I loved this movie. Pardon me while I gush for a moment. I can't say much without giving everything away, so I will just hit the high points and be as vague as possible.
It stars Chris Hemsworth and Bradley Whitford (one of the high points I mentioned), and is about 5 young friends who go to the cabin of Hemsworth's cousin to have a fun weekend. And then things get weird. I can't say any more. All I will say is that it is not what you expect and you need to see it before you hear too much about it. It's the best movie I've seen in a while, horror or otherwise. At least, I enjoyed it more than pretty much anything I've seen lately. It's funny and scary and gory, and it has an original premise, which is hard to come by these days. Go see it! Just trust me.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Absentia
This one is good. That was what I thought when I had made it about 20 minutes in. I didn't know what it was about when I first started watching it (thank goodness for IMDB), but once I knew what was going on (at least the general plot), it got moving pretty fast. Tricia's husband disappeared without a trace seven years ago, and she is about to have him declared dead in absentia (hence the name), and she is also pregnant with the child of the detective who has been looking for her husband all these years. Her sister Callie comes to stay with her; Callie goes jogging every day, and every time she goes through the tunnel down the street you wait for something to jump out and get her. Great atmosphere in this one, very creepy and just enough things popping out or appearing out of nowhere to keep your guard up.
Callie meets a man in the tunnel who it turns out has also been missing for a long time, and she begins to suspect something is going on. Animals are disappearing from the neighborhood and there have been several break-ins. Then, just after Tricia signs the papers to have him declared dead, her husband shows up. He just comes walking up to the house, looking like hell. Obviously wherever he's been there was no sunshine. Maybe he was lost in Seattle.
I can't tell you much else without giving too much away, except that I would have liked a happier ending (I know, it's a horror movie and I know better). It's low-budget but well done, and better than a lot of movies like this that I've seen. I highly recommend this one.
Callie meets a man in the tunnel who it turns out has also been missing for a long time, and she begins to suspect something is going on. Animals are disappearing from the neighborhood and there have been several break-ins. Then, just after Tricia signs the papers to have him declared dead, her husband shows up. He just comes walking up to the house, looking like hell. Obviously wherever he's been there was no sunshine. Maybe he was lost in Seattle.
I can't tell you much else without giving too much away, except that I would have liked a happier ending (I know, it's a horror movie and I know better). It's low-budget but well done, and better than a lot of movies like this that I've seen. I highly recommend this one.
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