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Monday Movie Review - HELL

I'd been hearing about this movie for some time. That it's a post-apocalyptic story about survivors trying to live in a world where the sun has scorched everything into a wasteland. Considering how much I love these kinds of movie, I thought I'd give it a spin.

We're introduced to three people driving through the countryside. An older sister with her boyfriend are in the front seat. The younger sister is in the back. They're looking for food, water, and gasoline, and come across what appears to be a deserted gas station. Instead, they meet another young man, who joins them on their journey.

Where are these people headed? We don't exactly know. It's like they're aimlessly searching for a place to "settle down". Instead, they run across a group of cannibals, and thus we get to the action part of the movie where they try to escape.

Although the acting was good, and the effects were better, a lot about this movie didn't make sense. For example, if it was so damn hot, why didn't any of them sweat? Why weren't their clothes wringing wet after spending so much time inside a stifling hot car with the windows rolled all the way up?

For all the nifty production values, the film fell flat for me. No real surprises. No real tension. There are lots of good post-apoc movies, and many of them don't have zombies or monsters - just the human sort. But when it comes to this one, my suggestion is that you

Monday Movie Review - THE DAY

I was expecting another survivors vs zombies story. Not only was I surprised, but I was blown away by the intensity of this film.

THE DAY takes place within one twenty-four-hour cycle. Five post-apocalyptic survivors find an abandoned farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere, and use it to take refuge from a rainstorm.

In the course of their rest, it soon becomes that the house isn't really abandoned. To make matters worse, their fight isn't against monsters. It's against their fellow men. Men who now hunt other men for their meat. For the world's population has been reduced to two groups: the killers, and those who would end up feeding them.

A lot of the kills are CGI, and sometimes they become too "obvious". But overall, the washed-out look and feel of this film is raw, real, and upsetting. Which is why I strongly suggest you

 

 

 

What's Coming to Get Us

A handy guide. According to science fiction, horror and paranormal movies and TV shows, here's the biggest dangers in each state. (Click for a larger version.)

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What's For Dinner?

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Update! OFFSPRING Heads for the Big Screen!

According to FearNet.com, Jack Ketcham's OFFSPRING is heading for the big screen! As I mentioned back on April 20th, Ketcham's OFF SEASON has not been optioned to be made into a movie. OFF SEASON is the first book, with OFFSPRING being the sequel. According to news reports, the movie rights for the first book were taken off the table by Ketcham himself, but he allowed OFFSPRING to remain up for grabs.

Re: the book - At the end of OFF SEASON, the reader discovers that a few members of the cannibalistic family survived and limped off to whereabouts unknown. OFFSPRING takes place a few years later, with those survivors now ready to go out and take up where Mom and Dad left off. Again, the descriptions of terror and bloodshed are gut-wrenching.

I'll post more news as I find it.