Kate (Franka Potente) has just left one party to head for another late-nighter rumored to have George Cloony in attendance. Unable to hail a cab quick enough, she opts for the subway and with a little time left before her train arrives, she sits on a bench and promptly falls asleep. When she wakes up, she finds that not only has she missed her train, she is also alone and locked in. As she contemplates what to do next, an empty train shows up, which she immediately boards. Her relief at not having to spend the night on a subway platform is quickly replaced by terror when she realizes she is being stalked. Not by the guy who has followed her from the party with a bit of cocaine in his nose and rape on his mind, but rather something much, much worse. …
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On June 9th, 1970, two boys and one girl were delivered simultaneously at Meadowvale General Hospital. All three born to different families and during a total solar eclipse. 10 years later we see that these three kids have grown up in the same neighborhood and even attend the same school. They each also happen to be obnoxious sociopaths. The kids plan out and execute the murders of anyone, kids or adults, who they feel slight them or may be an obstacle in the way of their goals. While the community lives in fear thinking a serial killer is responsible for the recent cold-blooded murders, the three children continue their reign of terror undetected. Well, almost. Timmy Russel, a classmate and neighbor, along with his older sister, Joyce, have started to catch on. Unfortunately they do not catch on quick enough and are not aware of just how ruthless this trio can get. But they are about to find out.…
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A meteor crashes to earth and unleashes a man-eating life form that is able to grow bigger and spawn more of it’s ilk after eating each subsequent kill. After making quick work of two inquisitive campers, the deadly spawn take refuge in the basement of a nearby farmhouse. This farmhouse is occupied by Sam (James Brewster) and Barb (Elissa Neil), their son the science major, Pete (Tom DeFranco), and his younger brother, the horror movie loving Charles (Charles George Hildebrandt). Rounding out the household is Aunt Millie (Ethel Michelson) and Uncle Herb (John Schmerling) who are in town visiting. The family soon finds out they have other, unwanted guests, and end up trapped in the house by the spawn that quickly grew to monstrous proportions, feeding on people who just could not stay out of the basement.…
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David and Peter are two bickering brothers in the need for some quick cash. They develop a scheme that involves kidnapping the step-daughter of a shady strip club owner with possible mob connections. The plan, if all goes correctly, is for them to abduct the girl, take her to a remote cottage in the country and hold her for ransom. Simple. But things normally never go exactly as planned, and the brothers find this out the hard way. They will also find out just how bad a well planned crime cang et (and how quickly) starting when their abducted girl turns out to be quite aggressive and not too happy about her situation. Before the night is over,everything that could possibly go wrong for the brothers will. Then it will get worse. Then the mutant, homicidal farmer shows up. It’s gonna be a long night.…
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Officer Rockman Cheung (Mark Cheng) has just lost his infant son to an extremely horrifying death and at the same time, his wife Karpi (Maggie Siu) has practically gone insane because of this tragedy and the constant, needle-like pain she is experiencing all over her body. The doctors are unable to determine the source and feel it is psychosomatic and suggest that Rockman take her to see a psychologist. But when some of Rockman’s fellow police officers start dying nasty deaths with hints of ritualism, it is determined that Gong Tau, the Eastern equivalent of voodoo, is at work and Rockman and his fellow officers are the target. Who is actually behind these gruesome deaths and why, is all revealed in a fairly enjoyable throwback to Hong Kong’s blood-soaked horror “extreme” movies of the ’90s. It’s been awhile since a decent Category III – the equivalent to the Western X or NC-17 – horror movie has come out of Hong Kong but Gong Tau is here to remedy this problem…maybe.…
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Angela is a television news reporter host of a segment called When You’re Asleep. Angela and her camera man, Pablo, film people doing their jobs in the city while most of the inhabitants are sleeping. On this particular night, Angela and Pablo will be filming a group of firefighters at their station and on any calls they may have to go on. After experiencing a bit of a fireman’s typical night – nights of waiting, eating, sleeping and games of basketball – the station finally gets a call from a nearby apartment building, much to Angela’s relief. Residents have reported that an elderly shut-in is locked in her apartment and is screaming like a banshee. When the firemen get to the location, with Angela and Pablo in tow, they find that the police are also there and the apartment buildings residents are all huddled on the ground floor foyer.…
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Karen Moncrieff delivers another great film after her 2003 debut, Blue Car. The Dead Girl consists of five vignettes showing five women who are all living unhappy lives. The reasons for these women living the way they do as well as how they go about changing their situations are different, each of them trapped for different reasons, but why they each decide to finally take the first step is not. The one thing that each of these women have in common, even though they are not even aware of each other’s existance, is the discovery of a dead hooker’s body. This event is the catalyst that has them doing something to change their fate as the rippling effect of one woman’s life ending spreads outward to modify the lives of five others. …
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Indie horror film out of Atlanta about the plight of some people living in the fictional city of Terminus. On New Years Eve a mysterious signal begins transmitting through televisions, phones and radio. It has no known origin but anyone who is subjected to it has their paranoia levels tweaked to maddening levels and in turn resorts to the cold-blooded murder of anyone they percieve as a threat. The film is separated into three chapters, each having their own director. The common thread throughout them all are three core characters. Mya (Anessa Ramsey), her boyfriend Ben (Justin Welborn) and her extremely suspicious husband, Lewis (AJ Bowen). After being separated, The Signal details Ben’s attempt to find Mya while dealing with the rather large chunk of society who have fell victim to the signal – as well as Mya’s husband. …
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The famous ’80s hair band, Solid Gold, have made a trek to a small community located on some snow covered mountains. They have made this trip in order to film a music video for their new hit song, Blood Tracks. The band and their entourage,which include the film crew and a gaggle of models who will appear n the video, are being housed in a cabin near their shoot and the small town is even lending them a chopper and it’s pilot, John. As luck would have it, near the cabin they are staying in is an abandoned factory. Deciding that an abandoned factory would be too awesome of a location NOT to shoot a music video, some of the crew begin scouting out the place. What no one knows is that for 40 years, a feral family have been living in this factory, and the sounds of all that shitty music has pissed them off, and visitors to their humble abode are not welcome. To top things off, avalanches have now trapped the band and their entourage on the mountain, cutting them off from help or any easy way to escape.…
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Within the first minutes of Who Saw Her Die?, A young girl is murdered at the hands of an unidentifiable woman dressed in black with a veil covering her face. Flash forward four years and we see the young Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi of Baron Blood and Deep Red fame) arriving from London to visit her father, Franco (George Lazenby), a local sculptor. Eventually, she too is stalked by a veiled woman dressed in black and subsequently murdered, her body found floating in the canal. After learning their daughter may be the victim of an active serial killer, Franco and his estranged wife, Elizabeth (Anita Strindberg), begin their own investigation. What they uncover is a conspiracy involving the upper echelon of Venice, and a killer who has a taste for young red-heads who has begun removing anyone making attempts at revealing their identity.…
Continue ReadingReview: W Delta Z – A Gritty Detective Thriller. With A Bit Of Torture
June 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm by Morbid
Veteran detective Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgård) and his new partner Helen Wescott (Melissa George) meet at the scene of a homicide. The pregnant girlfriend of a known thug has been found murdered and further investigating reveal a serial killer at work with a taste for torture. As the pair try to figure out who is behind the killing and why, things get personal when they find that this serial killer is not picking the victims at random, all of them being key players in a past criminal case Eddie had fumbled. The killer seems to be serving out a form of perverted justice while simultaneously using the victims to test out a mathematical equation.…
Continue ReadingReview: The Island – Ya’ Scurvy Dogs! Me Favorite Pirate Oddity! Arrr!
June 22, 2009 at 8:36 pm by Morbid
Blair Maynard (Michael Caine) is a reporter who decides to do a little investigative reporting on boats going missing in the region famously known as The Bermuda Triangle. Also going along for the trip to the Caribbean is Blair’s 12-year-old son, Justin. Blair soon finds out that there are no supernatural forces to blame for the missing ships but something just as fascinating. The ships are going missing because of a group of modern day pirates that have been operating in the area undetected for over 300 years. Blair and Justin are taken prisoner by the pirates for different, but equally disturbing reasons and taken to their secret hideaway. Now Blair must save himself and his son, and find a way off of - The Island!…
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“We got on the wrong shuttle” – Melanie
Melanie (Peyton List) and Jules (Cameron Goodman) return from a quick trip to Mexico, only to have their weekend of fun and sun dampened by air-sickness and the airline losing Melanie’s luggage. To make the situation worse, the shuttle they were forced to use to take them home, has experienced a flat tire in a rough neighborhood. But things aren’t all bad, as they are in the company of Seth (James Snyder) and Matt (Dave Power), two young men they met while at the airport. But what starts out as a simple series of disappointments, turns into a nightmare for the passengers of this particular shuttle, when it is revealed that the driver (Tony Curran) never had any attention of delivering them safely to their desired destination.…
Continue ReadingCrime Screen: Who Can Kill A Child? – The Best Of The Killer Kid Bunch
June 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm by Morbid
Here, Now – Who Can Kill A Child? is a woefully, and criminally overlooked horror movie made in 1976 filmed in various locations around the beautiful, Southern coast of Spain. It’s a terrific horror film that was ahead of it’s time and, over the years, fans were treated to a variety of shitty VHS and DVD releases – the US version being one that was hacked all to hell. But with the recent Dark Sky DVD release of the film, I decided it was time to point horror fans to an obscure film in the killer kid genre that is worth checking out.
Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) are an English couple vacationing in Spain. Evelyn is 6-months pregnant with their third child and Tom, a professor of Biology, has brought her to the coastal town of Benivas to rest while he rents a boat to get to their true destination; The island of Almanzora. A four hour trip by boat, the island is not normally flooded with tourists like the noisy Benivas.…
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Bryan (Liam Neeson) has recently retired from his job working for the government and is attempting to make up for time lost with Kim (Maggie Grace), his teenage daughter. But when she takes a trip to Paris she is abducted, along with with her best friend, mere hours after getting off the plane. An Albanian crime ring now has her and her friend, and they intend on selling them to the highest bidder. Bryan now has 96 hours to locate and rescue his daughter, or statistically, Kim will spend the rest of her life forced into prostitution, forever lost to the foreign slave trade.I am sure that by now you have heard at least one person talk about what a fun, ass-kicking film this is, so now with it out on DVD and Blu-Ray, you get to hear it again.…
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A young couple from the city embark on a weekend trip involving camping on the banks of the beautiful, secluded Eden Lake. But their romantic getaway is interrupted by a nasty group of unruly teens who also happen to be hanging out on the same shore. Jenny (Kelly Reilly), a young, pretty school teacher attempts to ignore them at first but their antics become increasingly hostile. Her boyfriend, Steve (Michael Fassbender), attempts to resolve the issue by simply reasoning with the group. This does not go too well and a minor altercation escalates to deadly proportions, with the couple finding themselves fighting for their lives as they are hunted down in the dense forest surrounding Eden Lake.…
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Got a confession to make. I am not a giant Sam Raimi fan. I know, some are already calling for my Horror Movie Lover’s card, but hear me out. Sure, the Evil Dead series are horror classics, introducing us to the world of splatstick. I sincerely appreciate both films and understand their place in horror movie history. But when it comes to his library of films, I just don’t like the majority of them too much. A Simple Plan, Spiderman 2 and especially The Gift (let’s see if I can hear some gnashing of teeth when I admit that I like this film better than the Dead ones) are about it for me. So when the news came out that Raimi was returning to his roots and his next film would be horror, my level of excitement didn’t really waver much in either direction. So what did Raimi deliver? A damn good horror movie is what. A Tales From the Crypt-ish, Poltergeist-y horror film sporing the PG-13 rating that showed off all the things fans of Raimi love to see, and hopefully enough gooey stuff and demon hi-jinx to stave off – at least for a little while – Evil Dead fans still waiting for a sequel.…
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Allow me to begin with a warning: Eden Log is a dark film. And by “dark,” I mean dim. And by “dim,” I don’t mean unintelligent. I mean, you better not be watching this film on an old-school LCD or with any ambient light in the room. The best way to view this flick is by unbolting your plasma from the wall and crawling under a blanket with it. But wait! Is there anything in this film worth seeing? What in the world is this French film even about? It’s a tough question, because Eden Log defies categorization. Director Franck Vestiel didn’t create a horror film, because there’s nothing scary about it. The creatures that inhabit the film’s dismal underworld are always kept at bay. Often, this is done with the clever use of saran wrap, a foil on violence not matched since M. Night Shamalamalahayha introduced space-faring aliens that were flummoxed by doorknobs. Other times, the creatures are just annoying, screeching backdrop. They run past our protagonist harmlessly. Or Eden Log Guards traverse a gangway on a different level–more far-off non-threats.…
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Two young girls, Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi), are on an Australian road-trip with Ben (Nathan Phillips) a city boy from Sydney. One of their destinations is the massive meteor crater located in the Wolf Creek National Park. After making the hike to the center of the crater, they return to find that their car will not start. Seeing as they are in the middle of nowhere with a storm quickly approaching, they decide to camp out in the car until morning. As night envelopes them, their luck turns as they are discovered by a friendly bushman named Mick (John Jarratt) who offers to tow them to his garage where he would fix their car and they could be on their way. With no other viable options to choose from, the three decide to take Mick up on his offer but once back at Mick’s camp, these three youths find that Mick is not that nice of a guy. In fact, he is the most vile, evil human being they will ever have the displeasure of meeting.…
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Not long after arriving at her sister’s remote manor to spend Christmas vacation, Elaine’s two youngest children begin showing flu-like symptoms. Within 24 hours, her sister’s two children are showing the same symptoms. But along with the sniffling noses and vomiting, the children have also started to demonstrate another unhealthy characteristic. They seem to be actively plotting the deaths of their parents. Now the only thing that is stopping the children from accomplishing their goal is Elaine’s rebellious, teen daughter Casey. But she is having trouble getting the adults to believe her, their denial prohibiting them from taking appropriate action before it is too late.…
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