One of my co-workers has a huge video collection. Good stuff, bad stuff, all sorts of stuff. He helps justify it by loaning them out as much as possible. He brought me another stack tuesday.
Undead: This is a zombie flick with some aliens thrown in. It starts pretty standard with debris from space causing people to become undead brain eating machines that can only be stopped by destroying the brain. Then the clouds and burning rain come, the beams of light from the sky kidnapping bugs and people and cows, then the giant wall completely surrounding the city, then the glowing robed figures... and our heros keep trying desperately to get an airplane and escape over the wall.
The cover was familiar, but the title just doesn't stick with me. I'd seen this movie once before. It's a must see for the zombie movie fanatics, but I don't need to see this one again.
Wolf Creek: See story 132 (variant A) in "Every Plot Ever". A group of people go out in the middle of nowhere, get stranded, get help from a local bumpkin, the local bumpkin likes hacking them up, one escapes to tell the story.
This also uses character 59, the great animal hunter who has turned to hunting humans.
I don't get these movies. I love scary movies, but these aren't scary. These rely on images of people getting hurt to get a reaction.
The Hills Have Eyes(2006): See story 132 (variant B) in "Every Plot Ever". A group of people go out in the middle of nowhere on the advice of some local bumpkin, get stranded via sabotage, the local bumpkin (or friends) likes hacking them up, three escape to tell the story.
This has the bonus of twisted deformities on the villains to creep you out. Still not scary.
The most engaging character was a deformed kid who plays character 54, the standard good girl person among beast people who saves our heros and then dies so the heros don't feel obliged to save her.
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