With Screened in the shitter, I figured that this would be the best place to do this. I love horror movies, especially obscure ones. Each Tuesday I'll tell you about one and maybe you'll give it a watch. I'm completely open to suggestions too if you have a favorite you'd like me to watch. Also, if you'd like pictures to go alone with these, let me know. I lent my friend the DVD yesterday so I couldn't add pictures for this one but it's something I can do for future movies. As for the write-up, I'm lazy. All anyone looks at is the score anyway.

I watched The Gate. trailer

2 kids screw around with a hole in the back yard and accidentally summon ancient demons to take over the world. Their only help lies in a rare metal album. That's pretty much it. Pretty rad, right?

Going in I expected some cheesy monsters and passable acting/story. I got a little more. The actors do a decent job, I think. I was especially fond of the geeky character Terry. The monsters are indeed cheesy and some of them are stop motion. The effects hold up fairly well I think. There's a cool sequence where a zombie comes out of the wall, gets whacked in the head, falls over and separates into a bunch of small, stop motion creatures. It's neat. It's a kiddie horror movie in the vein of The Monster Squad so the scares aren't quite there but there's a surprising amount of gore. It's probably a little intense for youngins in parts but I suppose that would depend on the youngin.

I give it 4 faulty staircases out of 5. Check it out.