2 Horror Movies you must watch on 4th of July weekend!!

                                                                      Jaws – This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The film takes place on the 4th of July and has a giant shark that ruins everyone’s fun.I love this film and will absolutely be watching it this weekend, hopefully all of you do to. You will love the movie!                                                                                                  

I Know What You Did Last Summer – This was a solid slasher film. I really enjoyed watching it and I think this is a great movie to watch during the 4th of July weekend. This film I believe also takes place around July 4th, even if it doesn’t the film still has its patriotic moments.  Hope all of you get to watch these great films! I know I will!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Review

This film starts off with Sally Hardesty and her paraplegic brother Franklin travel with their three friends to visit their grandfathers grave because their have been reports of grave robbing in the area. After they leave the grave they decide to go look at the old Hardesty home. While they are driving they pick up a hitchhiker who talks with Franklin about the slaughter house that the guy worked at.To amuse himself,the guy takes Franklin’s knife and cuts himself for fun. The guy then proceeds to take a picture of Franklin and demands that Franklin must pay for the picture, Franklin refuses so the guy cuts him with a razor. The group then throws him out of the van and continues on their way to the house. Once they get to the Hardesty house the group look around and then Franklin tells Kirk that their is a swimming hole around here, so Kirk goes to look for it. After Kirk and his girlfriend find the swimming hole they find a house. Since their car is low on gas Kirk goes inside the unlocked house to ask for gas, where Leatherface comes out and kills him. Pam then enters the house to look for Kirk but Leatherface grabs her and impales her on a hook, he then cuts up Kirk with his chainsaw. Jerry goes out to look for the couple in the nearby house and finds Pam alive but before he is able to help her Leatherface kills him.  Wondering where their friends are Sally and Franklin go to look for them and Leatherface runs out of the house and kills Franklin with a chainsaw. Sally begins to run away and is chased by Leatherface (who is running at her with a huge chainsaw). These events lead up too a really great ending that you need to see if you haven’t watched the movie already. Overall I really loved this film and thought it really defined the horror genre. This movie had me scared and creeped out the whole time. Not only is Leatherface scary in general but they have him pop out at random moments and scare the shit out of you, especially when he is running with the chainsaw because that is probably the scariest part in the movie. There weren’t a lot of kills in this movie but the kill scenes were really good and were extremely gruesome. The story line worked really well in this movie and the actors all did a decent job with their roles.I have no complaints about this amazing classic which kind of started the slasher genre. It is a really violent film that is worthy of watching. This film was highly enjoyable and if you haven’t seen it yet I would absolutely recommend that you go watch it. You won’t regret it!

I give this movie a 9.5/10 

Halloween 2 (1981) Review

This film was a solid sequel to the amazing original in the Halloween franchise. This film is meant to take place a few minutes after the original ended. Laurie is sent to the hospital due to the injuries inflicted by Michael Myers. Meanwhile Laurie is in the hospital we see Dr. Loomis lead a police manhunt in a attempt to find Michael Myers. While everyone is out looking for him Michael goes into some girls house takes one of her knives and kills her. He then stays in their for a little so that he can rest and heal from the injuries he’s received. Michael then hears that Laurie is staying at Haddonfield Memorial hospital so he leaves the house and makes his way towards the hospital. For most of the movie we don’t really see Laurie that much, she mainly in unconscious for a majority of the film. The film is basically Myers going around killing everyone in the hospital. Which makes sense because him killing everyone in the hospital it makes things easier for him when trying to kill Laurie because there is really nobody to help her. She is trapped alone in a giant hospital with a absolute monster. Once everybody is dead Laurie wakes up and kind of figures out that Michael is in the hospital so she leaves her room before he can get to her. The movie after that is really just about Michael doing everything he can to catch and finally kill Laurie and Loomis trying to find out where Michael can possibly be . Right when Loomis finds out that Laurie is Michael’s sister, he knows that Michael has to be in the hospital trying to kill Laurie. Will he be to late to save Laurie? You will need to watch the movie for that but the ending is a great one! Overall I really loved this film and thought it was a great sequel. There were a lot more kills in this movie and the kill scenes were awesome. The suspense was very high and the movie did a great job at keeping you on the edge of your seat and kept the viewer entertained the whole time. The story line was basically the same as the first one, it’s just Michael trying to kill Laurie and is willing to kill anybody that gets in his way but it was still very good. Just like in the original the acting in this one was very good everybody did a great job with their roles. Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are absolutely amazing and I love their roles in this film. There is really nothing to dislike about this amazing classic, I loved every part of this  movie.  I absolutely recommend that you watch this movie if you haven’t already, you will not regret it!

I give this movie a 9/10

Scream 3 (2000) Review

The third film in the Scream franchise lived up to it’s hype. This film was very good and is my second favorite Scream movie in the franchise behind the original. The movie opens up with Cotton Weary getting a call from the mysterious killer and all the killer wants to know is where is Sidney hiding. Cotton doesn’t tell him and rushes home to his girlfriend but she doesn’t trust him because ghost face had Cotton’s voice and attacked her. So when Cotton actually arrives at his house his girlfriend starts to swing at him thinking that he just tried to kill her 5 minutes before. While she is focused on Cotton ghost face comes in and stabs her, which leads to a fight between Cotton and the killer. The result is Cotton dying in the opening scene and I am not going to lie it was really disappointing to see Cotton die that quickly. I was really looking forward to his character in this movie but its not like he was a main character so it wasn’t that big of a deal. After the opening scene we see Sidney walking with her dog and go into her home which looks like it is in the middle of nowhere. Eventually we find out that she has just been hiding from everyone and not keeping contact so that she can remain safe. So we really don’t see Sidney throughout the whole movie. This film mainly focuses on the killer killing people that are acting in the movie Stab 3. Which is just a movie within the movie of Scream. As ghost face kills each of his victims he leaves a 20 year old picture of Maurine Prescott. Dewey and Gale start working with the police force to try and find out why he is leaving pictures of Maureen from so long ago but they have no idea. Which makes Detective Kincaid want to speak to Sidney because he feels she may be of some help. As he tells Dewey to call her we see Sidney walk into the station and she tells Dewey that she came down here because the killer called her home and found out where she was. So know we got the original cast back together again and they’re all trying to survive. The events that take place lead up too probably the greatest ending I have ever seen. Nobody expected it coming, the ending was absolutely perfect. Overall I loved this movie, the kill count was high and the kill scenes were great. The acting in the movie was absolutely amazing but it could not compete with the story line. The story line was excellent I loved how they connected this film all the way back to the original especially the part of the movie when the killer wrote on the back of Maureen’s picture and wrote “I killed her.”  It made you just want to know who this killer is and why he did all of this too Sidney and when they reveal him and they actually tell us who he/she is you will be shocked. The ending was great I really loved it. The film brings great suspense, kills, and good comedy as well. It is a great movie all around and if you haven’t seen this movie yet I absolutely recommend that you watch it, you won’t regret it!

I give this movie a 9.5/10

 

House of Wax (2005) Review

 

Vincent

This film opens up with a mother making wax sculptures while her son is eating breakfast in 1974. The husband comes in with their other child and the kid just starts kicking and screaming which leads to him accidentally kicking the table which causes the mothers sculptures too fall. In order to keep him calm they have to tie up his hands and feet to his chair. The kid scratches the mom which leads to the mom slapping the misbehaved child in the face. The movie then skips to 2005 where a girl named Carly and her twin brother Nick are traveling too a big college football game with their friends. It starts too get late so they all decide to pull over and just camp out for the night. While the group is drinking and having fun a weird looking pickup truck pulls up to where they are staying and just shines his lights on them. They tell the guy to leave but he doesn’t listen until Nick throws a bottle and smashes the guys headlights. The next morning they wake up and Carly goes to find out where the bad smell is coming from and she winds up falling into some area in the forest with a bunch of dead animals. When the group rescues her they run into a man named Lester who offers Carly and her boyfriend Wade a ride to the nearby town of Ambrose to get a new fan belt while the others go too the game because the one he had in his car was damaged. While they are at Ambrose they realize that it is a ghost town and they go into the wax museum but Carly wants too leave because the sculptures creep her out because they look to real. While they are there they run into a guy named Bo who tells them that he has a extra fan belt in his house, so they go up to the house and this is where we see Bo’s brother Vincent for the first time and Vincent stabs Wade and Bo holds Carly captive after she finds out that the truck that Bo drives was the car that was bothering them the night before. Vincent wears a mask made out of wax to hide his disfigured face, just like Jason from Friday the 13th. Meanwhile the others come back from the game because they weren’t going to make it to the game on time so Nick and Dalton go to the town to try to meet up with Wade and Carly. When they get there they split up and Dalton goes to the wax museum which is where he finds Wade covered in wax and is in the museum as one of the sculptures. Dalton tries to help Wade by picking the wax off his face but it removes his whole cheek and you actually see Wade’s teeth it was so gross. Vincent comes in and kills Dalton. There are good kills in this movie and all the events lead up too a really good ending that is actually surprising and kind of made me think there will be a sequel but it was very good. Overall I really loved this movie it kept me scared and entertained the whole time. There were enough kills and the kill scenes were good.  The kill scenes were pretty gruesome and I love that in movie. Also the movie had a lot of suspense which can keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I loved the story line I thought it was very well thought out and written but I would have to say that the acting was probably the best thing in this movie. All of the actors in this film did a great job with their characters. The character of Vincent is also terrifying, he really scared the shit out of me. I have no complaints about this movie and I recommend that you go and watch it, trust me you won’t regret it! 

I give this movie a 9/10

Friday the 13th – Part 3 (1982) Review

This film opens up with the ending scene from part two and shows Jason getting injured which leads us to part three. Jason goes to a local store to steal some clothes and winds up killing the couple that owns the store. After he kills the couple and gets his clothes Jason goes to a nearby barn and hides in it, so he can regain his strength. While Jason is hiding in the barn a girl named Chris Higgins and her friends go to spend a weekend at a house which happens to be right where the barn is. Now the girl Chris hasn’t been there in two years because some guy with a disfigured face chased her through the woods and she has been scared ever since. It was intense when she tells Rick the story and we actually see her struggling and trying to fight off Jason it was crazy and kind of makes us feel bad for Chris, the fact that she had to go through all of that and see that hideous face. Meanwhile Shelly and Vera take Ricks car and go to a store to get food and other stuff when they run into a bike gang that gives them problems. Shelly accidentally backs up into the gang members bike and the gang member freaks out and starts to break the windows of Shelly’s car. So in return Shelly comes back and runs over his bike in order to impress Vera which then causes the bike gang to follow them back to the house that they’re staying at and try to set the barn on fire. When they go to set  the barn on fire Jason kills them and then starts to stalk the rest of the people. This story line was a little different from the first two films, being that it takes place with people just going to have a good time at a house instead of the camp counselor thing. Although the whole plot was still the same which is just Jason killing people that come by his territory. There were a lot of kills in this movie and after Jason kills Shelly he takes his hockey mask and puts it on so he can cover his face. This mask became such a key part of this franchise and wound up basically being Jason’s new identity. Overall I really loved the film. I honestly think that this movie was the best in the Friday the 13th franchise. We see a different story line that was pretty good. The kills in this movie were beyond amazing there were a lot of them and there was very good kill scenes. I was honestly so entertained throughout the whole movie it kept me on my feet and brought such great suspense as well. I really loved the way that they had him stalk his victims, it honestly makes the film so much better and scarier. I thought that them bringing in the hockey mask was such a great idea. I don’t know what it is but it really goes with this character and with these films. You can still see the hockey mask around till this day, especially on Halloween that is such a big costume for kids. The acting was also likable I think that they all did a good job bringing different characters into this movie and giving them specific personalities that made this film better. I really have no complaints about this amazing classic that is honestly my favorite film in the Friday the 13th franchise. If you haven’t seen this movie yet I absolutely recommend that you go watch it, you will not regret it! 

I give this movie a 9/10

Curse of Chucky (2013) Review

I just watched this movie with no expectations of it being any good but honestly I was wrong. This movie was one of the best Chucky films I have ever seen with maybe an exception of the original Childs Play. The movie starts out with a Chucky doll being delivered to a family home of a paraplegic women  named Nica and her mother who was named Sarah. The same night that the doll comes Sarah is found dead from a stab wound and the police proclaim her death to be a suicide. So the next day the sister of Nica whose name is Barbra comes to the house with her husband, daughter, nanny, and a priest. Alice who is the daughter of Barbra finds the Chucky doll and keeps him. That night Nica with the assistance of Alice cooks dinner for everyone and this is the first time we see Chucky attempting to kill someone in this film, he takes rat poison and pours it into one of the plates of food. Unfortunately it wound up being the priest and he started feeling weird so he left early and this caused him to get in an accident which wound up removing his head. After that occurs the movie is just about everyone trying to survive the night and Nica finding clues about Charles Lee Ray and the doll Chucky which makes her come to the conclusion that he is killing everyone in the family. This movie really didn’t have the slasher vibe like all the other Child’s Play movies had, this Chucky film was straight out horror it was made to just scare the shit out of the movies viewers and honestly I think it did well. The setting of the movie was creepy as hell it was in a creepy, dark mansion type of house and it just looked scary. The doll on the other hand looked a little weird I liked the older look of the Chucky doll but this doll did fit with the movie it was creepy just like the film was. There wasn’t that many kills and the kill scenes really weren’t amazing but the horror vibe of the film actually made up for that. The ending of the movie in my opinion was amazing like honestly it was so good, I don’t think I have ever seen a better ending in the other Child’s Play films. Overall I really liked this movie I thought it gives the audience a great scare and it was a great addition to an already good franchise, I thought the movie fit very well. At first while I was watching this movie I was looking for the motive like why did Chucky come to this home and why is he killing these people and they showed why more towards the end and I thought it was fantastic, how they connected the original film to this one. Basically back in 1988 Charles Lee Ray was obsessed with Sarah from the moment he met her and he killed her husband and basically took her captive so he can be with her. The cops come and since she somehow told the cops he stabbed her in the stomach while she was pregnant with Nica which is why she became a paraplegic. So the cops start to chase him and this is where they show Charles Lee Ray running into the toy store with all the good guy dolls and basically you know what happens next cause I am pretty sure everyone has seen the first movie. Now when I saw that I thought it was the perfect motive for him to be killing this family, it is basically revenge. I think the directors/writers did an amazing job with the story line of this film and connecting it to the original movie. I can’t believe how much I liked this film but if I liked it I know all of you will too, so I absolutely recommend you go and watch it if you haven’t already you wont regret it and you will see a great story and great ending!

I give this movie a 9/10

 

Friday the 13th (1980) vs Friday the 13th – Remake (2009)

Friday the 13th Remake

Friday the 13th (1980)- The original Friday the 13th will always be one of the best slashers to ever be created. This story focuses on a group of teens that go to Camp Crystal Lake to become counselors because they are trying to reopen the camp. This movie is basically just teens partying and celebrating the reopening of the camp without even knowing that there is a killer on the loose that is stalking them and killing them one by one. Now if you are looking for the the Jason, hockey masked killer in this movie then you will be left with disappointment because he doesn’t show up until the sequel which leaves us with just some random killer. Which honestly I had no problem with it gave us a mysterious killer that is killing these teenagers for some reason that we really don’t find out about until the end and this gives this movie some great suspense. I thought that the kill scenes were pretty good, the one with the arrow going through Kevin Bacon’s neck was absolutely crazy. The story line fit well with the motive towards the end, when we find out that Ms. Vorhees is the killer and the reason she is doing these terrible things is basically for revenge because her son drowned when the counselors were supposed to be watching him. So I guess she feels like all the camp counselors that come to Crystal Lake deserve to die. The only thing I didn’t like about this classic was that we find out that the killer is Ms. Vorhees who is a middle aged women and she is able to just kill and throw people through windows like it’s nothing. It is kind of a little hard to believe that a women of her age can do all of that to the young men that are in the camp. Although I didn’t like that it didn’t mean that it killed the movie this classic was still very good and still gets talked about till this day. The acting was okay I thought that Kevin Bacon did a really good job but other than him everyone else was decent. Overall I loved the film it was a little unbelievable but the movie still had a great story line and some great kills. The suspense is probably what made this movie and showing how she stalked her victims and killed them so smoothly. It also wouldn’t of had hurt to put more of Jason in the film because this is his movie after all. I give this movie a 8/10. 

Friday the 13th (2009)- This remake is basically the first 3 original Friday the 13ths in one movie.  The movie starts out showing Ms. Vorhees getting her head cut off by a young counselor, just like in the original but in this movie it consumed only 5 minutes of the film maybe less but in the original it was the whole movie which was a little too much for me. They showed us really all we needed too see and that was that the mother died and this caused Jason to start killing. After that we see the Jason that wore a bag on his head for maybe half of the movie until he found the mask after he killed some poor guy in a barn and after that we see the Jason that wears the hockey mask. So right there it was like the three films in one. Now this movie starts off with a group of teens that go to camp crystal lake looking for weed plants and Jason winds up finding them and killing them but we find out later in the movie that he kept one girl alive because she kind of looked like his mother and was carrying the necklace with a picture of the mother in it. So instead of killing her he kept her alive kind of as a hostage. The plot of the movie is about a guy named Clay who is played by Jared Padalecki and Clay is looking for his sister around crystal lake where she has gone missing about 6 months ago. Even with that plot they still found a way to put partying and alcohol along with sex into this film with the other main characters in this movie who came up to one of the teens houses by Crystal Lake to party and have fun. The kill count in this movie is beyond high, there were so many kills and the kill scenes were all amazing like honestly it had me entertained the whole time. They also made Jason bigger in this movie and actually had him run after his victims which made it even more scarier and more realistic that he would be able to catch them by running instead of doing the really slow walk that he did in the film. The acting in this movie was off the charts I thought that all of the actors did a great job. The writers and directors did a really good job with putting their own original ideas into this movie as well. This story line was really good and you can tell they put a lot of effort and time into making their story of Jason different from the original. For the first time ever in a Friday the 13th movie we see someone try to explain and show how Jason always knows where his victims are around the camp and how he gets to them so quickly.They showed this by showing us that Jason set up traps that if someone walked over a certain area it would send a signal and would make a certain noise which will help him understand where the people are at. The same place that the signal would go to which was underground is the same place where Jason would go to hear the noise and to run to the location underground and get to the spot of the noise. It made Jason seem really smart and clever and I really liked that. Overall I really loved and enjoyed this movie it brought a new and original story to the Friday the 13th franchise and I think that the acting and directing/writing was very well done. I really have no complaints about this movie I loved everything about it. This was a great slasher film. I give this movie a 9/10. 

What better day to post about Friday the 13th then on a Friday which happens  to be the 13th. I just finished watching both of these films as we speak and I am going to probably watch a lot more. 

So in my opinion the remake of Friday the 13th was better then the original. It just explained more things then the original did and cut out things that we really did not need to see, but don’t get me wrong I still think the original is a great film and everyone should still watch it but in my opinion the remake is the better film.

Prom Night (2008) Review

It’s prom time and this is supposed to be one of the best if not the best event of a young girls life. Unfortunately for the main character in the movie who is named Donna, it will probably always be remembered as one of the worst nights of her life. This movie starts out when Donna was a freshman and she went out to the movies with one of her friends from her school now while she is out we see flashbacks  that show us that her teacher is obsessed with her. So obviously she told him this wasn’t going to work out so he decides to make a statement while Donna was out he went to her home and killed her whole family. Donna came home and was devastated and she hid under the bed, the teacher wound up finding her but luckily for Donna the cops came and saved her and threw the teacher in jail. After that the movie skips 3 years  into the future where Donna is know a senior and is getting ready for prom. So Donna makes her way to the prom and starts dancing and having fun. Meanwhile Detective Winn who is the detective that locked away the teacher Fenton 3 years ago learns that Fenton has escaped the holding facility and runs to Donna’s  aunt and uncles house to warn them that the teacher has escaped and will probably try to come here for Donna. Well he was kind of right Fenton arrives at the hotel and buys a room on the same floor as Donna and her friends room. He kills the housekeeper so he can have the master key and go into Donna’s room to wait for her. Well this is where the murders start to begin we see her friends go into the room and  their lives come to an end. While he kills her friends Fenton still gets around the lobby to stalk Donna. This is when Detective Winn arrives at the prom to look out for Fenton and winds up finding the dead bodies and locks down the place and orders a manhunt for Fenton. This leads up to a really good and crazy ending. I don’t want to ruin the movie for everyone that hasn’t seen it yet but it was really suspenseful and keeps you on the edge of your seats with all the stalking that occurs in the movie. The kill scenes in this movie were really good, I loved the way he stalked them like prey. This movie is a really good slasher film and if you haven’t seen it yet I absolutely recommend that you go watch it, you wont regret it. Overall I loved the film. 

I give this movie a 8/10

 

Scream 2 (1997) Review

The sequel to the hit original film lived up to its potential or hype, well at least I thought it did. I read some comments on other reviews saying how Scream 2 wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either, that people just didn’t think it was as good as they thought it would be. Well I would have to disagree, but everyone has there own opinions so I do understand that but this movie was a very solid sequel. It starts off with a great opening scene, we see Jada Pinkett  Smith going to see the movie “Stab” which is based on the Woods-borough murders with her boyfriend in the film. So while the boyfriend goes to the bathroom ghost face kills him puts on his clothes goes back into the movie theater and stabs Jada Smith. After she gets stabbed she gets up and tries to walk away but the killer just comes up behind her and stabs her multiple times and nobody realizes anything because everyone in the movie theater was acting crazy. Then she just crawls on top of the stage and falls down and everyone realizes that she actually got stabbed but that was such a crazy intense scene and it was only the beginning of the film. I was drawn into the movie right there. The rest of the movie takes place with Sidney and Randy attending college and they have made new friends and looked like they actually were starting to get their life together again. Well at least until what happened in the movies and that is when we start to see more killings. This movie did a great job by bringing more kills into the film that was the only problem I really had with the first one even though I still loved the film it was nice seeing more kills in this movie. We also see Cotton Weary in this film which if you remember from the first film is the man that Sidney wrongly accused of killing her mother. I really liked his character and it  gave him such a great motive to be the killer, that is if he was the killer? Yeah watch the movie I am not ruining that. There isn’t really anything else to say about the story line just they went to college the killer followed them and they try to survive the second wave of killings and leads up to a great ending that I did not see coming at all. So, overall I liked the film a lot and the suspense was at an all time high in this movie there were so many people that I thought cold be the killer so it made you think really long and hard about who it could be. The kills like I said were a higher amount then the first film and they were good kill scenes. As for the acting, it was just superb I love all the original characters from the first film and all the new characters that they put in this film. It was a really great cast! I hated but kind of liked that they made one out of the like 6 main characters die, it was a shame to see the person go but made sense that it was that person. Who was it you may ask? Well watch the movie and you will find out ! 

I give this movie a 8.5/10