Peninsula or as I like to call it, "The Walking Dead-Fury Road" When they first announced a sequel to the critically acclaimed Korean zombie horror movie, Train to Busan, I was truly excited. Train to Busan was such a great movie overall. From the acting, the dialogue, the story and the zombie designs, there was little a horror movie buff could complain about. What also made Train to Busan great was how human nature and human emotions like stupidity and selfishness played a major role in the progression of the movie.  Train to Busan was like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book where the script writers had a general direction for the movie but wrote it based on what they thought a certain character would do in a certain situation and moved forward from there. Some would say it's half-assed, others would say it's genius. Let the characters decide how they were going to survive. Add a little zombie surprise here and there and see where it leads to.  Peninsula ...

A B-rated Bang for your Buck horror comedy! Finally, someone did something right! The main story begins like a really bad joke; a priest, a rabbi and a flight crew board a plane and hell ensues at the cruising altitude of 60,000 feet. If I didn't get you in the first sentence, this movie probably isn't for you, but it damn well was for me.  The movie opens up with a priest performing an exorcism in a big house, similar to The Exorcist.  "Wait. This isn't where I parked my car..." It's a horror comedy, so it plays out with a little bit of a suspense before the comedic twist. I thoroughly enjoyed when the priest, played by Lance Henriksen, gave up on the rites and just straight up pulled out a revolver. Like Terry Pratchett reviewing the game doom: "Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden ...

    Cool poster. Awful movie.  First of all, I was expecting a movie that had Bront Palarae and Nicholas Saputra in supporting roles to be a tad bit better, but boy was I mistaken. They took two amazingly great actors and flushed it, just flushed it down the drain.  The starting of the movie was pretty basic. It followed the general South East Asian horror trope - dark beginning built on a foundation of death that pushed the movie's story. But as the movie progressed, i'm not sure if the director wanted it to be a slow burn, but slow it was. However, slow burn movies usually culminate in a satisfying end, but this movie fell short of that. It was as if you suffered through nearly one and a half hours of slow, meaningless dialogue & acting and were presented with disappointment.I It's like being invited to a barbecue and the host is giving you a bunch of rules and regulations and asking you to bring a shit tonne of things and you're hyping yourself up for it think...

  The poster looks better than the movie actually is. (Photo courtesy of IMDB) Ghosts of War, which was released in June 2020 is a horror war film set during World War 2. Directed by Eric Bress (Final Destination 2 & 3, Kyle XY) and starring a smattering of established actors including Brenton Thwaites (Gods of Egypt, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy) and Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect, Wreck-it-Ralph), falls short of a good movie.  With the budget for so many good actors, you'd think they would've hired a better writer or even chosen a better script to work in.  "Nice load bearing pillars. It'd be a shame if someone... fragged them..." (Photo courtesy of Variety) Ghosts of War starts out with five American soldiers resting in a dark forest somewhere in France. The soldiers, led by Brenton Thwaites' character Chris, have received orders to defend a French castle previously occupied by the Nazi high command. What...

                  There were actually less ghosts being hands-y in the movie than the poster suggested. Bhoot? More like butuh.  Bhoot is your typical Hidustani horror movie in the sense that, although it doesn't employ the typical Hindustani tactics of group dances and singalongs, the camera angles, story line and acting are all quite similar to one another. Honestly, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. BUT. The twist for Bhoot - Part One: The Haunted Ship was quite satisfactory... if only they did it right.  The story starts out with a shot of a cargo ship on the open water. The captain and crew are celebrating a birthday party for the captain's daughter. Suddenly, during the celebration, the daughter is lured away by the sound of a finger snap akin to West Side Story. As the little girl follows it, something supernatural occurs and the little girl is never to be seen again.              ...