The Crypt Show: October 2005

Ju On 2

Ju-On 2 starts at the beginning of the first film, re-telling the story that started it all in the original Ju-On (a teacher goes to check on his young student, ends up finding the mother has been murdered and the kid is three steps from ok and well, after a call from the father telling him he’s just murdered the teacher’s wife and unborn child, and then things get rough when the kid, Toshio, starts meowing like a cat and the mom crawls down the stairs for the teacher she has obsessed about for so long. And then about half way into the film the new story picks up. The sequel follows the curse, or the grudge if you translate what Ju-On means, as it takes more victims. This time it is the owner of the house that Toshio and his mother, the two main ghosts, had lived, that finds the curse upon he and his family, his sister going mad and their parents both being killed. Another angle the story follows is that of a school boy the landlord’s son, that has so far survived the grudge but finds himself followed by the spirits to his school, where they soon possess, or so it would seem, all the children at the school. The film ends with the grudge still unfulfilled and growing still…waiting for more victims. Source

To fully understand this movie, you need to see the first one. Believe me, it's worthy of your time. I saw it in the dark, alone and it really freaked me out. The plot is more dense and scarier, the make-up and the special FX are far more better than the first Ju On.

The House of Wax (2005)

A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. They discover that the brothers have expanded upon the area's main attraction.. the House of Wax. And created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before they too become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax... Source.

Don't even bother. This movie brings nothing new, nothing special, nothing that it's worth to mention. Maybe, except the part where Paris Hilton's character is killed.

The Company of Wolves (1984)

This movie is in fact a magical bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Grandmother Angela Lansbury tells her granddaughter Sarah Patterson strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smouldering look in their eyes; about sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round & the wolves are howling in the woods; about babies found inside stork eggs, in a stork nest high up a tree; etc., etc. Of course the story of Little Red Ridinghood is also present, with a very handsome he-wolf!(And of course this he-wolf consumes Grandmother, but 'consumes' Little Red Ridinghood). All the stories are somehow reducable to loss of innocence, and fear of/hunger for (a newly acquired sense of) sexuality; their Freudian character is mirrored in their dreamlike shapes. This movie is not really a horror movie; it's more a multiple tale about growing up into adolescence. Source

It was one of the first werewolves movie I saw and it still delights me. It has some scary scenes, but it's the unusual plot that really catches your attention. The lesson from the movie: beware of unibrows!

The Devil's Rejects - "A Tale Of Murder, Mayhem and Revenge"

Sequel to 'House of 1000 Corpses' is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Otis killed in 'House of...') who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in. Source.
Rob Zombie doesn't disappoint us with this sequel. It has violence, it has gore, it has death, and it has the favourite psycho's from House of 1000 corpses. Captain Spaulding will live in my nightmares...