Nine Lives

This is not a story about a pet cat.  Nor is it about revenge after getting sent "Fat Fanny, the Granny Tranny" to strip for you on your birthday.  Although, at some point, I wish that it were.

Paris Hilton is in this movie.  With a different name, but playing Paris Hilton.  I don't know if she seeks roles that bare so much of a resemblance to her true life or if she can't act.  Let's just say that I think that it is more column B than column A.

Nine friends are reuniting to get drunk and spend a weekend together.  The manor that they are meeting at is large.  So large that the cast have a hard time getting around the place.  The troubles of some people.

Well, that aside, ... another little problem with the house is that it houses a very mad soul.  So mad, that it possesses one of the friends and forces that friend to start killing off the others.  Along the way, the remaining friends begin to kill the possessed friend and when that happens, the friend who killed the possessed friend - becomes possessed.  Sort of a chain effect kind of thing happening here.  Tim kills Tom and then Tom becomes possessed.  See?

Late in the movie, one of the girls figures out how to break the chain and only one out of the nine remain.  And Paris Hilton is in this movie.

Not a lot of gore.  Not a lot of violence.  And not a lot of Paris Hilton.  I think Paris is the first to be killed.  First or second, ... I forget.

I give this movie 1/2 out of 5 butcher knives.

Dog Soldiers

This film is set in Scotland.  If you have trouble with Scottish accents or terminology, do not watch this film.  It's not worth the headache of waiting for the violence.

 

A training exercise goes awry when a group of soldiers with blanks come across the captain of a special forces operation.  The captain is the only soldier left after his camp had been brutalized by some werewolves.  The group gets picked up by a lovely lady who brings them to a house for shelter and to tend to the wounded.

 

The soldiers have encounters with the werewolves for most of the movie.  And action and violence is not that bad.  There is one mishap in the film that shows the poor editing.  A soldier who falls to the ground gets up with a handgun, then a second later, he is shown going to the ground again only to come up with a rifle.  There are some good scenes, but the movie money are the scenes with the werewolves.  It looks like a guy wearing a fur suit and a large fabricated wolf head.  It's those kind of special effects that are being replaced by digital creatures.  I love the big silly outfits.  Just love them.

 

The twist at the end is ... well, I won't say.  For the most part, the story moves along nicely.  The action is there and the over acting is at a minimum.  I wanted more gore in the violence.  A chopped off had here and a severed head there is not enough.  Even when one of the werewolves is stabbed in the head with a water faucet (with blood pouring out of the faucet), they could have had more of that type of violence in the movie.

 

I give this movie 3 1/2 out of 5 exploding barns.