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“Paranormal Activity 2″ (2010) Movie Review – IMDB

Following tinkered too quickly to enjoy the surprise victory of 2009, “Paranormal Activity 2” uses the same tricks to screw up before the end. As Halloween movie, we should perhaps look elsewhere for entertainment properly.

There is probably no genre that sees new versions arrive as quickly as horror. These are often features films that cost almost nothing to do and that attract crowds. This was the case last year’s surprising “Paranormal Activity“, repeating the codes of “Blair Witch Project” to provide a scare as funny and effective. As good ideas often take time to germinate, the reflex is to go to a sequel that should make sense to mass.

That’s where this production, which arrives much like the previous one. People living in a beautiful house hear noises disturbing. The dog barks, the baby cries and over the days, a veiled threat is becoming more and more expansion. The devil may be present, and the viewer looking through surveillance cameras (an idea of the father to protect his family) or a mobile camera (uses more often than not the girl teenager who can make the transition from the narrative).

The premise is the same … and it does not deviate one iota for at least the first hour. What was so refreshing in 2009 now feels deja vu. Although Tod Williams replaces Oren Peli to completion, the changes remain cosmetic. Good ideas of the scenario (the birth of a child who may be wavering family balance, the daily sometimes heated between a girl and her stepmother, etc..) Are rapidly evacuated to the benefit of easy and obvious, which are yet to jump two or three occasions.

Fear of the dark and the unknown has always encouraged the directors to do as little as possible, betting everything on their gloomy mood disorder that develops and disturbing atmospheres. This logic is scuttled in the last half hour, probably less sonorous than the first 60 minutes, but that seems artificial and plated. As if the distributor, after seeing the first version that is singularly lacking in suspense and intrigue, had decided to alter the assembly to provide a cross between unremarkable “Poltergeist” and “[REC]“. Instead, it might have been better change of actors who are not always credible.

Without bringing back in return, “Paranormal Activity 2” feels the effort made in a hurry to enjoy the windfall of October has always been the month’s premier horror film. This will undoubtedly be the case with this one, which could be a success because of its low production cost. But if a third derivative is born, hope it does not look like a mere substitute for what has gone before.

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Interesting avenues of terror and gore comedy that Cold Storage, Tony Elwood, proposes. It is the story of Melissa Adams, who after being involved in a serious car accident that cost him his life, is rescued by Clive Mers, a mountain hermit. Clive (exemplary performance by Nick Searcy) decides to take care of the body feeding it and taking out the city – while in his dementia thinks it is another woman. The sister and former boyfriend of Melissa depart for the small rural town, where weirdness is something common to all. The search takes them to the cottage of Clive, where the animal will pick up.

The film manages to maintain tension in the viewer into the scene and the next, making people laugh. Hitchcock’s influence – especially in “Psycho” – is clear, but the narrative of Tony Elwood has its own name, not a mere pastiche. Tony was also smart enough not to bog down your movie with sex scenes, which is done by most of his co-gender, and that ends, often shifting the focus of the film – sales tactic, of course. Although the first sequence (prologue) proves absolutely unnecessary, Cold Storage Camden meets just by giving new life to a film that sometimes seems to choke.

Cold Storage (2006) – Horror / Thriller – USA – 97 min.

Movie Fantaspoa seen in 2010 – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre. (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

Official Site: http://www.coldstoragethemovie.com/

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In the plot, Benjamin Shaw (Joshua Jackson) is a photographer who ended up marrying Jane (Rachel Taylor). How to present the lovebirds, they move to Japan (!), Since there Ben would have more chances in the profession (yeah!). While were on the road, Jane has just run over a girl, whose body mysteriously disappears. Initially concerned, the two try to forget the incident with the new house and the wonderful country that is Japan, but supernatural events come to haunt their lives. Distorted images begin to appear in photos, physical appearances and noises disturb the peaceful life they wanted to take. It is trying to figure out the reason why everything that Jane investigates the life of Ben’s friends and their relationship in the past.

The story is the same, changing the college and the biology laboratory of the original. Okay that’s understandable, since it’s a remake. But understand: the American version of “The Ring” is as horrifying as normal, so to have achieved a dramatic line of terror and effective to cause reactions in public. “The Scream” for example, goes from terror scare on what makes you laugh, falling in bad taste. The recent “The Eye” remains moderate, the same way that his story is presented from the beginning. So why the particularity of “Shutter” is a terrible example to remake? Just the greatest grace of the original film to show at the end. I remember when I watched the “Spirits”, I thought the story half-baked until the outcome has justified everything I needed to enjoy the film.

When I entered the room to see “Shutter”, I was asking for the writer and director manage to insert new elements in the plot that caused this feeling of satisfaction at the end of the session. Result: the film remains faithful to the events of the original, ie not create a relationship of curiosity by the public who has watched the movie before. We already know what are the facts to unfold and how the story ends, which is fatal to a film that aims to scare with the supernatural theme. vinyl shutters. Players end up victims of ridicule, just for being the only silly not to know what is happening. Anticipating this, the script also creates scenes “revelations” as fast and as pathetic.

Even with an interesting story about the original American version is ineffective. Nowhere there is an atmosphere of suspense and scares are merely gags. Highlighting the worst scene in the movie, when the spirit dress up and show a body much like the Mystic, the X-Men, the constraint comes into play. I think it replaced the horrible scene of the original bathroom has a rough as this much. Speaking of replacements, a component of the final part, when the protagonists visit the home of the girl-problem was removed. The mother who preserved the body of her daughter as if she were alive was another bizarre element of “spirits” that caused chills, and this long American is replaced by a devaluation of life without grace.

Many laughed at the way you talk and act of the Thais in the original film, but “Shutter” can be lower. Joshua Jackson is no more credibility in the scene, always embodying the style I want to be gallant. ” During a scene in which it is haunted, grieved facial expressions he makes. Have a wonderful Rachel Taylor is in the film wrong. The amount of drama is in excess, demonstrating that in any film she could do more natural talent and would be registered. The cast is Oriental vitality of a people happy and superstitious, which is still delicious to see the scene.

Director Masayuki Ochiai is summed up much of the copy taken from the original film, not using creativity to new plans. The most that the filmmaker is able to move your camera with more dynamics at times, but not something that a horror film needs to have. Some scenes are still very confused, as Ben reveals a picture and being attacked by the spirit, beyond the time that Ben is dragged in the dark while flashes are fired at the studio. What was to strike fear gets confused and causes no reaction, but to the regret of having gone to watch the movie. Simply useless.

Let the Right One In - IMDB

Directed by Tomas Alfredson.
Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahm, Karl Robert Lindgren.

Not today that Hollywood is losing space and moral in fantastic films for other countries.

In recent years, for example, there were Korean films, French and Spanish that have become cult following among buffs film. Big names have been bandied about and promising to represent the future of the genre, suspense and fantasy genre for Americans seems to have stalled altogether. France came out nervous and compelling works such as The Invader Martyrs and the Spaniards sent see in Pan’s Labyrinth and REC and the Koreans have shown in Spirits – death is on your side of ghosts and other films your dose of fear. This only for reference, because there are many more examples that neither sequerchegaram here.

Among the countries there is also Sweden, a country with a respectable film resume, and who now and then revisits the genre with much praise. It is there that has let her through, a film that shows the friendship between a boy with a reputation for losing and a very strange girl who soon proves to be a vampire.

The idea is nothing new. The issue that involves heroism and curse is already known to the public for a long time, but here the director Tomas Alfredson not even want to start a revolution in the genre, nor distort the basic concepts known, but a story of romance and terror with a subtlety out of the ordinary.

Oskar is a very light haired boy, who spends most of time alone. Without friends, the guy is a punching bag for other kids in school, and with a growing desire to take revenge on his tormentors. One day he moved into the apartment next to a gentleman and a mysterious girl named Eli, even stranger. In their wide innocent, Oskar ignores the fact that Eli only leave the house at night, and amid the icy landscape of the night, she is unable to feel the cold.

At the same time, there are several horrible murders in the city, and are clearly linked to the photon gentleman who just moved with the girl walking with a suitcase full of accessories strangers. Eli has twelve years and can not remember when her birthday and Oskar feels quite attracted by it. And that’s where the movie gets a layer of sensitivity, showing the transition from adolescence telling the love story between two rejected. And even knowing the real secret of Eli, Oskar not escape her, but is closer to “letting it go” because his innocence and age make it easier to link with the costumes. And that’s the point of maximum let her walk, which has gained audiences wherever he goes, and leaves thinking long after, mainly by its booming twists.

The Americans, with an eye, they tried to put its version, and try to fool the unwary that it is an original version. The remake will be done by director Matt Reeves who directed Cloverfield.

Be afraid, be very afraid!

Orphan - IMDB

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra.
Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Aryana Engineer, Lorry Ayers.

I have extreme admiration for performance of junior stars in adult films, especially horror movies. And since much time is proving that children are able to put forward a project and sometimes steal the show. Based on these trends, the youngest child prodigy of evil is in the orphan – a thriller that impresses more by the actions of its protagonist than for its content. The direction is borne by Jaume Collet-Serra director of House of Wax – so forget the reference.

A perfect family, a couple and two beautiful children – were actually three – as a tragic fact takes the life of one of them, even before birth, a fact that comes to undermine the structure of marriage of parents and making the wife dip in alcoholism and have nightmares at night with what happened. Vera Farmiga (great actress) and Stellan Sarsgaard are heads of household, and even with the loss they decide to appeal to an adoption. And in the midst of so many small children docile and beautiful, with the husband crosses just a grown up already. Esther is the image of the fragility and delicacy. No one in the world, she sings, paints, and is seen looking smart and guess the rumors that the family has faced, soon to fall into the graces of Esther couple.

Esther will live with his new adoptive country and the impression of strangeness of the girl will only grow more and more. Always with great clothes and a Bible in her hand the girl began to be harassed by classmates and even by his new brother. The mother (always) is the first to notice that things are not going well – the girl always appears when the couple is in their intimate and is able to blackmail anyone, always relying on the weaknesses carefully studied by it-what he calls the woman’s attention. But who will believe in an alcoholic?

There is a good deal of tension in the film, for example – there is a scene where the camera goes into a child’s toy in the park making the site into something claustrophobic. The film also has some controversial moments by placing small children in the midst of scenes of murders and even a scene of incredible seduction by the devil. The performance of actress Isabelle Fuhrman tell by the way was praised in all places where the movie came but the film does not go very far, showing that even came to make noise and discomfort. The big difference here is the climax of the film – or the great explanation – that can not fail to surprise, but it’s a little hard to swallow who is Esther.

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