Posts Tagged ‘ horror ’

1999′s Lake Placid was an unusual movie from its beginnings.  It’s a star-studded black comedy about a giant crocodile terrorizing a small lake community in Maine featuring a flamboyant, wealthy professor with a passion for crocodiles in Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a common-sense, polite and gentlemanly local sheriff named Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) a rough-and-tumble member of the Maine Fish and Wildlife Service, and Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), a professor of paleontology with a New York City-based natural history museum.

Written and directed by Belgian film-maker Pieter Van Hees, Black XXX-Mas tells a surreal horror story of a hodgepodge of fairy-tales set in a bizarre world that seems at once in the future and in the present.  The overall narrative and plot most closely follows that of Little Red Riding Hood.  Be warned it’s very violent, graphic, and I believe there may be some nudity, so it’s definitely not to be considered safe for work.

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One of the most recent pictures of David Fincher was The Zodiac; a retelling of the true story of the serial killer who terrorized California during the 1960s and 1970s and whose identity was never determined.  Fincher models the telling of this tale through the lens of a political cartoonist working for a local newspaper (Jake Gyllenaal as Robert Graysmith) who is attempting to do some investigative journalism with the help of a more seasoned news veteran in Paul Avery as played by Robert Downey, Jr.

Director Marcus Nispel has managed to make an interesting contribution to 2003′s movie lineup, taking a B-movie originally made in the 1970s on a minuscule budget, and turning it into a B-movie made with a grand Hollywood budget. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of 2003 makes some changes to plot, characters, and other miscellaneous aspects of the original version, but fails to succeed in turning it into a quality horror film.