Archive for the “Movies” category
Childhood traumas: Mike Ryerson
by Pete on August 30, 2010
When I was in elementary school, Channel 4 in Indianapolis would show Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot miniseries somewhat regularly. As I was a rather timid child, my parents would never let me watch it. I eventually got tired of hearing (…)
Doug Bradley has the right idea, at least
by Pete on August 29, 2010
A bunch of horror blogs I follow seem to be getting pretty excited at the prospect of Hellraiser: Revelations. For the life of me, I can’t understand why. Every Hellraiser movie after the second installment was total shit. The fourth (…)
[REC] 2 is pretty damn good
by Pete on June 12, 2010
[REC] 2 is now available via various video-on-demand services ahead of its US theatrical release in July. I watched it on Amazon VOD last night. It is a rather different movie than the first installment in a number of ways, (…)
Got new movies, but feel a bit icky about it
by Pete on June 7, 2010
The bad news is that the last video store in town is going out of business. The good news is that they are having a going-out-of-business sale. For the low-low sum of about fifty bucks, I picked up: Tremors Hard-Boiled (…)
Just call it “Q”
by Pete on June 5, 2010
Over at The Final Girl, Stacie Ponder kicks off the celebration of her blog’s fifth birthday by posting a big batch of her favorite horror movie posters. They’re all pretty awesome, but I think this one takes the cake for (…)
An HP Lovecraft movie that doesn’t suck?
by Pete on June 2, 2010
I will totally watch the hell out of this movie: It’s from the good people at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, the same folks who brought you a surprisingly good silent version of The Call of Cthulhu a few years (…)
Scott Pilgrim vs. Michael Cera
by Pete on May 31, 2010
There’s a new trailer out for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: This one looks better than the first trailer, but I remain unconvinced that Michael Cera was the right choice to play Scott Pilgrim. I don’t have a better suggestion, (…)
Red band trailer for [REC] 2
by Pete on May 30, 2010
This is just all sorts of awesome. You have to do the stupid age-verification thing, and then sit through a trailer for Splice (which actually doesn’t look half bad), but then the sweet, sweet U.S. red-band trailer for [REC]2: Oh (…)
The problem with Avatar
by Pete on August 23, 2009
In case you missed it, the first trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar was released late this past week: Obviously, this is just the trailer, and not the full film. Maybe it will look a whole hell of a lot cooler (…)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
by Pete on December 14, 2008
I watched Who Killed the Electric Car? last night. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. While the film is relatively well put-together, it definitely has “preaching to the choir” quality that is fairly typical of this brand of documentary. (…)