Movie Review: Deathwatch

-Deathwatch-
(2002, Directed by Michael J. Bassett)

Writer: Michael J. Bassett

Release Date: 6 December 2002

Genre: Drama | Horror | War | Thriller

Plot: In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other. Written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}

Tagline: Deliver them from evil

Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations
User Comments: Rain,mud,and lots of rats!

Intergalactical Frisbee: Review
Deathwatch, i liked this film. It was quirky, had a sting in the tale and had a cast of excellent characters, from a young and innocent Private who tries to understand the horrors of war, a man about to loose his faith in God, a solider who wants to survive the war with the minimum of guilt, a dying teenager, shot in the spine and unaware of the horrors to come and to a psychotic solider who will kill anyone, friend or foe. Add to this a German soldier, played with sinister and frightening conviction by unknown actor, Roman Horak and you have a film that you don't want to watch on your own!

I loved this movie, so I'm a little angry about everyone trashing it without understanding it. For anyone who has watched it and is wondering, what the f*** I invite you to look at the tagline. "Deliver them from evil." What does that suggest to you? Could it have religious significance? What do the cast say of what is stalking them? "Its Death!" The film is in fact a bloody good horror film set in WWI but it is also a religious tale in as much as the trench is Purgatory and every man jack of that squad is already dead. (Everyone see's hell as the thing they are most afraid of, and in these soldiers case what terrified them most was the war. So the trench is their Purgatory, yes?).

I finished watching this movie and thought to myself "Damn that's clever!" I mean, not to spoil the film for anyone, but it ends with all but one of the group sat around a fire in the deepest darkest depths while the star runs away from them and climbs up into the light and the mist. If there this were to be a clearer heaven and hell metaphor they'd have to hammer it into your head with a shovel. As to the dark eyed German soldier calmly waiting for the next group of unfortunates to judge... give him a cowl and a sycthe somebody? Enjoy this for the brilliant story telling and true art of in depth horror.

*****
#5 - Star
*****



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Movie Review: 28 Days Later

-28 Days Later-

(2002, Directed by Danny Boyle.)

Writer: Alex Garland
Release Date: 1 November 2002 (UK)
Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot: It has been twenty-eight days since Jim, a young bicycle courier, was knocked off his bike and injured in a car accident. When he wakes up from his coma, the world has changed. London is deserted, litter-strewn and grim, and it seems the entire world has disappeared. The truth, however, is even more horrifying - a devestating psychological virus has been unleashed on the world, turning the population into blood-crazed psychopaths driven only to kill and destroy the uninfected. A bitter struggle to get out of the city with fellow survivors to a military encampment at Manchester follows - but there, their troubles are just beginning... Written by Scott

Taglines:
>His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.

>Day 1: Exposure - Day 3: Infection - Day 8: Epidemic -Day 15: Evacuation - Day 20: Devastation

>The Days Are Numbered

>Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing...

Awards: 7 wins & 21 nominations
User Comments: "A Cracking Zombie style horror, with substance"

Intergalactical Frisbee: Review
28 Days Later is a great film about a blood-borne virus that has horrifying psychological and physical side effects. It is about the human will to survive at all costs. It is about what each and every one of us could become if we were to leave our rage unchecked. In case you may not have been paying attention, though, it is not about zombies. These aren't the slow zombies that George A. Romero presented to us.. Oh no, these things aren't coming out of there coffins and death beds, there human and very much alive, i assure you. They're called 'the infected' here in Danny Boyle's breathtaking vision of a Britain crippled buy infection.

The virus is 'rage', it's passed though the blood, any slight nip, scratch, kiss (yes I'm counting in kiss, cause what you would find when watching the sequel '28 Weeks Later' is that it can be passed though saliva. As seen when a desperate husband, played by Robert Carlyle, kisses his rescued wife who happens to have the virus lying dormant inside of her. She being a very worn host to the infection but still managing, barely, to control her mind over the raging virus inside her.) Once infected the reaction is immediate and permanent, it might be you're brother or sister maybe even your oldest friend but it makes no difference once hounded by the infected you better do a hell load more than scream!!!

28 Days Later..hammered down the rage in a brutal post-apocalyptic manner.
We watch as Jim walks aimlessly within a deserted London, shouting loudly across the abandoned cars and toppled double Decker buses, hoping for someone to answer his call. But now as we pace into the first five minutes, following slowly behind Jim as he enters a dark groggy building. With walls marked and screwed in writing, echos bounce off the high buildings four corners as he steps into a new world. When he sets his eyes upon the bloody scatted bodies below him this new world opens up to him. A world screaming with gore and seething with blood thirsty cannibalistic Infection.

What scares me about this film, why it leaves me having several small strokes...?
Because this really could happen!

It's a really strong paranoia to have on life i know but biological warfare is now becoming part of our lives, left and right, no matter where you go. Yes people being more awake than ever to the dangers of disease is growing fast, we shouldn't be worrying about terrorism, we should be worrying about what we can do to ourselves.
It isn't a case of if, but when. People tend to be ignorant when it comes to a virus of some sort, but the fact remains, we cant heal everything, there's isn't always a cure. With this information that he had gatherd it's just like the man Boyle to trot along and scare the living shit out of us!

*****
#5 - Star
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Holes by Louis Sachar

'Holes'
by Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnats (yes, his last name is his first name spelled backwards) is incarcerated at a juvenile detention center called Camp Green Lake on false charges of robbery–he is accused of stealing the sneakers of a famous athlete.
Never mind that the sneakers fell out of the sky and into his innocent arms–right or wrong, Stanley is in deep.

Like five feet deep.
At Camp Green Lake (where there is no lake)
all the prisoners have to dig a big hole each day–the warden says it will make them better boys.

But once Stanley finds out that the warden is really looking for something, and the something has something to do with the famous outlaw Kissing Kate Barlow and Stanley’s
“no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather”, well, Stanley starts to question whether he the master or slave of his family’s bad-luck fate.

The plot is WAY too complicated and twisted to go into in this short space, but let me assure you, this book is totally cool and quirky an every little thing falls neatly into place at the end,
like a huge mental jigsaw puzzle. This book also won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, and well deserved!

So, go out! Read this book! Report back to me!

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Book's Read: List of the Finished

- Books List - [26]

Stephenie Meyer
[-Twilight Saga-]
Twilight (Twilight Saga) [C]
New Moon (Twilight Saga) [C-]
Eclipse (Twilight Saga) [C-]
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga) [D]
[-Twilight Saga-]
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The Host [A]

J.K. Rowling
[-Harry Potter-]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [A]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [A]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [A+]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [A+]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [A+]
[-Harry Potter-]

P.C. Cast
[-House of Night-]
Marked (House of Night) [D+]
Betrayed (House of Night) [C-]
Chosen (House of Night) [C-]
Untamed (House of Night) [C-]
Hunted (House of Night) [C-]
[-House of Night-]

Anne Rice
[-Vampire Chronicles-]
Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles) [A+]
The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles) [A+]
The Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles) [C-]
[-Vampire Chronicles-]

Carrie Ryan
The Forest of Hands and Teeth [A-]

John Steinbeck
The Wayward Bus [B]

Martin Millar
Lonely Werewolf Girl [D]

Linwood Barclay
No Time For Goodbye [C-]

Russell Brand
My Booky Wook [A]

Alan Carr
Look Who It Is!: My Story [C+]

Christopher Ransom
The Birthing House [D-]

Joe Hill
Heart-Shaped Box [D-]

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

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