Sorority Row is a horror/slasher film that was released last year.  It’s plot is pretty simple.  A bunch of sorority girls are throwing a party and decide to get back at a guy who cheated on one of them by playing a prank.  So one girl gives the guy (who is incidentally another of the girls’ brother) fake roofies to give to the girl (played by Audrina Partridge of fake reality show fame).  The girls all gather and watch on a webcam from the next room while he tries to have sex with her unconscious body (doesn’t this sound wonderfully funny? Apparently it is as the girls crack jokes the whole time), then she pretends to have a seizure or something and die.  They drive him and her out to an abandoned mine (you know cause there’s just abandoned mines all over the place) and pretend like they’re going to dump her body there.  When the girls split up for a second, the guy who is freaking out actually takes a tire iron and shoves it through her chest, actually killing her.  Then they have to actually dump her body in the mine.  This is all only slightly more complex then I’m making it sound.

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Doghouse is a british horror comedy directed by Jake West.  It’s about a group of friends who travel out to a small town in the middle of nowhere for a boys weekend to help one of them get over his divorce.  When they get there though they find an empty town.  Unfortunately for them it isn’t as empty as it first seems as all of the women have turned into zombies.

This is an alright movie.  There isn’t really a lot to write about it.  It’s pretty standard fare.  Nothing stands out as being great, but nothing stands out as being bad either.  It’s certainly enjoyable and would be a good party movie to watch with some friends.  The plot is not really anything you haven’t seen before and everything is pretty predictable. The action starts pretty early on and never lets up.  It certainly could have done with a little break for some breathing room.

My one real problem with the movie is that it doesn’t have an ending.  There is an ending but then it doesn’t end and instead continues to what is not at all an ending.  Anyway it’s fun and I’d recommend it for a rental. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be currently available in the US.

Misfits is a new show on BBC’s E4 network.  The premise is that a group of young adults (it’s never really clear how old they are) who have been given community service get struck by lightning during a freak storm.  Slowly they discover that they have powers, like superheroes, only these kids are anything but.
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OK I’m gonna keep this one short and sweet. Saw VI is pretty much the same thing as all the other Saw movies. People are tested with horrific traps or “games” to challenge their way of looking at things. Oddly enough the Saw series has been one to stick pretty closely to the truest meaning of sequel and it’s all one big convoluted story (convoluted because they make shit up for the newest one and then add it to the backstory like it was part of the plan the whole time). So due to that fact I’m not going to give really any more of a plot summary than that because I’d have to explain at least a few of the other movie’s plots for this to make much sense. You can see this though without having seen the other Saw movies because they have flashbacks.

So how bad was this? Honestly it’s probably one of the better movies in the series. I was a fan of the first Saw but after that they were pretty bad. They gave up trying to make much sense and violence for violence’s sake is boring. Here they lay message on real thick, way too thick, choosing to punish predatory lenders and insurance companies. But there’s sort of a plot going on, and it’s fairly easy to follow. The “games” at this point in the series are pretty worn out and these movies feel more like soap operas than horror movies.

Basically if you liked the other Saw’s you’ll like this. If you haven’t liked the more recent Saw movies but liked earlier ones you might enjoy this a little bit, and if you never liked Saw to begin with I’m not quite sure why you’ve read this far. Whatever you do, at least wait till it hits dvd and rent it. Even if you like this, it’s really lazy filmmaking and we should send hollywood the message that we don’t want that anymore. At least so far this has been a total box office flop. Let’s not encourage them with video sales. Rent don’t buy.

Infestation is a horror/action movie from writer/director Kevin Rankin (who wrote such gems as Reindeer Games).  It’s about a group of survivors who awake after something happens and giant bugs take over the world.  The main character is a slacker played by Chris Marquette, who has been in a ton of stuff but you might know as Adam from “Joan of Arcadia”.  His love interest is played by Brooke Nevin, who IMDb tells me has been in a ton of tv shows but I didn’t recognize her.  The band of survivors decide to head off away from a swarm of the insects and in the process visit some family along the way.

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Paranormal Activity is a Blair Witch style horror film, filmed entirely in the first person about a couple who find themselves experiencing odd things in their house.  It’s being sold as one of the scariest movies ever.  We’ll with a bold statement like that I had to check it out for myself.

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