LITERAL REMAINS

Okay, I’m trying to catch up on some stuff.  I have a stack of DVD’s sitting on my desk, movies from Christmas and my birthday and thoroughly enjoyable trips to the Wal-Mart and other places.  I’m trying, trying, to get some of these things viewed.  Bare with me.
District 9 I got for my birthday, I [...]

I like werewolves.  I love Universal’s original, The Wolf Man, ever since I saw it as a wee lad.  It left an indelible impression on me:  the foggy moors, the twisted forest of trees, the cursed creature stalking the night for victims.  I finally got out to see the remake, after Universal finally got around [...]

If you decide you want to watch the oh so fan divided Halloween II on DVD, the best bet is to check out this unrated director’s cut of Rob Zombie’s high reaching, well meaning, slasher pic.  The theatrical version left me disgruntled, and puzzled, and although the director’s cut doesn’t clear up all the baffling [...]

My problems with the movie versions of Dan Brown’s bestsellers are the same problems I have with the books themselves.  They tend to get bogged down in all the story, and the trivia is better than the plot.  I must admit, though, that I enjoy the movies more so than the novels.  It took me quite [...]

Yes, I went to see the latest in the Twilight saga on Friday, in its first full day of release.  I am not one of the rabid fans, I have not read the books, and I did not think the first movie was all that good (I would marginally suggest a non-fan see it).  Not [...]

Bobby Walker is fresh out of prison, having served time for involuntary manslaughter.  He moves into his mother’s old apartment; she died while he was doing time.  Bobby has no other family, and when he tries to reconnect with some old friends, they blow him off.  Even his old flame, Alyssa, is hesitant to try [...]

The Coleman’s, John and Kate (plus two), are on the road to recovery having suffered through a couple of tragic events.  As told in the opening sequence, their third child was stillborn; it is later revealed that Kate is in therapy, had has a history of alcohol abuse.  It hasn’t been that long since their [...]

Christine is a loan officer in a bank.  She has a boyfriend named Clayton.  She tries to always to do the right thing, think on the positive side of life, but Christine is having a tough go at things.  Life seems to be one pile driver after another.
First off, she is in line for a promotion as assistant [...]

Honestly, this is a Halloween fanatic’s wet dream.  Trick ‘r Treat, which Warner Bros. has let languish, needlessly, on the shelf since ‘07, is a near perfect treat for this All Hallow’s Eve season.  It continues the streak of studios releasing less than average pictures to wide theatrical releases while sending some quality films (The [...]

If you pop The Hills Run Red into your DVD player, you will see that this movie has a certain infectious, morbid, glee.  It feels nearly as giddy as a school girl on prom night.  It knows it is traveling well trod territory, but makes such a mad dash through it you don’t really mind that you [...]

Mary Florescu, a paranormal researcher/investigator, is a visiting professor.  She is in the city to conduct an investigation into a house that has had some gruesome activity, the most recent of which was a teenage girl being horribly killed.  “Horribly” as in her parents found her with her face ripped off.
Helping Mary, other than her [...]

Is Grace weird?  Yeah.  Is Grace unsettling?  Yeah, in places, but it may be more so from the male perspective.  If you’re tired of some of the dumb horror offerings of late, then you need to see this movie.  Graceis the kind of movie you just have to watch, and it will mean different things to different [...]

While babysitting the neighbor’s kids, Casey finds the young son holding a mirror to the infant’s face.  Casey tells the little boy to stop; he tells her “Jumby wants to be born now,” and then hits Casey with the mirror.  The next day, on her jog, Casey discovers an ambulance at the neighbor’s house.  The baby [...]

One year after Laurie Strode survived her Halloween night of hell fighting deranged killer Michael Myers, she is still haunted by the experience and by disturbing dreams that make her think she is going slowly insane.  Michael killed her parents and most of her friends.  The medicine doesn’t keep the nightmares at bay, neither does talking to [...]

James McCullen’s weapons company MARS sells four nano-technology based warheads to NATO.  While being delivered by the United States Army, the squad are attacked, and if not for the G.I. Joe team, the warheads would have been lost.  The two surviving Army men, Duke and Ripcord, are escorted to the Joe base in Egypt.  The [...]