By Don Gillette. Whew…Good thing I didn’t try to review “Chick Flicks” or I never would have finished this little epistle. There are a million of those on Netflix, but still only 4. My last column ran through the first 2. Netflix: Not really a horror film, but it shows up when you look for “Horror” on Netflix. I’m a stickler for accuracy, so I have to include it. Having said that, though, it really is frightening, scary, and creepy that this film ever got made because it’s the stupidest waste of celluloid I’ve ever had to sit through. I can’t give you a plot synopsis because there is no plot. Depending on your sense of humor, you’ll either love this or hate it.

If your sense of humor stopped developing when you were 7, it’s your cup of tea. Yes, I know I’m not rating Oscar winners or documentaries about the Holocaust–but this thing was neither scary nor funny. It was just bad. A family traveling in Colombia gets in a traffic accident and they hole up for the night in an inn.

When they hear activity in the basement, they go down there and free a girl who was trapped inside. Surprise–the girl is an evil spirit. The Damned, also known as Gallows Hill is a pretty good horror movie; it’s formulaic, there are some good scares, the acting is decent, and it’s plenty creepy. Usually I avoid movies that were “also known as” because normally this means, “this was a shitty movie so we changed the title hoping you wouldn’t notice,” but on a dark and stormy night, you might enjoy this one.

If you’re reading this particular column, you’re probably a Stephen King fan. If you’re a Stephen King fan, you might remember his short story “Gramma.” This film is based on that story and it’s an okay bit of horror. The premise is easy enough: a single mother and her two sons help take care of their grandmother who just happens to have mystical powers. This one’s not going to make anybody’s “Top 1.

By the way, there’s a Twilight Zone episode called “Gramma” that does the same story in 4. The first Halloween team, Debra Hill and John Carpenter, also wrote this one, so you can put any memories of Halloween XXVII, etc., out of your mind. It’s old home day in Haddonfield, Illinois: Donald Pleasance’s Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist who wants Michael Myers dead; Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode (well, actually her daughter), and even little Tommy Doyle, the kid Laurie was babysitting in the original, are back. Six years after Michael Myers’ last outing, he comes back to Haddonfield looking for his niece (that’d be Laurie’s daughter) who escaped from him (after she gave birth to his kid). So not only is Michael still a homicidal maniac, he’s into incest.

Overview. The original Halloween (1978), co-written and directed by John Carpenter, tells the story of Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on. Sorry guys, I’ve never been a fan of the Halloween series, so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I’ve never liked Michael Myer’s character and.

If you’re a fan of the Halloween series, you’ll enjoy this. They should have stopped after this one. A few years ago, a guy was wrongfully convicted of murdering his two daughters.

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The daughters haunt the town where the crime took place. Sounds very simplistic, but it makes for a good ghost story and they’re hard to come by. A good, rock- bottom, ghost story is actually a rare thing. No devils, no hell hounds, no Ouija boards… just a couple of murdered girls who won’t lay down until justice is served. Give this one a try; you won’t be disappointed. Okay, I’ll make it quick.

A real estate agent meets a crazy girl whom she thinks is the runaway daughter of a couple whose house she’s selling. The movie is 1. 0 or 1. Your best bet is to move rather rapidly along. I watched this for you–life is hard. The funny thing about Exeter is that it announces it’s “…from the director of Friday the 1.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre…” but the truth is it’s from the director of the remakes of Friday the 1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—the two worst remakes in the history of horror films. A group of teenagers, throwing a drug party in an abandoned insane asylum (always a good idea), decide they’ll fool around with the occult. When they’re possessed by evil spirits, they’re only slightly more amusing than they were when they were just drug- addled teenagers throwing a party in an abandoned insane asylum.

This movie isn’t scary, but it’s gory. If that’s your thing, you might want to give it a shot. Could it have been better? Well, yeah–but Ben Affleck is Batman. Hollywood’s lost its mind.

Next up–Jesse Eisenberg as Muhammad Ali. Pretty cool. Tired of all the semi- haunted houses that crop up around Halloween, five friends take off in an RV in search of the real thing. Just when they’re about to give up, things start happening and they figure out the haunt has come to them. It’s a “found footage” type of film and I think we’re all getting a little tired of them, but overall, this is a good ride. The acting is better than you’d expect for a “B” movie, the plot line is more original than most, and the scenes in all the haunted houses are a lot of fun.

A masterpiece. This movie was out for 5 years before I watched it because I thought it would be stupid. It was brilliant. Tucker and Dale are just a couple of lovable West Virginia “good ole boys” who head out to their dilapidated vacation cabin to drink beer and go fishing. A group of hipster college kids run into them and just assume that Tucker and Dale are in- bred, murdering psychopaths.

It’s a horror film/comedy/cult classic that should be required viewing for anybody who’s ever watched The Evil Dead or Deliverance or Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland or Tremors or any of a hundred others. My idea of a good weekend would be to hang out with Tucker and Dale. Hmmm. I just watched it (for this column) and it was most cool. When she hits 1. 6, Lisa finds out she’s stuck in time living the same day over and over again a’ la’ Groundhog Day. Pretty soon, she figures out that she, her parents, and her little brother are all dead and trapped in the day they were murdered.

Lisa discovers that she can contact people—people who are also victims of the killer in the past and the future. She learns the killer’s name (Oscar–go figure) and sets out to find a way to stop him. Is it really a horror movie?

No… it’s more of a thriller where most of the characters are dead people; a ghost story with bizarre turns and twists. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.

Another “found footage” movie that tosses too many slices of horror movies at you to come together in a package. Somebody hired a group of morons to burglarize a deserted house in the country to find a rare VHS tape.

What they find are a bunch of old television sets, a dead body, and some film clips that show gory and ghastly imagery. This film tries to be an anthology tied around a central story, but it doesn’t quite make it. It’s definitely worth a look, but it’s no Frankenstein. Interesting, but a little claustrophobic. A girl studying the habits of webcam chat site users watches a horrific murder one night during her research.

When she, her family, and her friends, are targeted by the murderer, she gets more involved in the webcam chat scene. Most of this film takes place on computer monitors, cameras, and cellphones and although that’s annoying, it adds to the suspense. Well worth a watch, The Den is another “found footage” film, but not as bad as most. A deeply disturbing horror and revenge film—and highly recommended.

In the Balkans in 1. A young girl, Angel, escapes death, but is taken by the commander and put to work caring for the girls of The Seasoning House, a brothel of drugged and kidnapped young girls who are prostituted to the military. Angel isn’t quite pretty enough to work as a whore, so she finds ways to move between the walls and crawlspaces in the house to help the other girls–and in so doing, she sees more than she’s intended to see.

When the men who murdered her family show up, her revenge begins. Doesn’t sound like a horror movie, does it? Give it 1. 5 minutes and get back to me on that. Two American girls go on vacation in the Mediterranean and discover the hideout of a killer mermaid. I’m sorry… I really am… I tried to watch it. Got 3. 0 minutes into it and my neck got sore from shaking my head.

Hurricane Irma Has Made Landfall in Florida [Updating]Hurricane Irma regained power and its Category 4 status on Sunday morning before making landfall in the Florida Keys, with storm surges in the islands potentially reaching up to 1. Maximum sustained winds are near 1. National Hurricane Center wrote in an update. Irma is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir- Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

While weakening is forecast, Irma is expected to remain a powerful hurricane while it moves near or along the west coast of Florida.”“Hurricane- force winds extend outward up to 8. The National Weather Service’s Key West office tweeted water was three feet above normal as of 9: 3. ET, adding the storm had continued to move northwest on its trajectory toward the Tampa area. According to the NHC, Tampa Bay could see surges of five to eight feet. According to the Associated Press, some 3.

Keys but “an untold number refused to leave, in part because to many storm- hardened residents, staying behind in the face of danger is a point of pride.” Approximately one million people were without power, and an estimated 1. Though the Miami- Ft.

Lauderdale- West Palm Beach corridor on the east coast avoided a direct hit, footage posted by CNN showed the area experienced extreme winds and damage downtown. At least one construction crane, one of many in the area put at risk by high winds, partially collapsed in downtown Miami.

Irma was projected to retain much of its strength as it headed up the west coast; since it will remain on or close to the coast, it will be able to recharge power from unusually warm waters in the Gulf. Update 5: 0. 3pm ET: Later in the day, Irma was downgraded to a Category 3 for the second time but continued to plow northwest.

It made landfall for the second time on Marco Island in southwest Florida, with winds reaching 1. The Marco Island Emergency Operations Center warned citizens not to go outside as Irma’s eyewall approached, and recommended “vertical evacuation into second or higher floor if possible.” Video showed the storm battering the island as it passed.

Irma is headed on a direct course for the nearby mainland city of Naples on the southwest side of the peninsula, where conditions are very bad. At Naples municipal airport, NWS Miami reported it had recorded a 1.

The NWS also put much of the region under flash flood warnings. In the Cape Sable to Captiva region of southwest Florida, where Naples is in the middle of, the NHC predicted storm surge could reach 1. As the storm moved northwest, it left behind destruction in the Florida Keys. Throughout the islands, people hunkered down in reinforced sections of buildings, roofs ripped off buildings and winds blew out the interiors of homes and businesses. Taken 3 Full Movie Online Free.

Miami avoided a direct hit, but there was still considerable flooding throughout downtown and other neighborhoods, with feet- high storm surge turning parts of the city into a veritable river. The NWS Miami office warned mid- afternoon that a tornado had touched down near the airport in Fort Lauderdale, just north of Miami. Update 7: 1. 8pm ET: Late Saturday, Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a Category 2 storm, but remains extremely dangerous. According to the NHC, Irma is still throwing 1. Initial indications were that Irma had dealt serious damage to Naples and Fort Myers, where the storm dealt a direct hit. Photos showed the storm had reduced visibility to near nothing as it threw trees and debris and surged water up streets.

While Naples is currently dealing with storm surge in the storm’s wake, Fort Myers will soon face the worst of Irma’s eyewall. The water was sucked out of Tampa Bay as the storm, which is rotating at high speed, drew water out to sea; that water plus up to eight feet of storm surge is expected to return later when the storm hits the city directly. Numerous social media posts as well as live coverage on cable news showed curious locals walking out into the now- dry seabed, which experts cautioned is a bad idea.“It is within the realm of possibility that (the water) comes back more dramatically than if it were just a surge blowing up on land without the water being removed from the shore areas by the winds ahead of the eye of the storm,” Louisiana State University Center for Coastal Resiliency director Scott Hagen told CNN. This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information becomes available.