JIGOKU KOSHIEN

JIGOKU KOSHIEN (BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL) (HELL STADIUM) (2003)
JP
Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi

CAST:
Tak Sakaguchi - Yakyu Jubei
Atsushi Ito - Megane
Hideo Sakaki - Hoichi

PLOT:
     Battlefield Baseball is a tough game--it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead.

REVIEW:
      Before starting the reviews this year, I decided to try and see more Japanese and Asian horror films. Well last year I didn't get to review a lot of the ones I had as I concentrated more on more recent movies than trying to get a good mixture of new and older movies. Well so far this year I seem to be doing a better job at keeping the mix at a decent level of new, old , and Asian. Now I know that Asian horror has the same downfalls as all horror films. Yet for some reason, bad Asian horror films are just easier to watch it seems. That's a hint of what's to come with this review.

     Well this was one of those movies I knew nothing about, but decided to watch it due to it has Tak Sakaguchi in it. Well let me take that one back for a second. I knew the movie was about baseball of some type. I just wasn't expecting what I saw though. The camera work had some interesting shots yet nothing really stood out as most of the time the cinematographer did a adequate job at best. The sound design was actually above average for a movie of this caliber. One would have suspected that it would have been really bad, but the sound design was definitely one the more stand out qualities of Battlefield Baseball. One of the weirder things I noticed in the movie was the characters that were from Gedo High reminded me a lot of old 80's  Troma movies, where the look of the characters were more of the radiated punk style. Not just their looks but the way characters acted and behaved as well.

     Now I have to talk about the acting. The reason why is I put it that way is because I know the actors, and most of them can actually act due to I've seen them in roles where they have to act.  Tak Sakaguchi, who plays Jubei, I think had the most fun in his role as the delinquent baseball hero. The reason why is because one moment he has to act the bad ass, the next he has to look like he just discovered a pot of gold. I will say that Sakaguchi has a screen presence that usually comes off the screen, though in this one it just seems hidden and misplaced. Hideo Sakaki is the one actor I had the most problem placing in the whole film. It wasn't until I realized that he was the one who was bandaged up the whole movie that I laughed. As usual Sakaki plays the true bad guy. I love Sakaki's makeup in this movie as it reminds me of a true anime character, as well as almost all of his lines as most are so over the top that you just have to laugh.

     Okay, I'm not going to beat around with this last part. The movie was just god awful. Yet, it was so bad that it was hilarious. Every action the characters do is so overdone, that it's telegraphed before they do it. The story is all about a delinquent who has giving up baseball due to his ability to throw a ball at speeds of a bullet which killed his father while playing catch. Even with his dad was wearing a glove half the size of his body. Another weird aspect is one of the characters, Bancho. Bancho dies three times throughout the movie and each time he comes back his look has changed to someone younger with no explanation of how. The rival baseball team is made up of zombies and monsters, and one zombie in particular carries around a dried out cadaver and uses as a puppet. Later on toward the end the Dried Out Cadaver is n a fist fight with Jubei which just adds to the over exaggerated aspect to everything that is this movie. Battlefield Baseball is so full of out of the blue scenes, including a musical number and a family revelation that it's impossible to actually keep a straight face during. Yet the one scene that made me laugh at the complete blatancy, is when the character Jubei breaks the 4th wall and describes the positive effects of baseball. Either the director is a genius for making a movie he knew was so terrible he tried to make it as funny as possible, or he really had no idea he was making one the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Either way, I laughed throughout the entire movie.


BEST DEATH:
     The amazing catch only to find out the ball is rigged by the unsuspecting player.

BEST LINE:
     This is Gedo High's new weapon, the poisoned bat named "Poison Bat."

FUN FACTS:
     The movie is referenced in Ban The Sadist Video (2005).

     The movie was based on the manga by Gataro Man.

     Ryuhei Kitamura produced the film while also releasing three of his films in the same year. These films include; Aragami, Azumi, and Skyhigh.

     The manga was recently remade as Deadball for the Sushi Typhoon production company last year with Tak Sakaguchi returning as the lead character Yakyu Jubei and Yudai Yamaguchi returning to the director's chair.

SOLOMON KANE

SOLOMON KANE (2009)
CZ/UK/FR
Directed by Michael J. Bassett

CAST:
James Purefoy - Solomon Kane
Max von Sydow - Josiah Kane
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Meredith Crowthorn

PLOT:
     A mercenary who owes his soul to the devil and has renounced violence, is forced back into his past violent life.

REVIEW:
     This is one of those movies that was released overseas, yet never made it in the US, even though the film got good word of mouth and favorable reviews. This is also one of the movies I always wondered about as I remember seeing the trailers for it, and thinking that it might be a fun watch. Yet a year later it still never appeared. So this is one of those movies that the US film distributors had no idea what to do with. Which means that it had an original story, wasn't based on another movie, isn't a remake, and isn't a sequel. So that equals basically now dead in Hollow-wood. Thankfully is was released in Europe and I was able to get a copy of it to review.

     Why the hell was this not released in America? Oh, that's right, the film is completely serious is why. And it sold it as well. If the filmmakers had tried to make Solomon Kane fun or funny, it would have ended up making a mockery of itself. The reason why I say this is because the story is about Kane, who is told that his soul belongs to the Devil. This basically drives him to renounce all violence and what amounts to hiding in a monastery trying to make the world forget he even existed. It's only when Kane is faced with a choice and his inaction causes a innocent to die in front of him and the boy's family does he finally understand that he truly had no choice in what path in life he has to live. The difference between the way Kane was at the beginning of the film to when he takes back up arms is that instead of killing for glory and self profit, he kills to save someone, as well as trying to save himself, even though Kane knows his soul is damned. It's this duality in Kane that really drives the story more than anything else as the character truly shows and feels remorse for his past life. Yet when Kane is pushed he becomes more of a demon than those he is chasing and is singular in his path.

     James Purefoy, who plays Solomon Kane, plays the character with no humor to him, but with a sadness through most of the film that is just always below the surface. It's this sadness that drives Purfoy's acting in the first third of the movie. It's this that shows in Purefoy's eyes and his depression of trying find his way in a world that his character left behind. The second and third acts in the film though is when we see the Purefoy's Kane become a demon and his lack of remorse. It's during this that we find out just how much of a badass Kane is thanks to Purefoy's acting. Pete Postlethwaite, who plays William Crowthorn, does a great job as usual. I really don't think he can give a bad performance no matter what he tries. In this, Postlethwaite's character plays the moral center to Kane. I say this as when Crowthorn first meets Kane, Kane is lost in more ways than one both spiritually and mentally and Crowthorn's patience and caring slowly brings Kane back to a place that can be considered living and able to function in society once again.

     The look of the film was interesting due to different reasons. One of the main things that didn't register with me until after the movie was over was the use of weather throughout. What I mean by this is in that each stage of Solomon Kane's journey the atmosphere and weather changes as well. When the film starts it's nighttime which can also represent Kane's soul. I mean this by he wittingly kills indiscriminately and with pleasure. This changes to Kane being asked to leave a monastery after hiding for a year and it's snowing. During this it seems as if no one is there for Kane. Those are just two of the changes in the film which I think director Michael J. Bassett did brilliantly as it's blended in so well with the story and the cinematography that it just becomes part of the overall experience of the story. Yet there was only a couple of things that bothered me though. One was the use of CG at two points in the movie. One was toward the start of the film where it shows a city being besieged by Kane and the second was toward the end of the film with the ending creature when it first shows up. The next was that the film was building up to Kane's fight with Malachi was a little underwhelming, though it didn't really take anything away from the overall film. The biggest problem with this film unfortunately is that it was never released in the US with no reason giving. I guess it's just too original for the Hollywood remake machine. 

BEST DEATH:
     Kane's vicious beheading of a nameless thug.

BEST LINE:
     If I kill you, I am bound for hell. It's a price, I shall gladly pay.

FUN FACTS:
     An article in the Daily Mail in a interview with Rachel Hurd-Wood mentions that Bassett is into extreme measures "so his cast and crew have been working in the cold, the rain, and as much mud as possible."

     Solomon Kane was the first movie in a planned set of a trilogy.

      In 2001 it was announced that Christopher Lambert was offered the role of Kane and was seriously considering it as it's a very compelling part.

     According to Paradox Entertainment CEO Fredrik Malmberg, the film's budget was $40,000,000 USD.

     Solomon Kane is another creation of Robert E. Howard, who also created Conan, the Barbarian. 

LONGINUS

LONGINUS (2004)
JP
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

CAST:
Atsushi Sakurai - Mysterious Man
Takehiro Katayama - Soldier
Toshiyuki Kitami - Doctor

PLOT:
     A war rages on, its end unknown, a group of soldiers bring in one of their own to a field hospital, wounded by a large, vicious, bite-like wound. Suddenly, an enigmatic man appears and starts to tell them the legend of the Lance Of Longinus.

REVIEW:
      As I mentioned earlier this month in a review, Ryuhei Kitamura is one of the fathers of the modern Japan Gore films thanks to his film Versus. When I find a director I like I try to see everything by him, or her, if possible, though sometimes it's easier said than done. Kitamura was one of those directors who knows how to handle the aspects of over-the-top silliness without sacrificing the dramatic punch of a film which is something a lot of the newer Japanese gore directors haven't gotten a hold of yet. So when I found out about Kitamura's Longinus I just had to track it down. And now, here we are with my review of it.

     Kitamura just has a feel that translates onto the screen of how to handle limited space yet at the same time how to make the most of it. It's also his use of camera angles that help expand the universe we are seeing. Even though he's not the best action director, one thing he does well is keep the camera steady on the action where everything is on full view. Another thing he does reasonable well is he tries to keep most performances grounded in reality as much as possible even when the story goes into unrealistic territory. It's this grasp of direction that helps keep the viewer attached to the screen. And as with most of Kitamura's films he doesn't shy from using gore, but doesn't go over the top where the entire cast is covered in red like so many of the more recent horror directors from Japan.

       While most of the acting in Longinus is decent enough some stand out more than others. Some are just average such as Atushi Sakurai as the Mysterious Man. This was Sakurai's first role and despite that he does a adequate job though he could have shown just a bit more emotion. Hedio Sakaki is still great as a bad guy. Sakaki knows that to be menacing he doesn't need to act crazy or talk as if he owns the world. He understands that by talking softly as well as with authority can be much more alarming. And in Sakaki's role in this he carries a lot more weight thanks to his acting.

     Even though the film is only 40 minutes long, it feels so full and has no real slow parts in it. Even the scenes of everyone standing around questioning the Mysterious Man, has a sense of urgency to them. The story is so concise and tight that it doesn't seem like anything is missing, except for the background of the war that is going on. I'm sure that if the running time was longer for the film, the full story of the war would have also been explained as from what they tell of it in the film it seemed like the war has been going on for years on end. Also at the beginning of the film when they were burning the Doctor's body you could tell they were in a city, yet it seemed like the city was dead or evacuated. The other thing that could have been done better with the film, apart from a few minor gripes, is if it had a longer run time, as in if it was full movie.

BEST DEATH:
      The rupturing of the Commander's crown.

BEST LINE:
     In the ashes of war, death and violence are everywhere. They have no reason to hide themselves anymore.

FUN FACTS:
     The film was released in 2004 in Japan.

     The film was never officially released in the US.

    Director Ryuhei Kitamura was offered the job directing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but turned it down, citing a poor script.

DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK

DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK (2009)
CA
Directed by Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska

CAST:
Rikki Gagne - Junkie
Jen Soska - Geek
Sylvia Soska - Badass/ 1989 The Cunt

PLOT:
     Set in beautiful Vancouver, four friends set out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk.

REVIEW:
      So as most can tell by now I've geared back up and getting back on the review wagon. I just want to apologize for those that sent my their indie and short films I haven't gotten to yet. I'm going to be making my way through my emails that have sent me links and watching them all in the next month or so. So today it's the indie feature Dead Hooker In A Trunk.

    The acting for the most part in the movie was surprisingly decent. Usually in low budget productions the acting is the one area that almost suffers the most, thankfully the female cast members were more than decent in their roles. In fact, I would have to say that they were the main reason I kept watching the movie. Now C.J. Wallis who plays Goody Two-Shoes I have to say improved throughout the movie. When we're first introduced to his character it just seemed like Wallis was lost at what to do, though later on he seems to finally get a grip on his character and his place in the movie. As for Loyd Bateman as Killer/ Priest, he does a much better job in his role as the Priest. Yet once he takes on the role of Killer he tries too hard to be threatening, hence he comes off as almost a joke. But when Bateman speaks quietly he can pull off a decent antagonistic role with some menace.

      I will give the Soska sisters, Jen and Sylvia, some applause for trying to pull off a homage to the grindhouse movies of the 70's.They have the look from that time period down quite well, as well as from the 80's, 90's, and 00's. But, in certain scenes the camera is out of focus which detracts from the viewing. There's is one thing that I was really pleased with though and that the Soskas do use different lenses, as well as used filters during editing of their movie. Another drawback of the movie is the sound, as during some parts of the movie it's just fine and sounds very professional, yet at other times it seems like the tried to use the mic on the camera they were using, which doesn't have a wind-screen on most camera mics. Another drawback is the use of CG during one scene in the movie, in which Junkie gets her arm tore off by a semi-truck. Yes, it was meant to shock at first, then laugh at what happened (I laughed my ass off at this scene). But it was also the most unrealistic scene of the production due to poorly executed CGI.

   The overall feel of the film was not one I expected. The reason I'm saying this is because when the film starts I was completely lost and had no idea where it was going. There is still points in the film I'm trying to  figure out such as the Purple Cowboy Pimp. He shows up at one scene as a door keeper then disappears.   Nothing wrong with that in general, yet he shows back up later on a horse going after Badass. Now this might not seem that out of the blue, yet how did he find her in the middle of nowhere. And it just seems too perfect that there was a farm nearby, hence the horse he rides in on. One of my biggest complaints abut the movie is the use of Deus Ex Machina. Now this isn't that unheard of in movies that paint themselves into a corner, but rarely do they actually bring in God. Yes, you read that right. They actually bring in God to move the story forward and actually drops one of the characters off in front of a house where Geek is at and both ask how they got there. I know that the movie is a self financed and independent feature but nothing is quite unforgivable as not giving you're audience the respect they deserve by not believing they have a brain.

BEST DEATH:
     Not really a death but watching Geek lose a body part was completely unexpected but fun.

BEST LINE:
    YOU EVER BEEN SKULLFUCKED AFTER ASS RAPED??? Jesus doesn't love you.

FUN FACTS:
     C.J. Wallis not only played Goody Two-Shoes in the film, but also edited, shot, sound tracked, marketed, and did all post on the film.

     The first screenings of the film took place in February of 2010. The very first screening being at the Ghouls on Film Festival in the UK with the second being the Pretty/Scary DOA Bloodbath Film Fest in Texas a few days later.

     During the end credits this line appears:
No hookers were harmed during the principal photography of this feature film production.

SENTO SHOJO: CHI NO TEKKAMEN DENSETU

SENTO SHOJO: CHI NO TEKKAMEN DENSETU (MUTANT GIRL SQUAD) (2010)
JP
Directed by: Noboru Iguchi
                   Yoshihiro Nishimura
                   Tak Sakaguchi

CAST:
Yumi Sugimoto - Rin
Suzuka Morita - Yoshie
Yuko Takayama - Rei

PLOT:
     Rin, a sixteen-year-old mutant girl, meets a gang of rebel mutants who aim to take revenge on humans for persecuting their race.

REVIEW:
     While Japan has been no stranger to over the top gore in their movies, it is only in the past 10 years or so that it's truly become a sub-genre of it's own. Even though Takashi Miike has been doing films with plenty of gore and over the top action set pieces, it wasn't really until Miike's Ichi The Killer and Ryuhei Kitmura's Versus was released in Japan and in the states that this genre of movies became popular cult films. One of the key features in these films is how quickly they can be filmed and released while inventing new and even more over the top gross out gags that rivals Troma pictures itself.

     While the acting at most was average for the most part, some of the actors stood out more than the others, and not always in a good way. Tak Sakaguchi, who also directed the first segment of the movie, plays the transvestite Hiruko leader Kisaragi, and is for the most part subdued except for at the end when he just goes overboard with trying to act like he has an ultimate power. Yet, it is fun to watch him though. Naota Takenaka on the other hand is just so over the top in his roll as the head of the Anti-Hiruko Task Force Koshimizu. Now when you first see him it doesn't seem that way. Yet right before his character is killed he stops to pick up a bowl of food and comment on it while bleeding from the forehead. I could swear he was trying not to laugh throughout the entire scene. Mutant Girl Squad is just filled with so much bad acting that it get's so where you just stop caring how bad most everyone is, specially the extras that are killed, and you just start to have fun watching it.

     As for the movie itself, the best way I can put it is to compare it to a Troma movie but yet better special effects for most of it except for after Astro-mutant starts cutting off it's own limbs. I am not joking about that either. First it cuts off it's hands which is still capable of being controlled and then the feet get cut off just to keep on kicking someone in the face repeatedly for at least two minutes. All this is going on while Astro-mutant is doing its own self-propelled act in mid-air with jets of flame coming out of it's body where the hands and feet were. I will admit that toward the beginning of the movie to me is the best scene which is after Rin goes mutant for the first time and she goes on a rage fueled rampage through a shopping center. So many different characters are seen in this part that it becomes a blur (which might be why I like this scene the best). Also during this scene weapons are used that I have never seen trying to be used as a weapon before. For example, a corncob is used for a weapon, or at least tried to be used. Yet the weirdest weapon was a human being being used as a type of sword.

     As the movie is filmed by three different directors, each of the three acts have a different feel to them. The first act directed by Tak Sakaguchi feels the most together and complete. This might be because it's also the least weird out of all the segments in which Rin is introduced and how she's is basically a ball of rage just simmering at the breaking point. The second act is when we're introduced to the rest of the Hiruko and is hinted at just how weird the movie is going to get. It is also the last time in the movie that the story makes any sense for the most part. The third act is when the movie goes completely off the rails and becomes a live action anime in every sense of the word. The character Kisaragi becomes a monster. It is also in this act that the special effects go from mostly practical which I loved about the first two acts, to mostly CG which just ruins the feel of the movie which was one of fun to one of overt sloppiness. While the movie is nowhere near as bad as the worst movie I've seen, it's also a movie best left to be watched with friends, like let's say a bad movie night viewing. I do have to admit though that I was laughing after about the first five minutes and didn't stop until the movie was finished, even with all the "WHAT THE FUCK" moments and really bad dialogue throughout.

BEST DEATH:
     Eyepatch Assassin impaled through rectum by her own sword. It's also a homage to Cannibal Holocaust.

 

BEST LINE:
     This is Lemme's Butt-Sword. A sharp matter, huh?

FUN FACTS:
     At the Stiges Film Festival Mutant Girl Squad won the award for Best Motion Picture in the Midnight X-Treme section.

     For the Japanese DVD release of the film, Noboru Iguchi created a short prequel film titled Yoshie Zero that focuses on Suzuka Morita's character.

     Each director directed one third of the film with Sakaguchi directing the first part, Iguchi the second and Nishimura the third.

THE INNKEEPERS

THE INNKEEPERS (2011)
US
Directed by Ti West

CAST:
Sarah Paxton - Claire
Pat Healy - Luke
Kelly McGillis - Leanne Rease-Jones

PLOT:
     During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

REVIEW:
      This is the way to start out the new year. One of my top 10 movies to see this year within the first week of 2012! I first started hearing about this movie last year when it was on the festival circuit. So after waiting to see if it would actually release last year and nothing came of it, I was quite disappointed. Well thankfully that disappointment has turned to joy. Now let's hope the movie lives up to my expectations!

      I just have to say that Sarah Paxton, who plays Claire,was just fantastic in this film. She was great in the Last House On The Left remake, where she had to play a tough role, yet in this she actually shows what she's capable of and that she's a very believable younger actress. When she shows fear it's not like in most wide release movies where the female is all screaming at the smallest gust of wind, but genuine fear that is palatable.  And then there's Pat Healy as Luke. I actually believe Healy was having fun in this role as he just has to be an asshole through most of his scenes. Though just like Paxton, Healy can show actual fear which helped cement his character in reality. Then there is Kelly McGillis playing Leanne Rease-Jones.  McGillis to me had the hardest role to play as a psychic. The whole film could have crumpled if she tried to overplay her part. Instead she tries to ground her performance in reality as much as possible and in return made her character more relate-able. 

     Now as far as the story goes, I'm going to break it up into three parts, which is the same way the film is set up. In the first act we're introduced to all the characters and how they interact with one another. It's during this time we find out the little quirks of the Paxton's Claire and Healy's Luke. It's not a stretch to say that Luke is a asshole while Claire seems like she's trying to find out what to do with her life. It's was quite nice to see two people on screen in a horror movie acting like true normal people. The second act is when the normalcy of life starts to break away for Claire and her search for ghosts at the Yankee Pedlar Inn. It's also when McGillis's character comes into play. I will say that it is very important to listen to what McGillis's character says. I'm not going to say why as it will take away what happens later on in the film. The third act is when everything falls apart for Claire. The true feelings of Luke comes out during this act, which I'm still trying to decide if Claire really realized what he was saying or just chose to ignore him to help save his feelings. We also find out that Luke wasn't telling the truth throughout the whole film and what he does is almost the ultimate asshole move until he comes back.Yep, I officially hated Luke during most of this act, which just goes to show how invested in the characters you become.

     Now for those that are wondering why I was so vague through most of this review so far is because by giving away to much is to ruin the film for those that haven't seen it yet. One of the biggest complaints I've heard about the movie is that it's slow moving. And to that I just have to say that those people should stop watching the massed produced MTV joke direction in movies that has taken over what is considered horror these days. I love slow burn type of films that take time to explore the characters we see on screen, as we get to know their quirks, their passions, and this is one of the better ones. It actually takes the time to let the audience get to know the key players and creates a sense well being and peace before all hell breaks loose for Claire. The film is shot very clean and depends on atmosphere more than scare after scare to set the tone. This works wonders as when the scares do  happen it's much more scary and unexpected. My one small gripe is that director Ti West gives away one of the scenes at the end by spending to much time on Claire earlier in the movie. Those that know what to look for will see it right away, yet thankfully it doesn't take away anything away from the viewing experience. I can think of no better way to start out the year by watching a great horror film, this was one, and hopefully the rest of the year will follow suit.

BEST DEATH:
     There was no deaths on screen this time, so how about a dead man in a tub from the film instead!

BEST LINE:
     Oh shit.

FUN FACTS:
     The film was filmed exclusively in Torrington, Connecticut.

     The actual first showing of the film was at the Get Lit Winter Party 2010 in Hollywood, California.

BEST OF 2011

BEST OF

Hello to all on this first day of 2012. I started doing this list a couple of years ago when I was on MySpace, yet now that more people are reading this blog I think it's more important now. I do know these are just my opinions on movies though. Now as this is a best list I'm going to be including only movies that I saw this year, so this list will include some movies that came out in the past couple years. So anyway, here's the list!

1. THE WOMAN (2011):
     The most messed up movie about a family I saw all year, and I was happy to see everyone get what they deserved.

2. AKMAREUL BOATDA (2010):
     The last movie I reviewed this year and it lived up to the hype I heard about it and surpassed it.

3. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011):
      The second most messed up family I saw on screen this year was in this film. Dark and bleak and has two minutes of cringe and stomach churning asshole rapist I've seen.

4. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (2010):
     The best Mythos film I saw all year.

 
5. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT. 2 (2011):
      The end of a legacy and Alan Rickman shines in this film.

6. SUPER 8 (2011):
     A nice throwback to the fun that was the movies from the 80's

 
7. MOTHER'S DAY (2010):
     Rebecca De Morney owns this movie.

8. MALEFIQUE (2002):
      This might be the oldest movie on the list, yet I saw it this year and was completely drawn into the story.

9. TROLLJEGEREN (2010):
     A nice fairytale of a movie that doesn't take itself to seriously which is just what the movie needed.

10. PARASOMNIA (2008):
     This is what a art film looks like when mixed with a horror movie. Love all the people puppets in it.


The worst film I saw all year though is.......

C.H.U.D. II: BUD THE CHUD (1989):
     To quote Monty Python, "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!!!

Now my top movies I'm looking forward to next year are:

PROMETHEUS

THE RAVEN

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

CABIN IN THE WOODS

THE HOBBIT

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

THE INNKEEPERS

THE AVENGERS

BRAVE

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING