Grave Encounters 2

D: Wow, I tell you wow! Don't do needle work while watching this movie, ok? You might just stab yourself with it every time one of these demon patients jump out of no where.
Yes kids, we are going back to the asylum. The sequel for Grave Encounters begins with a college student obsessed with finding the truth of the horror movie. So he and his friends go searching for it...BIG mistake.
This sequel actually blows the first one away. Ok granted that the beginning was painfully slow and just showed a bunch of college students being college students. I remember those days. But I don't remember being THAT stupid as to go to a haunted asylum that people went missing in. Anyways, once they get to the asylum, it gets weird. I highly recommend this for everyone who likes a good mockumentary.  I image its what a bad trip would be like. At least for me...and that is why I don't do drugs.

N: The motto in this movie: "Death Awaits." Indeed, as we once again enter the worst nightmare...a group of student filmmakers venture to the notorious mad house to capture the truth about what happened to the previous group of explorers. In a way this flick makes me want to shoot my own mockumentry, but I've already experienced what's its like to be haunted for a number of years and watching this gut wrenching film brings a gloomy overcast of fear into my body. Thus, my own personal nightmares set the stage and this bone chilling flick puts me on the edge of my seat.
   Dolls,, Rocking Horses, and apparitions of pure evil stalk the empty and abandoned corridors that become a hellish maze, twisting reality into a paranormal nightmare. Who shall survive? Who will be swept away? Watch for yourself.

Resident Evil

D: Oh my gosh, is it like, Zombie month or something cause we have been going zombie crazy...movie wise that is. And look, my tribute is to a zombie movie. And today kids, its Resident Evil!
Ok, so I know that not many people would probably like this movie based on one of the coolest games ever made. But you know what? I ain't those people, ha!
So this bloody gem is based off the game...you guest it, Resident Evil by Capcom. Only its been altered a bit. RE players will know what I mean. This movie is about Alice, a security chick for the corporation Umbrella, which is creating a virus that turns those infected into, can you guess? That's right, zombies. Alice and her rag tag team are trapped by these flesh eating hooligans and they got to shoot their way out or be trapped with them forever! And Michelle Rodriguez is so kick arse in this, as well as Millia Jovovich. Plus Marilyn Manson helped out with the soundtrack. He's a crazy SOB, but a genius one at that.
Now for me this is a great tribute to a great game.  Cause for me, a movie based on a game is just that, BASED. This one has a lot of familiar additives from said game. Zombies, Umbrella the evil corporation, zombie dogs, the train from RE2 game, even the licker makes an appearance, and a beautiful one at that. The point is, this is one fun ride of a movie that I remember seeing in the theaters, falling in love with and adding it to my movie collection. So if you want to see some awesome chicks kick some zombie butt then this is the movie for you. Yes, I have fond memories of seeing this with  my mommy. Ah mom, why you hiding your eyes? Look, zombie go nom nom.

World War Z

D: The zombies are coming! The running zombies are coming!! Holy shrine man can these SOB's run. Yes people a zombie movie were the undead can run like bats out of hell. Oh the humanity!
Everyone knows the storyline right? A mysterious virus that turns people into zombies decimates the world and no one knows what to do. Well, Brad Pitts character Gerry, is asked to go and search for a cure. Huh, you'd think that would be one of the things that everyone would be wondering about...is there a cure? Gerry is sent out into the chaos to search for it. So much chaos...
Talk about having you on the edge of your seat. This movie had my eyes glued to the big screen in front of me and freaking out over the running zombies. And the way that these dead funks chased their pray...AHHH!! They are swarming man. Like ants. Which is what the creators of the zombies had in mind. Fun film fact, that's what they used for the behavior of the zombies...ants. Look it up its very interesting. Anyways, final thought...great for the theater, eh, for my collection. Not sure if its right for me. But its good for suspense baby. I do wish to mention one thing though...who the frack takes their knitting to a zombie movie???

N: My body began to race with heart throbbing energies as city after city began to become over run by a mass mania of  Zombies. With a world out of control one man must confront this devastation and search for an ultimate cure. A cure that could eradicate the undead. Within this chaos the movie shifts into a beautiful perspective of how far we can go to take back our world.

Warm Bodies

D: Oh my graves man! I never thought someone would come up with this kind of love story, with zombies!
 A story about a zombie called 'R', who is wanting more than just the usual zombie life. During a routine hunt with his small zombie pack he meets the girl of his non-existing dreams. He saves her from the other zombies and keeps her hidden. All the while something human inside him is waking up. Their relationship then affects the other zombies creating a chain reaction that just might save the human race.
Epically awesome!!! How can anyone not love this movie? Ok, yes we are use to the usual zombies trying to eat us and we are suppose to kill them, but come on people! The guy who plays R was great. I mean, sure it may not take much to play a soulless mind dead zombie, but to emotions to it like love or shock? Nice! And to see things from the zombies point of view is just something you don't see in movies. I mean you see it in vampire movies but zombies?
A beautiful message of people reuniting and reconnecting. People and zombies living in harmony. Makes me feel all fuzzy and alive inside. Come on zombie boy, give us a hug!


N: Warm Bodies makes me want a relationship with an undead Zombie. This film indeed shined a new light on the Zombie apocalypse and gave new enlightening perspective towards Zombie based films. I enjoyed how R sparked his new found relationship with a daring girl that wondered into the lands of the undead. As the carnage spread R began to once again change and in the course of this movie everyone began to realize what was really taking place. See for yourself the outcome of this movie by renting or even buying your very own copy.

Paranorman

N: In essence I was hoping that since Laika Studios a Portland Based Studio had created this flick, that it would be over the top. The characters reminded me of the ones in the animation film "Monsters House." In a way these characters where over the top and it seemed that the Lika was trying to hard. Entertaining, but not one of m favorite cartoons.

D: I see an animation with dead people. Hah! Tim Burtons been doing that for years. But this isn't a Tim Burton film, it is a Laika film as my dear partner has pointed out. Just to brag, I know one of the people who worked on this. Luckily this review has nothing to do with his or her part of the film. Its the story itself.
So, animation wise, very pretty. Story, ummm, could of been better. The story of a young boy who can see ghosts is soon appointed by his crazy uncle, to help make sure that the spirit of a legendary witch doesn't come back and reek havoc on the town. Not a bad story, just a few things could of been better. Like, conversations in situations could of been shorter. I mean, I don't remember anyone using long dialect to say two simple words 'piss off', to a group of people. I know its a kids movie, but still.  The design of the zombies were nice, and the plot ok...its just that dang dialogue. So wordy, so long winded.
It was ok. A good idea that could of been done a little better. A lot of  funny moments. That's all I have to say about it...switching to zombie mode, brrrrrrrraaaaaiiiiinnnnzzzzzz...

Cabin in the Woods

 

N: Join us for a short stay in a deep dark forest to which you shall find a cozy cabin. Though I must admit while I waged my bet against this movie as being a total bust, in some aspects I was right. But it would not be a horror movie if it did not have bad qualities. The movie reminded me so much as the typical flicks as a group of collage students (like Cabin Fever) decided to take a short vacation that lead them to a cabin that had more to offer than they knew. It took awhile to figure out the true reasons behind this so called game show that was being run by some devious scientists, and about half way through the movie things did get interesting as evil mainstream monsters and demons had been unleashed to cause havoc and death. Like I said, as this seems to go for a lot of horror flicks...the ending was offal.

D: Holy crabs man, talk about squeezing all typical horror movie with college students into one movie. Then adding the twist actually gives this type of horror genre a more interesting view. I mean come on. Who isn't tired of the usual slasher film where college kids no smarter than a drunk dog go out together in the middle of no where and release a curse or run into a psychotic murdering clown? Give it some razz, something less annoying other then the typical girl running away screaming.
To be honest, this may not of been the greatest movie ever, but it wasn't the worst. It does in a way pay tribute to horror movies past with its own version, but I wouldn't buy it. And if I wanted to choose the way my ending would be for me in if I had to get killed in a horror movie....I'm taking the monster down with me!