January 16, 2009

My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009)


In a remake of the 1981 slasher film, director Patrick Lussier invents new ways for a miner’s pickax to puncture the head and chest area — in 3-D. But the young cast is too pretty, their acting too wooden to make it more than a solid genre movie.

d: Patrick Lussier | imdb.com | trailer | Was he dead or not?

January 9, 2009

The Unborn (2009)



The clichéd horror film exploits a heroine in skimpy underwear, the Holocaust and creepy little children to minimal effect and ends with the straight-faced assurance that “no actual Torah scrolls were destroyed or damaged in the making of this motion picture.”

d: David S. Goyer | imdb.com | trailer | Jumby wants to be born.