Title: Detention (2011) Runtime: 93 minutes Director: Joseph Kahn — What a trip this film is, fueled by ’90s references and sheer craziness to deliver its most important message: “it’s just high school. It’s not the end of the world.” It’s difficult to find a spot to even begin with this pseudo-slasher film. I say…
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Pet Sematary (1989)
Title: Pet Sematary (1989) Runtime: 103 minutes Director: Mary Lambert — First things first: Fred Gwynne, playing Jud Crandall, puts on one of the finest horror performances I’ve ever seen. He is brilliant through every scene, and helps legitimize the film. Without him, this might be just another Stephen King adaptation. With him, it’s one…
Movie Review – Antichrist (2009)
Title: Antichrist (2009) Runtime: 108 minutes Director: Lars von Trier — There’s pre-Antichrist and post-Antichrist life, and everything I do from here on out can be considered post-Antichrist. This is – hyperbole aside – the most difficult movie I’ve ever sat through, and I’ve watched both The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and…
Movie Review – Bait (2012)
Title: Bait (2012) Runtime: 91 minutes Director: Kimble Rendall — What a genuine surprise Bait is. I rented this expecting cheesy 3D, bad dialogue, and some terrible CGI all being used to tell a lame story. Instead of the B-grade I expected, however, Bait is a film that legitimizes itself by combining a solid orchestral score…
Movie Review – A Serbian Film (2010)
Title: A Serbian Film (2010) Runtime: 102 minutes (unrated US version), 104 minutes (uncut version) Director: Srdjan Spasojevic — The obscene amount of hype surrounding A Serbian Film has been impossible to ignore for the last year in the horror scene. The reaction has been mixed critically, but virtually everyone who has seen the film…
Movie Review – Urban Legend (1998)
Title: Urban Legend (1998) Runtime: 99 minutes Director: Jamie Blanks — As most everyone will know, Scream made slasher films popular again in the mid-90s, and rest of the decade was filled with movies trying to capitalize on Scream‘s unexpected success. Enter Urban Legend. What’s so interesting to me about these 90s slasher films is,…
Movie Review – Newlyweds (2012)
Title– Newlyweds (2012) Running Time– 96 minutes (“NR”) Director– Edward Burns — (Originally an IP Movies Review) A couple of months ago I was reading an article in MovieMaker magazine about a writer/director named Edward Burns who made his latest feature on a practically non-existent budget of $9,000. He paid his actors a small sum, had them…
Subscribe to The Cinefessions Podcast
