One.

There is but one movie that stands out from the rest of horror films. One movie that surpasses each and every achievement within movies. One movie that is more messed up than any you will ever see. And it's name?
Silent Hill.
I've only recently watched this movie, and I dissapointed in myself for not seeing this sooner. I think the closest thing this movie can be compared to is Resident Evil, but even Resident Evil isn't that messed up. The only thing that ruined this movie though, was the ending, but when I say ending, I don't exactly mean the last few minutes, I mean approximately 20 minutes before the end it got terrible, but fortunately, this bad part only lasted about five minutes, and then it got really good again.
This movie is twisted up in every little way. It is about a little girl named Sharon who sleepwalks off to dangerous places and screams "Silent Hill" before she wakes up. Her mother and father are worried and feel that they've had enough of risking her death. Her mother then pulls a stupid move and takes her daughter to a town named Silent Hill, which was destroyed in a fire and known to be extremely haunted. As her mother gets in to a crash, she awakes to find that her daughter is gone, and off she sets to journey through the town of Silent Hill, encountering things she probably thought could not even be imagined.
Here are some pictures of some of these things, they may not look like much, but I assure you that these things are 50x scarrier in the film.


I would try to describe what these pictures are to you, but I don't think it would do any good, as just one glimpse of these images give you the propper introduction to the film. What I think these images are however, is a very warped idea based on something else. For example, looking at this reminds me of a fantasy character that has been warped into a nightmareish form, as he is wearing a cage over his head, and is weilding a great sword. This character reminds me of death throughout the whole film, as he seems to be the most powerful of them all, excluding Alessa.


These sexy ladies are a warped image of nurses. The react only to light and to sound as their senses are not too strong. Their movements are quite spectacular actually and fit together perfectly with their looks. I think that these characters would appear as the scarriest in the film, mainly because of how they appear so still, and yet they twitch, and sense a human presence, when the human is not aware of it. It's also a beautiful twist of the idea of a nurse, when nurses are supposed to appear friendly and loving, these nurses look quite deadly and vengeful. Seeing these creatures was one of the best parts of the movie for me.


Lastly, we see a man all jumbled up with barbed wire. This character in my books, is the most beautifully thought up. There are surely more amazing characters than him throughout the movie, but because he looks almost ordinary, in this film we are reminded that nothing is ordinary, and how they have taken a simple man, and tied him up so fouly, I think he brings a lot of life to the movie.

What's squared and dimensional?

Cubes.
The movie Cube is my second favorite series, mainly because it doesn't follow a story line all throughout. It simply sticks the basic ideas and in each movie, it changes them.
Cube is about... well, a cube, and a giant one at that with thousands of rooms. In each movie, there are a few characters, the number is random, and so are the people, they have simply just been dumped into this maze almost like labrats. Sometimes they wake up to see other people around them in the cube, and sometimes they wake up alone, and travel around hoping that they come across other people, which they do, but it isn't that simple. Inside this giant cube, are thousands of smaller cubes with six doors, one on the ceiling, one on the floor, and four on the walls. These rooms are all different colours, but the colours isn't the thing that matters, what matters are the traps.Throughout the cube there are many different types of traps, some are very easy to pick out, whereas others are quite impossible.
The second important thing, is that through the passageways to the next room, there are markings that mark the room number. These markings are either numbers or letters, and they hold a pattern to them that can distinguish whether the room is a trap or not.
The third important thing about the cube, is that the rooms move.


CUBE
This is the first of the trilogy and it has the best story. It's typically about six people who wake up in the cube, wondering where the hell they are, there's an extremely inteligent high school girl, a female doctor, a mentally disabled guy, an escape artist, a cop and a sketchy guy who works in an office. The journey in this movie is unbelievably thrilling, there are a lot of times when watching, that I've been totally surprised by where things lead to, and I did not see any of it coming.


CUBE: HYPERCUBE
This movie has got to be the trippiest of the trilogy, but instead of a cube, there are people thrown into a tesseract. For those of you who don't know, a tesseract is a cube, but with another dimension, and people have said that it can play with time and create illusions and such. Everything that happens inside this tesseract are out of this world strange. This movie has bonus points for the cube itself, whether than for the story.


CUBE ZERO
This is the last movie, it was released in 2004, so I'm quite sure that there won't be a fourth one. This film is focussed more on the outside of the cube. The main characters of the movie are these two men who work in this dark basement and watch over the cube and everyone in it, but one of the main characters feels he has fallen in love with one of the women inside the cube, and he checks her background out and everything and discovers that she's not supposed to be in there, so he ends up going in to the cube. It has a very interesting journey, but the bonus points is for the actions of the cube, and how it is being run by two simple guys in a basement.

I highly reccomend that anyone reading this, should watch these movies if you're up for feeling amazed.

There will be blood

Let's talk gore, and by gore I mean SAW.
I previously published a little bit about these films. It happens to be my ultimate favorite series of any other series ever made, simply because when most movies have a series, the film stops making sense or it gets cheesier or it's just plain boring. I think that SAW is one of the most incredible series I've ever seen.
Like in any series, there are some that I adore more than the others. SAW II, V and VI are the three out of the six that I love most, and I'm about to take them all up.
I will be providing you with images of these films to show you why I love them. If you have not yet seen these movies, be warned, these images may make you shreik.

SAW II
What I love particularly about this movie, is that it beats the first one and it shows its potential more. I love especially how it introduces its first group game. There are eight people trapped in one house and they have been breathing in a deathly gas which will kill them in two hours, but the door will open in three hours. Scattered around the house are traps set for certain people and each trap contains one antidote.


In this image, we see a man with a bloody eye, wearing what appears to be a death mask around his neck. Inside the mask, sticking up are very thick, long nails. This scene is showed at the very beginning of the movie. It is a man who has done some wrong in his life, and now in order to save his life, he must attempt to reach the key in time which has been surgically placed behind his eye before the device around his neck snaps and penetrates his head with many nails, killing him instantly. This trap is very clever along with all the others, but I like how it's one person only in this scene.


In this picture, we can see Amanda Young, a previous victim in the first SAW movie. Encase you have not seen this short trap scene, Amanda was wearing a head cage that would snap her jaw apart if she was not able to unlock the contraption in time. The key to unlock the device had been placed in the stomach of her awake, but paralyzed lover, and as anyone would, she panicked, and then freaked out and took the scatchel on the floor, stabbing her love again and again to tear out his stomach, and take out the key. This image however, shows Amanda Young placed inside a pit of needles. This trap was not exactly designed for her, but for another who decided he would get someone else to do the job for him. The task was to find the green syringe amongst all the yellow ones, for it contained the key to a door that held an antidote.

SAW V
Three movies later, SAW V was born. This is also a group game, but unlike the second movie, this group game relies closely upon each and every victim but unfortunately they do not realize this until the final trap. Meanwhile, however, as this trap game goes on, there is a lot of realization processing in the background that relates to the previous movies. You really have to watch all of the movies in order to understand the more recent ones.


As you can see in this image, there are three people in the room, only one is not alive. Originally, the game started off with five people who had been told that all of them were linked together somehow. Foolishly, they end up killing one another off until two are left. Here they are killing off their last victim by placing her in a bathtub full of water and attatching five electrical cords to her feet, hands and her head in order to open the next door.


This picture is of the following trap in the next room. There are five boxes in the middle of the room with a hole through them, inside are blades and below the boxes is a beaker. As you can guess by the picture, the victims are supposed to put their arms in the holes, and get cut by the blades. Unfortunately they have to do this in order to open the door or else the room will forever be their prison.

SAW VI
This movie is the most recent so far, until SAW VII comes out this October. This one is not a group game, but a journey game, similar to the third and fourth movies. There is one man who owns, I think a healthcare business but he turns down those who are terminally ill or have families. When he gets put in this game, he comes into contact with a few strangers and each stranger sets off a trap that he must go through and decide if their life is worth saving.


This is the beginning scene. There are two people in two separate caged rooms that are facing each other. Between the two rooms there is a scale, and on the walls closest to it are two tubes that are attatched to both rooms. Both of the victims are wearing a device on their head that is times to drill through their skull every 30 seconds. In each of the rooms, there is a table that holds many fierce looking instruments. The objective is to weigh down the scale more than the other by cutting off parts of your body before the device on your head drills through your brain.


This scene is during the man's journey; it is his first task. As you can see there are two people in the room, the one out of focus is the main character. If you look closely you can see that around their torsos are two metal or stone blocks, and on their faces are oxygen masks. The man who is in focus is a heavy smoking janitor who he had turned down for healthcare. Both of these victims have to take a deep breath in, but once they breathe out and take another breath, the blocks on either side of their bodies closes in slowly. You can only guess who survives if the main man is competing against a smoker.

Brains?

If there's one thing I love, it's zombies.
The idea of the dead coming back to life and feasting on the flesh of the living is an idea out of this world and that's why I love it so much.
There have been many zombie movies made over time, but my most favorites are:
Diary of the Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later (these weren't exactly zombie movies, but the infected victims seem to act a lot like zombies), Land of the dead, Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil Series and Survival of the Dead.
Most of these movies were directed by George A. Romero who's the best man for the job when it comes to creating a zombie masterpiece.
Zombie movies can sometimes be quite difficult to shoot though, judging on how good you want it to be. If you want your movie to be drop dead amazing, then you must provide these qualities:
#1. A one of a kind story
Every movie needs one of these, but this is a key thing in a zombie movie, because many zombie flicks tend to be the same otherwise. A couple of friends or family grouped together trying to survive, most of them become zombies and in the end the main character falls in love or lives happily ever after. If you want a zombie film that really dazzles people, then you've got to twist it up a bit.
#2. Reasonable actions
A lot of the times movies don't think too much about this, but it can really make a movie in to something. The setting is always important but not as important as the script. Relating back to the first quality, a good story acts upon good dialogue but especially on actions. What you make your characters do really takes the story on a long, exciting ride, but it's not just about the characters, it's also about how the zombies act, and how you can make them believable zombies to an audience. If the characters are running for their life through a field and there's a swarm of living dead chasing after them, then make sure to hold the moment and be sure to add in tiny little actions now and then, like tripping of tumbling down a hill or something like that, it adds in a lot of suspense and can really get someone leaning closer off their seat.
#3. A believable cause
This is a biggy. In every single zombie movie ever made there is always a cause, whether there's a virus/infection or an event/incident that managed to awaken the dead. This quality needs the most creativity in order to bring the movie alive, after all, what's a zombie movie without a good cause? This can be pretty difficult to do, but if you think of all the causes ever invented or even just one cause that you know of if you haven't seen too many zombie flicks, if you twist it up enough to make it seem like a brand new idea, then you've got your cause. Making it believable on the other hand, is a bigger step you have to take, because you have to relate it to today and think about if it could really happen. You don't necessarily have to make it believable, but the causes that are, tend to bring a whole lot more thrill to the movie.
So those are the three important qualities that I look for in zombie films and how I know if they're good or not. Every time I finish watching one however, the thought always manages to hit me, "What if zombies actually invaded this planet?" The scariest thing about that question though, is not about the concept of the thought, but the thought of other movies. Ghost movies are based on ghosts, which have been captured in real photographs and recordings. Serial killer movies are based upon actual sadistic killers in our world today, and zombies are added to the myths section where vampires and werewolfs are. But vampires are simply just nocturnal human beings that drink blood, and werewolfs are no more than humans that have been raised by wolves. If you think about it deeply, zombies are the only thing left to actually be brought into existance, but will we be ready when that day comes?

My Top 5 Worst Movies

Out of all the many movies I have seen in my lifetime, it's easy to say that I have some that I dislike, but here are the movies that I absoloutly hate.

#5. The Grudge 2
I didn't think that The Grudge was an entirely bad movie, it was very similar to The Ring and it had a creepy flow to it. When I saw that The Grudge 2 had come out, I was feeling pretty eager to see it, hoping that it was as good as the first. I was pretty dissapointed with it though. It hardly made sense at all and it seemed as though the people who made it got pretty cocky with their first film and decided to make an "even better" movie, but they over did it, and it was hardly as scary as the first or as interesting.

#4. The Last House On The Left
Everything that happened in this film seemed extremely unnecessary, and I mean extremely. For starters, this movie had no story line to it at all and two thirds of the movie was pretty disgusting. I think that adding in a rape scene disgraced the movie even further, and sticking a man's hand down a garbage disposer was just trying too hard. The characters acting in this movie were also pretty thick, not to say that they were bad actors, but the way the script was written made the characters seem really stupid.

#3. The Haunting of Molly Hartley
This one seemed too jumpy, and it left me sitting there reading the credits, saying "That was it?" This movie was really random, and as soon as it started to make sense it suddenly didn't and it leaves you feeling really confused, however, nothing was as bad as the ending. I was pretty pissed off that I had spent $10 on that of all things.

#2. The Rage
Two words. Terrible Acting. There was nothing about this movie that I liked. They tried to make it seem more interesting by adding in a lot of blood and gore, but all it did was make the movie more unappealing and disgusting. This movie was mainly acted upon a more wild story of Frankenstein with a hint of bad imagination.

#1. Drag Me To Hell
This movie makes me want to grind my teeth and scream. I hated every tiny little thing about this movie. It was overly rated, mostly by people who do not have any taste in movies whatsoever and have probably never watched any good horror movies before because they're too afraid. This movie was utterly disgusting and vile and a lot of it was pretty cheesy too. I'm certain that people don't want to pay or waste their time watching a dead old woman tumble out her coffin onto someone and vomit in their mouth, nor do people want to see a posessed donkey with a very corny puppet face cussing at someone. A lot of the times I wasn't sure if I was watching the right movie, but sadly I was, and it's unbelievable how this film managed to make it to theatres. The beginning was bad. The first one third of it was bad. The second third was terrible but the ending was just atrocious. Never have I seen a movie as bad as that in my whole life. Whoever made it needs to be punched in the face.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that some bad movies are worth the watch because they're amusing to make fun of, but as for the hideously abnoxious films, that's about two hours of my life that I can not get back, and I would rather run over my pet with a lawnmower than have to sit through it again.