Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Halloween Must See!!!

 Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Actors:

Dylan Baker, Brian Cox & Anna Paquin

Director:

Michael Dougherty

Run time: 83 minutes

Plot:

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick -or treater.

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Review:

I wanted to review a Halloween movie just for today that didn't involve Michael Myers. Trick 'r Treat is a series of interwinding stories, all based in the same Ohio town on Halloween night. There is something for everyone in this movie. Trick 'r Treat is a new classic (IMO). Some of the stories are around what happens when you don't follow the rules of Halloween, ie:don't blow out the candle in the jack o'lantern, pass out candy & dress to fit in with the scary things that are free room roam the Earth that night. 

If you love Halloween and can not find enough horror movies themed just for this holiday or just want something scary to watch, this is a must see horror.

Now I rented this movie on VUDU but you can find it on YouTube for free veiwing.

Hansel vs. Gretel (2015)

Hansel vs. Gretel (2015)

Actors:

Brent Lydic, Lili Baross & Aquella Zoll

Director:

Anthony C. Ferrante 

 

Run Time:

86 Minutes

 

Plot:

 When Gretel falls under a dark spell and organizes a coven of witches, Hansel must find the courage to fight his twin sister and the sinister forces controlling her.

 

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Review:

This takes place a year after the last movie Hansel and Gretel (see my review). In the last year, Hansel has become a witch hunter, he comes home to find people disappearing in his home town. Gretel has taken put being a witch and sets out to take over the territory. Long story short, Hansel fights Gretel in the end. 

The Plot and story are alot better than the first one but still the writing kinda sucks a bit. There are alot of "how did he not see that?" scenes in the movie.  This is anoter b-horror, but better than the first. 

 

 

Found on Netflix.

Hansel & Gretel 2013

Hansel & Gretel 2013

Actors:

Dee Wallace, Stephanie Greco & Brent Lydic

Director:

Ben Demaree 

 Run time:

 90 Minutes

Plot: 

In this modern retelling of the classic horror tale, teen siblings are enslaved by a psychotic recluse within her gruesome house of horrors in the woods. 

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Review:

This is a B horror all the way. This is not the blockbuster version that came out the same year. This while a modern version of the horror tale, is a horror nightmare. Okay might not be that bad, seeing as I watched the sequel to this movie (next review). The old hag witch has two sons in this version of the tale, that helps do her bidding (neither talk, that's probably a good thing here).  It's campy and not a B-Horror at it's best. The concept was there, the writing well it sucked. 

Asylum movies are usually better than this but this has got to be one of the worst ones they have made.

Found on Netflix.

Insidious Chapter 3

Insidious Chapter 3

 

Actors:

Dermot Mulroney, Stephanie Scott & Lin Shaye

Director:

Leigh Whannell

Run Time:

97 minutes

Plot:

After trying to connect with her dead mother, teenager Quinn Brenner, ask physic Elise Rainier to help her, she refuses due to negotiate events in her childhood. Quinn starts noticing paranormal events happen in her house. After a vicious attack from a demon her father goes back and begs Elise Rainier to use her abilities to contact the other side in hope to stop these attacks by this furious demon content for a body. 

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Review:

While I was trying to keep these reviews this month on a free basis, I could not help but add a few new rentals this month. So this one you will have to pay to watch, unless you can find it on youtube.

This chapter is a prequel to the first two Insidious movies. This is about how Elise overcomes her fear of a spirit in the dark place to use her gift to help a teenager girl, Quinn who is being tormented by an evil spirit. In the movie they give you background on some things in the other two movies, such as how she met the to guys that help her (Tucker & Specs). Without giving out too much, they touch alot of references to the other movies in the franchise. Stephanie Scott (Quinn) gives a great perfomance as a teenager that lost her mother and is just trying to understand what is happening to her. Dermot Mulroney ( Sean, Quinn's father) plays the father who is too busy to understand or notice what his daughter is going thru until she is halfway gone, and quite well.

If you have seen this the other movies in this franchise, this is a must see. If you have not seen the others, I would highly suggest seeing this once first than 1 & 2.

Poltergeist (2015)

Poltergeist (2015)

Actors:
Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt & Saxon Sharbino

Director:
Gil Kenan

Run time:
93 minutes

Plot:

A modern version of the classic tale  about a family whose home is invaded by angry spirits. When the apparitions take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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Review:
While I was trying to keep these reviews this month on a free basis, I could not help but add a few new rentals this month. So this one you will have to pay to watch, unless you can find it on youtube.

Do not come into this movie thinking its a remake, this is a reboot (two totally different things).  While the plot and consept are the same the character names and situation that the family moves into the house are different. There is no tall freaky man with a funky hat as the main bad spirit. The effects in this version are better than the original and the clown is even creapier. Taken the differences of the movies, watch this one as if it wasn't a remake but a whole new movie and you will love it. The acting is top notch, its got a modern edge that the original didn't have. Don't get me wrong, I like the original but for a new generation this version will more than satisfy.

If you can get past the creepy clown I would highly suggest you rent this movie.

Re-Animator (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Actors:

 Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott & Barbara Crampton

Director:

 Stuart Gordon

Runtime: 104 Minutes


Plot: 

Based on H.P. Lovecraft, this campy sendup follows an egostical medical student who develops a serum that revives the dead. 

Trailer:

Reveiw: 

This is a cult classic. If you know 80s horror B movies, you know Jeffrey Combs. this is one of the many films he did that put him on the map as a cult classic A lister. Just a reminder all 80s B horror films are campy and at time cheeky, but that's why we love them so.

Found on Netflix

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

Actors:
Bela Lugosi, Luanna Walters & Tristram Coffin

Director:
Wallace Fox

Runtime:
64 Minutes


Plot:
A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.

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Review:
This is one of Lugosi's campier horror movies but as most Lugosi films very atmospheric and I, for the most part, love just about anything he's in. This is a Poverty Row production so it is a low budget film for its day.