The Amityville Horror @ MindSay

Meh, thats really about it. House of Wax didnt particularly suck, but it just wasnt all that enthralling, among other things. It had the potential to be somewhat interesting when the story gets to the town, but it bobbles the explaination, and ends up being underdeveloped and vauge. I havent found myself cheering for the villian in a while, but I was on the long haired twin's side all the way. "Vincent" does almost all the killing, and he's your typical slasher long haired silent type, and I always thought that was cool as shit. The flick isnt particularly gruesome, its a light R, but it does throw down some excellent kills, which all in all turn out to be the best part of the movie. And yes PARIS HILTON DIES. Quite niceley as well, she gets impaled throught the face with a big ass pipe that just so happens to have a sharp end. And god almighty is she bad at acting, SO BAD. And i'm not saying that because I hate her emmensley either, I gave her a chance. A chance that was dead and gone in the first five minutes, bitch should stay out of the business. Elisha Cuthbert is vastly better looking, and a vastly better actress. Chad Michael Murray seems like a decent guy, and his character is the typical smart alick hardass. Basically, you folks have seen this all before, theres not a lot of newness or creativity to be found in House of Wax. It certainley got a whole helluva lot better during it's second half, things started moving alittle quicker and I actually started enyoing myself. But, it doesnt make due on the potential it had, maybe an un-edited cut will maximize on that. And seriously, the whole 3rd brother thing, BULLSHIT, horribley done. House of Wax was alittle better then I expected, but not exactly phenominal. (but really though, my only huge problem is Paris Hilton). If your looking for some decent horror at the cinema at the moment , check out the amityville horror remake instead, or just wait around for High Tension.==

B-, LOW B-

OMG, i went and saw that tonight....now that...it some freaky shit. Go see it! Cuz its one of those movies that is only scary on the big screen.

Hmmmm. I was never a big fan of foriegn, subtitled movies. And its not because of that "I dont like to read" bullshit either (I read a good bit, actually), its because the subtitles divert my attention somehow leading me to get confused and totally lost when it comes to the plot of the film. I've seen, by my count, a total of five subtitled movies, ( Intacto,The Devils Backbone, Ringu, The City of Lost Children, and the most recent film, and topic of my post, Infernal Affairs) and genuinley enjoyed, and was not confused by only two of them, those being "The Devils Backbone" (my favorite of the bunch) and the film I watched yesterday "Infernal Affairs". The plot of that flick is great, a hong kong police officer goes undercover into the triads (essentally chinese mafia), where he finds out that a high ranking memeber of the hong kong police force is in fact a triad gang mole, < BADASS. The movie is not at all confusing (ok, in one spot, thats in the pre-credit sequence, but thats because its edited really badly, rest of the film= fine), entertaining for its entire (101 minute) run time and even occasionally funny ( the stereo buying scene for example) with only a few flaws to see (horrid music and blah ending). Basically, its like a chinese Micheal Mann film, (this is actually the originator of the body + taxi scene in mann's recent, and very good film Collateral.) a very good way of putting it....Totally worth renting. That of course gives me more hope for the very cool looking Kung Fu Hustle, which opens nation wide next weekend. Tonight, on the other hand, I'm checking back into the english language with the original Amityville Horror (the remake is out this weekend, and I wanted to familiarize myself with the material), and over the next three days (counting today) I'm checking out the first 3 (in a series of, believe it or not,  EIGHT) Amityville flicks....WHOOOSSSHHHHH