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Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, a review by Jimmy

Title: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)

Genre: Horror
Director: Declan O'Brien
Rating: NR
Length: 1h33
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1:78.1
Audio: English
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish

Stars:
Sean Skene   
Jennifer Pudavick
Tenika Davis
Kaitlyn Leeb   
Terra Vnesa

Plot:Maybe I'm stupid but if you call your movie XYZ The Beginning this movie is suppose to be a prequel right? In that case why there is no connection to the first movie? Yes there are three brothers in the first film but... they weren't in a hospital for retarded inbreds and they didn't eat their parents when they were kids (their father is alive and well in the second film). Where the hell that big hospital came from and why it isn't condamned? I think the autorities will know that something isn't right after 27 years with no contact...

Anyway the fact this movie make no sense is the least of its problem... Once again we have a bunch of unlikable, uncharismatic and boring characters. We got some of the stupidest lines ever writen in a horror film: seriously,at one point they put the three inbreds in a jail but when one of the guy wants to kill them as they deserve one of the girl say "we can't kill them because we will be like them". Boo hoo cry me a fricking river, they just killed four of your friends and eat them fricking retarded liberal hippie. What do you want to do? Take a guitar and sing Kumbaya for the rest of the night...

Another stupid movie in that franchise.

Rating :

(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 7th, 2013)

Signs, a review by KinkyCyborg

Signs



Title:Signs
Year: 2002
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Rating: PG-13
Length: 106 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital EX: 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), French: Dolby Digital EX: 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1)
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Mel Gibson (1956)
Joaquin Phoenix
Rory Culkin
Abigail Breslin
Cherry Jones

Plot:
From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, comes the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. One morning they wake up to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard.

Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extraterrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch the news as crop circles are soon found all over the world.

Signs is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the possibility the world is being invaded.

Extras:
Scene Access
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gallery
Multi-angle
Storyboard Comparisons
Closed Captioned
THX
Night's First Alien Film


Crop circles explained!!

Some view this movie as the beginning of the decline of M. Night Shyamalan's films after his brilliant debut with The Sixth Sense followed by the comic book magic he weaved with Unbreakable. Personally I didn't find Signs to be a let down at all, it likely being my 2nd favorite of his films, a close second behind Sixth Sense. The Village definitely marked a steep drop off in quality for him followed by an equally weak Lady In The Water.

Signs delivers intense suspense and thrills without an overbearing presence of action or violence which is a notable accomplishment in itself. As events unfold and the dawning realization of what this Alien presence could mean sets in, you are ultimately dragged towards the scary conclusion, needing, craving to see what it is knowing full well it might scare the shit out of you. I thought it was masterfully done.

Important questions of faith are raised in this film, centralizing on Mel Gibson's character, a former priest who stopped believing after the death of his wife. He pulled off the square, somewhat naive personality of his character in fine fashion. Joaquin Phoenix as his younger brother is fantastic as he plays a man whose own confidence and beliefs has always been directly been tied to his brother and now seeing his rock in life crumbling, he now finds himself on uneven ground and scared.

Great acting, great story, great eerie atmosphere, great movie.

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2011 on July 17th, 2011)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3.17 Visionary
Writer: John Shirley (Screenwriter), Ethan H. Calk (Original Material By)
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jack Shearer (Ruwon), Annette Helde (Karina), Ray Young (Morka), Bob Minor (Bo'rak), Dennis Madalone (Atul)

O'Brien jumps multiple times a few hours into the future for a short time each, and sees a new disaster happen each time after preventing the previous one after his trip back.
A fun episodes with an interesting ending.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on November 2nd, 2011)