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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peņa made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Evil Remains

Story
The film's about this boring guy who's preparing his thesis on mythology and takes his dumb friends with him to some abandoned plantation that's supposed to have some legend to it, and there they get killed of one by one.

Comments
I thought this movie would be better than it actually turned out to be and I have no idea of why I thought so in the first place. I mean look at the cover, that kinda says it all, what a stupid cover, if I wanna see a girls breasts on film then there are plenty of other movies for that.

Anyway, it's not so bad that you feel sick after watching it or that you sit and fast forward throughout the movie, it's watchable but so not memorable.

The movie's like your average slasher, but it might also be a mix between a slasher and a ghost movie. I don't know and don't really care. Thing with these movies are that you kinda know what's gonna happen before it actually happens and that they not to often have a proper ending that satisfies or delivers, and it's the same case with this one.

The actors are not very interesting to watch and you couldn't care less if they get killed, you're kinda just hoping for them to get killed and that's the main reason that keeps you watching the movie.

Final Comments
I haven't said anything positive have I? Anyway, if you're bored it's ok to watch, just don't expect too much, if anything.

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Evil Remains

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Trespassing
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: James Merendino
WRITING CREDITS: James Merendino
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Estella Warren, Ashley Scott, Clayne Crawford
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 88 min

RATING: 4/10

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