This is a remake of the 1981 slasher of the same name, except this one is in 3D! Things come out of the screen at your face even when you don't have 3D glasses, which you shouldn't wear, because they make you look like an idiot. After a mining accident, the lone survivor, Harry Warden, wakes up from a coma and goes on a…
If you like the horror comedy genre, this one is a lot of fun. It's like Last Action Hero meets Friday the 13th with jokes and gags thrown in. Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her group of friends go to a Camp Blood movie double-feature and are magically transported inside the movie when trying to escape a theater fire. More than seeing the film from…
I will be honest. I don't know what the hell was going on in this movie. It's like the Pulp Fiction of horror movies, but I just couldn't keep the non-linear story straight. Maybe I need to watch the American remake with Buffy, so that it's dumbed down for my stupid American brain. Rika is the main character who is sent to take care…
From the mind behind Re-Animator comes Castle Freak. Writer/Director Stuart Gordon tells the story of a family who inherits a castle in Italy. They travel there to stay at the castle while they figure out what to do with it. It turns out there is a scary freak monster that lives in the dungeon under the castle. The father of the family is played…
It was 1980 and along came Sean S. Cunningham to revolutionize the horror genre and really cement slasher movies for the following decade. At the time, it was shocking and graphic, and surprisingly well done for a budget of $550k. The story is simple: it's summer camp time and the camp counselors of Camp Crystal Lake get more than they bargained for as they…
Christina is a journalist who wakes up bound in a little hut in Mexico after searching for demons in a remote cave called La Boca. The people who kidnapped her are trying to exorcise a demon out of her that she picked up in the cave. Of course, she doesn't think she is possessed by a demon, at first. But that's what they always…
Guard yo bodies, because we have a passionate song right here. That's right, this week's cover song episode of the Is This Song Good? podcast features Whitney Houston's iconic cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You song. Are Whitney's pipes better than Dolly's pipes? Are we still talking about music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
Bring on the trash. The glorious trash. It's so bad, it's just bad. Beth is a college student with repressed memories about when she was 5 years-old and her brother murdered her family. She has nightmares about some guy stalking her and it turns out the sorority house she lives in was her childhood home. The brother is in a mental asylum, but due…
This is another one where I had no idea what to expect. For the first half of the movie, I'm thinking it's some supernatural entity messing with a family. Boy, was I wrong. Helen Hunt plays Jackie Harper who recently cheated on her husband, Greg, a police detective. This has caused quite a bit of tension and animosity, especially with their teenage son, Connor.…
A mother, Amelia, and her son, Sam, find what appears to be a child's book called Mister Babadook about a monster with a top hat and long claw fingers. Both characters are still dealing with the death of husband/father Oscar on the day Sam was born. Sam has trouble at school and Amelia has increasingly sleepless nights worrying about Sam and the Babadook story.…
