LET ME IN unfolds at a deliberate pace, all the better to allow the audience to assimilate this unusual take on the vampire mythos. The film, a variation on the Scandinavian art-house hit LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, aspires to do more than shock with gore. And it does. The shock, though, is in considering vampirism,… Read More »
CASE 39
CASE 39 takes a potent subtext about the terrors of unprepared parenthood and wastes it in a rote creepy kid flick that displays both iffy internal logic and a trifling execution. Renee Zellweger brings her best to this mess, but alas her efforts, when played out in the vacuum provided her, become at best a… Read More »
MY SOUL TO TAKE
MY SOUL TO TAKE is destined to be relegated to Wes Cravens lesser works. It has several nice twists and a deft way of misdirection that is marvelous to experience, even when one is perfectly aware of the manipulation. It may not have the humor of ELM STREET, or the rich panoply of that franchises… Read More »
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2
Paramount Studios bought the first PARANORMAL ACTIVITY with the intention of remaking it. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and the original by Oren Peli was distributed to acclaim and the new experience for some of being terrified by the sound of a refrigerator motor switching on. For PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, those cool heads are still in… Read More »
SEASON OF THE WITCH
SEASON OF THE WITCH is not a painfully bad film. Its not a particularly good one, either. Rather, it falls into that middling ground of an effort that provokes in the audience the collective sigh of Eh, Ive seen worse. And they have. GULLIVERS TRAVELS springs to mind, and would that it would spring out… Read More »
RITE, THE
THE RITE forges boldly into some interesting theological territories without ever quite making the trip as interesting as the ideas behind it. What begins as an intriguing consideration of how evil can insinuate itself upon even the most innocent of souls becomes, in a breathtakingly short period of time, a wordy symposium. Concepts and theories… Read More »
GHOST SHIP
We don’t, on the whole, ask a great deal of the usual Halloween releases. A few good scares, maybe a scream or two and, just for effect, a scene that makes us think twice about having linguine with red clam sauce after the flick. If we also get a plot that doesn’t insult our intelligence, so… Read More »
DREAM HOUSE
There are fine moments in DREAM HOUSE, but not enough so that the easily parsed story and oddly soporific direction fail to become insurmountable hurdles. Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz give performances that are visceral without being obvious, performances that amplify the sense of foreboding and suspense that should be coming from the… Read More »
TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL
TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL is a mordant comedy of errors that juggles the clichés of its genre with a buoyant impudence. And blood. A whole lot of blood. The genre is slasher flick, the sub-category is dumb college students in the woods, and in a refreshing turn of events, it is their very dumbness… Read More »
SILENT HOUSE
SILENT HOUSE is more than the one-trick-pony its gimmick might suggest. The gimmick is that its 88 minutes of running time are one continuous take. The more is that the filmmakers make it an integral part of the story of a family trip to the eponymous building that turns deadly. Sherlock Holmes once opined that… Read More »
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