Horror Rated NR
“The definitive zombie picture.”
Horror Rated R
A feature-length defense of the ugly American abroad, Turistas fearfully imagines what can happen when you let your guard down among strangers in a strange land. Josh Duhamel stars as a paranoid American reluctantly chaperoning his sister on a trip to Brazil. When he isn’t shouting at people in the wrong language, he’s worrying about
The impulse to laugh comes naturally during a lot of horror movies, so this British zombie comedy decides to go with the bloody flow. Simon Pegg plays an affable if unmotivated 20-something trudging through life like, you guessed it, a member of the undead. Dumped by his girlfriend just before a zombie outbreak, Shaun finds
A 1960 import from Italy, this quintessential B movie presents with utter seriousness a mad scientist, nuclear-age paranoia and a lovely lady fainting into the arms of a hideous creature. Bad movies rarely come so good. The madness begins when statuesque stripper Jeannette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) is disfigured in a car accident. She’s taken in
“…knows it’s ridiculous, so it makes that ridiculousness part of the fun.”
” … the off-kilter production design suggests it’s actually taking place within the confines of a deeply disturbed mind.”
“…provocation at its ugliest.”
Sam Raimi’s third Evil Dead entry, in which our reluctant stud hero Ash (cult figure Bruce Campbell) must fight the requisite demons in the 14th century. Raimi and his camera never slow down, which is good because many of the gags don’t stand up to scrutiny. Still, his effects manage some nice nods to the
A derivative shocker that’s as dreadfully dimwitted as its name, Ghost Ship follows a salvage crew and their discovery of a cruise liner that’s been lost at sea for 40 years. It may sound creepy, but the ship turns out to be little more than a floating display of horror-movie cliches. If there’s any creativity
Saw opens with a jarring jolt, as two men wake up to find themselves chained to pipes in a fetid bathroom. Yet rather than remain in this claustrophobic situation, the movie opens up into a standard and gleefully grisly serial-killer thriller. It doesn’t help that one of the trapped men is played by Cary Elwes,
