Fright Night (2011)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


Like many other fans, I hate remakes and especially the idea of a Fright Night remake. Despite that fact, I still try to see these films with somewhat of an open mind, especially if the original had room for improvement. Fright Night, however, I thought was perfectly fine the way it was, but naturally the studio thought otherwise. Either way, I went in with low expectations and came out rather surprised and pleased at how much of an entertaining flick it turned out to be.

Although the movie kept the general theme of its predecessor, and aside from the characters, some of the dialogue and a similar scene or two, this remake is pretty much an entirely different film, which is a plus in my book. If you're not familiar with the source material, Fright Night tells the story of a young man, who suspects his new neighbor (Colin Farrell) is a vampire and the cause of all the disappearances in their small community.
Pitch Black (2000)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


Blade (1998)

REVIEWER RATING: 
8/10


Insidious (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10

After the disappointing Dead Silence, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell team up with the Paranormal Activity producers to deliver one of the more creative and genuinely creepy theatrical releases in years. Having said that, the film unfortunately loses a lot of its atmosphere and creepiness towards the end thanks to the fact that it shows the audience entirely too much, losing its simplicity and resulting in a mish-mash of several scares and ideas thrown together with little effect.

The story revolves around a young family that move into a new home, where one of the sons mysteriously falls into a coma and strange, seemingly paranormal incidents occur following the boy's comatose state. Thinking the house may be haunted, the wife attempts to confide in her husband, who naturally shrugs it off. That is, until one night where the wife is attacked by a malevolent spirit, which also triggers a series of other events that convinces the family to finally GTFO.
Julia's Eyes (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
6/10


Vampires (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
5/10

Vampires is a Belgium mockumentary that revolves around a documentary crew that follow an odd family of bloodsuckers as they detail their lives and reveal the ins and outs of their strict vampire society. This is a film that I seriously wanted to like, but I just could not get into it at all. The concept is great and innovative, but the execution has A LOT of room for improvement and the pacing is set to a crawl and unfortunately never improves.

Described as a "comedy" the movie even failed to get even the slightest chuckle out of me. Sure there were certain scenes or gags that seemed as though they would be funny to some people, but I personally didn't find them or any other aspects of the movie funny at all. Those expecting any kind of standard vamp violence will be sorely disappointed, as well. Aside from one great scene where a group of vampires raid a home and feed off a number of the residents, the remainder of the pic jus has the family talking in front of the camera about how they live and the people in their lives.
Priest (2011)

REVIEWER RATING: 
6/10


Based on the Korean graphic novel with the same name, Priest is the latest flick from director Scott Stewart. If you've seen Stewarts previous effort, Legion, then you pretty much know what to expect from Priest, especially considering it also stars actor Paul Bettany, who once again plays an all-around badass unstoppable character. I've only read the first graphic novel several years ago, so I can't really compare the two, but one doesn't necessarily need to know the source material to realize that the movie has changed quite a bit of the storyline.

The film is set in an alternate future, where war between vampires and humans have been going on for centuries, which eventually leads to the construction of walled cities controlled by the Church. The war against the bloodsuckers had been a futile one until the Church created an army of skilled warrior Priests that can outthink and combat the vampires accordingly. They eventually wiped out the vampire race (or so they thought), thus leading the Priests to become pointless and essentially casted off into regular society.
Stake Land (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


The Ward (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
5/10


BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
3/10


After witnessing a miracle with Rampage (a Uwe Boll movie that doesn't completely suck) I was starting to think that maybe he could actually start developing some decent flicks. That's obviously not the case, as made apparent with the latest pointless straight-to-DVD effort known as BloodRayne: The Third Reich, the obvious third and hopefully final installment in the horrible BloodRayne film series. It took literally three movies to get to the point where Rayne actually fought Nazis, which is something that should have been added in the first movie, had Uwe not decided to set it in freakin' medieval times!

The  flick starts off with Rayne slicing and dicing numerous Nazis on a train, and mistakenly has her blood spilled into a Nazi Commander's mouth, naturally turning him into a dhampir-hybrid, similar to Rayne. This offers the Nazis an idea to give the remaining blood to the Fuhrer and also create a new hybrid army of vampires. Meanwhile, Rayne decides to team up with a group of resistance fighters, in hopes of stopping the commander and his men from reaching the Fuhrer's location.

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