Horror Movie Project

After a number of requests I had to give in and watch Night of the Demons from 1988. This movie is the definition of an Eighties horror movie through and through; it has an awesome soundtrack, hilarious one liners, terrible outfits, cheesy special effects, dorky dudes, and hot chicks galore. The movie is not very creepy, but it is really fun. It would make a perfect addition to any Halloween party playlist. The movie stars Amelia Kinkade, Lance Fenton, and the hot scream queen Linnea Quigley. The acting in the movie is by no means good, but that adds to the charm. Its not supposed to be any good. The characters are all pretty typical too; every high school stereotype is represented: the tough guy, the token black guy, the goth, the slut, the nerd, the dick, the jock, the princess, the hot girl, and well the other jock... It was kind of like the Breakfast Club of horror films. The story is simple, a group of teens decide to have a party at a crazy house on Halloween. They...

This is a remake of the 1924 Austrian film The Hands of Orlac. This movie is the American film debut of acting great Peter Lorre, and unfortunately the last film directed by Karl Freund (The Golem, Metropolis, and The Mummy). Many film enthusiasts consider this movie to be Freund's Citizen Kane. This film is more fleshed out than the 1924 original, and features some spectacular performances by Peter Lorre and the beautiful Frances Drake. The film is full of suspense and mystery and delivers some really creepy parts via Lorre's character and his obsession with Ms. Drake's character Yvonne Orlac. He keeps a wax mannequin of her around so that he can comfortably confess his love or whatever. The film centers around Dr. Gogol (Lorre) who longs for the affections of Yvonne (Drake). Yvonne is married to a composer and pianist named Steven Orlac. At least he was a pianist before being injured in a train wreck where his hands were completely destroyed. Dr. Gogol, at...

Tobe Hooper does a great job of taking a weird backwoods redneck and turning him into a wild, weapon wielding, crazy, dancing psycho. The movie as a whole is terrible but he does a good job of directing veteran actor Neville Brand. The cast is made up of actors from many different walks of Hollywood: Neville Brand is the veteran actor here and in my opinion completely discredits his entire filmography by appearing in this movie; Mel Ferrer gives a forgettable and dry performance; Marilyn Burns stars right along side Neville Brand, she worked with Hooper previously on Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I don't like the acting in this movie, it all comes off as incredibly forced. I think that Hooper tried to pull a larger and older audience into the theater by hiring actors from the 50's and 60's like Ferrer, Brand, Caroline Jones, and Stuart Whitman, but the greatest actor in the movie would have to be Robert Englund (sorry...its not the croc). So the plot goes something lik...

The opening scene of this film sets the feel for the entire movie. You have a girl running through the woods, this girl is being chased by zombies. Sounds pretty standard. Except these zombies are wearing Nazi SS uniforms. Wait, did you say Nazi zombies? Yes. Throw in a really awesome use of the song In the Hall of the Mountain King and you have one kick ass opening sequence.   The concept for this movie may actually be cooler than the movie itself. Nazi zombies. They just look bad ass. I'm not condoning the actions of the National Socialist Party, but they really knew how to dress. I don't know who their fashion consultant was but he really knew how to design an iconic uniform. The story is about a group of young adults that are vacationing in a cabin in the snowy mountains of Øksfjord. Everything seems to be going honky-dory until they are attacked by Nazi zombies (that'll ruin anyone's vacation). Isolated twentysomethings + monster is the basic storyline ...

Hostel 2 is a really good movie through and through. I think that the film transcends that of a normal hack and slash horror film and adds depth and great cinematography to an already awesome premise. Plus you get an ass ton of blood and guts, boobs and butts, and even a smidgen of comedy. On the acting side you get Bijou Phillips, Lauren German, and for some reason Heather Matarazzo. Then you have a couple of dudes: Roger Bart and Richard Burgi. These five actors make up the main cast of characters. There are returning actors like the Bubblegum Gang who are always there to wreak some weird pre-teen havoc onto anyone falling off of the beaten path, and Jay Hernandez who makes a cameo to show what happens to people who escape from the Elite Hunting Club. Overall the acting is not bad and the dialog is littered with fast witty banter so you actually develop some kind of affection for these characters. The story of this film is very similar to its predecessor; the ...

Watching Japanese horror is similar to watching British comedy. If you enjoy dry whit then you probably enjoy the boys of Monty Python in drag. That's the joke, they're dressed like women. Get it? Well, that's British humor. But if you're like most Americans you probably prefer Adam Sandler farting his way across a football field and hooking up with chicks that are way out of his league. Americans usually prefer this more in your face, crass brand of humor. My point is funny in England is different from funny in the US. The same goes for J-Horror. What the Japanese consider scary is very different from what Americans consider scary and it shows in this horror film. Japanese horror is generally slow (a little too slow sometimes), suspenseful and creepy. Ju-On is a creepy effing film. The movie has almost no soundtrack. It is incredibly suspenseful and the pay-offs are pretty awesome, but I think that it was done better in the American version (cultural t...

This is the most disgusting movie I have ever seen. When I watched Hostel in the theater I actually dry heaved during one of the scenes, but while watching this movie I was dry heaving almost the entire time. Tom Six has successfully directed a film that will easily find a place in the "Gross-Out" category of horror film making. This movie is right up there with movies like Cannibal Holocaust and Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. So you have a doctor who wants to create a Human Centipede. To accomplish this task first he collects three victims and then preforms ass to mouth surgery joining them all together. If you haven't seen the movie I just want you to go ahead and picture what that would look like. It is disgusting and it doesn't seem like it would work but Tom Six assures everyone that the movie is 100% medically accurate. The movie doesn't really have any "Gory" scenes, it is all pretty much just left up to your mind. One scene that ...