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(Originally posted on November 25th) So I’ve been desperate for a good new drama show to watch. Breaking Bad is over for the season. Mad Men seems like it’s still a million years away. I’ve pretty much written off Dexter and True Blood. I don’t like Sons of Anarchy. I …
Martyrs – Directed by Pascal Laugier I’ve already written about this movie. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately though, so I thought I’d throw up a couple of shots from it.
Eden Lake – Directed by James Watkins I remember reading once that there were only three types of conflict in any story. Man vs Man, Man vs Nature and Man vs Himself. While I suppose this would fall under “Man vs Man” I feel like there should be a subcategory: “Man …
The Descent, directed by Neil Marshall I wasn’t super crazy about the movie itself. I enjoyed it a little when it came out, and I liked it better the second time I watched it (with the original ending). But it never really grabbed me. It definitely had some neat imagery in it, …
Let the Right One In Let Me In I actually quite enjoyed Let Me In, and in some ways I liked it more than Let the Right One In. They were both great for different reasons and they both brought their own flavor to the story.
Eyes Without a Face Fact: When the film appeared in the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1960 it was reported that seven audience members fainted during the surgery scene. Director Georges Franju responded “Now I know why Scotsmen wear skirts.”
So I thought I had a pretty good handle on the whole Frankenstein book vs movie thing. I know I read the book when I was a kid, and I’ve seen more than a few different Frankenstein movies over the years. I remembered reading the book when I was in …
So this is one of those movies. One of those movies that people talk and talk and talk about. One of those movies that, for someone interested in the horror genre, is bound to come up in conversation at some point or another, whether the people talking have seen it or …
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