Sweden, Land Of Subtitled Vampires - Let The Right One In (2008)
On paper, “Let The Right One In” sounds a lot like the recent tween-pleasing “Twilight”: young Oskar (Hedebrant) keeps to himself and has few friends at school, living in an apartment with his mother. When Eli (Leandersson) moves into the building, he becomes enthralled with the young girl, with the eventual revelation that she is a vampire, incapable of escaping her hunger for blood.
Therein ends the similarities, as “Let The Right One In” acknowledges the darkness of its topic in a way “Twilight” never would
It’s Oh So Quiet - Hush (2008)
For first-time director Mark Tonderai, “Hush” is a film to be proud of, a low-budget British film that walks a fine line between horror and thriller that will get to you in a way a million American-teen-gets-slashed films never could.
Who Watches The Blog-men? - Watchmen (2009)
If you believe the trailers and the hype, Watchmen is a movie twenty years in the making, and adapted from ‘the greatest graphic novel of our time.’ Writer Alan Moore has previously given us V For Vendetta, From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but don’t expect that to be any indication of what you’ll see on the big-screen, as Moore’s distaste for Hollywood and the adaptations of his own comics has been well-documented. A far change from From Hell or V, Watchmen has much more in common with the Batman movies of the 80s and 90s, with camp costumes and shades of Bond shining through in a way that is both parody and highly reverent.
Friday The 13th (2009)
Jensen Ackles has already graced our screens this year in horror re-make My Bloody Valentine: now, it’s screen brother Jared Padalecki’s chance to shine in Friday the 13th, a re-make/reboot of the popular series that made Jason Voorhees (and his mother) a cult icon. Strictly speaking, the film is the twelfth in the franchise (just one short, dammit, and yes, we’re including the unspeakable horrors of Jason X and Freddy vs. Jason in there.
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
Sometimes, a movie comes along so unflinchingly terrible, it’s just awesome. Sometimes, that film is called My Bloody Valentine,
The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008)
In what could only be described as a summer of superheroes, the arrival of an X-Files movie was somewhat understated and passed by without much fanfare. The DVD release of The X-Files: I Want To Believe may go similarly unnoticed, which is quite a pity: in the great scheme of things, it’s actually a rather good film.
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
To say Mutant Chronicles has slipped under the radar would be an understatement: for a sci-fi/horror film with liberal amounts of violence, blood, guts and gore, the film has received little advertising or press coverage.
Which is surprising, because it’s a hell of a lot of fun!
Mirrors (2008)
There comes a time in every actor’s life when they happen across that role they were just born to play, a character whose life becomes so intertwined with your own that it’s difficult to see where the two join.
Bear that in mind before you go to see Mirrors, the latest Hollywood take on Asian horror.
Teeth (2007)
There’s only a handful of polite ways to describe what Teeth is about, so we’ll cover the basics here and let you add them up yourself: it’s a horror film involving a girl with teeth and said teeth are not in her mouth (well, she does have teeth there, they’re just not the important ones). If you haven’t quite gotten there yet, one scene involves a hysterically screaming gynaecologist clutching a bleeding stump…got it yet?
Taking that as your starting poing, Teeth could be either incredibly crass or wonderfully intelligent, and thankfully it fits into the latter category, and it’s all due to little touches.
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