[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005ZTUZ74][/pullquote] Remakes are becoming more and more popular each year. The trend in late 2000s was to take a 1980s horror film and throw a big budget at it. The thinking being that fans of the original are now old enough to get a nostalgia kick, whilst the new … [Read more...]
Review: Quatermass II (1957)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00I8DV76C][/pullquote] Fond memories of Hammer Horror generally involve the ever-old Peter Cushing desperately tilting against every Christopher Lee shaped windmill to spring from the pages of supernatural literature. Indeed, their characterisations of Van Helsing … [Read more...]
Review: Final Destination 5 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0050GLO2W][/pullquote] The original Final Destination was released in 2000 and proved to be a popular low-budget horror centered around the premise that a group of people escape a catastrophe after one has a premonition, so death starts claiming their lives in … [Read more...]
Review: Scream 4 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0050I7J92][/pullquote] When Wes Craven released the original Scream movie in 1996, it redefined what we know about the horror genre. He took all the conventions and tropes and spun them on their head, introducing characters that knew ˜the rules' of surviving a horror … [Read more...]
Review: Sunshine (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004VLKXG0][/pullquote] Sunshine is director Danny Boyle's atempt at a pure science fiction film. His previous films have had sci-fi elements, but never before has he set the whole film in the future and in space. Drawing heavy influences from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: … [Read more...]
Review: Zombieland (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002W5V63G][/pullquote] For years zombie films have been loosely based on George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. Zombies were reanimated corpses with a taste for human flesh, an idea that tapped into our fears of isolation and paranoid anxiety … [Read more...]
Review: Piranha 3D (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0047WU2AU][/pullquote] The Piranha franchise has always occupied an odd state within film history. They are obviously played as b-movies, but they have always had top quality actors or directors littered throughout. The original in 1978, was directed by Joe Dante of … [Read more...]
Review: The Hole in 3D (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004KKX16G][/pullquote] The Hole in 3D (watched in 2D) is a film directed by Joe Dante that attempts to take horror film conventions and apply them to a teenage film. Released 11th September 2009, it was reasonably successful at the box office. Guillermo Del Toro … [Read more...]