Cowards Corner

Jamies thoughts on two of the biggest horror releases of the year.

Drag me to hell

I watched this at a free screening put on by AICN a few days before it was released. I was in a theater with Sam Raimi fans.

I decided to see it again with a friend who had never seen the Evil Dead trilogy. It was nice to see how Sam worked the audience. There are so many horror movies out there and they try to scare you with jump scares. This put it to a new level. The way the tension was built and the camera angles made it all the more scarier. Once it starts it grabs you and does not let you go.

As of writing this it has only made 36 million in one month.

While Transformers 2 made 60 million in one day 200 million in 5 days. Do you see a problem here? How can a shitty action movie make double in one day then this. People ask for good movies and when they get then they do not support them. Well if you saw Transformers this weekend and have not seen Drag me to hell, Fuck you! You would not know a good movie if it bit you in your ass. Please support real movies and avoid the commercial crap.

Friday the 13th (2009)

Well I missed the sneak preview and the chance to meet Jason and

have a shit eating grin. So I had to settle for dvd many months

later. I think its good to review this as its own movie. It is a reboot and most everyone knows about Jason. So I have to compare to the other survival horror movies that have been coming out.
The good- They made him very realistic and showed tunnels under crystal lake. He also set traps for his victims. He has been surviving on his own living off the land. The first 45 min I was into to then it went bad.
The ugly- Well the music sucked, no plot and no real scares. The
movie I kept thinking about was Wrong Turn.
That got the idea right and this one failed. The director of this
Marcus Nispel did one of my favorite reboot the Texas chainsaw
massacre. He is set to do a new Conan movie next. I think he was playing it safe and the word is still out on if he is a good
director or not. Another famous thing to Jason movies are the kills and these were hit and miss. My favorite of the movie was a girl is hung upside down in sleeping bag over a campfire as her boyfriend is caught in a bear trap and has to watch her burn alive. Overall I give this a free rental or Red box.