The Children (The Day), Poster, Synopsis, Movie Review and Trailer

Synopsis

What seems like a normal trip to their auntie’s and uncle’s soon turns into a disaster as uncle Robbie is mysteriously killed after appearing to fall off a sledge, and then mysterious child like figures from the forest start attacking.

Movie Review

“The Children has it all and is guaranteed to please even the hardest to satisfy horror fan… [while it's] an incredibly well shot and suspenseful film, it’s also insanely violent…”

By: Brad Miska (MrDisgusting)

Spoilers Follow

Taking its cue from classic horror films like Who Can Kill a Child? and The Bad Seed comes the UK horror flick The Children, a fresh take on a subgenre frowned upon here the States, where children aren’t the cute little tykes we thought they were…

In the film directed by Tom Shankland, a bunch of kids have flu-like symptoms, which evolve into a more sinister problem.

While the recently released UK film of the same nature, Eden Lake, is widely praised among critics and horror fans, I consider the pic to be a bust on many levels — and where Lake fails, The Children thrives. Written by Tom Shankland and Paul Andrew Williams, The Children doesn’t attempt to over explain the situation at hand, which keeps it not only more believable, but extra creepy. The idea that your loving kids could turn on you and your family without any reason whatsoever is downright terrifying. To even think that a child could be capable of some of the terror they raise in this film is even more insane.

But the true bliss of this wonderfully executed horror flick is an idea that’s teased throughout the entirety of the events of that fateful afternoon; could you hit, let alone kill your own child to preserve your own life? During the climax (watch the scene here) one of the parents is sitting back against the door yielding a fire poker while two kids slowly creep towards her. Behind the door her daughter is screaming, kicking and punching, trying to help save her mother. Read more …

Children Of The Corn 5: Fields Of Terror (1998), Poster, Plot and Trailer

Plot: A group of teens become lost in middle America and arrive in Gatlin, Nebraska, where forgotten children have taken on the duty of serving “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”. The teens have less than a week to get out of the town. However, they find that their car is destroyed, and the children are held accountable.

Alison, the leader of the teens, overhears that the children are the adopted wards of Lucas Enright, a madman who considers himself the savior of the children, and the earthly representative of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Upon remembering that her brother is also among them, Alison and the rest decide to go to Enright’s farm to discover the truth behind the bizarre cult.

Upon arrival, they are stopped by Ezekiel, who could be considered the leader of the children, and he informs them they are on private property and must leave. After a debate, Alison is finally allowed to see Luke. He informs her that her brother is there, and agrees to let her see him, only to be rejected by him for leaving him alone with their abusive father. Jacob informs her that he is engaged to be married to a girl named Lily, and also states that she is pregnant with his child. Kir, one of the teens, eventually becomes a part of the cult after reading a passage out of their “Bible”.

Ezekiel holds a ceremony for the annual sacrifice to He Who Walks Behind The Rows, which involves a child who has reached 18 years of age to leap into a flaming corn silo where the god is supposed to dwell. Jacob is chosen, but he refuses and tells Ezekial that his religion is false, angering him. After he leaves, Kir chooses to take the fateful course, and climbs to the silo and leaps to a fiery demise. The rest of the group wishes to leave the town, but Alison refuses to leave without Jacob. They leave her, and she eventually reads a message Jacob left her in his Bible. It translates to “Help”, and she realizes he wants to escape. She enlists the help of the sheriff to stop Luke and Ezekiel. Read more …

The Thaw (V) (October 06, 2009), Review, Poster, Cast, Synopsis, Plot and Trailer

The Thaw (aka Frozen - Etwas hat überlebt - German DVD title) is an upcoming sci-fi horror/thriller film directed by Mark A. Lewis starring Val Kilmer and Martha MacIsaac.

Plot

A group of students of a research mission to the arctic discover that a deadly prehistoric parasite has been released after a wooly mammoth has been thawed out due to a melting polar icecap. They must somehow destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization.

Cast

* Val Kilmer as Dr. Kruipen, the leader of the expedition
* Martha MacIsaac as his daughter Evelyn, one of the students
* Kyle Schmid Read more …

Dark Country (V) (October 06, 2009); Poster, Synopsis and Trailer

“The Dark Country” has started filming in Albuquerque in high definition 3D and 2D. It is a film noir thriller written by Tab Murphy of “Tarzan” fame. Best of all it stars my past co-star Ron Perlman who I performed with on the set of “Outlander” last fall. Ok.

I was a background actor but that’s beside the point isn’t it? Anyway Hellboy himself will be front and center along with Lauren German (Hostel: Part II) and of course The Punisher, Thomas Jane himself.

Hyde Park Entertainment and Stage 6 Films will produce it (Patrick Aiello / Ashok Amritra). Read more …

Zombieland (October 02, 2009), Poster, Synopsis and Trailer

Synopsis

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

Release Date: October 02, 2009
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writer: Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
Starring: Woody Harrelson Jesse Eisenberg Emma Stone Abigail Breslin Amber Heard Bill Murray
Studio: Columbia PIctures

Title: Zombieland
Release Date: 9 October 2009
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Cast: Bill Murray, Abigail Breslin, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Studio: Sony Pictures

Plot:

After America is ravaged by a zombie plague, a lone band of survivors fights the living dead while they cross the nation from coast to coast. They stop in an amusement park, where they believe they will be safe.

I love zombie movies. When they are mixed with a bit of humor it’s even better. This movie looks really impressive, I’m gonna get it for sure! Read more …

Book of Blood (V) September 29, Poster, Synopsis, Review and Trailer

By: Brad Miska (MrDisgusting): Just how important is BOOK OF BLOOD? While it’s not a sequel, or a prequel for that matter, the Clive Barker short story is the tale of where all of Barker’s shorts originated from (and where it ends). So, without a shadow of a doubt, this feature film adaptation should have been treated with such loving care that a mother with a new child would be jealous. BOOK OF BLOOD is the equivalent to Jason Voorhees getting his mask or Leatherface wielding a chainsaw, and yet, John Harrison found a way to completely crap all over it.

While studying a college student, Simon McNeal (Jonas Armstrong), who appears to be channeling messages from the dead, paranormal researcher Mary Florescu’s (Sophie Ward) discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called “highways” transporting souls in the afterlife (as repeated several times during the duration of the film). Read more …

Fermat’s Room (V) Upcoming September 29, Poster, Synopsis and Trailer

Aka Fermat’s Room, is a thriller like Saw, but less violent. It features four mathematicians who do not know each other, invited by a mysterious host to go to a house to solve a great enigma. They then find themselves in a room that shrinks and may well crush them if they do not quickly find the link between them and why we want to assassinate him.

After resolving a test with a sequence of numbers, four mathematicians are challenged by a mysterious man called Fermat to meet in an isolated place to resolve the greatest enigma ever. Each one receives a code name - Hilbert, Pascal, Galois and Oliva - and heads to a barn in an island.

Inside the barn, they find a comfortable room, and sooner their host arrives. They have dinner together and Fermat receives a phone call from the hospital where his daughter in interned in coma. Read more …