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Otis:
We are so used to monters, vampires and boogymen that when a film
comes along that plays off everyday horrors it really makes people stop
and take notice. Otis is about a man who kidnaps and kills teenage girls
out of some sick need to pretend he is a cool jock dating a hot
cheerleader. But after he kidnaps the daughter of the Lawson family they
decide to join together and teach the sicko a lesson.

The concept of a pedophile kidnapping and torturing young girls is not a
new one. However, it is a new one in the horror-comedy genre! With all of
the "Law and Order" and "CSI" episodes reminding us that no one is safe
and sometimes the bad guy does win it's nice to see a refreshing take on
the subject. It's nice to see a family that could easily be the neighbors
down the road from you take justice into their own hands and go psycho
on the man who has hurt their family. This film gave me hope for the
future of the serial killer genre. I have watched slasher after slasher where
everyone dies and the killer lives on to make a number of sequals, and I'll
say it-- I get kind of bored. Now we have a film that showcases the "eye
of an eye" desires that we all have lurking deep inside of us! My hat is off
to you Tony, bravo!

The Omen:

Some girls wish for diamonds, some girls wish for knights on white horses,
some for world peace... but usually they just want to win the crown. I,
however, wish for a decent remake to come my way.

Anyway... The Omen. If you've seen the original then you have seen the
remake. You aleady know how they took a fabulous premise and then
made the dullest film ever imagined. These days filmmakers have all of the
most incredible technology at their fingertips... so why don't they use it?
They could have finally made this movie with all of the gore and demon
horrors that it should have had, but instead they just took newer actors
and re-filmed the first one. So like I said before... if you saw the original
then you saw the new one.

Quarantine:

Quarantine is our version of the Spanish film REC. I haven't seen it, but I
am dying to after all of the positive feedback about it. To sum up the film,
it is about a reporter and a camera man who follow a fire fighting team
into an apartment complex where an infection has broken out. The
authorities decide it is a better idea to quarantine them and the residents
inside instead of trying to save them, and in classic horror style it
becomes "do or die" time.

I want to like this movie. I was so excited to see it... it had a great cast,
great characters, great dialouge, great premise, and even the infection
was semi-realistic yet horrifying... it would have been such an amazing
movie. If I had been able to see it. Like a number of movies in the past it
was through the eye of the camera man. So you can already expect some
bumpy movements and some odd angles. What I didn't expect was that
the camera would always be blocked by someone's head, or pointed at an
area of the room where nothing was happening while crazy infected people
tore someone's face apart just off screen. I went to see this film with my
fiance and one of my friends, and sadly I was not surpised to learn that I
was not the only one who was ducking and weaving through parts of the
movie trying pathetically to see around the thing blocking the camera's
view. Like I said, it would have been such an amazing movie. I want to like
it. And I would have. If only I had seen it.