Jun '19 *
It's On Demand this month. I'm basically a fan of this movie, although there are probably too many things that you're not supposed to think too hard about.
Dominic Purcell is really good in this, he has such a sense of urgency. He's always charging around with his eyes really wide open, bellowing at the top of his lungs. In this movie, he reminds me a lot of Richard E. Grant in Warlock (1989). He's supposed to be the only one who really understands how much peril everyone is in.. or least, he thinks he is.
In fact, wow, what a cast. Michael Fassbender, Dominic P., and Henry Cavill. And Shea Whigham is always good too, although he doesn't have as huge a role here as in some others of his movies. It was directed by Joel Schumacher, soooo... I don't know if that's good or bad. I like The Lost Boys, so he certainly can do a good job.
I like the beginning, and the basic story they lay out. It's kind of like Hellboy, an old Nazi occult experiment that is still having repercussions in our world today. It's also extremely similar to an episode of Fear Itself called The Sacrifice, starring Rachel Miner. I recommend watching that, if you never have... It also has some common ground with that Ken Foree/Barbara Crampton movie From Beyond, the one with the pineal gland eyeball coming out of people's foreheads.... I also like the idea of old connections between Europe and North America, taking place either before the historical record, or sort of outside it.
Anyway, I would be hard pressed to do a good job explaining what the hell actually happens in this movie, but I like it anyway. It has a few things going for it... the things I have mentioned already, and also a good sense of a group of people besieged at an old farmhouse, and some cool Evil Dead type effects, like zombie horses and dogs,,, I like the ending too.
OK, that's enough. Check it out if you get a chance!
Dominic Purcell is really good in this, he has such a sense of urgency. He's always charging around with his eyes really wide open, bellowing at the top of his lungs. In this movie, he reminds me a lot of Richard E. Grant in Warlock (1989). He's supposed to be the only one who really understands how much peril everyone is in.. or least, he thinks he is.
In fact, wow, what a cast. Michael Fassbender, Dominic P., and Henry Cavill. And Shea Whigham is always good too, although he doesn't have as huge a role here as in some others of his movies. It was directed by Joel Schumacher, soooo... I don't know if that's good or bad. I like The Lost Boys, so he certainly can do a good job.
I like the beginning, and the basic story they lay out. It's kind of like Hellboy, an old Nazi occult experiment that is still having repercussions in our world today. It's also extremely similar to an episode of Fear Itself called The Sacrifice, starring Rachel Miner. I recommend watching that, if you never have... It also has some common ground with that Ken Foree/Barbara Crampton movie From Beyond, the one with the pineal gland eyeball coming out of people's foreheads.... I also like the idea of old connections between Europe and North America, taking place either before the historical record, or sort of outside it.
Anyway, I would be hard pressed to do a good job explaining what the hell actually happens in this movie, but I like it anyway. It has a few things going for it... the things I have mentioned already, and also a good sense of a group of people besieged at an old farmhouse, and some cool Evil Dead type effects, like zombie horses and dogs,,, I like the ending too.
OK, that's enough. Check it out if you get a chance!
