Cinema By Dark Soul
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3 Gravestones
Sorry to say but I was expecting so much more from this film them there was.
Think of The Terminator, Night of The Living Dead and the movie Prophecy and
you have Legion. Right down to the arrival of the hero of the story and the knocked
up girl with the unborn child he must save. Here we have the Arc Angel Michael
who descends from Heaven to protect her before God sends the rest of his mighty
legion of killer angels to put an end to the world. Sounds good right? Well maybe if
we knew why any of this is going on but we don't. In fact we are told very little about
anything in the story and why this kid is so important we never ever find out. And by
the time the movie is over I really didn't care. Legion could have been better and
the two fighting angels do look good although we miss out on a great mid air angel
battle that COULD have been done but again the film falls short.
The story follows a small band of people who are cut of from the rest of the world
after angels destroy everything else and hold up in a roadside dinner. Enter the
angel Michael who wants to fight the others of his kind and again save this unborn
baby (I still don't know why) as the dinner is attacked by people who now have
angels within them. (yeah I know). These posessed people look and act more like
demons as they grow fangs and run up walls. The people are picked off one by
one until the gun toting Michael (yeah I know) takes on the angel Gabriel. See why I
say its a combo of the 3 films I spoke of before. Could this movie been better....shit
yeah but I've seen worst. Not all that bad but it could have been way better too.
Cry of the Wolf
2 Gravestones
Wow what can be said about this movie? Well its the story of Dakota, a young
woman and she wolf who wants to get out of her pack. The thing is they still want
her back and no matter how many of them she kills, they still want her with pen arms
or claws if you will. Not a bad story BUT the thing is you really can't see a damn
thing. All night shots are so dark you can't see nothing and I mean nothing. Even
the werewolves you can't see with the screen being nothing but black. I so wanted
to see this but saw nothing of the night shots and even day time secnes are still
hard to see. i had to sit in the pitch dark and still saw nothing. Other than all that,
the film’s not bad and the story and fights are good...real good. And then the girl
on girl action didn't hurt any too. If they make a follow up film to this, I can only
hope that they shoot it in the day light only.
The Wolfman
5 Gravestones
Well it took almost 70 years for this horror icon to see the likes of a remake but
at last The Wolfman has come. The film based on the 1941 classic hit theaters this
February after many, many release delays that the film suffered from for the past
two years. Each time the movie was to come out, there was yet something else
holding it back leaving us fans waiting way to long. Was the long wait and 69 years
worth it. You bet your furry ass it was!
Like its 1941 kin, this Wolfman is rich in tone and atmosphere that drives the
story onward. The creature himself looks just amazing thanks to make-up master
Rick Baker who knows a little about making a werewolf. Baker cut his fangs with
lycanthropes on his award winning film An American Werewolf In London, then the
TV series Werewolf, the 1994 movie Wolf and then Wes Craven's Cursed. Baker
who along so many creatures known two things above all, werewolves and apes.
For the new update of The Wolfman, Baker went old school and made the
werewolf very much like he should be The Wolf Man. For going his more beast like
creatures of American Werewolf, Cursed and Werewolf The Series, Baker made the
new Wolf Man very much in the same vain as the Jack Pierce in the ‘41 master
piece. Baker who as soon as he heard of the remake was in the works, jumped on
the project being a huge fan of the classic and it was the old Universal horror films
that got him into working in make-up in the first place. His only regret was that the
film makers would not let him do the transformation shots turning man into beast as
he was so famous for on American Werewolf. The transformations were all done in
CGI and not body castings as in his ‘81 classic.
Bringing the beast to life and also rare these days was actor and Wolf Man fan
Benicio Del Toro. On most werewolf films starting with The Howling an actor plays
the human role and stunt people play the beast. Here Del Toro played both man
and beast as did Lon Chaney in the 41 original His portray of Lawrennce Talbert
was dead on although he was a little more at home as to becoming a werewolf then
in the Chaney version. Lon brought a since of horror to the fact that he was cursed
and at the rise of each full moon the beast within would too rise and hunt the night.
Playing Larry's father is Anthony Hopkins who is no stranger to horror films like
Silence of the lambs and his other Universal remake Dracula plays his part well as
he too like his son has something to hide giving this new film bit of a twist near the
end.
The film itself has some moments that slow the film’s pace but all and all its a
good remake even if it took 69 years to do. There is a action scene with the
creature rampaging through the streets of London and running along roof tops that
was cool and reminds you of American Werewolf. Would the late actor Lon Chaney
liked this remake of his most famous movie monster? I'm sure good old Lon would
have loved it.
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