Movie - Hatchet III (2013)

I'm actually kind of surprised a third movie was made of this series as the second one was pretty bad (at least in my opinion). In this one the girl from the second movie ends up in jail and famed for the murders of all of the people that mister Hatchet has killed. A reporter breaks her out of jail and together they get the ashes of Hatchet's father in an attempt to calm his angry soul. After a huge team of police and the report get murdered, the girl finally destroys the spirit by reuniting him with his father's ashes. The story of the movie is really kind of stupid and I was really bored with it. The only good thing about this movie was the amount of cheesy gore. I'm giving this one a two as well. Sorry, I'll take Jason over this guy any day.

Movie - Hatchet II (2010)

Unfortunately this is another one where they do not have all of the series on Netflix so I had to skip the first and jump straight into the second so I don't really know the backstory on this one. The movie starts off with a girl who is found by a fisherman and lets him know her whole family was slaughered by a man in the swamp. He lets her know to find a man in town who will help her take the psychopath down. He brings a group of men with him so that they can track down the girl's family and bury their bodies. The men start getting slaughtered one by one and the girl takes down Hatchet Man herself (rather gruesomely I might add). This movie series reminds me of Friday the 13th quite a lot as it is in a swampy area and it's one singular man taking out people with a sharp weapon. The movie isnt' really great and I don't know that I would ever watch it again personally. I definitely would not BUY this movie. To me this is just a weird spin off of Jason and really only deserves a two.

Movie - The Shrine (2010)

This was a rather crazy movie that started out very slow. The movie follows a shamed reporter who was trying to regain her reputation by writing the story of a lifetime. She follows a mystery behind disappearances of multiple people who all visited the same country and their luggage mysteriously appearing back at the airport months later. She tricks her employer into thinking she is taking her intern to a different location to research a "boring" story but instead takes her intern and her boyfriend to investigate the disappearances (which means nobody actually knows where they are). The group finds much more than they bargained for when the two girls look upon an evil statue in the middle of the fog. A group of religious fanatics capture the three of them and try to murder the two women. The movie is ultimately about the devil possessing anyone who looks upon the statue and you really don't find that out until around the end of the movie. The movie, in my opinion, was great and I really loved the amount of suspense and mystery around the situation. They really do leave you guessing on what will happen next the whole movie. I gave this one a four. Great movie!

Oh and I think Nemesis is in the movie too haha. Am I right?

Movie - eXistenZ (1999)

This movie is kind of strange even from a gamer's perspective. The movie is about a new type of video game system that is made from animal parts and is a living thing (so weird!) In order to enter the game you install a port in your spine and plug the game system in there. It is almost impossible to tell if you are in the game or in reality as the game takes you to a whole new level of subconsciousness. The whole time, you do not really know if you are in the game or not so it's a little hard to follow. The movie was okay, just kind of super strange. I'm giving this one a three for being a decent watch.

Movie - Let The Right One In (2008)

I haven't really seen that many foreign films, but this one was really good. Most of you have probably seen the English adaptation called "Let Me In" which is pretty much the same exact movie (almost word for word) only in English with a different cast. I'm not sure why, but I enjoyed this one better than the English version (felt like it was crazier). This movie is in Swedish with English subtitles. If you have seen the English version, I highly recommend seeing this one. The movie is about a young boy who is pretty heavily bullied at school and lives with only his mother (father is separated and appears to have left his wife for a man). The young boy (Oskar) meets a young girl (Eli) who he later finds out is a vampire. The two begin dating and begins putting Oskar's life in danger by feeding off of the townspeople. The end of the movie is my favorite as Eli saves Oskar's life by killing all off the bullies who are attempting to drown him. The end scene shows Oskar and Eli on a train together. I have read that this is based off of a book which I would be interested to read. I gave this movie a four along with the English version that deserves a four as well. Really great movie.

Movie - The Langoliers (1995)

This is another one of Stephen King's long movies. This one is about three hours long (which is short if you look at The Stand). The movie starts with a plane full of people on a flight, but all of the passengers who were alseep wake up to an almost empty plane (no pilot either!) Luckily an off duty pilot was sleeping on the plane and is able to lower the plane to the nearest airport. When the plane lands, there is nobody around anywhere and all of their senses have been dulled (food tastes bad and sounds are dull). One of the passengers starts to lose his mind and hallucinate and starts to attack and kill the other passengers including a blind girl who has a gift for seeing certain things. The blind girl (after she is stabbed) informs everyone else that they need this man to save them all. The passengers realize that they must have gone through a time rift in the sky and decide to try to go back through it to take them back to their original time. The crazy man leads away what are called the langoliers just in time to save everyone. The passengers all go to sleep and pass through the rift once again and go back to their original time as originally planned. The movie is really good despite how long it is although the Langoliers themselve were extremely badly animated into the movie. You'd think they could afford some better animation at this point being as it is 1995. I gave this movie a four.

Movie - Re-Animator (1985)

Here is another movie that is supposedly a cult classic (or so Netflix tells me). I liked this movie as much as the one right before it. The movie is about a mad scientist who is determined to find a way to bring the dead back to life. Once he is caught, he flees the country and ends up in a college so that he can find a way to continue his work. Once in college, he rooms with another student and secretly performs his experiments on the student's cat by killing it and re-animating its life. Things get out of hand when the mad scientist starts to perform his experiments on cadavers in the lab in secret. This movie is kind of silly to me and I wasnt' 100% into it really. It was very cheesy and had that 80's horror charm, but was not really my thing to be honest. I'm giving this movie a three as well.