Change Your Image
mrdemail
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
Dark Remains (2005)
Very, very dark, indeed...
I had the luck to watch this wonderful oldskool scary-flick on the weekend-of-fear.com in Erlangen this summer. It was, like the headline already said, very dark. More then half of the movie plays in the dark. Less music - more sound- and lots of "jump"-effects. Excellent camera and a descent story about a mountain full of mysteries.
The plot is simple. The daughter of a married couple, Julie and Allen, gets murdered in the beginning by a killer in her own bed in a locked house. Strange - no murder can be found... A year later, the couple tries to escape their past and to begin a new life in a lonely mountain cabin away from the big city. But, like always, they live in a spook-house and ghosts soon appear. Julie blames herself for the death of her daughter and something evil lurks in the woods... The movie slowly begins to walk into the "poltergeist" direction just to get the "ring" turn...
Like I earlier said, the movie is dark and you can really get scared, when Julie walks straight through the woods into an abandon prison in the middle of the night just equipped with the flashlight of her camera.
If you a bored of major movies and enjoyed the recent screenplay "Silent Hill" or the haunted house tales, you we like this small independent production. The effects are placed very nicely. Not too gory and the acting is nice. Hands up for this fresh scary-movie. A good popcorn rent.
Attack of the Killer Hog (2003)
You have the power to materialize powerful weapons with sugar...
Well, mix a bag of hog-handpuppets, star-wars lightsabers, elvis, aliens, Nazis, really annoying argentine actors (for god's sake, who gave them the money or right to act?), very strange music and two baffled dogs and out comes a movie which is so strange, that one might think, that argentine is totally twisted and full of drug-users. Don't get me wrong, I love trash and compared to this "Dei Mudder sei Gesicht" shines like a diamond among the trash film cuisine. No doubt's about the gory part of this flick (some very nice seens with electric breadknifes and razor), but next time, please be kind to us and don't mix too much. In the end I was feeling very strange listening to that burping voice of the aliens. For that I will give a two out of ten...