Tag: 1 star

  • Crash Analysis: CHERNOBYL DIARIES (2012)

    Ninety minutes for that?  Extreme tourists wish they’d gone elsewhere When a movie isn’t screened for critics before general release, there’s something suspicious in the air. And no, it’s not the unseen radiation from Chernobyl, Ukraine. After watching this no-nothing of a horror, it was clear the producers wanted to make a killing on opening…

  • Crash Analysis: SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK… AGAIN (1996) – 1 star

    Greaser punks gone really bad…  A father’s past haunts him when demons come calling. Milestones are great benchmarks of achievement. They tell us how far we’ve come and grace us with some semblance of accomplishment. Therefore, when horror geek me celebrated watching my 1,300th horror, the only downside was that it was SOMETIMES THEY COME…

  • Crash Analysis: SCREAM 4 (2011)

    So corny it seemed the Wayan’s brothers were responsible Sidney Prescott comes home and Ghostface goes on the rampage… With some wonderful reviews from SCREAM (1996) fans, it took little thought to dive into this fourth segment. After all, Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter behind the original feature had penned the script, and after a ten-year…

  • Crash Analysis: SHUTTER (2008)

    Watch the original Thai version Married couples move to Japan only to be stalked by a vengeful spirit… Banjong Pisanthanakun’s and Parkpoom Wongpoom’s phenomenal SHUTTER (Thailand, 2004) is one of the best ghost stories of all time. The American version (with much Japanese influence) is an insult, an extremely poor remake, loaded with the mundane…