The movie, Grudge stars a woman named Karen Davis who is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.  Do I have to say more?  Karen, an American Nurse moves to Tokyo where she is an exchange student studying social work in Japan.  She then gets a job to help an American woman, Emma because another nurse didn’t show up for work.  What she didn’t realize that was the house that Emma was in is cursed because of the mysterious deaths in the house years before.  Now a supernatural curse is after her.  Will she live?

I love this movie.  There are a couple parts that make you jump out of your seat.  I won’t give away anymore than that.

I would give this movie 8 out of 10 stars.

What do you think, Mark?

Released in 2003, Underworld, directed by Len Wiseman takes the best of filmography from action flicks such as the Matrix and combines it with a Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez-type plot.

Great movie and very unusual writing.  The acting was great (and Kate Beckinsale is marvelous).  I thought the plot lost a little of its nerve about half-way through the movie as it tried to establish the relationship between Selene (Beckinsale) and Michael Corvin (played by Scott Speedman).

Overall a great flick.  I need to rewatch the 2nd one as well and maybe I’ll blog about it as well.

Toby, any comments on this one?

I give it an 8 out of 10 stars.  Definitely dark, definitely intense.  NOT scary though.

OK this is one of my all-time favorite movies.  I think I just like the characters more than anything.  Released in 1998 this one is definitely an 8 out of 10.  Great intertainment.

Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurances.

What a plot.  Very reminiscent of the Body Snatchers or the Puppet Masters etc. they even make mention of this in the movie which is kind of kitschy.  Anyway the cast (informborrowed from imdb.com is great) :

Well I finished watching the 1990 movie Tremors starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward.  This is a cult classic and one of my favorite non-scary scary movies.  The cast is great and the plot is OK (giant mutated killer worms attacka small town and kill the inhabitants one by one).

I watched this movie with my 9 year old daughter who is scared of her own shadow, which tells you how scary this realy is.  Ron Underwood is a great director and also directed City Slickers and the 2nd and 4th installment of Tremors (plus a bunch of TV stuff as well).

What are your thoughts on this movie Toby?  Even though we didn’t get a chance to watch it together this time we’ve certainly seen it enough times.  I need to re-watch the sequels to remember them, but this one I’ve seen about a dozen times.

PS: Toby is going to write on “The Grudge” which we saw again recently!