PRESENCE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Steven SoderberghStars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Julia Fox. Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is a low budget supernatural haunted house tale that could be a distant cousin of the supernatural Paranormal Activity series. But unlike those films, which drew upon the found footage aesthetic, in Presence all of the …
WINCHESTER
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Michael and Peter SpierigStars: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey, Angus Sampson, Eamon Farren, Bruce Spence.San Francisco 1906. Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), the eccentric widowed heiress to the repeating rifle company fortune, has been building a monstrous house. Built over a period of 38 years it is …
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gregory Plotkin Stars: Chris J Murray, Dan Gill, Ivy George, Brit Shaw, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jessica Brown, Michael Krawic, Chloe Csengery, Don McManus.The original Paranormal Activity film in 2006 used the found footage aesthetic effectively. It was shot on the smell of an oily rag with a cast of unknown actors, but grossed over $100million at the box office, making it wildly …
INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Leigh Whannell Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Adrian Sparks.Australian born filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell are certainly beginning to carve out a niche in Hollywood as purveyors of well crafted horror movies that have defined the genre over the past few years. They are best known as the creators of the gory Saw …
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Andrew DouglasStars: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall, Chloe Grace Moretz.Michael Bay seems intent on remaking some of the classic American horror films of the past thirty years. First there was his treatment of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which turned the story into a cliched teenage slasher thriller. And now he reworks The Amityville Horror, and again …
