13: Game of Death (2006)
(2 votes)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
Chukiat Sakveerakul
Cast:
Krissada Terrence,
Achita Wuthinounsurasit,
Sarunyu Wongkrachang,
Nattapong Arunnate,
Alexander Rendel,
Achita Sikamana,
Penpak Sirikul This is an overlooked Thai film that I didn't realize was worth a damn until recently when news of its sequel broke out. After reading several positive comments on the first film, I decided to finally give it a look. To my surprise, this turned out to be a good movie -- it's creative and interesting from start to finish. Also known as 13 Beloved, the film follows a broke and down-on-his-luck guy, who receives a mysterious phone call from some sort of game show that says if he kills a fly he will win money. He immediately dismisses such an appalling idea, until the person on the other line reveals information about him that no one else would know. He kills the fly and receives a notification on his phone that money has just been deposited into his account. [read more]
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28 Days Later (2002)
(8 votes)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
Danny Boyle
Cast:
Cillian Murphy,
Naomie Harris,
Megan Burns,
Brendan Gleeson,
Noah Huntley There have been a lot of positive buzz about this UK horror film. I got a chance to check it out myself and I really enjoyed it. Good plot and gets you hooked from the beginning. The plot obviously isn't too original, but it's still good. It's pretty much about a new virus that breaks out in London and in a matter of weeks the city is forced to evacuate. 28 days after the virus breaks out a man named Jim awakens to find himself in a hospital room. He roams around the city to find that there is no one in sight. He learns from reading newspapers that the city had to evacuate because of a virus. [read more]
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28 Weeks Later (2007) (9 votes)
Rating #:
8/10
Director:
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast:
Jeremy Renner,
Robert Carlyle,
Rose Byrne,
Harold Perrineau,
Catherine McCormack,
Imogen Poots,
Idris Elba,
Mackintosh Muggleton [read more]
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2LDK (2002)
(1 vote)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Cast:
Maho Nonami,
Eiko Koike This, much like Living Hell, is a low-budget film that shopped around for distribution for a while before finally getting a US DVD debut. This movie is part of the Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus) team-up with their Duel-Films company that was originally just a small idea amongst colleagues that turned into reality after a few meetings together. The two talented directors had an idea to make their own film that basically shows nothing more than specific characters dueling it out. Ryuhei Kitamura came out with Aragami while Yukihiko came out with 2LDK, which essentially has only two people in the entire film, with the exception of another character who's only a supporting role that's shown in certain flash sequences. [read more]
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30 Days of Night (2007)
(7 votes)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
David Slade
Cast:
Josh Hartnett,
Melissa George,
Danny Huston,
Ben Foster,
Craig Hall,
Manu Bennett,
Danny Huston [read more]
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A Blood Pledge (2009)
(1 vote)
Rating #:
4/10
Director:
Jong-yong Lee
Cast:
Eun-seo Son,
Kyeong-ah Jang,
Yeon-seo Oh,
Min-jeong Song,
Shin-ae Yu South Korea is never in short of ghost flicks and A Blood Pledge is no different than what us Asian horror vets have already seen. Also known as Whispering Corridors 5, the film has no connection to the previous installments aside from the fact that they all revolve around a ghost in an all girl's school. In this movie the story revolves around a group of girls, whom decide to get together one night and perform a suicide pact, where they would all jump off the school's roof together. Naturally only one of the students actually goes through with it, leaving the rest having to deal with the dead girl's pesky ghost. [read more]
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A Night to Dismember (1983)
(1 vote)
Rating #:
1/10
Director:
Doris Wishman
Cast:
Samantha Fox,
Diane Cummins,
Saul Meth,
Miriam Meth,
William Szarka,
Chris Smith,
Dee Cummins,
Norman Main,
Mary Lomay,
Rita Rogers Its been a long time since I last gave a movie a 1-rating, but A Night to Dismember certainly deserves it. With its horrible editing, script, directing, acting, and even dubbing, exploitation director Doris Wishman surely exceeds herself when it comes to making crappy films. Born in 1920 Doris Wishman didn't hit the film scene until the 60s with cheesy nudies and eventually exploitation flicks. Though, by the time Dismember was released the exploitation scene went more mainstream, leading this mess without proper distribution. [read more]
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A Perfect Getaway (2009)
(5 votes)
Rating #:
6/10
Director:
David Twohy
Cast:
Steve Zahn,
Timothy Olyphant,
Milla Jovovich,
Kiele Sanchez,
Marley Shelton,
Chris Hemsworth I’m not quite sure what kind of movie the filmmakers behind A Perfect Getaway were trying to make. Is it supposed to be a slow burning horror film? A plot twist filled mystery thriller mixed with a bizarre comedic element? A beginners guide to screenplay structure? Or maybe an excuse for the cast and crew to get a free trip to Hawaii? Me thinks a little of everything. In any event, A Perfect Getaway is a mixed bag of good and bad, but damn does it look pretty. [read more]
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Aerobicide (1986)
(1 vote)
Rating #:
4/10
Director:
David A. Prior
Cast:
Marcia Karr,
David James Campbell,
Fritz Matthews,
Ted Prior,
Teresa Van der Woude,
Richard Bravo,
Dianne Copeland,
Laurel Mock,
Lynn Meighan,
Teresa Truesdale,
Denise Martell,
Michael Beck [read more]
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Alien Raiders (2009)
(4 votes)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
Ben Rock
Cast:
Rockmond Dunbar, Carlos Bernard, Courtney Ford, Mathew St. Patrick, Bonita Friedericy, Samantha Streets, Tom Kiesche, Joseph Steven Yang, Haley Pullos, Bryan Krasner, Philip Newby Originally titled Supermarket and Inhuman, before settling on Alien Raiders, this is the latest installment in the Raw Feed straight-to-DVD horror line from Warner Bros.. Most of the films from the banner have been mediocre at best, but they finally got some things right with [read more]
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reading several positive comments on the first film, I decided to finally give it a look. To my surprise, this turned out to be a good movie -- it's creative and interesting from start to finish. Also known as 13 Beloved, the film follows a broke and down-on-his-luck guy, who receives a mysterious phone call from some sort of game show that says if he kills a fly he will win money. He immediately dismisses such an appalling idea, until the person on the other line reveals information about him that no one else would know. He kills the fly and receives a notification on his phone that money has just been deposited into his account.
slow burning horror film? A plot twist filled mystery thriller mixed with a bizarre comedic element? A beginners guide to screenplay structure? Or maybe an excuse for the cast and crew to get a free trip to Hawaii? Me thinks a little of everything. In any event, A Perfect Getaway is a mixed bag of good and bad, but damn does it look pretty. 


