Stir of Echoes is one of the best suspense/horror movies you will see. The storyline is not the most original in the world, but the acting and plot more than make up for it. Stir of echoes deserved more acclaim and hype. Why didn’t it get it? A little movie called “The Sixth Sense”. Had The Sixth Sense came out a year later, SOE would...

I was surprised when I first heard the rave reviews and witnessed how much money this film was making… it seems to me, that it would’ve been much more a “sleeper” The reason is that, compared to most horror/pyschological horror films, this movie is “slow”. It moves more like a 3-hour long movie, than an hour and a...

That was my first reaction after watching the film. Although people call it a Spielberg film, director credit goes to Tobe Hooper, man responsible for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Unlike that film though which is creepiness galore, this film is a bit more streamlined with memorable spookiness. With Spielberg you’ll get kiddie friendliness although...

Gimmick theme park owner/builder Geoffrey Rush throws soon-to-be ex-wife Famke Janssen a birthday party, with a theme and gimmick of its own: the guests are each given a loaded .45, and a million dollar check in their name – should they survive the night. The party occurs in a locked-down, now-abandoned asylum on an isolated seaside hilltop, where...

The Grudge is the American remake of the Japanese horror film. What’s different about The Grudge is it’s non-linear story line. At first you think it’s three separate stories, then just two, and finally you realize that your seeing interspersed story lines from the past and from the present and they meet at the end of the film —...

This movie starts almost like an episode of  Love Boat. The music is light and nearly romantic as you zoom into the Antonia Graza cruising the high seas with well-dressed crew and passengers. However, no sooner do you zoom onto the ship with dancing passengers than a really bad thing happens, and there is blood and horrible death. We fast forward 40...

In honoring the past, we celebrate the present. In front of the historical museum, the mayor and his assistant dedicate a memorial of the four founding fathers of this pretty little town on an island off Oregon. The four who are remembered with statues had made a pact to protect the island, after they arrived there on the clipper ship ‘Elizabeth...

Dahlia (Connelly) is a newly divorced mother in a bitter custody battle with her ex (Scott) over their daughter Cecilia. Dahlia finds an apartment on Roosevelt Island. The apartment’s cramped and the building on the neglected side but the school is excellent. The ex threatens to sue for custody unless she moves to his neighborhood. So Dahlia is...