Mirai You know, it's rare for me to start off a review just by bluntly saying what I thought about a movie, but I think I'm going to make an exception here. Because this movie was just plain delightful and I loved it. Now, before I start talking about this thing, I probably ought... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Penguin Highway
Penguin Highway You know, it’s really fairly rare for me to go into a movie with absolutely no idea what to expect. After all, in this information age of the internet and trailers and twitter news and so on and so forth, by the time a certain movie comes out I usually have at... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 10: The Fog
The Fog Premise: A mysterious fog rolls in on a secluded harbour town and weird things begin happening in its wake. Electrical equipment starts malfunctioning, washed up flotsam starts leaking water even when dried and ghost lepers start murdering people with hooks. Oh yeah, ghost lepers are a thing. And they're feeling pretty homicidal. Better... Continue Reading →
SoC&C: Scrapping and Sidekicking (Part 1)
As far as 11yo Tiff Murdoch was concerned, the Free City of New Haven was like a gigantic stew. Specifically, it was like the stew that Tiff and her mother had once made when money was especially tight and all they had left in the larder were a few varied scraps of leftovers of questionable... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 9: The Orphanage
Day 9: The Orphanage Premise: Intending to set up a school for different-abled children, a young woman returns to her old orphanage with her husband and their adopted son. However, things take a turn for the weird when their son starts claiming to see ghostly children, including a boy with a sack mask over his... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 8: Alice
Day 8: Alice (1988) Premise: A retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland story, with a mixture of live-action and stop-motion puppetry. Also kinda fucked up. Thoughts: Well, once again it looks like we have another unintentional three-in-a-row, although this time it's animated movies… kinda? Technically, Alice (or Neco ze Alenky to use its... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 7: Seoul Station
Day 7: Seoul Station Premise: A zombie outbreak breaks... well... out in Seoul, Korea. In the middle of the usual bitey chaos, a man hunts for his runaway prostitute daughter as the city falls apart around them. But as the situation grows more and more desperate and more and more truths are revealed, could it... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 6: Scooby Doo & the Gourmet Ghost
Day 6: Scooby Doo and the Gourmet Ghost Premise: It's a Scooby Doo movie. What exactly do you think is going to happen? Gang go to place, find place is haunted, split up and look for clues, get chased around by a ghost and then find and unmask the bad guy. S'not exactly complex. Thoughts:... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 5: Venom
Day 5: Venom Premise: Sony still somehow thinks they can make their own Cinematic Universe with just Spider-Man properties. Now with more Tom Hardy. Thoughts: Huh. Well, that was certainly a thing. You know, it’s kinda funny. I made a big deal at the end of yesterday’s entry about how and why I should... Continue Reading →
31 Horror Movies in 31 Days- Day 4: Audition
Day 4: Audition Premise: An aged widower is convinced by his son to try and find a new love. He is convinced by a friend to hold an 'audition' for his new wife by interviewing various different women. While the audition is initially a bust, he does meet an interesting young woman with a tragic past,... Continue Reading →