Horror > Weisz, Martin Horror

Remake of the sequal

Advantages: None at all
Disadvantages: The whole thing

...again we are back into the mind of Wes Craven who it seems is determined to squeeze every last cent out of his old movies by remaking them by remaking the sequal of The Hills Have Eyes. It's bad people doing bad things to innocent people who just happened to wander into the wrong place at the wrong time. I didn't see the original of The Hills Have Eyes & I certainly didn't see the original version of Part 2 either. Right, having said that this is ...
...HAPPEN!". Now we've totally derailed the entire plot for the film anything else that happens along the way is totally and completely pointless. Their Sgt berating them for being such awfully bad trainees then he takes them somewhere where they already know it's dangerous? No, not going to happen. Trained, tried and tested soldiers would be sent. And certainly NOT National Guardsmen. Most definitely NOT trainees either. People are killed far too easily. ...

atytyut2434 20.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (DVD)

The Hills Have Thumbs Down

Advantages: Good special effects and lots of gore
Disadvantages: bad directing, actors and sick plot

...you might have guessed by the title, this movie is a sequel to the 2006 remake of the Hills Have Eyes. I am a very big fan of the first movie but did not feel that this movie was anywhere near the same standard. I don't whether this is because it was directed by Wes Carven this time, but for some reason it just wasn't anywhere near as good. Without comparing it to the first film though I still think that it is quite a good film, definitely not the ...
...was going to be roughly the same plot as the first movie with the mutants coming down from the hills and killing anyone that comes into their territory which was right except from this time it was a different family living in the mines; but as well as that they also take women for breeding to try and get their numbers back up which I though was pretty sick. I thought the rape scene in the first movie was a bit unnecessary, but this is even worse ...

justinscartoons 08.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (DVD)

So a bunch of eejits go camping, eh

Advantages: Funny at times
Disadvantages: Badly directed, nothing happens for most of film

Legal systems across the world and especially in the U.S.A. are notorious for a disproportionate amount of their criminal convictions being working-class ethnic minorities. But in this dull, baaad film we have eight young people all doing community service. They’re mostly rich, mostly white, mostly stupid and all annoying in some way. They’re being sent into the woods to clean it up over after the holiday season under the watchful eye of Ranger/wannabe-drillseargent ...
...majority of this film and by saying that I mean nothing happens for the majority of this film. Our characters all moan and are arrogant in one way or another despite being very obedient for apparently rebellious criminals. Rather than come to learn about their characters we just learn about their crimes, that are all far-fetched and also that basically that they’re all stupid. I mean the characters in this film are so stupid that it’s almost an insult ...

Phelthew 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Grizzly Park (DVD)

Anyone for a Bella sandwich with vampires and werewolves?

Advantages: Casting, FX, action scenes
Disadvantages: Drawn out romantic bits

...all, I woud suggest watching Twilight before watching this, as there will be a number of things that may seem confusing otherwise. Brief Plot Essentially, in a nutshell, Bella has moved to Forks, a desolately damp, rainy and gloomy town, to live with her father Charlie, the chief of police. She encounters Edward Cullen at her new school, they fall in love, she finds out he's a vampire. The first film saw a frantic chase and fight where other vampires ...
...the more impressive elements of Twilight was the FX adopted to show how the vampires move. The superspeed, the strength, the use of slow motion to emphasise these elements. All this is just as good, if not better, in New Moon, but is completely overshadowed by the superb FX used with the werewolves. It's the transformation element, and as the characters in their human form merge into their wolf forms, it's astounding. They do it 'on the fly', or ...

pmcds 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Twilight Saga - New Moon (DVD)

Shrooms

Advantages: Decent Ending
Disadvantages: Unoriginal

...[Film Only Review] Shrooms is a horror/thriller, which was released back in 2007. Written by Pearse Elliott and directed by Breathnatch, Shrooms is about a group of Americans travelling to an Irish forest to collect shrooms (magic mushrooms) and then to experience the weird 'trips' you get by taking them. The movie revolves around Tara (Lindsey Haun) who has taken one of the bad shrooms and is experiencing less than normal trips. The rest of ...
...shrooms and it's up to Tara to make sense of it all. Lindsey Haun ... Tara Jack Huston ... Jake Max Kasch ... Troy Maya Hazen ... Lisa Alice Greczyn ... Holly Robert Hoffman ... Bluto I was watching this because I had heard the name mentioned before and after skipping through all the various channels on Sky, this seemed to be the only thing worth watching. The movie lacks any originality, following a worn out idea that no longer hold any surprises. ...

Wils0408n 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Shrooms (DVD)