Fright Night Friday Movie Review: Super 8

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all have a great weekend planned! Since it is Friday, we have another movie review to bring you! Tonight's review comes from my very good friend, Melissa Gammons! Melissa--along with her husband, Bobby--operate their own store (a physical store and an online store) called Gothic Charms. It is a magick store full of eclectic items for the practicing witch and lovers of Halloween! You can visit their store here: http://www.gothic-charms.com/shop/ They also have a Halloween group on Yahoo called Trick-or-Treat University (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trick-or-treat_university/) and Bobby has created an awesome monster experience over at The Monster Museum (http://www.themonstermuseum.com/)!! Be sure to check out their websites and tell them that Anna from Halloween Night sent you!

Melissa submitted a review of the new movie "Super 8" which I will share with you now!

Super 8 (2011)

When you were a kid, do you remember wishing that something exciting would happen on summer break? Well, this group of kids had an exciting time!

You start the movie off seeing this poor kid dealing with the accidental death of his mom. Rough time, but some things happen that you wonder WHY are these things happening?

Fast forward to summer vacation and this group of kids want to help their friend with his vision of making a short movie about a zombie attack to enter into a film festival. Very creative ideas, good makeup, and lots of kids sneaking out of the house at night to get a scene shot "perfectly" as a train rushes past them. Only problem is, some crazy guy in a truck drives on to the tracks while they're filming and there is a spectacular scene of this train derailing, things blowing up, cars whizzing by, you name it! SO what do kids do when something OH CRAP happens and you're not supposed to be there? Hightail it home!

So the Army gets involved - it was THEIR train after all - and all hell breaks loose. The main character's father is a deputy and that makes the movie pretty interesting when things start disappearing (like microwave ovens, cars, the Sheriff!)

I won't tell you more because I want you to see SUPER 8. Just imagine ET crossed with The Transformers! The Executive Producer is Steven Spielberg and directed by J.J. Abrams. It's action from beginning to end with a little bit of a summer love story thrown in! (And zombie attacks too!)

Be sure to stay for all the credits so that you can watch the movie the kids finally produced! It's great! This movie deserves a skull rating!

Thank you for the great review, Melissa! I totally agree with her thoughts, I've seen the movie twice now and can't wait for it to come to DVD!

That's all for this week, stay tuned for a new review next Friday! Remember, if you would like to submit a movie review please email them to me at: annah66842@yahoo.com ! You can review old, classic movies or new movies and you can submit more than one! We need reviews, so don't be shy! ;) Have a great 4th of July weekend!