Tag: revenge

  • The Dirties (2013) Review

    The Dirties (2013) Review

    Synopsis: Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school. One of them isn’t joking. My Quick Review: I have to admit, I feel kind of cheated by The Dirties. The whole movie teases you of a big impending doom that never completely comes and, as such,…

  • Miserable Marnie & The Shut In (2013) Review

    Synopsis: Miserable Marnie Strauss (17), a lonely teenage girl, lives alone with her reclusive mother, Matilda in a small town. She dreams of nothing more than to befriend the popular girl, Spencer, but the feeling is not mutual. After a cruel prank breaks her spirit, Marnie embarks on a violent rampage, exacting revenge on all who…

  • Silent House (2011) Review

    Silent House (2011) Review

    Synopsis: A girl is trapped inside her family’s lakeside retreat and becomes unable to contact the outside world as supernatural forces haunt the house with mysterious energy and consequences. My Quick Review: Usually, when I watch a remake, there is always a slight disappointment about the end product due to fond memories of the original mateiral.…

  • Tales From The Dark Part 1 (2013) Review

    Tales From The Dark Part 1 (2013) Review

    Original Title: 迷离夜 Synopsis:  Horror anthology,  based on a series of novels by “Dumplings” writer Lillian Lee. My Quick Review: This is the first part of a 2 movies anthology from Honk Kong. In The first segment, “Stolen Goods” Simon Yam plays a working class loser who stelas dead people urns and tries to get money…

  • The Seasoning House (2012) Review

    The Seasoning House (2012) Review

    Synopsis:  Young girls are captured by the military during the war in the balkans and prostituted. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, showing the little kindnesses when she can. When fate brings the men that murdered her family and the reason she ended up…

  • I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) Review

    I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) Review

    Synopsis: (from IMDb) Katie is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of modeling. When she innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into an unthinkable nightmare of rape, torture, and kidnapping. When a twist of fate finally frees her from her captors – beaten, battered,…

  • I Spit on Your Grave (2010) Review

    I Spit on Your Grave (2010) Review

    Synopsis: A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead. My Quick Review: Since the sequel is being released now, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit the remake of one of the classic of rape-revenge movies, I spit On Your Grave. It’s…

  • The Burning (1981) Review

    The Burning (1981) Review

    Synopsis: A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement. My Quick Review: The Burning was one of the many movies that followed the success of Friday the 13th, and it’s also the first feature film bearing the…