The effects are impressive though at times to much. You can totally tell they had an uncapped budget and did everything they could to take advantage of it.

And DAMN, Cillian Murphay is NOT aging well! Poor Cillian.

I actually did enjoy it. I don’t think it’s fair to compare. The similarities are only that there is a killer stalking and murdering teens in their dreams who’s burned and has a claw hand and sweater. And Nancy’s still the main character, though it doesn’t start out seeming that way. I don’t feel she’s the strong character she is in the original. She’s just kinda there. Not much different from the other characters except she draws. Shitty I might add.

There’s more backstory, something I hated in the “Halloween” revamp but it works here. They don’t try to humanize Freddy like they did Michael. It looked like it was heading that way but the plot twisted.

My 2 cents: it’s worth a view. I don’t really regret it. I won’t buy it on DVD and I doubt I’ll rewatch it. Which I guess that does mean I do like the original more as I have watched it multiple times and own it. If you have seen the original, it’s likely you won’t get many or any scares as many scenes are staged similar. I did however drag along a friend who not only has not seen any of them but HATES horror movies so it was fun watching her jump. I’m something of a sadist I suppose.

I did stay entertained watching this but I don’t feel the urge to watch it again. It doesn’t feel as Burton-esque as some previous Burton films. It’s not even very weird. Worth a watch but I won’t buy it when it comes to DVD,

She’s relocated to L.A. I think? Somewhere in California. She quickly shacks up with some guy who’s her landlord. She has to keep her job a secret. Oh, and did I mention there’s HUGE sexual tension between her and Bob? He shows up from time to time to give her new assignments. She tells her boyfriend he’s her uncle but I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to assume he knows that’s not true.

Well, eventually Maggie gets sick of the life and struggles to get out and walk away from it all. And Bob doesn’t get any loving! That irked me more than anything…but I think I just wanted to see Gabriel Byrne in a sex scene.

Most of the movie is fairly predictable though I did get a few good jumps. The ending will be seen a mile away but since it is almost Halloween, it’s still fun for a full theater experience – most of the fun we had watching it was hearing audience react, especially the weird kid in front of us who laughed way to loud at something not that funny and made most of the theater laugh at him.

Oh! Warning though! Like I said, this movie is filmed on handheld camera – without a tripod. It made me motion sick. I’m not kidding. I felt like throwing up a good hour afterwards. Oddly enough, my friend who saw it with me is prone to motion sickness and was fine so I don’t know what’s up with that.

So at the suggestion of another horror film lovin’ co-worker, and since both this and the remake are available for instant watch on Netflix, I watched this.

I chose the original…for some reason. I’m glad I did. It’s in black and white and some how that kinda adds to the scary feel throughout the movie. The zombies aren’t rotting flesh variety and only have minimal makeup (this movie had a tiny, tiny budget) but it comes off looking really good. The music is atmospheric and I might try to hunt down the score.

And the ending. Since the movie is 30 year old, I’m gonna spoil it. I LIKE that it’s not a happy ending. Our “heroes” (if they can even be called that, not a one’s really heroic except to some extent Ben for coming up with plans but his plans ended up not being so great so…) ALL end up dead. It looks like Ben might make it out and BOOM, he’s shot in the head by the zombie hunters making the assumption he’s a zombie after surviving the whole night. Now that, Alanis, is ironic.

Is it weird of me I found Barbara’s brother to be pretty hot after he became a zombie? Yes? Well, I never claimed to be normal.

I was surprised though. We were both fairly entertained and while we didn’t guess from the get-go who the killer was, thanks to a few red herrings, we got it and yes, their logic is crazy and stupid but it could be worse. Rumer Willis does pretty good as the “nerdy” sorority sister Ellie (we know she’s nerdy because she wears glasses, see. Hollywood hasn’t gotten a clue in the last few years. Meanwhile I actually kinda wanted her huge nerd glasses) and there are a few other sisters you give a crap about. Unfortunately the only name I remember is Cassidy, the other “good” girl sister. There’s one who’s such a bitch I don’t know why they put up with it. I think she might have been sorority president so that’s probably why.

Audrina Patridge of The Hills is in about 5 minutes before she’s killed in a sorority prank gone wrong which is what starts the whole plot. They convince her boyfriend he’s roofied her and killed her and they’re going to hide her body and while the girls are getting their giggles he panics and actually stabs her with a tire iron. So they hide her body and 8 months later start getting text messages relating to the murder and then some of them start getting killed.

You’ll enjoy it if you don’t expect something awesome. Just good, cheese entertainment.

The story, basically, a young Egyptologist named Josephine, who goes by Josie, seems to be getting targeted by a serial killer who knows alot about methods of mummy preservation. And all the bodies appear to bare resemblance to Josie. She has a mystery in her past that ties back to the current happenings.

Jane Rizzoli and M.E. Maura Isles, who are supposedly the main characters of the series, aren’t seen much. I’m okay with that. I like Jane but Maura annoys me. She’s still boinking the priest from the previous novel when it’s clear the rich, paranoid, serial killer obsessed hottie Anthony Sansone a much better match for her. Even Jane reflects on this. The priest, Daniel Brofie, never really makes much of an appearance. More phone calls we hear from Maura’s end of him cancelling their illicit trysts for the night because, gosh, he has duties as a priest. Seriously, I hope that’s taken care of soon. I’m not even Catholic and it offends me.

The whole mystery was sort of contrived. There’s a twist a few times at the end but while semi-unexpected, it’s not something that will shock you mainly because you won’t really care.