tháng 9 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

So this is kind of random for horror month. It is still the very end of September and I wanted to dive into something other than horror before October started. A film I found online, so I was able to watch it in quicktime at one and a half speed... something that is a necessity...

Not really a horror movie, but filled with some sort of zombie possessed demons, this was more of a scary action film. There is actually a pretty decent cast with Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code, Dogville ,The Young Victoria), Lucas Black (Jarhead, Cold Mountain, Friday...

Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley star in a film that has been mislabeled as a horror film. This is actually a science fiction film about gene splicing.Brody and Polley work in a lab splicing genes and creating some pretty interesting looking creatures in attempts to create vaccines...

This years big box office flop starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box on their door step in the middle of the night. The next day Frank Langella, missing a portion of his face, shows up and explains that if the button is pushed they would receive...

A very interest mix of genres here. This is a horror comedy documentary. What? Ok, so the film is about a serial killer, who has a camera crew following him around making a documentary. You would really call this a mockumentary, since it is a comedy about making documentaries.The...

Compared on several levels to Psycho, another 1960 release, this creepy film was a breakthrough in the genre. To this point many horror films were shot in black and white to give the illusion that what you are watching is JUST a story, including Psycho.The movie does two things...

Killers, not a horror movie, even though I watched it in horror month. I needed a change, and this was a good lighthearted get away. Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl star in a film that has been referred to a play on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.Kutcher is a hitman who wants out of...

This series has gotten so incredibly bad. It is a joke now to talk about this series, which is actually really sad because the original, and only the first, was really really good. Much like the Friday the 13th and original Halloween series it takes several detours before they...

What better time to watch the cheesiest film on the 101 Horror Film list than right after watching the original Dracula. I'm not familiar with any other blaxploitation film, and this one is held in pretty high esteem, so it looked interesting.The plot is that an African prince...

I have to say that I really expected more from the original Dracula film. Truth is it doesn't hold a candle to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Nosferatu. The lack of sound effects or any type of sound track made the suspense fall flat and started to put me to sleep several times.The...

Since I got a jump start on horror month, I decided to diverge for a different type of thriller movie. The war movie thriller. Starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven and in a special operations mission to disable some radio controlled guns on the Greek island...

Part 2 of the Millennium Trilogy, Millennium being the name of the magazine one of the main characters runs. This one, to me, was even better than the first.Sneaking around because one of the stars are wanted by the cops. Tying up loose ends from the first film. More action...

Michael Rooker stars in a film based on the real life serial killer Henry Lucas. Henry travels across country to visit a friend he made while in prison, Otis. Otis is living with his sister in a run down apartment in Chicago. Henry decides to go out and have some fun and takes...

The thriller/horror category has a lot of sub-genres. So a list like the AFI 100 Thrills actually has some very mild, almost action films. Then it also has thrillers that branch into horror. This 1940's film is one of the latter.The concept is simple and laid out for the audience...

I watched this one directly off a dvd I picked up at the library. If I hadn't then I would thought there was something wrong with the audio. The ENTIRE film is dubbed, and very poorly. It is incredibly ironic that they brag about DTS audio and a fancy remix at the start of the...

Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star in a film with such cheesy acting I thought it was a comedy when I saw a portion on tv many years ago. Bacon is really amusing as a desert bum working job to job.The movie actually has some good exciting moments where these creatures start pulling...

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow did so well with the first film that all of Hollywood wanted in. Samuel L. Jackson will take any minor role, Scarlett Johansson plays an obvious double agent (because she needs a complicated script to compensate for lack of acting ability),...

With the release of Steven Jay Schneider's 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die I have a new goal for Horror Month. With so much to watch I gave Horror Month an extension, making it about 6 weeks.Sadly, this one was not necessarily the best one to start with. Overall...

Gary Cooper plays a historian with the job of creating a complete encyclopedia. With the help of 6 little old men they work day and night in the study/library of the mansion of the publisher. When Cooper can't communicate with the milkman because he doesn't know slang he begins...

Starring John Cena and produced by the WWE Wrestling Federation... hey what do you expect. I had no idea when I stumbled across this one that it was starring a professional wrestler, nor do I really see how he is a wrestler because he didn't look that big in the movie.Cena plays...

I don't have a lot of followers on this blog, so when a reader wants to discuss a movie I do my best to watch it. This one is very Korean to me. What does that mean? Korean cinema seems to do their best to copycat Hollywood. If you watch a Russian film or a French film... you...

Betty Hutton plays Trudy, a naive girl who, against her dad's permission, decides to go to a party to send off the troops. She uses Norval (Eddie Bracken) as the fall guy when she tells her dad they are going to the movies. She borrows his car, gets drunk, gets married, impregnated,...

I keep getting Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland and Adventureland) confused with the star of this film Michael Cera (Juno and Superbad). I'd have to say that they both annoy me, but Cera is much worse. Sadly Portia Doubleday is not a great co-star, and there is not enough Zach...

Ballast: an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings. Understanding the definition of the title of this film gives a lot of insight into the subject matter of this film.The film starts with a 20-something shooting...

By far the most overrated film of the year. Built up to be a glimpse of pre-WWI Germany, I thought this film was going to be deep and give me some insight into the generation of Germans that took us into two World Wars. Instead it was just a story about a small town village...

I have to say I was a little leery of this series at first. Some of the book series lately haven't been something that interest me, e.g. The Twilight Series, Saga, whatever. I've heard good things about this series though, and wanted to see the original Swedish series before...

It is always a treat to get to another Alfred Hitchcock film. This one, one of his earlier works, is probably one of his best from his first 15 years as a director. Starring Robert Donat the running question throughout the film is "What are the 39 Steps?"The general plot of...

Giving this film a 6/10 is probably very generous. W.C. Fields stars in this slapstick comedy early in the talkie period. There is little theme music, yet loaded with awful sound effects. Such as, kids screaming, sprinklers making an angry wife yell, neighbors screaming up and...

Another Jason Statham action film. He sure does have a good agent. Seems like he is in every action film lately. Joan Allen plays the jail warden, she was pretty good as the bad guy [gal].Good action, and honestly very few cheesy lines. Which was good, because in a movie where...

A black-and-white 3 hour French romance from 1945 centered around a mime. Still interested? You must be crazy like me about film...This movie is on three of my lists. The IMDB Top 250 from 2004, where it squeaked in at #250. The 1001 Movies to See Before You Die... which sometimes...

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Orphans of the Storm (1921)

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Splice (2009)

The Box (2009)

Man Bites Dog: C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Killers (2010)

Saw VI (2009)

Blacula (1972)

Dracula (1931)

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

The Girl Who Played with Fire: Flickan som lekte med elden (2009)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Suspiria (1977)

Tremors (1990)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Phantasm (1979)

Ball of Fire (1941)

12 Rounds (2009)

Chungking Express: Chung Hing sam lam (1994)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Youth in Revolt (2009)

Ballast (2008)

The White Ribbon: Das weisse Band (2009)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)

The 39 Steps (1935)

It's a Gift (1934)

Death Race (2008)

Children of Paradise: Les enfants du paradis (1945)

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