Thursday, October 30, 2008

Two Quick Scary Movie Reviews

Seen on cable this week:

I Am Legend is the Will Smith remake of Omega Man from last December. The reviews were right. It started off very good, painting a really nice view of this lonely last man on earth existence while flashing back to how it all happened. Then it turned not very good after the ... well you'll know the event when it happens. I think the problem is that this kind of film can only end two different ways. Well three if you count how Children of Men did it. So setting the atmosphere is the good part and the ending isn't.

Splinter is something different. While I don't usually go for horror films, this was getting good reviews and had a free screening on HDNET before it's release next week. This is really well done man vs. monster story. It's set up intelligently, has lots of tension and squirmy moments with an appropriate amount of blood. This isn't torture porn, it's closer to The Thing with people held up at a rural gas station with a creature trying to kill them. No one does anything stupid and it really worked. At this point, this film would probably just make my top ten list for the year.

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