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Garuda (2004) Movie Review

Garuda (2004) Movie Review

Joseph Savitski January 11, 2006

The DVD cover for the Thai monster movie “Garuda” shows a gigantic, bird-like creature perched over a modern city, ready to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting populace. It looks very much like your average...

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Venom (2005) Movie Review

Venom (2005) Movie Review

Nix January 8, 2006

Undemanding fans of teen-centric horror films should get a kick out of “Venom”, a movie clearly made with video/DVD distribution in mind, but somehow managed a brief, blink-and-you’ll-miss theatrical run courtesy of Miramax’s genre...

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Death Tunnel (2005) Movie Review

Death Tunnel (2005) Movie Review

Nix January 3, 2006

“Are the actors bad, or is it the dialogue?” That’s the question you will be asking yourself while watching “Death Tunnel”, the new horror film (made for a reported one million) set in one...

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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) Movie Review

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) Movie Review

Joseph Savitski December 23, 2005

The are some fantastic zombie films that have elevated the genre to stratospheric heights, and there are others so spectacular in their badness that they plunge it to such depths that you’d need a...

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Home Sweet Home (2005) Movie Images

Home Sweet Home (2005) Movie Images

Nix December 22, 2005

director Pou-Soi Cheang script Kam-Yuen Szeto Lik-Kei Tang cast list Alex Fong …. Ray Karena Lam …. Suet Lam …. Qi Shu …. May...

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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004) Movie Review

Murder-Set-Pieces (2004) Movie Review

James Mudge December 20, 2005

“Murder-Set-Pieces” comes with the claim of being the most brutal and visceral horror film ever made, proudly boasting of being banned by a long list of festivals, as well as several processing labs. On...

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Tamara (2005) Movie Review

Tamara (2005) Movie Review

Nix December 16, 2005

High school sucks, and then some kids trick you into undressing in a motel room, videotape the whole thing, and before you know it, you’ve banged your head on the edge of a table...

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Doom (2005) Movie Review

Doom (2005) Movie Review

Nix December 9, 2005

Movies based on videogames. You have to wonder why they keep making them. For every successful attempt (“Tombraider” being the best example), there are a dozen carcasses left behind to warn those who would...

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The Cave (2005) Movie Review

The Cave (2005) Movie Review

Nix December 2, 2005

The reception of mainstream critics to the horror film “The Cave” is exactly the reason why films like this have managed to survive purely on customers who frequent direct-to-video bins and cable networks. Guys...

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Movie Review

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Movie Review

James Mudge November 30, 2005

“The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is a film with the word ‘earnest’ stamped all over it, being based on a true story and with a two-hour running time rarely seen in the modern horror...

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Spirit Trap (2005) Movie Review

Spirit Trap (2005) Movie Review

Nix November 18, 2005

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: five college students move into an old derelict house and encounters strange going-ons that eventually makes them turn on one another. And oh yeah, a quija board...

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Half Light (2006) Movie Review

Half Light (2006) Movie Review

Nix November 15, 2005

You would be forgiven if you thought the only thing Demi Moore was famous for is as that older chick shacking up with that semi-retarded kid in the trucker hat who likes to punk...

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Cello (2005) Movie Review

Cello (2005) Movie Review

Nix November 13, 2005

Mi-ju is not having a very good life. For one, she’s no longer in love with her job teaching cello to a bunch of spoiled brats, one of whom holds a grudge against her...

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Seven Mummies (2005) Movie Review

Seven Mummies (2005) Movie Review

Nix October 27, 2005

When a movie runs just 76 minutes long plus opening and closing credits (call it a generous 70 minutes of actual movie), it’s a major tip-off that the movie has been sliced and diced...

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Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005) Movie Review

Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005) Movie Review

Nix October 20, 2005

Besides offering up one of the more redundant movie titles in recent history, “Single White Female 2: The Psycho” is run-of-the-mill, below average stuff. It’s not even in the league of the so-called “erotic...

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The Red Shoes (2005) Movie Review

The Red Shoes (2005) Movie Review

James Mudge October 8, 2005

Although ostensibly inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, “The Red Shoes” is clearly yet another entry in the recent wave of South Korean horror films based around cursed objects and long haired female...

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The Wig (2005) Movie Review

The Wig (2005) Movie Review

James Mudge October 6, 2005

Whether the South Korean horror “The Wig” is seen as yet another in an increasingly long series of films about malevolent inanimate objects, or as a bizarre offshoot of the never ending long haired...

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Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun (2005) Movie Review

Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun (2005) Movie Review

Erick Kwon September 25, 2005

“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” David St. Hubbins, “This is Spinal Tap” (1984) The origins of director Vin Crease’s “Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun” may be more compelling than the...

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Hellraiser 8: Hellworld (2005) Movie Review

Hellraiser 8: Hellworld (2005) Movie Review

Nix September 12, 2005

“Hellraiser: Hellworld”, the eighth in the Clive Barker created (but no longer vouched for) franchise about pain-loving demons called Cenobites and their leader, Pinhead (Doug Bradley), chooses to go the post-modern route for the...

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Red Eye (2005) Movie Review

Red Eye (2005) Movie Review

Gopal September 7, 2005

Airport check-in. Perhaps the greatest horror of the modern transport age. Dealing with long lines, heavy luggage, rude travelers and incessant delays are just some of the exhausting trials contemporary America goes through to...

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