Tormented 1959 or 60?

There was a recent gem that I found called Tormented. A little hokey in that it was on the cusp of 59/60, so you got some interesting "lingo". All in all, it did remind me of a ghost movie that I think Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's woman. Something about a widow that had an illicit affair in Victorian or earlier times with a soldier. I will have to look it up later. I am not really sure it was a ghost story or a redo of a famous Greta Garbo movie where she jumped in front of a train at the end, after a similar affair.

Dead Silence 2007

Dead Silence is the movie of my day. And it has family estrangement in it, so I'm a gonna use it!!! I don't really want to ruin any of the mystery so I will summarize it briefly.

Couple, who are married and in love, receive ventriloquist dummy in unmarked package at their door. Some mention of like "oh isn't that like the scary poem our parents used to tell us?" Sadly didn't prompt them to throw out doll right there. Tragedy strikes. Cops on wrong trail. Husband to solve crime, and the mystery begins......After a trip back to creepy home town with creepier father with new young wifey. Not perhaps the best acting that I have seen, but decent plot and twists that had me not nodding off. Wasn't quite scared by it, per say. Even though it's about creepy dolls. Maybe I have just seen too many movies about creepy dolls.

Suburban Nightmare 2004, The Dark Hours 2005, Taboo 2002

Note: For movies I like, I now have a category called "Recomend Movies". Any movies not tagged that, are crappy IMH(humble)O. I love Netflix and the amount of movies you can see in a month for little money. Many times these movies are crap. And pretty much, if you can play those movies on your computer, instead of waiting to receive them in the mail, I am learning the craptistics of that being true go up significantly.

These aren't gems, but I do occasionally find gems that make it all worth it, and have learned to pull movies (unless they are providing background noise) out of the DVD if they are truly not worthy.

Here is my crap list for this week. Also, remember the crappier the less I remember about the plot. These aren't real horrid crap, and if things had been done at all a little bit creatively, we might have had something here. They ranged from good but you gave the twist away right at the beginning, sort of interesting but all themes have been done to death and you didn't do any of them very well, and well typical.

Suburban Nightmare: Even darker Mr and Mrs Smith. They are serial killers however, but their marriage is on the rocks. Interesting concept, but in the end same old same old. You got your cannibalism, hostage in the basement, screaming, and various tools of the trade. Could have easily lived with out it.

The Dark Hours pretty much gave it's twist away in the beginning. Unless you aren't terribly observant, you are going to get what is going on right away. Ending reminded me of "Wild Things" except you are thinking "no duh".

Taboo: Think Dangerous Liasons or the related Cruel Intentions. Except this has all been done to death, and this movie is horribly done. Boring, first of all. I wanted them all to die.

Grindhouse Road 2007

Grindhouse'>http://www.rhitv.com/Movie.aspx?id=50">Grindhouse Road is, I believe, a made for tv movie. It's pretty fair, however. The plot was interesting, and I was not bored. Good mystery plot. I don't know how scared I actually got. In other words, a jaded horror movie like me is not going to find the movie too scary.

Kept me guessing, however, which is unusual and I like.

It's hard to describe much of this movie without being a major spoiler. Are the helpful nice neighbors really helpful nice neighbors? Why is the wife and new owner in the house SO interested in it's history when she has her own personal problems going on? What are those flashbacks all about? The mystery of the house was pretty decent for a made for tv movie.

The Garden 2006, House of Voices or Saint Ange 2004, Fangoria Blood Drive 2004, Inheritance 2004,

Okay, I go through a lot of dogs to find the good horror movies. Or I am just so jaded by the number of horror movies that I have seen, that I am just jaded in my opinions. Here is a listing of movies that I have seen that I have found not worth my while....

The Garden (2006)-Biblical references and little boys battling "evil" just don't do it for me. It seemed more like a bible lesson trying to mask itself as a horror movie. I didn't like it.

House of Voices or Saint Ange (2004)-Orphanage movie. Largely uninteresting, no real plot rather than trying to have some creepy images that ultimately went nowhere. Or I assume so, I fell asleep and had no interest in continueing to view the movie.

Fangoria Blood Drive (2004)-Had high hopes for this one as they are independent collection of horror fan movies. It fell flat, and I couldn't even tell you one story on there.

Inheritance (2004)-Wow snoozer. Again, I can't even recall what the plot might have been, other than I was bored to tears.

****The great thing is that through Netflix, I have seventeen hours of movies that I can watch online. The downside is the normally aren't the best Netflix has to offer, but just as occaisionally you come accross something, or can at least cross something off that WAS of interest before you saw it without messing up the que of movies coming to you.

Summer of Fear 1978 (Wes Craven)

***Also titled, Stranger in Our House

Okay, this was based on a book that I read in Junior High or so. Scared the crap out of me, it was one of my first honest to goodness witch books. A young Nanny Fine or Fran Drescher is in this movie!! Even as a youngster she had traces of her trade mark accent.

Linda Blair plays the lead role. Overall, an entertaining tale of a cousin that comes to live after a family tragedy. Seems like a nice enough girl at first, but things start happening.

I liked the book, and I like the movie as a light (probably okay for children) horror/scary movie.

Hostel II

Hostel II blew away Hostel. Surprising, I know, as I almost never think this. Very warped humor in this one. I don't think there was as much dark comedy used in the first one. I won't ruin it for you, but I enjoy a bit of funny mixed with my horror IF (and that's a big IF) it is done right. This one is. Also a big nod to other horror movie icons and movies.

A Halloween hit if you are looking for a good scary movie. (and are like me and have seen just about everything not new).

Premonition 2007

I don't know if this is truly a horror movie, rather than kind of a thriller bordering on sci fi. I liked it until the ending. I did not like the ending they choose for the movie, and it kind of ruined it for me. There was an alternate ending that might have saved the movie for me, that was a little more vague, and you could have filled in what you wanted it to be.

It was interesting, but a bit choppy. Hard to figure out how pieces were there, then not. That the future events that she hadn't affected yet, influenced past events where she had not been there before yet. Yeah, it's one of those, but interesting.

I could have easily lived without seeing it though, as well.

Ed and His Dead Mother 1993

Excellent. Comedy/horror. To do it well is genuis. Love this movie. A whole nother spin on Corporate America, Sales, and Industry:)

You know there is always a price, if you want to bring your loved ones back to life. Real quirky clientel at the general store, as well.

If you want to laugh, and you enjoy a little goulish humor, this is the movie for you.

Steve Buscemi, also from Fargo, is in it. Need I say more?