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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

John Landis: Family Review

MASTERS OF HORROR

This new series of horror tales reminds me of tales from the crypt, but with Masters of Horror we have the brilliant minds behind some of the best horror films ever made collaborating on these episodes.

Meet John Landis. He seems like your friendly suburban neighbor but John has skeletons in his closet, litterally. He's a serial killer targeting people to become members of his new "family" and when he sets his sights on his new neighbors, he gets in over his head because maybe this time, the catch was too easy...maybe this time, the hunter becomes the hunted.

I loved this episode. George Wendt was great in his chilling performance. There is something almost poetic seeing a man call the skeletons he's talking to "crazy". Suspense and thrills will keep you sucked into this creepy story. They just don't write horror this good these days. Yes this story is anything but original, but I enjoyed every second of it.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Pirates life for me, but the Pirates life should end

I've been anticipating this film for a while now. I am a Depp fan and Jack Sparrow is my favorite role he's played yet. Pirate mythology fascinates me and the films were just great fun to watch. On stranger tides fails to capture the magic I felt when the Curse of the black pearl came about. Even Depp doesn't seem to have his heart in this performance. Disney, as big of a company as it is, still felt it had to make cuts. The film did well anyhow and will most likely spawn two more sequels. When you butcher the cast and write mediocre plotlines to continue Jack Sparrows adventures you just lose what you had when you started sadly. This series does not need another sequel in my opinion, as much as I do not want to lose the pirates, they are on a downward spiral now with the fourth installment.

3 / 5 stars