Ok so if you want to actually watch today’s movie I am not going to make this one easy on you. The Basement is a movie that was shot in 1989 and meant to go straight to VHS. This never happened and the movie was shelved....until now! Last year it, along with four other movies, was released to DVD in a box set called The Basement: Camp Retro 80’s Collection. I can’t believe I didn’t know about it until now but I ordered it the second I learned of its existence. Best of all, the set comes with a VHS tape of The Basement so you can watch it exactly was you were originally meant to. I chose to watch the DVD but the quality is so terrible I have to imagine VHS is the better choice.

Ok so this one is a wee bit of a cop-out because we very much already have a review for Dark Shadows on the site. So you may think that the reasoning behind this is I can offer a different perspective from Kim and maybe come to the film’s defense.  Nope, I basically agree with everything that she said and could probably copy and paste what she said verbatim into my review and it would apply 100% to how I feel about Dark Shadows.

For some reason I’ve been interested in watching The Shrine since I first saw it on Netflix about a year ago now. I have no idea why. It didn’t look or sound special and the reviews I saw for it were middling at best. Yet for some reason I knew that one day I would sit and watch it, and today was that day.

About a year or so ago I decided I wanted to sit down and make my way through all of the various classic Universal monster pics. I watched Frankenstein and The Invisible Man, and then stopped. Not sure why I didn’t keep going, I enjoyed both of those movies. I probably got distracted by the Starbucks’ Christmas menu or something shiny but either way my journey ended prematurely. Until today!

The Loved Ones tells the tale of that girl we all knew back in high school who was shy but kinda cute, and maybe a little socially awkward, and also kidnapped boys she liked in order to torture them along with her father who she is almost definitely having an incestual relationship with. Fuckin’ high school man, I’ll never forget it.

The Human Centipede answers that age old question of wouldn’t it be shitty if a crazy German scientist kidnapped you and your friend and sewed your mouths and anuses together so you poop into each others mouths while he makes you walk around like a dog and fetch newspapers? Turns out the answer is yes - yes that would be very shitty.

For years I’ve been saying that throughout the month of October I’m going to check out a different horror movie each day. To this day I have not pulled it off….until now! Maybe! We’ll see what happens!

For years I’ve been saying that throughout the month of October I’m going to check out a different horror movie each day. To this day I have not pulled it off….until now! Maybe! We’ll see what happens!

Outside of the quality of the movie itself, Dredd carries with it the unfortunate stigma of being the ultimate evidence for Hollywood that they should no longer make R rated action movies. We hardly ever get them any more as it is, a fact that you can find a great deal of consistent bitching about all over the internet, and then when we finally get one (and spoilers, a really good one no less) nobody goes to see it! I mean why go see that when there’s a generic, shitty horror movie playing right next door right? So the R rated action flops and the PG-13 horror movies continue strong, which will definitely help to shape Hollywood’s priorities in the coming years.

Of course the real tragedy of the whole thing, as I mentioned above, is that Dredd is a damn fine action movie and deserves far, far more attention than it received.

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Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz opened to mixed reviews with no moderate ground as audiences either proclaimed their love for the film or announced a general aversion to the film. I thoroughly enjoyed her latest work, but not to the extent that I would say this is a cinematic tour de force; the film has its disappointments, but its redeeming qualities are greater.