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First Batch Of Promising Images From Fernando Barreda Luna’s Kiss Of Vengeance
Full disclosure: I wasn’t a huge fan of director Fernando Barreda Luna’s found footage horror flick “Atrocious.” Although the film came packaged with a great title and a solid trailer, the flick just didn’t...
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Director Lulu Jarmen’s Bad Meat Contaminates DVD This February
Director Lulu Jarmen’s “Bad Meat” proves once again why it’s always a bad idea to send teenage delinquents to rehabilitation clinics in the middle of nowhere. If they don’t spend their time hooking up...
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First Pics From The Upcoming South Korean Drama Coin Locker
When I first saw the title for the South Korean drama “Coin Locker,” I thought it was going to be an adaptation of Japanese author Ryu Murakami’s “Coin Locker Babies,” a novel I happen...
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Encapsulated Cinema One-Shot: James Cullen Bressack’s Hate Crime
In the market to punish yourself with insanely graphic depictions of cruelty, humiliation, and violence? Director James Cullen Bressack has just the flick for you. The indie filmmaker’s latest effort, 2012′s “Hate Crime,” is...
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Urban Exploration Gets Bloody in David R. Williams’ Terminal Descent
Word around the campfire is that director David R. Williams’ upcoming horror flick “Terminal Descent” was shot in just three days. That’s pretty amazing. For a movie that was lensed in 72 hours, it...
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Like It or Not, Director Ryan Nicholson is Preparing Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep
After viewing director Ryan Nicholson’s insanely demented and extraordinarily insane horror flick “Gutterballs” for the first time, I felt like I needed to disinfect my soul. If you’re a fan of shocking, over-the-top gore,...
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First Trailer for the Direct-to-Video Sequel Death Race: Inferno
Who in their right mind wants another installment in the “Death Race” series, you ask? Me, for one, and apparently a few other people, as well. There has to be a demand for these...
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Nifty Comic Book-Inspired Artwork for Paco Plaza’s REC 3: Genesis
Although director Paco Plaza’s horror flick “[REC] 3: Genesis” is currently available courtesy of several video-on-demand outlets, yours truly has yet to see the picture. That, to me, is kind of depressing. Whenever I...
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Brand New Ass-Kicking Trailer for Shaun Piccinino’s The Lackey
An indie action revolution is headed our way, folks. Feel free to mark my words right now. Although Hollywood continues to pump out some decent action-oriented endeavors every now and again, there’s a strong...
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In the Mood for a Sleepless Night? Check Out the Poster for Creepy Crawly
Although there isn’t a lot of information floating around about director Robert J. Massetti and Jason Daly’s forthcoming monster movie “Creepy Crawly”, a new poster has begun making the rounds on various genre-friendly websites....
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Larry Fessenden Steps Behind The Camera for the Man-Eating Fish Flick Beneath
Man, I love me some Larry Fessenden. I’m glad that this guy is making and producing horror films, because he’s honestly one of the few directors working in the genre today who seems to...
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One Teaser Trailer and a Very Long Synopsis for Eriko Kitagawa’s I Have to Buy New Shoes
Generally speaking, I don’t do romantic comedies or romantic dramas. They just don’t settle very well with me. I keep expecting a gunfight or a martial arts sequence to break out, and I’m often...
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Beware of Imported Viagra Salesmen in Writer/Director Woo Min-ho’s Spy
Don’t you hate it when your Viagra salesman of-choice turns out to be a secret South Korean spy? Apparently that’s the premise for writer/director Woo Min-ho’s upcoming thriller, appropriately entitled “Spy.” Although I don’t...
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D. Kerry Prior’s 2009 Horror/Comedy The Revenant Finally Gets a Release Date
Holy crap! I’d completely forgotten about writer/director D. Kerry Prior’s horror/comedy “The Revenant”. For some reason, I thought its arrival on home video had already come and gone. Fortunately for fans who have been...
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You Might Want to Think Twice Before Booking a Room at Terror Hotel
I don’t have a whole lot of information about the upcoming Chinese horror flick “Terror Hotel” at the moment, but I’m hoping that will change in the next few days. The film, which, from...
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Writer/Director Wen Jiang’s Let the Bullets Fly Headed to UK DVD This August
I had an opportunity to see writer/director Wen Jiang’s impossibly entertaining action/comedy “Let the Bullets Fly” last summer, and I honestly enjoyed every second of it. Seeing Chow Yun Fat back in his element...
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Something Extremely Unsettling is Living in Director Josh Stolberg’s Crawlspace
I enjoyed Alexandre Aja’s horror flick “Piranha 3D” enough to give screenwriter Josh Stolberg’s directorial effort “Crawlspace” a shot, and that’s overlooking the fact that he also penned the terrible 2007 Dane Cook comedy...
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Watch Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer’s The Road to Ruin. For Free. Right Now.
Saturday nights are perfect for watching cinematic garbage. Old cinematic garbage, in particular. And while directors Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer’s 1934 educational opus “The Road to Ruin” isn’t the worst “scare flick” to...
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Can’t Handle Eye Trauma? You Might Want to Skip This Trailer for Ushijima the Loan Shark.
I can’t watch scenes involving any sort of eye trauma. Try as I might, I always squirm, turn away and/or close my eyes. Just thinking about having something long and sharp shoved violently into...
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