It's been 8 days since I posted, so I have a decent batch.
(Ugh, apparently there's a 5-image limit, and I've already been dinged for back-to-back posts, so I guess I'll post every half hour. Mmmkay.)
Bone Sickness (2004)
This movie is both pure love and pure hate. Wow, what an unfathomably awful movie is so many ways. Terrible, incoherent plot, unthinkably bad acting, and some of the most annoying sound design my man-cave has ever been subjected to. I understand that the budget was miniscule, but dude, please, can you play more than that one low note on your keyboard?? (Oh sweet... Halfway through the movie, now he's stuck on three notes!) And why, oh why, must we see a full minute of this green-lit graveyard shot, literally, between every single scene? Why don't the army men have helmets? Why do the S.W.A.T. guys wear ninja masks? And is the leader of the zombies really some kind of blackened-faced devil man?
On the flip side, this movie is jam-packed with remarkably well done, non-stop, start-to-finish (save the green-lit graveyard shots) splatter effects -- disgusting intestinal gore, grimy worm-eating, blood-defacation and worm vomit, ribcage-exposure and faces being pried into bloody halves. Amazingly well done, and according to IMDB, all on a $3000 budget. I have no idea how that's even possible. Plus, it had actual, live giant scorpions.
Unfortunately, the bad outweighed the good by a metric ton, and I can't imagine ever sitting through this movie again.
5/10.
Dream House (2011)
Not very scary, thrilling or compelling, but watchable.
5/10
Black Swan (2010)
Amazing. Incredible. Beautiful. I cringed at the body horror, and delighted in the Shakespearean tragedy. I will surely watch this again. And again.
9/10
Stephen King's Bag of Bones (2011)
This is one Stephen King adaptation that I have not read, and I've heard that the miniseries didn't do the book justice. However, some of the primary elements of the story are clearly rehashed from his own anthology, thus, sadly, turning his past innovations into cliches.
5/10
The Thing (2011)
I wish I would have known this was a prequel to Carpenter's classic -- rather than a true remake -- while I was watching it. Most of it actually did follow the same story as the original, so calling it a prequel is a bit odd. However, it kept my attention, and seeing how the ending led into the beginning of the original was rewarding. Too much CG though, and doesn't have the magic of the original. Plus, with no Kurt Russell one would hope for a worthy replacement, but no.
6/10