http://houseofsuffering.com pretty scary huh? Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:54:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago I found myself staring at this cover in a stack of DVDs. I'd never heard of Automation Transfusion before, but thought if it was being called "the best zombie films in decades" by anyone I figured it was worth checking out. I admit it, I fell ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2009/02/19/automaton-transfusion-2006/ I wanted to like Dance of the Dead. Honestly I did. Come on, it's a zombie movie with "of the dead" in the title and after Fido my hopes that people are going to do cool things with the gener has been restored in full faith even with giant hunks ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2009/01/28/dance-of-the-dead-2008/ [caption id="attachment_53" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Bubba Ho-Tep with Bruce Campbell"][/caption]As a general rule, I tend to avoid all things geriatric. I wouldn't go as far as to call myself old people-phobic, but something about old people boring the crap out of me might have something to do with it. I watched ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/09/15/bubba-ho-tep/ [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Shutter (2008)"][/caption] Perhaps I just don't like Joshua Jackson, maybe I'm not supposed to for this movie, I don't know. Anyway, in the likeness of Ringu and Ju-on, Shutter uses the creepiness of an Asian woman with a bad haircut to tell a story of pain and ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/09/09/shutter/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="There are some places tourists shouldn't go. Like, Brazil"][/caption] When the movie “Hostel” was made, the city of Bratislava, Slovakia was understandably a bit…angry…with director Eli Roth. They invited Roth to Slovakia, considered threatening legal action, and probably thought about chaining him to a table to disembowel ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/09/01/turistas/ All I really have to say about this movie is... "Uh". Quite possibly the worst movie ever made, and I mean - worst! I'm talking, xXx, Slumber Party Massacre 2, Alexander and Gigli have nothing on this movie in terms of "the suck". What's that mean to you? You've gotta ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/08/22/washingtonians/ First, if you haven't seen Rec... you should. I can't really say much about it, because I'll spoil the surprises, but at about an hour in I literally said "Oh fucking awesome! This is a _____ _____!!" Just a heads-up though, this film is Cloverfield-like in nature, first-person handheld camera, but ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/08/15/rec/ I heard such horrible things about Diary of the Dead that I was afraid to watch it. Really. People had me scared. I've actually had the film in my possession for a few months now but because of all the crao I head I was afraid to watch it. As ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/07/26/diary-of-the-dead-2008/ For every little bit of awesome in Fido there is a bit of suck in the new Day of the Dead. Seriously, it sucked so bad it was nearly unwatchable. I found myself saying outloud “you have to be fucking kidding me�? again and again. It’s one of the ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/07/03/day-of-the-dead-2007/ Let me just say this right out of the gate, Fido fucking ruled. I had no idea what to expect walking into this movie and I haven’t been so plesently surprised in a long time. It’s a totally new twist on the genre set in the technicolor world of ... http://houseofsuffering.com/2008/07/03/fido/