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. 

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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.

Sadako 3D (2012)

Sadako 3D (2012)

 

Actors: 

Koji Seto & Satoni Ishihara

Director: 

Tsutomu Hanabusa

Runtime: 96 Minutes


Plot: When a group of high school kids hear rumors of a suicide video on the world wide web, some suspect that it is an elaborate hoax. As the local police race to find answers, a familiar figure in white emerges from the static, beckoning the curious into eternal darkness. Akane (Satomi Ishihara), a high school teacher, fights against Sadako and Kashiwada to save her life and her boyfriend from a video's curse.This is part of the Ringu Trilogy.

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Review: 

This is a sequel to the 1998 Japanese movie "Ringu". If you like either version of the Ringu movies (Japanese or American " The Ring"), you will like this movie. This is a subtitle movie.

While "The Ring" and others like it are not my cup of tea, I'm kinda on the fence with this one. The main character has a banshee type ability that brung something different to the table. the ending well that was sorta anti-climatic.

 I personally wouldn't watch it again but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.

Found on Netlfix.

Venom (2005)

Venom (2005)

 

Actors:

Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson & Meagan Good


Director:

Jim Gillespie


Runtime: 87 Minutes




Plot: A group of teenagers run for their lives in the swamp of Louisiana, being chased by Mr. Jingles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls who is relentless in his pursuit of his new prey.

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Review:

Despite other reviews I've read, I really like this movie. It's a supernatural slasher with some bayou voodoo thrown in. With a few good scares, most of the kills are brutal (as in most decent slasher film) this is a modern B classic slasher in my book. The plot is good, a bit cheeky at times but worth the watch.

Found on Netflix.

White Zombie

White Zombie (1932)

Actors: 

Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy & Joseph Cawthorn

Director: 

Victor Haleperin

Runtime: 69 Minutes

Plot:

Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.

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Review:

This movie is a classic starring Bela Lugosi and is my favorite of his and my favorite classic horror. We are talking 1932 when actors had to act and not get by with their looks. This is not to be confused with his movie Voodoo Man, made 12 years later.
"White Zombie" is the very first (still excising) zombie movie ever made. It's not today's zombie movie but a classic voodooish zombie. I would recommend this movie to any horror movie buff as a top 10 must see.

Found on Hulu

Dark was the Night (2014)

  Dark was the Night (2014)

Cast:
Kevin Durand, Lukas Haas &  Bianca Kajlich

Director: Jack Heller

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Plot:

 

Something stirs in the dark surrounding the quiet town of Maiden Woods. Sheriff Paul Shields (Kevin Durand) and his deputy (Lukas Haas), must face down a new breed of raw terror that is possibly older than humanity itself, and much hungrier. 

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REVIEW:

This is a straight to DVD gem in my eyes. More so in the acting than the actual horror arnage you expect to happen in a creature feature. Kevin Durand is the gem in the movie, he is usually underrated in most movies he plays in but this movie shows his range. The plot in this movie isn't bad but needs some work, for an indie horror film this is one of the better ones I've seen in a long time.  

 

 

This movie is now available on Netflix.