Best movie I saw in 2008 that I can’t put on my list due to my own rules:
Timecrimes (dir. Nacho Vigalando)
By mid-January Timecrimes will have a somewhat wide release, but in 2008 it was only officially released in New York and Los Angeles. I can’t really count that as a “wide release.” If [...]
A quick note: my top 2008 films are films that received a wide release in 2008. Re-releases don’t count. So even though the IMDB says The Fall is a 2006 film, it wasn’t actually given a release until this year (thereby making it eligible for my list). Saw 2, on the other [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
So it’s September now, and the Summer Movie Season is officially over. There are four months left until 2009. I was thinking to myself recently that I don’t really know what else is coming out this year that I’m looking forward to, so I did some digging and came up with a (more [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13151
http://www.nysun.com/arts/midnight-meat-train-lionsgate-nearly-butchers-its/83002/
This is just the weirdest damned thing. Lionsgate, who has made their name over much of the last decade by putting out successful horror films (including American Psycho, High Tension and the Saw series), has decided to dump their desperately fanboy-anticipated adaptation of Clive Barker’s short story The Midnight Meat Train into 100 discount [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
YOU GUYS 2008 IS HALF OVER.
Here’s my top 10 movies of the first half of 2008, for anyone who’s interested. Click on the film title to go to that movie’s page on Metacritic, if applicable:
10. Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves)
Cloverfield updates Godzilla to post-September 11th New York and brilliantly uses a “handheld” camera and “real-time” [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
I’m not sure where to start with this.
I guess it was about three weeks ago now that my friends Tim, Andrew, Sharon and I went to the Music Box Theatre here in Chicago for a screening of Troll 2. If you haven’t seen Troll 2– and chances are pretty good that you haven’t– here’s [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Mulberry Street
Written by Nick Damici and Jim Mickle
Directed by Jim Mickle
2006
Rating: 4 out of 5
Mulberry Street was, somewhat unfortunately, part of last year’s After Dark “8 Films to Die For” horror film “festival” (for lack of a better word to describe it). I say “somewhat unfortunately” because so far the After Dark “fest” has [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Automaton Transfusion
Written and Directed by Steven C. Miller
2006
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
Zombie movies are a hugely popular horror subgenre. There are almost as many different kinds of zombies as there are individual films, too– the classic shuffling undead, the modern running and screaming kind, and now finally the ones who just dropped in from [...]