Change Your Image
asterix_in
Reviews
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Nothing new here except unknown actors.
I'm a fan of horror movies including the Zombie ones and have watched them as far back as I remember. I thought Land of the dead was bad but this has got to be the most boring and uninspiring one of all. The creature effects were terrible and almost as terrible as the acting. The plot was nothing we haven't seen before, you know a group of people trying to survive but deliberately walking into dangerous situations which they seem to do more of at night. I think a zombie in your face is as scary in daylight as it is at night so why is 95% of the movie shot in the dark?
The entire move is shot from the perspective of a b-movie lone cameraman who want's to document the whole affair and make it into a movie/documentary for anyone still alive to see it. We get shots from security camera's and cell phones which he has gathered up everywhere he goes to get different angles for his movie. One scene which is repeated again later on in the film is as cheesy as it gets and had that almost certain predictability factor.
There is no explanation of why people are turning into zombies, the characters don't discuss it, they just accept its happening and there is no informing news footage as is the norm in these types of movies. Some people killed in non-zombie related incidents come back as zombies which makes no sense in comparison to previous movies where direct contact is a must in order to get "zombied".
The director seems to have favoured CGI zombies in some instances rather than the more "lifelike" human actors, if that's possible when playing a dead person. This does spoil the whole scary suspense as its almost laughable. Speaking of scary suspense, there is none. The entire movie is predictable and you know all the stupid mistakes people are going to make, like hitting a zombie in the back with a chunk of wood then throwing it down and walking off. Yeah, I showed him! Thousands of zombies all over the place and someone favours a bow & arrow for defence as opposed to an automatic weapon.
Maybe zombie movies have had their day, much like rap music, and its time to say farewell because no one seems to be able to come up with anything new, scary, exciting or remotely interesting anymore. If you've seen one, you've seen them all so there's no point wasting 90 minutes of your life watching this like I did.
Hack! (2007)
Cliché ridden, bad acted, terrible plot, poor story, poor me for watching.
I'm not sure what the last reviewer saw in this film that I didn't because I have to say this was one of the worst movies I ever saw. I'd go as far as saying William Forsythe's Scottish "accent" was the best thing in the movie and THAT sounded Irish and bad Irish at that. True, the film is full of cliché's and references to other horror/slasher movies and where some will say it was appropriate to the storyline, I'd say there was no originality. There were no "scary" moments and no suspense whatsoever and the blood & gore effects were right out of a 50's B-movie. One scene where someone was shot while close to the camera you could see that the blood splatter was superimposed and was moving independent of the "actor". Note the quotes, no one in this movie could act. One or two scenes were inappropriate and could have been left out all together but there are weird people out there who would probably lap them up. I really can't think of anything positive about this move and found myself skipping five minutes at a time to make it end sooner only out of curiosity that I was right about a possible twist. I must have skipped at least half an hour but I promise you, I saw the whole movie.
I always considered William Forsythe as a great actor but after seeing him in this, I'm beginning to think I was wrong, you see great actors sometimes don't need much direction and it looked like he didn't get much in this movie proving that he needs it to look good on screen. Every other actor in the movie I have never seen before except for the two cops, one about 80 yrs old and the other an idiot who fitted in with the rest of the characters.
Without giving away any of the plot, at the end of the movie there was a scene where it flashed through the victims and to be honest, I'd actually forgotten about them being in the movie at all. What I'm trying to say is, there is nothing memorable about the characters, the plot and the acting other than it was ALL bad. Why is it in slasher movies that cell phones never get a signal, when someone goes missing they go looking for them at night and not during the day. Why do they all split up and make a lot of noise shouting when they know there may be a killer out there. This is what I mean about no originality, every slasher movie is exactly the same with one exception, some can pull it off, this movie doesn't. If you want to see a better movie, go and rent Plan 9 from outer space.