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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Sunday, July 11, 2010 05:37 PM
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 Pet Sematary is campy, yet somehow strangely entertaining flick bordering on total schlock and a complete waste of time. It is not a good haunted house flick, but it is entertaining. There is something of Stephen King’s trademark touches on the movie, which saves it from total collapse (as well there should be, since he wrote the screenplay as well as the book this film is based upon). The presence of legendary actor Fred Gwynne (a.k.a. Herman Munster) really helped rescue it from total failure as well.
As the film opens, a new family is arriving in a rural Maine town. Quite an original opening for a haunted house film, eh? The father of the family is Louis Creed (Midkiff), an MD, who is relocating his tribe here to become the new town doctor. The Creeds settle on a house that is by the side of a dangerous road (and not a friend to man). Foreshadowing is quite heavy as large powerful trucks race along this highway.
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The Legend of Hell House (1973)
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 02:02 PM
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 It is always delightful to discover a gem of a film perhaps lost in today’s deluge of blood and gore. Such is the case with the The Legend of Hell House, which first haunted the silver screen in 1973. Starring a horror legend himself, Roddy McDowall, The Legend of Hell House is the classic, if not clichéd, story of the atypical haunted house and the team of investigators sent to go prove if it is haunted or not; the experts, if you will, concerned with a supernatural task. I mean isn’t this the plot of most Scooby-Doo episodes? It doesn’t matter.
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Friday, May 21, 2010 12:57 PM
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 I am not so sure The Lovely Bones is a ghost movie in so much as a sentimental film, much in the same spirit of Ghost, the classic 1990 movie which featured the legendary Patrick Swayze-Demi More pottery making scene. The Lovely Bones does involve a haunting from beyond, but from beyond with a blissful smile. Well, at least until the spirit remembers it was murdered, it was blissful. The Lovely Bones was not as a good as Ghost, but it was not bad. Not real bad at least.
In The Lovely Bones a 14-year-old girl is murdered and she tells us this through narration. Her name is Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan). With the last name of a fish I inclined to think the character’s last name has much metaphorical weight as in this girl is going to make a journey to say the least.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:20 AM
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Mike Enslin (Cusack) is a disbeliever and then some. He is rather jaded from life after a turn of unfortunate events, which left him deeply melancholic, withdrawn; seemingly in a never-ending existential crisis. Or, it could be said, he is just like most writers right? Okay, bad joke. Why he is really like this, we soon discover. It is the result of the untimely death of his daughter Katie. He can’t get over that; most fathers couldn’t. Surely, he can’t be faulted for this level of cynicism given the foundation of its dark wellspring? His daughter’s death changed his views on life. However, another event is about to do that again; or, at very least, test his ability to believe in anything at all.
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Written by Sam Minardi
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Friday, July 24, 2009 02:43 AM
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 As police detective Aiden Breslin (Dennis Quaid) struggles to maintain a bond with this two sons following the death of his wife, he finds himself immersed into an investigation of a series of horrific murders. The veteran detective closes in on the investigation and connects the killings to the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In this film's failed attempt to create suspense, Breslin discovers a chilling, yet predicable, connection between himself and the suspects. This "shocking" connection is anything but and it becomes clear well before the plot unfolds on screen.
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