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I've said it before. I'm not a huge fan of vampires. This is not to say that I don't watch or read any film or literature about them. My recent fascination with True Blood  should be proof of that. However, while I may not be a fang-lover, I do like my horror movies, and there hasn't been a lot of good ones recently. At least, not from Hollywood. To get my fix of scary, I had to turn to less than traditional sources like Spain with Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth  and now, surprise, surprise, Sweden. I stumbled upon Let the Right One In , a Swedish film based on a 2004 vampire fiction novel called Låt den rätte komma in (lit. "Let Me In"), quite by accident during my many random forays in the internet. The film's title Let The Right One In  is a reference both to the traditional vampire lore of vampires needing to be invited to a human home before they can enter and to the title of a Morrissey song,  Let The Right One Slip In. I don...

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And here comes the fourth installment of the games-turned-film series Resident Evil . This time, it's subtitled Afterlife 3D  (because everything has to be in 3D these days).   Always been a fan of the games ever since I played RE3 way back when, not to mention I'm a total zombie freak. So yes, it totally makes sense . THE STORY The film takes us right where Extinction  left off -- that is, Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her clones are in Tokyo, Japan to assault the underground hive of Umbrella Corporation's Japan branch. The film's evil overlord, Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), manages to survive the mayhem and gore and exits the hive just before he blows it up, killing all of the Alice clones inside the facility. The original Alice, however, proves too smart for that as she is already inside Wesker's getaway plane, waiting. Wesker, however, proves even smarter and injects Alice with a T-virus neutralizer. The serum's ultimate effect is to strip Alice of all he...