Onwards with my unofficial bloody movie month:
Bloody BirthdayThree kids born during a total solar eclipse turn into cherub-faced little serial killers right before their 10th birthday. Except no one wants to believe that these cute little buggers could ever be so devious, so it falls on their classmate Timmy and his older sister Joyce to put the little snots in their place and end their bloody little rampage.
This is the type of movie with a very dumb plot, but a lot of interesting scenes, almost like the filmmakers had a lot ideas for some deaths, and then decided to build a movie around it. As a result, parts of it can be fun, but the story is a mess and the characters, especially the "heroes", are forced to act like brain-dead idiots in order for all the scenes to play out the way the filmmakers wanted. But thankfully the acting is pretty good, so this "killer kid" flick doesn't end up being a total wash.
Blood TideA man and his wife go out in search of the man's missing sister, who's been spotted somewhere out in the Greek islands. They find the woman, and her captain friend, but they also end up encountering an ancient curse that seems to have somehow gotten a-hold of the man's sister.
File this one under "Movies that would have been better as sort film." You've got a decent cast, a great location, and a fun premise involving a mythical monster that likes to eat virgins. But the only interesting parts of the film happen at the beginning and the end, with everything in the middle taken up by pointless talking. And it's not even good talking like fun stories or plot exposition. It's just a bunch of forgettable chatter that you won't even remember by the time the movie is over. It does have James Earl Jones in it, but even he can't help liven things up. Though you do get the pleasure of hearing him recite parts of
Othello.... not that that has anything to do with the plot either.