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Go see it. Not perfect, but at least worthy of a matinee. GREAT child actors, Jessica Chastain’s character is refreshing and unique, and it’s creepy as fuck.

So, is it gonna be good this year or another round of Ryan Murphy autofellatio? 

October 1 - The Loved Ones

Halloween HorrorFest time! Starting the month off with one of the most fucked up movies ever. If you thought Carrie made prom a living hell, wait till you meet Lola.

V/H/S

Best horror movie of the year.

Lovely Molly was fucking terrifying. Scariest movie I’ve seen this year so far.

[REC]3: Genesis

A movie has pissed me off this bad since “The Happening.” 

Awful.

Help fund the Leslie Vernon sequel!

For $10,000, you can get killed in the movie!

No joke, if I had $10k lying around, I’d consider it.

But sadly, I had to settle for a $50 donation.

Go donate. Seriously, if you want horror movies to not suck, go fund the sequel to one of the best in a generation.

A few months ago, I read a review on Dread Central for a found-footage movie about a woman who was either going insane or actually becoming a zombie. Ultra low-budget, don’t think it’s even been released, but can’t remember the damn title. Help?

May 3 - Pontypool

Zombie Awareness Month continues with a movie that combines my two loves, zombies and radio.

May 2 - Dance of the Dead

Zombie Awareness Month continues with Prombies!

May 1 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Happy Zombie Awareness month! 

Just watched for the first time since I saw it (four times) in the theater. Finally got my wife to sit down for the full 3+ hour experience and thankfully, she really enjoyed it. Perhaps my personal favorite movie of the last decade.

After doing my usual ritual of checking the buzz on a movie after I see a movie (I try to avoid anything except unavoidable trailers before I see it), I can tell that Cabin in the Woods is going to suffer from what I call “Inception Syndrome.”

Inception Syndrome is a condition where after I watch a movie that I really enjoy, I find that other people like it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than I did to an almost comedic level. A movie that was a perfectly fine sci-fi blockbuster, or in this case, a perfectly fine not-quite-horror, not-quite-comedy, not-quite-sci-fi, mash-up film is being hailed as the savior of film. One comment in particular stuck out to me on Dread Central:

there is no reviewing just watching because words cannot describe what my eyes witnessed

Expect a lot of over-the-top hyperbole like that in the coming days and it aggravates me because it’s going to hurt the movie. You’re going to get people who say shit like this, then when people go see it, it doesn’t live up to the hype and then they over-correct and shit all over it.

Cabin would’ve been a serious game-changer had it been released when it was originally supposed to come out, in the middle of Saw’s torture porn dominance over the genre, but the genre’s moved on and there are a lot of really smart, genuinely scary and genuinely funny horror movies that have come out recently: Paranormal Activity, Tucker & Dale, Attack the Block, etc.

I’d love to see Whedon & Goddard work together again on another horror movie because I’ve think they’ve stumbled onto a really smart formula, and am interested in their take on the genre now that it’s evolving once again. Cabin may not be AS good as those movies listed, but that’s okay and I think they could make one that is.

Why does everything have to be “OMG THE BEST” or “LULZ THAT FUCKING ATE MY DICK BALLS!”? I thought it was a really fun movie, but that’s coming from someone who generally likes every movie that I actively want to go see. That’s not to detract from the movie, clearly many people enjoyed it and again, I had a really good time watching the movie, but it’s not Halloween, Scream, The Matrix and The Godfather, all rolled into one amaze-tacular film package. Don’t oversell it.

Thumbs up.

Jesus tap dancing Christ.