The Host

    Comedy horror isn't exactly my favourite genre, it's alluded to in some more mainstream horror films. Fortunately (largely because it's an Asian film I suspect) they avoid the usual bad jokes. It also doesn't have the mood of a film that doesn't take itself seriously that way. However it doesn't really make me laugh that much and at times gets unusually serious. You might recognise of the characters from Vengeance is Mine. I've never heard of this director before. I can't critisize anyone's acting and the director avoids making any real mistakes except not making the film involving enough. I think this is partly due to skipping parts of the story that leave you jilted for a couple of seconds. They miss out important scenes in the series of events. Unfortunately I couldn't take the ending that seriously, partly due to western film cliche, but I just never got into it that much.

Bitten

Rating: Red Stuff    

    I'm not much of a fan of vampire films, most of the time I think werewolf films are better (thank you Ginger.) Initially I liked this film although admittedly I've only seen the second half of it. The main character is played by Jay from Dogma. It's an underground vampire film rather than a night stalker 30 Days of Night film. Most of the time I quite enjoyed it, watching the relationship play out between 'Jay' and his vampire girlfriend in a way fans of Masquerade would approve of despite the occasionally coarse attitude and the propensity of the director to layer on music more than is useful. Unfortunately the director tries to turn the film into a comedy when the mood of most of it makes that totally wrong. The film has a feel that reminds me a lot of Ginger Snaps, albeit in a cruder setting, but the attempts at humour are too out of feel with that and at the end the director doesn't take the film seriously at all. Then end credits are full out out-takes that ruins what was left of the atmosphere. Jason's acting measures up but towards the end just doesn't carry emotion that would have made it a climax. It had elements of a really good horror film but it also had elements that ruined that. It could have been a vampire equivalent of Ginger Snaps, a remarkably similar feel and two people enjoying and wrestling with the effects of a supernatural condition but most of all let down by the director not approaching their material properly. I would love it if they did it right. To be fair maybe it wasn't the director's fault, they get a lot of pressure from other members of the production to do things a certain way but this is what they made it.

Thir13en Ghosts

    I've seen suckered into watching this film a few times, forgetting I'd seen it before because the amount of it I watched was so short. One of the characters is played by one of the killers from Scream. It only takes me about 45 seconds to start to think watching this film is a bad idea. This time I tried for a few minutes and started to get past all the initial turn offs but my bullshit meter was still on so I tuned into The Hunted instead. I hope that I remember this film title so I don't get excited about it again.

The Breed

Rating: Hot Dog  

  

   I saw a snippet of this a while ago but wasn't awake enough to watch it all. I didn't know what I was missing. This is a typical 'here there be monsters' type horror film where a small group of misguided people go out into the middle of nowhere and end up in peril for their lives. The people in question are a group of university students/friends but fortunately this isn't the stereotypical horror (why doesn't this fucking piece of shit cursor work- stupid dodgy blog) where teenagers go out into the woods as an excuse to have sex and then get attacked and have arguments about how to escape (this fucking cursor thing is really getting on my nerves.) The characters are more mature in a High Tension sort of setting and it isn't a piece of crap camping trip, in some godforsaken why would anyone go there lets get laid thing gone wrong. Fuck blog is so crap. Personally I think they should have fed the blog administrators to the dogs. This film avoids all the usual horror cliches of the type of story by using much more mature characters and treating the story more seriously. But I would prefer to watch the half arsed blog technical staff being eaten alive for their incompetence right now. As you probably can tell have not had a very good day. I hope Michelle does some more films better than this one. I'd like to see more of her on screen.