Karl’s Top Twenty Horror Movies Of 2000 – 2009
I was talking to friends the other day, and I realized that it has been just over a decade ago that I was listening to Dick Clark counting backwards and watching my computer to see if it was going to go nuclear. I started thinking about key releases in the last ten years in the horror genre. I came up with twenty that mean something to me in some in some way.
Movie Contest: Blood Creek and Saw VI Two-Pack Giveaway
To celebrate the January release of Blood Creek and Saw VI, ComicsOnline has teamed with Lionsgate to giveaway two-packs of the movies to three lucky subscribers.
Karl’s Horror Hidden Treasures Gift Guide
Horror Hidden Treasures
You know the Hidden Treasure Horror movies, the ones you see on the shelves and look interesting but you’ve never heard of it or of anyone in the movie. Well, here’s some I run across recently that are definitely worth more than a passing glance.
Timecrimes (Los Chronocrimenes) – DVD
This is an import from France, about a man who accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time one hour. In an attempt to make sure his “other” self does what needs to be done so he can safely return home he recreates the events that brought him to enter the time machine. What could have been played as a comedy turns deadly serious.
Spikes Scream Awards 2009 Recap
There’s a opalescent container on the stage, and twin girls dressed in white party dresses are raised to the top of the sphere, while a morbid nursery rhyme is recited. One of the girls raises a butcher knife to her throat and slices, and blood gushes out of the other sisters neck, staining her dress and the container.
This is the introduction to The Scream Awards 2009 which were broadcast on Spike. I will follow the categories, winners, and special events of the broadcast.
DVD Review: Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead
“What you don’t see will kill you” could not be more true when you’re in the cannibalistic mutants butcher shop. At night. So goes Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, the third in the Wrong Turn franchise.
DVD Review: The Stepfather
Who am I here? Did I copy this quote wrong? Possibly its meaning is part of a cryptic puzzle? Or could it be the ramblings of an unstable mind? By the end of The Stepfather you will understand the implications of this question.
Recommended Movies for the Month of Shocktober
My favorite holiday that doesn’t get me out of school, and where no one buys me presents, is fast approaching – Halloween. That time of year where the ghosties and goblins and things that go bump in the night come out to scare us 'til we wet ourselves. Here’s a list of movies to prepare you for the horrors that await. And save your laundry budget.
10/01 – The Deaths of Ian Stone – One of the films from 8 Films to Die For Series 2. This is what happens when you don’t play by the aliens rules.
Blu-Ray Review: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End Unrated
If Wrong Turn is a lesson in map reading, then Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a lesson in planning. The second movie in the series has the cast and crew of a survival reality show, being shot in the brothers' forest, using their skills to fight for their lives. And the brothers have family.
Blu-Ray Review: Wrong Turn
You’re on your way to an important meeting, and the road is blocked by an accident with a truck carrying hazardous material. What do you do? Look for a different route, of course.
Blu-Ray Review: Child’s Play
There was Talking Tina, then the marionette in Poltergeist, and Fats the ventriloquist dummy, but no doll can wreck havoc like Chucky.
Blu-Ray Review: The Hannibal Lecter Collection
The Hannibal Lecter Collection assembles the first three appearances of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal.
Blu-Ray Review: Misery
“I’m your number one fan” shouldn’t make you cringe in fear, but for romance novelist Paul Sheldon those five words send waves of terror down his spine. Misery, based on the Stephen King novel and named for Paul’s’ recurring character Misery Chastaine and not his state throughout the movie, is a study in fanaticism.
DVD Review: Fringe Season 1
Last year's freshmen shows included time travel, motorcycle gangs, strange happenings with normal explanations, a detective with powers of observation, an author running with the police, and science gone crazy.
The cast of Fringe (l – r) : Lance Riddick, John Noble, Blair Brown, Kirk Acevedo, Anna Torv, Mark Valley, Joshua Jackson, and Jasika Nicole.
DVD Review : Sons of Anarchy Season 1
So, when you need to have a cutting edge subject to formulate a drama around, who do you think of? I know that one of the most public of street gangs, the motorcycle club, didn’t spring to the top of the list. But with great writing and excellent casting, Fox has pulled it off with Sons of Anarchy.