I LOVE the song "Young Blood" ...this was definitely not what i was expecting after viewing trailers for it. It's on the side of WTF. It was something different from all the ghost movies recently. Watch it!
Fantastic movie all around. The explaination was awesome and very well done. I do agree that that one part in the trailer gave something away to me too but other than that i was very pleased
I finally saw this, for the low, low price of $1.99 (+ about 2 or 3 bucks worth of gas station candy). It was entertaining and quite amusing, but I'm honestly a little surprised that it has such great reviews. I guess I just find it a little strange trying to take it seriously and laugh, at the same time. It's not the same kind of horror/humor as say Evil Dead (which it is very clearly referencing; there were some definite references to other films such as The Matrix). It worked better as a comedy, I think. I really didn't find it very scary because it was a little too over-the-top to take seriously, and the film wasn't taking itself very seriously. And oddly enough, I didn't really like [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Sigourney Weaver showing up . That was a bit campy and instead of being either funny OR serious, it just added too much of a camp factor. Probably wouldn't see it again, and probably wouldn't buy it, but it's definitely funny and worth seeing once. Joss Whedon once again shows that he's very good at writing good action/humor...
I hope he develops enough clout in Hollywood from this success (not to mention The Avengers) and gets to return to Firefly/Serenity.
Great Sci-Fi film, with lots of horror elements.
The idea was fantastic, very original, the execution was great, the dialogue top notch (Whedon) and it had boobies!
Plenty of very heavy-handed references to genre staples (Hellraiser, Evil Dead, It etc etc...), lots of great visual gags and a brilliant cocktail of character types - Scooby gang-ish dynamics of the cabin party as well as Lost like men in white coats.
Oh and Danny Tripp is in it, sigh ... Studio 60 ...
Not the genre-redefining horror movie that I had been told it was, definitely more along the lines of a horror/comedy, very slickly done, exactly what I expected from Whedon in terms of the attitude of the whole thing. Overall - 8/10. Personally, I could have handled about another 10 minutes or so of film time, (but they always say to leave your audience wanting more) so that the earlier scenes involving the office workers could have had a bit more to them. On a separate note, good to see the gorgeous Amy Acker on my screen again.
Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. There's far more going on however than meets the eye as the five campers are all under observation.
May 11th, 2012 03:05 PM
