A gang of soldiers hear about a sanctuary from the living dead. It’s called Plum Island but unfortunately there’s a family feud dividing it. One family wants to exterminate the zombies, the other wants to peacefully live alongside them. What to do… This was George’s last film before his death. This is Romero attempting to …
Continue reading George A Romero Reviewed- Day 17- Survival of the Dead (2009)
George A Romero’s 2007 zombie flick and a concept that involves the found footage of a film student assembled into a movie by one of the film’s other characters. All of the movie is shot on camcorders and other similar devices available at the time commercially. This found footage chronicles a group of film studies …
Continue reading George A Romero Reviewed- Day 16- Diary of the Dead (2007)
Land of the Dead is George A Romero’s next instalment in the Dead series after 1985’s pedestrian and plodding Day of the Dead. This involves the human race who are still at the mercy of a world overrun by the undead and now being split into the ordinary folk who are forced to live in …
Continue reading George A Romero Reviewed- Day 15- Land of the Dead (2005)
Henry Creedlow has some very toxic people in his life- his wife is having an affair with his boss, his best friend is vile and stealing his investments …even his pet poodle hates him. Then he wakes up to find that his face has been replaced by a featureless white mask. He uses this newly …
Continue reading George A Romero Reviewed- Day 14- Bruiser (2000)
‘Officer Melanie and Sergeant Jericho travel to a mining outpost to transport a prisoner. On arriving, they realise that demons of an ancient Martian civilisation have possessed the entire colony.’ I had heard so many dreadful things about this film- that the dialogue was terrible (it’s not too bad), that the special effects are awful …
Continue reading John Carpenter Reviewed- Day 20- Ghosts of Mars (2001)
A Dirty Shame concerns Sylvia Stickles, a sexually repressed and frigid woman. That's until she sustains a concussion during an accident and becomes horny beyond all expectations. I hated A Dirty Shame when I saw it on its first release. Twenty years later and I find a DVD copy of the film selling for 50 …
Continue reading John Waters Reviewed- Day 11- A Dirty Shame (2004)
Five teens are travelling from Mexico to Dallas for a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert when the hitchhiker they pick up blows her brains out in their van. They then go to report it but encounter ‘the family’ on the way. If you're travelling to go and see Lynyrd Skynyrd rather than Lou Reed in the early …
Continue reading The Texas Chainsaw Massscre Reviewed- Day 5- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
You heard the one about the horror franchise that goes from interesting straight to video fare to a multi-million dollar remake starring the hottest up and coming actors and took a shed load of money at the box office? That’s what happened in 2005 with the original film being remade with Ryan ‘Tranmere Rovers’ Reynolds …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 9- The Amityville Horror (2005)
Laurie is sent to hospital straight after the events of the first film. The film then flashes forward to see how Laurie, Annie, Dr Loomis and, of course, Michael are doing. How do you include your actress wife in a film even though her character was killed in the last movie? You bring her back …
Continue reading Halloween Reviewed- Day 10- Halloween 2 (2009)
Halloween is Rob Zombie’s origin story of what made Michael Myers, erm, Michael Myers. This lasts about 40 minutes, and then we see the events of the original film through Zombie’s eyes. Apparently, John Carpenter told Zombie to make the film his way and make it his own. And he does (my eyes are rolling …
Continue reading Halloween Reviewed- Day 9- Halloween (2007)
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