I like the Final Destination series of movies. There are four of them now and they are all pretty much the same. Someone goes into a trance like state where the have a vision of the disaster that is going to happen mere minutes away and panics..leaves the area which causes everyone in hearing range to also panic and not do what they were going to do.
In the first one put out in 2000, a teenage boy has a vision that the plane they were getting on for a school trip was going to crash. He has a fit, gets off the plane scaring everyone within ear distance into getting off the plane too. It crashs with no survivors.
The second one came out in 2003 and in it a teenager girl has a vision while waiting in piled up onramp to a highway that in mere moments a semi goes out of control and causes a chain reaction, killing everyone in its wake. She blocks the onramp with her car and saves herself and everyone behind her from the massacre when it comes true just as she saw it, minus her own body in the mess of dead.
The third one came out in 2006 and in it a girls sees her own death and that of her friends while waiting in line for a roller coaster ride that is doomed to crash while she's on it. She freaks out when she snaps out of the trance and loudly refuses to get on it, taking herself and those with her out of the line. Moments later the destined crash occurs.
Now comes the fourth which came out this year (2009) and this time a boy sees a car crash and chain reaction at the track where they are trying to enjoy the car races. The car goes out of control and literally brings down the building on top of everyone partly due to the bad maintenance, or lack thereof, of the facility's owners. He snaps out of it obviously scared witless and leaves with his friends and several people overhearing.
Now another thing they all have in common is this...they were not supposed to escape. It was there time to die. Now Death is pretty ticked off that victims on his list have gotten away from him. Not only themselves but a bunch of other people with the sense to listen and believe, and one by one, in the exact order they were meant to die in the accident he picks them off with other accidents. There are signs that death is zeroing in on you, but you have to pay attention and recognize the usually very deja vou signs and circumstances and get your tail out of there quick.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Messengers 2 Apr 2009
This is a Prequel, it is the story of John Rollins. He was the hired help from the first movie, the one that turned out to be the bad guy who killed his family. This movie was ok as a standalone movie, in my opinion they should have changed the name of the family and just be Messengers 2, another family living in the same house. But as it is, I didn't like it because they didn't stick to the plot of the original.
In this movie you see John Rollins, his wife Mary, his son and daughter living in the farm house trying to grow a corn crop that the crows seem bent on eating faster then he can grow it. He finds a scarecrow in the barn and despite his son's eerily predictions that its a bad thing and pleas to get rid of it he puts it up in the field and immediately his luck changes. The crows die off but so does everybody who is any kind of threat to him. They end up dead with their belongs in the cornfield close by to this scarecrow. To the banker who was going to forclose on the farm, to the guy he thinks is trying to zero in on his wife during their marriage problems.
What gets me is in the first movie you KNOW he ends up slaughtering his family as she tries to leave him yet in the prequell the family conquors all evil, patches their marriage and lives happily ever after? HA!
In this movie you see John Rollins, his wife Mary, his son and daughter living in the farm house trying to grow a corn crop that the crows seem bent on eating faster then he can grow it. He finds a scarecrow in the barn and despite his son's eerily predictions that its a bad thing and pleas to get rid of it he puts it up in the field and immediately his luck changes. The crows die off but so does everybody who is any kind of threat to him. They end up dead with their belongs in the cornfield close by to this scarecrow. To the banker who was going to forclose on the farm, to the guy he thinks is trying to zero in on his wife during their marriage problems.
What gets me is in the first movie you KNOW he ends up slaughtering his family as she tries to leave him yet in the prequell the family conquors all evil, patches their marriage and lives happily ever after? HA!
The Messengers Feb 2007
The movie starts off with an unseen person or entity killing a woman trying to flee with her son and daughter many years ago. Fast forward to present day the Soloman family moves into the farmhouse looking for a fresh start from where they were, including legal troubles from their daughter drunk driving and the toddler who is suffering psychological effects from the resulting accident leaving him unable or unwilling to speak. The son can see the spirits of the before mentioned murdered family still haunting the farmhouse. The husband and father tries to get a sunflower seed crop off the ground with crows circling around. They hire a wandering man looking for work to live and help them out with the crop.
The spirits begin to make themselves known to the older daughter and begin to physically attack and scare her. The parents think she's gone loco until things begin to esculate to the point where mom sees it too. It turns out the hired help was the killer of the first family. It was his own family and he was keeping his wife from taking the children and running with them.
It's a pretty good movie many scenes which makes the eyes open wide and the heart thump wildly.
The wife/mom is played by Penelope Miller. The dad is done by Dylan McDermott. Jess the teenage girl is played by Kristen Stewart.
The spirits begin to make themselves known to the older daughter and begin to physically attack and scare her. The parents think she's gone loco until things begin to esculate to the point where mom sees it too. It turns out the hired help was the killer of the first family. It was his own family and he was keeping his wife from taking the children and running with them.
It's a pretty good movie many scenes which makes the eyes open wide and the heart thump wildly.
The wife/mom is played by Penelope Miller. The dad is done by Dylan McDermott. Jess the teenage girl is played by Kristen Stewart.
Grace Aug 2009
This one was weird but is one vampire fans might enjoy. Michael and Madeline Matheson (played by Stephan Park and Jordan Lad)have been struggling to get pregnant and finally succeeded. With just a few weeks left to delivery they get into a car accident which kills both Michael and the baby. Michael's mother starts losing it a little in her grief and becomes a control freak and Madeline just wants to be left alone. She decides she doesn't want a D&C to remove the child's dead body from her but insists on finishing out the turn and delivering stillborn.
When she goes into labor with the help of her midwife and long time friend she delivers a dead child. She asks to be left alone with her baby for a few moments and miraculously (or otherwise...) the baby takes in a breath and starts crying. The baby cannot tolerate milk however, puking it up each and every time and when Maddie nurses she begins to lactate blood instead of milk which leaves her highly anemic and needing other sources to feed her baby who she vows to protect at all costs.
When the baby starts teething it isnt human teeth that sprouts..but fangs.
When she goes into labor with the help of her midwife and long time friend she delivers a dead child. She asks to be left alone with her baby for a few moments and miraculously (or otherwise...) the baby takes in a breath and starts crying. The baby cannot tolerate milk however, puking it up each and every time and when Maddie nurses she begins to lactate blood instead of milk which leaves her highly anemic and needing other sources to feed her baby who she vows to protect at all costs.
When the baby starts teething it isnt human teeth that sprouts..but fangs.
Drag Me to Hell May 2009
Yes! Something that actually scared me, sending gooseshivers down my spine. This kind of had the feel of a Stephen King spin off called Thinner (where the man was getting a sexual favor while driving and it caused an accident where a gypsy was killed. When he got off scotfree the gypsy's spouse placed a curse on him where every day he got thinner and thinner no matter how much he ate and tried to find a way to break the curse)
This is like that in that Christine (played by Alison Lohman) works at a bank that is getting quite competitive. She is in line along with another gentleman for a big promotion but she is too sweet with the customers. She doesn't like denying loans or recalling them. After meeting with her boss about the position she wants she picks the wrong woman to develop a backbone with. Mrs. Ganush is a gypsy who comes in to beg a loan extension on her house. She's already had several. Christine battles with it but decides to deny the loan extension to which the gypsy kneels on the floor to beg, security has to be called to get her out of there. After work Christine finds Mrs. Ganush waiting for her in the parking lot. She is anger at being publically shamed in front of all and after a quick physical tiff she grabs a button off Christine's outfit, curses it then hands it to her. The curse is that of the Lamia..its a demon who haunts and torments the victim for so many days before finally at the peak of it opens a doorway to hell and drags the victim through it. At the beginning of the movie we see it done to a young child, prolly not even 10 years old, who stole from a gypsy and could not break the curse in time.
Christine's time is ticking down rapidly among physical and psychological attacks and she learns to break the curse she must get the caster to lift it voluntarily, or give the button away as a gift and thus passing on the curse to them. Mrs. Ganush passes away leaving Christine either to pass on the button which will damn someone else or try to find another way. She enlists the help of psychic Rham Jas (played by Dileep Rao) despite the protestations of her boyfriend, Clay Dalton (Justin Long) who begins to think she's gone looney as he doesn't believe in the supernatural.
This is like that in that Christine (played by Alison Lohman) works at a bank that is getting quite competitive. She is in line along with another gentleman for a big promotion but she is too sweet with the customers. She doesn't like denying loans or recalling them. After meeting with her boss about the position she wants she picks the wrong woman to develop a backbone with. Mrs. Ganush is a gypsy who comes in to beg a loan extension on her house. She's already had several. Christine battles with it but decides to deny the loan extension to which the gypsy kneels on the floor to beg, security has to be called to get her out of there. After work Christine finds Mrs. Ganush waiting for her in the parking lot. She is anger at being publically shamed in front of all and after a quick physical tiff she grabs a button off Christine's outfit, curses it then hands it to her. The curse is that of the Lamia..its a demon who haunts and torments the victim for so many days before finally at the peak of it opens a doorway to hell and drags the victim through it. At the beginning of the movie we see it done to a young child, prolly not even 10 years old, who stole from a gypsy and could not break the curse in time.
Christine's time is ticking down rapidly among physical and psychological attacks and she learns to break the curse she must get the caster to lift it voluntarily, or give the button away as a gift and thus passing on the curse to them. Mrs. Ganush passes away leaving Christine either to pass on the button which will damn someone else or try to find another way. She enlists the help of psychic Rham Jas (played by Dileep Rao) despite the protestations of her boyfriend, Clay Dalton (Justin Long) who begins to think she's gone looney as he doesn't believe in the supernatural.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Orphan Jul 2009
John and Kate Coleman (played by Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga) have 2 children and is pregnant with a third. She loses the baby and goes through horrible emotional tramua which can be expected when a mother suffers the death of one of her kids.
After some healing time they decide to adopt a child and visit an orphanage where they meet and adopt a 9 year old girl named Esther(played by Isabelle Fuhrman) . After they bring her home,however, a series of accidents and deaths begin occuring, each with Esther in the middle of the circumstances. Kate begins to question Esther's sanity and John begins to question Kate's sanity seemingly leaving him to choose between his wife and their adopted daughter who falling in love with her adopted father and wants Kate out of the way.
Its a good movie with an unexpected surprise ending when it reveals exactly who Esther is and her history. 5/5 for keeping me interested and waiting to see what happens next!
After some healing time they decide to adopt a child and visit an orphanage where they meet and adopt a 9 year old girl named Esther(played by Isabelle Fuhrman) . After they bring her home,however, a series of accidents and deaths begin occuring, each with Esther in the middle of the circumstances. Kate begins to question Esther's sanity and John begins to question Kate's sanity seemingly leaving him to choose between his wife and their adopted daughter who falling in love with her adopted father and wants Kate out of the way.
Its a good movie with an unexpected surprise ending when it reveals exactly who Esther is and her history. 5/5 for keeping me interested and waiting to see what happens next!
Halloween Aug 2007
BIG spoilers here because I just can't seem to type enough about this movie lol.
I loved this version so much better than the original from the 70s and I promise that the fact that I am a White Zombie metal music fan and that Rob Zombie directed this remake is purely coincidental.
This remake starts with Micheal as a 10 year old boy played by Daeg Faerch and goes further than the original into showing what may have been the cause of this child becoming so completely warped that he became such a hollow and emotionless killer. His mother Debbie Myers (played by Sheri Moon Zombie - Rob's wife) is a stripper and the poor boy gets tormented by the guys at school who show him his mother's promotional posters for her show and make snide comments on the things they'd like to do to her. His mother's boyfriend is a drunken cripple whose mouth hurts worse then any kind of beating a kid could receive. His sister would rather screw her boyfriend upstairs then spend any kind of time with Micheal even while he begs for someone to take him trick or treating. He has a baby sister who becomes Laurie Strode later in the movie after she is adopted.
When Micheal finally snaps it starts afterschool on halloween when he beats to death the worst of his school yard tormenters with a large sturdy tree limb. When he gets home he seems to be fine until he mother needs to leave for work. He begs her not to go of course she does. His stepfather starts right in with the drunken insults. He pleads with his sister to take him trick or treating and gets told to go himself. He kills his stepfather quite gruesomely in his sleep, kills his sister's boyfriend when he comes down to get something to eat then goes up and takes care of his older sister. His mom comes home to find Micheal on the steps outside holding his baby sister telling her everything is ok now he took care of all.
Micheal goes to an institution where Dr. Loomis, who is played by Malcolm Mcdowel tries to help him but after his mother commits suicide while watching home videos of Micheal when he was a happy toddler he falls into himself and never speaks another word.
The adult 27 year old Micheal who breaks out of the facility to find his baby sister. (played by Tyler Mane). In this version he seeks his sister for reuniting. She is in no danger (even though everyone else is) at first until she stabs him in what she understandably thinks is self defense while he is trying to show her a picture of them cuddling in her infancy, trying to make her understand who he is. After she drives the knife in though..well all deals are off and the nasty chase begins.
The movie leaves one feeling sad for the childhood that he should have had..things could have been so much different if his family wasn't such a bunch of white trashed screw ups and leaves one feeling pity and empathy for the monster. A typical ploy by hollywood, like Dracula and Frankenstein and phantom of the opera.
I loved this version so much better than the original from the 70s and I promise that the fact that I am a White Zombie metal music fan and that Rob Zombie directed this remake is purely coincidental.
This remake starts with Micheal as a 10 year old boy played by Daeg Faerch and goes further than the original into showing what may have been the cause of this child becoming so completely warped that he became such a hollow and emotionless killer. His mother Debbie Myers (played by Sheri Moon Zombie - Rob's wife) is a stripper and the poor boy gets tormented by the guys at school who show him his mother's promotional posters for her show and make snide comments on the things they'd like to do to her. His mother's boyfriend is a drunken cripple whose mouth hurts worse then any kind of beating a kid could receive. His sister would rather screw her boyfriend upstairs then spend any kind of time with Micheal even while he begs for someone to take him trick or treating. He has a baby sister who becomes Laurie Strode later in the movie after she is adopted.
When Micheal finally snaps it starts afterschool on halloween when he beats to death the worst of his school yard tormenters with a large sturdy tree limb. When he gets home he seems to be fine until he mother needs to leave for work. He begs her not to go of course she does. His stepfather starts right in with the drunken insults. He pleads with his sister to take him trick or treating and gets told to go himself. He kills his stepfather quite gruesomely in his sleep, kills his sister's boyfriend when he comes down to get something to eat then goes up and takes care of his older sister. His mom comes home to find Micheal on the steps outside holding his baby sister telling her everything is ok now he took care of all.
Micheal goes to an institution where Dr. Loomis, who is played by Malcolm Mcdowel tries to help him but after his mother commits suicide while watching home videos of Micheal when he was a happy toddler he falls into himself and never speaks another word.
The adult 27 year old Micheal who breaks out of the facility to find his baby sister. (played by Tyler Mane). In this version he seeks his sister for reuniting. She is in no danger (even though everyone else is) at first until she stabs him in what she understandably thinks is self defense while he is trying to show her a picture of them cuddling in her infancy, trying to make her understand who he is. After she drives the knife in though..well all deals are off and the nasty chase begins.
The movie leaves one feeling sad for the childhood that he should have had..things could have been so much different if his family wasn't such a bunch of white trashed screw ups and leaves one feeling pity and empathy for the monster. A typical ploy by hollywood, like Dracula and Frankenstein and phantom of the opera.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Paranormal Activity Sept 2009
Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston (playing themselves) are a girlfriend and boyfriend who decide to move in together. Things begin to happen and the movie starts out with him buying a camera to set up and record the sounds beginning to slam through the house. He learns that his girlfriend Katie has been haunted by a demon who has been following her around since she was 8 years old and even burning down her childhood home. It's found her again and some eerie things get captured like swinging chandeliers when there is no open doors or windows and slamming doors. One eerie part was when Micah spread baby powder across their bedroom door and hallway and they woke up to cloven footprints through out the house.
It's filmed as a documentary much like The Blair Witch project and except for a few edge on seat scenes I really was not impressed. It's not all it was hyped up to be even though I do have to admit the ending had my mouth open wide enough to catch flies! I agree with the exclaimed sediments of a fellow movie watcher in the theatre when the credits rolled: "You've gotta be f***ing kidding me!"
It's filmed as a documentary much like The Blair Witch project and except for a few edge on seat scenes I really was not impressed. It's not all it was hyped up to be even though I do have to admit the ending had my mouth open wide enough to catch flies! I agree with the exclaimed sediments of a fellow movie watcher in the theatre when the credits rolled: "You've gotta be f***ing kidding me!"
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