“I Know What You Did Last Homecoming” is the more apt description for “Sorority Row.” It’s a slick horror movie made in 2009 that feels like it was dropped right out of 1998 and I mean that mostly as a compliment. As someone that’s had almost no faith in horror movies centered primarily on nepo babies and flavors of the week, Stewart Hendler’s “Sorority Row” is a shockingly good and entertaining slasher and whodunit that, while not the most thematically faithful remake, still manages to carve out its own niche in the massive library of remakes accrued in the early aughts.
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Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) (2023)
A high-profile trial, bringing a chilling murderer to justice, fascinate the population. A model becomes obsessed with the trial, attending the hearings every day she can.
High Crime (La polizia incrimina la legge assolve) (1973) [Blue Underground 3-Disc Limited Edition]
Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD August 28, 2024
An inspector going after a drug ring in Italy soon finds out there is potentially more risk than reward in his endeavor.
THEDÆMON (2024) [FrightFest 2024]
Following his father’s suicide, a man goes back to the lake house from his childhood where more than meets the eye await him and his loved ones.
Jackpot! (2024)
Now Available for Streaming on Amazon Prime.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is that horrible, malt-o-meal garbage movie meant mainly to be as edgy as possible without ever really intending to offend anyone. It disguises itself as social satire when really in the end it has zero to say. It’s just a flaccid hundred minutes drag through nonsense and emptiness. No one at any point in this movie seems to be mentally present, including John Cena who often looks a lot more like a walking action figure than anything else. With Feig’s premise you just assume you’d be in the market for a blood soaked science fiction film. At the very least, you’d expect a darkly comic if mean movie about greed and the way the economy has driven in to rabid dogs.
It’s actually a vanilla coming of age story with a premise that’s gradually pushed in to the background over the course of the narrative.
The Crow (2024)
I’ve heard of this certain technique Hollywood usually uses as a means of pulling a fast sequel; it’s by taking a script with a similar concept to an already established IP and turning it in to a sequel. “The Crow” feels a lot like that. It feels like a simultaneous cash grab, exploitation of the art of James O’Barr, and downright lazy attempt to maintain the license for “The Crow.” At thirty minutes in, I wondered if at any point anyone on this movie were even trying. At all. This is a non-move. It’s a movie without a presence, or any kind of a soul, or any kind of self awareness. “The Crow’s” only purpose is to gentrify what should have and could have been a touching, eerie, and heartbreaking movie.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) [Arrow Video 4K + Blu-ray Limited Edition]
Part of The Mexico Trilogy box set from Arrow Video out 8/27/2024.
Following a tragic loss, El Mariachi gets involved in higher stakes issues than ever before when an odd CIA agent shows up in Mexico.