Halloween 2 Rob Zombie Remake

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Filmmaker Rob Zombie returns to Haddonfield for this Dimension Films sequel that finds the murderous psychopath Michael Myers (once again played by Tyler Mane) out on the loose again. The film picks up where the last one left off. Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) survives an attack by her mental-patient brother, Michael Myers, whom she doesn't know is related to her. On the way to the morgue, the ambulance carrying Michael crashes and, miraculously, the killer survives and heads out into thecountryside, his body never recovered by the authorities. In the meantime, the madman's doctor, Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), has turned into a media whore on the cusp of superstardom with the release of his exposé on the horrific happenings presented in the previous film. As time ticks down to Halloween night, Michael, now living in a barn and urged on by the spirit of his dead mother and his younger self, is driven to seek out his sister once again. 

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HALLOWEEN 2 (2009) Review

 
Written by: Capt_Howdy    

I just returned home from the premiere of Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 (thanks for the tickets!) and I've got to say that I'm very disappointed.  Being the first reviewer of the film on the site, I hate that I'm not raving about it.  I wanted to like this film so bad!  I really enjoyed Rob Zombie's original remake, too.

Let me give it some praise before I get into what I didn't care for:  It starts with a bang, and keeps the tension up throughout the entire film.  I can not say that I got bored at all, and the movie moved along really quickly.  It also looked good.  Say what you will about Rob Zombie, but I think he's got a distinct style that is pleasing to the eye.  

Having said that, however, let me slide into my first complaint:  This is Rob Zombie-ville.  Where Haddonfield the first time around seemed like a middle class white neighborhood, this time it looks like a backwoods village that hasn't had running water in a month.  I don't know why, but Zombie makes all of the characters greasy, dirty, and just really unattractive.  Laurie this time around looks like shit run over twice throughout the film, (understandable considering), and everyone around her just looks...gross. 

Secondly, I really didn't give two shits about any of the characters this time.  Laurie bumbles her way through, either screaming hysterically or sobbing uncontrollably; her friend Annie is back, but to no effect; and most disappointing is Dr. Loomis.  First time around, he was portrayed as a generally likeable guy with a questionable moral compass.  This time he's just an asshole.  When he's not yelling at someone, he's screaming profanities to himself.  I really disliked his character this time.  VERY disappointing.

Then there were the kills.  The excessive blood didn't bother me, nor did the body count.  What drove me crazy were the sound effects.  The stabbing, slicing, crunching, snapping noises were so ridiculously loud and over the top, that I felt like they should have just taken the Batman route and had giant cartoon letters on the screen that yelled SPLAT!  CRACK!  It was one of those things that once you notice it, you realize how ridiculous it gets.

And finally, my biggest gripe is surely going to be the most controversial one.  This film is not a Halloween film.  If it weren't for the William Shatner mask, I wouldn't have ever known this was in the Halloween family of films.  We complain with remakes at times because we feel like the remake served no purpose - that the filmmakers didn't take it in a new direction or add anything new to the mythology.  Well, Rob Zombie can never be accused of that.  He certainly puts his own spin on the story.  We are in Michael's head for the first time...and I think it ruins part of the mythology.  I personally hated the whole "Kill for Mommy" idea.  I saw it in the trailer, and had hoped it was just one scene.  Well, it's not.  It's basically the driving force.  

For a character that was referred to in the original script in 1978 as "THE SHAPE," this Michael sure has got a lot of backstory.  He's Michael, for God's sake!  We don't have to know why he kills, or see that he's got mommy issues and some weird, warped sense of family!  While Zombie dabbled in the ethos of Michael in the first film, he dives in head first into it this time around.  I can appreciate the fact that they were trying to make a horror film with substance, that had deeper meanings and symbolism, really, I can, but to me, Halloween 2 comes off as an akward, unsuccessful attempt at experimental film.  There's flashing images and bizarre dreams, and a white horse, and Michael as a boy (played by a different kid than in the first, and he must be related to Zombie, because there's no way a kid that is that completely awful at acting would ever get a gig on his own.  Honestly painful to watch.)

I have other problems with the film, (like how Michael does a lot of grunting when he's stabbing people, and the absence of even a note of John Carpenter's classic theme song until the endcredits) but this is dangerously close to turning into one of those reviews where the reviewer seemingly just hates the world.  I'm sorry if this dampens anybody's excitement, and obviously this is just my little opinion.  Keep in mind that I enjoyed the first, which many of you didn't, and I really dislike this one partly because it's absolutely nothing like the first.  So perhaps that means if you hated the first, you'll love this one?  I don't know.  Still go see it, tell me what you think, disagree with me, call me an idiot, it'll be fun.

Then there were the kills.  The excessive blood didn't bother me, nor did the body count.  What drove me crazy were the sound effects.  The stabbing, slicing, crunching, snapping noises were so ridiculously loud and over the top, that I felt like they should have just taken the Batman route and had giant cartoon letters on the screen that yelled SPLAT!  CRACK!  It was one of those things that once you notice it, you realize how ridiculous it gets.

And finally, my biggest gripe is surely going to be the most controversial one.  This film is not a Halloween film.  If it weren't for the William Shatner mask, I wouldn't have ever known this was in the Halloween family of films.  We complain with remakes at times because we feel like the remake served no purpose - that the filmmakers didn't take it in a new direction or add anything new to the mythology.  Well, Rob Zombie can never be accused of that.  He certainly puts his own spin on the story.  We are in Michael's head for the first time...and I think it ruins part of the mythology.  I personally hated the whole "Kill for Mommy" idea.  I saw it in the trailer, and had hoped it was just one scene.  Well, it's not.  It's basically the driving force.  


For a character that was referred to in the original script in 1978 as "THE SHAPE," this Michael sure has got a lot of backstory.  He's Michael, for God's sake!  We don't have to know why he kills, or see that he's got mommy issues and some weird, warped sense of family!  While Zombie dabbled in the ethos of Michael in the first film, he dives in head first into it this time around.  I can appreciate the fact that they were trying to make a horror film with substance, that had deeper meanings and symbolism, really, I can, but to me, Halloween 2 comes off as an akward, unsuccessful attempt at experimental film.  There's flashing images and bizarre dreams, and a white horse, and Michael as a boy (played by a different kid than in the first, and he must be related to Zombie, because there's no way a kid that is that completely awful at acting would ever get a gig on his own.  Honestly painful to watch.)

I have other problems with the film, (like how Michael does a lot of grunting when he's stabbing people, and the absence of even a note of John Carpenter's classic theme song until the endcredits) but this is dangerously close to turning into one of those reviews where the reviewer seemingly just hates the world.  I'm sorry if this dampens anybody's excitement, and obviously this is just my little opinion.  Keep in mind that I enjoyed the first, which many of you didn't, and I really dislike this one partly because it's absolutely nothing like the first.  So perhaps that means if you hated the first, you'll love this one?  I don't know.  Still go see it, tell me what you think, disagree with me, call me an idiot, it'll be fun.



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Halloween Rob Zombie

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Synopsis: The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?


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After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger



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Freddy Vs. Jason

We love our imortal killers. They all had bad mothers you know. Thats why they live forever. but what happens if they kill each other?
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Rumored and anticipated for years, the two biggest icons of the slasher genre finally meet in Freddy Vs. Jason, the eighth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street saga and the 11th film in the Friday the 13th series, though with Jason X taking place in the future, it should be noted that the events of this film take place after the ninth film Jason Goes to Hell. And it is hell where Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) and Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger, donning the hockey mask for the first time in a controversial snub against series veteran Kane Hodder) finally become acquainted. Banished there for eternity, Freddy devises a plan to manipulate Jason into continuing his work, hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street. All goes well at first until Jason realizes he's been duped by "the dream master" and is none too pleased. Coaxed by surviving teenagers Will (Jason Ritter), Lori (Monica Keena), and Kia (Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland), Jason and Freddy descend upon Crystal Lake for a mano a mano battle royal. Helmed by Hong Kong director Ronny Yu (Bride of Chucky, The Bride With the White Hair), Freddy Vs. Jason features the director of the first Friday film, Sean S. Cunningham serving as producer.

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Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenage population. Except this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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Fight Night

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A man on the run discovers the greatest fighter he's ever seen in this road movie filled with comedy, action and drama Michael (Chad Ortis) is a small time con artist who drifts from one town to another, trying to run his next scan while escaping the fallout from the last. Michael's specialty is setting up illegal underground boxing matches where a pair of bare-knuckled fighters square off and Michael runs off with most of the gate money. While on the road, Michael meets Katherine (RebeccaNeuenswander), and when he sees her fight he's convinced his ship has come in. Katherine is a beautiful woman who also had remarkable talent in the ring and can knock out a man nearly twice her size; with Katherine, Michael is convinced he'll never have to fix a fight again, because no one would believe that she could win a fair fight until they've actually seen her in action. Michael persuades Katherine to take him on as her manager, but while victory is sweet for a while, it doesn't take long for his old enemies to catch up with him, and soon Michael and Katherine have to deal with Clark (Kurt Hanover), an underground fight promoter who has a score to settle with Michael. Rigged is the first feature film from director Jonathan M. Dillon

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Fight Night - aka Rigged (2008)

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Thursday, Apr 16, 2009

by Bill Gibron

Fight Night

aka Rigged

Director: Jonathan Dillon

Cast: Chad Ortis, Rebecca Neuenswander, Kurt Hanover, Ari Bavel, Richard A. Buswell, Alicia Cabrera

(Outpost Pictures; US theatrical: 10 Sep 2008; 2008)

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In independent film, emotion is everything. Since budgets don’t allow for much visual flair, locational variance, or narrative diversity, movies of this nature must rely on people, their personalities, and the feelings that derive from same to get the message across. Most of the time, that’s all said cinema has to offer. Originally released as Rigged, but now renamed Fight Night, Jonathan Dillon’s feature film debut falls into a lot of the standard outsider traps. The cinematography is desaturated to the point of almost nonexistence, and the script (bySplinter scribe Ian Shorr) is so desperate to be a post-modern Million Dollar Baby that it practically exudes Eastwood’s sweat. But if you cast aside the obvious attempts at anti-mainstream grit and faux fictional realism, you find a surprisingly intelligent and heartfelt film. Too bad then that the boxing blocks the audience from really getting to know these marginal characters.

For Michael Dublin, the last few years have been a blur. Since leaving the employment of gangster fight promoter Clark Richter, he’s been trying to hustle matches in the highly illegal underground boxing scene. Unfortunately, his lack of ethics and smooth talk swagger gets him in more trouble that his pugilists can make up for. After a particularly pesky con, Dublin is saved by gritty, no nonsense gal Katherine Parker. Quick with her hands and lethal when need be, our huckster sees instant success. Indeed, within weeks, the newly named “Kid Vixen” is the talk of the lawless scarp circuit. Naturally, Richter is aware of the situation, and does whatever he can to preserve his power. But as Parker continues winning, the heavy can no longer ignore her potential. Dublin also sees dollar signs, but his ex-boss may be about to make an offer he can’t refuse…that is, if he wants to live.

Rigged/Fight Night is as schizophrenic as its two names suggest. One moment, we are watching a waif like young woman beat the ever loving snot out of some roided up Central Casting cliché. She even battles a meat puppet whose cowboy hat becomes an object of comedic personal pride. But then writer Shorr and direct Dillon drop all the backdoorFight Club junk and actually let the characters talk. What comes out is so intriguing, so against everything else the movie wants to accomplish that you can’t help but be thrown off a little. For all their faults, their complete and utter cinematic contrivance and lack of real world authenticity, Dublin and Parker are interesting, especially when they stop talking shop and start talking…life. Had Rigged removed 10 or 15 minutes of the so-called action sequences and stuck with the story of a small town boy struggling to escape his past with the help of an equally alienated girl, we’d have something special. Instead, Dillon tries to have it both ways, and as a result, he undermines each,

Indeed, the fight scenes require a massive grain of suspension of disbelief seasoning. It’s not that Parker couldn’t contend with some of the beef sides she’s paired against. No, she’s so dominating, so Mike Tyson in her proposed talent that there’s no suspense in what transpires within the squared circle. It’s all choppy edited, thrash power musical scoring, and our duo walking away with fattened wallets. Even when her opponent is evenly matched (the aforementioned spit-kicker), she’s unbelievable - literally. Dublin also offers his own unique set of problems. He’s a fairly inept trickster, unable to get away with many of the scams we see him pull. It makes one wonder how he managed to survive this long, especially with the villainous reach of Richter being so overpowering. Indeed, this is one bad guy who has to be actually beaten…to be beaten.

Since the neo-noir dramatics don’t quite gel, it’s up to the more personal stuff to save Rigged/Fight Night, and it almost does. Indeed, thanks to Chad Ortis’ Tom Cruise take on Dublin and Rebecca Neienswander’s “is she or isn’t she” sexual ambiguity, we are willing to follow our leads through some fairly precarious plotpoints. There is an initial meeting where the two have a jailhouse talk that’s quite effective and a long road trip and eventual bus ride gives them other moments of meaningful conversation. Sadly, the film fails to find the same balance within the ancillary characters. Dublin’s mother is introduced and then almost immediately swept away, while an important woman with whom our hero has a history gets equally short shrift. Sadly, Parker’s past is all inference - talk without a face or performance to help us understand. Even an eventual homecoming is vague.

And then there is the look of this film. Cranking down the color to make everything bleak and monochromatic would definitely work had Dillon understood the first thing about black and white cinematics. Instead, this is a clear case of an almost homemade digital production getting its glare turned off to try and make something visually profound. It doesn’t work. The style by DP Hanuman Brown-Eagle announces itself so often that you get tired of the attention grabbing. Add in the less than effective subplots involving Richter, his link to Dublin, and their last act showdown and you can see where Rigged goes astray. Even with a name change, this is the kind of movie that gives other similarly mounted efforts a real case of the respectability heebie jeebies. You can just see the other filmmakers, desperate to get their dreams off the ground, looking at this overly ambitious attempt and more or less giving up.

Still, there is something inherently attractive about the relationship between our two leads. It’s not sexual - that is made clear many times. It’s also not professional, since only one party to the agreement holds up their end of the bargain. And it’s definitely not spiritual, since neither character has much of a soul. Indeed, the real allure of Rigged (or Fight Night - whatever you want to call it) is the growing connection between marginalized members of society’s fringe. We don’t quite root for Dublin and Parker as much as decide not to root against them and no matter who comes out of the woodwork to threaten their pact, there’s never a real fear that they won’t be there for each other. In a genre that relies on sentiment over most other motion picture possibilities, this movie makes a lot of decent decisions. It’s the ones that don’t work which ultimately threaten its entertainment viability. 

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Assassin's Bullet

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When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin

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A retired FBI agent goes after a mysterious killer in exotic Bulgaria in this pro forma action thriller.

The wigmakers gets a workout in Assassin’s Bullet, a B-movie thriller mainly notable by its schizophrenic female lead character’s varying hair pieces. Starring Christian Slater as a former FBI agent, it does provide an impressive travelogue of Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, even if it won’t exactly promote tourism.  

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Slater plays Robert Diggs, who left the agency after the death of his wife who was killed when he attempted to stop a random crime in progress. Now stationed in Bulgaria as a cultural attaché, he’s recruited back to his former profession by the U.S. ambassador (Donald Sutherland) when a mysterious female assassin starts offing Islamic jihadists before we have a chance to get to them.  

Along the way, we’re introduced to Vicki (Elika Portnoy, who also devised the story), a schoolteacher still deeply disturbed by her childhood witnessing of her parents’ death at the hands of a suicidal terrorist. The memories come rushing back every time she happens to see an Arabic headdress, which is pretty often, so she seeks treatment from a psychiatrist (Timothy Spall) who also happens to be friends with Robert.

It isn’t hard to figure out that Vicki is the killer despite her different hair color, nor that she is also Ursula, the beautiful nightclub belly dancer whose burgeoning romance with Robert starts to lift him out of his doldrums.

Veteran direct-to-DVD action director Isaac Florentine attempts to energize the proceedings with exotic visual flourishes, but his efforts are defeated by the endlessly talky, convoluted script which aspires to psychological depth. The action sequences are strictly pro forma and -- despite the sleek killer’s resemblance to the similarly lethal heroine of La Femme Nikita -- this dull effort lacks the excitement generated by any of its incarnations.

Slater (who’s starring in yet another action pic, Soldiers of Fortune, opening on the same day) goes through his predictable paces in professional fashion, while Sutherland and Spall are seemingly on hand just to lend some respectability to the enterprise.

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The Contact

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Ray Keene (John Cusack), a father who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son (Jamie Anderson), is trying to bring Carden (Morgan Freeman), a world-class assassin to justice. All the while, he must protect his son and evade the assassin's team who are methodically hunting them down in the wilderness.

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Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest-bound thriller. Ray Keene (John Cusack) has lost his wife, and now the grieving father is looking to reconnect with his young son (Jamie Anderson) with a much-needed hike into the wilderness. But Ray and his son aren't alone in nature, because high profile assassin Frank Cardin(Morgan Freeman) has ventured into nature with the malevolent intentions of fulfilling a contract to kill an extremely powerful businessman. When Frank's hit goes awry and he ends up in the custody of U.S. Marshalls, the situation quickly spins out of control as a small army of loyal mercenaries draw their guns in a violent attempt to free their notorious compatriot. Later stumbling upon the chaotic situation, Ray does his best to protect his son while ensuring that Frank doesn't escape justice. Though Frank's men aren't willing to let their boss go to prison without a fight, Ray vows to do the right thing as help suddenly comes from the most unlikely of places. 

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House of Bodies

While indulging his appetite for the grim and gruesome by patronizing a voyeuristic Web site that's based in a house where a serial killer once lived, a hearing-impaired boy begins to suspect that the site's violence is more than just make-believe.

ok heres the Actors in House of bodies
Actors:
Peter Fonda
Terrence Howard
Marc Macaulay
Queen Latifah
Alexz Johnson
Juliana Harkavy
George Katt

And I thought it would be a Kick butt Movie I was really Wrong. it has a Teen top Horror movie big time. It is good story. But over all movie sucked just a Warning: if you like teenager horror movies. You would love this one. nude girls,blood guts killer telling how he loved killing. Police running in circles to walk a straight line. Queen Latifah had a small part but a main one. Please tell me Movies are going to get better the past 9-10 years only 5 or 6 movies a year being good is very bad.

Heres the movie review

The story follows Kyle, a deaf child who enjoys chatting online with Nicole (Latifah), a relay operator at a telephone service for the hearing-impaired. Kyle's fascination with the macabre leads him to explore the Ho

use of Bodies, a voyeur website based out of the former home of serial killer Henry Lee Bishop (Fonda), now on death row. When police discover a string of grisly copycat murders, a detective (Howard) must race to uncover the mystery.

Heres Review from www.horror-moviesca it speaks more positive than me Watch the movie give me your thoughts

Here we have a new serial killer flick for you guys which comes from Alex Merkin (“Across the Hall”) and it sounds as if it may have some potential, read on for more.

According to Variety, Queen Latifah (pictured right), Terrence Howard, Peter Fonda and Alexz Johnson are all set to star in the thriller House of Bodies.

The film “follows Kyle, a deaf child who enjoys chatting online with Nicole (Latifah), a relay operator at a telephone service for the hearing-impaired. Kyle’s fascination with the macabre leads him to explore the House of Bodies, a voyeur website based out of the former home of serial killer Henry Lee Bishop (Fonda), now on death row. When police discover a string of grisly copycat murders, a detective (Howard) must race to uncover the mystery.”

The film is written by Eddie Harris and is produced by Latifah and Shakim Compere’s Miami-based Flavor Unit Studios.

Frozen River

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A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; it's two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mother of two realizes the futility of attempting to cover the house payments on her meager Yankee One Dollar Store wages, her children are forced to exist on a nutritionally devoid diet of popcorn and Tang. Deciding that her only hope for survival is to find a man who will support her and her children, Ray sets out to find a husband but instead makes the acquaintance of street-smart Mohawk Lila Littlewolf. Lila, too, has been struggling to keep her head above water amidst economic despair, and has recently stumbled across a rather unconventional solution to her dire financial situation. Lately, Lila has been earning a living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., but her tribal elders vehemently disapprove of the scheme and have recently attempted to stop it by forbidding the local auto dealers from selling her a car. As fate would have it, Ray's Dodge Spirit may just be the only thing the destitute mother can count on anymore, and as this unlikely pair gas up the tank for a daring dash across the iced-over St. Lawrence River, their fates become forever intertwined in ways that neither could have ever anticipated. 

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Sometimes two performances come along that are so perfectly matched that no overt signals are needed to show how the characters feel about each other. That's what happens between Melissa Leo and Misty Upham in "Frozen River," playing two mothers who live without male support in shabby house trailers on the U.S.-Quebec border: Mohawk territory.

Leo is Ray Eddy, whose husband left his car at a Mohawk bingo parlor and disappeared, perhaps on the bus to Atlantic City. He is a gambling addict and has taken all the money that they were saving to buy a better trailer. Ray scrapes by on a half-time job at the Yankee One Dollar store, and until pay day, her kids, who are 15 and 5 years old, are dining on popcorn and Tang.

Upham is Lila Littlejohn, a Mohawk who works at the bingo hall and lives alone; her mother-in-law has "stolen" her 1-year-old. The two women meet after Lila finds the keys in Ray's husband's abandoned car and drives it away, and Ray follows her home: "That's my car." Lila says she knows a smuggler who will give her $2,000 for it, no questions asked. She knows a lot more than that, which is how Ray finds them both in the business of smuggling aliens across the border into the United States. This involves the two women making hazardous car trips across the ice of a frozen river, dealing with unsavory types on both sides, and carrying Chinese and Pakistanis in the trunk.

"Frozen River," a debut film written and directed by Courtney Hunt, never steps wrong. It resists all temptations to turn this plot into some kind of a thriller and keeps it grounded on the struggle for economic survival. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2008, "Frozen River" is one of those rare independent films that knows precisely what it intends, and what the meaning of the story is.

Ray Eddy is a heroine in her life. She refuses all offers by her son T.J. (Charlie McDermott) to drop out of school and get a job. She begs for full-time work at the store. She never set out to smuggle humans (she's tricked into it), but once she gets into it, she finds it pays well. She has no particular feelings about the people in the car trunk and throws away the Pakistani's precious duffel bag because it "might contain poison gas, and I don't want to be responsible for that."

T.J. watches solemnly and knows the real story: His dad has run off on them, there is no food, he is responsible for his little brother, the men are coming to collect the TV set. For Lila, life is sad; she perches on a freezing night in a tree outside her mother-in-law's window for glimpses of her baby and shares Pringles with the watchdog. She has Ray count the money in all of their deals, because she's too nearsighted to see the bills.

Do these two women bond? This is not a story of bonding. It is a story of need. They hardly have a conversation that isn't practical and immediate, and theory and sentiment are beyond them. Neither actress is afraid to seem cold and detached. That we know their inner feelings is a tribute to the film. I don't know how Hunt came by her knowledge of this world, but it feels exact and familiar. Even the scenes with a state trooper (Michael O'Keefe) are played quietly, and with a certain sympathy. But notice the grim realism of a scene at a topless bar (also in a house trailer).

And there is an awesome, terrifying beauty in their journeys across the ice. "I've seen semis make it," Lila says. The Mohawk reservation on the American side provides a kind of sanctuary for smugglers -- although the tribal elders are wise to her and won't let her own a car. Ray's status as a white woman gives them a kind of immunity -- for a while. The way the trooper aproaches the case is matter-of-fact and humane.

In detail after detail, "Frozen River" is the story of two lives in economic emergency, and two women who are brave and resourceful and ready to do what's necessary. It doesn't play sides. It isn't about illegal aliens or smuggling. It's about replacing popcorn and Tang with a meal at the Chopper, and some nice TV dinners. That it climaxes on Christmas Eve doesn't even seem contrived, just sad.

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Boogeyman 3

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A college sophomore faces an unspeakable horror after witnessing the alleged suicide of her best friend as the saga that begin in the 2005 chiller Boogeyman continues. When Sarah Morris saw her best friend take her own life, she unwittingly opened herself up to the wrath of the dreaded Boogeyman. Her dorm-mates thing she's crazy, but Sarah knows that the Boogeyman is real. Later, Sarah's friends begin to pay the ultimate price for their disbelief as the ultimate evil descends upon the entire campus. Now it's not just a matter of if the Boogeyman will get them, but when

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Really good for Straight to DVD and an third movie in the series

Author: atinder from United Kingdom
15 January 2009

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Well I really liked Boogeyman 2 because it turned out to be a Slasher movie I gave that 8/10

Boogeyman 3 has gone back to the being supernatural again! It's not a slasher movie this time some will be disappointed by that! (But think the gore will make up for it, (I think any way)

This movie start off with Audery the Daughter of Dr. Mitchell Allen who was killed off in boogeyman 2, She then get ready for a bath and she goes underwater see a shadow heading towards the bath but she gets out nothing was there! As she gets closer to her bed, she is Drag under the bed!(At this point you may be thinking, wait have we not see this before?)

Next scene we see students in Collage having their lunch and Sarah is worried that her friend not answering her phone!

Later when Sarah goes to the dorm and then Aurdery who was sucked under the bed is still alive, she tells Sarah that the Boogeyman who killed her dad and now it's after her! Of course no one believes her! Not even her best friend who is a part of Radio show!

Later that night when Sarah is on a Radio show Aurdery call up and saying someone going kill me, I can't hide he is everywhere( Meanwhile Sarah rushing to help her friend )While she is talking to other man on radio show and he tells her that her dad was killed by man who pretend to be the boogeyman!

At that moment in the dorm the lights go out and boogeyman is next to Aurdery it grabs her and you still hear her choking on the radio show and then Sarah walk into the room to see Aurdery being killed by the Boogeyman and the Boogeyman also see her and Sarah could see the evil in its eyes, she quickly goes back to hall and tells her other friend it killed her, has he looked into the room, now it looks like she hung herself but Sarah know what really happened.

At this point of course she knows no one will believe her if she tells anyone! So she keeps it too herself until she start having vision/Dreams of thing that going to happen to her friends or have already happened to her friends and whole Dorm will be killed by the Boogeyman ! When her friends start going missing she knows everything see saw in her vision/Dream is coming true! She has to warn everyone before it 's too late!

There is small twist near end of movie but some might say it not even twist at all! And This movie will also tell you why all 3 movie are different! (Which I think was really good idea)

I really enjoyed watching this movie, there was some very good creepy scenes in this movie like Ju-on-The Grudge scene (For me anyway)!

Death scenes in this movie were really good but not as gory as boogeyman 2 however there some decent mount of gore in this movie! As the Boogeyman his self, great make up affect was great, loved the way it looked!

The acting was really good for Straight to DVD and an third movie in the series

I put my hands up and confess that this movie did creepy me out just a little bit!

The one thing I didn't like about this was the last ten seconds of movie, Don't you just hate when you get those silly last scare scenes at the end of horror movies these days!

Give this movie 7/8 out 10 still not sure what to give it!

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Boogeyman 2

IMDb Review
The script centers on a young woman with a long-term phobia of the bogeyman, who voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fears. However, much to her horror, she discovers that some things are terrifying on purpose, and confronting her demons was not the best course of action.

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A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too little too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear. Editor-turned-director Jeff Betancourt takes the helm for this Ghost House Pictures shocker scripted by Brian Sieve and starring Tobin Bell, Danielle Savre, David Gallagher, Michael Graziadei, and Mae Whitman

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Boogeyman

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A man learns his past was more truth than imagination in this horror story. Tim (Barry Watson) is a man who is still haunted by traumatic memories of his past, many linked to the death of his father. Desperate to resolve his issues, Tim returns to his old hometown so he can pay a visit to the house where he grew up. But while Tim wants to convince himself the ghostly memories he carries are just a figment of his imagination, circumstances lead him to believe that there may be a kernel of truth to them. Boogeyman also features Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless, and Skye McCole Bartusiak.

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What's the story?

Eight-year-old Tim Jenson is scarred for his life before BOOGEYMAN'S title sequence rolls. He went to bed one night jumping at shadows in his rural, gothic home and watched in horror as his closet violently swallowed his father. Fast-forward 15 years and Tim (Barry Watson), now a twitchy lygophobic with a tendency to stand staring at dark closets, returns home for a funeral. He alone sees that all dark places -- under the bed, in the closet, behind the pantry door -- are potential lurking spots for the boogeyman. At the off-hand recommendation of his psychologist and to further the plot, he must face his childhood fears, including that of his supernatural closet.

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Anatomy

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A determined medical student uncovers shady goings on during a prestigious summer anatomy course in this German thriller. When Paula Henning (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) learns that she's been accepted to a highly competitive internship at a Heidelberg research institution, she's ecstatic. The daughter of a simple family doctor, she prefers to model herself after her terminally ill grandfather, who was once dean of the same Heidelberg university. Stern lecturer Prof. Grombek (Traugott Buhre) promises that half the students won't be around when the course ends; his prediction turns out to be true, but it's not because of the brutal exams. It seems that a group of renegade doctors is performing dissections on unwilling, still-living victims, which helps explain the artful laboratory in which plasticized human remains are lovingly displayed. Paula stumbles onto this plot when a recent acquaintance turns up on her dissection table, his blood the consistency of rubber. Studious to the extreme, Paula investigates his death with scientific determination -- despite the flirtations of handsome fellow student Caspar (Sebastian Blomberg) and the feel-good urgings of Gretchen (Anna Loos), her sexually promiscuous but utterly brilliant roommate. Just as Paula is preparing to expose the existence of the Anti-Hippocratic Society, a Nazi-affiliated group of medical malcontents, Gretchen falls prey to their extreme methods. Soon Paula, too, is in danger of becoming just another addition to the display case. Extremely popular in its native country, Anatomie was dubbed into English for American release under the title Anatomy. A sequel was in IMDbproduction as of 2002

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Intense, enjoyable thriller IF VIEWED IN ORIGINAL GERMAN LANGUAGE!

Author: hippiedj from Palm Desert, California
3 October 2001

I was very curious about Anatomy (aka Anatomie) and if I was going to see it, I was going to have to buy it since no video stores in my area carried the film. Since it was not a low-priced DVD, I did take a chance and thought I'd take a peek at other comments on IMDb. Many of the comments didn't give me enough hope of forking out lots of bucks for a film I had never seen nor had any clues about. I basically got the idea it was a sexy youth-oriented romp being compared to many cookie-cutter teen thrillers. Well, something in the back of my mind told me to ignore those types of comments and buy it! I did, and was I pleasantly surprised!

If it is going to be compared to any other films, I would say it's a variation of Coma and Extreme Measures. I couldn't see any comparison to films like Scream, Urban Legends, et al. Yes, the cast is young (that's because they're med students! At least they aren't the increasingly boring high school type characters), and yes, some are lusty (basically the character played by Anna Loos is, and it is handled quite tastefully in the German language version), but Anatomy is well constructed, there is a tense mood throughout, the sets are amazing, the makeup effects are a wow, and Franka Potente is very credible in her role. I found myself enjoying all of it despite a few gaping holes in the plot! The story of a student discovering a sort-of secret society doing autopsies on still-living patients is a rather creepy scenario and what happens to those patients afterwards is quite clever. Sure, you could ask why didn't she just GET OUT OF THAT TOWN? Okay, but then the film would be over within a half hour.

This was the first effort from the German part of Columbia Pictures, and it's actually quite an impressive one. There was a bit of care in the production and to actually offer some genuine thrills is an accomplishment. It is a bit mature in mind, as it doesn't resort to constant opportunities for sexual encounters(a breast fest) or juvenile drug jokes. Anna Loos' character, while often making sexual remarks and looking for some fun, was actually a nice touch--having a character that was a woman more intelligent than any of the men in the school. She found that sex was really just a distraction for her and the men rather lacking.

THE IMPORTANT STUFF: Watching this film in the original German language with English or French subtitles is the BEST way to enjoy it. I saw the theatrical trailers dubbed in English and was disgusted by the change it made in the film's tone. I have never seen a properly dubbed film in my life--they never can find voices that suit the film's actors or characters. Sure enough, I tried to watch some of Anatomy dubbed in English and the intelligence level of it dropped severely, making it seem more like a comedy. A good example is when one guy was freaked out at being cut open and screamed to be sewn back up--hearing it in German he sounded frantic, but dubbed in English he sounded like a comedian. Frankly, I'm sick of hearing people say they can't handle reading subtitles or watch a "letterboxed" film. Anatomy comes off as silly with dubbed voices that seem octaves too high for any of the people you see in the film, and Anna Loos' sexual comments then just sound like awful remarks right out of Fast Times At Ridgemont High. I wonder if the negative comments about Anatomy are from people who watched it dubbed, it just doesn't seem like the same film at all! This is not a cheap horror film and deserves to be viewed as it was created. Interesting to note that some of the English subtitles are different in scenes in the feature and the "making of" supplement.

As it turns out, I gambled and won with Anatomy. It's a competent thriller with likeable characters and doesn't try to go for cheap thrills.

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