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Entrails of a Virgin (1986) Movie Review
What do you get for the exploitation fan that’s seen everything? Actually, that question might be better unanswered, but should the situation arise, consider “Entrails of a Virgin”. Although showing its age after nearly...
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Night Watch (2004) Movie Review
It’s interesting to see a movie like Timur Bekmambetov’s “Night Watch”, especially considering that my only exposure to Russian genre films has been two movies by Aleksei Balabanov. “Night Watch” is not like Balabanov’s...
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Hypnosis (aka The Hypnotist, 1999) Movie Review
Hypnotism has a long history of being used as a plot device in cinema. Recently it was featured in several Asian “I see ghosts”-type films as a cheap explanation for supernatural occurrences. However, there...
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Dead Friend (aka The Ghost, 2004) Movie Review
If you’re not too hung up on originality, “The Ghost” isn’t too much a waste of time. Oh sure, it’s yet another Dark Hair Ghost Story, where the ghost at hand is a vengeful...
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Death Machine (1995) Movie Review
When you get right down to it, Stephen Norrington’s debut film, “Death Machine”, is pretty stupid. And I don’t even mean that in a disparaging way, because although it is without a doubt a...
Read More »Halloween 4: Return of Michael Myers (1988) Movie Review
Sick of Freddy and Jason getting all the attention, the producers of the “Halloween” series decided to return Michael Myers to the big screen in 1988. Apparently, they also decided to be ambitious and...
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A Living Hell (2002) Movie Review
Although “A Living Hell” came out several years ago in Japan, the film has only recently been gathering word of mouth in the West as a “must see” cult item. Comparisons have been made...
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Evil Dead Trap (1988) Movie Review
With the ever-increasing list of Asian films being remade by Hollywood, it’s easy to forget how the West has influenced Eastern cinema. For every Americanized “Ring” or “Dark Water”, there are films like “So...
Read More »Face (2004) Movie Review
Dark Hair Ghost Stories from Asia are a dime a dozen nowadays. If you threw a pebble at the continent, you’d probably hit 10 films in the genre on the first thud. Really, it’s...
Read More »Dead and Breakfast (2004) Movie Review
What can you say about Matthew Leutwyler’s “Dead and Breakfast” except, you will either adore the heck out of it, or you will loathe it. And to help you decide, I’ll even surrender these...
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Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning (2004) Movie Review
As a sequel to two cult favorites, “Ginger Snaps Back” (aka “Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning”) is a 2½-star film. As a standalone movie without any ties to the series, it manages 3 stars....
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Ultraviolet: Mini-series (1998) TV Review
Episode 1 (of 6): “Habeas Corpus” (July 26, 2004) Although I’ve heard some very good things about the British vampire show “Ultraviolet”, I couldn’t help but be a little skeptical. After all, the British...
Read More »Maplewoods (2003) Movie Review
The low budget zombie film “Maplewoods” claims to run about 85 minutes, but that’s a big fat lie. It’s more like 60 minutes if you don’t count all the dramatic pauses the actors in...
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Creature Unknown (2003) Movie Review
“Creature Unknown” is about a group of friends who decide to get together in the woods on the 4th anniversary of another friend’s death. The reunion is being organized by Steve (Chris Hoffman), whose...
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Adam and Evil (2004) Movie Review
Like most low-budget Teen Slashers about highschoolers, “Adam and Evil” stars a bunch of pretty, thin, and white 20-somethings (they didn’t even bother to throw in a Token Minority) who have just graduated from...
Read More »Guilty Pleasures (1997) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Bill Paterson) Have you ever watched a horror movie and, rather than battle an irrational paranoia that you might somehow be killed, actually find yourself hoping for it? Well, I seriously...
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Elevated (1997) Movie Review
Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali burst onto the movie scene with the release of “Cube”, but has since moved onto bigger (although not necessarily better) things ala the big-budgeted “Cypher”. “Elevated” is a 1997 short...
Read More »And Then They Were Dead (2004) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Bill Paterson) As this is my first review for BeyondHollywood.com, let’s set a few ground rules. First, I don’t use big words just to show you how smart I am. I...
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Suicide Club (2002) Movie Review
One of the most recent entries in the renaissance of Japanese horror cinema is an impressive but gory meditation on the power of pop culture on the public psyche. A pitch-black satire as well...
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Lhorn (aka Soul, 2003) Movie Review
If you were looking for a horror movie to scare you, the Thai film “Lhorn” will disappoint. It’s not very scary, even though it tells multiple tales about ghosts and demons taking revenge on...
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