Month: August 2012

  • Crash Analysis: THE DIVIDE (USA/Germany/Canada, 2011)

    I’m stuck in a basement and missed the end of the world…  Apartment dwellers hunker down in their building’s basement during the apocalypse The divide is right: Most people having watched this sci-fi/horror fall into either two camps: love it or hate it. And from what I’ve read on the net, they’re at each other’s…

  • Crash Analysis: MOTHER’S DAY (2010)

    Ma Parker and her boys – but worse  Criminal brothers crash a party with deadly results There’s a lot of hype about this movie, and no, it doesn’t live up to it. For all you wishing and hoping MOTHER’S DAY fanatics, this will never receive widespread release since the DVD premiered in 2011 after the…

  • Crash Analysis: THE TUNNEL (Australia, 2011)

    Below ground, no one can find you if you scream  A news crew goes underground and gets what they wished for This is your above average mockumentary with found footage: BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) meets LAKE MUNGO (Australia, 2008), with [REC] (Spain, 2007) and THE DESCENT (UK, 2005) thrown in for good measure. And the…

  • Crash Analysis: ABSENTIA (2011)

    The cold case that just gets colder  Ever wonder why so many missing persons are never found? Writer/director Mike Flanagan did his damnedest, but in the end, came up short. The story revolves around Callie Russel (Katie Parker), who visits her sister, Tricia Reilly (Courtney Bell) after a five-year hiatus. What transpired during Callie’s absence…

  • Crash Analysis: THE THING (2011)

    Add to your list of most disappointing prequels Antarctic team finds one pissed off alien Mary Elizabeth Winstead delivered a character as vapid as Kristen Stewart in real life. And that was the most creepy part of this prequel. And yes, Matthijs van Heijningen really tried to deliver, but he came up short. Part of…