Plot:
Based on the video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Scorsese's Top 11 Scary Movies
Source The Daily Beast:
Just in time for Halloween and exclusively for The Daily Beast, the man who brought you Taxi Driver and The Departed shares his favorite horror movies of all time. Plus, watch clips of the scariest scenes.
1. THE HAUNTING
“You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror!” was the tagline for this absolutely terrifying 1963 Robert Wise picture about the investigation of a house plagued by violently assaultive spirits.
2. ISLE OF THE DEAD
There’s a moment in this Val Lewton picture, about plague victims trapped on an island during the Greek civil war, that never fails to scare me. let’s just say that it involves premature burial.
3. THE UNINVITED
Another, more benign haunted house picture, set in England, no less atmospheric than The Haunting—the tone is very delicate, and the sense of fear is woven into the setting, the gentility of the characters.
4. THE ENTITY
Barbara Hershey plays a woman who is brutally raped and ravished by an invisible force in this truly terrifying picture. The banal settings, the California-modern house, accentuate the unnerving quality.
5. DEAD OF NIGHT
A British classic: four tales told by four strangers mysteriously gathered in a country house, each one extremely disquieting, climaxing with a montage in which elements from all the stories converge into a crescendo of madness. Like The Uninvited, it’s very playful…and then it gets under your skin.
6. THE CHANGELING
Another haunted house movie, filled with sadness and dread. George C. Scott, recovering from the death of his wife and child, discovers the angry ghost of another dead child in the mansion where he’s staying.
7. THE SHINING
I never read the Stephen King novel, I have no idea how faithful it is or isn’t, but Kubrick made a majestically terrifying movie, where what you don’t see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make.
8. THE EXORCIST
A classic, endlessly parodied, very familiar— and it’s as utterly horrifying as it was the day it came out. That room—the cold, the purple light, the demonic transformations: it really haunts you.
9. NIGHT OF THE DEMON
Jacques Tourneur made this picture about ancient curses near the end of his career, but it’s as potent as his films for Val Lewton. Forget the demon itself—again, it’s what you don’t see that’s so powerful.
10. THE INNOCENTS
This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James. It’s beautifully crafted and acted, immaculately shot (by Freddie Francis), and very scary.
11. PSYCHO
Again, it’s so familiar that you think: great movie, but it’s not so scary anymore. Then you watch it…and quickly start thinking again. The shower…the swamp…the relationship between mother and son—it’s extremely disturbing on so many levels. It’s also a great work of art.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Green Zone - Official HD Trailer
Don't mistake this for a Bourne movie. It is based on a nonfiction book. Kind of reminds me of Body of Lies, but looks promising.
Plot:
A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. Inspired by Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Plot:
A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. Inspired by Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Netflix movie streaming coming to PlayStation 3
Funny....you have to have a $50 Gold X-Box Live membership to do this. Kudos to Sony for offering it for free (minus the Netflix subscription).
Source Associated Press:
NEW YORK – PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.
Sony Corp. and the DVD rental company planned to announce the service Monday and launch it next month. It will be available for free to PlayStation 3 owners who have a Netflix subscription that starts at $9.
Netflix streaming is already available on a broad range of devices, such as the Roku digital video player, Internet-connected TV sets (including Sony's) and Blu-ray players — and the PlayStation 3's archrival, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. On the Xbox, however, the Netflix streaming is available only to Xbox Live "Gold" members, who pay $50 a year mainly to play games online with friends in other places.
For Netflix Inc., the deal brings millions of potential new customers, to add to the 11.1 million it already has in the United States. About 9 million PlayStation 3 systems have been sold in U.S., and more than 25 million worldwide.
Movie streaming is an increasingly important service for Netflix even though it says it expects to keep renting DVDs until 2030. And Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said he would like the streaming service to be available on all three of the major gaming platforms — the Xbox, the Wii and the PlayStation. Until now, however, the company had an exclusive deal with Microsoft.
"The PlayStation 3 is an amazing video platform," Hastings said in an interview.
This leaves the Wii as the last console without Netflix streaming. But even without it, the Wii is the top-selling console.
Netflix has about 17,000 movies and TV shows available for streaming, though few of them are new releases. This will expand the movies Sony already rents and sells through the PlayStation 3, and will give the company another feature to tout as it markets the PlayStation as a diverse entertainment device.
With a TV ad campaign whose slogan is "It Only Does Everything," Sony is targeting men and women between 18 and 49 and playing up the console's capabilities beyond gaming. Last year, its aim was still younger men, the gamer demographic.
"I think we always knew we made a significant investment in the PS3 and we were ahead of the time in terms of technology," said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. "But technology that was mystifying to the consumer three years ago is being coveted now."
To access the Netflix streaming service, PlayStation 3 users will have to pop in a Blu-ray disc that Netflix will mail out. The disc will access the Internet and activate the Netflix system so people can find movies to stream.
Source Associated Press:
NEW YORK – PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.
Sony Corp. and the DVD rental company planned to announce the service Monday and launch it next month. It will be available for free to PlayStation 3 owners who have a Netflix subscription that starts at $9.
Netflix streaming is already available on a broad range of devices, such as the Roku digital video player, Internet-connected TV sets (including Sony's) and Blu-ray players — and the PlayStation 3's archrival, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. On the Xbox, however, the Netflix streaming is available only to Xbox Live "Gold" members, who pay $50 a year mainly to play games online with friends in other places.
For Netflix Inc., the deal brings millions of potential new customers, to add to the 11.1 million it already has in the United States. About 9 million PlayStation 3 systems have been sold in U.S., and more than 25 million worldwide.
Movie streaming is an increasingly important service for Netflix even though it says it expects to keep renting DVDs until 2030. And Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said he would like the streaming service to be available on all three of the major gaming platforms — the Xbox, the Wii and the PlayStation. Until now, however, the company had an exclusive deal with Microsoft.
"The PlayStation 3 is an amazing video platform," Hastings said in an interview.
This leaves the Wii as the last console without Netflix streaming. But even without it, the Wii is the top-selling console.
Netflix has about 17,000 movies and TV shows available for streaming, though few of them are new releases. This will expand the movies Sony already rents and sells through the PlayStation 3, and will give the company another feature to tout as it markets the PlayStation as a diverse entertainment device.
With a TV ad campaign whose slogan is "It Only Does Everything," Sony is targeting men and women between 18 and 49 and playing up the console's capabilities beyond gaming. Last year, its aim was still younger men, the gamer demographic.
"I think we always knew we made a significant investment in the PS3 and we were ahead of the time in terms of technology," said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. "But technology that was mystifying to the consumer three years ago is being coveted now."
To access the Netflix streaming service, PlayStation 3 users will have to pop in a Blu-ray disc that Netflix will mail out. The disc will access the Internet and activate the Netflix system so people can find movies to stream.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Wolfman Official HD Trailer Courtesy Universal Pictures
Looks good, but I'm waiting for feedback before I go to the theater to see it.
Plot:
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
Plot:
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Top 10 Scariest Ghost Movies
Since Paranormal Activity has become successful, I decided to make a list of MY scariest ghost flicks. They are in order....
1. The Shining
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece is by far the scariest ghost movie of all time. Jack Nicholson provides the role of a lifetime as Jack Torrance who slowly goes crazy with his family in a secluded haunted hotel. How he wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for The Shining proves that the whole awards process is full of shit. This movie has creepiness factor from start to finish. The isolation the characters feel has a real sense of claustrophobia. You literally feel like the walls are closing in on you. Kubrick was a master at it. The ghosts pushing Jack into murdering his family makes the tension go from 0 to 100000. Is Jack crazy and seeing things? Are the ghosts real? Do some research and draw your own conclusion.
2. Poltergeist
There must be something real about this movie. All of the deaths and unexplained events that surrounded the filming of this movie are too coincidental. Poltergeist is over 20 years old and still as scary as it was then. The toy clown, man eating tree, face peeling, swimming skeletons, child eating wall monster. Please...GO to the light!
3. The Blair Witch Project
Shot for $60,000 and grossed over $140 million. Numbers don't lie. Even after the novelty factor, Blair Witch is still a disturbing movie. The documentary style put you in the characters shoes which helped it's effectiveness. Although you don't see one ghost in the movie, it's what's not there that's scary. The guy standing in the corner of the basement of the shack still gives me goosebumps.
4. Session 9
Be forewarned....this is a slow movie. It is all about atmosphere. The creepy run down Danvers Lunatic Asylum is the REAL star of this movie. It is a REAL former asylum. Not many have seen this film but every time I recommend this movie to someone they end up loving it. It's very effective and makes you feel uneasy as you watch it. I was skeptical at first because it stars David Caruso who I think is a tool bag, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. Watch Session 9 in the dark....pronto!
5. The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter's take on the supernatural is definite classic status. Ghost pirates = BRILLIANT! Every actor in this movie is on point. Hal Holbrook as the drunken priest is convincing and shows his range. Carpenter's music, of course, provides some real tension, Forget that weak ass remake. Watch the original.
6. The Entity
This movie is crazy!! It's about a woman who is being raped by a ghost in her house. It's shocking and scary. Supposedly, it's based on a true story which makes it even crazier. Barbara Hershey gives a commanding performance as the main character being stalked by the ghost. I haven't seen this movie in a long time, but it had to be good for me to remember it for this list. Matter of fact, I'm going to rent it now.
7. The Amityville Horror (1979)
The best haunted house movie ever! Every time I see those windows on another house it's the first thing I think of. This movie scared me as a kid and is still just as good. The house screaming to the priest "GET OUT!" is freaky still. James Brolin is amazing in this film. Had he not been in it, I doubt it would've been as good. Supposedly every bit of this movie is true. God I hope not.
8. The Sixth Sense
Shyamalan's only good movie. Bruce Willis is awesome and Haley Joel should've gotten an Oscar. I remember seeing this in the theater and the ending blowing my mind. I remember the whole audience going "OH MY GOD!". It's a shame it's never the same after you watch it again but still a good movie none the less. The ghost scenes made you jump and put you on the edge of your seat. I loved every minute of it. Too bad Shyamalan proved he was a one hit wonder. But what a hit it is.
9. The Eye (2003)(Korean Version)
The first time I watched this movie I was with a friend. There were two times where we literally jumped out of our seats. It's a great premise. A woman gets an eye transplant, but her new eye starts revealing ghosts around her. It is very slow at times, but when the ghosts appear, it slaps you in the face. The "GET OUT OF MY CHAIR" scene is memorable. Remember that I warned you.
10. The Ring
First off, I'm not a big Ring fan. Maybe it was because I never saw it in the theater. I don't know. Everybody thinks I'm crazy for this but it is what it is. Now with that being said, the first 10 minutes of this movie might be some of the best horror ever filmed. It blew me away. Come to think of it, that might be why I didn't like the rest of the movie. After the first scene, I expected more. I guess it was kind of just a let down, for me anyways. I understand why other people like it. It's just not my thing. But the first scene alone is worth making this list.
1. The Shining
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece is by far the scariest ghost movie of all time. Jack Nicholson provides the role of a lifetime as Jack Torrance who slowly goes crazy with his family in a secluded haunted hotel. How he wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for The Shining proves that the whole awards process is full of shit. This movie has creepiness factor from start to finish. The isolation the characters feel has a real sense of claustrophobia. You literally feel like the walls are closing in on you. Kubrick was a master at it. The ghosts pushing Jack into murdering his family makes the tension go from 0 to 100000. Is Jack crazy and seeing things? Are the ghosts real? Do some research and draw your own conclusion.
2. Poltergeist
There must be something real about this movie. All of the deaths and unexplained events that surrounded the filming of this movie are too coincidental. Poltergeist is over 20 years old and still as scary as it was then. The toy clown, man eating tree, face peeling, swimming skeletons, child eating wall monster. Please...GO to the light!
3. The Blair Witch Project
Shot for $60,000 and grossed over $140 million. Numbers don't lie. Even after the novelty factor, Blair Witch is still a disturbing movie. The documentary style put you in the characters shoes which helped it's effectiveness. Although you don't see one ghost in the movie, it's what's not there that's scary. The guy standing in the corner of the basement of the shack still gives me goosebumps.
4. Session 9
Be forewarned....this is a slow movie. It is all about atmosphere. The creepy run down Danvers Lunatic Asylum is the REAL star of this movie. It is a REAL former asylum. Not many have seen this film but every time I recommend this movie to someone they end up loving it. It's very effective and makes you feel uneasy as you watch it. I was skeptical at first because it stars David Caruso who I think is a tool bag, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. Watch Session 9 in the dark....pronto!
5. The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter's take on the supernatural is definite classic status. Ghost pirates = BRILLIANT! Every actor in this movie is on point. Hal Holbrook as the drunken priest is convincing and shows his range. Carpenter's music, of course, provides some real tension, Forget that weak ass remake. Watch the original.
6. The Entity
This movie is crazy!! It's about a woman who is being raped by a ghost in her house. It's shocking and scary. Supposedly, it's based on a true story which makes it even crazier. Barbara Hershey gives a commanding performance as the main character being stalked by the ghost. I haven't seen this movie in a long time, but it had to be good for me to remember it for this list. Matter of fact, I'm going to rent it now.
7. The Amityville Horror (1979)
The best haunted house movie ever! Every time I see those windows on another house it's the first thing I think of. This movie scared me as a kid and is still just as good. The house screaming to the priest "GET OUT!" is freaky still. James Brolin is amazing in this film. Had he not been in it, I doubt it would've been as good. Supposedly every bit of this movie is true. God I hope not.
8. The Sixth Sense
Shyamalan's only good movie. Bruce Willis is awesome and Haley Joel should've gotten an Oscar. I remember seeing this in the theater and the ending blowing my mind. I remember the whole audience going "OH MY GOD!". It's a shame it's never the same after you watch it again but still a good movie none the less. The ghost scenes made you jump and put you on the edge of your seat. I loved every minute of it. Too bad Shyamalan proved he was a one hit wonder. But what a hit it is.
9. The Eye (2003)(Korean Version)
The first time I watched this movie I was with a friend. There were two times where we literally jumped out of our seats. It's a great premise. A woman gets an eye transplant, but her new eye starts revealing ghosts around her. It is very slow at times, but when the ghosts appear, it slaps you in the face. The "GET OUT OF MY CHAIR" scene is memorable. Remember that I warned you.
10. The Ring
First off, I'm not a big Ring fan. Maybe it was because I never saw it in the theater. I don't know. Everybody thinks I'm crazy for this but it is what it is. Now with that being said, the first 10 minutes of this movie might be some of the best horror ever filmed. It blew me away. Come to think of it, that might be why I didn't like the rest of the movie. After the first scene, I expected more. I guess it was kind of just a let down, for me anyways. I understand why other people like it. It's just not my thing. But the first scene alone is worth making this list.
Monday, October 19, 2009
"Scary Movie" Getting a Remake????
In what might be the worst movie decision I've ever seen, the Weinsteins decide to remake a movie that isn't even ten years old. I am beside myself and don't know what to say.
Source Cinema Blend:
We’ve survived four installments and you’d think that would earn us all a break, but they’re starting it all over again. We’ve heard from solid sources close to the Weinstein Company that they’re rebooting Scary Movie.
Look, you should have seen this coming. The last one, Scary Movie 4, was clearly out of gas creatively but still managed to make nearly $180 million worldwide. They’ve run out of places to take the franchise but they’d still like to drive Faris, so restarting the whole thing sort of makes sense… assuming of course you’re an evil, soulless, corporate executive.
So we’re talking Scary Movie reboot, with new characters and all that implies. That likely means no Anna Faris who has been one of the few constants throughout all four previous Scary Movies. In fact just a few weeks ago she told Fangoria, “Everyone wants to know if there will be a fifth SCARY MOVIE and I really have no answer.” Now we know why she had no answer. She may not be in it.
Scary Movie 5 is still quite a ways off since The Weinstein Company doesn’t plan to release it until after Scream 4, which is due out in 2010. Plenty of time for them to change their mind and simply spare us to death with another sequel, but for now we’re hearing reboot.
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