I know some people are going to disagree with me on this, but the best film of the year has yet to come out. Being released in US theaters on November 14th, the 22nd Bond film [EON Productions] to date, Quantum of Solace looks to be an explosive ride. Featuring the current face of James Bond, Daniel Craig, and directed by Marc Forster, QoS is the follow-up to 2006's Casino Royale and finds 007 doing battle with Dominic Greene[Mathieu Amalric], a member of the Quantum organization posing as an environmentalist, who intends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to take control of its water supply. In his efforts, Bond is assisted by the beautiful Camille[Olga Kurylenko] who takes the place of Vesper Lynd for whom James seeks revenge.
Based solely on his performance in Casino Royale, I would rank Daniel Craig as one of my all-time favorite Bonds, and I was very excited when I read that Craig has been signed on for Bond 23, 24, and 25. Bond 23 has been tentatively scheduled for release in 2010.
Beneath the streets of New York city there are hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels unfit for anything human...until now. Something horrible is loose in the sewers of Manhattan and the city's homeless have begun to mutate into 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers'. They are C.H.U.D. - mutated by radiation, hungry and headed for the streets!
A city with mutated homeless that take locals into the sewers and then eat them? Count me in.
C.H.U.D. has its gore scenes, but the only thing about this movie is that you don't actually see any C.H.U.D. until the middle of the film. I think you see more mangled body parts than C.H.U.D. The times when you do see them, they look frightening.
You just gotta love low-budget horror flicks.
The movie was filmed above and below the streets of New York City, so the scenes where the actors are in the sewers, are actually real. [I could smell them already!]
Watch this movie if you have the time. Government cover-ups, mutated homeless, and a bit of gore... sounds like a good B-monster movie to me.
Starring: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry and Kim Greist Directed by: Douglas Cheek Writers: Parnell (Screenplay), Shepard Abbott (story by) MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes
Jason [Kane Hodder] finds himself a stowaway on a cruise ship full of high school seniors bound for New York City. He slaughters his way around the ship, and when it ends up docking, he hunts down the final few survivors around New York.
The movie's setting is based on the boat ride until the last 10, maybe 15, minutes of the movie when Jason finally sets foot on Manhattan Island.
Before the cruise ship, he kills a couple having sex on an boat; during the ride to Manhattan, Jason kills about 11 people throughout the cruise ship, and then he kills 8 more people in Manhattan. Thus the official Body Count for this film is set at: 21.
Overall this movie kind of sucks, BUT there's still a lot of blood and gore to go around. The death scenes were filled with creativity. Jason basically utilized anything he could find in the immediate area which, if you've seen enough slasher flicks, you know makes for a good time.
There's even a guy that gets thrown head first into a vat of toxic waste. [I've never seen that before]
If you have time to kill, watch it... there's plenty of blood and gore for everyone.
Starring: Todd Shaffer, Tiffany Paulsen, Tim Mirkovich, Kane Hodder Directed by: Rob Hedden Writers: Victor Miller (characters), Rob Hedden (written by) MPAA Rating: Uncut Running Time: 100 minutes
H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale has a new twist in the hands of the creators of the Re-Animator (1985). When it comes to movies based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Stuart Gordon's low-budget directing is amazing. Sadly, most of his movies are direct-to-video and never hit the mainstream, but that doesn't stop us horror fans on the Internet from finding his masterpieces.
The Resonator is a powerful machine made up of intense circuit boards and microprocessors. It's built for one purpose: to control the sixth sense. It does so by stimulating the brain's pineal gland, which allows us to see the hidden creatures all around us, and naturally, lets them see us. [the creature effects look fantastic] The first time they switch it on, it kills its creator, Dr. Edward Pretorious [Ted Sorel], and resulted in his associate, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast [Jeffrey Combs], being committed into an insane asylum. When the beautiful Dr. Katherine McMichaels [Barbara Crampton] becomes determined to continue the experiments of the late Dr. Pretorious, she opens a door to a parallel universe and finds a new level of the human psyche. Victims become creatures who need to feed on-- and get aroused by-- human brains. The Resonator is the ultimate man-made-monster and something horrible has happened... No one can switch it off.
If you have time to watch a crazy movie this October, definitely watch H.P. Lovecraft's From Beyond.
Female nudity, creatures, gore, and machines... What else could you ask for?
Staring: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon Written by: Dennis Paoli (adaptation) Special Effects by: John Buechler Directed by: Stuart Gordon MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes
Beneath the streets of New York city there are hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels unfit for anything human...until now. Something horrible is loose in the sewers of Manhattan and the city's homeless have begun to mutate into 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers'. They are C.H.U.D. - mutated by radiation, hungry and headed for the streets!
Jason [Kane Hodder] finds himself a stowaway on a cruise ship full of high school seniors bound for New York City. He slaughters his way around the ship, and when it ends up docking, he hunts down the final few survivors around New York.
H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale has a new twist in the hands of the creators of the Re-Animator (1985). When it comes to movies based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Stuart Gordon's low-budget directing is amazing. Sadly, most of his movies are direct-to-video and never hit the mainstream, but that doesn't stop us horror fans on the Internet from finding his masterpieces.
