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Starring: Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortenson, William Butler, Ken Foree
Released: January 3rd 1990
Box Office: 5.8M
Concept
Michelle and Ryan, a young couple going through relationship issues are driving in the isolated middle of nowhere, Texas. They are travelling from California to Florida and in Texas come across a body excavation ground where countless people have been killed and preserved in the earth. They are interrogated and advised by an officer to be careful.
The morning after they come across a gas station in a desolate area, after encountering a cowboy who points a route on a map to get to their destination quicker. Accompanying him a creepy pervert things go from bad to worse when the pervert goes on the defensive after creeping on Michelle, and starts shooting at them.
Ryan then takes the cowboys route and after driving for hours until dark a van with a dead coyote at the front hunts them, and thus begins a night the two will never forget. Aided by Benny, a reserve soldier and Sara, a survivor who's been lost in the wooded area for weeks can Michelle and Ryan make it out alive? Or will it be another massacre?
Review
The third instalment in the TCM franchise this film was still in the same bloodline as the previous two. Whereas the original was slow paced and stayed strong with the psychological element with a little craziness, the second was faster paced and had many random moments and wacky characters it was more of a black comedy. This film has shed its skin, kept some quirky characters, kept the pace going well and has its own scenes of action.
Starring a young Viggo Mortenson (you would known him as Aragon in the LOTR franchise). And Ken Foree who is a living legend of horror, he has been in countless horror flicks most notably in the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, The Devil's Rejects as well as low-key films such as Splatter Disco and Apocalypse of the Dead (I'll get to that one later).
If you like the franchise you won't be disappointed with this film, banned in the UK by the BBFC (British Broadcast of Film Classification) several minutes had to be cut to be released. The film is one of my personal all time favourites and one I'll keep close to my heart, and I hope you can to.
'The purpose of today's experiment, is to prove that the object behind me is responsible for at least forty-five deaths, in the four centuries of its reported existence'.
This is a recent film but it is criminal that it is so underrated and unseen by the masses. Oculus follows the story that occurs several years after a horrific homicide. Where the father went on a murderous rampage, murdering the mother in cold blood and in self defence, his son killed him in front of his daughter.
Fast forward a few years and those children have now grown up. The daughter, Kaylie has met up with her brother Tim after he is discharged from the psychiatric hospital. In this time she has managed to track down an old antique mirror, a mirror which she claims is the reason their parents are dead.
Determined, Kaylie arms herself in their childhood home with several cameras, lights, etc. Oh and a killswitch to shatter the mirror in case anything goes wrong.
The mirror is black, is four-hundred years old and has a deliciously gruesome past with it. Specifically death. You follow them on an horrifically dark journey as they fight against the mirror.
Review
This film will leave you scratching your head, it has a shocking ending and all the while you will need to see this film more than once simply because it makes you think. There are so many factors in this movie it is unbelievable and everything contradicts the facts.
Tim has grown up being told blaming the mirror is in his mind, and he used it as a scapegoat to deal with the trauma, so he's level headed at first. Kaylie however has had no psychiatric help and has been driven to destroy the mirror, and behaves erratically.
As the film goes on we see different patterns emerging, the film is told using flashbacks both hopping back and forth and even blending together. It is a great tale that must be seen by anyone who says they have a love for horror. Check out this film, do not skip this film for your own sake.
Also this film is based of a short film from 2005 of the same name. But director Mike Flanagan put it off because of fears it may become a dreaded found footage film.
For your displeasure I have placed a link below where you can watch the short film if you wish.
In this fantastically thrilling black comedy a group of passengers on a train are trying to get to Truro. Unknown to each other they all find themselves in a similar situation where they miss the last train and are then forced to stay at the station during a heavy storm. They are told the legend of the ghost train by the reluctant stationmaster. He tells of the old tale where Forty-Three years prior a man named Ted Holmes died of a heart attack before he could close the bridge, plunging it into the river. They then spend the night together trying to get to morning without little incidence.
Review
This black comedy is pure hilarity with a good few spooks thrown in. Certainly a film for horror novices, there are so many elements that make this a brilliant film. The characters are unique and perfect, everyone has a role to play. There is a lot of suspense of the ghost train itself that cuts into your mind and frightens you as the film climaxes. There are plenty of twists in this flick to keep you guessing and great spooky add ons. From the thunder and lightening, to a suspicious death, a young delusional woman, the apparent mad man thrown clear of the train itself and even Nazism. You should watch this film the comedy is cut finely and will make you chuckle at least once, the suspense is curdling and the plot never bores. Even when it seems the set is moving it keeps you locked in its gripI give it a great 10/10.
Here is a description for where you can pick up this clumsy masterpiece.
