Monday 26 November 2012

Rio Grind Festival: Shorts Program

Well it has certainly taken me long enough, but I'm finally posting about the shorts I saw at the Rio Grind Film Festival. This is going to be rather rapid fire as the shorts just kept coming and I couldn't even stay for the entire thing.
Really hope this festival becomes an annual event.

Thursday 8 November 2012

Rio Grind Festival Part 1: John Dies at the End

Last Friday I had the priviledge of being at the BC premiere for the movie John Dies at the End, based on David Wong of Cracked.com's novel of the same name. I doubt I will be able to do much aside from gush about this film. In the theatre I was literally just sitting there with this goofy smile on my face. This is one of my favourite films I've seen this year. It felt like watching Naked Lunch, but it made more sense and I just fell in love with the dialogue. The film was so enthralling that I was barely able to take many notes so all I can tell you are a few of the random things you will see watching the movie.

A cover of the original novel.

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Resident Evil: Retribution (or I think there are too many Resident Evil movies)

Now this review is on the late side as I am sure Resident Evil is no longer in theatres, but I had far more pressing things to blog about so it was put on the back burner. Anywho, this is the fifth instalment of the franchise loosely (very loosely) based on the hit video game series. There will be spoilers so only read on if you are ok with that.

Thursday 1 November 2012

My Macabre Mind: Halloween and the Bloggiversary!

It's my Bloggiversary! In honour of that I thought you might like to see how many horror movies I've watched in the past year. So here is the updated list of all the horror movies I know I've seen:



-Zombieland
-Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
-The Host
-My Bloody Valentine (2009)
-Jeepers Creepers
-Fright Night
-Fido
-Night of the Living Dead (original)
-The Evil Dead
-Evil Dead 2
-Army of Darkness
-My Name is Bruce
-Darkness Falls
-Ghostship
-The Orphanage
-The Ring
-The Grudge
-Pet Semetary
-Carrie
-Thinner
-The Hills Have Eyes
-Cabin Fever
-Dawn of the Dead (2004)
-Land of the Dead
-Shaun of the Dead
-Poltergeist
-The Exorcist
-Zombie Strippers
-Return to Salem's Lot
-Return of the Living Dead
-The Lost Boys
-American Werewolf in London
-Shadow of the Vampire
-Dusk til Dawn
-Planet Terror
-The Quartermass Experiment
-The Omen (remake)
-Misery
-Halloween 2
-Gingersnaps
-Hell Raiser 2
-The Blair Witch Project
-The Blair Witch Project 2
-The Thing (1982)
-The Stepfather (2009)
-Frankenstein
-The Others
-Children of the Corn
-House on Haunted Hill (remake)
-The Haunting (both original and remake)
-The Frighteners
-Little Shop of Horrors (original and musical)
-Graveyard Alive!
-Dark Water
-Cloverfield
-Once Bitten
-The Craft
-Sleepy Hollow
-Thirteen Ghosts
-Interview With a Vampire
-Blood Freak
-Bordello of Blood
-Hide and Seek
-30 Days of Night
-Bram Stoker's Dracula
-Repo! the Genetic Opera
-Near Dark
-Let the Right One In (absolutely amazing)
-Martin
-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
-Dead Snow
-Day of the Dead (2008 remake)
-Feast
-Re-Animator
-Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
-Dog Soldiers
78 MOVIES SO FAR!
-Case 39
-The Serpent and the Rainbow
-House of the Dead
-The Ruins
-Daybreakers
-The Collector
-The Crazies (2010)
-The Crazies (1973)
-Pandorum (most of it)
-REC
-Grace
-Deadgirl
-Cemetary Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)
-Trick'R Treat
-Dance of the Dead
-Antichrist
-The Hamiltons
-Plague Town
-REC 2
-The Final
-Pontypool
-The Children
100 HORROR MOVIES WATCHED!!!!! (holy shit)
-Dead Alive (Braindead)
-C.H.U.D.
-The Strangers
-Friday the 13th ("remake")
- Drag Me to Hell
-Rosemary's Baby
-Halloween (Rob Zombie remake)
-House of 1000 Corpses
-Spider Baby
-Cube
-Creepshow
-Night of the Living Dead 3D (not in 3D and made in 2007)
-A Haunting in Conneticut
-A Nightmare on Elm St (2009 remake)
- Carnival of Souls
-Night of the Demons (2009 remake)
-Troll 2 (it was intended as a horror movie so it counts)
-House on Haunted Hill (original)
-House of Wax (original)
-Fearless Vampire Killers
-The Zombie Diaries
-Black Christmas (original)
-The Terror (or as the back of the DVD case said "The Error)
-Hostel
-Resident Evil
-Resident Evil 2
-Resident Evil 3
-Let Me In
-American Zombie
-Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
-Session 9
-Last Man on Earth
-The Uninvited (black and white really old movie)
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
-Lost Boys: the Tribe
-Bloody Pit of Horror
136. Can I make it to 200 before the end of the year?
-The People Under The Stairs
-The Wicker Man (1973)
-Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
-Sharktopus
-Seconds Apart
-Insidious
-Jennifer's Body
-Cabin Fever 2
-Fright Night (2011)
-Satanic Rights of Dracula
-The Monster Maker
-I Sell the Dead
-American Psycho
-Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
WOOO 150 Horror Movies!!!!
-Transylmania
-Village of the Damned (80's re-make)
-From Dusk Til Dawn 2
-Freddie Vs. Jason
-Suck
-Carriers
-Dawn of the Dead (original)
-Splice
-The Reaping
-The Dead Next Door
-Day of the Dead
-Nightmare City
-Pet Semetary 2
-Monsters
-Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
-Santa's Slay
-Silent Night, Bloody Night
-Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster
-Trollhunter
-Chillerama
-Attack the Block
-The Innkeepers
-Black Death
-Dogtooth
-Doghouse
-Devil
-Nightmare on Elm Street (original)
-Hatchet
-The Last Exorcism
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
-Resident Evil: Afterlife (4)
-Parasomnia
-Demons (1985)
-White Zombie
-The Loved Ones
-28 Days Later
-The Hidden
-A Little Bit Zombie
-A Bucket of Blood
-House of the Dead (old anthology film, not the terrible zombie movie)
-The Skin I Live In
-Horror Express
-Scream
-The Haunting of Sorority Row (Deadly Pledge)
-Horror of Dracula
-Little Deaths
-Hatchet 2
-Midnight Meat Train
-28 Weeks Later
And drum roll please.....
-The Woman In Black.... NUMBER 200!!!!!!!
-Suspiria
-Night of the Demons 2
-Stakeland
-Nightbreed
-Battle Royale
-Frankenhooker
-Manos: The Hands of Fate
-Blood Shack (The Chooper)
-Cabin in the Woods
-Orphan
-Frozen
-Psycho
-Cujo
-Alien
-Prometheus
-Videodrome
-Darkness
-Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
-The Gathering
-Night Watch
-Day Watch
-Feardotcom
-Paranormal Activity
-The Woman
-Salem's Lot (2004)
-Day of the Triffids (2011? it had Eddie Izzard)
-Resident Evil: Retribution
-V/H/S
-Famine
-The Relic
-The Thaw
-The Hole
-The Stuff
-Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
-Dead Heat
-Exit Humanity
-Idle Hands
-Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

So that is the list, click read more to find out about the Burnaby Haunted Village and my Halloween costume.