Meet the Hamilton Family...

"The Hamiltons" (2006) was one of the first movies in the "8 Films to Die For" series a couple years ago, and DEFINITELY one of my favorites. An old fashion scare-a-thon, this movie has your basic dysfunctional family who is just trying to fit into society.

Oldest brother is the caretaker of them all (the parents "died in an accident") and from the beginning the creepy comb-over is, creepy enough. Young brother and the "twins" (one goth one heartthrob) make the family and they are just adorable. Bwa-ha-ha...

In order to be a part of the family- you have to collect things, and all of those things are people. The youngest brother is on the cusp of freaking out about the family secret- and being a part of it. He struggles to gain acceptance from his family and having nurturing feelings to one of the collections. The family is full of sociopaths and inappropriate relationships with each other (mainly the dirtiness of the twins). They keep moving from town to town, because eventually their collections turn up missing and the world get suspicious. Its hard to keep quiet in a bloody world when you have a social worker who gets suspicious...

Is this movie a Hard-Core-Horror Gore Masterpiece? No. However- I LOVE this movie. It is Pure Evil, Pure Fun, and Partial Gore. "The Hamilton Family" (2006) uses classic horror scare tactics and doesn't throw blood in your face, but implies it which to me can be just as effective as seeing it. I really enjoyed getting sucked into this family and their twisted tale directed by non-other than the cleverly named
"Butcher Brothers"... I think we will see these directors in the future. I predict big things from them.

Picture from "The Hamiltons" (2006) Courtesy of: http://tinyurl.com/9p8vzt