Tag: horror
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Resident Evil
4 outta 5 Resident Evil by Weapons director Zach Cregger is an intense movie of unrelenting chase and monster scenes with a lot of unexpectedly funny bits. It isn’t exactly the most faithful adaptation of the Resident Evil games, but neither were the first six films. The one faithful Resident Evil adaptation was Welcome to…
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (’21 review)
3 outt 5 Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City is a reboot of the zombie film franchise of the zombie survival horror game franchise which has also rebooted and remade itself multiple times. It ditches the Paul W.S. Anderson helmed series and instead this film is more faithful to the original source material. It’s full…
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Resident Evil: Retribution (’12 review)
3 outta 5 Resident Evil: Retribution is simultaneously extremely lazy and ambitious which is probably the most you can hope for in the number five instalment of a series that has had the same basic creative team driving it for over a decade. It’s sort of a “greatest hits” by rearranging and referencing several past…
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (’10 review)
3 out of 5 The post-Avatar 3D movie binge has been mostly under whelming since almost all live action 3D movies have been post-production jobs where the film is shot traditionally and then converted. The technology to shoot with the same camera system that Avatar used exists, yet been used since until Resident Evil: Afterlife…
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Resident Evil: Extinction (’07 review)
3 out of 5 Each film in the Resident Evil franchise has been slightly different from its predecessor. The first film, the weakest entry, was a somewhat mundane combination of the Resident Evil storyline from the original videogames with new characters for the movie. The second film, Apocalypse, stuck closest to the games storyline and…
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Onslaught
3 outta 5 Onslaught is a horror siege gore action film that tries to say something about veterans and PTSD. This may have good intentions but clashes harshly with undead chainsaw wielding zombies like something out of Evil Dead. There’s also introspection from an isolated and hard-drinking single mother who has difficulty dealing with her…
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The End of Oak Street
4 outta 5 The End of Oak Street may be a high-concept idea, but it ends up being a pretty straightforward survival movie featuring dinosaurs, with some really gnarly horror action involving folks being eaten by dinosaurs. This movie is primarily scenes of either dinosaur attacks or family melodrama. Adding a 1980s visual sheen is…
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Evil Dead Burn
3 outta 5 It doesn’t seem possible, but Evil Dead Burn may actually be the goriest entry in the Evil Dead series. The excessive violence and cackling dismembered Deadite heads fit the tone of the last few installments. The 3rd film, Army of Darkness and the TV show Ash vs Evil Dead are much more…
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
4 outta 5 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is very similar to the first film where it ups the carnage and adds more well-known actors to the mix. It isn’t exactly a lazy copy and paste of the original film as there are a lot of new twists here. This builds out the…
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Ready Or Not (2019 review)
4 outta 5 Ready or Not is an extremely messy horror comedy that is insanely madcap, gory, tense yet also very funny from start to finish with an especially great performance by the lead actress. This takes the locked house thriller genre and throws in a bunch of people who really don’t know what they’re…
