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The Ring

Advantages: casting
Disadvantages: none

...seen, however still very memorable. The plot consists of a journalist investigating a videotape with very disturbing images that may have killed four teenagers, now even through the cheesy plot of a killer video tape, it really drawed me in. The reason she begins to investigate, is one the teenagers that was killed was her niece, after hearing about the urban legend about this killer video tape that after 7 days of watching it you will die. Rachel ...
...the legend is true, she only has seven days to reverse the evil that is now after her, and after her son after he watches the tape. The plot was very different to other horror films, and normally I don’t enjoy horrors as I believe most of them have the same plot over and over again. The director called Gore Verbinski has directed great other films like pirates of the Caribbean 2, the weather man and the Mexican. All other great films of mine, this ...

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You Have Just 7 Days To Live...

Advantages: Lots of scares
Disadvantages: A slow burner

...with no reason. One of the victims is reporter, Rachel Keller’s niece Katie, at the funeral, Rachel (Naomi Watts) begins to find out more about this strange tape from some of Katie’s friends, Katie’s boyfriend Josh watched the tape with her and he died at the exact same time that Katie did, supposedly killing himself. Rachel becomes increasingly curious and thinks that a big story may be brewing for her which will be great for her career, she starts ...
...it. After watching the tape Rachel receives a phone call immediately after informing her that she has only 7 days to live. If that wasn’t bad enough, Rachel’s deeply disturbed son Aidan and ex-boyfriend Noah also end up watching the tape. Rachel has 7 days to save her, her sons and Noah’s lives but with time not on her side she needs to quickly figure out the origin of the tape and why someone or something wants to kill them… I think I first watched ...

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Bore Six

Advantages: Some tension synonomous with the Saw franchise, chilling music
Disadvantages: Lack of plot/ideas, very slow and tedious

...have number 6 in the Saw franchise, this has split public opinion much like John and Edward on X Factor recently, some like the films, some hate them. I too have mixed opinions on the Saw films as I loved the first four yet the fifth and sixth instalments in the series don’t match up to the ingenuity, the nail biting tension or the sheer carnage which we witness behind our hands in the first four. Since 2004 there has been a Saw film released every ...
...I personally feel like 3 Saw films would have been adequate however Saw 4 brought in another dimension to the films which seemed to relight the series and in a way was the first in another trilogy of Saw films. Bringing in a back-story for Jigsaw has become the basis of the most recent three films. Saw 4 did well in establishing the reasons behind Jigsaw’s psychopathic ways but I feel that was enough as Saw 5 brought nothing new to proceedings that ...

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Let's Hear It For Campy British Horror - YAY!

Advantages: Great cast, entertaining, mix of genres
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

The House That Dripped Blood is a camp horror film, which lasts 97 mins and is rated a 12. I bought it from Amazon UK for just £3.98, which I felt was a great price. I have recently got into watching horror – but only the old, classic era ones from the 1970s or earlier, definitely not the modern gore-fests. To me, I like a good cast, traditional horror elements and a fair bit of suspense. I am not interested in huge amounts of blood and on-screen ...
...instead loving the old Vincent Price films and the like. I first heard of The House That Dripped Blood after reading a review of it on Dooyoo by Jake Speed and it sounded just my kind of thing. I was not disappointed. Despite its horrific cover, the film itself is not nearly so frightening. Filmed at Shepperton Studios, it has a stellar mainly-British cast (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Denholm Elliot, Joss Ackland, ...

KarenUK 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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New Moon - New Chapter - New Highs?

Advantages: Sombre Atmosphere, some captivating moments
Disadvantages: Too long, lack of substantial plot

...relatively disappointed by the first Twilight film I vowed I wouldn’t be watching this however when we were late to watch another movie at the cinema this was just about to begin and I was out voted so I ended up enduring another 130 minutes of a film I wasn’t particularly interested in in the first place. This coupled with the fact that I really don’t see what all the fuss is about surrounding Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner (although he does ...
...the next chapter in the Twilight saga. To my surprise though I found myself enjoying the film early on, it’s not a film where an awful lot happens and the storyline leaves much to be desired but the film echoes the atmosphere of the first film with the sombre ambience where Edward and Bella’s relationship shines. This film does take more of a melancholy mood whereas the previous film had opportunities for light-heartedness, with the break-up of Bella ...

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