Friday, July 18, 2014

Movie - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990)


This movie is the third installation of the Texas Chainsaw series. In this movie, Leatherface is after a couple driving on a road and a survivalist who attempts to save them. Most of the movie involves a cat and mouse chase in the woods until ultimately two of them escape. This movie was okay, but not my favorite out of the series (maybe that's why they only sell it on DVD and not BluRay). The movie could have used more interesting scenes or action in my opinion and was not scary. This one gets a three from me.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Movie - Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)


Here we are starting out Texas Chainsaw marathon (many more to come) with the second one. In this one we follow the kid in the wheelchair's brother and a radio reporter. When a few punks call the radio station to play a joke, they get murdered by Leatherface and it is recorded on casette. When the kid's bother asks her to play it on the radio, Leatherface comes to kill her. She follows him to their lair and with the help of her new friend, destroy the entire lair and escape. Leatherface and his family live once again though (most of them anyway). This one was a little better than the first one in my opinion, but is still going to get a three from me.

Movie - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)


This is a classic that I've been needing to see for some time and I just bought the whole kitten capoodle. I have to say I was a little disappointed in the original (I know all of you are disappointed in me now). The movie was more silly than scary. The kid in the wheelchair was kind of really stupid and Leatherface was ridiculously silly and did a lot of dancing. The movie is about a group of teenagers who stop at a house that belongs to their relatives. While going to go for a swim, they come across another house and all of them get picked off oen by one by Leatherface except for one girl who manages to somehow escape. The movie is okay and I do love it for the calssic that it is, but I am only giving it a three (sorry!)

Movie - Sanitarium (2013)


This is a collection of short stories of how certain people got committed into an insane asylum. The first story follows a famous sculpter who gets tricked by his friends into thinking he was crazy and ends up killing himself. The friend who tricked him loses his mind over it and ends up in the asylum. The second story follows a boy who had a monster following in his shadows. The monster murders his family and his teacher and he ends up in the asylum for the rest of his life. The third/last story follows a survivalist who was convinced the world was going to end and tried to convince his family to join him in his bomb shelter. When they wouldn't, he killed them and hid in his shelter. A few years later (after going crazy), he leaves the shelter and ends up at the asylum. All in all this was pretty decent (Creepshow was way better) and I would probably watch it again so I'll throw this one three skulls.

Movie - The Returned (2013)


This is one of the more interesting takes on a zombie apocalypse that I have seen. In this movie a type of cure has been created for people who are bitten by zombies and infected. The injection works a lot like insulin shots do only if you do not take your shot every day, you turn into a zombie and there is no saving you at this point. In the movie you follow a doctor and a "Returned Activist" who is dating one of the Returned. During the movie, the supply of medicine starts to run out and it is a fight for your life in this movie against people who are trying to murder the Returned before they turn back and against time itself so that they do not turn into zombies. The movie has a really insane story escalation and ending that I really did not expect to happen (be prepared for tears because they're coming). All in all great movie and I give it a four.

Movie - Haunter (2013)


This movie puts a whole new spin on life after death. In this movie you follow a family that is stuck into re-living the last day they were alive over and over again every single day. The daughter "wakes up" and realizes that something is not normal and investigates why they are trapped in this neverending cycle. As she looks for more clues, she finds out that their family and many other families who lived in the house were possessed and murdered by an evil ghost. The movie is really about setting free the souls of the people that were murdered by the ghost. I thought this movie was very cool and would definitely line this up on my list of movies to buy. Great movie, I give this a four.

Movie - Darkness Falls (2003)


This movie puts a whole new twist on the Tooth Fairy. In this movie, if you look at the Tooth Fairy, your life is in danger as she will stop at nothing to kill you. A young boy looks at her when she goes to take his tooth and spends the rest of his life hiding in the light so that she does not kill him. Twelve years after the Tooth Fairy murders his mother, he receives a call from his oldest friend who asks what to do about her brother who seems to be suffering from the same ailment. Once he figures out the Tooth Fairy is also after him, he fights to save both of their lives against her. The movie I thought was pretty interesting (a lot better than Helena in my opinion). I gave this one a three though because it did drag quite a bit and was hard to watch at times. All in all pretty decent.