Tag: movie

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Directed by George A. Romero.  Written by Romero and John Russo.  Starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman and Kyra Schon. Plot: a group of people board themselves up inside a farmhouse when they "zombie" apocalypse breaks out In 1968, a legend was born and the zombie as we know him today came … Continue reading Night of the Living Dead (1968) →

Episode 50 (2011)

Directed by Joe and Tess Smalley.  Written by the Smalleys and Ian Holt.  Starring Josh Folan, Chris Perry, Natalie Wetta and Kieron Elliott. Plot: 2 TV crews team up for a special episode of a paranormal TV show Me and DJ generally love the "inspecting haunted asylum" movies.  Not sure why, but we do.  We … Continue reading Episode 50 (2011) →

Absentia (2011)

Written and directed by Mike Flanagan.  Starring Catherine Parker, Courtney Bell, Doug Jones, Dave Levine and Justin Gordon. Plot: 2 sisters discover that a tunnel is the link to several disappearances This movie is very hard to describe.  It's sort of part crime drama, part horror film which is why DJ didn't really like it.  … Continue reading Absentia (2011) →

Bait (2012)

Directed by Kimble Rendall.  Written by John Kim and Russell Mulcahy.  Starring Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon, Sharni Vinson, Dan Wyllie, Phoebe Tonkin and Lincoln Lewis. Plot: a freak tsunami strands shoppers in an Australian supermarket with a hungry Great White shark In a supermarket, clerks, shoppers, thieves, cops and a couple who just wants to … Continue reading Bait (2012) →

Needful Things (1993)

Directed by Fraser C. Heston.  Screenplay written by W.D. Richter, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.  Starring Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer, Don S. Davis and Lochlyn Munro. Plot: a strange shopkeeper comes to town with seemingly everything everyone needs, but the prices are … Continue reading Needful Things (1993) →

Blood Beach (1981)

Directed by Jeffrey Bloom.  Written by Jeffrey and Steven Nalevansky.  Starring John Saxon, Burt Young, David Huffman, Marianna Hill and Otis Young. Plot: people are baffled when victims are sucked into the sand by some creature living underneath So this is a very unintentionally funny movie about a sand monster that sucks people down and … Continue reading Blood Beach (1981) →

Blood Rage (1987)

Directed by John Grissmer.  Written by Bruce Rubin.  Starring Mark Soper, Louise Lasser and Marianna Kanter. Plot: 10 years after a murder, an institutionalized twin comes home and more murders begin Todd and Terry are twins.  Terry is a psychopath who kills someone at a very young age and then framed Todd for it.  So, … Continue reading Blood Rage (1987) →

High Tension (2003)

Directed by Alexandre Aja.  Written by Aja and Gregory Levsseur.  Starring Cecile De France, Maiwenn, Andrei Finti and Oana Pellea. Plot: best friends decide to spend the weekend at one's parents house but end up in a weekend of terror DJ and I watched this one twice hoping it would get better the second time … Continue reading High Tension (2003) →

Cell (2016)

Directed by Tod Williams.  Written by Adam Alleca and Stephen King.  Based on King's novel of the same name.  Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson and Isabelle Fuhrman. Plot: a mysterious cell phone signal causes people to become zombie-like - Clay, Tom and Alice fight to survive In order to truly allow you to know … Continue reading Cell (2016) →

Carriers (2009)

Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor.  Starring Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp. Plot: when a virus has wiped out most of humanity, 2 brothers and 2 girls set out to elude the pandemic Chris Pine is a dick who drives himself, his brother, his girlfriend and another friend … Continue reading Carriers (2009) →