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.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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!"
Friday, February 27, 2009
Bedtime Stories Dec 2008
Adam Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson who babysits his sister's (Cortney Cox Arquette playing Wendy) kids for a week while she goes for a job interview out of state. He takes the night shift while her friend Jill (Keri Russell) picks them up in the morning and takes them to school. He lives in the motel where he works as a handyman and discovers the bedtime stories he is telling his niece and nephew are coming true after they are told, at least the parts chimed in by the children it seems to be because of the magical powers of the guinea pig, bugsy. He uses this to his advantage to better his life.
Madea Goes to Jail Febuary 2009
Another Tyler Perry hit it was quite good, as funny as she always is with some very serious parts. The issue in this one is prostitution and drug usage. Anger issues land Madea (Tyler Perry in drag) in jail for 5 - 10 years. A young prostitute named Candace Washington (Keshia Knight Pulliam) gets arrested and it turns out the prosecuting attorney Joshua Hardaway (Derek Luke) knew her during their childhood years and because he was too close to the case he gave it to his fiance Linda Holmes (Ion Overman) to try who gets jealous of the friendship rekindling between the two as he tries to help her as much as he can. She plants false crimes uncommited in Candaces file getting her 17 years. While in jail she meets Madea who takes her under her wing.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Fireproof - Febuary 09
Remember Mike Seever from Growing Pains and a couple of Brat Pack 80s movies? Well he's doing Christian movies now he did several of the Left Behind Series and his latest is Fireproof. I LOVED THIS MOVIE!! I can't emphazise it enough if any couple is having martial problems this is the movie to see together. "Never Leave your partner behind." Kirk Cameron stars as Celeb Holt. He is a firefighter and a hero but he's let his marriage go to shambles. His wife is Catherine Holt (Erin Bethea) a public relations person at a hospital and they have one big fight that almost ends it all. She wants out and he don't care. His father challenges him to hold off the divorce and go through a 40 day love dare which will change the marriage. As it starts out the wife isn't buying it, it might have been let go for too long, many touching scenes seeing him pray and beg God and trying to make it right.
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