The Korean cinema scene seems to have a thing for serial-killer movies, and for doing them well. Before THE HOST, Bong Joon-ho directed and co-wrote the quietly devastating MEMORIES OF MURDER, and Na Hong-jin’s gripping THE CHASER remains one of the country’s most underseen and underappreciated films in the U.S. Now comes Kim Jee-woon’s I SAW THE DEVIL, easily one of the most extreme (emotionally and viscerally) entries in this subgenre from any country.
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It’s a sign of just how deeply the vérité approach has permeated the genre scene, and the variety of the ways it has done so, that THE TROLL HUNTER can legitimately be described as a cross between THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and CLOVERFIELD. And it’s a sign of the gambit’s resilience that even as it suggests its forebears, TROLL HUNTER establishes its own identity and succeeds on its own terms.
Undeservedly or not, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE grabbed a bunch of Razzie nominations (see item 
Today is Nicolas Cage’s 47th birthday. Happy birthday, Nic! In that spirit, I’m going to try to accentuate the positive in this review of his new movie SEASON OF THE WITCH, and will start by stating that in the Cage genre pantheon, it is unequivocally better than THE WICKER MAN.
SEASON OF THE WITCH opens this Friday, and you can bet that director Dominic Sena is hoping it does better at the box office than his last film, WHITEOUT, which came and went quickly in theaters in September 2009. Starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht and Alex O’Loughlin, and based on the comic by writer Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber, the movie didn’t make much of an impression with audiences—or critics. Read Michael Gingold’s thoughts after the jump.
SEASON OF THE WITCH is opening this Friday, and considering that Dominic Sena’s film features both the star of the 1973 WICKER MAN (Christopher Lee) and the star of the 2006 remake (Nicolas Cage), we thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at Ryan Rotten’s review of the much maligned redux. Oh, no, NOT THE BEES!!!!
The Dowdle Brothers’ DEVIL debuted on DVD and Blu-ray this Tuesday, and so following up on our Fresh from the Archives THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES 
The fifth entry in the Screen Gems franchise, RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, is hitting DVD & Blu-ray this coming Tuesday. For those of you who need a refresher on the previous movie, here are Michael Gingold’s thoughts on EXTINCTION.