Sponsor |  marginalprophet | Nov 2, 2004 7:09am | WHITE NOISE
(PG-13, 101 mins) Michael Keaton is competently oppressed and obsessed as a big-city architect and father whose pretty, younger wife (Chandra West) dies. (The film has nothing to do with Don DeLillo's acclaimed novel.) TV snow and a mistuning of the radio somehow opens a portal into the Great Beyond, and before long, Keaton is a sleep-deprived wreck of a man who spends every waking hour in front of a battery of video monitors looking for signs of his deceased wife. Another scary movie riding the jump-in-your-seat bandwagon.
DARKNESS
(R, 134 mins) A teenage girl (Anna Paquin) moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
BLADE: TRINITY
(PG-13, 103 mins) Wesley Snipes returns for the third installment of the vampire hunter franchise. This time Dracula is on the scene, and Blade must team up with his mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), Whistler's daughter (Jessica Biel) and her entourage, the Nightstalkers, to defeat him.
SAW
(R, 100 mins) Two men chained to pipes with a corpse lying between them form the basis for this taut, psychological nail-biter. A serial killer is responsible, and director James Wan creates suspense by withholding information as it becomes clear that only one man will survive.
SEED OF CHUCKY
(R, 87 mins) Chucky creator and main screenwriter Don Mancini gets to sit in the director's chair for the franchise that gives Brad Dourif lots of voiceover work and allows Jennifer Tilly to continue to describe herself as a "working actress." |
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|  bullwinkle | Jan 15, 2005 7:56pm | | White noise----can't wait |
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Sponsor | | dragonhead | Jan 16, 2005 4:35am | | White Noise looks interesting, but I worry that it's just going to be another cheap Ringu rip-off. |
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Sponsor | | marginalprophet | Jan 29, 2005 9:16am | THE RING TWO
(PG-13, 111 mins) Hideo Nakata directed the Japanese blockbusters that spawned their American counterparts, but The Ring Two is entirely unrelated to Ringu's sequel. Mom Rachel (Naomi Watts) and her supernaturally sensitive son Aidan (David Dorfman) have relocated to a picturesque coastal town in Oregon in an effort to escape the curse that chased them out of Seattle. Now the tape is back in circulation, and Samara, the ghost behind all the mayhem, is mad as hell because of Rachel's attempts to destroy it. Not content to do her dirty deeds within the context of VHS, Samara decides to mess with Rachel's kid. Thus, Nakata rather jarringly shifts the movie in the direction of The Exorcist or The Omen, as the boy grows increasingly detached and begins facilitating Samara's evil plans. In the service of a plot that's increasingly nonsensical, Nakata offers several set pieces that are dazzling, and all sorts of odds and sods.
CURSED
(PG-13, 96 mins) This SCREAM-like werewolf movie has a troubled history. It's dated 2004 because it went back for reshoots and cast changes. The Scream team of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven had to practically start over from scratch. Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg play an estranged brother and sister in LA who are brought together by a werewolves curse.
CONSTANTINE
(R, 117 mins) Demon hunting with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz. Based on the darkly addictive Vertigo comic book Hellblazer, Constantine uses Los Angeles allegorically as the penultimate battleground between God and the Devil.
BOOGEYMAN
(PG-13, 86 mins) Young Tim sees his dad sucked into a closet after a bedtime-story session meant to induce nightmares. Now an adult (Barry Watson, "7th Heaven"), he's advised by a therapist to stay in his old house after his mother (Lucy Lawless) dies in order to face his fears of being sucked into a closet himself. If Tim had gotten a second opinion, this movie might not have been made. With Emily Deschanel.
ALONE IN THE DARK
(R, 96 mins) A would-be supernatural thriller assembled with an eye for frenetic visuals by German-born filmmaker Uwe Boll, director of the teen-oriented House of the Dead and Heart of America. A self-described paranormal investigator (Christian Slater) and archaeologist (Tara Reid) battle with lightning-fast dragon/lizard creatures and zombies. Based on the video game.
HIDE AND SEEK
(R, 89 mins) Robert DeNiro plays a doctor who moves to upstate New York after his wife's death and tries to pay more attention to his daughter (Dakota Fanning), but her "imaginary" friend Charlie has already decided she has all of the supervision she needs. Directed by John Polson (Swimfan).
THE GRUDGE
(PG-13, 96 mins) Takeshi Shimizu's Americanization of his recent, popular Japanese horror blockbuster is rooted in a familiar convention of fright films: multiple, oddly staged murders that are the result of restless spirits. Something awful happened three years ago in a modest home in Tokyo, and payback is hellish -- and scary. |
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| | | RedNPink | Mar 25, 2005 3:19pm | | Constantine was a terrible disappointment in the end. |
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Sponsor | | dragonhead | Apr 12, 2005 12:16am | | Anything with Keanu Reeves in it is going to be rubbish, IMO. |
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| | | dementia | Apr 12, 2005 9:32am | | My friend recommended that I see "Saw". Has anyone here watched it? |
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| | kidethekid | Apr 12, 2005 11:18am | | watched it, nothing special psyho killer triller crap. |
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Sponsor | | dragonhead | Apr 12, 2005 2:33pm | | Saw is derivative rubbish. I gave up halfway through. I gather that there's some sort of plot "twist", but I couldn't be bothered to wait around for it.....yawn. |
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Sponsor | | marginalprophet | Apr 14, 2005 10:50pm | disclaimer: New Releases are what come to the cinema movie house big screen. The next two are not really new in any other way (Amityville Horror 1979/House of Wax 1953).
HOUSE OF WAX -- Prey. Slay. Display.
(R, 86 mins) A group of college friends end up in an abandoned small town where two brothers run the area's main attraction - the House of Wax. Guess what's under the wax (shades of chainsaw, roger corman, motel hell and tourist trap). What's with co-producer Robert Zemeckis? Doesn't seem to belong on his list of credits. Shelf next to House on Haunted Hill under "Films to disturb the ghost of Vincent."
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
(R, 100 mins) The Lutzes move into a house where a man murdered his family several years before. The house apparently does not want them to stay. With Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George.
amityvillehorrormovie.com [amityvillehorrormovie.com] |
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