Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon

[Jimmy]

It's this time of the year again when we all go back to our teenage years and go crazy for any frightening creatures. This year I've decided to go for the low budget horror, sometimes an Italian or Asian title will appear since I see them as low budget also (in fact, except for the Hollywood productions most of the horror films are low budget).

My number from last year is 50, I think I will kick this last year number in the nuts and beat the crap out of it easilly

I've decided to let DVDP decide the movie I will watch using the "movie pick" feature.

DVDP had decided that I will start it thursday with Cinderella a South Korean's movie made in 2006

[Jimmy]

Movies watch in the marathon

#	Date	Title	Years	Rating
1	01/10	Cinderella	2006	[mr]4[/mr]
2	01/10	Drawing Blood	2005	[mr]2[/mr]
3	01/10	It Waits	2004	[mr]4[/mr]
4	01/10	DeadHouse	2004	[mr]0[/mr]
5	01/10	Planet Blood	2008	[mr]4[/mr]
6	02/10	The Slasher	2000	[mr]0[/mr]
7	02/10	Killer Story	2004	[mr]4[/mr]
8	02/10	Frightworld	2007	[mr]3[/mr]
9	02/10	The Las Vegas Serial Killer	1986	[mr]3[/mr]
10	03/10	I Dream of Dracula	2001	[mr]2[/mr]
11	03/10	A Bothered Conscience	2006	[mr]5[/mr]
12	03/10	Alucard	2003	[mr]2[/mr]
13	04/10	Hell Hath No Fury	2005	[mr]5[/mr]
14	04/10	Eaten Alive	1980	[mr]4[/mr]
15	04/10	Dark Light	1993	[mr]1[/mr]
16	04/10	Anthropophagus	1980	[mr]3[/mr]
17	05/10	Torment	2007	[mr]3[/mr]
18	05/10	Master of Darkness Magic	2004
19	05/10	Trapped	1982	[mr]3[/mr]
20	05/10	Kottentail	2005	[mr]4[/mr]
21	06/10	A Vampire's Tale	2004	[mr]1[/mr]
22	06/10	Tartarus	2005	[mr]3[/mr]
23	07/10	Nutcracker : An American Nightmare	2003	[mr]2[/mr]
24	07/10	The House by the Cemetery	1981	[mr]2[/mr]
25	07/10	Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat	2002	[mr]3[/mr]
26	08/10	Divine Intervention	2007	[mr]3[/mr]
27	08/10	Shutter	2004	[mr]4[/mr]
28	08/10	Brainiac	2004	[mr]0[/mr]
29	09/10	Doctor Dracula	1980	[mr]1[/mr]
30	09/10	Johnny Sunshine	2007	[mr]1[/mr]
31	10/10	Alone in the Dark	1982	[mr]5[/mr]
32	10/10	Die You Zombie Bastards!	2006	[mr]3[/mr]
33	11/10	The Vampire Conspiracy	2003	[mr]4[/mr]
34	11/10	Kiss Daddy Goodbye	1981	[mr]1[/mr]
35	11/10	Shadow People	2008	[mr]2[/mr]
36	11/10	Trees	2000	[mr]3[/mr]
37	12/10	Art of the Devil	2004	[mr]5[/mr]
38	13/10	Storm of the Dead	2006	[mr]1[/mr]
39	13/10	Black Ribbon	2007	[mr]2[/mr]
40	13/10	City of the Living Dead	1980	[mr]4[/mr]
41	14/10	Knight Chills	2003	[mr]3[/mr]
42	15/10	Curse of the Wolf	2006	[mr]3[/mr]
43	15/10	Lust for Dracula	2004	[mr]4[/mr]
44	16/10	The Curse of Lizzie Borden II - Prom Night	2008	[mr]3[/mr]
45	22/10	This Darkness	2003	[mr]1[/mr]
46	22/10	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	1986	[mr]5[/mr]
47	23/10	Pony Trouble	2005	[mr]3[/mr]
48	23/10	Clean	2005	[mr]4[/mr]
49	24/10	Don't Answer the Phone!	1980	[mr]4[/mr]
50	24/10	He Knows You're Alone	1980	[mr]2[/mr]
51	25/10	All Night Long	1992	[mr]3[/mr]
52	25/10	Kill Syndrome	2006	[mr]0[/mr]

First time watch

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]842498030523[/whatyagot]

Title : Cinderella (2006)

Overview
Seeking the much-desired quality of 'ul-jjang' (the perfect face), 17-year-old Hyunsu's friends are envious that she has a plastic surgeon for a mother. On their summer vacation together, she watches as her friends get plastic surgery and then one by one begin to die mysterious deaths. Hyunsu's mother holds the key to the dark secrets that have been tucked away up to now.

My Impression
As any Asian movie this one is a little bit complicated and you need some time in the beginning to understand what this movie is about. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the dvd overview make you think of something else. In fact, you understand the story only after the first 45 minutes and everything turn "creepy" and sad. Yes sad, this is certainly one of the sadder and depressing "horror" movie I've seen. You can understand the "bad guy" action and sympathize with him/her as you do for the 2 real victims. I can't wrote more than this because I don't want to spoil it, but if you like your "horror" different with a psychological side to make you think you will like this one.

Rating : [mr]4[/mr]

[addicted2dvd]

Of course I will be reading this thread with much interest!   

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]M100[/whatyagot]

Title : Drawing Blood (2005)

Overview
Bodies begin to pile up the moment George Adam's wife leaves town for the weekend. George's past comes back to him, but its nothing like his current life in a safe, calm suburban home. Unbeknownst to him, lovers, friends and neighbors cannot escape the grip of his evil basement. If the local law enforcement can piece the grisly clues together, they may be able to save the next innocent victim. Drawing Blood is a psychological horror film that captures the raw terror of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the pure horror of Halloween.

My Impression
"Raw terror of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and pure horror of Halloween" my ass Really poor movie with no character development at all. Sure many people are killed (very poorly to be polite), but we don't really care since we know nothing about them except for what we see before they got in the house. Terror sure , a person enter in the house for whatever reasons, George isn't there and they are smash on the head with an axe, a hammer, a bottle and a couple of ridiculous things I won't say. The acting is really poor with the exception of Robert Z'Dar and Joe Estevez (he really looks more and more like his father) who aren't there a lot in the movie. Some nudity is present that help a little (even if the girls aren't that good looking) but not that much. By the way one of those scene demonstrate the lack of talent of the crew involve in the filming : 2 actors are supposed to have an intercourse but we are able to see clearly that they wear their underwear all the time

Pete if you watch this one could you tell me who is the killer... I sure have no idea of who is it supposed to be

Rating : [mr]2[/mr]

[Jimmy]

Title : It Waits (2004)

Overview
It is a vengeful beast of Native American legend, sealed deep within a cave for over one thousand years. Nearby in a remote forest outpost, troubled young ranger Danielle St. Clair (Cerina Vincent of 'CABIN FEVER') is struggling to confront dark demons of her own. But when the creature is accidentally released from its secret tomb, Danny's inner conflicts meet a flesh-and-blood nightmare: A monster that hunts without equal, slaughters without mercy and savors the taste of human torment. Now its wait is over. And tonight, one woman must face - and destroy - its flesh-ripping fury ... alone!

My Impression
Nice one that looks really like an eighties film. The scare come more from the general mood of the movie than from the creature itself, in fact we have to wait a long time to really see it (something that I've always appreciated) and when it finally happen I was happy to see a man in a suit and not a CGI thing. But sadly they had used some CGI when the creature flies, it doesn't match really well and, honestly, you can do it with a blue screen much better. Cerina Vincent is surprisingly good in the movie (for the reviewer her white shirt was certainly a distraction), since most of the time she is alone. The rest of the acting is correct also. Some ideas could be more developped, but I've appreciated this one in general.

Rating : [mr]4[/mr]

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]M135[/whatyagot]

Title : DeadHouse (2004)

Overview
Four teens venture on a road trip to visit family on their vacation. They are trapped inside a broken down house by a clown masked killer and tortured. Now with time against them they must lean to put their differences aside and try to survive their night at Dead House!

My Impression
Unoriginal and boring... This is so amateur that most of the time we heard absolutly nothing because the "actors" mumble their lines or the music is way too loud. The special effects are non-existent and nothing happen... The killer had a paper sheet for a clown mask for god sake, talk about cheap... Really the trailer looks 500% better than the movie is. Not as bad as The Sorority, but it can get its member card of the crappy movie club...

Rating : [mr]0[/mr]

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]M125[/whatyagot]

Title : Planet Blood (2008)

Overview
After a comet struck the Earth, destroying most of the populace, a man Justin lives alone in his house, haunted by fear and guilt. As he fights with his inner demons, he also must deal with swarns of flesh-eating vampires who appeared from the bowels of the Earth after the apocalypse.

My Impression
This one is short (50 minutes without the end credit), but this is certainly the first one that I've really appreciated in those 50 movies set. Of course it isn't perfect and have come weakness like the use of CGI to represent the blood when a vampire is killed or a couple of jump cut because of the editing. But the good acting of Brett Kelly, the fast moving of the film (not that the action is fast, more that the story is fast), the general melancholic tone of the film and the ending make up for the weakness.

Nice short (too short) Canadian movie who owe probably a lot to "The Last Man on Earth" for its inspiration (I've never seen the original or the 2 remakes).

Rating : [mr]4[/mr]

According to imdb this film doesn't exist, so maybe I review only one of my dream

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]M111[/whatyagot]

Title : The Slasher (2000)

Overview
You can't see him, you can't hear him, you can't find him... but he can find YOU!

My Impression
What to expect from a movie with the most generic title ever seen... probably not much and in this case "not much" isn't an overstatement. Boring, boring and more boring... 5 minutes of this was enough for me, but I've made the effort to watch it all for you. Badly filmed (we see the boom mic so many time that I don't understand why it isn't credited in the cast list), some of the dialogue is re-recorded and those guys can't even read their lines (make you wonder why they have recorded it live in the first place), the acting is awfull (I feel generous, since it's worst than awfull), the effects are the let throw some red stuff kind of effect and even the nudity isn't a saving grace for me (those girls are full of tatoo, rings and piercing ).

Rating : [mr]0[/mr]

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Jimmy... I really wasn't considering Planet Blood too soon... but may have to change my mind on that.  

[Jimmy]

[whatyagot=aesppres.com/phpdvdprofiler]M107[/whatyagot]

Title : Killer Story (2004)

Overview
Monty and Fortunato, two old-time writers, get locked away in an abandoned saloon by a mysterious stranger and are prodded into out-duelling each other with their storytelling abilities by a sexy woman, who may in fact be a ghost.

My Impression
Correct me if I'm wrong but an anthology is usually composed of 3 stories plus a wraparound and this isn't the case here. Certainly not that big of a reproach since I've appreciated it, in fact that looks like something that could be a failed pilot for a serie like "The Ray Bradbury Theater" (wich is not the case at all). Personally I like more the first story who had a better script, acting and vibes. Not that the second isn't good, but it was too predictable since the short Poe's story that had inspired it is well known. The wraparound had a good end and it's always nice to see 2 good actors like William Smith and Joe Estevez in a film like that. Of course the film isn't really frightening since it is based on three Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and, to be honest, it was maybe scary in the 19^th century but certainly not anymore.

I think you will appreciate this one Pete

Rating : [mr]4[/mr]

[addicted2dvd]

Will be waiting for your review... Killer Story is one of the ones I am looking forward to checking out!

[Najemikon]

Hey, Jimmy, I just posted the next Hitchcock review and it made me think; you've got a job and a half this month keeping up with the reviews, eh?  

[Jimmy]

A bit more than the last weeks certainly

We are just friday and I already have 27 new reviews to classify for monday, but it isn't that much work that it looks like...

BTW when do you start to review some horror movies?

[Najemikon]

A bit more than the last weeks certainly

We are just friday and I already have 27 new reviews to classify for monday, but it isn't that much work that it looks like...

BTW when do you start to review some horror movies?

Soon. I have one ready from my favourite punch-bag, but he managed to surprise me...  Anyway, I won't be doing a huge amount. I'm quite a clinically insane as some of you!