunted by visions of a creepy boy who seems to be stalking her, as the story unfolds we find out this ghost has been haunting her family for 2 generations and was responsible for the death of her twin brother while they were still in the womb, and also the death of her mother , she seeks the help of a rabbi to help stop the curse before it kills her. This is a movie with a good premise but failed execution , its a supernatural thriller based on Jewish mysticism , the visual scares ( or what try to be scares) seem to be heavily influenced by Japanese horror such as THE RING and THE GRUDGE , a style I'm sick of and never found to be scary , its also filled with attempts at jump scares that don't work, pretty tame stuff , not much to offer. The ending leaves it open for a sequel, lets hope it never gets made.

THE STRANGERS(2008) Wow! I wasn't expecting much from this but was pleasantly surprised, this is an effectively grim, well-made horror film. A couple go to a secluded vacation home after attending a wedding and are terrorized by three strangers throughout the night, the visits become increasingly violent and disturbing with each encounter until the movie concludes with its grim ending. Terrifying stuff , the antagonists are so callous , cold and calculating its truly unsettling , and the fact that this kind of stuff can really happen makes it even more effective. Highly recommended.

THE PUMPKIN KARVER(2006) Jonathan and his sister, Lynn, move to a new town to start a new life after Johnathan killed his sister's boyfriend accidentally in a Halloween prank gone wrong . They attend a Halloween party a year later but it seems that the man Johnathan killed has come back from the dead to get revenge and proceeds to kill Johnathan and Lynn's friends and carves up their faces to resemble jack o lanterns. The makers of this movie seem to be trying to make some kind of 80's style slasher homage , but this is filled with obnoxious characters , bad acting and cheap fx , while not terrible , it ultimately fails.


BOY EATS GIRL(2005) In the wake of SHAUN OF THE DEAD there has been a glut of zombie comedies and this is just one of many. Nathan is a high school student who kills himself and his mother brings him back to life via a voodoo ritual not realizing it turns him into a flesh craving zombie. After he is resurrected he doesn't realize what has happened to him,he gets in a fight with a school bully ,bites him and unwittingly sets off a zombie outbreak . While not great by any means this is fun to watch with some good gore effects , the comedy bits do not work very well but the teenage love story parts do , so its kind of a mixed bag.


DRIVE THRU (2007) D.U.M.B -stupid , this movie is an utterly ridiculous horror/ comedy that is neither funny or horrifying , the gore is crappy and the jokes are sub-sophomoric, whoever decided to green light this thing must have been high. In the town of CARNE BLANCA (Spanish for WHITE MEAT for those who don't speak the language) , Horny the clown,the mascot for a popular fast food chain named HELLA BURGER, is on a killing spree carving up the local teens with his axe from hell. The reason for the killing is lifted right out of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET , a supernatural killer stalking the offspring of the people who set him on fire , Horny (god that's horrible) even spouts off dumb one liners just like FREDDY KRUEGER . Terrible ,avoid at all cost.

SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD(2010) George Romero's latest entry in his living dead films , while not great is still a very enjoyable movie , an opinion it seems i don't share with very many others as this has been getting terrible reviews. Out of the last 3 films in the series , i like it better than LAND... but not as much as DIARY..... . Like most Romero films its filled with social commentary and plenty of gore , unlike most of his films he tries to inject lots of humor, the reason i believe so many were disappointed with this. As far as timeline goes this takes place right after DIARY.. but before LAND... , the story concerns a group of soldiers who desert their unit and escape to an island where the inhabitants are divided among those who want to kill the zombies and those who want to train them. Not his best but still worth a watch.

CREEP(2004) Franka Potente ( Run Lola run , Anatomy, the Bourne identity) stars as a business woman who falls asleep in the London subway while awaiting her train , when she awakens she finds she has been locked in ,while trying to find a way out she is stalked by a mutant killer who lives in the tunnels. While flawed , mainly because Potentes character is an extremely unlikable person and you really don't care if she lives or not and the fact that the motivation of the killer is never made clear , this is still a fairly enjoyable slasher/gore film. This one reminds me alot of the 1972 film RAW MEAT. Nothing great but worth a watch if your a horror completest like me and feel like you need to watch everything.

HOBOKEN HOLLOW(2005) Its all here torture , gore, rape and cannibalism , in this" Texas Chainsaw "style low budgeter . After being offered jobs as ranch hands ,homeless drifters are in for the fight of their lives battling the brutal Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow, a remote West Texas ranch . If the workers try to escape they are hunted down and when caught they are tortured , hung and made into human jerky, yum!!. This ones got a couple of brutal moments made more disturbing knowing this was based partially on a true story( it really was , i researched it and found news paper articles and court records , pretty sick stuff) . The great B movie cast makes this more watchable than it probably would be otherwise , Dennis Hopper , Michael Madsen ,Greg Evagan , C. Thomas Howell, Lin Shaye and Robert Carridine all make appearances in this silly but fun film.

FEAR ASYLUM A.K.A ROOM 33 (2009) A roller derby team , along with a couple they picked up , are stranded and must spend the night in an abandoned asylum. They soon find out there are horrible supernatural things afoot and they struggle to stay alive through the night. This one starts out pretty good but soon grinds to a screeching halt with long drawn out scenes of the characters walking the halls of the asylum trying to figure out whats going on and yelling and cursing at each other and not much else, pretty boring. The villain is not scary at all and other than he was a doctor that once worked there and was killed we never find out how he has returned as some kind of supernatural demon. So unless you need to learn some new insults or curse words there is no need to watch.

TAMARA (2006) This plays out extremely similar to the Japanese film "Tomie", it is about a girl who is seen as a loser by her classmates and is picked on constantly and they joke that she’s a witch ( she is) .When some of the kids at school decide to pull a prank on her , she is led to a hotel room and embarrassed , she freaks out and during a struggle Tamara is killed and buried in the forest. Like in many other films , she comes back from the dead with supernatural powers and kills the kids responsable. Not bad but this was obviously made for the younger crowd and seems rather juvinile to my old ass. Fun but flawed.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE (2009)

After a mining accident crazed miner Harry Warden embarks on a killing spree that leaves 22 people dead , he is shot and presumed dead but a decade later it seems that Harry has returned to finish what he started. I was never a huge fan of the 1981 film of the same name and this remake is junk , I'm not one who gets offended easily but parts of this movie are down right vulgar and pointless. The filmmakers attempts to keep you guessing who the killer really is are also pointless because its obvious where this is heading from the start. Most of the characters are so despicable you could care less if they live or die, the lone saving grace here is that the gore is fairly impressive, save for one really bad cgi effect towards the beginning of the film.

WILLARD (2003)
Another remake but this one is pretty good, it actually came towards the beginning of the remake craze and along with "THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" remake this is one of the better of the bunch.Willard is an awkward young man ostracized by the world around him. His gloomy existence takes a turn though, when he discovers that his connection with a pet rat has gained him acceptance among rodents, soon thereafter Willard begins to get revenge using his new found army of vermin on the people who have done him wrong. This is a delightfully demented film with with the darkest of dark humor overtones that has a Tim Burton type feel to it and Crispen Glover is pretty damn close to perfect in the role of Willard, recommended.

THE REAPING(2007)
Hillary Swank plays a former Christian minister who has lost her faith and now specializes in debunking religious phenomena, she sets out to investigates a small town named Haven deep in the bayous of Louisiana which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues which started after the mysterious death of a child , apparently at the hands of a satanic cult.
This movie is at times silly but its still fun to watch , much better than i was expecting, my only complaint is that it all kind of falls apart in the last 15 min. or so and the hokey attempt at a twist ending and then when you think its over another attempted twist/shock right before the credits roll.

CAVE OF THE LIVING DEAD(1964)

This is a DVD i had owned for close to a year before i watched it and when i finally did i wished i had done it earlier, this is a good atmospheric German horror flick worth seeking out if you have not seen it . I also realized that i had watched this before under the name "NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRES" many years ago .When 7 young women in a small European village mysteriously die , Inspector Frank Dorin is sent to investigate. The town doctor claims the deaths are from natural causes, a fact that is hard for alot of the locals to swallow being that the girls were so young, and also at the time of the deaths there is always a blackout in the village . Their suspicions prove to be correct when they realize that they are plagued by a cave full of blood sucking vampires. Now, Dorin must stop them before more bodies pile up. Fun stuff that i highly recommend for you 60's / 70's Euro- horror fans.

HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE(2009)
A family become the caretakers of the Winchester mansion , speculated to be one of the most haunted houses in America. They soon find out for themselves that the stories are true when the couples daughter is kidnapped by the spirits that inhabit the place . With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll try to unravel the mystery of the house and find their missing daughter. This unknown low budgeter actually ain't half bad . At the end they attempt one of those crazy twist endings that is so popular these days , it almost works too, you don't really see it coming but the pay-off just isn't that great. Good movie , so-so ending.

RED HOOK(2009)

A few years after young Jenny Traylor witnesses the murder of her older sister, she is off to NYC to begin college . During her first week she joins in a welcome week scavenger hunt that turns into a game of survival for her and her friends. "A chilling thrill ride"is what it says on the DVD cover, a boring broken down jalopy is more like it.This comes across like something that might have been made to air on MTV , full of young not so good actors , really bad attempts at John Mayer style love songs sang by a female , and not much else. Except for the opening 2 min. it is nearly 50 min. into this thing before anything that remotely resembles a horror movie happens, and even though it claims to be the unrated edition this is fairly tame stuff.Not much to offer here folks. Avoid.

PARANORMAL ENTITY(2009)
Sounds like an attempt to cash in on the success of "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" you say? Yes it is, THE ASYLUM ,the company that produced this one , that's what they do, they take popular movies and put there own twist on them. Now i must admit for the most part i found myself enjoying this as much, if not more than P.A. In this one Thomas Finley is arrested for the rape and murder of his younger sister and the murder of a paranormal investigator. Days later he commits suicide. Later video tapes are discovered that reveal what really happened , the family were under attack by a demonic entity. Much like BLAIR WITCH at the time of its release the producers tried to make it seem like this was real crime scene footage, well we all know that's not true, but the truth is , this is an enjoyable little ghost story.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET(2010)
Here we go again, Another remake, this is getting out of hand! Despite that fact and despite all of the negative stuff I've heard about this , i enjoyed this one. I assume most of you know the story so i wont go into details , ill just give my opinion .Unlike the FRIDAY THE 13th series ,which i absolutely love the 1st four films of , i was never a big fan of the N.O.E.S series , i liked it but never loved it, so without as much emotional investment ,the re-imagining of the character didn't bug me as much, to tell you the truth, and i know some people will say this is downright blasphemous , i found this version of Freddy to be more frightening , even more depraved and sadistic than the original. The other characters were well developed and likable, usually a big problem i have with with modern horror is that they are not. The makers of the film didn't stray too far from the original source , they maybe tweaked a few things here and there but overall it sticks to the original tale, so much so i don't understand all the negativity towards this, in my opinion if you liked that story should you like this one . Don't get me wrong this isn't any thing great but like i said i didn't think the original was either but they are both decent and worth a watch. Give it a try , you might be surprised.