Grave Encounters 2 is the sequel to the 2011 indie horror hit. Like the original, the film features a group of people traveling to a reportedly haunted former insane asylum to see if they could get footage of the ghosts that haunt the building. I really wanted to like this film, however, in its efforts […]
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Two strangers named Freddy and Ana meet each other as they travel alone on bus heading back to their home town of Pearl. Even though they are apparently strangers, by coincidence they find out that they happen to live close by to each other on the same street. After some mild flirting between the two,
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is the fourth entry of the series about dead soldiers being turned into the ultimate killing machines. The film is a direct follow-up to the previous entry Universal Soldier: Regeneration and is directed by that film’s director John Hyams. That said, the film also works well as a stand-alone entry,
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I generally consider myself to be a geek. In addition to my passionate love for movies, I can be found browsing around the Silver Snail comic book store, attending Fan Expo every August, watching The Big Bang Theory, and playing video games whenever I can (including the popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game World
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Doomsday Book is a Korean sci-fi anthology film directed by Yim Pil-sung (Hansel & Gretel) and Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil). The film features three stories, each of which covers different apocalyptic scenarios: a zombie uprising, sentient robots, and finally a meteor on a collision course to earth. One impression I got from the
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If you take the London crime comedies of Guy Ritchie and mix them with Shaun of the Dead, then you will have a pretty good idea about what Cockneys vs Zombies is about. The film focuses on East London brothers Andy and Terry, who have decided to rob a bank in order to save the
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Rec 3: Genesis is the third instalment of the popular Spanish zombie series. As the title suggests, the first two Rec films were found-footage horror films. While Rec 3 begins with a similar format, it quickly changes into something different, which I still found to be an entertaining film. Having fun with the found-footage premise
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Two social workers and four delinquent teens travel to the rural British town of Mortlake for a community service project. The townsfolk are made up of bucktoothed hillbillies and it revealed fairly quickly that they don’t take too kindly to strangers. Inbred was hyped as the most gory film of this year’s Toronto After Dark
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Crave is a modern noir thriller about a crime scene photographer named Aiden (Josh Lawson), who is increasingly bothered by the rampant crime he witnesses on the streets of Detroit. He regularly confides with his cop buddy Pete (Ron Perlman) and wonders aloud whether or not the world would be better place if the majority
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American Mary is the second film by Jen and Sylvia Soska, also know as The Twisted Twins. The film focuses on a medical student named Mary (played by Ginger Snap‘s Katherine Isabelle), who finds herself in a little financial difficulty. In an effort to to make some money, she applies for a job at a
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