LITERAL REMAINS

The village of Daggerhorn is plagued by a werewolf.  Every full moon, they must appease the monster by leaving it a deliciously dainty morsel of livestock so that it will not kill any of the villagers.  It has always been this way, and this arrangement has always worked.  Then one day they find Lucie dead [...]

The year is 1348, and the Black Death, the plague, is killing off the population.  After a young monk, Osmund, is free from quarantine after it being shown he doesn’t have the sickness, he rushes to Averill, his secret lover.  He tells her to leave town; she doesn’t want to go without him, but he’s [...]

If something is too good to be true, chances are it usually is.  There seems to always be a catch to a great deal.  And, if there’s anything I’ve learned from the movies, if someone says “it’s a low risk mission” while offering big sums of money for said mission, read that as IT’S DANGEROUS [...]

The Horde opens on a dead body.  It is that of Mathias Rivoallan, a Paris police detective.  He was murdered and his body dumped like garbage by a gand of drug dealers led by the nefarious Markudi.  The slaying enrages Rivoallan’s peers, and a small group of his fellow policemen vow revenge, especially his cop [...]

In 1000 A.D., a Norse warrior (Mads Mikkelsen) is held captive by Scots clan.  One of the children of the clan, a boy named Are, calls him One-Eye because, well, he only has one eye.  One-Eye doesn’t talk, and the only person he shows no intention of killing is Are.  The clan uses One-Eye as [...]

When you’re a movie mash-up of Carrie, American Psycho, The Wrestler, Showgirls, and Requiem For a Dream, the best you can hope for is to have your moments.  Black Swan does indeed have its moments.  I just found that I couldn’t take the movie seriously, and that helped me to enjoy it.  It’s a big slice [...]

Do you want to know what’s creepy?  A shirtless Richard Lynch in the rain with a naked twenty-something nerdy girl who is supposed to be playing his daughter.  That, my friends, is creepy.  And not the good kind of creepy.  It’s just disturbing.  Once you see a shirtless Richard Lynch, you can’t un-see it.  That [...]

Finally, finally, I have watched a great horror film.  After searching high and low, and waiting patiently (for the most part), I was not let down by Husk. It’s a simple premise, really, a straight forward story.  Five friends are traveling to a lakeside getaway.  Scott, Chris, and Johnny are in high anticipation of the [...]

Roslyn is a young nurse in need of a job.  She and her husband, Cole, have been through rough patch (losing their baby) in their marriage, but are trying to work things out.  In order to see more of each other, Roslyn’s friend helps her get a job working nights–Cole drives a cab on the [...]

Here is the good about Skyline:  The special effects.  The design of the aliens is nice. Here is what’s bad:  Skyline. Jarrod and his girlfriend, Elaine, have flown to Los Angeles to attend the birthday party of Jarrod’s long-time friend Terry.  It’s been awhile since the best friends have seen each other, and in that time [...]

With the approach of Mike’s wedding date, two of his friends, Joe and Carl, decide to take him out for one last night on the town.  Their mistake is inviting Mike’s brother, Tony.  Tony is a ne’er-do-well, and all around troublemaker, and true to form, he gets them kicked out of a strip club.  That [...]

If you are familiar with Literal Remains, or me personally, then you probably know that I’m a Clive Barker fan from way back.  Major fan.  It’s been a good many moons since I read his short story collection, Books of Blood.  I have to admit, I remember reading the story “Dread”, but I couldn’t tell you [...]

A chain letter is making the rounds by way of text messages and e-mails through six high school friends.  The chain letter instructs the recipient to pass it on to so many people, or die.  That’s a little drastic for some spam mail, but sure to its word, if it’s not forwarded to the correct [...]

In the little town of Riverton, a seemingly mild mannered husband struggles with a severe case of Fuckin’ Nutso (not the proper medical terminology).  As it turns out, Abel Plankov has a Jekyll and Hyde-type condition:  his Hyde is a serial killer known as the Riverton Ripper.  When he tries to confront his evil side, his evil [...]

A NASA space probe crashes allowing alien life forms to escape.  These life forms multiply causing the U.S.-Mexico Border region to become quarantined.  The aliens continue to grow, and multiply, and pose a very serious threat–they are gigantic, and very destructive.  The authorities construct a wall around the infected zone, and pray that contains the problem. [...]