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One Missed Call, a review by addicted2comics

Title: One Missed Call
Year: 2008
Director: Eric Valette
Rating: PG-13
Length: 87 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Shannyn Sossamon
Edward Burns
Ana Claudia Talancon
Ray Wise
Azura Skye
Johnny Lewis

Plot:
It happens to one. Then another. And another. College students discover eerie voicemail messages on their cell phones. Each call comes from the near future. Each call has the chilling voice of the student during his or her last moments alive. And each call comes true.

Terror is One Missed Call away in this got-your-number shocker based on the hit Japanese thriller Chakushin ari. Does the viral spree of calls have a single source? Is there something that links the victims? Psych student Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) and detective Jack Andrews (Ed Burns) scramble for answers. And they're working fast. Because Beth just discovered an ominous message.

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers

My Thoughts:

The movie was pretty interesting. When I saw the commercial back when it arrived in theaters, I couldn't wait!! This, surprisingly, was my first time seeing it. My only regret about this movie is..well...I was kinda dissapointed in the deaths. I thought they'd all be murdered when they get the calls! I don't think I'll expose anything by saying most of the deaths seemed like accidents. I can't help but feel they should have been pulled away in a bloody trail, still screaming in their last seconds.........what can I say? It's what I expected. Also, the ending is keeping me wondering.


All in all, it's a good movie, I just it needs a little more help to be on the scary side. At the most, I was only slightly creeped.




(From Doing the ABC's Movie Style!! on July 24th, 2010)

Alucard, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Alucard
Year: 2003
Director: John Johnson
Rating: NR
Length: 150 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Jay F. Barber
Liam Smith
Rebecca Taylor
David Harscheid
Karthik Srinivasan

Plot:
A modern telling of Bram Stoker's classic!

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This is another movie from the Mortuary of Madness box set I got this past October. I went into this one with caution.... for two reasons. First it is in a box set of very low budget movies. Second it is a low budget film that is 2hrs. 30min. long! And that is a long time to sit through a low budget horror film. The picture quality of this movie is surprisingly good for such a cheap low budget boxset. As is the Audio. The story is interesting... but SLOW! Unfortunately every time it started to get good they decided to change the subject... going to another diary and such. I think the main thing that goes against this movie is the length. And the fact that they seemed to want to concentrate more on the dramatic story telling over the horror of the story.Which after a while got tiresome. So once again... I think the length of this movie is what hurt this movie more then anything else. They could have easily cut this movie in half... and we would have had a right good low budget modern telling of the story.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on December 19th, 2009)

Smallville Marathon #2, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Jonathan has had an heart attack and Martha and Clark have brought him to the hospital. When they return from there, they nearly get hit by a car that is participating in illegal car races. The driver of this car is Pete who tries to emerge from Clark's shadow. Clark tries to warn him about the danger but when Pete realizes this danger, it's too late.

My Opinion: Episodes with illegal street races don't work for me because these "dangerous speeds" they are driving (100 mph in this episode) is my average cruising speed on the autobahn. Granted, I wouldn't drive that fast on a country road (and that would be forbidden even here) but still I am not really impressed. The other reason may be that I never was much into cars, for me they are a means of transportation from A to B.

Synopsis: During a visit of a LuthorCorp plant Clark is in an elevator with Alicia when the cable breaks and the elevator starts to fall down. Clark has to ram his hand through the wall to stop it. But Alicia has a secret of her own: She "beams" them out. Clark has finally found someone with whom he can be perfectly honest.

My Opinion: "To good to be true" would be the phrase here. I don't understand why Clark isn't allowed to be happy for more than one episode. I like Alicia and think they should have given her more time before she made her obsessed with Clark. But we will see her again and she will be an eye-opener.

Synopsis: Jonathan agrees to get a tripple bypass when Clark meets his friend Garrett in the hospital. Garrett's older brother is waiting for a new liver but then he dies. He is brought to Metropolis but suddenly reappears in Smallville - alive (sort of). But then he collapses again and Garrett takes hostages to get a liver for his brother.

My Opinion: Parents can be cruel. Garrett's actor's name is James Nichol Kirk. James Kirk. I don't want to imagine the childhood of that man.
As I said during my Stargate SG-1 marathon, I find it funny how you suddenly stumble over actors once you've come to know them. Back in Obscura Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol in Battlestar Galactica) played a deputy and now Tahmoh Penikett ("Helo" in BSG) played Garrett's older brother.
When I watched this episode for the first time (and the others before this) I had no idea that the serum could be connected to Clark's blood. Seems I am good at picking up details but making a line between two points is not my strong side.

Synopsis: Clark receives an emergency call from Lana but when he comes to the rescue she isn't in any danger at all. Clark didn't imagine it, there's a tape that proves that call was made. But who called if it wasn't Lana? Or from when did she call if it was (will be?) her?

My Opinion: None of the four episodes on this disc have impressed me very much. In this one I didn't really understood Adam's motivation to kill Lana.

(From Smallville Marathon #2 on May 31st, 2008)