horror movie – Dahlia DeWinters

Horror Movie Review – The Open House

Title: The Open House Genre: Thriller/Horror Synopsis: (from imdb) A teenager (Dylan Minnette) and his mother (Piercey Dalton) find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house. If you’re a fan of horror movies where “the black guy dies first”, this movie is for you. To begin, let me tell you I watch a LOT of garbage. As a person who watched horror movies, I have accepted and even embraced the fact that not every movie I screen will be good or even palatable. Still, even in the worst of horror movies so far, I’ve been able to not be disgusted by them. Sure, they’ve been dumb, silly and downright terrible, but there was always a little spark of originality or the fact the movie didn’t take itself too seriously which mitigated its terribleness. This is not the case with The Open House. If,… Continued

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Blogtoberfest – Horror Movie Review – Friend Request

Title: Friend Request Synopsis: A popular college student graciously accepts a social outcast’s online friend request, but soon finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her closest friends. Genre: Horror Opinion: Let’s face it, most of us live online these days, especially those under 30. Between online dating and online classes, people find themselves either at the computer or on their cell phones. People are judged by the number of friends they have on social media or the number of likes they have on a post. Some people pay good money to acquire followers and/or garner even more interest in their online musings. Okay, you might be saying, it’s a movie review, Dahlia, get to the damn point. All right then. I say all that to say is when we see a post with no likes or a person with a low number of

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5 Fandom Friday – 5 Films I'm Excited for in 2017

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time and followed it through all its iterations, then you know how much I love movies. Not just horror movies, but movies in general. Usually these movies are a couple years old, if not older, but today you have a special treat. Since I’m doing Five Fandom Friday, come with me to the future as I discuss the films I’m looking forward to this year. Get Out From Wikipedia: A young African American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate where he learns that many of its residents, who are black, have gone missing, and he soon learns the horrible truth when another frantic African-American warns him to “get out”. He soon learns this is easier said than done. Written and directed by the Jordan Peele, the shorter half of the comedy duo Key and Peele, this film truly presents

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Horror Movie Review: 13 Cameras

Title: 13 Cameras Genre: Horror Director: Victor Zarcoff Writers: Victor Zarcoff Stars: Neville Archambault, Sarah Baldwin, Sean Carrigan IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4392454/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed. Synopsis: Claire and Ryan, a newlywed couple, move into a new house across the country, only to find out that their marital issues are the least of their problems. This…ah…..film popped up on my Netflix queue and I clicked on it just to see what was up. I like the “secret watching” horror flick, whether it be through a window or hidden cameras. Well. Well. Well. (big sigh) The first thing I do when I turn on these movies is to turn off my over-40 brain and get into the shoes of the protagonist. The, I turn off my writer brain and simply follow the narrative. If I watch a film with any of these personas

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Horror Movie Review: Session 9

Title: Session 9 Genre: Horror Director: Brad Anderson Writers: Brad Anderson, Stephen Gevedon Stars: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed. Synopsis: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back. As you can probably tell, I do love some movies. Older movies, awesome. Newer movies, not so much. I take that as a sign of the times. Most of the movies do not target my demographic as a woman of a certain age, so I don’t fault them in the fact that they don’t reach me. I’m no longer part of the teenage early twenty crowd, and many of the actors I admire and look for in a film are, gulp, retired. But sometimes there comes a movie that’s

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Horror Movie Review: Final Girl

Title: Final Girl Genre: Horror/Thriller Director: Tyler Shields IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124787/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed. Synopsis: A man teaches a young woman how to become a complete weapon. Later she is approached by a group of sadistic teens who kill blonde women for unknown reasons. The hunting season begins. For goodness sake. I knew it was all going wrong when Wes Bentley appeared on my iPad screen. That deadpan expression and that draggy way of talking he has. So, I was eye rolling within the first few minutes of the movie. Then the training sequences began and I became intrigue. Was she going to be a spy? Was she going to hunt serial killers? This movie was highly stylized and seemed to take on the characteristics of a play being presented on film, much like Glengary Glen Ross or Oleanna.