Showing posts with label Slasher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slasher. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Catacombs (2007)

I found the plot summary for the movie on IMDb:
On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone tunnels under the city that's lined with the remains of 7 million people. Separated from her friends, she becomes convinced that someone or something is chasing her.

Though the ending was a surprise, this was also another waste of time movie.
Whole movie:
Start
Sister writes to girl about coming to paris.
Girl said "My sister sent me a postcard. All it said was, "Come to Paris. It will be good for you." Forty-eight hours after I arrived, she and everyone I'd met were dead. "
Girl goes to paris, goes through customs and then meet up with sister.
Sister takes girl to her place then tells girl one fucked up story.
Girl goes to a rave with sister in the catacombs (which is so cool).
Hangs out with a bunch of random people.
Wonder off in the dark catacombs like a fucking moron.
"Killer" kills sister.
"Killer" finds girl.
Girl runs away screaming "leave me alone!"; like the "killer" is actually going to listen.
Girl continues to run away, but make loud noises so the killer can find her.
Finds someone else in the catacombs.
Follows him until he falls into the floor and breaks his leg.
Leaves him in the floor and take the map.
Runs into the "killer" again.
Runs away.
Hits "killer" with train pick thingy.
Sister is alive and laughing at girl.
Sister and friends played a joke on girl.
Sister then realized that "killer" a.k.a boyfriend is dead because girl hit him with the train pick thingy.
Sister starts spazing out calling girl a dumb bitch and such.
Girl snaps (which I would to. I mean come on what did sister expect? Girl thinks she's being chased by a killer).
Girl hits sister with train pick thingy.
Then hits sisters friends with train pick thingy killing them all.
Girl find her way out of the catacombs all covered in blood.
Gets into a cab and tells the driver "airport, please."
The End.

Yeah, complete waste of time. Oh yeah did I tell you that Pink plays in this?
Here's the movie trailer:

Here's the movie link:
http://www.fearnet.com/movies/b13295_catacombs.html

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Blood Diner (1987)

Summary of the movie:
Two cannibalistic brothers, who own a health food diner, kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while on a wacky quest to restore life to the five million year old goddess Shitaar. Aided by their uncle's brain and penis, the two set about getting the required parts - virgins, assorted body parts from whores, and the ingredients for a "blood buffet". Their adversaries are the police: the chief with a Russian accent, the "player" detective, and the new Yorker with an Australian accent.

If I must say, this is one of the coolest (and weirdest) movie I've ever seen. It's such a classic B-rated horror movie. There are brains, eyes, and a penis in a jar! That alone should tell you how crazy this movie is. It was made in the 80's, so it road the wave of cheesy horror flicks. It also reminded me of how horrible the 80's hair and clothes were.

It starts off with to brothers who are bent on bringing back Egyptian goddess Shitaar. The dig up there uncle (who was dead) and some how managed to bring his brain back to life; which they put in a jar... with a pair of eyes and the uncles penis.

The killers are two brothers. The older one is somewhat the brains of the operation. Tells his little brother what to do. And he's kind of cute... even though he's psychotic. His brother is the chef of the restaurant and helps his older brother kill women. He is also psychotic. Maybe a little more than the older brother. They killed a bunch of girls in a Ronald Regan mask and machine gun! How cool is that? The blood splatter is so cheesy. With the blood being too red to be blood. The dead bodies you can obviously tell there dummies. And when they chop off limbs, the blood squrts out like a water gun.

You still have the dumb girl who doesn't runaway when she gets the chance. But there is a girl who fights back! Finally! But of course she dies in some freak accident. And then gets chopped up.

Towards the end they finally raise Shitaar, who turns out to be a mutant freak with a venus fly trap for a stomach. Did I mention that people turn into flesh eating zombies while chowing down to some awesome music?

Honestly, though a slasher flick, I think it was a spoof to make fun of other horror flicks at that time. It's great and funny.

Here's the movie:

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

To end my favorite month, with my favorite holiday, is The Midnight Meat Train. The movie was awesome. Another movie were I couldn't predict the ending! I love indie flicks! I found the plot summary for the movie on IMDb:

The film opens as a well dressed, barrel chested man stalks the late-night passengers of a subway train. He assaults and kills several people with a meat hammer, and a butcher's hook. He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an uncannily unnatural strength. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with eight stars.

We are then introduced to Leon, a vegan photographer who heads into the city's subway system at night to take photographs. He is criticized constantly by other photographers for fleeing danger before shooting a full reel. One night, in a decision to break this trend, he saves a woman from a gang that is abusing her. The next day, he discovers this girl has gone missing. Leon is intrigued by the mystery, and begins to investigate newsreels about similar disappearances. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, who he suspects has been killing subway passengers for as long as a hundred years.

Leon attempts to turn some of the photos he has taken of Mahogany in to the police, but they refuse to believe him, and instead cast suspicion on his own motives in photographing the victims. Leon's involvement quickly turns into a dark obsession, upsetting his waitress girlfriend Maya, who is as disbelieving of his story as the police chief. Leon takes matters into his own hands, entering the subway train at midnight, only to witness a shocking bloodbath, as the butcher kills several passengers, then hangs them on meat hooks. Passing out on the subway floor, he awakes the next morning in a slaughterhouse with strange markings carved into his chest.

A concerned Maya and her friend Jurgis, a short-order cook, begin to examine the photos Leon has been taking of Mahogany, leading them to the killer's apartment. After breaking and entering the butcher's home, Jurgis is captured, and brutally killed. Maya goes to the police, But finds that they are as unwilling to consider her story, as they were of Leon's. It is at this point that we begin to discover that the police may be involved in the cover-up of Mahogany's crimes. A police official directs the misguided Maya to a trip on the midnight train. Leon, unaware of Maya's involvement, finally decides to put an end to the butcher's crimes, and heads to the hidden subway entrance in the slaughterhouse, arming himself with the a butcher's apron, and several slaughterhouse knives.

Leon enters the train as Mahogany has completed his nightly massacre, and has cornered a helpless Maya. Leon attacks the murderer with a knife, beginning a climactic battle between the photographer and the superhuman butcher. They fight in between the swinging human meat, Leon's knives against Mahogany's meat hammer, and human body parts are ripped, thrown, and used as weapons in the shower of epic gore. Finally, Mahogany is thrown out of the train by Leon, but not long before it hits its final stop. The train has entered an underground cavern, filled with skulls and decomposing bodies.

Mahogany, in a battered and bleeding state, returns, barely alive, from beneath the train, and engages in a death struggle with Leon, who finishes the job at last by impaling the psychotic butcher's skull on a blade. Mahogany grins in his dying throes, pronouncing the single word "Welcome!"

With the butcher's death, the conductor of the train enters the car, advising Leon and Maya to "Please step away from the meat." With these words, the true purpose of the underground station is revealed, as horrible reptilian creatures enter the car, consuming the meat to which they have been delivered. The conductor explains to Leon that the creatures have always existed below the city, and that the butcher's job was to keep them satisfied by feeding them every night. The conductor then forces Leon to watch as he kills Maya with one of the butcher's knives. When he is done, he picks up Leon, and with the same supernatural strength as the deceased butcher, rips out Leon's tongue, throwing him to the ground. He tells Leon that, having killed the butcher, he must take his place.

In the final scene, the police chief hands the train schedule to the new butcher, who wears a ring with eight stars. The killer walks onto the midnight train, and turns his head to reveal that he is Leon, ready to go on his nightly slaughter.


The movie starts out with a guy on a train by himself, slowly falling asleep. And then boom! He falls into a puddle of blood. This is how "The Midnight Meat Train" starts out. It's kind of like a roller coaster ride. Action and suspense, then smoothness.  The visual graphics are great. Very up close and personal with the killings. In one scene, you can actually see a mans eye being knocked out of his scull in slow motion. They also have a shot were you can see through the eyes of the person being killed. This can kind of give you an idea of  what the person sees and feels. They also did an awesome job in showing the fight scene with a 360 degree shoot. Going around in circles showing each angle and each action that is taking place in that camera shot. And the way the movie ended was awesome and weird. The music was erie but went well with the movie.

The killer is a bit of a creeper. He goes to work everyday in a suite... and he's a butcher. He never talks through the entire movie, until the end when he says "Welcome"(creepy indeed). He just give you these looks that sends chills up your spine. Everynight around midnight, he boards a special train(the conductor is in on it). When the train is in motion, whatever person is in the car with him will be killed. Doesn't matter if it's one or three; there dead. He approuches each new victim with a meat hammer and aims for the facial area. One to two blows will kill the person. With this killer, he's really scary. He creeps up behind you. And the scary part is that you don't even have to turn around to know that he's there.

You have the typical girlfriend who helps out her boyfriend/husband acheive his dream, but then regrets doing so because the boyfriend/husband becomes obsessed with the dream; or something related to the dream. And of course she falls when she is running away from the killer. *sigh* God I hate when they do that. It makes them seem so helpless when there not. She misses when she has a point blank shot. How do you do that? Instead of trying to get away when the killer has her, she just stares at him and scream "Nooooo!" And hold out her hands as if that was going to stop him.

You have the typical boyfriend/husband who becomes so obsessed with his work that he doesn't know how fucked he is until it's to late. Then he follows the creeper like a weirdo and wonder why he wanted to kill him. Then he went head to head with the killer; him holding a cutting knife and the killer holding his meat hammer like actual was going to win that fight.

Great movie, although it does kind of leave you a little confused; because it doesn't really tell you why the monsters are underground. But otherwise, good movie. 

Found the whole movie for those who want to watch: