Tormented (2009)

Tormented (2009)
Dir: Jon Wright

A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.
Decent British slasher film that is well directed by Wright. While the story follows a simple formula it keeps you entertained throughout and has some good death scenes. The effects aren't all that bad and the acting is pretty solid. A surprisingly well made horror film with a uniquely British sense of humour.

Story: 5
Acting: 6
Directing: 7
Scares: 5
Gore: 7
Overall: 6

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Inside (À l'intérieur) - Scissor Murder

A mysterious woman is after Sarah's child and will kill anyone that stands in her way, unfortunately this poor bastard was in her way.


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Discover the Classic Adventure of Beau Geste

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents:Beau Geste (1939)I can't imagine that when P.C. Wren wrote his adventure novel way back in 1924 that he could imagine the war movies of today. In fact, I'm guessing people of the day couldn't even imagine the sort of fire power that would go into modern wars themselves. The high tech bombs, the type of precision fighting that takes place, the almost complete lack of horses. Still, the allure of the wars of older times is still strong. There's a romanticism there applied to looking at a world where men on horseback fire pistols and rifles up at garrison walls.For that, Beau Geste has the attributes of a pure adventure story. Directed by William A. Wellman (who has one of the more difficult names to say in classic Hollywood), it tells the story of three brothers who are all separately accused of stealing their Aunt's prized sapphire before heading off to join the French Foreign Legion. Of course, joining the Foreign Legion means seeing a lot of your brothers die and getting shot at a ton by Arabs while attempting to hold down a fort. For some reason in this story, it also involves being under the command of a complete sadist that seems not to care about the lives of his men. He does seem to care about the stolen sapphire, though.Oscar Award-winner Gary Cooper plays the title role as the brother with the most leadership qualities. Also-Oscar-winner Ray Milland plays the love-sick John with Robert Preston acting as Digby - a brother who seems simply happy to win the respect and inclusion from the other Geste boys.Although the opening ...

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Trailer For Zombies And Mobsters Film The Horde

Calidude, this one's for you. I may have been remiss in not sufficiently hyping The Horde's position on the Frightfest roster, but I can at least make it up to you by bringing you the trailer. Watch that embedded after the break but first, a little background.This cops, robbers and zombies film is the debut of the writer and director team Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, and was produced by Xavier Gens, director of Frontière(s) and Hitman. It tells the story of cops and mobsters teaming up when a wave of the undead come crashing in. And boy - what a wave it is. This trailer ends with some of the most zombie-saturated footage that I've ever seen. Huuuuuge numbers of the grabby, bitey things.See for yourself:And there we have it - another year, another French horror film to get everybody going. About time it was a zombie picture, too.This ...

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The Reject Report: Weekend Box Office Too Close
to Call

Welcome to yet another photo finish weekend at the Reject Report, and just like a few weeks back when The Hangover clipped Up at the wire to win, we don't know exactly who ended up on top.What ended up happening was a saw-off at the top between Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. For Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, their run at number one ended on Wednesday night when Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs beat it with a haul of $13.7 million. Then Transformers 2 won on Thursday and Friday by very narrow margins, and then the Ice Age sequel won narrowly again on Saturday. We don't have the actuals for Sunday yet, which is expected to be yet another narrow result.So the bottom line is that I am writing a box office column today, and I can't say with any certainty who actually won the weekend. I will say this: the fact that this latest Ice Age movie only took in a five day haul of over $67 million is not such great news for them, because a lot of these other CGI cartoons have easily done better, with openings upwards in the range of $60 million. A lot of folks are complaining and saying how sick and tired they are of these Ice Age creatures. It seems as if a significant number of people have had enough of them -- at least, in the United States.Sure, this movie looks as if it definitely won the five-day holiday period and it's doing great business overseas to the tune of $148 million. In fact, they set the sixth-biggest overseas opening ever and set opening records in 16 countries. So there are clearly parts of the world that still can't get enough of these ...

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Watch This: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince HBO First Look

Now that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has hit theaters and quickly ascended to the top of the yearly box office chart, it is time to look forward -- to the next big summer blockbuster, which happens to be about a bunch of little Brits and their wands.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth such tale in the epic Potter series, is ready and waiting for Muggles around the world, who will be lining up and crowding theaters across the world starting July 15. But before we get to all of that wand-waving and wizardry (can you tell that I'm excited about the fanfare?), we have some first looking to do, courtesy of the folks at HBO. Their official 'First Look' has been published online and can be viewed below.

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Cinema's Great Closing Shots: John
Frankenheimer's I Walk the Line and Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth

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'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen' And 'Ice
Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs' Tie In First Box Office Report

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Prehistoric creatures and robots are in a photo finish for the Fourth of July box-office crown.[...] Read more!

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Alice in Wonderland Poster!

A new poster (good size) for Tim Burtons “Alice in Wonderland” have been revealed featuring Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter.Synopsis: On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! [...]

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Streep Nom #7-8: The Abundant Riches of 1987-88

We've been looking at each Meryl Streep Oscar nod and its competitive field. Previously: 78, 79, 81, 82, 83 and 85

Meryl Streep's first act was the Liberated Lady. The second was The Chameleon in which Meryl was always the lead, always had new hair, voice and body language and basically controlled Oscar's Universe. It was as if there was only 4 spots for Best Actress, one reserved for her in perpetuity. This second act ended with her intense immersion into notorious dingo-hating Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry in the Dark. [Editor's Note: Yes, I'll do a top ten performance list when "Streep at 60" wraps in mid July. I've heard your requests and I've been rewatching all the movies.]

Starting in 1989 Act III of Streep's career began but we'll get to that shortly. First, let's look at her competition in the last two years of her legendary Act II.

1987

the nominees were...

• Cher, Moonstruck
• Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction
• Holly Hunter, Broadcast News
• Sally Kirkland, Anna
• Meryl Streep, Ironweed
  

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I've always loved that "Mary Louise" exchange. But is Cher rewriting history to claim Silkwood as her first movie or was Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean filmed second and released first?

Other 87 ladies for context: The Globe nominees that weren't Oscar nominated were Barbra Streisand (Nuts), Faye Dunaway (Barfly), Rachel Chagall (Gaby: A True Story), Diane Keaton (Baby Boom), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and Bette Midler (Outrageous Fortune). The year also included: Lindsay Crouse (House of Games), Cher & Sarandon & Pfeiffer (The Witches of Eastwick), Holly Hunter (Raising Arizona), Ellen Barkin (The Big Easy), Robin Wright (The Princess Bride), Mia Farrow (September), Mimi Rogers (Someone To Watch Over Me) and Daryl Hannah (Roxanne)

Nathaniel's List. This is one of the truly rare Oscar years in that I love every single nominated Best Actress performance. I'm not talking just like but love, would-propose-marriage-to deep love. My only sadness then and now is that Oscar doesn't give double nominations (Hunter in Raising Arizona = amazing and possibly even better than in News) and that there wasn't room for Emily Lloyd's fresh and now little seen debut performance in Wish You Were Here. Emily won the NSFC Best Actress prize, a BAFTA nomination and my own heart. No one speaks of her anymore but it seemed like she was going places in 1987. Those places didn't materialize. After a few short years of lead roles her film career withered into occasional supporting parts and then... nothing.

Maybe British readers would now why. I don't.

1988
the nominees were...

• Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
• Jodie Foster, The Accused
• Melanie Griffith, Working Girl
• Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark
• Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas in the Mist

Other 88 women for context
The year's most outrageous snub was surely Globe nominee Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. The movie had been a big hit, it lifted her into a new tier of stardom, her reviews were ecstatic and it arguably remains her best work. 1988 also marked the peak of Barbara Hershey's career. In just twelve months on US screens she had a huge hit (Beaches) and saw the release of not but one TWO consecutive Cannes winning performances (Shy People and A World Apart). But outside of the south of France she was only recognized once (Chicago Film Critics).

Oh the rollercoaster of fame! Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara
Hershey were all smiles in 1984 (they co-starred in the baseball drama
The Natural). Who knew that Basinger, the least acclaimed at the time,
would become the sole Oscar winner?

Globe kudos that didn't transfer to Oscar were the winner Shirley Maclaine (Madame Sousatzka) and nominees Amy Irving (Crossing Delancey) and the awesome trio of Christine Lahti (Running on Empty), Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called Wanda), and Michelle Pfeiffer (Married to the Mob). 1988 also included Gena Rowlands (Another Woman), Bette Midler (Beaches), Geena Davis (Beetle Juice), Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and the debut of Ricki Lake (Hairspray).

<-- Meryl and Don at the March 89 Oscars

Nathaniel's List I consider 1988 one of the richest years of all time for female leads (though I don't much like the performance that won the Oscar. Figures). So without rescreening 7 or 8 films, I can't decide. But of one thing I am reasonably certain: my gold and silver medals would be melted down, mixed together and handed simultaneously to Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon if I were ever allowed the one-time Best Actress tie that Oscar itself gave out (in 1968). Meryl Streep would be in the mix and the remaining two spots would be hard won between...

Don't make me decide right now. I change my mind. This year gives me migraines... of pleasure.

What are your lists like for 1987 and 1988?
Who do you think should have won and which movies top your list of "I must see this!" if you haven't already?

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