Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

I was a bit skeptical of this one at first as I wasn’t sure Leigh Whannell could pull off a horror comedy, but I really liked it.

It didn’t dwell too much on the cutesy side of things and the comedy was reasonably smart.

I loved the cast and the special effects were great.

Basically this is a really fun movie to watch. I’m still sleepy today so I’m still leaving this short, but I definitely recommend this one if you’re into, umm…zombie comedies? Zomedies?

Well, we’re finally at the end. I wish I were a little less sleepy tonight because this one actually wasn’t bad.

I felt like the story was a bit truer to the intent of the original movie. I was happy that mostly everyone got what was coming to them. And I was happy to see (spoiler ahead) Dr. Gordon make his appearance.

I’d definitely give this one four out of five stars, and for more than just Sean Patrick Flannery! Oh yeah – he’s in this too.

I was about to ask myself (or rather, ask you) where I find these movies, but this one I got straight from Milo Ventimiglia’s IMDb page, so I suppose I already know the answer.

To perhaps no one’s shock or amazement, this movie was about family, love, and loss – and I liked it quite a bit.

I’ll admit, this one was better than I was expecting it to be. It wasn’t great, but it had enough going for it that I felt it deserved a four out of five.

The cast worked well together and there didn’t seem to be any out-of-place terrible actors in the bunch.  The story made sense for the most part and the tension definitely built up throughout the movie.

Where it falls apart is in its exposition. I felt like the cards were shown too early and there wasn’t much payoff from the “twist” at the very end. Like, you already know who’s holding them captive…no one does anything surprising…and it ends basically as you’d expect.

I know this is one of those iconic ’80s horror movies, but I’m admitting to you all right now that tonight was the first time I’d ever seen it.

Sure, I knew most of what it was about but I don’t think I’d ever realized that Catherine Hicks (whom I know from 7th Heaven which I totally never ever watched) and Chris Sarandon were in it. In fact, I may have been confusing Child’s Play with Problem Child because I kept expecting John Ritter to pop up on screen (he never did).

I wasn’t expecting too much out of this one so it was a pleasant surprise to find that I rather liked it. Sure, it could just be the British accents. I do love a British accent.

But really, this was a horror comedy that did pretty well on both fronts. After a few bad attempts at this genre I’m happy to have found a new one to recommend.

The music is a bit much at times and there are definitely parts that drag on, but for the most part this is a cute, clever little black comedy that I really enjoyed.

Having seen all of Degrassi: The Next Generation, I had a pretty good idea of what Kevin Smith thinks about Canada going into this. And yep, that’s essentially what this movie is about: what Kevin Smith thinks about Canada.

Sadly this was another mediocre film. At best.

But it did have Kevin Pollack and Katheryn Winnick so it had that going for it?

The music is overbearing, the pacing excruciatingly slow, and the story altogether a bit boring.

I’d skip this one unless you can’t avoid it. It’s good background noise. At best.

Unsurprisingly, this movie didn’t really add anything to the franchise so (again unsurprisingly) I don’t have much to add about it. It felt like the most unnecessarily gruesome and graphic of the lot so far, though.

On the plus side, there’s only one left! They say all good things must come to an end…hopefully all not-so-good things must come to an end as well.

(Okay, spoilers ahead) Seriously, though, just when I thought that jackass was going to get what was coming to him, it looks like he’ll be back for next week’s finale. Sigh.

This movie is sitting precariously just at the edge of being a good movie but I don’t think it quite makes it. It’s well acted and the camerawork is great but the story doesn’t have enough substance to hook its audience.

I liked the characters from the start – the main group are all sympathetic relatable characters for the most part (at least as far as the audience knows at first) and the dialogue flows nicely. The group chemistry seemed complicated but realistic so my favorite scenes were the ones where Jay and Gal or Jay and Shel were just having a normal conversation.

Overall, I like this one. It’s not too graphic (though I’d hesitate to recommend it if you’re squeamish around bugs) and it’s well acted with an interesting story. Not the most original of stories, but an interesting one nonetheless.

Jodelle Ferland plays the creepy little girl just so damn well. But let’s be honest – if you name your daughter Lilith, you’re kind of asking for evil demon trouble, aren’t you? I can never tell if I like Renée Zellweger or not and this one definitely didn’t make the decision for me. She was okay, but I just wasn’t feeling it – I have to assume it’s partly because her character is kind of an idiot in this.

This is another movie I liked more than I really feel I should. It definitely didn’t earn it.

Seriously though, where has this movie been hiding from me? No wait, don’t answer that, I already know – 1995. This movie is all ’90s, through and through.

The first clue? Scott Bakula is first billed in the cast. Don’t get me wrong, I like Scott Bakula, I just…haven’t seen him as a leading man since the ’90s.

I like this one, but I don’t really have a good reason to. The story is interesting (if a bit convoluted and contrived) but that’s about all this really has going for it.

The pacing is all over the place – at times things feel busy and hectic and the action happens at a mile a minute, while at others the film seems to drag on endlessly while the characters prattle on about one thing or another.