Post by PenguinOnFire on Nov 4, 2006 20:13:42 GMT 3
Most of you who read my blog know me as being a horror movie junkie, I'm a sucker for 'em and I just have to drag all my friends over to see one. (I don't take no for an answer) and the day after Halloween (a day late of what could have been appropriate) I bought DVD's of Stay Alive and Silent Hill. The first one is a movie revolving around a game and the second one is a game made into a movie. Ehehe. Ooh! And today I bought The Hills Have Eyes. So yeah, it's a REVIEW THREAD!!! woohoo.
Stay Alive. A good concept with a bad, bad, bad delivery. First, somehow, someway, a video game is channelling Elizabeth Bathory's vengeful soul. You'd think they'd explain how and why--- but they don't.
Anyway, if you die in the video game, you die in real life... EXACTLY how you died in the game itself. Cool idea, huh? Wrong. This not only kills all potential suspense, but the real life death is COMPLETLY lame compared to it's video game counterpart. Every time. God.
The Cast themselves are shallow, unemetional and are in desperate need of acting lessons. It's quite apparant that they are HORIBBLE at it. Another gripe is one actor is unbeleivably annoying, and got way too much screen time. Oh, and, the Main Characters girlfriend gets ripped in two, and five minutes later he is kissing the hot blonde chick? Hello, continuity not good enough for him? Sigh. Oh, and all monsters, deaths and the like are done in crappy CGI. It's so lame it's kind of sad. Oh well, onto..
..Silent Hill. Now, this may be a little biased, since I am a MAJOR fan of the video game series this movie was based on. This movie left me grinning from ear to ear (which is kind of wrong, since it was a sad, sad ending) because, well, it was very satisfying, to me, as a gamer. Most video game movies suck beyond unimaginable belief. Not this one. All my friends might disagree, but they need to play the damn games.
Silent Hill stood faithful to the series, had alot of cameos and baddies from all of the games and even had Pyramid Head ripping the skin off of Anna. O. M. G. Not to mention that I love suspensful movies. And this one is full of the suspsense you'd expect from the games. (See Rose walking past the undead nurses and tell me that didn't make you hold your breath) Oh, and yes, this movie does include the famous School from Silent Hill One. Loved it.
The Hills Have Eyes is easily the best movie I have seen this year, and quite possibly for many years to come. At first, not only did the plot of a family getting stuck in the middle of nowhere and being attacked, raped and killed by murderous mutants left off from a village that was destroyed by Nuclear tests conducted by the U.S Goverment appeal to me, it had the wonderful Emilie De Ravin as a co-star. Instant win.
Now, The Hills Have Eyes is a scary movie. I kept leeping up and screaming like a little girl in the theatre back in March, and so did nine out of the ten people that were watching with me. (The last one walked out after the firt scare.) Not only were the mutants well done, the actors great (Stay Alive, you better be crying in shame) but the music, setting, plot, scares... hell, everything about was just so fucking cool. A must buy for horror fans, and worth checking out for everyone else.
Stay Alive. A good concept with a bad, bad, bad delivery. First, somehow, someway, a video game is channelling Elizabeth Bathory's vengeful soul. You'd think they'd explain how and why--- but they don't.
Anyway, if you die in the video game, you die in real life... EXACTLY how you died in the game itself. Cool idea, huh? Wrong. This not only kills all potential suspense, but the real life death is COMPLETLY lame compared to it's video game counterpart. Every time. God.
The Cast themselves are shallow, unemetional and are in desperate need of acting lessons. It's quite apparant that they are HORIBBLE at it. Another gripe is one actor is unbeleivably annoying, and got way too much screen time. Oh, and, the Main Characters girlfriend gets ripped in two, and five minutes later he is kissing the hot blonde chick? Hello, continuity not good enough for him? Sigh. Oh, and all monsters, deaths and the like are done in crappy CGI. It's so lame it's kind of sad. Oh well, onto..
..Silent Hill. Now, this may be a little biased, since I am a MAJOR fan of the video game series this movie was based on. This movie left me grinning from ear to ear (which is kind of wrong, since it was a sad, sad ending) because, well, it was very satisfying, to me, as a gamer. Most video game movies suck beyond unimaginable belief. Not this one. All my friends might disagree, but they need to play the damn games.
Silent Hill stood faithful to the series, had alot of cameos and baddies from all of the games and even had Pyramid Head ripping the skin off of Anna. O. M. G. Not to mention that I love suspensful movies. And this one is full of the suspsense you'd expect from the games. (See Rose walking past the undead nurses and tell me that didn't make you hold your breath) Oh, and yes, this movie does include the famous School from Silent Hill One. Loved it.
The Hills Have Eyes is easily the best movie I have seen this year, and quite possibly for many years to come. At first, not only did the plot of a family getting stuck in the middle of nowhere and being attacked, raped and killed by murderous mutants left off from a village that was destroyed by Nuclear tests conducted by the U.S Goverment appeal to me, it had the wonderful Emilie De Ravin as a co-star. Instant win.
Now, The Hills Have Eyes is a scary movie. I kept leeping up and screaming like a little girl in the theatre back in March, and so did nine out of the ten people that were watching with me. (The last one walked out after the firt scare.) Not only were the mutants well done, the actors great (Stay Alive, you better be crying in shame) but the music, setting, plot, scares... hell, everything about was just so fucking cool. A must buy for horror fans, and worth checking out for everyone else.
