I know I encourage commenting, but it might seem a pain in the ass since you have to type in the verification thingie, and also get approved. BUT this is good for two reasons:
- No spam will get through! Spam-bot technology has yet to catch up with Word Verification technology.
- Since I have to approve all comments, this lets me see them!!! Even though only the last 10 reviews are on the front page, all of the "old" ones are just as valid. If you see a movie and want to comment on my review from like, March, you can do so without the fear of it being "lost". I may not have time to answer them all but I DO read all of the comments, and even if I don't have time to write a review I'll still go through and approve a big batch a few times during the day.
So keep em coming! I like seeing a big full inbox of email. Makes me feel more of a man.
this is a very cool blog. I look forward to reading your blog!By the way "Dead Silence" was fucking lame, I rented the DVD, thinking it was gonna be funny-awesome in a gory way. Wrong! It sucks BIG TIME!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think the marketing for DS did more damage than anything else. They tried to make it look like Saw, and it's not. I hope folks come around to it eventually. Not a perfect film, but it's not a clone of everything else and that is admirable.
ReplyDeletePlus I like slower movies.
Hey, my cousin is in a zombie movie, I didn't see it listed - Zombie Honeymoon. It won the best for less in the chainsaw massacre awards last year http://horror.about.com/od/tv/a/tv_chainsawawar.htm
ReplyDelete~Creepy viewing~
I saw that in 2005 at the Fangoria con in New Jersey. Good movie. Depressing, but good.
ReplyDeleteHave you done a review of Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive? I just rented it tonight and am looking forward to watching it...the trailer was AWESOME...in that good/bad way we hold so dear.
ReplyDeleteNever seen it! I should fix that.
ReplyDeleteyour blog's really cool...i like horror movies myself and i grew up watching nightmare on elm's street which i thought was the coolest horror movie back then.
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled upon your site while looking for reviews of the new Zombie flick. I'm sure I'll be horribly disappointed as the original is by far the greatest film I've ever seen. Thanks for a great read and I'll be back often!
ReplyDeleteBrian,
ReplyDeleteDid I miss contact info on your site? Well, anyway, I'm trying to contact you. I cannot believe I didn't find your blog sooner--I found if via Digg believe it or not--when I was posting my review for Halloween (2007). Anyway, I wondered if you wanted to exchange links? I started Movie Every Day in January of 2006, with the intention of seeing a new film at a movie theater every day for a year. I nearly accomplished the goal, missing only three days that year (and two were due to the Denver Blizzard of 2006 that literally closed down all the theaters)--I did watch and review screeners of two unreleased films at home, but, in my mind, that didn't really count. Anyway, now soundly into year #2, I have transitioned from seeing a film every day to reviewing almost every day (still new films nearly exclusively) and still close to 7 a week (but I see like 3 on Saturday and 2 on Thursday) or whatever as it saves on gas and parking. Anyway, let me know if you'd like to share links or other ideas. I admit that I'm pretty hard on the horror genre. I expect the films to be very good, make sense, have a point, etc., so not too many fare too well on my site. It would be nice to be able to direct people to a guy who has a greater appreciation for these kinds of films. I sit through many of them wondering "what's the point"? I was especially brutal on the Hostel films (1 and 2).
Well, please let me know. My site is movieeveryday.blogspot.com. You can post back there, or you can email me from there with your decision.
Take care, and keep it up!
One thing it might be kind of cool to do would be a joint post about the mental impact of seeing a movie every day on a person's mind. Especially with the writing of such thorough reviews every day--which take a lot out of one's mind as well.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong, but i think in early reviews you wrote a little sipnosis of the film being reviewed, now I don't see that anymore, just the technical specs so to speak, I know that could be fixed by ourselves just by hitting the netflix site, but sometimes they don't have the stuff you review, hence me being lost in what the movie it's all about (plus I'm kinda lazy) so you think in future reviews you could give us a line or two about the plot?
Other than that great job!
Hey! I am a big fan of Severance too. I just watched another British slasher comedy called The Cottage and it was almost as good. Not as suspenseful as Severance but I laughed out lot quite a bit more than I did with Severance. Highest possible recommendation.
ReplyDeleteHey BC...how was the comic con? i have one question for you. I saw that they were releasing The Lost Boys new dvd at the event...did you happen to get ahold of it? and if you did what did you think? any new and exciting stuff coming out that actually looks good besides the stuff we've been hearing about on bloody-disgusting? Hope it was a blast i plan on going next year...im watching phantasm for the 1st time...gotta love the classics...later man
ReplyDeleteHey, Comic Con is actually starting tomorrow! So I'll be MIA for a few days (still watching tho!). Hopefully I'll get some cool free shit! :)
ReplyDeletehello.what is your opinion on watching pirated films online?
ReplyDeleteVery much against it. Maybe if so many people didnt just download a bootleg for high profile horror movies in the past couple years, movies like Meat Train and Repo would have a wider release. With the exception of Strangers, no original (thats non sequel, non remake) R rated horror film has done well financially in the past year and a half or so. Slither, Ruins, Grindhouse, even 30 Days of Night underperformed or downright tanked. Yet, everyone seemed to have seen them while they were in theaters.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about snuff-like horror films... i.e. August Underground and the Guinea Pig Series?
ReplyDeleteHi, my name's Momel, and I also do horror movie reviews. I'll be coming back more often not to plagiarize, but because I wanna compare some of my reviews with what you have in here.
ReplyDeleteTell me, do you follow a schedule when you're watching your films? Do you review ALL horror movies you've seen? What one advice can you give to a budding reviewer like myself?
Thanks!
Oh, I added you to my blog roll.
No schedule whatsoever... takes some of the fun out of it. Sometimes I plan ahead for when I rent something, or if I know a remake is coming out I'll try to see the original first, but otherwise I don't know until I sit down.
ReplyDeleteI do pretty much review every horror movie I see now... I skip a few on days when I see 2-3, but otherwise, if its not here, and I have time to do so, I will write a review (they are usually called "non canon" reviews).
As for advice: just remember that filmmakers are people too, and taking personal shots at them isn't cool (I occasionally say that the director "seems like a ____" when I discuss commentary tracks, but that's about as close to a personal attack I get). The worst movies ever aren't necessarily made by the worst PEOPLE ever, so try to keep criticism to what's on the screen. Otherwise, just do what you want and have fun!
BC
I totally agree with the schedules taking the fun out of the reviews. It came to a point where I needed to have a pen and something to write on before I pop the DVD in because I'm looking out for details (which I could have extracted from IMDB) or for some magnificently effective phrase which summarizes the whole film in a nutshell.
ReplyDeleteAre non canon reviews the same as draft reviews?
I like what you said about movies and the people who make them, That's very helpful. I have this tendency to attack the lack of creativity or whatnot, and thank you for mentioning that.
Hey, I haven't read all your reviews yet. Do you also review seasons? Like, for example, Tales From the Crypt Season 2 or something? And if so, how do you think will you be able to accomplish that?
Non Canon is when I review a movie that i HAD seen before. Those tend to be looser (see my Halloween one for a pretty good, and pretty incoherent example) and less funny since if i'm rewatching a movie i've seen a lot, i probably like it and thus don't have as many negative things to say :)
ReplyDeleteI don't do a lot of TV stuff; just Masters of Horror right now because I got the set to review and so i sort of have to. Again - a time thing; a TV episode doesn't count for a movie, so it would have to be something i do in addition to my daily review.
ya if i would have known u were there i would have said hey...this will probably be my only sneak peak i get to go to..i just got a job in florida for the military...yay....but ya the movie was awesome and i was in the front row all the way to the right if u were looking at the screen....i enjoyed my seats either way but ya..i was like..press is coming? i doubt it..i expected them to go to terminator...but ya it was a blast either way..glad someone had front row center seats haha
ReplyDeletehey BC,
ReplyDeletei've been searching the web for hours trying to figure out the title of a movie i saw a long time ago as a kid. hoping as a movie connoisseur perhaps you can help me:)
main protagonist is a man, he shrinks somehow, and ends up exploring a surreal underworld underneath the floor boards of his apartment, where i think he meets other humans or creatures. this is not 'the increadible shrinking man'. i think it's a 1980s horror movie and i think it's american. he also has a girlfriend to whom he is trying to explain the shrinking situation. i could be fuzzy on the details since i saw this a little kid. any ideas. much appreciated. cheers
Sounds like Dollman, or Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys.
ReplyDeletehey bc, i don't know if this has been already answered elsewhere on this blog, (easier to ask here, than to look for it) is there a way for me to buy a movie on amazon that you have not reviewed, but you will get credit or whatever for it. if there is let me now how. cheers. ps
ReplyDeletebecause of you i am watching more horror films than ever before, and i thought i was seen a lot. big up!
erm bc, forget what i said. found it! hope you still get credit for this!
ReplyDeleteI think your blog on Student Bodies sucked. I also like how you do not post comments that disagree you. I am blogging about your comments on my blog areyoufnkidding. What year were you born?
ReplyDeleteI post all comments except for spam, racism/bigotry, or bootleg links, so I have no idea what you're talking about. This post (which is what, 3 years old?) was for the folks who kept emailing me asking why their comment wasn't showing up the second they posted it. But thanks for reading!
ReplyDeletehey there, i stumbled onto this site while researching IMDb's top horror movies list,
ReplyDeletejust wanna say thanks for the awesome site and love the reviews! keep it up :)