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Reel Weekend | 25 April 2008
Horror flick The Eye is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, who proved last year that they could deliver the scary goods with the French shocker Them. Unfortunately they seem to have left everything that made that film so successful in their homeland because The Eye is about as generic as Hollywood horror gets. The movie plays like a Frankenstein's monster of recent horror hits, and the scriptwriters are so aware that this material is utterly derivative that they even include a jokey reference to The Sixth Sense in the dialogue.
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Reel Weekend | 11 April 2008
It made a lot of money back in 1998, but it seems to have taken an entire decade for The Blair Witch Project to have a proper influence on genre cinema. In the past couple of months we’ve had Cloverfield and George Romero’s Diary Of The Dead shaking their handheld cameras in our faces, and now Spanish shocker [Rec] joins the club. One night a fire crew is called to an apartment building where an old lady is apparently trapped in her apartment. Unfortunately the poor dear has turned into a demented contagion-ridden zombie, and when the authorities seal off the entire building our survivors must find another way out.
Reel Weekend | 20 March 2008
The Orphanage is very much in keeping with producer Guillermo del Toro's brand of chiller, which blends visceral shocks with moving character-based drama. It's the story of a couple who decide to reopen an old orphanage, but find their lives torn apart when their adopted son goes missing. In general it relies on a build-up of tension and uncomfortable psychological anguish rather than traditional shocks, however it does contain one of the single best jump-out-your-seat frights since Carrie decided that being buried wasn't much fun after all...
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
The Cottage, directed by Paul Andrew Williams and starring none other than Brookside's Jennifer Ellison, is a worthy entrant to the splatter comedy genre. It fuses broad comedic farce with gory horror thrills, with plenty of limbs getting lopped off, farm implements being put to inappropriate use and shovels through faces. It manages to be a whole lot of fun once it hits its stride...
Movie Review: Diary of the Dead
Reel Weekend | 07 March 2008
Veteran horror filmmaker George A. Romero may not have invented zombies, but he pretty much invented the zombie movie as we know it back in 1966, with his undead classic Night of the Dead. George's now back with the latest in the Dead line of movies, Diary of the Dead. Luckily this isn't the tale of a lovesick, 30-something PR zombie keeping track of how many brains she's eaten in her secret diary – it's a low budget, handheld account of the outbreak of the zombie plague from the point of view of a bunch of irritating students.
Movie Trailers | 18 February 2008
George A. Romero reboots his own series of zombie movies with this low-budget telling of a bunch of college friends trying to get to safety after hearing the news that the dead are returning to life. Told in a similar "found footage" style to Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project, Diary of the Dead looks set to satisfy the crowds of old Romero fans while bringing his apocalyptic vision to a whole new audience.
Movie Review: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Reel Weekend | 15 February 2008
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is the latest in a persistent line of slasher movies hitting our screens, arriving some 30 years since the first Halloween and proving that there's life in the formula yet. Mandy Lane is the gorgeous but chaste new girl at school, and in an attempt to fit in with her peers, agrees to go on a weekend away with them. But someone wants Mandy all to himself, and before long is picking off his rivals...
Movie Review: Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Reel Weekend | 25 January 2008
Tim Burton is no stranger to dark gothic fantasy, neither is he shy about putting his favorite actor Johnny Depp in a lead role. Sweeney Todd is the first time, however, that Burton has matched his flair for the visual with a classic stage musical. In adapting Stephen Sondheim's Broadway classic Burton weaves his usual visual magic to tell the tale of The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who's lust for revenge on those who've wronged him takes the shape of a very close shave and some very special pies.
Movie Trailers | 15 January 2008
Guillermo Del Toro returns to directing Hollywood blockbusters after his oscar-nominated success with Pan's Labyrinth. His sequel to Hellboy sees Ron Perlman return as the red demon with a love of cigars, who along with the rest of his clandestine organisation take on more creeping, crawling demons from the underworld. Luke Goss, better known as one of the twins from 80s pop phenomenon Bros, joins the fun as a long-haired demon overlord.
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie Trailers | 18 December 2007
Jonny Depp and Tim Burton collaborate once again for an adaptation of the classic musical by Stephen Sondheim. Depp is the self-titled Demon Barber of Fleet Street, reaping revenge on those who have wronged him, with Helena Bonham Carter cleaning up the mess by making some very strange-tasting pies.
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