Slither

Plot:

Local businessman Grant is pissed off when his much younger wife refuses to fool around and ventures out to a bar. After heading outside with another younger woman, he’s attacked by weird snake like creatures and completely changes. A few animals start turning up missing, including pets and cattle and then people disappear too. The local sheriff, who secretly crushes on the man’s wife, gets involved when everything circles back to Grant.

Trivia:

Director James Gunn also wrote Dawn of the Dead and later went on to judge the first season of “Scream Queens” on VH-1, where the winner got a part in Saw 6.

Thoughts:

I can’t even begin to explain how much I hated this movie when it first came out, I mean really hated it. I thought it was stupid, not funny and not scary either. While looking for a completely different movie at my used store, I found a copy of this for $2 and decided to try it again, mainly because I like Nathan Fillion. Much to my surprise, I discovered that I actually kind of liked the movie this time. It had enough humor in it, to cut through the horror, without ruining the movie. It definitely feels like a tribute to the cheesy horror movies of past generations, without taking itself too seriously.

The Fourth Kind

Plot:

Dr. Abbey/Abigail Tyler is an Alaskan resident, who lost her husband in a freak accident and is now raising their kids. She begins working with patients who all claim that a white owl visited them at home and that weird things are happening. After one of her patients dies and another is paralyzed, the doctor begins having odd experiences of her own. Eventually she discovers that she and her patients all went through the same thing, but that she repressed her memories and somehow it’s tied into her husband’s death.

Trivia:

The studio actually paid money to an Alaskan group because of its negative portrayal of the state.

Supposedly based on a true story, but now revealed to be based only on a few cases of disappearances in the area.

Thoughts:

I wanted to see this movie for awhile and bought it pretty cheap. The BF and I planned on watching it one night, but halfway through it he decided to go to bed, rather than wait up to finish it. I kind of wish I did the same thing. It’s not necessarily stinky, but the movie is just lame. It didn’t have anything to capture my attention and I felt my mind drifting off and thinking about other things. I think this one could have been a lot better, especially with the cast it had.

Dreamcatcher

Plot:

Four old friends: Henry, Beaver, Pete and Jonesy are linked to a connection they share with another friend. Duddits is a mentally retarded boy that they helped out of a tough situation as kids and it bonded them together. After a bad year, the four guys reunite for a hunting trip together. The usual trip takes a dark turn when they discover people in the woods and learn of a possible alien invasion. It doesn’t take long for the boys to realize that the key to their salvation may lay in the boy they helped all those years ago.

Trivia:

Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Horror movie connections: Thomas Jane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Tripper, The Mist), Donnie Wahlberg (The Sixth Sense, Saw 2-4) and Timothy Olyphant (Scream 2, A Perfect Getaway, The Crazies).

Thoughts:

I’m kind of torn on this movie because I read the book (several times) and read it fairly recently. I’ll think of something really cool and then have to stop because I remember that the scene I’m thinking of actually came from the book. Plus I’m not too fond of the whole movie anyway. In my mind, I always think that the movie ran too long, but when I watched it this time, I realized that it isn’t necessarily long, it just feels that way.