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The upcoming western movie “Jonah Hex” got its first poster, yesterday at the Comic con, during the promotion of the movie.

Jonah Hex is a movie adaption of the rather entertaining comic book character from DC Comics. The movie has Josh Brolin as the gunslinger himself and Megan Fox is playing the naughty Leila, Jonah’s love interest. John Malkovich also stars in this movie as the villain Turnbull.

In the movie, Jonah Hex sets out to stop the voodoo practitioner Turnbull, who plans to raise an army of the undead, to free the Confederate South.

I guess that the poster, with Jonah Hex posing as the Darkman in the front with Megan Fox in a filthy corset, looking impish in the back, sets the tone of what we can expect from this movie.

Josh Brolin, Megan Fox and John Malkovich will ride into your cinema on August 6, 2010.

If you enjoy zombie movies, you should draw a big red circle around October 9, in your almanac, because then you would not miss seeing Woody Harrelson smashing zombies in his upcoming movie, Zombieland.

In Zombieland, zombies have overtaken the world. Two men, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) and Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) have found a way to survive. As the two wander around, they meet other survivors, like Wichita and Little Rock, and together they slay zombies from coast to coast, in bizarre and humoristic ways.

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The Transformers-star Megan Fox, who is currently busy munching on college boys in “Jennifer’s Body”, has turned down an offer to play the next Bond Girl, because she feels that the role would not add anything to her career, according to Contactmusic.

However, it seems that Megan enjoys playing bad girl roles. If the producers would offer her a more villainous role, with a more central part in the movie, she would be interested, says a source close to the production.

There is also a frequent rumor about an adaptation of Hulk’s cousin; She-Hulk is in the works and that Megan Fox will be the one playing the green angry heroine. However, the rumor also puts Nicolas Cage, close to this project and his favorite is Eva Mendez, who he played against in Ghost Raider.

Obviously, Megan Fox would be the first choice, since I can see hordes of amped up boys rushing to the cinemas, to see a vicious Megan Fox dressed up in torn clothes, going berserk.  Even though I personally would prefer Mendez, since I think that she is a much more solid actress, then Fox.

Nevertheless, it seems that Fox is on the hunt for a villainous role, and my best guess is that we going to see her in one, pretty soon.

Daybreakers, is an upcoming vampire movie with an unusual twist, written and directed by the Spierig Brothers.

The plot of Daybreakers, which is the reason I find it interesting, is set in a post apocalyptic future, where an unknown plague has turned most of the humans into vampires. The vampires saw their opportunity and quickly took control over the world.

To extinguish their thirst for blood, the vampire’s hunts down and put the remaining humans into blood farms. However, because of this, the human race soon faces total extinction, which also threatens the vampires, as well. Therefore, they start to search for a substitute for human blood.

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Boogeyman 3 is an enjoyable and nice horror movie. It will make you twitch a few times, but not to the degree that you will lose any sleep over it, though.

I had my doubts about Boogeyman 3, since I though that the second movie put the whole franchise of the Boogeyman out of track, to say the least.

However, Boogeyman 2 was not a bad movie, I just felt cheated, in some odd way.

Nevertheless, in Boogeyman 3 the ‘real’ Boogeyman is back, to haunt a group of college kids, at a dorm.  The movie has a speedy start, as we meet Audrey, who is the connection the previous movie, since she is the daughter of Dr. Mitchell Allen.

She starts to read her father’s journal, where he writes about his thoughts about the Boogeyman. Soon after that, Audrey gets to know the Boogeyman, a bit more up close and personal.

Audrey then seeks to safety from her friend, Sarah at her dorm. Sarah does not believe Audrey’s story about, the Boogeyman is haunting her and since she is a psychology student, she tries to make Audrey to realize that the Boogeyman is just an urban legend.

However, the following night Sarah becomes an eyewitness, as the Boogeyman strangles Audrey in her room. Sarah calls for help and when the other students rush to her aid, they see Audrey, hanging from the ceiling, with a belt around her neck. That makes everyone believe that Audrey took her own life.

After seeing Audrey’s death, Sarah is confused to what she really saw and starts to think that she is going completely nuts. Her professor and boyfriend tries telling her that she is feeling guilt, from witness her mother’s death, which was similar to the one Audrey, experienced. They also tell her that the Boogeyman is just a manifestation of her guilt.

Soon after Audrey’s death, a series of strange events takes place, which makes Sarah convinced that the Boogeyman is real, if you just believe in him and that the whole dorm is in great danger. Sarah sets out on a rescue mission, with the Boogeyman lurking, just behind her back…

I think that Boogeyman 3 is well composed and a few notch better than the second movie. It seems that they have worked hard to increase the tense, and keep it on a high level, as the horrific story unfolds, which they succeed very well.

The murders in Boogeyman 3 are not that graphic and gory, as in the previous ones. Of course, there is blood, gallons of it, and bodies that has experienced extensive destruction, present in this movie as well. However, they are not as graphic and vivid, as in the previous movies, which feed our twisted imagination.

I think the fact that this is not your standard slasher orgy, is also the main reason to why Boogeyman 3 is better than its predecessors are.

Boogeyman 3 sets out to try to give us some additional depth to its characters, but here I think the movie fails. When the movie tries to develop the characters, it gives out too much background information, which it never explains.

Instead, we are standing there, with a bunch of loose ends, which is something that I do not like. If they present a side story, then they must follow it through, too. If there is a gun present in the first act, then it must be used before the last act, which is basic film knowledge, which I think the makers of this movie forgot about. Now, that does not turn Boogeyman 3 into a worthless movie, it is just a little annoying, that is all.

One the other hand, there is something that the creators and actor Niky Sotirov succeeded with, The Boogeyman. In some scenes, his present is barely noticeable, so if you blink, you will miss him. That is something that I think is brilliant, and it will surely give you the creeps.

The actors do a good job too, without standing out, though. However, Nikki Sanderson that plays Audrey does a great job portraying the fear and anxiety-ridden, one must feel, being haunted by someone as dreadful as the Boogeyman.

In addition, Erin Cahill, which plays Sarah, provides us with a credible performance, even if it has its flaws, in some scenes.

Boogeyman 3 is a pleasant surprise, which will make you twitch a couple of times. It does also contain the mandatory horror movie ingredients, such as blood, partial nudity, and creepy entities. All wrapped inside a good twisted ending, which will not make you disappointed.

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