Dark House

When Claire (Meghan Ory) was a child she lived through the murder of orphan children by their foster mother. It was a massacre. Fast forward to high school and she is still dealing with the tramua,, seeing a shrink and weaning herself off medication that she really does need to be on. The shrink makes the suggestion that she go back to the house and face her demons. So to speak which turns out to be more real then he imagined.

She is in the advanced high school drama club and a haunted house director with houses country wide comes in to hire 6 of them as actors for his new project he is getting underway...turning the house into a haunted house attraction with realistic looking holograms. When the holograms really start physically killing instead of just scaring they scramble to figure out whats going on and how to get out of the locked house.

Camp Hell - 2010

Tommy is played by Will Denton and he is a teenager coming of age and just beginning to recognize that ~ hey girls are pretty. His grandfather just passed away and he is grief stricken and he begins to be oppressed by a demon who follows him to Camp Hope which is a camp run by a cultist sect of Catholicism to which their parents belong called The Community. They really take the Catholic Christian teachings and run wild with them turning it very much into a cult like segragated colony.

The demon haunts the boys while he is trying to fit in and the attacks get worse and worse, it turns out there was another boy the former year who this exact same thing happened to that ended up trying to kill himself and his sister and is now in a mental ward. Will this happen to Tommy? It was a good flick the only thing I DIDNT like was the ending where he is offered communion wafer and he refuses saying he doesn't believe.

How the hell can you NOT believe after coming face to face with demonic forces? you would think the effect would be the exact opposite, it would drive him toward belief in the lighter half as well. Where there is one there is the other as well. wierd.

Charlie St Cloud - July 2010

Zac Efron plays Charlie St. Cloud. He is a sailing champion in high school who had everything going for him. One night while babysitting he got into a car accident with his little 9 year old brother in the passenger seat. They both died but Charlie was brought back by the ambulance tech, now with the ability to interact with the dead. He plays with his brother and talks with his high school buddy who died in a war while visiting his own grave.

Charlie begins falling in love with a girl he met at his caretaker job at the graveyard and starts to want to live again picking his life back up.

Nanny McPhee Returns

A dose of round 2 with Nanny McPhee set about 60 - 70 years after the first and not aged abit and recognized by grown children she had nannied and loved. Baby Aggie is there from the first movie now an old lady and still has that rattle.

A mother whose husband has gone to first in the ongoing world war tries to manage the farm by herself while also working a job off the farm and yet try to raise her own 3 children and her nephew and niece who has come to stay with them for countryside safety in case their london home gets hit. the cousins are spoiled rotten and the fighting with her 3 just won't stop. Nanny comes to bring order to the household and save the day in her no nonsense witchscraft type fashion.

Black Death - June 2010

The setting is in England during the initial breakout of the bubonic plague. A young novice monk named Osmund voluteers to lead a group of witch hunters to where a necromancer has taken over a village and is reigning with evil, killing Christians unless they recant their faith, raising dead bodies to life and casting curses that drive people insane.

Sean Bean plays Ulric, Eddie Redmayne is Osmund, John Lynch is Wolfstan, Johnny Harris is Mold, Edmun Elliot is Swire, and Ivo is played by Tygo Gernandt.

Beatdown - August 2010

Brandon is a streetfighter who is darned good. After his last win his brother went to pay off some gansters who he took a loan from and was murdered on his way there. Well they are not about to swear off the loan and they look to the next of kin for responsibility - Brandon. He was given 1 week to come up with the money. Not having it he jetted out of town to his dad's and took a construction job.
His construction job isn't cutting it so he finds out about an underground fighting group and makes arrangments to get in.

Basement 2010

A group of college students are on a trip together when they stop to use the woods on a piddle break. Two of them skip down a hole in the ground they find for some "alone" time and the others go down into it looking for them. The entry way is then shut by someone and locked leaving them to wander around trying to find a way out. While trying to escape they find a hospital like room with blood everywhere and one of them is not as innocent as they are claiming as they begin to die off one by one.

Danny Dyer is Gary, Jimmy Mistry is Derek, Kierston wareing is Sarah, Emily Beecham is Pru and Lois Winston is Saffron. The ending was kind of dumb but the meat of the movie was exciting and kept you waiting to see what happens next.

Base Line 2010

I wasn't really able to get into the movie. After about 20 minutes I gave up and moves to the next movie. Basically Danny (freddy connor) is a bouncer for a UK night club and he saves the life of Terry (Jamie Foreman) his boss and owner. He then gets welcomed into the boss's inner circle which is filled with crime.

Bare Knuckles - 2010

Jeanette Roxborough plays Samantha Rogers. A widowed mother of a disabled child who is struggling to makes ends meet. Sonny cool (Martin Kove) is a manager for a Ladies bare knuckles fighting group. He watches Sam bounce a rowdy woman out of a bar she is serving as a waitress at and takes an interest in her. He takes her under his wing, fine touches her natural skill and turns her into a darned good fighter who enters competitions winning enough to support her and her child.

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale - March 2010

Barbie is girl named Merleah who loves to surf. While in a contest her hair turned pink and she wiped out. While she was down in the water she found that she was able to breath and talk to the sealife. When talking to her grandfather about it she finds her mother was a Queen mermaid who was seeing her father before he died.

Now that she has come of age the people of Oceana want her to come back and defeat her evil aunt who ursupped the crown. After some reluctant convincing, down she goes to the deep to save the day.

Ballistica - 2010

This is a cheesy 3rd rate film about a man trained in the rare artform of ballistica. This form combines martial arts and the use of handguns for some pretty good moves. On an operation he rescues an american woman who inadvertently helped make a bomb for terrorists. They then spend the movie trying to find the bomb and disarm it. passable if you're bored. Nice ending twist. I give it a C +

It stars Martin Kove as Riley, Paul Logon as Damian, and Alexa is played by CB Spencer

Nightmare on Elm Street - April 2010

This is a pretty good remake of the original 1984 slasher movie. It is not quite as good as the original I think because Jackie Earle Haley does not have the same funny humour as Robert England. Sorry Jackie but Robert just plays the better Freddy. There are some changes to the movie and some additions while some scenes are pretty much repeated. Some of them are better, some of them were pretty much the same. As it turns out I pretty much like the remake and hope they continue with others in the series.

one of the major differences is Freddy didn't kill the children he was a gardener at the daycare center and lived in the basement. He brought the children to a secret room and molested them. The enraged parents then of course burned him alive. In this movie he is going after the children he molested whose parents killed him.

Rooney Mara plays Nancy, Kyle Gallner is Quintin, Katie Cassidy is Kris, Thomas Dekker is Jessie.

A Dangerous Man - Feb 2010

This is a Steven Segal action movie. He plays Shane Daniels who chased off would be muggers who attacked his wife as she waited for him in the car. One of them ended up dead and Shane was accused of the murder, found guilty and sentenced. While in prison his wife left him and his family and reputation was destroyed. His special ops military career was also over. Project Innocent was able to find DNA evidence as well as place the gun used on another person. the DNA evidence matched the other person and Shane had his charged dropped and was released.

He bought himself a bottle of booze and set on top of a bridge feeling sorry for himself and drinking his sorrows away when he witnessed oriental crime bosses kill a cop who pulled them over then start after the sons of a Russian mafia boss who witnessed the killing. Shane sweeps in kicks oriental ass and saves the Russian teenagers. They found an oriental girl in the trunk who revealed a sinister plot going on between corrupt cops gone bad working with the chinese criminals who wanted to hold her hostage to make her uncle, who they were smuggling into the country, cooperate.

It only gets better from there as Shane decides he is going to help with the aid of the Mafia father who now considers him a brother for saving his son.

Alice in Wonderland - March 2010

This is a pretty good version of alice in wonderland that actually takes place when alice is a teenager being proposed marriage two by a man she doesn't love. She returns to wonderland that she had visited when she was a child to save them from the red queen.

Alice is played by Mia Wasikowska. Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter. Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway makes a very beautiful white queen. It is gothic in design - true to Tim Burton form - and much more adult oriented but yet moderate enough for children as well.

8213 Gacy House - September 2010

Ghost hunters go into the home of John Wayne Gacy Jr to spend the night. The house where he killed and buried 33 young boys after assaulting them. They go in to make contact with the executed killer's spirit and get more than they bargained for. Along the lines of The Blair Witch Project and Paranomal experience everything is seen through the eye of the camera. The camera was eventually found as well as 6 bodies.

6 Guns - March 2010

Selina Stevens (Sage Mears) is a Happily married woman with two small boys watches helplessly as her husband and children are murdered by a gun slinging gang in the old midwest. They then rape her and leave her for dead, riding off into the sunset. She becomes an alcoholic until Frank Allyson (Barry Van Dyke), a bounty hunter rides into town and befriends her. He helps her clean up her act and teaches her to shoot.
The leader of the gang finds out the last man to have his way with her in fact did not rape her and shoot her as ordered but shot into the air and left. He returns to finish the job but finds her a much different woman then the innocent young Mrs they left the last time they were in town.