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Are You in Need of Some Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs, 2008)?
For former prom queen Amy Adams, her adult life has not lived up to her college expectations. Her son’s problems at school force her into a change of career direction as one of her old classmates suggests she enter the crime scene clean-up arena. What follows is darkly humourous yet grounded in reality as a young single mother decides to take charge of her life at last.
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Pray You Don’t End Up at: The Last House on The Left – Dennis Iliadis, 2009
Little-known horror movie director Wes Craven had people leaving the cinema in their droves when he released the original 1972 film “Last House on the Left”. Not because it lacked quality but because the subject matter was hard to handle. This stomach-churning remake is no picnic either. Survival is the key when escaped convicts turn on some holidaymakers out in the woods.
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Should the Updated Friday the 13th (2008, Marcus Nispel) be Swerved or Should We Happily Retread Familiar Territory?
Richard Robinson gives his opinion on a retelling of the “classic” Crystal Lake camp horror Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham), a member of the first group of “slasher” films which were collectively influenced by real-life serial killers and the one which started it all: Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock).
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Dark Water
A review of the Japanese film Dark Water. The film is about a woman, going through a divorce and adjusting to a new life with her young daughter. Unfortunately their adjusting to a life of normalcy in a new apartment is made difficult by a malevolent being in the apartment above theirs.
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A Review of “Psycho 3″
This is a review of the film “Psycho 3″ and what I think about it.
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Who Really is the Uninvited?
My review of the movie the Uninvited. Disclaimer: If you have not seen this movie read at your own risk, may include some spoilers.
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My Monster Mom
About a traditional mother who cannot deal with her modernized daughter who has an influence of Western culture.
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Xenomorphic Liaisons: Exploring Eroticism, Gender, and Human Qualities in Alien
If ever there were a heroine that dared to stand alone with the eusociality of an extraterrestrial life form, then it would have to be Ellen Ripley. The Xenomorph, whose disturbing life form involves the offspring violently erupting from human hosts, undoubtedly was (and still is) one of the most frightening recurring races ever created through science fiction.
