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2013 Point Total 22 Film points (9 new) 6 TV points (8 hr-long dramas & 7 half-hr sitcoms -- 9 new) 28 Total Points As with others here, I find it difficult to watch as many films as I'd like. It's football season, TV shows are broadcasting fresh episodes (at least we can count the...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Grade: B+ A new batch of Elm Street kids are having nightmares about razor-fingered Freddy. It's so bad, they've all been committed into the local psychiatric hospital where they're faced with a bunch of non-believing doctors until the arrival of...

Dead Silence Grade: B- Beware the stare of Mary Shaw. She had no children, only dolls. And if you see her in your dreams, Be sure to never, ever scream. A ventriloquist dummy is mysteriously delivered to Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten). There's no return address or other information. Not thinking...

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI Grade: B+ My favorite of the Friday series. Tommy Jarvis leaves the mental institution and travels to Forest Green (formerly known as Crystal Lake) to destroy Jason's corpse once and for all. He digs up Jason's body, intending to cremate him but accidentally...

The Tall Man Grade: D Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) is a nurse in the dying town of Cold Rock, Washington. The mine that had employed most of the residents has closed and the town is quickly descending into poverty. On top of the day-to-day problems, eighteen of the town's children have...

The Haunting (1999) Grade: C+ Eleanor (Lili Taylor) has led a very sheltered life, caring for her invalid mother. Once her mother passes, she's not quite sure what to do with her life, as well as being at odds with the family over the contents of her mother's will. She is one of several people...

World War Z Grade: A- A mysterious infection spreads wildly throughout the world population, changing people into feral, zombie-like creatures. Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), a special envoy to the UN, travels the world to try and find the source of the infection and a cure before the entire world is...

Lost Boys: The Thirst Grade: C Edgar Frog has fallen upon hard times. No one seems to be hiring vampire hunters so he's forced to try and sell some of his comic book collection to raise cash, he's about to be evicted from his trailer, and on top of all that, his brother, Alan, has been turned...

Football always depresses my movie count. I lose the whole day on Sunday, Monday nights, sometimes Thursday nights, and if there's an interesting college match-up, sometimes Saturdays. That said, I did manage two last night: Friday the 13th: Part II Grade: B- A group of counselors gather for a...

The Woman in Black Grade: A- A young solicitor, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), travels to a tiny isolated town and an old, run down house which is only accessible during low tide. A widower, he's been struggling to raise his son alone while trying to maintain full-time employment. His bosses...

Curse of Chucky Grade: B A box is delivered to an old, run down, isolated house. A mother opens the box while she bickers with her wheelchair-bound daughter, revealing Chucky. The women have no idea why the doll was sent to them and there is no return address on the box. Later that night, a...

The follow-up prequel, Bereavement, is also worth viewing. There were rumors that this was supposed to be a trilogy (Malevolence being the middle film), but the third film hasn't yet been announced. Though it took 7 years after Malevolence to release Bereavement, so maybe it's still coming.

Fright Night - Part 2 (1988) Grade: B Picking up three years after the events of the original film and the destruction of vampire-next-door, Jerry Dandridge, Charley Brewster is now in college and pursuing a new girlfriend, Alex. Charley has been receiving intensive therapy after his...

Salvage :excl: Grade: D So nonsensical and disjointed, I'm still not quite sure what really happened. A paperboy is attacked in the woods, there's some drama between a daughter and her divorced parents, a large shipping container is reported to have washed up on the nearby beach, the army...

Don't forget the new "Curse of Chucky," too, though I don't know if it's available in the UK yet. Just released to video in the US.

Fright Night (1985) Grade: A- Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) is an average high school kid living in the 'burbs. He's trying to make out with his girlfriend, Amy (Amanda Bearse) one night and notices two men carrying what appears to be a coffin into the house next door. Charlie becomes...

Fright Night (2011) Grade: C+ Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) is your average high school kid living in the Vegas 'burbs. Oh, and his neighbor, Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) is a vampire. An honest-to-goodness, real live (or is it undead?) vampire. At least that's what his former best...

I don't think they're allowing it at all. Several of us have sent PM's and nothing has happened.

Grave Encounters 2 :excl: Grade: C+ A film student and his crew, obsessed with the original Grave Encounters and convinced that the events portrayed in the film were real and actually happened, journey to Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital to investigate for themselves. The malevolent entities...

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) :excl: Grade: B An architect (Guy Pearce) and his new interior designer girlfriend (Katie Holmes) are attemping to restore the neglected estate of a well-known wildlife artist, Emerson Blackwood, who died mysteriously after the sudden disappearance of his...

Grave Encounters :excl: Grade: B- Lance Preston and his crew are filming the paranormal reality series, Grave Encounters, at an old, abandoned mental hospital (of course). We're told in a brief introduction by the network producer that the footage we're about to see was obtained during the...

I sent an email to Mike Frezon on Monday, asking if we could be set up like that. He said he'd look into it, but I haven't heard back. I see John Stell is able to edit his posts at the top of the thread. Not sure if somehow it's restricted to the thread starter only?

In the extras on the BR, you can see on the marker board in a couple scenes that for a while it was being filmed under the title, The Astral. I think they also considered The Further. I think Insidious is better. :) I kind of like the ominous, one-word titles. A number of these films have been...

Insidious Grade: A Insidious is one of my favorite thrillers of recent years. A family moves into a new house where strange things start happening. They begin to think the house is haunted...they should be so lucky. As their son slips into a mysterious coma and they move to a new home hoping...

DVD/BR Releases 10/1 Fright Night 2: New Blood (DVD/BD)

I think a moderator can adjust the thread to permit unlimited edits, if someone wants to ask one. At least, that was my understanding from the discussion in the Help & Feedback forum a while back.

The Report Card RED = First Time Viewing Insidious A Grave Encounters B- Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) B Grave Encounters 2 C+ The Collection B- Fright Night (2011) C+ Fright Night (1985) A- Salvage D Fright Night - Part 2 (1988) B Curse of Chucky B The Woman in Black A-...