FOLLOWING FILMS

2013 Directed by Greg Mclean Starring John Jarrat Ryan Corr and Shannon Ashlyn One of the great things about Wolf Creek 2 is you should know pretty quickly if this is your kind of movie or not. This is a movie with no aspirations to be anything more than an over the top gore soaked good time.  The only question is what constitutes a good time to you?  Give it five minutes and I’m sure you will know. I for one was in right away. The opening scene was so good the movie could have completely gone off the rails and I would have been inclined to give it a mostly positive review. Thankfully that is not the case in Greg McLean’s follow up to 2005s Wolf Creek. Mclean seems to have learned how to make a sequel by watching James Cameron’s Aliens. While Wolf Creek 2 features the same lead in a similar set of circumstances everything is amplified and played much bigger. The gore, suspense and oddly enough comedy are all ratcheted up for this installment. A lot of seq...

In 1968, George Romero created a film called “Night of the Living Dead.” A simple, yet terrifying story about a group of people who are trying to survive the night against a monster nobody had ever seen before. This 95 minute indie film would catapult a new monster into pop culture history and make them one of the most feared and popular creatures in cinema and pop culture. Now, almost 50 years later the Legacy continues. George Cameron Romero has taken it upon himself to carry on the Legacy that his father created... the definitive Origin story of a legend as told by a legacy. G. Cameron Romeo is announcing now his film "Origins", which will be be partially produced by his Father - The creator of the Modern Zombie.  Origins is the story in the Romero universe of how the first 'Zombie' strolled across that cemetery and into lives of those in the 'dead' series almost fifty years later.  This is a project that will re-define the genre… as well...

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition - seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema - a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles Out Of Print from John T. Woods on Vimeo .

2007 Directed By Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza Starring Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza and Jorge-Yamam Serrano Angela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) is a young eager reporter assigned to spend a night following a group of emergency workers with her camera crew. The night starts out light hearted and jovial but the mood quickly changes when they get called to an apartment building to assistant with an elderly woman trapped in her home. This is an effective found footage horror film that is strengthened by believable performances and gruesome makeup. This is virus/zombie story in the school of 28 Days Later and Night of The Living Dead. If those two films seem to be in opposition to one another, its true but this film takes the infection approach to the zombie story but instead of making it a pandemic it limits our story to a confined space. The first few minutes of the film feels somewhat amateurish and I'm fairly certain this is by design. It meanders through the first cou...

A look back at Jurassic Park, the groundbreaking decision to create digital dinosaurs, and the impact it had on the future of movies.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Blair Witch Project and its impact on the future of movies - from sparking a found footage genre boom to its innovative use of Internet marketing.

2013 Directed by Jim Mickle Starring Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers and Julia Garner “We Are What We Are” is such an incredibly deliberate, unhurried film you might forget that you are watching a horror film. This is a good thing. Director Jim Mackle’s film is in no hurry, clearly laying out that trouble lies ahead but we will take our sweet time getting there. The film is both beautiful and unnerving at the same time. I was reminded of the painting American Gothic, it’s somehow visually alluring while possessing qualities that are disturbing. The Parker family, well, something just isn’t right about them. It’s hard to immediately pinpoint but something is clearly wrong. They live in a rural community that feels out of step with modern society. The film opens with Emma (the mother of the family) walking to butchers market/convince store that would have felt perfectly at home in the 1890’s. After leaving the store she collapses and dies, setting into motion a cha...