Format

After some thought, I'm going to try and follow a standard format in my reviews. Which will be something like this;

Title of post will be the films being reviewed.
First lines will be film name, year of release, director and any notable stars.
Premise: What the film is about in a nutshell.
Analysis: What I think of the film, the 'meat' of the review.
Rating: I generally don't like ratings, as I think they're a bit arbitrary, but I'm going to do them anyway. Each film reviewed gets a rating out of 5, which works on the following scale;
1 - Absolutely f#@king dire. Do not watch unless you are masochistic or insane.
2 - Not good. Could have been made by an alcoholic in his sleep.
3 - Not too bad. Enjoyable and entertaining.
4 - Quite good. Definitely worth watching.
5 - Excellent. A must-see, the dog's bollocks and the cat's pyjamas.

EDIT: I've subsequently decided to do a rating based on MEH (1 Star), OKAY (2-3 Stars), COOL (4 Stars) and AWESOME (5 Stars).

Okay so soon, I'm actually gonna put up reviews. First on the shelf is 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later.

Remakes

I'm not over-fond of remakes, in fact with only a few exceptions, most remakes seem to be glossy attempts to cash in on a viewer's nostalgia and line Michael Bay's pockets. With this is mind, I am going to try and give remakes somewhat of a fair go, and watch them back to back with their originals, and try to find any areas where they are actually better (this might be a bit of a fool's errand). There are a lot of remakes out there, especially of the big classics, and quite a few just in recent years.

I hope you all appreciate the sacrifice I'm making for you. I watch Platinum Dunes remakes so that you don't have to...

Welcome

Okay, so this idea is a bit crazy, but I've decided to review every film on my horror shelf, which is running to about 400 at present. Largely so I don't pick favourites, I'm going to do it more or less alphabetically. I say 'more or less' because I'm also going to try and cover a film's sequels at the same time as the original, so rather than do Dawn of the Dead at 'D', I'm going to get through to 'N' for Night of the Living Dead, and try and do Night, Night (Remake), Dawn, Dawn (Remake), Day, Day (Remake), Land, Diary and hopefully Survival (if i've picked it up by then) in one epic session.

Edit: Even if a trilogy or series has an overarching title, eg Argento's 'Three Mothers' trilogy, I'm going by the name of the first film in that series, so in that example, I cover Three Mothers under 'S' for 'Suspiria'.

An ambitious, perhaps insane, plan I know. Now I'm going to review each film in a retrospective sense, so this means I'm going to post SPOILERS. I'll try and put any notes on the ending of the film after a spoiler warning, but everything else in the film is completely fair game.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the show...