got these in last night.
21- Mum & Dad – 2008 FTV. I haven’t hit the crazy family, abduction and torture genre much yet this year so this was fresh look.
Seems like the horror genre is filled with crappily made movie after crappily made movie. For a low budget, no name movie the first thing I look for as a positive sign is writer/director combo. This had it and you could tell he made the movie he wanted to. I am sure it did not take a lot of money to make this but it still looked and did everything it should have. The main leads did their part very well and I especially liked the three main female leads. The main female victim looked to be pretty physical and surprised they did not play that angle up a bit. Also, surprising to see on IMDB that she graduated from Harvard. The Mum and Dad characters will certainly be memorable to me and, funny thing, is I used to work with a guy that is physically a dead ringer for “Dad”. So, yeah, I’ve got that going for me…Not a game changer and everything plays out the way you would expect, but really well made for what they were trying to do. Not a ton of gore, but enough to get the point across.
3 sadistic Zombies
22- Prince of Darkness – 1987. I guess I have seen bits and pieces of this over the years on TV but never sat down for the full thing. 1987 James Carpenter flic that was a bit of a mixed bag for me. Creepy vibe to the entity in the basement and typical Carpenter good effects, score and mood. But the "college" students all looked to be in their 30's - including Jameson Parker who was almost 40 at the time of filming - LOL. Just made it seem a little hokie. Typical good Donald Pleasance and a very good setup but the payoff was frustrating to me. The pick off kills were almost TV-like and the final act felt rushed and incomplete. I know it’s by design, but as a creature feature fan, I wanted the typical mano a mano with the entity in the box. JC went a different route and probably made a more thought provoking entry because of it, but not the satisfaction that I wanted since it was late and I want simple.
Still, pretty well done and always fun/funny to check out a genre 80's flic.
3.25 Zombies with high wasted jeans
My October 2013 list
1-No One Lives -2012 FTV. 3 Psycho Zombies
2-Cockneys Vs Zombies – 2012 FTV 3.5 Cockney Zombies
3-Juan of the Dead – 2011 FTV. 3 dissident Zombies
4- Shaun of the Dead – 2004. 4 British Zombies
5-SPECIES II – 1998. 3.5 procreating Zombies
6-HALLOWEEN Rob Zombie style – 2007 FTV. 3 knife wielding Zombies
7-American Mary – 2013 FTV. 3 Modified Zombies
8- The Demented - 2012 FTV. -3.5 STINKER OF THE YEAR Zombies
9- Cemetery Man - 1994 FTV. 3 dinner plate Zombies
10-Trick r Treat – 2007. 4.5 old fashioned Zombies
11-OTIS – 2007 FTV. 4 no date to the prom Zombies
12-MANBORG – 2011 FTV. 5 ridiculously awesome Zombies
13-Frankenstein's Army - 2013 FTV. 4 Frankenstein Zombies
14-Vampire Hunter D: BLOODLUST – 2000 FTV. 4 Ghibli Zombies
15-Thale – 2013 FTV. 3 coulda shoulda woulda Zombies.
16- The skin I live in – FTV. 3 cringing Zombies
17-Evil Dead – 2013 FTV. 4 self amputee Zombies
18-The amazing adventures of the living corpse – 2013 FTV. 2 not amazing Zombies
19-PACIFIC RIM – 2013 FTV. 4.75 big ass Zombies
20- JEEPERS CREEPERS II – 2003. 3.5 creeper Zombies
21- Mum & Dad – 2008 FTV. 3 sadistic Zombies
22- Prince of Darkness – 1987. 3.25 Zombies with high wasted jeans