Down Under

DYING BREED-2008-A zoologist and her three friends go to Tasmania to try and find proof of the long extinct Tasmanian tiger. It also has to do with the legend of Alexander Pierce, “The Pie Man”, who was hanged in 1824 for cannibalism. I've read that this isn't exactly true as the film combines the legend of two killers. Anyway, Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) the zoologist is also looking for her sister who disappeared years before while searching for the is extinct tiger. She and her friends (including SAW creator/actor Leigh Whannell) soon make a horrifying discovery: descendants of “the Pie Man” are alive and want to breed to keep the family line going! After this it's just the usual torture nonsense (SAW V was made the same year as this). Jody Dwyer directed this Australian production. Don't know much about him. 

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I Saw Insidious

INSIDIOUS-2010-This is just a POLTERGEIST/THE EXORCIST/AMITYVILLE HORROR rip-off that critics made a big about because the director of SAW, James Wan made it.

A family seems to be terrorized in their house by some unknown force after their young son goes into a coma He's really possessed by a demon in a place called "the further" and the further I go with this review the further I can think of bad things to say about this derivative nonsense. I've read comments calling it the scariest horror movie ever but it's just talky shit with some loud noises thrown in. Parts of it, especially when 3 psychic researchers appear seem unintentionally funny.

I will give director Wan credit though. He tries using suspense and shock rather than the usual blood and gore associated with most modern horror films. Maybe I'm just a jaded old foggie but for me it didn’t live up to it’s hype!

Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are the parents and Barbara Hershey (apparently with a new face) is his mother. Lin Shaye is the main psychic and screenwriter Leigh Whannell has a role.

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