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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
THE HILLS HAVE EYES: What a terrifying movie!
I saw it today on DVD and I must say that this is one of the most disturbing and terrifying movies I've ever seen.
It's seem to be the best of the year.
The deaths were brutally gruesome but there are some unexpected deaths that I never tought it would happen.
The movie was excellently directed; the photography is the best I've ever seen in a while in a horror movie.
I hope the new sequel keeps the line of this remake.
There's some familiar faces like Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw and Emilie De Ravin from Lost. The acting was excellent and the villains were so scary.
Also the movie was extremely intense on it's last half hour; it was entertaining.
9/10.
Poseidon (2006)
POSEIDON: Great remake!
Today I went to see Poseidon and this remake turned awesome; even I liked it more than the 1972 version which had Gene Hackman as one of the main leads.
The acting was very good and very well equilibrated. The Special F/X were awesome and even it thought that i was too real to see the people getting upside down with the tildal wave.
The 1972 version was more of drama with a mix of adventure but this new version surpassed -in my opinion- to the original because this version had more action and intensity with the thrilling scenes.
Something that got me desperate and angrier was that kid that disappears every moment; also I was pleased that my favorite characters survived but it was sad one of the last deaths.
I recognized some familiar faces like Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama), Kurt Russell (Sky High), Robert Dreyfuss (Jaws), Jacinda Barrett (Urban Legends: Final Cut), Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow), Mike Vogel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003) -will you believe me that I didn't recognize him with the short hair?-, Mia Maestro (Secuestro Express) and the cameo of Stacy Ferguson, well known as Fregie from The Black Eyed Peas.
The movie is highly recommendable; too bad that in the US was promoted at last time when outside the US was getting a very good promotion.
Anyway I give this: 9/10.
Identity (2003)
Identity: Very good movie
IDENTITY (2003) Stars: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Ray Liotta, John Hawke, Alfred Molina and Clea DuVall. Thriller/Horror.
I saw it today; and it was a very good movie.
A good storyline; and very good acting.
The ending was very good, it was a very good twist. The movie is watchable. Amanda Peet was great as the main lead as also was John Cusack and Ray Liotta.
There's some familiar faces like Clea DuVall and Alfred Molina; and also the movie has a great action and story development. The deaths were wer good; there was one that freaked me out (better see the movie, i won't tell how it is).
Overall, I give this movie 8 out of 10 stars.
Cry Wolf (2005)
CRY_WOLF: What a cool movie!
I saw it recently on DVD and this one was a hell of movie. Very original storyline, the story was about Owen, a young guy that gets into a new school and meets a group that becomes one of their best friends and play the game of the lies and with the time they create a fake story for scare the students but soon Owen will find out that he must be careful of what he says because somebody is making his fake story more than a lie. It is the same person that killed a girl around the woods or is somebody playing a game? The twists were unexpected, the first was very obvious, the second twist was like Wow and the third... What a bitch! You must see the film for find out who's the bitch I'm talking about.
9/10.
The Howling (1981)
THE HOWLING: They were right, it's one of the best werewolf movie ever made
I saw for the very first time THE HOWLING last weekend and I must say that the critics were right, it's one of the better werewolf movies ever made.
It looks like another typical werewolf movie but it's not, this one is far different to other werewolf movies. It revolves around a TV newscaster (Dee Wallace) that has the mission to catch a insane serial killer who has been murdering people on the city with the try to get a amazing number of audience, but the encounter changes everything, she gets traumated with the events and didn't get to see his face. Then she is sent to rehabilitation for remember what happened with her attacker and at the same time two of her best friends investigates more about the serial killer they discovers very suspicious clues about the attacker. And when the newscaster's husband is attacked, one of her friends goes to the zone and finds the answers to all the clues and will try to warn her that where she's now living is not all peaceful as it seems when a wolf is stalking around the woods.
Had a great story, good actings and a very good chase scene, anyway, I loved this. I give The Howling a 9 out of 10 stars.
Batman Begins (2005)
The best of the Batman franchise
I think this is the best Batman movie to the date yet, it was great but at the same time risky the idea of reinvent the franchise because 4 movies were made after this with success except the fourth one that didn't surpass the expectactions.
BATMAN BEGINS tells how it really began, starts in the very beginning of Bruce Wayne (played by Christian Bale, the best Batman in my POV) and shows how his parents' deaths changes his life and his fears of the ferocious bats. With the time he even changes more that all his close friends gives him the back and Gothan City becomes an corrupt city without no justice, so he decides to disappear and is stuck on a prison, so he is released by Henri Ducard (Liam Neesom), a recruit of Ra's Al Ghul with the condition for receive the necessary training for fight against crime, but he does not becomes Batman until he comes back to Gotham City and sees how changed the city since he left it and that makes him decides to become something for the population of the city claiming for justice over the corruption that is plagued now. Then he enters the cave that has the ferocious bats that attacked him when he was only a child and now he calls them for fight his fears and become finally in Batman, the man that the thieves -or bad people, whatever how we call it-.
I gives this 9 stars out of 10 stars.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Very good movie, better than I expected
I had read the book of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and the story was so good that I wanted to see how they adapted into a movie.
Now with the actual technology for create fictional characters generated by computer, they did a very good job with all the animals that required to appear according to the book. And the movie is very faithful to the book even when they eliminated some parts that were on the book that I won't mention cuz were so strong that it would have been rated PG-13 like Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl.
Anyway, the movie is watchable and beautiful. The cast was great, my greetings to Tilda Swinton, she did an excellent acting as the main villain and made her character more villainous than the book.
I expect the sequel The Prince Caspian, a follow up to The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
I give this 9 stars out of 10.
The Fog (1980)
THE FOG: Great movie!
It seems that the late 70's and early 80's was the best time for John Carpenter, he directed the 1978 classic HALLOWEEN which had Jamie Lee Curtis as the main lead.
This movie tells the story about a town being treathened by spirits of people that were killed 100 years ago and the Antonio Bay population celebrates their foundation without knowing that they're celebrating the killings of these people.
It was a fun movie, had some scary scenes and Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis were fantastic in this movie, I give this a 9 out of 10 stars.
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Good straight-to-video horror film, even better than other straight-to-video horror movies
I saw URBAN LEGENDS: BLOODY MARY last weekend and I thought that it was a entertaining movie that was even better than other straight-to-video horror movies that always turns out to be very but very awful, but this one shows that you can do a good straight-to-video horror movie if you have a good script.
The deaths were awesome and very scarier, i think the best was the Spiders scene.
And the acting was very good.
Kate Mara was a very good lead, I think she has future and more to show.
Overall, I give this 7,5 out of 10 stars.
Cursed (2005)
CURSED: I've seen the Unrated version and it's much better than the PG-13 version
I've just seen recently the Unrated version of CURSED, directed and written by the SCREAM team, Wes Craven -director- and Kevin Williamson -writer-, and I must say that the Unrated version it's much better than the awful PG-13 version.
The Unrated version had more to give than the disappointing PG-13 version, there's more blood, more excitement, and more suspense.
The acting was very good, specially Mya, it was the first time I saw her acting and i was surprised. Her death sequence was the best of both versions but I would loved to see her corpse around the elevator, jejeje.
Overall, I give this an 7.5 out of 10.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
One of the best remakes I've ever seen!
Some years ago I saw the 1974's shocker "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and I was shocked because it was one of the scariest movies I've ever saw. Then I heard that Michael Bay was going to make a remake of that story and I had doubt if it would stay on the same line as the original, but this remake surprised me at all.
They updated parts of the original story but I felt that it was better than watching the same story again but with a new cast. I loved this remake, and it's even scarier as it's original movie. There are more on-screen killings than the original 'cause in the original we only did get see only 2 on-screen killings, and the remake has more on-screen killings.
Jessica Biel was perfect as the female lead, she was very convincing on her role. And the new Leatherface was also creepy, even the chainsaw that is bigger than the original made him more scarier.
I gave this movie 9/10.
Ripper (2001)
"Ripper", a cool psycho thriller! (Contains some spoilers)
I'm glad that this movie was released at cinemas here in my country. "Ripper: Letter From Hell" is a very good movie but I was a litlle dissapointed with the ending: I didn't like it.
The cast and acting is the best that I've seen recently. I know that this movie was made in 2001 but here it was released at least 2 weeks. The female lead, A.J. Cook (the chick from "Final Destination 2"), was a very convincible lead and she proved that she can carry an leading role. The rest of the cast did an excellent job.
And this one is more an psychological thriller than a teen horror film. The first death is very but very long (at least runs like 4 minutes), the rest of the deaths weren't more cooler than the first. It was very original the first death and having the killer spending more time with his victims than the regular slash film. I didn't like the ending but interesting at the same time.
The director did a good job with this movie, the script looked like boring or slower but adapted as a movie is better. The photography of the film is excellent.
I give this movie 7.5 stars out 10 stars.
Amigas y rivales (2001)
I think it's the best teen soap opera of the new millenium!
AMIGAS Y RIVALES (2001) Starring: Michelle Vieth, Angélica Vale, Arath De La Torre, Joana Benedek, Adamari López, Johnny Lozada, Gabriel Soto and Ludwika Paleta. Script written by: Alejandro Pohlenz. Produced by: Emilio Larrosa.
I think that Televisa produced one of their best teen soaps of the new millenium. It had all: excellent actings, great plots, and no boring parts.
The girls were so cute and smarts, Ludwika Paleta was the real star of the soaps taking away to Angélica Vale and Michelle Vieth, both are credited as the female leads but the story always focused on Jimena (Ludwika Paleta).
The cast was excellent and it's one of the best soaps that Emilio Larrosa has ever done.
I give it in the scale of 100% an 95%.
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
One of the coolest horror movies I've ever seen! (CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS)
THIR13EN GHOSTS (2001)
This movie is one of the coolest horror films I've ever seen this year, it has some action, thrills and scares. It is about a family moving over to an house of their uncle to receive an herence, that herence is the crystal house. They agree to move to their new home but once in home they are warned by Dennis (Matt Lillard) to leave the house because their uncle always hunted ghosts that represents to the 'black zodiac', but it's too late and they get traped and begins a night of terror with THIR13EN GHOSTS.
The acting was great and the story too. -SPOILERS- The lawyer's death has to be one of the most coolest deaths in the film. -END SPOILERS-
Horror fans will enjoy it and there's some cool ghosts, my favorite one was 'The Jackal'.
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
One of the best sequels I've ever seen!
Scary Movie 2 (2001) Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chris Masterson, Kathleen Robertson, David Cross, James Woods, Tori Spelling, Tim Curry, Andy Richter and Natasha Lyonne. Genre: Comedy/Horror.
In 2000, the Wayans brothers released Scary Movie, a spoof of recent slasher movies of the 90's as well 80's and 70's. It was a surprise hit and grossed over US$150 million, but the tagline of the movie said "No sequel", well they lied.
The Wayans brothers bring us a new follow-up of last year's surprise hit, this time Scary Movie 2 spoofs the supernatural movies. Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), now in college after suffering the wacky massacre in her birth town, is invited by a laid professor (Tim Curry) to take a weekend in a house alongside with her friends the always show stealer Brenda (Regina Hall), Ray with his always confusing sexuality, Shorty the drug adict and Brenda's brother, the bombshell Theo (Kathleen Robertson) and the dumby girl Alex (Tori Spelling). When they are welcome to the Hell House, more jokes and crazyness happens when they discovers that there's a ghost watching them.
Scary Movie 2 delivers with more laughs and more jokes. Is better that the first one and this movie will make you laugh more harder than the first.