5/13 Movie Review

Depending on your mood, you may love this B horror movie cluster fuck or absolutely despise its existence. Myself and Jerebear fall into both categories. I hate it for its God awful script that calls for stunts that they could never pull off with the budget they have and horrifying terrible dialog that has no sense of irony to it, which only makes it worse for that. An example, the script calls for a tree to fall down, so to show this they show a still of a tree, and then tip the still to the right to simulate the tree falling. I guess they blew their budget on their car scene where a car flips over onto the ground. Oh wait there was supposed to be people on that? So they put dead people under it, where there was clearly nothing there before. I mean, even a simple camera trick could solve that, but that is lost on this dynamite crew.
Jerebear on the other hand applauds it for its terrible use of...everything, saying that he had a fantastic time laughing at this, while I cursed this film's existence.
Granted, I was watching this after being awake for 48 hours straight, so I was cranky, but still. I find no redeeming characteristics in this god forsaken film (although a neat nipple scene saves this from oblivion)
3/10

5/7/08 Tooth and Nail Review

Apologies for the lack of entries, but we have primarily been doing interviews for the past month.

"In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals. As the Rovers take out the Foragers one by one, the Foragers must draw on all their resources to stay alive."

Shot well, admirable gore, but the misuse of the talents of Madsen and Vinnie Jones makes me want to cry. The main cast (especially the blonde) are just awful save for Rider Strong who is doing what he's always done (feigning emotion by adding a str...(read more)essful inflection to his voice). Why have the two biggest names in the film (Madsen and Jones) relegated to sidekicks of complete nobodies?! This, plus god awful writing and laughable plot, makes this yet another bad film in the tradition of shit that the 8 Films to Die For is famous for. 4/10 and goes on the Poop List, invented for movies such as this.

In other news our interviews with Thursday, Finch, A Girl A Gun A Ghost, and This Is An Empire are all online. We will be interviewing Anthony Green later today, which should be online before the summer is upon us. All the best.