The Last Exorcism Part II
Unlike many moviegoers, 17-year-old farm girl Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell, The Day) has no memory of the events of The Last Exorcism, a found-footage smash of three years prior. The Last Exorcism Part II
finds her taking steps to build life anew, beginning in a boarding
house for troubled girls, where the deeply devout Nell is exposed to
such heretofore corrupting influences as lipstick and rock music and
YouTube and cotton candy.
06/19/2013 | Comments 0The ABCs of Death
Suspense novelist Jeffery Deaver once praised the short-story format,
writing that the minimal time investment on the part of the reader
allows the writer to get away with endings he or she cannot in the long
form. In other words, the writer can be meaner, more devious. He's
absolutely right, and the theory applies wholesale to The ABCs of Death, more or less a horror anthology depicting "26 ways to die."
06/19/2013 | Comments 0Ninja III: The Domination
Don't ask why Ninja III: The Domination
begins with a ninja assault on a municipal golf course. Just be
grateful it does. You also may wonder why its sex scene employs a can of
V8: Don't question it. Just lie back and enjoy it.
06/14/2013 | Comments 0Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper got a raw deal. The director of horror hits The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist didn't deserve to be sent to movie jail for 1985's Lifeforce.
It's a well-crafted, well-intentioned work that was mismarketed and
misunderstood, losing a bundle of money and soon sending Hooper into the
lands of episodic television and direct-to-video features.
06/14/2013 | Comments 0Dead Souls
With Dead Souls, we can prove something about the Chiller cable network's original features that Remains could not: Source material is not to blame for their pervasive generic nature — it's the economy, stupid.
06/11/2013 | Comments 0
