tháng 10 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick star in the cult classic that questions people's taste in film. A musical about transexual's and the breakdown of morality. The film is almost a demonstration of how easily a "good" Christian couple just after engaged can be easily...

I haven't been able to put my finger on director Guillermo del Toro. I liked Hellboy but I did not like Pan's Labyrinth. This film apparently was one he spent years working on in the background. Costing $4.5 million and only grossing >$1 million to date I would call it...

I was very happy with the last Terence Fisher film The Curse of Frankenstein and had high expectation for this one. I rated it the same but did like Frankenstein better.Another rewrite of the original story. Different enough to not get copyright permission, and even released...

The type of horror film that has defined our generation of horror films. A pointless slasher, focusing on gore, lacking substance, full of cheap pointless thrills, and not really making any sense.The film starts off without really recapping the first film at all (a brilliant...

All I could this of when talking about his film is the hard rock band by the same name. Surely Rob Zombie's inspiration for a band name and maybe even his name change (he was born Robert Bartleh Cummings). Rob is now a horror film director so there must be some sort of tie there.The...

The biggest surprise of horror month for me. I never expected to enjoy a Frankenstein remake so much. I learned a lot researching this movie after watching it.First off, the horror genre was pretty much dead when it came out (no pun intended). People just weren't making them...

It has now been a full year of blogging. With 334 blog posts, 1300 unique visitors, and 2600 page loads it has not been a bad year for an amateur film writer.The site will be adding a new feature this year, starting with How To Train Your Dragon. There is now a 2nd rating on...

I've been about 50/50 on these horror movie restarts. The remade Friday the 13th... not good, remade Halloween... good but not the sequel, so I was hoping for the best here.It made me nervous that it was given to Samuel Bayer to direct, since he doesn't really have much of a...

It is sad that this is a remake, because I haven't seen the original and after watching this I doubt I'll ever give it a shot. Basically we learning in the first 10 minutes of the movie that this serial killer find a family, moves in, then kills them all.Problem with this movie...

Starring Odette Yustman and featuring Gary Oldman as a Rabbi... yeah, a Rabbi. The premise of the film is that Odette's character killed her brother while they were both still in their mother's womb (her umbilical cord strangled him). The brother now wants to be born and has...

A film actually completed in 2007, but through an internet publicity stunt gained national recognition. With an estimated budget of $11,000 and grossing $107 million he holds the record for ratio of budget to profit in cinema history.The film is another mockumentary along the...

It will be explained later in the week with the one year anniversary special post, but this is the first film to feature the "KSF" Rating. A rating for how scary kids will find the movie. I'll start by saying that with lots of dragons and fighting this one is not for the preschoolers....

The horror genre is full of "originals." It is by far the genre with the most "sub-genres." You have slasher, thriller, gore, zombie, vampire, alien, mockumentary, etc. This film was the first of it's kind... a child killer. It is a concept that has been repeated several times,...

The most highly anticipated movie of horror month last year. Somehow I ran out of time and had to table it for this year. Not an easy task because it has grown a cult following and was even suggested to me by someone.So I ventured out and watched the original cut with Norwegian...

This film is a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and was actually remade in 2002 as Red Dragon, the title of the book it is based on. The remake stars Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton and I gave it a 7/10, so I wasn't sure how much I would like an older film with weaker actors.In...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley star in thisMartin Scorsese film about a disappearance at a mental institution on Shutter Island.I don't have a designation for "Suspense" instead of "Horror" for my genres. So let me say that this very loosely fits in this category....

The original was actually the 8th movie I reviews on this blog almost a full year ago. (HERE) Both are Wes Craven films, the first is much different and better than this one. Kind of funny to say since that was a 6/10 and this is a 5/10.The way Wes handles the girls in the original...

This was definitely an era of pretty cheesy horror films. There is very little that is scary about this one, and the transformations are nothing new. I was much more impressed with the ones in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It was interesting to me to see that this was the same leading...

The horror genre in its infant stages really didn't have many start. So a couple stars seemed to make everything. Boris Karloff is the star of this classic.The plot: Three friends drive through a monsoon-like storm, they take refuge at a big dark house when the road gives out....

I can't remember how I stumbled across this independently release horror film. The independent releases tend to be more gory, and this one definitely is. The plot is simple, a crook cases a home while working for a security company. When he breaks in to steal jewelry from the...

So this is my favorite film from this horror month. I remember it coming out, the lack of press, and really not much buzz. I had assumed it would be another crappy horror film that flopped. I was very surprised at how good the plot and screenplay were.The acting seems authentic,...

Old of the last really old films on my 101 Horror Movie list. A film that was actually remade in the 80's, and was just as highly acclaimed. The premise behind the film is that a Serbian immigrant, Irena (played by Simone Simon) is courted by an American Oliver Smith (played...

I find Jesse Eisenberg to be a little annoying. So you know this has to be pretty good if I consider one of his films to be worth watching.This zombie comedy has some pretty fun special effects in the intro, and some pretty good acting from a fun cast. Woody Harrelson had a...

One of the worst movies that I've seen this year. Amanda Seyfried (from Mamma Mia!) and Megan Fox star in this film. Amanda plays Neddy, who we learn is inside an insane asylum. She starts telling a story about how her friend became possessed by a demon. It is pretty obvious...

I didn't realize how common zombie films from the West Indies were. It seems like there was a transition in the 1960's from zombies being created by voodoo or evil spirits to being created by infection and results of an apocalypse.This was one of those early films. The main...

I can't get part how annoying it is when a film becomes popular 50 years after being made because it was so artistic and people of that era were too stupid to realize how good it was.This is one of those films. The director had a nervous breakdown because it was a flop, yet...

The classic story of the doctor who takes the potion to become someone else. I never really understood why Dr. Jekyll wanted to be come Mr. Hyde. This was explained very well in the doctor's dissertation at the beginning of the film.He felt that there was good and evil in everyone,...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Devil's Backbone: El espinazo del diablo (2001)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Halloween II (2009)

White Zombie (1932)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

One Year Anniversary: Best of the Year

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

The Stepfather (2009)

The Unborn (2009)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

The Bad Seed (1956)

Dead Snow: Død snø (2009)

Manhunter (1986)

Shutter Island (2010)

The Last House on the Left (2009)

The Wolf Man (1941)

The Old Dark House (1932)

The Collector (2009)

The Crazies (2010)

Cat People (1942)

Zombieland (2009)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Vampyr: Not Against the Flesh (1932)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

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