A Nightmare on Elm Street: A bad remake

Rating: 2/5

Nancy (Rooney Mara), Quentin (Kyle Gallner), Kris (Katie Cassidy) and Jesse (Thomas Dekker) are a group of high school kids who don’t realize how much they have in common (aside from all of them living on Elm Street). Each one has started to have strange dreams starring a psychopathic dude with a fedora, striped sweater and a glove with knives attached to the fingers, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley). Freddy is chasing these young kids to exact revenge, and wants to kill each one while they are asleep in dreamland, so they will die in real life, too. But then why does Freddy want revenge? (more…)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon- the bloodsuckers really suck!

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is based on Stephanie Meyer’s novel and is directed by Chris Weitz. This one is a sequel to the movie Twilight and sadly could be rated as the worst sequel ever.

If the movie has to be described in one worked then it should definitely be terrible or rather torturous. The same old boring dialogues, the loose plot, and lengthy scenes are like slow poison. The director must have thought on similar lines, to give the audience a dose of vampire romance that will turn you turn you into a vampire. The characters have crossed 100 years of age but they are still 12^th graders!  Isn’t that annoying? Who will buy such an exaggeration? (more…)

Yet another kind of a movie to disappoint you

The Fourth Kind is supposedly based on true events but nothing seems to be believable or true about the movie to say the least. It could really be pain to sit through the entire that runs for about an hour and a half. It simply feels waste of time, effort and money of course. Is creativity losing its way or are filmmakers falling short of finding good meaningful stories to present to the audience? (more…)

Leaves you in typical Von Trier hangover after watching

Antichrist is the latest horror flick directed by Lars Von Trier. A must see film for the fans of Von Trier. The main character of the film is an ordinary man but the film has horrifying elements of theological-psychological horror with provocative images. (more…)

Waste of time and money

Cirque du Freak-The Vampire’s Assistant is based on series of books by Darren Shah. It is not the atypical vampire film with bloodshed; instead it will leave you untouched and unmoved with Crepsley (John C. Reilly) as the lead vampire. (more…)

Takes you through series of flashbacks yet you will like it..

Saw VI is much better than the Saw V although in similar lines to the earlier Saw sequel.

Saw VI is a rare kind of a movie with gruesome horror details. However, set in a simple location, Saw VI has that serial-killer who makes some deadly devices with weird items ranging from bicycle chain, digital timers and many more. But I would suggest that if you have not seen any of the earlier saw series then Saw VI is not the right option for you. (more…)

Another Recycled Humdrum..

The film The Stepfather is the remake of Joseph Ruben’s 1987 horror-thriller classic film Lost. But the film has not been successful in creating anything new or does not make any up gradation to set itself apart from the original. The original film was cult thriller but the new one is very much predictable and is not spine chilling to say the least. (more…)

For a laughing riot

Zombieland can be termed as a horror-comedy, and one cannot really be affected by the horror element in the film but be sure to have some jaw-cracking moments.

Zombieland movie is a good blended package of horror and some good humor that you will hardly complain about. However, it is more of a fun film than a horror flick and nobody would have expected that a movie about zombie killings could be really funny; that’s the best part, watching the unexpected. (more…)

Just another humdrum

Pandorum is another sci-fi film of the year that can well be missed and you will save both your money and time for sure. One cannot miss to appreciate the production design but a movie without any meaningful content is hard to bear and the audience cannot sit through an entire movie just watching the set design.

The movie is full of chaos to say the least it gets difficult to keep track of the series of action and amidst this entire confusion one can hardly sit through to look at the performances or the characters. Director Christian Alvart could have done a better job of this one and actually Pandorum reminds of the film Event Horizon, which was yet another loud movie.

Coming to the story it is about the space ship Elysium that has departed from planet earth in 2174 and Bower played by Ben Foster wakes up form his hiber-sleep with memory loss.

The space ship is under a threat and even Lt Payton played by Dennis Quaid does not remember a thing and Bower makes a attempt to switch on the power if the ship but he faces some dangerous creatures who are in a killer mood and eventually we get to know the goal of Elysium is to find a habitat on a different planet, as earth is no longer a place to live.

The space ship is full of mindless killers and they are suffering from a Pandorum, which is caused by hibernation and has resulted in paranoia. No wonder then why all the confusion in the movie and when the characters are mentally unsound one can understand where it is all leading to- nowhere but a deep chasm in which the audience will have free fall not knowing when they will reach the ground.

Dennis Quaid in a scene from Pandorum

Pandorum is not clear in terms of the characters, as they speak so softly and strange accent that is hard to decipher what they are saying. The camerawork is too rigid and the chaotic editing addition to the woes of the film. There is not a single moment in the film when you jump off your seat in fear or horror the sound effect jerks you up a bit and nothing more. You can just forget the fear factor because it is just not present in the film and may be it could not have saved the film anyway, as it lacks the substances.

The plot is simply meaningless and that serves well enough for the movie to be rated a flop. The claustrophobic scenes are good that’s all; do not expect anything more from this brainless subject that dares to test the intellect of the audience. And with such weak plot we cannot expect much from the characters, as they are not served with anything good to build upon and their performances otherwise too is not impressive to say the least.

Do not waste your precious time on this film; you will certainly have better plans to make your weekend more exciting rather than watch a crap movie such as Pandorum.

Much ado about nothing

Jennifer’s Body is another teen-oriented horror picture with elements of enhanced gory details rather than real scary incidents. The film is all hyped because of its lead character Megan Fox of Transformers and the Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The plot of the movie revolves around the most popular high-school girl who incidentally has become a flesh-eating demon. (more…)