All Hallow's Eve is approaching once again, and my favorite part of the holiday is all the
corresponding movies that turn up on television and in theaters. October is already over a week
old, so it's time to get into a Halloween frame of mind.
The
Unborn
When I last saw
Odette
Yustman she was one of several New Yorkers fleeing for her life from a large beastie with nasty
pointy teeth in
Cloverfield.
The Unborn has her facing a different kind of evil,
specifically the spirit of her twin brother who died in the womb, or perhaps it's an evil entity
that hoped to enter the world through him (it's a little hard to tell). There are some nightmarish
visuals on display here, and the crawling thing with its head twisted around both sticks with me
and makes me wonder if it's an homage to the spider walk scene in
The Exorcist. The often
cool
Gary Oldman also stars and the film is
written and directed by
David S. Goyer, so I
think there's something good and creepy here.
Just Buried
Not a horror flim this one,
but rather an extremely dark comedy.
Jay Baruchel
(who I will always remember as the Led Zeppelin loving nerd from
Almost Famous) plays a young man named Oliver
who has inherited a funeral home troubled by a fierce competitor and a lack of business. The plucky
young female mortician in his employ insists he can't shut down the funeral parlor and the two
embark upon a path to drum up business and squash the competition by causing a few untimely deaths.
Could be a nice slice of morbid fun here. Check out
Scott's review of the
film.
The Uninvited
A young woman returns home from a stint at a mental hospital
following her mother's untimely death, to find that her father has a new girlfriend (
Elizabeth Banks). There's also a ghost who is apparently
trying to tell our former mental patient heroine that the girlfriend killed the last family she
lived with. This is a much darker role than I'm used to seeing Banks play, and she seems to handle
it well. This is a remake of a South Korean film called
A Tale of Two Sisters
(Janghwa, Hongryeon) which was once recommended to me but has languished in my
Netflix queue for several years. The trailer has some creepy moments and I'll probably check this
one out. Here's
Eric Snider's take on the
trailer.
Let the Right One In
If you're going to attempt a vampire movie these days
then you damn well better do something different with the idea, and it looks like the people behind
this Swedish bloodsucker opus are clear on that concept. A bullied 12 year old boy finds both
friendship and a tool for revenge in his new girlfriend who happens to be a vampire. Scott caught
this one at Tribeca and penned a
pretty strong
recommendation, and the flick will be playing on October 24 in New York City. Sadly, the rest
of us are going to have to wait for the eventual DVD release.
House
No, it's
neither that 80s horror flick starring William Katt or that doctor show on the Fox Network. This
House is a horror flick in which two couples find themselves trapped in a remote house and
stalked by a lunatic calling himself the Tin Man. This one seems to meld classic slasher stuff with
elements of slaughterfests like
Hostel and
Saw, none of which really appeals to
me, and the cast isn't particularly interesting. I think I'll let this one slide.
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