Seventh Moon

Another Ghost House Underground release about a honeymooning couple in China who stumble upon a Day of the Dead celebration, in which the dead come back to life to reak havoc on the living for one night of the year. The newlywed couple are betrayed by their trusted cab driver and left abandoned in a small village in which they are intended to be used as an offering for the dead. What this movie turns into is a rip off of The Descent. The couple is chased around by pail creepy monsters that live in a cave. If anyone recalls, The Descent is about a group of woman spelunking in a cave who are terrorized by pail creepy monsters.

Offspring

I started watching the Ghost House Underground DVD's which are an off shoot of Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures for direct to DVD horror fare. The Offspring is based on a Jack Ketchum novel about a group of Nomad cannibals who wander up and down the East coast line.

Jack Ketchum can best be described as The poor mans Dean Koontz and considering that Dean Koontz is the poor mans Stephen King, it doesn't say much for Jack Ketchum. Offspring is an obvious rip off of The Hills Have Eyes. If you have a craving for Cannibalistic Nomads you should watch Hills, but the original please, not the lame remake.

The Hurt Locker

Is a masterpiece that blows anything else Kathryn Bigelow has done in the past away (with the exception perhaps of Near Dark). Centered on a Bomb Squad in Iraq, we follow them day to day thru the last thirty odd days of their tour of duty. A picture of pain, fear and reckless abandon is painted so vividly that this film is sometimes hard to watch, but yet we can not turn our heads from the screen. Hurt Locker is a truly powerful film that delves deep into the psyche of men who everyday, put their life on the line.

Lesbian Vampire Killers

A British import about two friends who cross the paths with Lesbian Vampires. Yes, it’s a comedy, but unfortunately, it’s not funny. Tries to be Shaun Of The Dead, But falls really short.

While She Was Out

This movie is so bad it’s good. An abused and battered housewife, played by Kim Basinger, goes to the mall on Christmas Eve to buy wrapping paper. On her way out, she is assaulted by a group of thugs who represent each color of the ethnic rainbow. When her car crashes into a new abandoned subdivision development, she escapes into the woods armed only with a toolbox, in which the contents of , has the means to take her attackers out one by one. Truly hilarious!

The Final Destination

The fourth installment of the Final Destination franchise in which a group of people escape death and spend the rest of the movie running from it. I enjoyed the first three, but there is nothing new here. The only attraction is that it is presented in 3-D and that wasn’t very impressive.

The Book of Eli

Thirty years into the aftermath of the apocalypse in which the earth was burned by a solar flair, a loner played by Denzel Washington is traveling cross country with the last remaining copy of the Holy Bible. He is on a quest to get it into the right hands and hopefully do the world some good. In his travels he comes across a shanty town founded and run by Carnagie, played by Gary Oldman, who has been on a quest to find a copy of the bible to use its words to deceive and control the masses.

Book of Eli is a very interesting tale, which depicts how the Holy word can be used as the key to salvation or an instrument of evil. The Book of Eli is a fun and interesting movie and is the first film from The Hughes Brothers since From Hell. It’s only downfall is Mila Kunis. She’s adequate in light hearted comedies, but in dramatic roles, she tanks. Her stale and at times over acted performance took me out of the movie a couple of times. She was definitely miscast.