Shutter island

Two US Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) travel to Ashecliffe, a prison hospital on Shutter Island, where they’ve been called to investigate the disappearance of an inmate who once killed all her children. The story seems most mysterious from the arrival of the two marshals to the hospitals lack of information provided to the marshals. Teddy (Dicaprio) has a flaw he sees flashbacks from the past from the days that his wife died in a fire in his house to the days where he was sent to liberate a Nazi death camp. The insanity in the hospital seems viral.

With Teddys visions becoming worse over time. With his wife appearing in his visions to tell him to get off the island and head back home. Dr. Naehring (Max von Sydow) presence makes the detectives all the more suspicious. All the characters are played most eerily and convincingly. Not once are the viewers thrown into disappointing shocks. Ted Levine’s part as the hospitals warden is also worthy of praise. Teddy is not only riveted on finding the missing patient but also the cause of the strangeness on the island. The final scenes are most shocking and give the viewer the necessary chills. A movie for horror and suspense buffs to watch.

Day of the Dead

Two highly acclaimed horror movie directors who have distinctly shown their class in this genre team together to give us a NOT so entertaining sequel of “The Day of the Dead”. The Day of the Dead 2008 shows us that a mysterious disease has affected the people of a small Colorado town with the town’s folk showing signs of nose bleed and flu. Suddenly the affected people all go still with a poker face stare and their skin starts peeling off and they become man eating Mother Nature defying zombies.

They can all jump over tall buildings and can run super fast which adds to the misery of the unaffected people. Overall the movie sucked from the writing, which was more then just poor, to the direction to the plot line which was as thick as lettuce soup. Everything was dead just like the zombies. The acting was bad with a capital B. Most viewers were pissed of by the, as they considered, sacrilege of the original movie. The directors should be somewhat ashamed for making such a movie, which only saw curses being lobbed at them from pissed fans. I wouldn’t recommend you to watch this movie even if you were dead.

The Last Exorcism

A preacher, Reverend Cotton Marcus who makes unsuspecting people part with their money by performing mock exorcisms is on his way to perform what would be his last “exorcism” along with a documentary crew to document his false exorcisms and make the world aware of his frauds. But when he gets to the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, he hasn’t a clue as to what he might be getting into. Thinking of just playing his usual routine exorcism ploy he finds that the daughter, Nell Sweetzer is really possessed by the devil. The role of Reverend Cotton Marcus played by Patrick Fabian is that of a person looking to right all his wrongs but finds himself in a position that makes it a matter of life or death.

The movie is shot in mock-documentary style and is nothing like the trailers promised it would be. All the best shots have been used in the trailer which makes them feel old when seen in the movie and do not provide the necessary shock to the viewer as they would have had they not been used in the trailer. Ashley Bell, playing Nell Sweetzer, does a stellar job and makes the audience really feel for the poor possessed girl.the movie provides the necessary chills but could have been better. Give it a watch.

The Crazies

Imagine a horrible nightmare in which your once peaceful and quite town suddenly changes into a deadly and dangerous place where you and your friends are the only sane people left and are fighting to find a way out of the total chaos. This, my friends, is the plot line of the remake of the George Romero classic “The Crazies” directed by Breck Eisner. The story goes such that David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) is Ogden Marsh’s sheriff. Ogden Marsh is a pretty peaceful town with law abiding citizens dwelling in it. But suddenly one night out of the blue one of the towns folk comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun and wreaks havoc there.

And then over the period of the next few days more and more incidents take place. The people of the town become infected by a toxin which drives them to their deaths or utter insanity. The government fearing that the toxin might spread uses brute force and completely quarantines the area and no one can go in or out of the town. Amidst all this chaos the non-infected Sheriff Dutten; his pregnant wife, Judy; Becca, an assistant at the medical center; and Russell, the towns deputy sheriff must group together and somehow make it out of the town.