Sunday, October 4, 2009
Its Alive 2009 English Movie Watch Online Trailer free Review Cast And Crew
Its Alive English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Skye Bennett,
Raphaël Coleman, Arkie Reece
Directed by: Josef Rusnak
Produced by: Michael Dougherty,
Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni
Writer : Larry Cohen, Paul Sopocy, James Portolese
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 80 min
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence,
some sexuality/nudity and language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Synopsis
Its not that horror or cool,but the idea of wicked baby who is bloody and kill?!,he is large for age,can creep,sneak,have nails,sharp teeth that just appeared in some or one scene.they dont show the baby while he kills.
and at the end ,the mother takes the baby,and stay at the burning home to die together,leaving her husband and his brother out.
the learnd lesson from it,is that we shouldnt be against God's well.abortion is not good,she took bad medicines and then asked God to make the baby live,he lived but cursed
Synopsis
I love It's Alive, it is a favorite of mine. Cheesy 70's killer baby flick, you can't beat that. I am a big fan of Larry Cohen, and his older flicks, so when I heard a remake was being made I was skeptical. I thought if done right, if they went with a less cheesy approach, it could be decent, at least better than some of the other recent remakes. I wasn't sure what was going on with this film until recently I received a screener of the remake at work. I must say, I actually enjoyed it a lot more than expected. It has flaws, including a CGI killer baby this time...but overall, this film is actually a lot of fun. It isn't the spooky, realistic film it could have been, but it is a bloody good time. Though not as much fun as the original, it is a decent watch, with some decent gore. It really has no relation to the original, other than a killing baby, and the same of the family is still Davis. Overall, if you like the original, it is a decent watch, and if you haven't watched the legendary classic, watch that first, then this. I was just sad they didn't recreate the milkman scene
Review:
The original which I have only seen once, don’t remember too much it and I knew i didn’t like as IT didn’t really scary me or creep out.
now in this remake which went straight to DVD, Lenore is pregnant she take break of collage leaves and then soon she feel pain , as they rush to hospital and Doctor tell Frank (The Father of baby) Baby is grown and need perform a C-Section, while she only 6 months pregnant,and the baby seen normal,Then we see another nurse goes pass room, see all nurse have being killed in the room.
As they take the baby home, everything see normal as start of the movie they show bit of baby looks too cute to be evil at the point and soon after birds has been found dead in house and Garden then Lenore soon find out that baby has just killed the Cat and now she knows.
It is Alive alive unr dvdWhile her Girlfriend is really worried about as she not answer her calls for long a time as goes to Lenore house with boyfriend and soon ends up getting killed by the baby (The deaths were okay and bit bloody which i really liked but most of the deaths are same as the mum goes to find the baby and she her baby has killed her best friend then he hides the bodies in basement.
Dark Country 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Trailer Review Cast And Crew
Dark Country English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane, Chris Browning, Aynn Kirby,
Rene Mousseux, Con Schell, Jonathan Lund, Nikki Kelly
Directed by: : Thomas Jane
Produced by: Patrick Aiello, Ashok Amritraj
Writer : Tab Murphy ,
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 87 mins. (approx.)
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for some violence,
bloody images, language and sexuality..
Distributors: Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Releasing
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Languages: English
(Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
SYNOPSIS
Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading each character to an inescapable fate.
Thomas Jane (HBO’s “Hung,” The Punisher) stars in and makes his directorial debut with this suspenseful horror thriller. Also starring Lauren German (Hostel: Part II) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy II: The Golden Army).
Reviews
I had the awesome privilege of being able to see Thomas Jane’s new film, Dark Country at the Long Beach Comic Con. The best part is that we got to see it in 3D with Thomas Jane! If you didn’t already know, Jane both directed and stared in the film, along with Lauren German and Ron Perlman. We’ve been covering the progress of this film since we first heard about it and I’ve been looking forward to seeing this film for quite some time now.
If you’re a movie geek that likes The Twilight Zone and film noir then Dark Country is a movie I think you will really enjoy. It mixes the two types of film styles and story telling techniques extremely well. The story is fun, engaging and campy but in a good way. If it didn’t have the campiness factor to it then it wouldn’t have been as enjoyable as it was. The way the film was shot, and the style of acting that was implemented, helped enhance the world and story that Thomas Jane wanted to tell us.
The movie follows a recently married couple traveling to their honeymoon destination from Las Vegas. Along the way they get distracted, miss a couple of turns and get lost. As they backtrack through the heat infested desert looking for the right road, they come across a bloody unrecognizable body from a major car wreck lying in the road, his face is pretty much gone. As bad as the guy looks they find that he isn’t dead. They put the jacked up guy in the car to help him and try to get him to a hospital. It is at this point that the couples trip turns into one hell of a fun and crazy ride with an unexpected outcome.
The film was shot beautifully! That’s one of it’s strongest qualities. Each shot was set up perfectly and looked like a work of art. It had a very clean slick feel to it that gave the film a very high quality polish. This movie has a very heavy film noir style and it’s done brilliantly. The lighting techniques and camera angles are fantastic in replicating and bringing the 1940’s and 1950’s style of filmmaking back to life. This style worked perfectly for the 3D element that was added to the film.
I am seriously sad that you wont get to see this movie in 3D anytime soon. The 3D in the film was never used as a gimmick. It was 100% used to enhance your experience and pull you into the story. The 3D and film noir style blended perfectly! It was amazing at how awesome it looked. Hopefully one day you will get to experience Dark Country in its 3D glory. If not don’t worry, the movie is still really good.
Dark Country was Thomas Jane’s first directing gig and he did a great job taking the script written by Tab Murphy and turning it into a visually stunning masterpiece. I would love to see him direct another film.
Dark Country is not for everybody, It starts out a little slow and is very different from what you are used to seeing in at the movies, which is one of the reasons I liked it so much. It’s not afraid to be different and try something new. I recommend that you give this
Trick R Treat 2009 English Movie Watch Online Trailer free Review Cast And Crew
Trick 'r Treat English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Quinn Lord, Brian Cox, Leslie Bibb, Dylan Baker,
Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, Moneca Delain, Lauren Lee Smith,
Directed by: Michael Dougherty
Produced by: Michael Dougherty, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni
Genres: Suspense/Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 82 min.
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence,
some sexuality/nudity and language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Reviews
It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four women cross paths with a costumed stalker at a local festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick. Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem... the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety-human and otherwise-try to survive the scariest night of the year
"Trick 'r Treat....more like Trick you into watching a load of crap"
Well, it's being compared to the original Halloween as a classic October viewing. Some say that they can't imagine single horror fan that won't fall head over heels in love with it. They say it's one of the best genre films of the past few years. 10 of 10, blah, blah, blah, BLAH. Bullshit. It's funny, though. Why is it that movies that get pushed back constantly and don't get theatrical releases and end up being seen by few, everyone praises it. This movie is shit, and I implore everyone to not just go out and by this piece of shit. At least rent it or watch it online, which is what I did.
I'm not one of those people that get into the hypes of movies. I think it's wrong to even hype up a movie at all, but it has no effect on me. Back in 2007, like every other movie fan out there, I saw this interesting trailer for a movie called Trick 'r Treat. The first word that came out of my mouth was, "Wow". Can't wait. It had a release date already for October 2007. I counted down the days and it was finally time, but no Trick 'r Treat was nowhere to be found, so I just had my Saw IV for the Halloween holiday. I tried to find out everything I could about why this movie wasn't coming out. I heard all kinds of rumors, like they didn't have enough financing, but the most bizarre and shitty explanation I got was that they didn't want to compete with Saw. Come on, now, if that rumor was true, then that so much full of shit. Wow, I didn't know Saw movies was releases on everyday in October. If you didn't want to compete than just release the damn movie on the first Friday of October. It'll still have that Halloween feel too it. Saw usually releases at close to the end of October. Plain and simple, they didn't want to release at shitty ass horror movie.
Now, a while ago, I got on my computer and just started skimming through some free movies to watch, because I was so bored, then I came across Trick 'r Treat. I couldn't wait to get it on Netflix so I just turned off my lights, sat in the dark and got ready to watch this horror flick. I must admit, the first five minutes of this movie really creep me out. It was almost like an homage paid to Michael Myers, but after the kill sequence is over, that's when the agony started. First off, if your a big horror fan like I am, you'll know that the music score is a big part of what makes an horror movie great. The score in the first Halloween was so creepy and made the movie even scarier. Okay, the score in this movie is so over the top Danny Elfman sounding music. Douglas Pipes performs the score of this movie and it almost does sound like Elfman's work. It's way too loud and the pace is to fast. The music makes this even worse. Already, I'm glad this didn't get released in theaters, because I would have paid to see this piece of shit. This film is being called an anthology horror film, and it's really not one. Watch Creepshow and the Tales from the Darkside film. Those two are anthology. Well, maybe the movie's just trying to do anthology in a different way, because unlike Creepshow, which separates it's stories with chapters, Trick 'r Treat, constantly, skips from one scene to the next, backwards and forwards, earlier and later on. It just starts getting way too confusing. Also, unlike most anthology horror films, this movie doesn't know what it wants to be. It doesn't know if it wants to be like a party style horror flick, like Creepshow, or a straight horror galore-fest, like Tales from the Darkside. I'll give it this, Trick 'r Treat does capture that Halloween setting. Also, there is one sequence with some cool ass effects. Sadly, it tries to hard to shock, creep, and scare you. Michael Dougherty, the director, just goes way over the top, pushes the envelope and gets no results from it.
Trick 'r Treat is a below average, sub par horror movie that just disappoints you all the way through. You guys remember Nickelodeon's Are you Afraid of the Dark and R. L. Stine's Goosebumps TV series. Okay, take those two series combine them together and throw a R rating on that and you got Trick 'r Treat. Really, I'm serious that's what I got from this movie. Trick 'r Treat is nothing more than a R rated horror/kids film. However, I'll watch Are you afraid of the Dark and Goosebumps back to back before I watch this shit again. Some of you might bitch about my review. Try to say that I really didn't see it. Say I'm lying or some shit, but I understand. You haven't seen it yet and still defend it. Look, honestly, unless your like 11 years of age or under, you can't be serious and enjoying this movie and call it good, because when I was that age Goosebumps creep me out.
If your a lot older, well, damn, your either lying to yourself and just bough into the hype of the movie and just don't realize how bad it is, or you don't really care what you watch. In closing, I'd rather eat an apple with razors in it before I watch this abomination of the term horror film
The Children 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Review Cast And Crew
The Children English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Rachel Shelley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Eva Birthistle, Eva Sayer, Jeremy Sheffield
Directed by: Tom Shankland
Produced by: Allan Niblo ,James Richardson
Writer : Tom Shankland
Writer (Story) : Paul Andrew Williams
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence, some sexuality/nudity and language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Synopsis
The film is based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams, acclaimed director Tom Shankland's new film truly brings horror home. New Years Eve, and what should be a relaxing vacation for two families coming together to celebrate the holidays, ends up as a desperate fight for survival, as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and turn against their parents with horrifying consequences.
Review
Killer kids films are a dime a dozen, an under explored genre that always seems to work better is the kids are English, the accent is of course the accent of choice for international villains and other evil doers.
I didn't know much about The Children before going in but what I got was a rousing good time of child carnage and taboo busting.
Family members reunite at a country house for christmas for some quality time. The children are playful, maybe too much so, filling the surroundings with ear piercing screams of laughter while the parents try to have a nice holiday. But early on it's obvious that something is not quite right with one of them, Paulie, played by a creepy looking sumbitch William Howes, stares blankly in to space and is generally in a foul mood. The filmmakers hint at some sort of reason as to why the kids quickly turn from rascally cutie pies to psychotic bastards but fortunately never come out and say it which makes the whole thing more effective.
What makes this film succeed is how director Tom Shankland handles his child stars who are exceptionally creepy without so much as uttering a word. A blank stare from a cute child is very unsettling and what he makes them do is just down right wrong. But what he also does is making the kids get on your nerves at the beginning with their constant screaming so it makes it easier on you to cheer when the blood starts flowing in a very gut punching way, leaving you howling with laughter and guilt for enjoying watching a child get stabbed through the neck on a broken door.
There is a good buildup of tension and Shankland manages to keep things rolling when the fun begins. It's well shot, maybe a bit too hectic editing in parts but overall a very successful crowd pleaser.
Children have been used with a polarized range of convention in horror film. On one end is the perception of childhood innocence, using children as an emblem of hope to put a finishing touch on many a horrifying movie involved in exploring ruthless despair up to that point. On the other end on the pendulum is the frequent cliché of the creepy, sometimes evil child, a convention that only works because of the previously established perception of children as innocent. Films ranging from The Omen to Village of the Damned to their respective remakes to the cinematic miscarriage that was The Orphan play off the idea that turning something perceived to be innocent turning evil is one of the scariest things of all. However, we’ve seen it in so many movies by this point that this convention has lost its ability to be effective.
The UK horror flick The Children gives a nice fresh tweak to a tired and all-too-familiar horror trope. The story is simple: an extended family goes on vacation to celebrate New Year’s in a cozy but lonely cabin in the woods, and their youngest children gradually go violently insane and attempt to kill their elders off one-by-one. The children’s motive is only half-explained, resulting from a mysterious sickness that possesses them, youngest to oldest. The film’s ending alludes to something more complex going on, but The Children thankfully avoids the type of clear explanation that often takes all the air out of films like this. The ambiguity works.
The experience is not told from the children’s or their parents’ perspective, but from the standpoint of the oldest “child,” a disaffected teen largely ignored and undervalued by her relatives as a result of the constant attention given to the needy children surrounding her. This POV succeeds because she sees the children like the audience is meant to see them: not adorable icons of innocence and purity, but intolerable agents of noise and pitiful codependence. The whining and screaming of the children in the film’s beginning establishes them as selfish, disruptive, maddening forces of nature, paving away for their acts of violence later in the film rather than revisiting the worn and far too two-dimensional cliché of innocence-turned-evil.
This particular depiction runs against the notion that children possess some sort of innate purity lost somewhere in adulthood that pervades not only horror cinema, but society at large. The Children instead poses the opposite idea, that children—or, at least, these children—contain a unique capacity for inhumanity lost somewhere in pubescence (which is why the ‘sickness’ doesn’t affect the grown teen). The children of The Children aren’t emblems of hope seen before in all kinds of movies, but are depicted the way many people refuse to acknowledge them to be: insufferable. These are the children you see screaming incessantly at the supermarket. Kudos to The Children for constructively using one’s daily rage at other people’s kids as the starting point for a unique and entertaining horror film.
As with any horror film taking place in an isolated location, there are limited characters and thus a limited amount of kills, but writer-director Tom Shankland (adapting a short story by Paul Andrew Williams) makes the most out of this willful restraint. Each violent action is innovative, satisfying, affecting, effective, and well-worth-the-wait, avoiding the buckets-of-blood aesthetic and incessant violence characteristic of subsets of this genre. The film makes great use of parallel editing to complement one moment of violent suspense with several others occurring at the same time, amplifying this effect through sounds of seemingly arbitrary details, like a tea kettle or loud toy. The Children is also a uniquely colorful horror film, covering the frame with a varied range of yellow hues combined with contrasting colors, subverting the palette typically used by filmmakers to depict an aura of positivity and juxtaposing an attractive palette with horrifying acts. This combined with the factor of the film taking place mostly in the daytime shows that The Children isn’t going for the easy scare, separating itself from the pack of scary kid movies through Shankland’s confident stylistic approach (some disturbing images come off downright beautiful, like a close-up of blood permeating the white snow). The performances are decent all around, and Shankland avoids the typically flat performances given by children by focusing on the young actors’ facial expressions rather than overwhelming them with dialogue that would inevitably be badly delivered (this is one movie, Mr. Fure, that kids don’t ruin).
That being said, The Children really isn’t all that scary or creepy. It flirts with ideas like the troubling implications of hurting a child in self-defense or a literalized Freudian horror of being killed by one’s beloved offspring, but the film, intentionally or not, won’t resonate or get under your skin. It’s nothing more than an entertaining and well-made horror film.
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Rachel Shelley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Eva Birthistle, Eva Sayer, Jeremy Sheffield
Directed by: Tom Shankland
Produced by: Allan Niblo ,James Richardson
Writer : Tom Shankland
Writer (Story) : Paul Andrew Williams
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence, some sexuality/nudity and language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Synopsis
The film is based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams, acclaimed director Tom Shankland's new film truly brings horror home. New Years Eve, and what should be a relaxing vacation for two families coming together to celebrate the holidays, ends up as a desperate fight for survival, as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and turn against their parents with horrifying consequences.
Review
Killer kids films are a dime a dozen, an under explored genre that always seems to work better is the kids are English, the accent is of course the accent of choice for international villains and other evil doers.
I didn't know much about The Children before going in but what I got was a rousing good time of child carnage and taboo busting.
Family members reunite at a country house for christmas for some quality time. The children are playful, maybe too much so, filling the surroundings with ear piercing screams of laughter while the parents try to have a nice holiday. But early on it's obvious that something is not quite right with one of them, Paulie, played by a creepy looking sumbitch William Howes, stares blankly in to space and is generally in a foul mood. The filmmakers hint at some sort of reason as to why the kids quickly turn from rascally cutie pies to psychotic bastards but fortunately never come out and say it which makes the whole thing more effective.
What makes this film succeed is how director Tom Shankland handles his child stars who are exceptionally creepy without so much as uttering a word. A blank stare from a cute child is very unsettling and what he makes them do is just down right wrong. But what he also does is making the kids get on your nerves at the beginning with their constant screaming so it makes it easier on you to cheer when the blood starts flowing in a very gut punching way, leaving you howling with laughter and guilt for enjoying watching a child get stabbed through the neck on a broken door.
There is a good buildup of tension and Shankland manages to keep things rolling when the fun begins. It's well shot, maybe a bit too hectic editing in parts but overall a very successful crowd pleaser.
Children have been used with a polarized range of convention in horror film. On one end is the perception of childhood innocence, using children as an emblem of hope to put a finishing touch on many a horrifying movie involved in exploring ruthless despair up to that point. On the other end on the pendulum is the frequent cliché of the creepy, sometimes evil child, a convention that only works because of the previously established perception of children as innocent. Films ranging from The Omen to Village of the Damned to their respective remakes to the cinematic miscarriage that was The Orphan play off the idea that turning something perceived to be innocent turning evil is one of the scariest things of all. However, we’ve seen it in so many movies by this point that this convention has lost its ability to be effective.
The UK horror flick The Children gives a nice fresh tweak to a tired and all-too-familiar horror trope. The story is simple: an extended family goes on vacation to celebrate New Year’s in a cozy but lonely cabin in the woods, and their youngest children gradually go violently insane and attempt to kill their elders off one-by-one. The children’s motive is only half-explained, resulting from a mysterious sickness that possesses them, youngest to oldest. The film’s ending alludes to something more complex going on, but The Children thankfully avoids the type of clear explanation that often takes all the air out of films like this. The ambiguity works.
The experience is not told from the children’s or their parents’ perspective, but from the standpoint of the oldest “child,” a disaffected teen largely ignored and undervalued by her relatives as a result of the constant attention given to the needy children surrounding her. This POV succeeds because she sees the children like the audience is meant to see them: not adorable icons of innocence and purity, but intolerable agents of noise and pitiful codependence. The whining and screaming of the children in the film’s beginning establishes them as selfish, disruptive, maddening forces of nature, paving away for their acts of violence later in the film rather than revisiting the worn and far too two-dimensional cliché of innocence-turned-evil.
This particular depiction runs against the notion that children possess some sort of innate purity lost somewhere in adulthood that pervades not only horror cinema, but society at large. The Children instead poses the opposite idea, that children—or, at least, these children—contain a unique capacity for inhumanity lost somewhere in pubescence (which is why the ‘sickness’ doesn’t affect the grown teen). The children of The Children aren’t emblems of hope seen before in all kinds of movies, but are depicted the way many people refuse to acknowledge them to be: insufferable. These are the children you see screaming incessantly at the supermarket. Kudos to The Children for constructively using one’s daily rage at other people’s kids as the starting point for a unique and entertaining horror film.
As with any horror film taking place in an isolated location, there are limited characters and thus a limited amount of kills, but writer-director Tom Shankland (adapting a short story by Paul Andrew Williams) makes the most out of this willful restraint. Each violent action is innovative, satisfying, affecting, effective, and well-worth-the-wait, avoiding the buckets-of-blood aesthetic and incessant violence characteristic of subsets of this genre. The film makes great use of parallel editing to complement one moment of violent suspense with several others occurring at the same time, amplifying this effect through sounds of seemingly arbitrary details, like a tea kettle or loud toy. The Children is also a uniquely colorful horror film, covering the frame with a varied range of yellow hues combined with contrasting colors, subverting the palette typically used by filmmakers to depict an aura of positivity and juxtaposing an attractive palette with horrifying acts. This combined with the factor of the film taking place mostly in the daytime shows that The Children isn’t going for the easy scare, separating itself from the pack of scary kid movies through Shankland’s confident stylistic approach (some disturbing images come off downright beautiful, like a close-up of blood permeating the white snow). The performances are decent all around, and Shankland avoids the typically flat performances given by children by focusing on the young actors’ facial expressions rather than overwhelming them with dialogue that would inevitably be badly delivered (this is one movie, Mr. Fure, that kids don’t ruin).
That being said, The Children really isn’t all that scary or creepy. It flirts with ideas like the troubling implications of hurting a child in self-defense or a literalized Freudian horror of being killed by one’s beloved offspring, but the film, intentionally or not, won’t resonate or get under your skin. It’s nothing more than an entertaining and well-made horror film.
Mr Nobody 2009 English Movie Watch Online Trailer free Review Cast And Crew
Mr. Nobody English France) Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Cast:::Jared Leto ,Diane Kruger ,Darah Polley ,
Rhys Ifans ,Juno Temple ,Ben Mansfield ,Natasha Little ,
Chiara Caselli, Clare Stone ,Daniel Brochu ,
David Schaal ,Valentijn Dhaenens ...
Directed by: Jaco Van Dormael
Movie color: Color
Language: English
Genre: Romance / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Release Date: Oct 7 2009
Banner: Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Poisson Rouge Pictures, SCOPE Invest, Somebodies Productions, Toto Films, Christal Films, Integral Films, Lago Film, Groupe Un, Caviar Films, Wallimage
Distributor : Asmik Ace Entertainment
Country : Canada | Belgium | France
Synopsis:
A tale that spans different time zones of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Mr. Nobody tells the story of Nemo (Jared Leto), the world’s oldest man. In 2092, Mars has become a trendy vacation destination and humans have achieved immortality, thanks to advances in genetics. At the age of 120 years, Nemo is the last mortal left on Earth. His death is drawing near, and media from all over the world are eager to cover the event. Nemo doesn’t really remember who he is, and is only able, while under hypnosis, to call up a few snippets of disordered memories.
Review
Nemo Nobody is dying. Nemo Nobody is in love. Nemo Nobody is old and infirm. Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child. Nemo Nobody is rich and successful. Nemo Nobody is a wild-haired bum sleeping on a park bench. Are any of these things true? Are any false? If we refuse to choose between them can they not all be true simultaneously? This is the central question of Jaco van Dormael's gorgeous, experimental, incredibly high-concept science fiction feature Mr Nobody.
Jared Leto is Mr Nobody, the oldest man in the world - or at least the oldest living mortal, humanity having adopted technology that allows for continuous regeneration. His time is coming, he will soon be dead, and what everybody wants to know is what life was like for this relic. But the answers he gives are contradictory and confused. Was he raised by his mother or his father? Did he marry Elise, Anna or Jean? Was he a success? A failure? Is he truly present in the room or did he die young? To hear him speak all are true simultaneously, or could it be simply the ravings of a senile old man?
Though never mentioned specifically, van Dormael draws heavily on the uncertainty principal, Schrodinger's theories of quantum paradox and the parallel universe theory - the theory that the universe splits whenever you make a decision, allowing countless versions of yourself to be alive simultaneously, in parallel, living out every possible version of your life - in crafting his beautifully executed tale that ultimately boils down to the simple story of a boy who wants to be loved.
When his parents separated in his childhood, Nemo was faced with a simple but horrible decision, a decision no child should have to make: Which parent did he want to live with? It is a decision he simply can not make, a decision he refuses to make and in that moment of refusal Nemo simply comes unstuck from regular, linear time,, instead experiencing all possible options simultaneously, slipping between universes as if through a dream. Often literally through dreams. What will life be like with this parent? What with that? What if I love this girl? What if that? That went horribly wrong, can I rewind and take a different path? Why, yes, yes I can ...
Sumptuously crafted and loaded with stellar performances - Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger and Rhys Ifans are the more recognizable members of the support cast, but all are excellent whether recognizable or not - Mr Nobody is a film that simply refuses to function according to the rules of conventional narrative. It's a slippery beast, one that slides constantly between alternate options, alternate threads, and it is very much to Van Dormael's credit that would could have been an incredibly confusing structure remains quite simple to follow. That said, however, the shape of the thing will be quite daunting for many audiences - particularly when considering it's whopping one hundred and forty minute run time, factors that guarantee that while Mr Nobody will find a loyal and appreciative audience it will likely be a small one.
Gorgeous to look at and deeply heartfelt, Van Dormael's return to directing after a thirteen year absence is one of the most strikingly original entries in the scifi canon in quite some time. A truly unique experience, there is nothing else out there quite like it. A hypnotic experience meant to be experienced more than puzzled over it somehow manages to use its concepts and theories without ever becoming beholden to them and to transcend the ideas with emotion. Though it arguably runs significantly longer than it needs to, Mr Nobody comes with a high recommendation for fans of serious scifi.
A Pathe Distribution release of a Pan-Europeenne production, in association with Integral Film, Lagofilm, Christal Films Prods., Toto & Co Films, France 2 Cinema, France 3 Cinema, with participation of Canal Plus, Cinecinema, France 2, France 3. (International sales: Wild Bunch, Paris.) Produced by Philippe Godeau. Executive producers, Nathalie Gastaldo, Mark Gill, Daniel Marquet, Jean-Yves Asselin. Co-producers, Alfred Huermer, Marco Mehlitz, Christian Larouche, Jaco van Dormael. Directed, written by Jaco van Dormael.
With: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham, Rhys Ifans, Natasha Little, Toby Regbo, Juno Temple, Clare Stone, Thomas Byrne, Audrey Giacomini, Laura Brumagne, Allan Corduner, Daniel Mays, Noa de Constanzo.
Staunton Hill 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Trailer Review Cast And Crew
Staunton Hill English Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for some violence,
bloody images, language and sexuality..
Distributors: Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Releasing
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Starring: : Kathy Lamkin, Cristen Coppen, David Rountree, Kiko Ellsworth, Christine Carlo, Paula Rhodes
Directed by: : G. Cameron Romero
Writer : David Rountree
Studio : Batpack Studios
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
Plot :
When a group of hikers take off for a weekend of fun and adventure in remote mountain region, they
unwittingly stumble across the Staunton family – for whom the hill is named – and find themselves at
the mercy of a depraved, diabolical brood that will stop at nothing to rid their property of these
“trespassers.” The only law on Staunton’s Hill is the law of the Stauntons…and, in this case, the
penalty for defying that law is death.
Movie Review
I guess that George Romero’s son has seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes and all of the cliché movies that followed them. The story, while understandable, is not well defined. It had a very slow beginning and then the meat of the story was vague. Some of the effects were good, the acting was good, but no matter how good you are, if your story is not solid, it all falls apart. The story is about some young people hitching a ride. They make friend with a guy that has stopped at a gas station to add water to his truck. He offers them a ride and of course the truck breaks down. They go to the nearest house they can find, but no one answers the door. Since it is starting to rain, they all decide to stay the night in the barn.
When they wake up the next morning, the meet the family that owns the farm. Buddy is the simple minded adult male, then we have his mom, then we have her mom. They family is very welcoming and serves them breakfast. After breakfast they try to find a mode of transportation. Then the weak story starts.
The Thaw 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Trailer Review Cast And Crew
The Thaw English Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for some violence,
bloody images, language and sexuality..
Distributors: Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Releasing
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Starring: : Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore, Steph Song,
Anne Marie DeLuise, Sebastian Gacki, Kyle Schmidt
Directed by: : Mark A. Lewis
Produced by: Mark a Lewis
Writer : Mark A. Lewis, Michael W. Lewis
Studio : Lionsgate Home Entertainment (Ghost House Underground)
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
SYNOPSIS
A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected and one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice – to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground… including themselves.
Plot 1
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Plot 2
The Thaw (aka Frozen – Etwas hat überlebt – German DVD title) is an upcoming sci-fi horror/thriller film directed by Mark A. Lewis starring Val Kilmer and Martha MacIsaac.
Story
Credibility in a horror film isn’t something that I usually pay any attention to unless it has to do with the acting, actions or dialogue. I usually leave premise out of it because I know Jason Voorhees, the Candyman or Freddie Kreuger don’t really exist. However, when a film harps on about a very real topic like Global Warming throughout the entire film, it subconsciously takes on a realism that is quickly derailed by the incredible beast that it unleashes. A beast that could easily be seen as the dominant species at the time yet shares almost nothing in common with the dominate species of today.
The relatively unknown cast played their parts competently enough but no one shines due to mediocre writing and dialogue but there were numerous times when either the writing or directing was just completely off and full conversations were taking place in areas no sane/intelligent person, let alone a full cast, would stay in.
Realism obviously wasn’t an issue for the filmmakers but by harping on about Global Warming and then introducing such a powerful parasite I really had to wonder if this was a true attempt at a Global Warming warning or an Anti-Global Warming film showing how ludicrous the concept is. In either case, I would have rather it was played down ten-fold so I could have at least enjoyed what I could from the film.
OffSpring 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Trailer Review Cast And Crew
Offspring English Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Starring: : Art Hindle Pollyanna McIntosh Spencer List
Eric Kastel Andrew Elvis Miller
Tommy Nelson Jessica Butler Rachel White
Directed by: : Andrew Van Den Houten
Produced by: Andrew Van Den
Writer : Jack Ketchum
Composer: Jack Ketchum
Writer (Story) :
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for some violence,
bloody images, language and sexuality..
Distributors: Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Releasing
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Studio : Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
SYNOPSIS
Survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire’s despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.
Review
This morning we scored the first casting news for Modercine’s latest Jack Ketchum adaptation, Offspring, which will be directed by Andrew Van Den Houten. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television Art Hindle (The Brood, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and actress Polyanna McIntosh, with Tommy Nelson, Spencer List, Michael Biehn and John Savage rounding out the cast. Read on for the press release.
MODERNCINÉ, director/producer ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN, and critically acclaimed horror author JACK KETCHUM reunite to bring one of the author’s most haunting and gruesome tales to the big screen. “Who’s the scariest guy in America? Jack Ketchum, quite simply, is one of the best in the business,” says literary master of the macabre Stephen King.
Adapted for the screen by author JACK KETCHUM, who broadened the landscape of our worst nightmares with such stories as “The Lost,” “The Girl Next Door,” and “Red,” comes this shocking tale of rural horror adapted by the master storyteller himself – OFFSPRING. Something deadly has returned to the woods and seaside cliffs of Dead River, Maine. An evil thought to have been exterminated has returned with their insatiable appetite for human flesh. David and Amy Halbard’s family and their house guests are about to come face to face with a blood-thirsty pack of wild children lead by a woman, the last survivor of a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. The only one who can possibly save them and put an end to the reign of terror is retired sheriff George Peters.
Directed by VAN DEN HOUTEN and screenplay by KETCHUM, OFFSPRING’s cinematographer and producer is William M. Miller, with a score by Ryan Shore and special effects by Anthony Pepe. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television ART HINDLE (The Brood and Invasion of the Body Snatchers) as George Peters and actress POLLYANNA MCINTOSH as Claire. Young TOMMY NELSON plays the heroic Luke and his co-star SPENCER LIST, who stars opposite Michael Biehn and John Savage in the upcoming “Malevolence: Bereavement,” is the sinister Rabbit
Seventh Moon 2009 English Movie Watch Online free Trailer Review Cast And Crew
Seventh Moon English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Starring: : Amy Smart, Thim Chiou ,Dennis Chan
Directed by: : Eduardo Sanchez
Produced by ; Eduardo Sanchez:
Writer : Jamie Nash, Eduardo Sanchez
Composer: Kent Sparling, Antonio Cora
Writer (Story) : Jamie Nash
Genres: Horror: Thriller
Running Time: 87 mins. (approx.)
Release Date: October 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence, some sexuality/nudity and language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Studio : Lionsgate Home Entertainment (Ghost House Underground)
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
Plot:
While honeymooning in China, a young couple takes part in a sacred event that opens the gates of hell and frees the dead to roam among the living.
Overview:
According to an ancient Chinese myth, on the full moon of the seventh lunar month the gates of hell open and the dead are freed to roam among the living. While honeymooning in China, a young couple takes part in a sacred event that honors these spirits. As night falls, their tour guide abandons them in a desolate field. Now what they thought was a joke is becoming far too real as they fight to survive the night of the SEVENTH MOON.
Review
Straight from the Florida Film Festival comes Tex’s review for The Seventh Moon, Eduardo Sanchez’s (The Blair Witch Project) latest horror film possibly arriving later this year from Lionsgate. “If anything can be said for Seventh Moon, it’s certainly not boring! The histrionics displayed by Amy Smart are liable to rip your eardrums out while the visuals leave you eyeballs spinning and your temples throbbing. With all the screaming, out of focus photography and monster attacks, it’s a cacophony of sensory overload that makes Quarantine and Cloverfied look they were shot with a Steadicam.”
Summary:
A romantic trip to China turns into a lunar nightmare for a pair of happy newlyweds when their taxi driver ditches them in a remote village, and the locals offer them up as sacrifices for the menacing moon creatures that return to Earth annually to replenish their ranks. According to Chinese legend, the dead return to Earth on the seventh month of the lunar year, when the moon glows full in the night sky. America-born Yul (Tim Chiou) and his new wife Melissa (Amy Smart) had just arrived in China to meet Yul’s family when their idyllic getaway takes a sudden turn for the worse. When night falls and their tour guide leaves them stranded in a darkened, boarded-up village, Yul and Amy quickly realize that this wasn’t a planned stop.
Once a year, the lunar creatures return to Earth in search of a sacrifice. Yul and Amy have just been offered up, and now in order to avoid being assimilated into the collective that pursues them through the darkened forest, they will have to survive until the morning light casts the frightful beasts back to the moon for another year.
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