FrightFest

Comedy accented irish, more like.

That just added to the charm for me.

"I am alpha male" heheheh

G-house, it's always risky to say you think that people like something for reasons other than they liked it. (Except those people with an Anti-Boll tendency of course). Everyone to their gout as they say in France. I can see why spiral's not for everyone and the things that I liked about it would tu...

Looked fun but I thought the days of directors saying "it's not really a horror film" had gone

This film was a reasonable attempt at a video diary of the damned tale. A couple of sequences were overlong, and the reasons for filming in certain circumstances not too clear. Warning: EVIL Scousers ! I often find these sorts of things unrealistic and most of the performances were as naturalistic a...

This was another one of those films that started well but lost its way in the denouement. Atmospheric and ghostly scenes often lose their power in the explanation and this was a case of the paranormal replacing the psychological to the detriment of the film. After a road accident seems to be caused ...

Possibly just being bloody-minded (or perhaps over-bloodied during the course of the weekend) this was my number one favourite film of the weekend (It's a very close contest). Pretty much a two-hander between Joel David Moore (Mason) and Amber Tamblyn (Amber), with back up from Zachary Levi as Mason...

We'd seen this before so opted out of a repeat so we could get some food. What I thought of it was, more of the same from the Night Watch team, perhaps better over all, but defined too much by the good and bad (light and dark) lines where the first film blurred them. A lot of potential was apparentl...

(El Orfanato) This was brilliant. Joint first with Spiral as my film of the weekend. An atmospheric haunted house tale like the original Haunting (with a bit of Most Haunted Poltergeist thrown in to the middle, just for fun). Another one of them child actors who makes a scary movie more believable a...

Excellent fun. From the trailer I had dubbed this Ocean's Eleven meets Evil Dead 2. From the trailer I had dubbed this Ocean's Eleven meets Severance, but add in some Shaun of the Dead and Evil Dead 2. Stephen Dorff's timing was spot on in what is basically a whitehall farce with evil Russian (Irish...

Well that was nothing much.
Reminded me of that TV ghost series Supernatural.
An overblown "he is the Golden Child" story, poor werewolf make up, and a very cliched "Bad Wolf" team taken from the Near Dark meets Underworld shelf of the straight to video library.

WΔz not waz. (Okay, let's call it "WAZ") A very Se7enish noir, where Stellan Skarsgard takes the detective role with by the books rookie played by Melissa George and dodgy cop colleague John Sharian. Local thugs start to turn up with their loved ones dead. The police are not too concerned ...

I laughed at that duck thing before anyone else. It is an old friend that joke :) I found Uwe Boll a very engaging chap, which did more to endear his films to me than all that internet business. Postal Okay. Part one of the Uwe Boll controversy, I was unaware of his work and his receipt of such hatr...

Yes he did. There is something much more entertaining in stunts that go wrong. Even bad ones. Hilarious Kiwi tribute to the great stunt riders. DICK Johansonson brings unwanted protege Randy Campbell into his team, the Te Puke Hellriders. Of course he's jealous of a potential rival. The bad stunts a...

Hitchcock tribute act. I was predisposed to dislike Lebeouf because of his comedy sidekick role in Constanteen, but he's very good in this. It is a basic Children's Film Foundation reworking of Rear Window with american teen heroes. The house arrest thing seems a bit contrived - what if there's a fi...

I've not seen the first one (but will probably check it out now). The true appeal of this film can be summed up with the following equation: Henry Rollins = Stallone/Schwarzenegger Other than Rollins as the ex army TV "Reality" survival host (if you've seen Fort Boyard then you will know t...