The Haunting in Connecticut

This movie was deliciously creepy (yea, deliciously... as in, if it were a food I would eat it!)

Basically it's a ghost story, akin to the Amityville horror: Family moves into house. House creeps the fuck out of family. Family gets its sanity fondled by ghosts. So on and so forth... I won't give too much away.

A trend with horror movies is that they lack a certain originality that most movies *don't have either*, so if you're one of those nit-picking "movie critics" that believes that a movie can't be good if it's not 100% fresh, than this isn't your movie. But if you like creepy ghost movies that will get you to jump more than once, see this movie.

Note: This movie didn't have any trailers/previews before it started, so I'm not even sure what kind of horror movies I can expect to come in the near future.... what a downer!

Last House on the Left

What a movie that was....

It starts off a bit slow (actually the movie moves at a weird speed, and it definitely felt a lot different than most of the movies already out there)

The storyline was nothing out of this world: Girl goes with family to the middle of nowhere, girl meets boy in the middle of nowhere, girl finds out boy's family is psychotic, boy's family tortures girl, and so forth....

What sets this movie apart is the shock-value... It includes things as tame as a rape scene (okay, not so tame), to as gross as watching someone stitch the skin on a guy's nose with a freakin' thread and needle (un-anesthetized), and watching someone's hand get majorly farked up by garbage disposal in a sink...

the ending was fitting of the movie, and I recommend anyone remotely interested in slasher flicks, horror flicks, or anything in that genre to see this movie...

I'M BACK

After a substantial hiatus I have returned, hopefully to continue to talk about the things that I hold dear to my heart (movies, obviously)...

Since my last post here's a non-comprehensive list of movies I've seen:

- Watchmen

- The International

- The Brave One

- The Ruins

- and an assortment of parts of movies, and movies not even deserving a mention

Watchmen was pretty good... I was tired, so it felt a little long, but the story was good, action was good, and the feel was spot on. It felt like a comic movie, and even though I've only read some of the source material, I don't find it hard to believe that the movie was a pretty literal translation of the novel (don't fix what ain't broke).

The international... felt long and drawn out, but the end was worth it. Decent action movie.

The Brave One... Way too predictable. Although, when Jodie Foster's character gets the shit kicked out of her it was some serious stuff... but other than that it was just "eh"

The Ruins... Me likey... It was slightly predictable.. I mean you know some bad shit is going to happen in ruins when you're watching a horror movie called "the ruins"... it was a bit farfetched, but the movie had a decent pace, and had some seriously tense moments.. It was just a little gruesome... okay, it was a lot gruesome.. I haven't seen a movie that gruesome in a long, long, long time, but I say it's well worth it. Not a top movie, but if you have the time just check it out.

Now I'm just looking forward to seeing "The Last House on the Left," although I've heard it's not great, I have to see it for myself.

Movies on the horizon:

X-men origins: Wolverine

Transformers 2

Terminator

The Haunting in Connecticut

9 (based on this Animated Short Film)

The Road (Read the book!! SOOO good... and I don't actually enjoy all that many books... although this book is post-apocalyptic, so it definitely fits into my preference, but it's good nevertheless (at least oprah agrees with me.. apparently))