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Horror Marathon Day 10

Black Rock

I am doing a service here, I am saving you all from seeing bad horror movies.  So here is another film that you can skip out on.  Black Rock.  It's barely a horror, in fact the blog that listed it as one of the best in 2013 must be high on crack. 

Am I supposed to cheer these women?  I kinda feel like they are jerks and I'm rooting for the men in this movie.  Not like Cabin In The Woods either, where the main characters are supposed to be jerks, I think the women were supposed to be sympathetic, but it was not working for me.  Sure the men turned into animals halfway through, but in the beginning, it wasn't either fault.  This actually would have been a good court drama if they went to the cops after the incident.

 I can't even remember how it ends, but it's boring and not worth it.  Luckily I was watching this while working on the latest draft of Pariah Missouri, so it wasn't a total waste.  www.pariahmissouri.com

Tomorrow I have a horror film I actually am excited about!

Horror Marathon Day 9

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

At first glance, and maybe second, this movie is just another slasher film.  But I think they are trying to give a grindhouse feel to the film, although it's not that successful.  The main character, which make a good turn towards the end is beautiful, no doubt about that, but other than her looks and chaste demeanor, there's not much going on. 

 Her supporting cast doesn't make that much more of an impact other than the stereotypical teenage dipstickery.  The end has some interesting parts to it, but that's not enough to make it worth going through.  

So here I am doing you all a service, don't bother with this one.

Horror Marathon Day 8

Lords of Salem

 

Rob Zombie made a new movie and cast his wife.  Should you go see it?  It's actually not bad.  I liked the idea of music being a trigger for this evil awakening in people.  I like some of the visuals they were going for, it's an almost Kubrick look in some places, clearly films like The Shining were an inspiration.

There are however some moments of cheesiness and it's hard to shake those moments off, but overall I enjoyed the film.Not much more to say about it.

Horror Marathon Day 5

The Battery

Zombie movie meets indie darling.

It's your indie film, like Garden State, with little narrative and plenty of indie rock in the soundtrack set in a zombie world.  Two of my favorite things actually. 

The soundtrack is great, sounds like a little Modest Mouse in there.  Small budget film about these 2 ex-professional baseball players who are trying to make it through the south during this zombie apocalypse. 

There's some good scenes, but it's not purely horror with tons of zombie scenes, so if you are looking for that, then I'd head over to Day of the Dead for that.  There is a point in the movie about half way where you think it's going to go one way and we unlock this world and meet all these new characters and go down the path of this standard adventure-horror story, but nooooo, we do NOT go there and it moves to a less-conventional storyline.  That's the kind of stuff I like, although, I would have liked to learn about X.

The ending is good, a little unexpected.  Over all I liked this.  It's horror, but almost barely qualifies.  Yes there's zombies, but it's so small, indie and personal that we kind forget that in a way.

I say go see it.