Monday, July 20, 2009

Art of the Devil II - horror review

Art of the Devil


Art of Devil was a Thailand horror film. A story of the reunion of six souls commences, a haunting past binds the circle of friends in an evil world filled with black magic and doom.

It’s all about revenge of their teacher named Boom was pregnant from an affair. One of her student captured a video of their sexual moment, and used this to leave him and his family alone. Furious… she goes to a witch doctor and has him use black magic against her ex-lover and his family. They all die in disbelieving scene.

Forget all the run through, violence and mish-mash of Khmer magic and folklore, what it comes down to is the repercussions of your actions; reaping the rewards or paying the price. Choices are strange and often trivial, split-second moments of time and space, but the fallout is often long-lasting and drawn out. Like the shaman suggests, the choice of the teens to lay the curse will affect them to the very day they die. Thus is the penalty for their actions and they must be distrustful of this annoyance wherever they go, symbolically and factually. The same ‘laws’ apply to the teacher and the coach as well – with their lustful choices come appropriate consequences. There is almost a downward spiral or domino effect implied in the screenplay for all involved, like telling a lie that leads to deeper and deeper lies. Each action the characters take leads them to another more important action, and in turn, more terrible consequences.

Release Date: June 27, 2006
Director: Tanit Jitnukul
Writer: Tanit Jitnukul
Starring: Arisa Wills Supakson Chaimongkol Krongthong Rachatawan Tin Settachoke Somchai Satuthum
Studio: Tokyo Shock



Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Ruins - Mayan with flesh eating plants

The Ruins

The Ruins – a bloody horror film directed by former fashion photographer Carter Smith, breezes by, feigning at both character and plot without bothering to develop much of either.

Horror moment center in Mexico, when the Americans Jeff, his girlfriend Amy, her best friend Stacy and her boyfriend Eric befriend the German Mathias in the swimming pool. Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri in an archeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort.

The scenic Mayan ruins, covered with a monstrous plant, should have served as an ideal location for the unfolding of a horror film. Smith though, tosses this fertile ground to the side and chooses to focus "The Ruins" on a handful of gory set pieces. The most graphic of these, an anesthesia free double amputation, shocks, but like the rest of the film, never truly grabs. The primary actors, Jenna Malone the most recognizable of the bunch, never get much to do other than cower, cry, and eventually die.

I believe 3 among the group “jeff,amy,eric” are going to be alive if they never panic, so well the story make themselves complicated.

"The Ruins" drama, when it works, is drawn not so much from the threat of the vines—although that is ever-present—but from the threats that the characters present to one another. In a situation previously unimagined by these coddled American college students hard decisions become even harder. Agreement among the group is rare, and when it comes it's usually from conciliations that will come back to stir the pot. The film never truly allows these relationships to breathe though.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Silent Hill - Horror Movie Review

Silent Hill Horror Movie
Silent Hill Horror Movie - Star by Sean Bean (Lord Of The Rings, Flightplan, Silent Hill) as James and Maria Bello (The Cooler, Secret Window, A History Of Violence) as Adele, as a separated couple trying to raise their daughter Sarah while living on two separate continents.

The story starts out with Sarah, played by relative newcomer Sophie Stuckey, demanding that her mother take her from their home in New York to visit her dad who is living on the Welsh coast. Sarah and Adele soon find that the history of the area is one that has been steeped in the legend of Annwn, the Welsh version of the other world, where you can get back loved ones when they die if you find the way. When Sarah drowns while taking a walk along the coast in the same area as a fanatical bunch of believers took their lives some 50 years before, Adele and James meet Ebrill (played by Abigail Stone) who tells them that she can be their daughter instead of Sarah. After researching the history of the area, Adele finds that Ebrill is not what she seems and takes on the journey of trying to retrieve her own daughter.

The end left me satisfied and somewhat happily surprised that it had some interesting plot twists,(as well as having some Silent Hill undertones to it). Why this movie was allowed to fly under the radar amongst all of 2005 box office crap is beyond me. It is one that is well written, acted and directed. The scenery of the Welsh coastline is breathtaking if you’re someone who gets into that sort of thing.

Both Maria Bello who is the main character in the film and Sean Bean who is unfortunately drastically underused bring their high quality acting to this little film. That in itself is enough for me to take a look at least once and quite possibly reason to put it in my DVD collection for rainy nights when I need a little creepy suspense.



Thursday, April 16, 2009

American Zombie Horror Movie Review

The bloody horror story of AMERICAN ZOMBIE Embed by Lee is obvious reluctance on paper John ( "Saturday Night Live," writes John Solomon officers), whose interests in the more shocking that rejects zombiedom - perhaps recklessly - just as stereotyped.


It is a great time this weekend. On Mike house with his several friends and family members who were way cool about letting us slather them up with karo-blood and latex body parts. A usual tradition of being Northerners by nature they were also able to laugh off the cold rain when we later filmed the obligatory "tear the guy open and munch his guts" sequence.

Nice zombie makeup by Mike, as always. After having what we thought was a great idea for a slashed throat effect not work so great last week it was real nice to have an experiment actually work out BETTER than we'd expected. Gelatin skin, buttered on one side and colored on the other, makes for a very convincing skin to make it edible.


American Zombie Movie Synopsis: Using a pseudo-documentary format, American Zombie explores the everyday lives of zombies who live in American society and the struggles they face for social equality and self- identity.

Cast: Grace Lee, Austin Basis, Suzy Nakamura, John Solomon, Al Vicente, Jane Edith Wilson

Director: Grace Lee

Studios: Cinema Libre Studio/Lee Lee Films




Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The Messengers


(The Messengers)

The Messengers: thriller film follow the horror story of the Solomon Family after leaving paced life of Chicago for the scheduled world of a North Dakota farm, moving into haunted sunflower farm, this was realized by Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her brother Ben a 3 year old boy. In Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers,they began seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. Begin to wonder and think that Ben was insane, experiencing a risk for the tortured teen. Seeing face to face in the spirit once live in that place.

People think about she's gonna be insane, hard to get trust the people and be warned. unsafe confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late.


Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Sixth Sense : I see Dead People





The Sixth Sense Psychologist defined as '' Visual Sensing without Seeing '', but in the Movie ''The Sixth Sense'' a child suffering from fear seing Dead people, using him as a medium to deliver unsaid things causing their soul misery.

A Doubt but inspired child psychiatrist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) after in a distraught former patient who shoots Malcolm and commits suicide. Another case meets him. Similar to the case of the 9 year old boy named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment). '' I See dead People '' Cole confides to Malcolm when he was suffering from this fear.

Creepy scenario in his bedroom whos been a girl appear in his room, Kyra Collins (Mischa Barton). Kyra's ghost gives Cole a videotape inside a box , which Cole gives to Kyra's father. The tape reveals that when Kyra was bedridden with illness, her mother was poisoning her food, which led to Kyra's death.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Exorcist : The Beginning

Exorcist: The Beginning
The Beginning of the evil possessed in archeological founded, in similar with Pazuzu by Father Lankester Merrin. This stands for fictional character and the main antagonist from The Exorcist horror novel. It began with Reagan finding depression after her mom and her biological father came to separation. -- The spooky creepy episode start with different supernatural thing occur in the movie; violently shaking beds, strange noises and unexplained movement.

As with climax of the story, Father Damian Karras and Father Merrin help this evil out to Reagan, for the evil was in with herself. But unfortunately the two was never succeeded, Father Merrin dies of heart failure and Father Karras shouts at the demon to enter himself. After this, the priest immediately throws himself outside of Regan's bedroom window in order to stop the spirit from continuing its cycle in possession.


Academy Awards

The Exorcist was nominated for a total of 10 Academy Awards in 1973. At the 46th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, it won two statuettes.

Wins:
Academy Award for Sound
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
Nominations:
Best Picture

Best Actress for Ellen Burstyn
Best Supporting Actor for Jason Miller
Best Supporting Actress for Linda Blair
Best Director for William Friedkin
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction

Other Awards

Saturn Award Best Horror Film of 1973.
Entertainment Weekly voted it the scariest film ever made

American Film Institute rated the film in #3 out of the most thrilling movies. The film was right behind Jaws and Psycho.
Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments rated the film #3, right behind Alien and Jaws.




Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Ju-On: The Grudge - cReEpY Movie Review

Horrifying creepy movie The Grudge, a story of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Karen) an exchanged Nurse-student from the states living in Tokyo with her boyfriend Dough (Jason Behr) and supernatural evil victim Emma, as Karen study Emma she is faced with a supernatural horror more frightening than she could ever imagine, a house surrounded a chain of evil that was born years before, not knowing that she was in the cycle of the curse, where she was afraid of, and stop it before it;s too late.


THE GRUDGE – Normal frontage of a modest house in Tokyo where the hidden terror live within, It is possessed by a violent plague that destroys the lives of everyone who enters. A curse causes its victims to die in the grip of a powerful rage. Those who are fatally afflicted by the curse die and a new curse is born--passed like a virus to all those who enter the house in an endless, growing chain of horror.

Ju-On: The Grudge - cReEpY Movie Review

Directed by: Takashi Shimizu

Friday, September 14, 2007

Friday The 13th: Television Series


Season 1: (1)The Inheritance, (2) The Poison Pen, (3) Cupid's Quiver, (4) A Cup of Time, (5) Hellowe'en, (6)The Great Montarro, (7) Doctor Jack, (8) Shadow Boxer, (9) the Root of All Evil, (10) Tales of the Undead, (11) Scarecrow, (12) Faith Healer, (13) The Baron's Bride, (14) Bedazzled, (15) Vanity's Mirror, (16) Tatto, (17) The Electrocutions, (18) Brain Drain, (19) The Quilt of Hathor, (20) Episode #1.20, (21) Double Exposure, (22) The Pirates Promise, (23) Badge of Honor, (24) Pipe Dream, (25) What a Mother Wouldn't Do, (26) Bottle of Dreams.

Season 2: (1) Doorway to Hell, (2)The Voodoo Mambo, (3)And Now the News, (4) Tails I Live, Heads Your Die, (5) Symphony in B#, (6) Master of Disguise, (7) Wax Magic, (8) Read My Lips, (9) 13 O'clock, (10) night Hunger, (11) The Sweetest Sting, (12) The Playhouse, (13) Eye of Death, (14) Face of Evil, (15) Better Off Dead, (16) Scarlet Cinema, (17) The Memphisto Ring, (18) A Friend to the End, (19) The Butcher, (20) The Secret Agenda of Mesmer's Bauble, (21) Wedding Black, (22) Wedding Bell Blues, (23) The maestro, (24) The Shaman's Apprentice, (25) The Prisoner, (26) Coven of Darkness.

Season 2: (1) The Prophecies: Part 2, (2)The Prophecies, (3)Demon Hunter, (4) Crippled Inside, (5) Stick it in your Ear, (6) Bad Penny, (7) Hate on your Dial, (8) Night Prey, (9) Femme fatal, (10) Mightier Than the Sword, (11) Year of the Monkey, (12) Epitah for a Lonely Soul, (13) Midnight Rider, (14) Repetition, (15) The Long Road, (16) My Wife as a Dog, (17) Jack-In-The-Box, (18) The Spirit of television, (19) Tree Of life, (20) The Charnal Pit.



Maked in history, a television series which ran for three seasons, from September 1987 to may 1990. by producer Frank Mancuso, paramount pictures.The story follows with the adventure of two cousin, Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster, who get in to an antique shop, "Curious Goods," from their Uncle Vendredi. We find out in the first episode that Vendredi made a pact with the Devil, to sell cursed antiques. He recanted at the last minute and tried to recover the antiques, but was claimed by Hell. The cousins, aided by Vendredi's partner Jack Marshak, used the store's manifest to track down the cursed antiques, each of which fell into the hands of someone who inevitably used them for evil.


Since the Television series doesn't have any connection with the title. It said that this can be appealing to the audience, a very creepy horror movie. Decided by the producer in tradition make it Friday the 13th.




Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Ring : Horror Review


A classic remake of the 1998 Japanese hit Ringu urban myths around the story of video tape that contains the captured images of a nightmare sudden destiny of death 7 days right after you seen the video tape and receive a phone call.


The Ring a story circled with the mystery behind the founded video tape by a journalist Rachel Keller's (watts) while the quest starts behind the sinister truth the death of her niece who literally scared to death. Patterned herself with the following clues. My emotion gets to it, when a scene she saw the non-believer to terrified mother as she finds the tape and watches it, condemning herself to just seven short days on earth…


As to Rachel and Noah started to loose a tale of absolute terror and a legacy of evil that threatens to destroy not only themselves, but everyone that sees 'the Ring'.



Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors :

Naomi Watts : Rachel Keller, David Dorfman : Aidan , Rachel Bella : Becca, Daveigh Chase :Samara Morgan , Martin Henderson : Noah , Amber Tamblyn : Katie, Lindsay Frost : Ruth, Shannon Cochran : Anna Morgan, Brian Cox : Richard Morgan, Jane Alexander : Dr. Grasnik, Pauley Perrette : Beth, Sara Rue : Babysitter.


Monday, September 3, 2007

gHoSt PhOToS : SHUTTER Movie Review


Country : Thailand

Year: 2004

Genre: Horror

Running Time: 1H33

Distributor: Panasia / Tartan

Date reviewed: 05/28/05

Producer: Yoophet Suosawao
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool



How much you can fight for your love? Would you consider it love if any concern doesnt feel or even show? Have ever ghost turns into your life? This is how Thun the photographer where his girlfriend Jane and him finding to solve the mysteries cross to their life. This was started when the couple came from drinking party with Thun closest friend, along way home an accident on the road happen, with Jane hitting a girl. Tun does not allow her to help the girl and they ran away leaving the girl lying on the road. When Tun reveals his latest pictures, he finds some mysterious shadows, while the couple is systematically haunted by the ghost of the girl. Whereas they find out with the images taken from Thun picture a girl along her back, was his former shy and weird girlfriend Natre, and was raped by his friends, an echoing voice of help which he never heard, the saddest part of it, he kept it secret. Natre got insane and took suicide, her soul still seeking for justice, one by one she never stop bothering the people who did the raped to her.


SHUTTER film emboss with 'ghost photos' , that supernatural thing truly exist the directors use the allegedly real photos (credited at the end of the film) which show the blurry faces gawking behind their living relatives. The concept is at the same time silly and potentially spooky: the problem is, spooky photos have already been done to death in the past 30 years, ever since THE OMEN; and the original RINGU has reminded us of that as well. Imperfections of the eye and the secrets hidden in the grainy images were suitable bases for films ranging from Antonioni’s artsy BLOW OUT to some great movies by Dario (DEEP RED) Argento and Brian (DRESSED TO KILL) de Palma.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Movie Review : House Of Wax

Bring back the older movie “House on Haunted Hill” and Thir13en Ghost”, in remake features HOUSE OF WAX. A story goes long with the frustrated insane professor who propagated a wax museum in an unusual manner, The real man encased and captured in a wax and bringing out the artistic and natural figures. Story beyond along with the group of friends and as lovers. A set of two twins one is Carly and Nick Jones (Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Micheal Murray) the main character in the scene.Having with twin gap because of this Nick blame her twin sister Carly whom he sent him in to a bail, the other cast Jared Padalecki : Wade , Paris Hilton : Page Edwards, Jon Abrahams: John Chapman, Robert Richard : Blake, Damon Herriman : Lester. Supposedly finding their way shortcut to football leauge turns to way shortcut in their death ends.


This should be a Happy road trip when friends got stranded, While looking for a gas station, Carly and her ill fated boyfriend discover a backwater town. the town still seems centered around its once infamous House of Wax. Never know at first that house of wax was a house for man's figures meat. But still all the characters in this movie turn to a images of wax. Still this Carly and Nick fighting to survive out with this hell house.


The ghoulish exhibits within are the work of a reclusive wax maker named Vincent. It's no spoiler to anyone familiar with the 1953 Vincent Price original. This was a very Freaky yet amazing effects horror movie.