Movies to look forward to...summer 2010

Just looking on IMDb to see what good movies are coming out this summer... Looks like this summer is full of monsters, science experiments gone wrong, drugs and giggles. Here's what I found:

NEXT WEEK!!!!!! The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street finally comes out! I know most horror fans are not looking forward to this, and I don't blame most people. Remakes are mostly over-rated. But Freddy Kruger?! The first time Freddy graced us with his presence was in 1984...That's before I was even born. As much as I love this movie and think there's nothing wrong with it, seeing Freddy with updated make-up and watching Nancy and her friends die with better special effects will definitely be a treat. I'm not saying it will be better than the original, but I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I wonder who's going to get sucked into the bed...

The new A Nightmare on Elm Street trailer

The Human Centipede

I found this gem while searching through the new releases on IMDb. I had never heard or read about it before. The movie takes places in Germany where two tourist girls get lost and stumble upon the house of a mad scientist. The scientist wants to create a human centipede by fusing three bodies together.

This looks like it could potentially be the most disturbing movie of the summer. It looks like it will be bloody, immoral and something I will have to watch through half open eyes.

The only problem is that it will be a limited release...So finding a theater in my area that's playing it will probably be a little bit difficult. It's also being released the same day as A Nightmare on Elm Street. Maybe I'll just have to make a day at the movies!

Watch the trailer!

Holy Rollers

Alright...So this isn't a horror movie at all. But I do have a weakness for drug related movies. And Jesse Eisenberg.

This movie is about a young Jewish boy who's about to get married and he needs a little extra cash. He gets into the drug trafficking world and doesn't realize how deep he's in until it's too late to get out.

This movie looks like it could either be fantastic, or super slow. And there's only one way to find out. Holy Rollers comes out May 21.

Watch the trailer!

Survival of the Dead

He's at it again...George Romero has yet another movie to add to his growing list of "dead" movies...The movies that made him as famous as he is.

IMDb says that the movie is set for release May 28. Buuuuut...I found a copy on the internet and have already watched it. I won't ruin anything for anyone. All I'll say is that I think Romero has lost his zombie touch...Just a little. I feel like this movie had more of a sarcastic undertone to it then his previous movies which took surviving the zombie apocalypse very seriously.

Either way, if you like Romero, it's worth watching.

Check out the trailer!

Get Him to the Greek

Oh how I love to satisfy my funny bone! Russell Brand and Jonah Hill in a movie together again? That's all I need to know. I'll probably even pee my pants a little bit.

It comes out June 4.

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Splice

Mmmmmm I don't know about you but I love a little bit of science fiction with my horror.

I read about Splice in a copy of Rue Morgue magazine just over a year ago and have been itching to watch it ever since. Finally, the time has come. Well...not yet. I still have to wait until June 4. I've waited this long...A few more weeks won't hurt.

The movie is about two scientists who accidentally create a new life-form. It seems pretty predictable that the new creation will go on a murderous rampage...At least that's what I'm hoping for.

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TOY STORY 3

Is it alright that I'm THIS excited for this movie when I'm 22 years old? I can remember when the first Toy Story came out when I was so so so young...And the desk lamp that jumped on the bouncy ball and accidentally deflated it before the credits of the movie. Wow I can't wait for this.

I have a feeling it will be a tear jerker. For me at least. I can't help it. Andy's going to college! Who wouldn't cry?

I can't wait. I think th 3-D thing is a little bit overused at this point but I'll go to see it anyway. It comes out June 18.

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Despicable Me

I lol-ed throughout this entire trailer. There's no way I'm NOT seeing this. Just watch the trailer...This one comes out July 9

Watch and lol!

Predators

You know... I didn't really think much of this. And then I watched the trailer and saw that Robert Rodriguez had his hands on this project. And now it has my full attention.

I didn't really like the first Predator movie. But maybe I'll give this one a shot. Maybe.

It comes out July 9 as well.

Watch the trailer

Sooooo overall, the summer of 2010 is not a good one for horror movies. But on the flip-side, there are lots of other fun movies coming out. This is not a list of ALL of the movies being released this summer...Just the ones I am personally looking forward to. If you want to find out about more movies coming out this summer just go to the IMDb website. You can find a complete list there.

Brutal Massacre - A Comedy

So this movie is about a B-horror movie director who's trying to direct his final "masterpiece" but everything goes wrong.

It's pretty good if you want a giggle. The movie has a bunch of B-movie actors in them too, like Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Brian O'Halloran (Clerks), Ellen Sandweiss (Evil Dead), Gunnar Hansen (who played the original Leatherface) and Gerry Bednob (the "go fuck a goat" guy from 40 Year Old Virgin)...just to name a few.

I probably wouldn't watch it again...But it was pretty good for a one-time thing.

Preview!

Broken

So when you're in a bad mood, what cheers you up? A disgusting, disturbing bloody movie? That's definitely what cheers me up.

My friend and I spent about an hour looking through a video rental place for that perfect "pick me up" movie. After discovering that they didn't have any of the movies we originally wanted (Inside, Martyrs, Frontiers) we found Broken. I'm the one that convinced her to rent it because it was a Dimension Extreme film, which means it has to be good, right? RIGHT?

Wrong.

I think this was one of the slowest horror movies I have ever seen. The movie is about this man who kidnaps women, puts them through a self-survival test, and if they pass he makes them his personal slave. The man lives in the middle of the woods in a tent and seems to be a naturalist. He kills his own meat, grows his own garden...etc. The women serve the purpose of doing these things for him.

I think this movie was put into the Dimension Extreme family because the few gory scenes in the movie were REALLY gory. To the point where I had to watch through my fingertips. But other than the maximum eight gory scenes, this movie was a bore. I had never even heard of it before I saw it in the video store even though it came out in 2006...But now I know why. This movie was much better left unwatched.

James and the Giant Peach

I remember watching this movie religiously as a child. The centipede was always my favourite which is weird because every time I see a centipede I shriek and go bananas.

Directed by Henry Selick, I consider this movie one of my great childhood classics. Watching it over again and remembering all the songs and just how horrible James' aunts were was hilarious. Isn't it amazing what we can think of when we just use our imaginations?

The biggest kick I got out of re-watching this movie was when the centipede goes under the frozen water to try and move the boat which has gotten stuck in the ice. When he's down there he finds an abandoned pirate ship. He walks into the ship, yells "Skellington!" and who do we see, but a character from one of Selick's other childhood classics.

This movie, along with The Nightmare Before Christmas as well Coraline, is often confused as being a Tim Burton movie. It's true that Tim Burton had a hand in producing both Nightmare and James, but they are not, in fact, directed by him. I think this may put Selick ahead of Burton in my all-time favourite directors category. Especially after Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland...

We'll never tell the kids...

...Cinderella died

Happy un-valentine's

For next year...

Alice in Wonderland (the original)

A few nights ago, my room mate and I watched the original Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. I haven't seen it since I was in first year university so I had forgotten some of the best parts of the movie.

After watching the original though, I think I have figured out why I didn't enjoy the Tim Burton version of the movie as much as I had originally enjoyed the cartoon classic. Tim Burton formed his movie to be a sequel to the Disney version. The Tim Burton version takes place when Alice is in her 20s and she is facing a difficult decision on whether or not to become engaged to a man she does not truly love. To escape tis reality she dives into a rabbit hole and rediscovers Wonderland.

But it's not the same as when she visited the first time. The first time she was there all of the characters seemed so light-hearted and content with their Wonderland world. The second time she goes, however, there is a dark undertone which follows Alice as she re-encounters character after character. This could be because when Alice visits the first time she is six years old and does not have much to be sad or worried about in her real life. What does a six year old have to worry about other than behaving herself and trying to do her best in school? When she visits as a twenty year old, her vision of the world has obviously become more clouded through her maturity; she is being pressured into being married without loving her fiancée, she has surely seen the darker parts of the world including poverty and war, and she has surely by the age of twenty made friends and lost them for whatever reason. Since Wonderland exists in Alice's head, it is no wonder that the happy-go-lucky place she once knew has know become dark and almost ominous.

Another thing that I didn't really realize until I watched the original was that this sequel was not a musical. I had not forgotten that Disney made a musical but I had just put it out of my mind. I guess this sort of adds to the happy and bubbly place that Alice originally encounters when she is six. Without the musical aspect, it definitely adds gloom to Alice's new idea of Wonderland.

United States of Tara

A few months ago my sister discovered this tv show on my mom's Rogers on Demand called United States of Tara. She tried to convince me to watch it telling me it was about a woman with multiple-personality disorder. But that's all she told me. So I didn't believe her that it was a great show.

But then I was at my mom's house with a bunch of free time on my hands so I decided to give it a shot. I'm super glad I did too! Not only does Tara have multiple personalities, but she has a husband, two kids and a sister who are all main characters in the show. And ALL of them are equally as hilarious as Tara.

The show was created by Diablo Cody who also wrote Juno and Jennifer's Body. I didn't know this until I started watching the show and saw it in the opening credits, but that just makes me love it even more. It's such a great show.

If you've never sen it, check it out. I'm sure it will completely suck you in like it has done to me.

Click here to see one of Tara's hilarious alter-egos.

Frontier(s)

I heard about Frontier(s) a long time ago but never really understood what it was about. From the preview I could tell that there were many riots and I assumed it was about something political.

I haven't been able to find this movie to rent anywhere. My friend and I tried to find it in the video store the other day so I looked it up online today. I now know why video stores don't carry it!

And I was right about the political background...kind of. The beginning of the movie starts with five "friends" who are up to no good. They have a bag of cash and are trying to escape the city, we assume for political reasons since there is a seemingly unwanted election happening at the time. One of them is shot and dies in a hospital. The rest try to get to a hostel. Two make it there before the other two and chaos ensues.

You never really find out what the five of them were up to when they were in the city but you know it's illegal since they are trying to escape with a huge bag of money. The rest of the movie doesn't really have much to do with politics at all.

This movie is kind of like Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Hostel. TCM because they encounter a family of crazed lunatics, Hostel because they are kidnapped from a hostel in a different country and the family uses the hostel to lure people in. The movie has nothing to do with either of these other movies though. It's something totally fresh, which is great because it's really difficult to find a slasher movie that isn't like all other slasher flicks.

If you don't mind subtitles, you should for sure watch it.

Oh you Frenchies and your horror....

Watch the trailer!