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NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986) FIVE EXPLODING HEADS ~ NOSTALGIATHON

November 14, 2012 by theipc

This white paper is part of a blogathon envisioned by ANDY WATCHES MOVIES and CINEMA SCHMINEMA who felt it would be fun to revisit some of the movies we loved as kids, through our adult eyes. This was good fun and it was the perfect opportunity for me to re-watch something I consider one of my favorite movies and something I’ve probably watched 800 times since I first saw this way back when. Not only is this hilarious, it’s gory, it’s filled […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, 80s, Very Gory, Excitement • Tags: Zombies, Loved It, Totally Awesome, Tom Atkins, 80s, Night of the Creeps Movie Review, Nostalgiathon, Fred Dekker, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Alice Cadogan, June Harris, Katherine Britton, Leslie Ryan, Suzanne Snyder, Elizabeth Cox, Emily Fiola

FROZEN (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

August 21, 2012 by theipc

[retro review 1 - I loved this movie so much I watched it twice in one day. I've also ordered the Blu Ray and watched it with director's comments. I don't think there's anything wrong with Frozen, IMO] I give this movie 5 Top hats because, like my legend indicates, this has made my life more enjoyable. This isn’t a review for a newspaper or magazine where I have to weigh the entire library of movies against each other and […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews, Thriller • Tags: Adam Green, Eaten by Wolves, Emma Bell, Frozen Movie Review, Kane Hodder, Kevin Zegers, Loved It, Rileah Vanderbilt, Shawn Ashmore, Trapped in a Ski Lift

THE PACT (2012) FOUR TOP HATS

May 30, 2012 by theipc

If The Good and Awesome and Beloved Reader has been reading my posts for even two seconds, The Good and Patient Reader will recognize a few things: I “talk” way too much, I watch a lot of movies, I hope to like everything I see and I can get suckered into renting something pretty easily with either a wicked title or trailer. If (wait for it) IF – you happen to look at the trailer for this and think that this […]

Categories: 2012, Four Top Hats, Slasher • Tags: Agnes Bruckner, Caity Lotz, Casper van Dien, Creepy Wallpaper, Haley Hudson, Haunted House, Loved It, Paranormal Activity, Serial Killer, The Pact 2012 Movie Review

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) FOUR TOP HATS

May 24, 2012 by theipc

I got nostalgic the other day when I was watching Alien and I beered up some older movies that I loved from when I was a kid so I’ll be writing about some of my old faves (maybe) frequently here. When I moved “Assault” up to position one I beeredly thought – “hey why don’t I do a tribute page to John Carpenter??? I can do it!” and then queued up a bunch of his older movies. So, I am going to […]

Categories: 70s, Four Top Hats, John Carpenter, Population Sample • Tags: Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Movie Review, Austin Stoker, Charles Cyphers, Darwin Johnston, John Carpenter, Kim Richards, Laurie Zimmer, Loved It, Martin West, Nancy Kyes, Napoleon Wilson, Policeman Ethan Bishop, Tony Burton

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011) FIVE TOP HATS

May 22, 2012 by theipc

Well – here’s another movie I don’t think I can possibly do any justice to. The motto here at THE IPC HQ is to not take anything too seriously (especially myself) but I really don’t think I want to make some good clean fun at the expense of this – I don’t know if it’s a masterpiece – um, wonderfully serious, difficult to watch, heartbreakingly sad, perfectly put together story of a mother of an unwell kid. That’s not even a […]

Categories: 2012, Five Top Hats • Tags: Ezra Miller, John C Reilly, Loved It, Psychopathic Kid, Siobhan Fallon, Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin Movie Review

THE TRIPLE PLAY: FEAST, FEAST 2 & FEAST 3

December 15, 2011 by theipc

FEAST (2005) FIVE TOP HATS Let me start by saying that the first Feast movie is awesome. It has great production value, good actors, fantastic gore and creature effects, kick-ass camera work, it’s hilarious, it came out of the blue and had more WTF moments that I had seen in forever. When this first came out my friends and I watched it three weekends in a row. This was produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Wes Craven and stars […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews, The Triple Play, Two Top Hats • Tags: Affleck Damon and Craven, Balthazar getty, Clu Galager, Eric Dane, Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds, Feast 3: The Happy Finish, Feast Movie, Feast Trilogy Movie Review, Honey Pie, I'm the guy that's gonna save your ass, Isaacs Picture Conclusions, John Gulager, Krista Allen, Loved It, Stupid Giant Robot, Terrible CGI

THE DOUBLE FEATURE: 28 DAYS LATER & 28 WEEKS LATER

December 14, 2011 by theipc

28 DAYS LATER (2003) FIVE TOP HATS Has it really been eight years since I saw 28 Days in the theater? Wow… This movie totally blew me away that day. The commercials and ads touted this as “Roddy Doyle reinvents the zombie movie!” and boy he sure did (even though these are not really “zombies” as in undead humans, but are people infected with a virus called Rage that is transmitted through blood). From the first five minutes into it […]

Categories: Double Feature, Movie Reviews, Zombies • Tags: 28 Days Later Movie Review, 28 Weeks Later Movie Review, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Christopher Eccleston, Cilian Murphy, Danny Boyle, Double Feature, Harold Perrineau, Idris Elba, Imogen Poots, Isaacs Picture Conclusions, Jeremy Renner, Loved It, Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, The Infected

SPIRIT CAMP (2009) FOUR TOP HATS

August 22, 2011 by theipc

For those of you who read my movie review blog, I am working on another “POPULATION SAMPLE” – the group of girls stranded somewhere (house, sorority, summer camp, etc.) with a killer picking them off one by one sub-genre. I have three of them done, I don’t know how many I can get too – there are lots of them – and I came across this little beauty I watched today, and I liked it so much I wanted it […]

Categories: Four Top Hats, Movie Reviews • Tags: Horror Movie, Loved It, Movie Review, Spirit Camp Movie

RED (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

August 22, 2011 by theipc

Well – the wife and I went to see RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) today at the theater and we both came out if it very impressed and in agreement that it was much better than we thought it would be. We both thought it would be good (which is why we went to see it) and both came out pretty excited. Bruce Willis was awesome as the retired “super black ops” guy that toppled dictatorships and can eat up the Secret […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews • Tags: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Loved It, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Movie Review, Red Movie

ISAACS’ MOVIE CONSIDERATION 1: LET THE RIGHT ONE ON / LET ME IN

August 22, 2011 by theipc

I watched Let The Right One In (from here on out we’ll abbreviate to LTROI) a few years ago and absolutely loved it (I enjoy watching foreign language films even if I have to read them). I loved it, loved it, loved it. It would probably be considered “boring” but, as an only child, I really identified with the main male character Oskar. It can be kinda sad growing up without much companionship, especially when you get into those puberty […]

Categories: Consideration: Original and Remake, Movie Reviews • Tags: Chloe Grace Moretz, Hit Girl, Horror Movie, Let Me In, Let the Right One In, Loved It, Matt Reeves, Movie Review, Vampires

FROZEN (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

August 21, 2011 by theipc

I give this movie 5 Top hats because, like my legend indicates, this has made my life more enjoyable. This isn’t a review for a newspaper or magazine where I have to weigh the entire library of movies against each other and rate them alike, to get my paycheck. I really, really liked this movie, even though (especially since) there were about 20 of the most nerve wracking minutes I have spent in a long time in this thing. This […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews • Tags: Adam Green, Emma Bell, Frozen Movie, Horror Movie, Loved It, Movie Review, Torn Apart by Wolves, Trapped in a Ski Lift

THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009) FOUR TOP HATS

August 21, 2011 by theipc

Every review of this movie usually opens with “You’re either going to love it or hate it”. I REALLY liked this movie and………. it almost got me scared…. (Not like The Descent, shit your pants a couple of times Scared) but the atmosphere kind of had me feeling a little weirded out. As in: “if I was watching this movie at someone else’s house when I was in my teens I would have probably been feeling like I had the […]

Categories: Four Top Hats, Movie Reviews • Tags: 80s Revisit, AJ Bowen, Greta Gerwig, Horror Movie, Jocelin Donahue, Loved It, Mary Woronov, Movie Review, The House of the Devil Movie, Ti West, Tom Noonan

KICK ASS (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

August 21, 2011 by theipc

I F’ING LOVED THIS MOVIE! About five minutes into it I was hooked. I loved the cinematography, I really enjoyed the cast, the costumes were great, the action was intense (and very exciting for me since most superhero movies are tamed down into kiddie land), there were buckets of blood, the dialog was hilarious and “adult” and there were some VERY original scenes during the film that reminded me of the first time I saw Boondock Saints and I was blown away that someone was actually still original, […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews • Tags: Chloe Grace Moretz, Hit Girl, Kick Ass Movie, Loved It, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaughn, Movie Review, Nic Cage, Wicked Awesome

THE CRAZIES (2010) FOUR TOP HATS

August 21, 2011 by theipc

Timothy Olyphant? Check. Radha Mitchell? Check. Dude with a cool handlebar mustache? Check. Real gore effects not CGI? Check!! I really liked this movie. I liked the dialog, the filming, the atmosphere, the use of prosthetics and buckets of blood (not CGI), the “Crazies” themselves were believable, the story was not stupid, the reasoning behind the transformations was plausible; all in all it really worked for me. Small town Iowa gets it’s water source contaminated (it’s explained in one of […]

Categories: Four Top Hats, Movie Reviews, Zombies • Tags: Cool Stache, Horror Movie, Loved It, Movie Review, Radha Mitchell, Remake, The Crazies 2010, Timothy Olyphant, Wicked Awesome

RUBBER (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

August 20, 2011 by theipc

Well – this is really one of those movies that you’re either going to LOVE or HATE. This is a story (and a story within a story) about a TIRE (named Robert) who comes to life and realizesthat it / he has telekinetic powers which he uses to destroy small animals and blow the heads of human beings to pieces in beautiful, GORY detail. Also within, is a side story about a couple of the characters that know they are […]

Categories: Five Top Hats, Movie Reviews, Very Gory • Tags: Isaacs Picture Conclusions, Loved It, Movie Review, Nonsense!!, Roxane Mesquida, Rubber Movie, Very Gory, Wings Hauser

Isaacs Picture Conclusions

An Honest Review from an Honest Guy (who doesn't take things too seriously)

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NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986) FIVE EXPLODING HEADS ~ NOSTALGIATHON

FROZEN (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

THE PACT (2012) FOUR TOP HATS

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) FOUR TOP HATS

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011) FIVE TOP HATS

THE TRIPLE PLAY: FEAST, FEAST 2 & FEAST 3

THE DOUBLE FEATURE: 28 DAYS LATER & 28 WEEKS LATER

SPIRIT CAMP (2009) FOUR TOP HATS

RED (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

ISAACS’ MOVIE CONSIDERATION 1: LET THE RIGHT ONE ON / LET ME IN

FROZEN (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009) FOUR TOP HATS

KICK ASS (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

THE CRAZIES (2010) FOUR TOP HATS

RUBBER (2010) FIVE TOP HATS

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