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Tag Archives: horror
Dawn of The Dead (2004) – The Good The Bad and The Odd 377
Mark and Sam talk about fast zombies and the Dawn of the Dead (2004) Feedback to: info@thegoodthebadandtheodd.com Or chat with Mark who runs the facebook account at http://www.facebook.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-odd or read Mark’s reviews on Letterboxd Main Page for iTunes, RSS, Stitcher … Continue reading
Of Unknown Origin 2.5/5
Man fights rat in a battle to the death. Yep, one rat. The only good thing about the movie is Peter Weller, the internal reference to The Old Man and the Sea, and the music. The ideas behind is, and … Continue reading
Hour of the Wolf 1.5/5
Pretentious flimflam of the highest order. An hour in, the film actually picked up dramatically and looking like it might have something worthwhile to it, but that ground to a halt after 10 minutes and went back to the tiresome, … Continue reading
Viy 4/5
Whacky Russian (and I mean Soviet Russia, not this namby-pamby post-Iron Curtain Russia) horror, with some bizarre, funny and quite memorable sequences… Old witch jumping on a guy’s back and flying him over fields, corpse-witch trying to break his mystic … Continue reading
The Conjuring 3.5/5
A solid, though derivative, entry into the haunted house/evil spirit/possession cycle that’s current, reminiscent somewhat of Insidious (and I’m ignoring that Patrick Wilson is in both), and supposedly based on true events, that works really well in act one, but … Continue reading
Valerie and her Week of Wonders 4/5
This was an oddity, and the first few minutes feel like some dodgy European softcore porn in how it plays, but you quickly get used to that, and it becomes a deeper movie, albeit reeking of sensuality, carnality and primal … Continue reading
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus 0.5/5
There’s very few movies where you watch it and think ‘this could have been better if Michael Bay directed it’, but this is one of them. An atrocity of the art of film making mostly, though it did earn a … Continue reading
Night of the Hunter 5/5
Superbly crafted movie directed by Charles Laughton, and it’s a damn shame it was its only directorial effort. It looks great, with some very stylised scenes borrowing from German expressionism, and reminds me a lot of another film that similarly … Continue reading
Revolt of the Zombies 1/5
Quite dreadful movie from the 30s that has two redeeming features – it’s only an hour long, and it apparently features Bela Lugosi’s eyes (lifted from White Zombie). The script makes very little sense, the zombies are kind of hypnotised … Continue reading
Freaks – Odd One Out 061
Mark covers the half-silly, half-sympathetic, half-shocking movie, Freaks
Cloverfield 3/5
I’m sure glad I didn’t see this at the cinema, the shakeycam would have been unbearable, I’d have vomited. Watching at home, you can at least avert your eyes and look at something else, which I ended up doing for … Continue reading
Kingology 001 – Carrie
First in a chronological monthly series about the books of Stephen King (and associated media). In this one Mark covers the book, the audiobook as read by Sissy Spacek, The 1976 De Palma movie, the 2003 TV movie, and the … Continue reading
King of the Zombies 1.5/5
Rather lame comedy horror from the 1940s that’s not funny or horrific. It also relies on racist stereotyping for its light relief, but the main comic relief does have some comic timing talent, but unfortunately his material is desperately poor. … Continue reading
Repulsion 4/5
One of those movies that represents a primal nightmare, in this case of a single woman who is not comfortable with men. She hates her sister’s boyfriend leaving his razor etc in the bathroom over her things, she hates any … Continue reading
Masque of the Red Death 4.5/5
I saw this before as a teenager, and thought it was deliberately overwrought and contrived just to fill the running time, and I had that general opinion of Corman’s Poe cycle. However, I watched The Haunted Palace for the first … Continue reading
We Are What We Are (2010) 3/5
An everyday story of a dysfunctional family who happen to be ritualistic cannibals… The film has all the elements to work and be great, with nice camerawork, acting and tension, but it’s lack of proper setup or explanation, even through … Continue reading
We Need to Talk about Kevin 4/5
What would it be like to have to raise a kid who is a psychopath? To live among people who vilified you for the actions of your child? To blame yourself, and be in fear that people will confront you … Continue reading
Onibaba – Odd One Out 059
Mark talks about the stunning Onibaba
Stridulum aka The Visitor 3.5/5
Completely bananas movie with an impressive cast (John Huston! Shelley Winters! Glen Ford! Franco Nero as Jesus Christ!) and with a young Lance Henrikson, this is a nutty cross between The Omen and the theatrical cut of Highlander 2, with … Continue reading
The Haunting 4/5
Lovely, atmospheric, tense, watchable. Not scary, but mesmeric. It adheres very closely in both story and tone to the Shirley Jackson book it’s based on, even using parts of the beautifully written opening and closing paragraphs of that book in … Continue reading
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – Odd One Out 057
If you want to hear about a movie where you’d see some messed up psychological and physical torture by an old lady, this is the movie for you! Even if you don’t watch to see a movie like that, listen … Continue reading
Pontypool – Odd One Out 055
The nicely original horror movie about an unusual form of zombification, Pontypool
Mark of the Vampire 3/5
This movie reinforces my view that Todd Browning was great at eerie and odd, but pretty terrible at conventional drama. He did it in Dracula, and he does that here. Only his ‘Freaks’ remains a pure masterpiece, because the conventional … Continue reading
The Tingler 3.5/5
A very fun horror movie, and I think in some shots, The Tingler looks pretty good (okay, in others, it looks terrible). I always liked the bath full of bright red blood right in the middle of a black and … Continue reading
Pontypool 4/5
Ferocious and very original, this shows what someone with talent can do with a small cast, a single set, and an idea seen through to the end. I have to confess I did not follow what was going on in … Continue reading
Lesbian Vampire Killers 2.5/5
Passably entertaining and benefitting from some good cinematography and sound design, and some quite great-looking ladies, giving it an old Hammer vibe, it could definitely have been funnier, but James Corden and Paul McGann as a potty-mouthed vicar and a … Continue reading
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter 4/5
Made at the tail-end of the Hammer era of horror movies, this is a rip-roaring, swashbuckling horror movie, with Captain Kronos killing vampires with a Katana many years before Blade got to it, this is just a lot of fun. … Continue reading
Galaxy of Terror 2.5/5
Well, it’s really cheap, but nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, basically ripping off Alien and throwing in a good dose of Solaris as the driver for the mayhem. And some yucky alien-worm rape. However, to break it … Continue reading
Doghouse 3/5
Goofy horror movie that just about works. Some of it isn’t great – the dialogue is not good (it’s clichéd) but delivered with some gusto, and you can tell some of the scenes probably seemed much better on paper than … Continue reading
Abby 3/5
This was a film of that was a distinct mix of good and bad (fittingly). Condemned to purgatory by legal threats from Warners about it being a ripoff of the Exorcist, it’s been hard to catch, and even now it’s … Continue reading