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    The Hunters (2011) A group of friends spend a weekend in the woods and find themselves trapped with no way out. They will soon become prey to the hunters. Another average horror with hooligans and guns. I’d call this a thriller, with a semi-hot babe. The characters were typical and the gore/violence was “meh”. B. There’s not much to say but… Run, run for your lives! I got bored halfway through and suffered ‘til the end. It was “ok” but not something i’d endorse. Seen it all too many times… Amateurs.

    The Hunters (2011)

    A group of friends spend a weekend in the woods and find themselves trapped with no way out. They will soon become prey to the hunters.

    Another average horror with hooligans and guns. I’d call this a thriller, with a semi-hot babe. The characters were typical and the gore/violence was “meh”. B. There’s not much to say but… Run, run for your lives!

    I got bored halfway through and suffered ‘til the end. It was “ok” but not something i’d endorse.

    Seen it all too many times… Amateurs.

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    #The Hunters#2011#horror#thriller#suspense#forest#woods#movie#film

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    Jan 8, 2012 (a Sunday)
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    9:17:03 (4 months ago)

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    Backwoods (2006) aka Bosque de sombras An English couple’s holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin. A holiday nightmare… again. Those damn locals! I ain’t gonna beat around the bush, this was a “could have been great” movie. It’s the 70s and a young couple go to the woods for some hunting and R&R. They find a caged girl and help her. Now the villagers search for the girl and trouble begins… and confusion (of viewers). Aesthetically this was a “beaut”, I loved the vintage feel/look. Story wise it was “ok” (though predictable and had been done so many times in the past). The problem is that this is quite shallow. The weighing of good and evil things, who are we to judge? - took me a while to get that through. The horror bits were drowned by the oddball locals. The mystery, wasn’t a mystery at all. Even the rape scene was kinda weak. I think everyone would agree with me here: This was all Gary Oldman, the man stole the show every time he was on screen. It was nice hearing him speaking in Spanish. A spectacle to view every time. “Didn’t she play his wife before?” Aitana Sánchez-Gijón is in this as well. It just wasn’t enough… Paddy Considine was a mere shadow behind the light of Oldman. Finally there’s The Beach (2000) chick Virginie Ledoyen who shows her… limited range? I felt that she was bland… like Wonder Bread. At the end choices are made and good become evil evil becomes good and everything is sorted out. “Huh?” I believe the overall direction was just lousy. Big names, nice visuals, clean production, decent acting, it had a message… what happened? Disappointing.

    Backwoods (2006) aka Bosque de sombras

    An English couple’s holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.

    A holiday nightmare… again. Those damn locals! I ain’t gonna beat around the bush, this was a “could have been great” movie.

    It’s the 70s and a young couple go to the woods for some hunting and R&R. They find a caged girl and help her. Now the villagers search for the girl and trouble begins… and confusion (of viewers).

    Aesthetically this was a “beaut”, I loved the vintage feel/look. Story wise it was “ok” (though predictable and had been done so many times in the past). The problem is that this is quite shallow. The weighing of good and evil things, who are we to judge? - took me a while to get that through.

    The horror bits were drowned by the oddball locals. The mystery, wasn’t a mystery at all. Even the rape scene was kinda weak.

    I think everyone would agree with me here: This was all Gary Oldman, the man stole the show every time he was on screen. It was nice hearing him speaking in Spanish. A spectacle to view every time. “Didn’t she play his wife before?” Aitana Sánchez-Gijón is in this as well. It just wasn’t enough… Paddy Considine was a mere shadow behind the light of Oldman. Finally there’s The Beach (2000) chick Virginie Ledoyen who shows her… limited range? I felt that she was bland… like Wonder Bread.

    At the end choices are made and good become evil evil becomes good and everything is sorted out. “Huh?” I believe the overall direction was just lousy. Big names, nice visuals, clean production, decent acting, it had a message… what happened?

    Disappointing.

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    #Film#Backwoods#2006#Bosque de sombras#Thriller#Horror#vacation#woods#Drama

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    date:
    Jun 25, 2011 (a Saturday)
    time:
    10:48:57 (10 months ago)

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    Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) Tucker & Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids. A hillbilly horror comedy, dang! Case of mistaken… everything. Laughing at the face of freakish and murderous redneck/cabin slasher films. Those stupid college kids… Katrina Bowden! goddamn she was cute. The rest of the kids… blah! they were expendable. Cliche, which was exactly the point of this film. Our dimwitted heroes Tuck & Dale are played by: Hey it’s that Jack Black-ish fat dude from the TV show Reaper (2007), Tyler Labine. He fit the role perfectly. And holy shit, from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) it’s (one of my favorite movie characters of all-time) Steve The Pirate!!! Alan Tudyk. Their on-screen tandem was good. The gore and kill scenes were “ok”, a little too predictable. Shocking, but nothing new. The meat of this movie is the hilarious situation we find the characters in. This film will go perfectly (in my shelf) beside Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009). It felt more like (i was watching) a great TV movie. I was in the mood for something stupid and with some gore, this hit the spot. “Don’t be too quick to judge others” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/

    Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010)

    Tucker & Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids.

    A hillbilly horror comedy, dang! Case of mistaken… everything. Laughing at the face of freakish and murderous redneck/cabin slasher films. Those stupid college kids…

    Katrina Bowden! goddamn she was cute. The rest of the kids… blah! they were expendable. Cliche, which was exactly the point of this film.

    Our dimwitted heroes Tuck & Dale are played by: Hey it’s that Jack Black-ish fat dude from the TV show Reaper (2007), Tyler Labine. He fit the role perfectly. And holy shit, from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) it’s (one of my favorite movie characters of all-time) Steve The Pirate!!! Alan Tudyk. Their on-screen tandem was good.

    The gore and kill scenes were “ok”, a little too predictable. Shocking, but nothing new. The meat of this movie is the hilarious situation we find the characters in. This film will go perfectly (in my shelf) beside Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009).

    It felt more like (i was watching) a great TV movie. I was in the mood for something stupid and with some gore, this hit the spot.

    “Don’t be too quick to judge others”

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/

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    #Tucker & Dale vs Evil#2010#horror#suspense#death#murder#woods#cabin#Katrina Bowden#Tyler Labine#Alan Tudyk#film#movie#zombiemergencyresponseoperations#review

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    date:
    Feb 18, 2011 (a Friday)
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    12:36:34 (1 year ago)

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    The Presence (2010) A woman travels to an isolated cabin where she finds herself stalked by an apparition  who has come to inhabit her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows more obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Ghostly and romantic directorial debut by Tom Provost. A dramatic thriller rather than a horror. Evil and good have a battle of wills.  Shane West is a white apparition, who haunts the cabin. He does loads of standing around and staring. A bit creepy, but not creepy enough. Mira Sorvino, man i’ve missed her, returns to the horror genre. Visually, it was “ok”. Slow as a fucking snail pacing… man i was hoping the end would be worth the wait… It wasn’t. Woman goes to her “sanctum”, and gets proposed to at an inconvenient time. Spirits toy with human emotion. As soon as they got to the cliff part… *sigh* i tuned out. This was boring, cheap scares and no violence or gore. The “dark” evil spirit/ghost didn’t help make this any better. It was ether a (surprise) hit or miss. It’s a miss. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298594/

    The Presence (2010)

    A woman travels to an isolated cabin where she finds herself stalked by an apparition  who has come to inhabit her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows more obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel.

    Ghostly and romantic directorial debut by Tom Provost. A dramatic thriller rather than a horror. Evil and good have a battle of wills. 

    Shane West is a white apparition, who haunts the cabin. He does loads of standing around and staring. A bit creepy, but not creepy enough. Mira Sorvino, man i’ve missed her, returns to the horror genre.

    Visually, it was “ok”.

    Slow as a fucking snail pacing… man i was hoping the end would be worth the wait… It wasn’t. Woman goes to her “sanctum”, and gets proposed to at an inconvenient time. Spirits toy with human emotion. As soon as they got to the cliff part… *sigh* i tuned out. This was boring, cheap scares and no violence or gore. The “dark” evil spirit/ghost didn’t help make this any better.

    It was ether a (surprise) hit or miss. It’s a miss.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298594/

    Tags

    #The Presence#2010#Tom Provost#Shane West#Mira Sorvino#drama#film#horror#movie#thriller#woods#cabin#romance#review#zombiemergencyresponseoperations

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    posted by:
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    date:
    Feb 13, 2011 (a Sunday)
    time:
    11:26:00 (1 year ago)

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