BURTON REVIEWS (and news)

(Image sourced from http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/178817/blair-witch-2016/ ) Originally known as ‘The Woods’, this secret sequel to the revolutionary The Blair Witch Project, that was pretty much the catalyst for the popularity and for better or worse volume of found footage movies, has a lot on its shoulders, being the true sequel to a horror film that rocked, terrified and inspired the industry and it’s audiences alike you’ve got a pretty big shadow cast down onto you. But with some great talent behind it, most notably the director of The Guest being at the helm, Adam Wingard, the movie had some safe and sturdy hands to lead the audience’s quivering ones through this camping trip from hell. The story of Blair with sees the James and his friends enter those foreboding woods for his long lost sister Hannah, one of the people who went missing after the events of the first Blair Witch. With 6 new victims to play with, the Blair Witch gets up to her old tricks of tormentin...

(Image sourced from http://www.tvqc.com/2016/05/dont-breathe-le-retour-de-jane-levy-dans-le-nouveau-sam-raimi/ ) Cinema prices can be a right rip off, especially in screenings of Don’t Breathe; not because it’s a bad movie, far from it, but because throughout the whole hour and a half runtime of the film I was glued to the edge of my seat; I mean I had to pay for three quarters of a seat that I didn’t even use. But to be honest, even with that criminal level rip off, the price was more than worth it to see this heart pounding ride of breath taking intensity and never ending “OH COME ON, SERIOUSLY?!” scenarios that make Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe one hell of a ride to experience. The story of Don’t Breathe has you following three thieves that decide to rob a blind man’s home, easy score right? Well not so much when it turns out said Blind man, powerfully played by Stephan Lang, is a force of nature ex veteran that would give the Terminator a run for his money. Suffice to say ...