Posts Tagged ‘supernatural’

Blu-ray Review: The Devil’s Advocate – Unrated Director’s Cut (1997)

Posted: 16 December, 2012 in Movies/TV
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Blu-ray Review: The Devil’s Advocate – Unrated Director’s Cut (1997)

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: The Devil’s Advocate – Unrated Director’s Cut (1997) on Blogcritics.

In case you missed the official word from up above, the apocalypse came to pass in the ’90s. It started sheepishly enough with fashions and hairstyles, eventually gravitating towards a slew of moving pictures all about those timeless battles between good and evil. Coincided coincidentally enough with the forthcoming terrors of Y2K, filmmakers near and far brought us tales targeted at die-hard Christian nutjobs and the most remote of believers alike. Fallen, The Prophecy, El Día de la Bestia, Left Behind, et al — there were doomsday flicks emerging on big and small screens everywhere every five minutes. (more…)

*Blu-ray Review* Grimm: Season One

Posted: 16 September, 2012 in Movies/TV, TV
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Blu-ray Review: Grimm – Season One

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Grimm – Season One on Blogcritics.

No matter what the trend may be, there will always be competition. Whenever a brewing company comes up with a new kind of beer, another will make their own version of the same. If a grocery store has a sale on chicken, you can bet another market in the area will follow suit. And then there’s the world of film and television, wherein all it takes is for someone to come up with the premise of Once Upon a Time — a show that brings fairy tales into modern times — in order for some schemer to create a series like Grimm, a tale about a descendent of the Brothers Grimm battling real-life Grimm Fairy Tale monsters in contemporary Portland, Oregon. (more…)

*Blu-ray Review* The Fades: Season One

Posted: 5 March, 2012 in Movies/TV, TV
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Blu-ray Review: The Fades – Season One

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: The Fades – Season One on Blogcritics.

There’s no denying it: zombies are all the rage these days. A peek at the latest home video releases will prove just that — there are reanimated corpse offerings from major and no-name video distributors alike, every single one of them keen to cash in on the craze that is so popular amongst hipsters, brahs, and barely-pubescent boys and girls of all ages. Even on television, this dawn of the dead is, shall I say, alive and well, with the immensely popular AMC series, The Walking Dead, amassing millions of fans the world over. (more…)

*Blu-ray Review* Paranormal Activity 3

Posted: 24 January, 2012 in Movies/TV
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Blu-ray Review: Paranormal Activity 3

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Paranormal Activity 3 on Blogcritics.

It’s amazing how much you can get away with when you shoot for the whole “faux found footage” style of filmmaking. The people behind the original Paranormal Activity invested a mere $15,000 (which wouldn’t even cover the catering bill on a low-budget Hollywood flick) into their 2007 shocker and wound up with a gold mine. Some of you may recall another no-budget horror flick from 1999 called The Blair Witch Project that also relayed its tale via “faux found footage” — a gimmick inspired (and sometimes stolen) from cult classics such as The Last Broadcast and Ruggero Deodato’s infamous Cannibal Holocaust.
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*Blu-ray Review* Season Of The Witch (2011)

Posted: 3 July, 2011 in Movies/TV
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Blu-ray Review: Season Of The Witch (2011)

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Season Of The Witch (2011) on Blogcritics.

A plague has been set upon the world. It infects the nervous central system, causing an unbridled and utterly unbearable amount of pain — before eventually initiating madness in its host. It is called Season Of The Witch, and it stinks to high heaven. Set in the 14th Century during the acme of both the Black Plague and the Smyrniote Crusades, Season Of The Witch imbibes all of the superb charismatic elements of Danny McBride’s Your Highness and the classic Warren Beatty/Dustin Hoffman vehicle, Ishtar. But its appeal doesn’t stop there, kids: this turkey also relies on a wholly-silly supernatural fable as its plotline, while throwing in Oscar-worthy dialogue like “They’re like cock-a-roaches!” and “We’re gonna need more holy water.”
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*DVD Review* Burn, Witch, Burn

Posted: 30 June, 2011 in Movies/TV
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DVD Review: Burn, Witch, Burn

Article first published as DVD Review: Burn, Witch, Burn on Blogcritics.

We begin with a vision of darkness. The screen is black. A disembodied voice offers to protect us; casting a verbal spell to ward off any and evil spirits in the auditorium. Sure, it’s hokey — but the fact that the voice belongs to none other than the great Paul Frees escalates such a campy moment up to that of utter fabulousness. And, just as soon as that tacked-on American prologue to the British supernatural thriller Night Of The Eagle — released in the U.S. as Burn, Witch, Burn — has concluded, the real fun begins.
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DVD Review: Drive Angry

Posted: 8 June, 2011 in Movies/TV
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DVD Review: Drive Angry

Article first published as DVD Review: Drive Angry on Blogcritics.

OK, first off: I am a huge fan of exploitation movies. The wilder, the better. I have waded into the waters of many ghastly horror titles, wacky science-fiction tales, unapologetic revenge flicks and monstrous kiddie films to boot, only to joyfully sop up all of the debauchery like the demented cinemasochist that I am. But even I couldn’t help but shake my head over how awful Drive Angry was.
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*Blu-ray Review* Charlie St. Cloud

Posted: 21 November, 2010 in Movies/TV
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Blu-ray Review: Charlie St. Cloud

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Charlie St. Cloud on Blogcritics.

My initial instinct upon seeing that there was a movie starring teen heartthrob Zac Efron was to run away screaming. In fact, it took I had to muster up a significant amount of courage in order to willingly view Charlie St. Cloud without the aid of an equally significant amount of alcohol. And yet, as it turns out, Charlie St. Cloud wasn’t as bad as I had feared it would be. Oddly enough, the story — while somewhat predicable at times — almost came across as a heartfelt dramatic version of The Sixth Sense aimed at the Disney-oriented family audiences, with just a scooch of Dellamorte Dellamore. Well, at least it did in my eyes.
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*DVD Review* Blood Ties: The Complete Series

Posted: 8 June, 2010 in TV
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DVD Review: Blood Ties: The Complete Series

Article first published as DVD Review: Blood Ties: The Complete Series on Blogcritics.

Imagine, if you will, a show along the lines of The X Files: one wherein a firm believer in the world of the occult teams with a skeptical investigator to solve supernatural mysteries. Now then, also go ahead and envision what said series might look like if it was fused with the defunct cheesy Canadian TV series, Forever Knight, and add a bona fide vampire to the fray. The result? A little something we like to call Blood Ties.
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*Blu-ray Review* The Final Destination (2009)

Posted: 6 January, 2010 in Movies/TV
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Blu-ray Review: The Final Destination (2009)

Originally posted at blogcritics.org

It seems that every thirty years or so, 3D comes back to wow yet another generation of moviegoers. Sure enough, every time it does return, there are a slew of brainless motion pictures made to capitalize on the “newfound” sensation (which, more times than naught, has begun with a B-Movie overstepping its marketing bounds via fancy gimmickry). In the ‘50s, we had such classics as Robot Monster and Cat-Women Of The Moon. During the 3D boom of the ‘80s, filmmakers pumped some life into several horror franchises such as the Friday The 13th and Amityville series.
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