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The Breed (2001) Movie Review
Michael Oblowitz, the director of “The Breed”, was last seen trying to survive the Human Dough Boy (or as I like to call him, the Man Formerly Known as Credible Action Star Steven Seagal) with “The Foreigner”, which seems like a masterpiece compared to this dreck. Adrian Paul, a very long way from “Highlander: Endgame” [...]
May 13th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreHow to Make a Monster (2001) Movie Review
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: low-budget filmmakers should not make movies about technology. There is a reason only Hollywood make good movies based around technology — because they have the resources to pull it off. When a low budget filmmaker tackles technology, the lack of resources is so obvious that it’s [...]
May 11th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThey (2002) Movie Review
Movies like “They” and the recent “Darkness Falls”, and even the recent Spanish horror film “Darkness”, are the primary reasons why American horror film buffs have had to go to the Japanese for their horror fix. With generic films like “They”, which goes for cheap Boo Scares rather than actual terror, is it any wonder [...]
May 10th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreSubterano (2003) Movie Review
A lot of things about Esben Storm’s “Subterano” puzzles me. The movie is about killer toys that hunt unsuspecting civilians trapped inside an overnight parking garage. But that’s not the most puzzling thing about “Subterano”, even though I’ll grant you that the premise is a bit silly. The real question is this: Why in the [...]
May 10th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreTurbulence (1997) Movie Review
Big budget Hollywood movies don’t get any more effective than Robert Butler’s 1997 movie “Turbulence”, starring Ray Liotta (”John Q.”) as a psychopath with a propensity for strangling hapless women. After serial killer Weaver (Liotta) is captured, he is put on a plane with a skeleton passenger list back to California, and for a prime [...]
May 9th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreFinal Destination (2000) Movie Review
Besides proving that cheating Death is easier said than done, the “Final Destination” movies (there have been 2 so far) rebuts the axiom that the sequel can’t be better than the original. While James Wong’s 2000 original gets points for beginning things off, there really is no question that 2003’s “Final Destination 2″ is a [...]
May 4th, 2003 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreThe Pool (2001) Movie Review
“The Pool” joins the recent spate of German-made Teen Slasher movies to go international. Although the film is made by Germans and set in Prague, and most of the actors are German, the film’s American pedigree makes its classification as a German film somewhat irrelevant. You have to respect the people behind “The Pool” because [...]
May 3rd, 2003 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreDarkwolf (2003) Movie Review
Here’s a rule of thumb for watching B movies. If a B-movie opens with a scene at a strip club where we’re treated to a generous amount of anonymous female flesh, then you’re in trouble. Anonymous female flesh pedaling is the last desperate act of B-movie filmmakers who realize, much later on, that they haven’t [...]
April 30th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreDawn of the Dead (1978) Movie Review
After seeing Danny Boyle’s thievery/homage called “28 Days Later”, I thought I’d go back and revisit George Romero’s “Dead” trilogy. The first film was “Night of the Living Dead”, which was followed by “Dawn of the Dead” in 1978, and “Day of the Dead” in 1985. (”Day” was not supposed to be the final chapter [...]
April 27th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreDay of the Dead (1985) Movie Review
In many respects, 1985’s “Day of the Dead” is a much better movie than its predecessor, 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead”. With “Day” series creator George Romero shows vast improvements in writing and directing abilities. His script is so good, in fact, that the whole premise for “Day” was recently remade (without due credit) into [...]
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