A group of bank robbers flying a stolen plane to Mexico find themselves betrayed by one of their number. Chasing after him, they find themselves under assault by… well… take a guess.

After the past three nights this comes as a breath of fresh air. A genuine scary picture, with good acting, good gore, and a plot that is subtle in ways it needs to be subtle and all out where it needs to be all out.

I’ve seen this one before and it still held me in suspense. Great flick.

A group of miners and other souls enter an abandoned mine and find out just why it was abandoned.

Okay, here’s the deal.

Story’s okay, consisting of people roaming off alone into the dark to die. There’s a whole chunk of odious comic relief to sit through, too. A little questionable moments here and there, too.

Characters lean towards irritating, but not enough to ruin the flick. Not helping is the acting sits right about at acting.

The score sounds cribbed from John Carpenter, which is a good thing. And it really doesn’t wear out it’s welcome.

What makes it worth watching, in my poor opinion, is the Strangeness itself, a glorious tentacled thing realized through stop motion. Really a thing to behold.

Now if you really need to see a miner-in-danger flick, either My Blood Valentine or The Boogens is the way to go. Much better flicks. This, though, is a fairly decent time-killer.

Nothing wrong with that.

A group of people show up at a creepy old house for the reading of a will. Weird things happen, as is to be expected.

This movie is on the very cusp of Horror. It has a crazy killer (whose identity is partly obvious) stalking the halls doing his thing. It has people wandering in the dark. It even has a supernatural angle that’s really, really pointless.

I think I must enjoy the subgenre, because I did like this thing, but there’s no there there. Time killer is all it is, and I’d rather doubt anyone but me would seek it out.

Five semi stupid twentysomethings head out to a remote house where something very bad happens to them.

That’s not a spoiler, as it’s in the first bit of information we get about the movie.

And this is a Found Footage flick. People don’t usually survive those.

Any ways. Well acted. Creepy plot. Only one or two head slappers here. I would hazard a guess at this being one of the better films in the subgenre.

Nice.

A family moves in to a house where evil lurks.

You know, standard Horror plot.

I really wanted to like this movie more than I actually do. I don’t hate it. Can’t say I have meh feelings about it. But it’s not what I’d hoped for, and that’s too bad.

This is a Lucio Fulci, which means lots of gore, an somewhat incoherent plot, and entirely too many maggots. In the grand scheme of things, it’s better than The Gates of Hell but not as good as Seven Notes in Black.

I will say this about it. This is the second time this month I watched a movie where I wanted the kid in it to die. About the same reasons, too, compounded with an annoying dubbed voice.

Only when the kid was in danger (and he was, several times), I wanted to see him get out of it.

I think that’s a credit to Fulci and this movie.

I just wish I could like it more.