Casper (1995), Poster and Movies Reviev

Rated PG for mild language and thematic elements.

Genre: Family, comedy, fantasy.

Directed by: Brad Silberling. Written by: Joseph Oriolo (characters), Sherri Stoner, and Deanna Oliver.

In the small town of Friendship, Maine there exists an abandoned old house rumored to be haunted. The focus of much local attention, the old mansion has also been the object of entertainment for adolescents, years over. But this year the house and its not-so-mortal inhabitants will become more than an attraction for the ‘ghost shrink’ Dr. Harvey and his daughter Kat as they settle themselves into the Crittenden mansion prepared to embark on a spooky adventure of unpredictable twists and turns.

Summary:

Slowly, as stealth as two teenage boys can be, they creep up to eerie Crittenden mansion in an attempt to fulfill the spooky dare demanded of their friends. With camera in hand, the boys are about to take a picture documenting their visit when suddenly a voice says; “I’ll take the picture for you”. Shortly thereafter the image of a rather small ghost appears, causing the two boys to run from the house, sans the camera, tails tucked and all.

Meanwhile news of a death of Mr. Crittenden spreads to Carrigan, Crittenden’s daughter, who thinks she will be an heiress of fortune. However, to her dismay, she finds she was simply left title to the estate, i.e. the spooky mansion. Peeved, Carrigan and her assistant Dibbs head to the house to inspect their new inheritance. Once there, however, Carrigan becomes fully aware that she will not be the only inhabitant of the mansion. In a fit of panic Carrigan and Dibbs high tale off the property, determined not to return until it has been rid of its haunts. Read more …

Beetlejuice (1988), Poster and Movies Reviev

A dead couple make the mistake of calling on Beetlejuice, a renegade, enterprising, shady entity, to evict the annoying living from their beloved house.

Director Tim Burton, with “Beetlejuice,” delivers a delightfully odd, and oddly entertaining comedy.

The talented cast includes: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Annie McEnroe, Robert Goulet, and Dick Cavett.

We can say many positive things about this fun movie, including: great casting, great performances, great effects, great art direction, and a clever story, that has fun speculating explanations for why ghosts stick around and generally don’t leave their haunted house, and offers a fascinating, speculative look at the after life, which involves paper work and a slow working bureaucracy, employed by people who had killed themselves. Screen veteran, Sylvia Sidney, shines as an overworked case worker, Juno. Even when dead, the script imagines that ghosts have to follow rules set forth by a slow working bureaucracy, and a hard to read book, that reads like a stereo manual. In such an inefficient system, what would an unhappy couple do about getting the obnoxious living, the Deetzes, out of their house? They go to the private sector, to a shady entrepreneur - Beetlejuice!!

Michael Keaton, as Beetlejuice, is wildly out of control, and wildly hilarious as the ultimate dead pest. He has so much fun with a crazy comedy role like this, that it’s easy to see why he didn’t want to keep playing Batman forever. He is “a jangled juggernaut of jokes, jolts and jive.” He hurls one-liners, spins into grotesque, gobbles insects, and just can’t leave the ladies, living or dead, alone.” Read more …

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Writing credits Jay Anson (book) Sandor Stern (screenplay).

A curse or is it a ghost, something is determined to make sure know one lives in this house in Amityville NY. A red room is the passage to HELL.

Something is present always there lerking you can feel it and the worst is the unknown. What is making all these thing happen floating furniture, thousand of flies, blood and ooze from the walls and stairs. Is that someone spying through the windows or am i starting to lose my mind too. Mr Lutz has taken a liking to an axe and Missy has made an evil invisable friend. The new owners have realized that they my have bought more than a house in the county. This house has a mind of it own.

A shocking gruesome murder in the small town of Amityville NY, leave a house in the country abandoned and for sale dirt cheap. Some people say you get what you pay for, in this case it definatly true the paid for a nightmare. The previous owners was a family that was murdered in there home with a shotgun with no reason what so ever, to make it even worse there own son killed everyone. The story of this night and the horror to follow was said to be a true story. Later it was proven that this story never happend and it was which at the time was said to be a true story along with the horror that followed in the years to come. This in part is what makes the movie so scary, the thought that this is real that people actually lived this nightmare. Read more …

The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) - A Raw Review!

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Xzibit, Billy Connolly
Director: Chris Carter
Screenwriter: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Producer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Composer: Mark Snow

RAW REVIEW

One of the worst films of the summer.

UK, July 29, 2008 - What a waste of time. The second X-Files movie installment limps onto UK screens this week, and a viewing of the film begs one, obvious question: why the hell did they bother?

This tedious effort begins six years after the finale of the TV series, with Scully these days working as a doctor in a church hospital, and Mulder now a paranoid recluse (wasn’t he always?) still searching for his missing sister.

Meanwhile nearby a local FBI agent has gone missing, with the only source of clues Billy Connelly’s seemingly psychic pedophile priest ‘Father Joe’. Despite having been kicked out of the bureau, Mulder is bought back into the fold because of his expertise with paranormal cases, and he persuades Scully to help him.

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POLTERGEIST (1982)

Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

Directed by Tobe Hooper. Writing credits Steven Spielberg (story & screenplay) Michael Grais (screenplay) Mark Victor (screenplay).

They’re Here!

A storm erupts, a spooky looking tree, bening utensils, floating corpes people and Carol Anne is swept into a paranormal world. There is a darkside that gets discovered and Carol Anne makes contact with an evil sprit. A middle class family has to try and keep it together and save ther daughter. What is there to fear its the fear of the unknown and after watching this movie you will wonder alot about the unknown. If a haunting was going to happen, I think this is how it would happen.

A normal happy family that lives in house that ends up being haunted. I know we have heard this a million times before but this movie is great even as an adult it still scares me. It starts out really amusing for the Freeling Family, the ghost seem to be harmless and they just want to play I guess… The ghost start to change they become mean ,and playing tricks they want what they came for Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke). Carol Anne has started to talk to the ghost or sprits through the TV giving you the feeling that something maybe watching you through your TV. The TV screen with no picture but there is some form a supernatural communication between the evil sprits and Carol Anne.

The big scary tree in the yard seems to come to life (we all know that when we were kids there was a tree that was spooky looking its will make you connect with the movie, you hooked and it make you jump.) Then it happens they take Carol Anne through a portal in her closet. She ends up in another world on the other side (here again makes you think of the nightmares when you were a kid that there was something in your closet, just maybe it was a portal to the other side). Read more …