Friday, March 6, 2009

Review: Tooth and Nail (Horror)

So...a couple months ago, I'm perusing the used DVD section, in particular the 4 for 20 dollar area and I decide to pick up a few movies. I pick 3 I've seen before and liked: The Simpsons Movie, Sweeney Todd, and Walk Hard: The Story of Dewey Cox. I probably spent 10 more minutes looking for that elusive 4th movie and I finally decide to check out some of the DVD boxes that I've never heard of. That is when I stumbled upon this DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. OMG haha.



I see a box that says "After Dark Horrofest: Tooth and Nail". Theres a cheezy skeleton butterfly on it (which ken pointed out is a sort of rip off of Silence of The Lambs"). But that dosen't even make sense..Everyone knows butterflies don't have skeletons..neerrrr ::dork snort::. So I check out the back and low and behold, guess who is in it...RYDER STRONG!! He was awesome in Cabin Fever. When I was 12, and he was still in Boy Meets World, I wrote him a letter and I got a signed picture in the mail 6 weeks later, true story haha. Although he is no longer the heartthrob of Bop fame that he used to be, hes pretty good so far in B horror movies, hes had 100% success in my book for this (1 movie=good=100%, you do the math).

So anyways, we watched the movie the other night when I was home sick from work.It more than exceeded my expectations, it was actually pretty damn scary and disgusting.

Its basically about a group of people living in a hospital after an Apocalypse, which happened in 2012, but this is like 5 years later. The Apocalypse happened when gas ran out before experts projected it would and then within 5 years 80% of human beings either starve to death or kill each other. So anyways, its in a hospital in Philly, and there is a group of 6 people and their "leader" is some professor(played by Robert Carradine). They live off of old Red Cross rations and they wander the streets looking for more people and supplies. One day they come along a man (Vinnie Jones, ever see Midnight Meat Train?) dressed up like hes straight out of Braveheart, and hes attacking this man in an ally. They scare the attacker away only to discover that the 'attackee'(is that a word? haha) is dead and there is an unconscious girl behind a car in the ally. As soon as they take the girl back to the hospital to recover, shit hits the fan. One of their group is outside and gets attacked by a whole horde of the Braveheart dudes. They have crazyyy weapons, axes, blunt objects with spikes, scythes, you name it. They brutally kill the guy from the hospital outside while everyone else watches from inside and bangs on the windows above him. Soon the rescued girl admits she has been running from these brutal dudes and says they are called Rovers and they are CANNIBALS! And Michael Madsen is in the Rovers. You know the guy in the Kill Bill 2 movie that gets told "You're about as useful as an asshole, right here" ::points to elbow::. Ah..awesome and disgusting.

I won't say anything else, but it gets 4.5 out of 5 for greatness. This movie scared me and made me sick to my stomach. I was making beef stew that night and I couldn't eat it cause I kept thinking about the movie. Ken had some, I think to make me feel better haha. It didn't turn out good either way, but still..not many movies make me not want to eat, so GO SEE IT.

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