The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Following the events of the first film, the Firefly family is resting peacefully in their beds until the entire county's police force came knocking on their front door.

Knowing it's a kill or be killed scenario, the family prepares by arming themselves and start to fight back. After a few deaths, Baby and Otis find their way out of the house and start running for their lives in order to find refuge.

Once again written and directed by Rob Zombie and starring, Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Ken Foree and Matthew McGrory.

The storyline for this sequel has much more depth than it's predecessor. As opposed to just being a gory slasher, Zombie has taken the characters he has created and gave them more emotion by turning the tables and putting them in the same situations they would typically have had their victims in.

The characters being portrayed didn't really show me anything new and played the same old crazy killers they had in the first which did nothing to help me enjoy the film more. In example, the scene's where the Firefly's were torturing and holding prisons captive seemed almost repetitive from the first as well as many other low key horror films.

Although watchable, it's not a film I would go out of my way to see. Zombie does get better from here in his filmmaking endeavors so do not take this as a warning to stay away from his films because you will regret missing out on his better work as it is excellent. If you don't believe me, I implore you to watch both his versions of Halloween. You will see exactly what I mean.

With everything being said and done I will throw this sequel a 5 out of 10!

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A child molester, who was set free on a technicality, was burned at the stake by a group of angry parents.

Years later, an angry Fred Krueger has come back for revenge by killing off the remaining children of Elm street one by one, in their dreams.

Written and directed by Wes Craven. Starring Heather Langenkamp, John Saxton, Johnny Depp and Robert Englund as Fred Krueger.

This was the ultimate boogeyman movie for me! Over the course of several years I would have nightmares of Freddy Krueger. The horrifying look he had, the evil laugh, the way he could just get under your skin was unbelievable.

This movie is the reason why I am obsessed with the horror genre.

The acting is incredible, the dialogue is damn near perfect and the special effects were top notch. Especially the make up used for Fred and the "face coming through the ceiling" effect.

The ending was also excellent in my books, not only do you get a cool finish but they throw in the last minute jump scare for good measure.

This may not come as a shock to you but I give this one a perfect 10 out of 10.

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Maniac (2012)

Maniac follows the story of Frank Zito, a mentally unstable man who stalks, attacks, kills then scalps women in order to fulfill his own sick fantasies. By placing the scalped hair onto the heads of his mannequin's (whom each of them resemble a victim) it brings them to life in his mind.

His insatiable need to kill comes out once he starts suffering from a migraine.

Frank meets a photographer named Anna who is interested in the mannequin's he has been restoring through his family business and offers him a part to add his handy work in her art show.

He starts to fall for her but learns she has a boyfriend which starts a series of events that could change everything for him.

The movie stars Elijah Wood as Frank Zito, Nora Arnezeder as Anna D'Antoni and America Olivio as Angel Zito (Frank's Mother).

A large portion of the movie was filmed from the Point-of-View of the killer. You would see everything he saw and follow exactly what he would do, almost like a 1st person shooter game such as Doom or Duke Nukem. I believe this effect was used to try and gain sympathy from the audience for Frank throughout his hardships and mental disorder.

I really loved the way that I was filmed, You can see it every once in a while in other films for a scene or two (I.E. John Carpenter's Halloween), but you rarely, if ever, see the whole story be filmed in quite that way.

Elijah Wood's performance was excellent! I really got into his character just by the way he would speak throughout different scenario's in the film. However, I can not say the same about the performance by Nora D'Antoni.

I could not buy the accent a lot of the time as she seemed to keep slipping in and out of it. Being that I am bilingual, I know exactly what a primarily French person sounds like on a normal basis and that was not at all like anybody I know or have spoken too over the course of my life.

The kills were nothing spectacular, but they were realistic and looked great for that reason, plus you have to including the mentions on the special effects used for the scalping scenes.

All together, this movie holds up fairly well, but did not have anything jumping out at me to keep me on the hook the entire way through. The first scalping looked awesome which got me interested right away, but after the second one it started to feel like it was getting repetitive and started to lose my attention. It was not boring but after the first few scene's it stopped feeling for fresh.

With that being said I will have to give this one a 5.5 out of 10.

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The collection (2012)

Admittedly, I did not do my research before watching this movie. I just saw it as a suggestion on Netflix and started watching it without any knowledge of The Collection being the sequel to the film The Collector.

Lucky for me, this film did not really need any explanation and was still a good watch without the first part having been seen.

The Collection is a gore filled horror movie about a serial killer who collects one surviving victim each time he sets a killing spree in motion.

One of his victims, Arkin (Josh Stewart), is set free by a young lady, Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick), from a box the collector was keeping him in. She in turn, is kidnapped and placed in the box in his place.
Arkin is later forced to help a group of mercenaries who have been hired by Emma's father to find the collector and rescue his daughter.

The club scene about 10 minutes into the movie was just fantastic! It's completely gore filled fun. Think of a game of saw, with hundreds of people, and only one person can make it out alive. Then that person gets kidnapped ten seconds after surviving.

The visuals throughout the movie were awesome, each room had it's own theme and it's own kills to go with it.

Most of the death scenes were very inventive and the special effects really did a big number to help them look as realistic as possible.

The dialogue seemed a little plain at times and some of the acting looked forced but they covered most of that with the effects used in each scene.

The closing scene seemed kind of ridiculous even though he explains why and how he is doing it. Still found it a waste of an opening for another possible sequel.

For the entertainment value of the death scenes alone, I will have to give this on a 5.5 out of 10. Most of the movie didn't do anything for me and I doubt, next to going on youtube for them, would only watch it again for the intro killing spot.

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You're Next (2011)

I have been waiting a while to do this one, but here it finally is and it's thanks to my friend Matt for making the request.

You're next is simply about a family who have gathered for their parents 35th wedding anniversary. But to their misfortune, they are targeted by a group of bandits who start killing off each family member one by one.

Directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett, starring Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, A.J. Bowen and Joe Swanberg.

Now, I am not going to give any more detail about this movie as I do not wish to ruin any part of this film for anybody. Instead I will give you a list of why you should watch this movie for yourselves.

Right from the start you get all you need to create a perfect slasher film, just like they used to make back in the 80's. The music on queue, the "no cell reception" aspect was done in the most intelligent way possible, with full explanation to boot.

Add in your necessary soft core nudity, simple reason why the killings are taking place, some pretty good acting, a whole hell of a lot of well done gore filled scenes and you have yourself an excellent homage to the 80's that's sure to please any fan of old school slasher flicks.

Predictability was the only problem I had with this film, but it gave it the full slasher movie effect and I can respect that.

Now with all that being said I have to easily give this beauty a 9 out of 10. If you think that it's higher than it should be, that just means you aren't a real slasher fan!

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Child's Play 2 (1990)

Sorry Jack... Chucky's back!

After the events of the first movie, play pal toys acquired the crispy remains of the doll that was once claimed to be possessed by the lake shore strangler.

The company decided to rebuild the good guy doll from what salvageable remains it had. Soon thereafter, murder ensues.

Andy has been adopted by the Simpson family due to the fact that his mother has been locked up in the insane asylum for her testimony in the killer doll case.

He find a Good Guy doll stashed in his closet that the family had bought for him and in an effort to impress his newly adoptive parents, Andy decides to act like he is fine with the doll by bringing him around with him wherever he goes. Until it is actually revealed to be Chucky himself who came back to try and take over Andy's body once again.

Greatest kill of the movie by far has to be when Chucky goes after Andy's teacher. Just a classic moment in horror!

I love this movie, I think it is due to the upgrades in the special effects department which helped make Chucky look (for the most part) fluid in his motions and movements. Also a big part I like about this is the improvement in speed Chucky has as opposed to the first film.

I have to give this movie an 8.5 out of 10. The third and final kills are more or less the reason why my rating is so high. The final kill is just gold, what better way to take out a serial killer?

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