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Hotel Transylvania, a review by addicted2dvd

Hotel Transylvania (2012/United States) Trailer |IMDb |Wikipedia | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Writing: Peter Baynham (Screenwriter), Robert Smigel (Screenwriter), Todd Durham (Story By), Dan Hageman (Story By), Kevin Hageman (Story By) Length: 91 min. Rating: Rated PG : Some Rude Humor, Action and Scary Images Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Adam Sandler as Dracula
Andy Samberg as Jonathan
Selena Gomez as Mavis
Kevin James as Frankenstein
Fran Drescher as Eunice
Steve Buscemi as Wayne

Plot:
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula (Adam Sandler) has invited all his best friends - Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more - to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• DVD-ROM Content
• Digital Copy
• Goodnight Mr. Foot Mini-Movie

This is one I have seen before... caught it on On-Demand a while back. So going into it I knew it was one I enjoyed. But that is of no surprise as much as I like anything horror/monster related. Even on this second viewing I enjoyed every second of it, Well except for the final song in the movie... could have done without that. But either way... this one is well worth the time put in to watch it. Lots of fun here.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched Discs on August 12th, 2013)

Incubus, a review by addicted2dvd

Incubus: Unrated Edition (2005/United Kingdom) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Anya Camilleri Writing: Gary Humphreys (Writer) Length: 87 min. Rating: Unrated Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French

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Stars:
Tara Reid as Jay
Akemnji Ndifermyan as Bug
Alice O'Connell as Holly
Russell Carter as Josh
Christian Brassington as Peter
Mihai Stanescu as Sleeper

Plot:
In the dead of night, a group of lost college students stumble upon what appears to be an abandoned laboratory hidden deep within the woods. Cold and exhausted, they break in, only to find the hallways littered with dead bodies. Coming across a coma patient locked within an isolation cell, they discover The Sleeper, a deranged murderer who can literally dream his way into their minds. So when her friends are transformed into bloodthirsty, axe-welding killers, a terrified young woman (Tara Reid) tries desperately to escape. For when The Sleeper decides it's her time to die, all he has to do is wait for her to fall asleep.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Closed Captioned

I admit... I didn't give this movie the attention it should have gotten... as I was doing 2 other things at the same time as watching this. But I found this to be little more then an average horror film. The bad guy is right strange in it. No real scares and a little blood. Though I fully admit I need to give it another chance when I can give it a bit more attention. As I believe I must have missed some key plot points.




(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched Horror on January 14th, 2012)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The IT Crowd: Version 1.0 (2006/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia 2 entertain Video (United Kingdom) Length: 144 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, Other

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Plot:
Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies, while Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt with which to spray his ear when it gets hot.

Into their life of 'users', pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a punky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of a laptop from the other. Can she introduce real life to men who email the fire brigade in an emergency, who invent a psycho for an internet dating site and display sympathetic PMT symptoms once a month?

'The IT Crowd'. It's more than a way of life, it's a sitcom.


IT Crowd
1.01 Yesterday's Jam
Writer: Graham Linehan (Writer)
Director: Graham Linehan
Cast: Chris O'Dowd (Roy), Richard Ayoade (Moss), Katherine Parkinson (Jen), Chris Morris (Denholm), John Willie Hopkins (Postman), Nancy Lodder (Office Girl), Laura Pyper (Laura), Pete Deagle (Office Worker)

A great geeky series. I watched it again with the l33t subtitles on. As a special feature, all episodes have l33t subtitles. But whereas most of the episodes simply replace normal lettering with l33t lettering in the subtitles, the pilot episode has special jokes thrown in here, like shell commands replacing dialog but actually meaning the same.
A simple example for this subitle track is the following exchange:
Jen listing her computer skill: Reading emails, sending emails, deleting emails.
Gets subtitled as: pop3, smtp, M$ Exchange


Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 3rd, 2012)