movie review – Page 3 – Dahlia DeWinters

Horror Movie Review – The Ouija Experiment

Title: The Ouija Experiment, aka The Realm Genre: Horror, Found Footage-ish Director: Israel Luna Writers: Israel LUna IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364842/ NO SPOILERS This was a movie that I stumbled upon perusing some streaming service or another. I suppose if you run a search for the title, it will tell you where it’s playing or where you can get it. Honestly, even though IMDB gives it a 3.4 out of 10, I actually enjoyed the movie. I’d even watch it again! Here’s the setup. There’s a film student (already annoying, lol) who plays with a Ouija board with his four friends. Why? They want to solve the mystery of a drowned girl that happened some time ago. I’m really fuzzy on the details because, well, it just didn’t matter to me after a while. Let me say upfront…it’s not scary. The acting is bad and the found footage-ish way of filming can by annoying at times. … Continued

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Horror Movie Review: The Houses October Built

Title: The Houses October Built Genre: Horror, Found Footage-ish Director: Bobby Roe Writers: Zack Andrews Stars: Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Bobby Roe IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1958043/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed. Synopsis: Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them… Today we have the found-footage (i.e. some of the film was shot with a hand-held camera) movie. The Houses October Built is quite a creepy movie. The gist of the movie is that five friends travel in an

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Thriller Movie Review: The Towering Inferno

Title: The Towering Inferno Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama Director: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin Writers: Richard Martin Stern … (novel) Thomas N. Scortia … (novel) and Frank M. Robinson … (novel) Stirling Silliphant … (screenplay) Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Robert Vaughn….. IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4392454/ HERE MAY BE SPOILERS Portions of the movie may or may not be revealed. Synopsis: At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. “To those who give their lives, so that others may live – to the firefighters of the world – this picture is gratefully dedicated.” I decided to watch this one yesterday afternoon. Why? I had seen an article on “Airplane” and that got me thinking about the seventies disaster movies. I had two hours with nothing pressing to do, so I turned it on. The movie is

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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.