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Horror Movie Madness! – Drag Me To Hell (2009)

// August 2nd, 2009 // Comments Off // film

Supernatural horror films are the only type of films that give me nightmares and make me paranoid. I had nightmares after watching The Exorcist for the first time when I was 22. I was a little precautious that Drag Me To Hell may contribute to the same insomnia issues, but I was pleasantly proved wrong.

Drag Me to Hell begins with plain-jane loan officer, Christine Brown, committing an act of greed for the sake of her own ambitions when she denies a loan extension to a foul woman, Mrs Ganush, who is to be evicted from her home. Mrs Ganush morphs into a psycho stalker and places a curse on Christine during an after-work car park scuffle. After seeing a psychic, she is informed that the curse will create 3 days of a living hell for her until she is eventually dragged to Hell.

Sam and Ivan Raimi wrote the screenplay for this film shortly after completing Army of Darkness, but Sam went off to do Spiderman, which delayed the production of Drag Me To Hell. If the Evil Dead series have shown us anything, Raimi has always had an incredible talent of mixing horror and comedy together. Throughout Drag, I was unsure of whether I should be laughing or puking. Bugs spewing out of mouths, an insane nose bleed and digging up a grave in the middle of a storm – so outlandish that it both amuses and terrifies which makes Drag an absolute pleasure to watch.

Great effects mixed with a bit of whimsy, gore, frights and humour makes Drag Me To Hell the ideal movie to watch for anyone out for a fun ride. And it’s perfectly acceptable for viewing right before the lights go out.

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This is not a porno – sadly.

// February 22nd, 2009 // Comments Off // film, opinion

“MEAT TRAIN is guaranteed to make you squirm, scream and beg for more. You won’t need a round trip ticket for this sucker, because you won’t be coming back…7/10.” – Bloody Disgusting.com

I can say that I squirmed but I didn’t scream. And I didn’t want to even think about begging for more. Aisde from the fact that this film sounds like a dream for anyone who takes dick, I can safely say that this film is not a porno and if it had been it probably would have been super awesome. Alas, The Midnight Meat Train was a waste of time but I could not stop watching. Simply because I wanted to give the film a chance to prove to me why I just wasted 2 hours of my time.

I used to watch horror movies several times a week. I like crappy vintage exploitation style horror films. There are those films that are so bad that they’re good and become my favourites. A lot of the time I buy a film on dvd after reading about it and so I have a pretty solid collection. If in doubt – I download. And I am glad I did.

It’s films like these that make me wish I had a show like “At the movies” on ABC but it would just be horror films. And none of these stupid commercial films that everyone thinks are horror like “Disturbia” or whatever. I’m talking retarded remakes of classic 70s/80s films, awesome exploitation flicks – I would have the awesomest horror film review show ever in the history of all time. And if I had this said show, I would rip the fuck out of this film like that weird dude ripped out that chicks still beating heart in this flick.

The acting was shit, there was no real character development. The usual suspects were murdered the way it always is. It’s really quite sad because I quite enjoy the short story authored by Clive Barker, but I also wondered how they were able to turn a short story into a full length feature film that’s not craptastic?

Next I will be watching Quarantine, the remake of the Spanish horror film [REC] – should be interesting maybe… and if not, then stay tuned to my At the movies – horror(ble).