News and Reviews

• Illegal Circumcisions Performed on Grown Mens

  submitted at Mar 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM by Tim Haskell

  Apparently a 56 year-old Grand Rapids, MI Man, Thomas Heugel, has been performing illegal circumcisions on grown men. Ouch. They are illegal because the man did them in his apartment. Didn’t have the proper tools. Wasn’t certified to perform them. And oh, wasn’t a doctor (nor a rabbi i guess).

  He had a mini-operating room in his home, and all of the “patients” were completely consenting, but apparently you are not allowed to lop off a grown man’s foreskin unless you go to medical school for it. Or are authorized by God. …(read more)

• Horror Movie Review Roundup #2: Shutter Island

  submitted at Feb 26, 2010 at 6:35 PM by Tim Haskell

  

  Over all Grade: C-

  “When was the last time you had to wait until the final sentence of a film to understand all the details? When was the last time you went to a genre movie – or what looked like one in spooky trailers – and realized the director had fulfilled that promise and meditated on his favorite topic?” – Charlotte Observer (read the entire review) Grade A+

  “In ‘Shutter Island,’ Mr. Scorsese’s 21st narrative feature and …(read more)

• Horror Movie Review Roundup #1: The Wolfman

  submitted at Feb 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM by Tim Haskell

  

  We here at Haunternet are going to start doing something similar to metacritic.com – taking a survey of the reviews from major media outlets from around the country and giving them a score. Except we are only doing horror movies and we are going to give them letter grades instead. For our inaugural round up we are doing The Wolfman:

  AVERAGE SCORE: D+

  “Lawrence, you see, has no desire to be a werewolf. He doesn’t get off on the power of the dark side; he just wants to be free of it. And that lends The Wolfman, …(read more)

• New Scaredy Cat column: The number 7

  submitted at Jan 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM by Tim Haskell

  Seven is a quantity, a numeral, an idea, a superstition, and apparently a universal spiritual element: in the Japanese Shinto belief system, there are seven gods of good luck, the Muslims believe there are seven heavens, Kaballists belief in seven elements of creation, Christianity, seven heavenly virtues as well as seven deadly sins, Buddhists seven chakras, ancient Egyptians, seven gods, ancient Romans believed that the human spirit is renewed every seven years, and so on …(read more)

• Film Review: Daybreakers

  submitted at Jan 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM by Tim Haskell

  So i finally saw Daybreakers late last night. I was hoping to have seen it this past weekend as promised, but I didn’t get a chance. I hope all of you that were anxiously awaiting my response didn’t go crazy with impatience and kill yourself. That is my hope.

  But, now I do have thoughts on it. I don’t know if this movie was so profound that it made me think the following, or if it was merely the straw…, but I can’t review Daybreakers without first addressing whether scary movies are even scary. What? excuse …(read more)

• DAYBREAKERS

  submitted at Jan 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM by Tim Haskell

  For some crazy reason I was not invited to the premiere of Daybreakers, the new vampire flick starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Defoe. But I am going to see it today and post a review over the weekend. I care because it is a real vampire film. Not just real in that it is not a tweener vampire film or tv show or what have you, but also in that word has it that it is pretty good. The NY Times gave it an excellent review today and Time Out NY …(read more)