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Movie of the Day – V/H/S

February 16, 2013 1 Comment

After recently watching The ABCs of Death, the most twisted, horror anthology out there, it got me to come back to the last horror collection that I watched and reviewed. V/H/S was a movie that I got to enjoy at the True/False Fest last year, as we were the second audience to see the movie since Sundance. It was a compilation of new and veteran directors getting to play with the found footage medium while dazzling us with small vignettes of horror. A clever ruse was in place as the found footage sections played into a much larger, overarching piece of footage, a meta found footage movie happening within the found footage movie.

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Movie of the Day – Paranormal Activity (Revisited)

October 19, 2012 2 Comments

So I am crunched for time this evening between having to review a new documentary movie, spending quality time with the beagle and trying to have some semblance of a social life that I opted to keep this post today short and sweet. This evening, our local Alamo Drafthouse is putting on a little window gallery show of Paranormal Activity. Their open gallery windows on the side of the building will be filled with actors who will be recreating scenes from the Paranormal Activity movies, which I think is just fucking awesome. So why not repost my original blog piece on the first film of the series to mark this event tonight.

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Movie of the Day – TrollHunter

April 12, 2012 4 Comments

Keeping this Scandinavian film train running, this time we head to Norway for some troll hunting. Much like the previous movie of the day, I enjoy a good twisted take on certain established folklore or stories. This time, it is all about trolls and not like the one that Ernest fought in that movie “Ernest Scared Stupid”. These trolls are the thing of legend from Mountain trolls and Forrest Trolls, this is pretty much the best thing in the world. I have been to Norway and was sadden by the lack of trolls that I saw and since this is a found footage film, they exist cause Hollywood wouldn’t lie to me and show fictitious things. Would they?

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Movie of the Day – Dead Snow

March 21, 2012 2 Comments

I haven’t done a zombie film in a while and since coming off of the season finale of The Walking Dead, what better way to continue the high of zombie-ness than with a balls out zombie flick. I got to hand it to those crafty Norwegians with their beautiful country, beautiful women and beautifully wacky films. If you have never seen Troll Hunter, that is a must for any film fan, but while mythical trolls lumbering around the country side is appealing and downright ridiculous, Dead Snow brings us Nazi zombies. Yes those dastardly WWII villains are now zombified, thus making the act of slaying them all the more sweeter.