Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Fede Alvarez Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, Jessica Lucas. A group of attractive young college students head off to a remote cabin in the woods and are soon assaulted by supernatural or malevolent forces. This scenario has become a cliche of modern horror films such [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Brandon Cronenberg Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Joe Pirogue, Malcolm McDowell, Nicholas Campbell, Wendy Crewson, Douglas Smith. There is little doubting that 32-year old Brandon Cronenberg is the son of noted Canadian director David Cronenberg (Videodrome, The Fly, Scanners, etc). He seems to have inherited his father’s love for [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jonathan Levine Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Analeigh Tipton, Dave Franco. A zombie date movie? A post-apocalyptic love story? Warm Bodies is both, and offers a fresh twist on the familiar cliches of the zombie film at the same time. It has the same appeal [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Richard La Gravenese Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Thomas Mann, Emmy Rossum, Eileen Atkins, Margo Martindale, Zoey Deutch, Tiffany Boone, Kyle Gallner, Pruitt Taylor Vince. With successful franchises based on adolescent fiction, such as the Twilight and Harry Potter series reaching their conclusion, film [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tommy Wirkola Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Derek Mears, Thomas Mann, Joanna Kulig, Rainer Bock, Robin Atkins Downes. I initially didn’t have high hopes for this film because its title was reminiscent of last year’s underwhelming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and it lived down to expectations. [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Sam Fell, Chris Butler Stars: voices of Kodi Smit-Mcphee, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi, Jodelle Ferland, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Tempesst Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, Jack Blessing. We’ve already had two animated family friendly horror films with the bland Adam Sandler comedy [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ben Wheatley Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Richard Lumsden, Rachel Austin. British director Ben Wheatley has stamped himself as a filmmaker to watch with his debut film Down Terrace and Kill List, a bleakly funny and nihilistic take on the cliched hitman [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING. Last year Monster Pictures launched the Fantastic Asia Film Festival at the Cinema Nova, a four day long film festival featuring some of Asia’s coolest and edgiest genre cinema. Monsterfest is a continuation and expansion of that showcase . Screening some 24 gloriously demented low budget and edgy horror films from [...]
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