Horror Rated R
"The time counter clicks away in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, and you’ll find your eyes clinging to it like a life preserver."
“…not only shows us how fear can come to dominate the human psyche – it lets us experience it.”
Sam Raimi must have really missed demonic vomit, bursting eyeballs and other such gory delicacies. After directing three Spider-Man films, Raimi returned to the outrageous (comic?) grotesqueries of his early career (The Evil Dead) with Drag Me to Hell. It was vastly overpraised as a piece of auteurism, but then again my enjoyment of said
"Cody has a distinct authorial voice and specific, pop-culture interests – and absolutely no idea what to do with either quality."
“…a woefully bad low-budget slasher flick.”
“Jason Voorhees is resurrected once again, this time as a cranky and violent marijuana farmer.
“…the anti-Twilight of 2008.
Horror Rated PG-13
Should a horror film be able to redeem its own idiocy with a switcheroo ending? The Uninvited, a Hollywood remake of a Korean production, certainly hopes so. Up until its last 10 minutes, The Uninvited is increasingly ludicrous and frustrating. The movie opens as high-schooler Anna (Emily Browning) is being released from a psychiatric hospital,
“…feels as if someone had videotaped their trip through a haunted house run by the local Jaycees.”
“The climax is deadening. Somewhere, Michael Haneke is saying, ‘I told you so.’
