Horror Queen

PLOT

The year is 2210 and the world is overrun by vampires. Captain Churchill leads a ragtag group (aren’t they always?) of hunters, including a vampire, on various missions around the galaxy. They’re called upon to lead a special mission, to save a group of survivors on a distant planet. During the mission, the Captain is taken hostage by a group of vampires, with one human working with them. Though the rest of the crew aren’t fond of the Captain, they decide to work together and save him, but only after learning that one of their own helped create the trap to capture him.

TRIVIA

Also known as Bloodsuckers.

AJ Cook has a history in the horror/sci-fi world. She previously appeared in Ripper; Letter from Hell, Final Destination 2 and was on the first season of “Tru Calling”.

THOUGHTS

Vampire Wars is more of a bad sci-fi movie than anything else and I wouldn’t have watched it unless I found it cheap…and in a set with other movies. I was convinced that this movie was made years ago based on the sets and acting, so imagine my surprise when I discovered it was made in 2005. I like AJ Cook, but I’m shocked at how bad her acting is here, especially when compared to other movies that came out around the same time, or even earlier…

Huh.

PLOT

Matt Frewer stars as Sherlock Holmes, as he and Dr. Watson are called into Whitechapel when a series of strange murders begin happening, in the exact spot where Jack the Ripper once struck. The townspeople are certain that it’s a vampire attacking their town, but Holmes believes a human is at work. As he investigates, he wages war with Watson, who is equally certain that vampires might exist and convinced that Holmes needs to open his mind, if he hopes to catch the vampire.

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Frewer played Holmes in two other movies produced by and for the Hallmark Channel.

THOUGHTS

I giggled when I saw Matt Frewer as Sherlock Holmes because in my mind, he belongs firmly in a Stephen King movie and I remember him so clearly as Trashcan Man from The Stand. After a little bit though, I was able to forget about that and get caught up in the story, which is surprising because I’m not the biggest fan of Sherlock Holmes stories. The Case of the Whitechaple Vampire is a surprising little movie and I’m glad I picked it up, especially since I paid about $1.25 for it.

Guess what I got excited about?

PLOT

Charley is making out with his girlfriend and just about to get her into bed for the first time when he gets distracted by his new neighbors carrying a coffin. He then sees the same man Jerry, biting a younger girl and tells his mom who ignores him because Charley loves horror movies so he obviously can’t be trusted. His best friend Ed and girlfriend Amy don’t believe him either and wonder if he’s going crazy. Finally he calls the police, but they don’t find any evidence so they think he’s crazy too. He then gets Peter Vincent, a local horror host to help him in his quest, though Peter is less than thrilled when he realizes there really are vampires in the world.

TRIVIA

Fright Night was turned into a comic book and an arcade game.

A sequel to the 1985 movie was released in 1988.

Dream Works announced earlier this year that they were remaking Fright Night.

THOUGHTS

Whenever anyone hears that I haven’t seen Fright Night (or at least one of my horror movie loving friends), they completely freak out on me. Now that I’ve seen it, I kind of want to know what the big deal is. I got excited for half a second when I saw the gal from Married with Children and more excited that William Ragsdale was the main guy. After that…yeah, I just had a really hard time getting into it. Everyone’s been recommending this movie for me over the last couple of years and now that I’ve seen it, I probably won’t see it again. Sorry for all those big hardcore fans out there…

Love me some Jason Mewes!

PLOT

Jack (Jason Mewes) is just your average, ordinary guy who happens to work as a late shift EMT. As he tells his partner Roger, he can’t meet a good woman or at least the type of woman who takes care of him sometimes instead of always expecting him to do the work. One night he sees a junkie laying in the alley next to his apartment, but quickly discovers that it’s a sick woman. He takes her home and moves her in yet she waits several days before telling him that her name’s Danika. One night she has what he thinks are withdraw pains, but she refuses to take him to the hospital so he calls Roger for help. His ex-girlfriend shows up the next night and Danika kills her. He freaks out when he finds what she did, but that doesn’t stop her from screwing her, even after she bites him and he realizes what she is…

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Had its premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel.

THOUGHTS

I’m fascinated with Jason Mewes, but more for his personal life than his professional work. I have no clue how he can continue to act in movies with frequent references to drugs and alcohol based on his past history and especially with his instances that he’s clean and sober. That said, Bitten wasn’t that bad of a movie. There were parts when I actually laughed out loud, but those scenes seemed fairly unintentional. When they tried too hard, you could tell and those scenes were painful than anything. Take for example scenes where he’s cleaning up blood and they play some happy little kids song about cleaning. I just winced and rolled my eyes. After learning that it was on the Sci-Fi Channel not too long ago, I wish I had just watched it then instead of wasting a few bucks on the rental. It was good, but it wasn’t great.

Mama’s got nothing to say…she’s dead.

PLOT

Seth and Ritchie are two outlaws on the run from the law and looking hot while they do it. After a run in with the local law at the beginning of the movie, they end up hiding out in a hotel. There they meet Jacob and his kids Scott and Kate. They force the family to get in their motor home and drive them across the border to Mexico, where they promise they’ll let them go. They make it to the strip bar Titty Twister and Seth makes the family stick around. They quickly learn that the bar is run by vampires and find themselves stuck with a few other patrons just trying to make it through the night.

TRIVIA

Danny Trejo is the only actor who appeared in both the original movie and the two direct to video sequels.

THOUGHTS

Every time I watch this movie, I find something that I missed before. Given that I’ve probably seen it a dozen times, that’s really saying something. From Dusk Till Dawn is fairly gory at times, which is great for us horror movie fans yet there’s something about it that makes me not want to classify it as a horror movie. There’s just way too much humor in the movie for me to see it as a straight horror flick. I also love me some George Clooney, who looks so great with the neck tattoo that I want him to get one in real life. Sue me, sometimes I’m still a girl! Anyway it’s a great movie and I’m glad I decided to watch it, even though I actually hadn’t seen it in a few years.

I’m currently in the process of re-watching my old Buffy and Angel discs so every couple of weeks I’ll be posting a new review of whatever season I just finished. Unfortunately I’m missing season one because it was ruined in a fire, so I’ll start with season two.

Season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer picks up with Buffy coming back to town after a summer with her dad. She killed The Master at the end of the first season, died and came back to life so she isn’t feeling to chipper. She throws herself into the slaying, ignoring her friends and Angel. She finally gets her mojo back, just in time to sleep with Angel on her 17^th birthday and have him turn into the evil Angelus.

The season also introduces Oz, who goes crazy for Willow. He wants her to want him, not because she wants to make her friend Xander jealous. Xander falls for the snobby Cordelia and eventually casts a love spell on her, which backfires and makes all women in town go after him.

The real thread to the season is the relationship between Buffy and Angel/Angelus. He torments her friends, kills Jenny Calendar and kidnaps Giles. By the end she’s feeling completely alone, but she learns that she’s the only person she actually needs to survive. She manages to trap Angelus just as Willow completes the spell to turn him back into Angel and yet she still has to kill him to save the world. At the end of the season Buffy takes off, knowing that she can’t face anyone knowing what she had to do.

I actually started watching Buffy regularly during the second season. Prior to that, the Dayton area didn’t have a regular WB station, but aired shows at random times of the day. I remember watching episodes at three am sometimes. The second season was when the WB finally appeared and the show drew me right in. The second season might just be the best place to start on the show.

Not sure…PLOT

Oskar is the kind of boy who was teased a lot in my school, shy and quiet not to mention a little odd and unsure of himself. The other boys in school make fun of him a lot and he spends a little too much time playing with a knife and pretending what he’d do to them. He meets a girl named Eli outside one night who automatically tells him that she doesn’t want to be friends. She lives next door with a man presumed to be her father and slowly she starts bonding with Oskar. We also see scenes of her father killing men in the area and when it goes wrong, he douses himself with acid. Later Eli arrives at the hospital, he lets her suck his blood (sorry, couldn’t resist) and then dies. Eli and Oskar continue to bond, she ends up getting a little of his blood and then runs off to attack another woman so she won’t hurt him. The movie then alternates between some traditional horror and the relationship between the two kids.

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John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote both the book the movie was based on and the screenplay.

Opened in limited release in the U.S., playing only a handful of theaters across the country.

In the book Eli was castrated years ago, which explains the line, “I’m not a girl”. The movie was supposed to explain this, but the one scene that mentioned it was cut.

The movie will be remade as Let Me In by a U.S. director, with filming starting later this year.

THOUGHTS

I’ve wanted to see Let the Right One In since I wrote about it back in October. It didn’t play anywhere around me at first and when it finally did, I missed it. I figured that I’d have to wait for the DVD, but I finally got to see it. Now though, I’m not sure how I felt about it. The movie is really dark at times yet manages to portray the pre-teen angst in a very recognizable and honest way. There were parts that touched me, but there were also parts where I just kind of tuned out for a little bit. I’ve heard that the book has a lot more backstory and explanations and maybe that would have helped me somewhat. I feel almost stupid admitting that I’m not sure if I really liked it because I know a lot of people who loved it. I’m glad I finally saw it, but I don’t think I’ll be seeing it again.

Vampire oh my.

PLOT

Sydney is a single reporter who spends far too much time with her player photographer friend Sam. Sam finds a website showing vampire women attacking a man right before they head off to interview the woman who runs a dating site Artemis. The point of the site is to give women the power, even allowing them to post comments on their date’s prowess in the bedroom. At the same time Van Helsing himself is in town, investigating the connection between the dating site and the

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Nathalie Brown as Sydney has a history in the horror film world. She’s previously appeared in Saw V and Dawn of the Dead.

THOUGHTS

Surprisingly enough, Last Sect isn’t a terrible movie…considering it’s a straight to DVD horror movie…about vampires…and David Carradine is the first billed. Sydney and Sam have a nice little chemistry that makes you wonder occasionally why they aren’t together and her discomfort about signing up for a dating site is completely understandable. The movie only starts to get confusing when Anna, who runs the dating site decides to seduce Sydney and the movie starts to focus on Sydney “awaking” as a lesbian. Other than that, not too bad.

I need to start paying attention to the description…

PLOT

Sadie is a news reporter doing a story on teenagers when she finds herself caught up in the world of real life vampires. She’s taken hostage by a vampire who eventually turns her. When she wakes up, she decides to kill all of those who helped make her what she became. What she doesn’t realize is that cop Clyde is on her tail. Clyde’s daughter was killed by this same group of vampires and he views Sadie as the key to finding out the truth, or at least finding his dead daughter’s body.

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Blink and you’ll miss it! Marilyn Manson pops up in a short cameo role as a bartender.

THOUGHTS

Sometimes I really think I need to start reading the synopsis carefully before I add a movie to my Netflix queue. Sadie is played by Lucy Lui, an actress I literally can’t stand and have never liked before. Every time she comes around, I cringe and roll my eyes. Plus there’s Nick Lachey turning up for about 5 minutes and proving that he can’t act worth a damn. On the positive side, Michael Chiklis plays Clyde and he’s pretty damn good.

I thought this movie looked pretty good and I guess it wasn’t too bad, but it really wasn’t my cup of tea. There wasn’t a whole lot to the movie that kept me interested and I found my mind wandering for a good portion of the film.

I can’t believe this movie actually came out recently.

THE PLOT

Maxx (Matt Keeslar), a recovering drug addict is in love with Lisa (Claire Kramer), a drug addict. When Lisa learns she’s dying, she becomes a vampire to save herself, but can’t quite get away from Maxx. She turns him and introduces him to her band of vampires led by Darius (Jeremy Sisto with a horrible accent). Maxx becomes seduced by their lifestyle and finds himself wrapped up in their world, more so than Lisa. While he has no problem killing someone, she hates herself for doing it and starts to hate herself for turning him.

FUN TRIVIA

Keeslar appeared in the television movie “Rose Red” based on a Stephen King idea, while Sisto has appeared in a few horror movies including Wrong Turn.

THOUGHTS/OPINIONS

I really hated this movie and unfortunately I made the mistake of buying it during a cheap movie sale. Of course I have an intense hatred of drug addicts for personal reasons, so it probably wasn’t the best choice for me. I appreciate the connection between killing and drugs as well as how addictions can take on a variety of forms, but I still didn’t like it.

There was one good scene where Maxx decides to have dirty monkey sex with one of his friends from NA and then in the middle decides to turn her. She resists and he ends up covered in her blood as she lays there dying. Then they ruin it by having Lisa appear, help him hide her body and then they have dirty monkey sex on top of the still bloody sheets. That was a little much.

So there is a lot of blood and a few good themes in The Thirst, but this really isn’t my type of movie. Great soundtrack though with a lot of heavy metal and some nice electronica.