Entertainment Swindon

SAW:

Its films like this that you have to ask the question, are the writers and film makers of this franchise closet serial killers??? Either that or they have deep childhood psychological issues to come up with a story like this! This is an original for sure, when the traditional slasher movie that started appearing in the 70s and 80s, film makers felt the need to copy the likes of Halloween, Friday the 13th and Maniac Cop and why not! It worked time and time again, even to more recent times with the successful Scream franchise… But then comes along SAW, which although not as gory as you remember, it does have its moments which leaves you thinking you just watched a huge gorefest, but actually you come away with the psychological trauma of what you’ve been through watching the movie that you think you’ve gone through a non-stop gorefest.

Resident Evil:

Based of the computer game of the same name, this movie is another version of the age old zombie genre movie.

The Umbrella Corporation, whose secret laboratory is the scene of the action, specialises in high-tech weapons and genetic cloning. And yes hell is unleashed – The lab known as the Hive is ground zero, for a deadly virus that has been released and the Hive is automatically shut down, deep under ground. The employees trapped become zombies

A team of commandos lead by Milla Jovovich & Michelle Rodriguez go down to see what happened, where yes you got it, they get attacked by zombies where some of the team are killed. Meanwhile theres also a monster with a 9ft tongue down there that mutating.

This is very much an action movie first, zombie horror second, remember, it’s loosely based on a shoot-em-up arcade game. The team has just three hours to shut down the lab’s supercomputer and close the facility before the virus threatens to overrun the Earth.

The movie has become a franchise spawning multiple movies thats well worth the the gorefest and action binge this halloween.

ZOMBIELAND:

After a virus wipes out most of humanity, we follow a shy college student who has survived the zombie apocalypse so far by following his 30 rules such as avoid public toilets, always look in the back seat and double tap… He decides to head to Ohio in hope that his parents are still alive and takes a ride with savage zombie killer Tallahassee played by Woody Harrelson and his small team who are headed for Los Angeles with the promise of a zombie free amusement park… Do I need to say anymore?… Zombies and amusement park, yes this is definitely an action comedy horror that is far from serious, so get out your popcorn, and enjoy a good laugh with zombies.

HALLOWEEN (1978):

Halloween is John Carpenter’s 1978 independent slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis in her debut film that would gain her the title of ‘Scream Queen’ 

Set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the plot centres on mental patient Michael Myers who was committed to a mental hospital as a child after murdering his teenage sister

Fifteen years later, having escaped and returned to his hometown, he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis.

Its up there with the greatest of Slasher genre movies and with a couple of pitfalls, the rest of this movie franchise is well worth the binge.

Jaws:

Without a doubt the best shark movie ever that has spawned not only a franchise of another three movies, but a whole host of shark attack movies of which most are so very bad.

It’s a hot summer on Amity Island which means big money in tourism, so when the islands sheriff Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack, his first thought is to close the beaches which obviously doesn’t sit well with the greedy businessmen and the Mayor. After a boy is then killed the mother puts a bounty on the sharks head which brings in a flock of amateur hunters and fishermen, but they get the wrong shark.

It’s left to Brody who teams up with fisherman Quint and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute to head out and confront the Great White and kill it. Oh! And the movie has the one of the best lines ever said in movie history! “You’re going to need a bigger boat”

This is a movie you can defiantly go back to again and again to watch… Do we suggest you binge the rest? Well, Jaws II, watch for definite, Jaws 3, we are torn 50/50 on this one, its good, but also very bad, could have been so much better. As for Jaws 4… Why oh Why did Michael Caine ever say yes to this? The movie was definitely the worst of all four movies and a sad stain on Michael Caine’s impeccable movie career