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The Colony (2013)
Decent beginning horrible 2nd half.
I had some hope for this movie which had some great talent in it with Laurence Fishburne Bill Paxton Kevin Zegers all did a fine job.Some one said Bill Paxton acting was wooden well maybe that's how the part was written but what ever it's not really that important. The first half of this movie sets up a post apocalyptic world where every thing is frozen and the temperature hasn't risen in years.So their living in this big installation where they have to grown their own food and raise live stock.It's a place where the flu can be very deadly and they have to kill a few people to make sure the flu doesn't spread . This sets up a dire and bleak world . But the hope lies in some day finding a way to reverse some of the extreme weather.
In the middle of the movie they loose communications mysteriously with another colony close by . The mystery of the lose of communication is set up nicely and you wonder why they went dark. I wish we never found out because after traveling to the other colony (Both Laurence's character and Zegers along with a 3rd person)the movie breaks down into a stupid c horror film . Well the reason **spoiler alert** Is cannibals . These cannibals look like zombies for some reason with pointy teeth.It's explained latter that they are "feral humans" it seems that if humans go with out food for a period of time they turn into this ..WTF? what ever. Anyways the cannibals follow the Laurence's char and zegers back to their own colony well Laurence doesn't make it and sacrifices himself to save the others.Zegers unwittingly leads the feral humans to his colony. and that where it gets really stupid.
The ferals break into the colony so easily .I mean you guys had decades to prepare for an attack wouldn't they have shored up the doors and reinforced everything?But what ever. Th ferals are also magic it seems going thru vents and popping out of the cabinets to attack the humans . WTF again? How do these ferals know every nook and cranny of the installation better then the humans that were their almost half of their lives. Well anyways it's stupid and ends stupidly of course the ferals die not before they kill a bunch of humans that we don't care about.Including Paxton's character.Oh yeah they also located an area of green warmth on the map thats like a nirvana thats where the try to travel towards at the end. But at this point nobody cares.
Hell (2011)
Promising start Dreadful ending.
This has spoilers in it.
OK first off I have seen that this movie got an overall 5.9 rating before I rated it which for a horror movie is not half bad. I'm guessing most of those Better reviews are from people who have seen a lot of German movies Specifically German Horror which is Notorious Crap. So I guess if they see a so-so movie to their standards it's good.
Well This movie is not good... it sucks. The start is the only thing that was some what decent. at first I thought this might be a cool Foreign hard core survival movie. but Instead it's Just a re-tread of Hillbilly Cannibal movies from Germany.
The acting is decent ...the settings though made this feel some what like one of the The Hills have eyes movies Or Mad max without the motor cycles. Even though the acting is OK the characters never get really that Developed to really care about. To tell you the truth I was rooting for the Cannibal Farmers to win the day .To bad the two Female Protagonists Easily win the day with ridicules ease.
Why in the Heck would they leave the main character alone after she has proved to be a tough women who doesn't want to stay their. And the laughable comment that the Grandma farmer makes about the Young girl. saying that the men would wait for her to come of age . Really? they can kidnap a group of strangers for sex and probably for food kill them at will and they will wait for her to come of age?? hahahahaha what ever .
The end of movie shows some birds flying above to indicate Hope I guess. yeah I was Hoping they would fly down and peck those 3 idiots eyes out.
The Dead (2010)
above average zombie movie
OK first off this review contains spoilers so just a heads up. this is defiantly an above average zombie movie with some beautiful views.. filmed in amazing locations. some things I like in this movie and some things i hated.
at the very start of the film I immediately noticed it was taking horror seriously instead of just making a quirky dumb zombie film the first scenes were dramatic and filled with dread. when the protagonist decides not the shoot the first zombie in the desert to save ammo I thought that was realistic. I liked how the two main characters got along together and chose to try to survive instead of yelling at each other the whole movie like two dumb children. some movies make characters hate each other just for some stupid dramatic moments but usually it's just annoying.
The zombies themselves are old school classic slow moving original dawn of the dead style. Not my favorite type of zombie ..even though I believe the slow moving zombie to be more realistic .. fast moving zombie's are defiantly more exciting and get the blood flowing quicker. I mean if you use slow zombie's you have to always use artificial situations to heighten the tension like when the main character had to climb the mountains.. before he did he was in a narrow ravine to give him less space to move ...with fast zombies you don't need any camera tricks or special situations to increase the tension ..when you see a fast zombie you gotta get the F--- out of their and fast..much more exciting.
over all the gore was well placed and not over the top.and the zombies looked decent. the acting was also passable for a zombie flick.
their were a couple of WTF moments in the movie though. of course when the main protagonist was given a baby that was a moment of tension that could have been a classic Sofie's choice moment ..instead it was crap . he should have had to choose to shoot the child and save himself or try to survive with it.. instead a miracle truck came by to save the day...and why didn't he just go with the truck? IDK.
another thing is when he went Rambo at the end and started chopping zombies like no tomorrow. WTF? after that long trip how he have that much energy to do that?. oh one more thing at the very end when the zombies are breaking into the American military base ...when did American armies have such weak ass bases where a slow freak weak zombie can break into a military base that supposed be able to take on tank rounds?? yeah yeah I sure their were hundreds of zombies trying to break in but some modern military bases are designed to survive a nuke attack and they can't hold off zombies ?? LOL OK. I guess we really are that broke.
anyway compared to most zombie movies this was slightly better then average and decent acting and nice vistas ..give it a try you might like it.
P.S. sorry for being so long and bad grammar this was my first review on here.