Category: Movie Review

URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT (2000)

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Directed By: John Ottoman
Written By: Scott Derrickson & Paul Harris Boardman
Based On Characters Created By: Silvio Horta
Cinematography: Brian Pearson
Editor: John Ottoman & Ron Kobrin 


Cast: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Loretta Devine, Eva Mendes, Anthony Anderson, Jessica Cauffiel, Hart Bochner, Jacinda Barrett, Joseph Lawrence, Anson Mount, Michael Bacall, Marco Hofschneider 


The film follows Amy Mayfield, a student at Alpine University who struggles to complete her thesis film on urban legends – only to have her crew members fall prey to fatal ‘accidents.’ Suspicious, Amy investigates and discovers a much more sinister hand at work. Now she must unmask the killer before she, too, becomes an urban legend.

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THE DEAD DON’T DIE (2019)

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Written & Directed By: Jim Jarmusch
Cinematography: Frederick Elmes
Editor: Affonso Goncalves 

Cast: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevingy, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, RZA, Selena Gomez, Larry Fessenden, Carol Kane, Iggy Pop, Rosie Perez, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Jahi Winston, Caleb Landry Jones, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat 


The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.

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HERE COMES THE DEVIL (2012) AHI VA EL DIABLO

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Written & Directed By: Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Cinematography By: Ernesto Herrera
Editor: Carmen Vargas 

Cast: Laura Caro, Francisco Barreiro, Alan Martinez, Michele Garcia,

A married couple lose their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them. While the film certainly plays into it’s genre, especially the direction with it’s angles and camera movements that alerts the audience to the films sinister nature, before anything really happen.

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THE BURNING (1981)

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Directed By: Tony Maylam
Written By: Bob Weinstein & Peter Lawrence
Original Story By: Harvey Weinstein, Brad Grey & Tony Maylam
Created By: Harvey Weinstein
Cinematography By: Harvey Harrison
Editor: Jack Shoulder 


Cast: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Baker, Ned Eisenberg, Larry Joshua, Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, Lou David, Holly Hunter

A janitor at a summer camp is accidently burned severely from a prank. Years later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers.

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LIFE AFTER BETH (2014)

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Written & Directed By: Jeff Baena
Cinematography By: Jay Hunter
Editor: Colin Patton 


Cast: Dale DeHann, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Cheryl Hines, Matthew Gray Gubler, Anna Kendrick, Garry Marshall, Alia Shawkat, Paul Weitz, Rob Delaney

A hike alone in the woods ends tragically for Beth Slocum with a fatal snake bite. Her death leaves her parents and boyfriend Zach reeling. After the funeral, Zach tries to make friends with Mr. and Mrs. Slocum, but even they reject him, and he’s determined to figure out why. Then he sees Beth. Her parents are trying to keep her resurrection a secret, but zombie Beth provides Zach with the opportunity to do everything with her that he didn’t get to do while she was still alive. But with Beth’s increasingly erratic behavior and even more strange occurrences around town, life with the undead Beth proves to be particularly complicated for her still-living loved ones.

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TUSK (2014)

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Written, Directed & Edited By: Kevin Smith
Cinematography By: James Laxton 


Cast: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Jennifer Schwalbach-Smith, Ralph Garman, Ashley Greene, Harley Quinn Smith, Lily-Rose Melody Depp

When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him.

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BLISS (2019)

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Written & Directed By: Joe Begos
Cinematography By: Mike Testin
Editor: Josh Ethier 

Cast: Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield, Jeremy Gardner, Graham Skipper, Chris McKenna, Rachel Avery, Abraham Benrubi, George Wendt 

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

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THE CLEANSE (2016)

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Written & Directed By: Bobby Miller
Cinematography: Michael Fimognari
Editor: Josh Crockett 


Cast: Johnny Gaelecki, Anna Friel, Angelica Huston, Oliver Platt, Kyle Gallner, Diana Bang, Kevin J O’Connor, Loretta Walsh 


A heartbroken man attends a spiritual retreat to cleanse himself and fix his broken life. There he meets a fellow lost soul, and together they discover that “the cleanse” releases more than everyday toxins…a lot more.

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MONSTERS (2010)

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Written, Directed, Cinematography & Production Design By: Gareth Edwards
Editor: Colin Goudie 

Cast: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Annalee Jefferies

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over North America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain “the creatures”…… Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border

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MORTUARY (2005)

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Directed By: Tobe Hopper
Written By: Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch
Cinematography: Jaron Presant
Editor: Andrew Cohen 

Cast: Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Denise Crosby, Bug Hall, Courtney Peldon, Rocky Marquette, Stephanie Patton, Adam Gierasch 


The widow Leslie Doyle has just lost her husband and moves with her teenage son Jonathan and her young daughter Jamie to a mortuary in a small town in California that she has bought with the intention of starting a new business, practicing her knowledge as mortician. When they arrive, Leslie realizes that she was lured by the former owner, Elliot, and that the decrepit Fowler Brothers Funeral Home was completely abandoned and with problem with the septic sewer. While Leslie tries to improve and clean the place and start embalming corpses, Jonathan is informed about the legend of Bobby Fowler, the deformed son of the Fowlers. Meanwhile a weird substance attacks people, transforming them in zombies.

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