Horror Movie 2012: Barricade

This movie really shocked me.  Not by what actually happened in the movie, but by how good it really was.  I don’t know why I’m so surprised. It being a WWE production should have tipped me off that it would be nothing but extraordinary.  This movie was pretty much The Shining, but without the terrifying Shelly Duval and that punk bitch Danny.   Barricade was full of twists and turns.  The story was lots of fun.  A father and his two kids drive up the mountain to stay in a cabin for the holidays.  And much like any other horror movie, the mother had recently died by innocently falling over and hitting her head on the wall (Like we didn’t see that coming.)  So they wanted to get away and just enjoy each other’s company.  That’s exactly what they did until the son gets a mild cold.  When the kids gets a little sick that’s when they need to stop playing and go to the hospital.  But when they went inside to put some going-to-the-hospital clothes on, their car gets completely covered in snow.  Probably because the girl took forever to choose the right pants to go with her winter coat. And then they start seeing things outside the window and freak out and barricade themselves in the cabin.  Long story short, the dad took his pills with alcohol and it was him all along, and then it ended. 

In all seriousness, this movie was a lot of fun to watch. It kept you wondering the whole movie.  The big problem was that the ending was too easy.  Nothing was wrong the whole time.  It was all in his head. And for that reason I only gave this movie a 55 out of 100 stars. 

One more thing, I would like to retract what I said about child actors in my last post.  The kids in this movie were very impressive.  They were no Caulkins or Joshes from Heavywieghts, but they were very good.  So what I am trying to say is that not all child actors suck, just most of them.

Horror Movie 2012: The Tooth Fairy

As October approached this year, I put a lot of thought into what movies I was going to watch for the 31 days of horror.  That’s not true I didn’t even think about it until the 1^st.  That is why I started the month off with such a stinker.  The Tooth Fairy is the movie I chose to watch first.  And much like the presidential debate, I didn’t care for it.  I know what you’re thinking, “But The Rock would never agree to be in a bad movie.” But it isn’t that tooth fairy.  It’s a much more horrifying and poorly made tooth fairy. It made me wonder what happened to all the great child actors of the 80’s and 90’s.  What happened to the Kevin McAllister’s, the Cory Matthews’, the Joshes from Heavyweights?  The young girl in this movie was almost as bad an actor as the rest of the cast.  I keep wondering where these people get their money to make a movie, obviously they didn’t spend much on the actors.  The movie in and of itself… Well it was bad too. The only good scene in the movie happens when a farm hand fixes a wood chipper that has been out of commission for years.  As you might have expected, he get knocked out, tied to a board, and pushed through.  This poor man had to die a really cool death just because some snot nosed little brat lost her last tooth.  Several other people died in the process, but none of them went out quite as memorably as the farm hand.  In the end, I was really disappointed in myself for not putting more thought into this.  One word of advice before I go, if you want to choose a horror movie from home, use netflix, not hulu plus.  Hulu plus has its perks, but when it comes to horror movies, netflix takes the cake.  My rating for this movie is 9 out of 100 stars.  And I rounded the 9 up.