Articles in Horror Movie Reviews
Ring 2 (1998) Movie Review
Thirty minutes into Ring 2 and my only thoughts were, “The director really shouldn’t have hired a woman with a bum leg to play the female lead.”
This thought surfaced because of the female lead’s complete lack of personality and inability to invoke enthusiasm. The actress playing Mai, the female lead, seems to sleepwalk [...]
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) Movie Review
Series 7: The Contenders is the kind of movie that can only be made with a small, even nonexistent, budget, and done in guerilla filmmaking fashion. It’s a take on the “reality TV” that has swamped (or plagued, depending on your perspective on the genre) prime-time network television for the last few years, starting with [...]
January 3rd, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreScary Movie 2 (2001) Movie Review
At one point during the first Scary Movie, a penis is shoved through a bathroom stall, enters a character’s ear and exits the other ear. This is a hilarious sight gag, rather you enjoy lowbrow humor or not. Fortunately, I sometimes like lowbrow humor, and laughed my proverbial buttocks off at the gag. Later on [...]
January 1st, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreGhosts of Mars (2001) Movie Review
Ghosts of Mars is officially called John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. This is because John Carpenter is a horror fan favorite, and the horror fans are a group of people who are known for their fanatical dedication to the genre regardless of quality (or lack thereof).
Ghosts of Mars has an intriguing plot: it’s [...]
The Crimson Rivers (2002) Movie Review
Credits are a strange thing. The credits that roll after the stars’ names have flashed are inconsequential to the moviegoing public. Hence, most people have no idea who, or what, a “Line Producer” is. A Line Producer, in short, is the man who controls the purse strings of a movie’s budget. It is the LP’s [...]
December 24th, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreNightmares in Precinct 7 (2001) Movie Review
There is an infamous tradition in Hong Kong cinema to take Hollywood movies and turn them into Chinese movies. Jet Li did it with The Bodyguard from Beijing, which converted the Kevin Costner movie, The Bodyguard. There are a host of other movies, too numerous to mention. Most of the times these “conversions” are only [...]
December 17th, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreCube (1997) Movie Review
“Cube” is a strange, but good, movie. It’s one of the more creative movies I’ve seen in a long time. The film is Canadian in origin, and was finished, I believed, with the help of money raised to help Canadian filmmakers. I’m sure there’s a name for this particular program, but it escapes me at [...]
September 23rd, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More














