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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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Serial Killing 4 Dummys (aka Serial Killing 101, 1999) Movie Review
“Serial Killing 4 Dummys” (sic) is listed at IMDB.com as a 2004 movie, but it’s actually a 1999 feature called “Serial Killing 101″. Being able to trick the all-knowing, all-powerful IMDB.com is quite a...
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Lighthouse (1999) Movie Review
There’s no doubt the British Slasher “Lighthouse” (aka “Dead of Night”) could have been much better. It has an interesting premise, but the execution lacks proficiency and there’s a dullness about the whole thing...
Read More »R.S.V.P. (2002) Movie Review
“RSVP” is a pretty original Slasher film — at least “original” in the sense that not a single Slasher film has managed to be original in, oh, the last 25 years or so. The...
Read More »H (2002) Movie Review
The secret to a successful thriller is simple: an involving storyline for the audience to be sucked in by and involving characters to take the audience through that story. Mood and atmosphere will only...
Read More »Silo Killer (2002) Movie Review
Bill Koning’s low-budget, shot-on-video opus “Silo Killer” suffers from schizophrenia, but other than that it’s a surprisingly entertaining first stab at moviemaking. The thing is, had Koning picked a tone and stuck to it,...
Read More »Love Object (2004) Movie Review
Wacky horror films don’t get any better than Robert Parigi’s “Love Object”. For fans of the genre used to lazy screenwriting, amateurish acting, and underwhelming direction, “Object” is a good reason why we continue...
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LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003) Movie Review
For about 30 minutes, one almost believed “Lethal Dose” was going to become something great. Alas, an uninteresting Act 1 and a laughably absurd (not to mention wholly clich’d) Act 3 ruined the day....
Read More »Toolbox Murders (2003) Movie Review
Serendipity sometimes works in Romantic Comedies, but they almost always come across as manufactured. The same is true for horror movies. In Tobe Hooper’s “Toolbox Murders”, the killer is not the brightest guy in...
Read More »Ring Virus (1999) Movie Review
Fans of the Naomi Watts horror film “The Ring” may be surprise to learn that the US remake wasn’t the first attempt at redoing the story. It was remade in South Korea in 1999,...
Read More »Van Helsing (2004) Movie Review
Let’s be honest, “Van Helsing” is a big, dumb movie. But it also happens to be a relentlessly enjoyable dumb movie. While illogical and sometimes confusing, it delivers a staggering amount of spectacle, enough...
Read More »Dark Harvest (2003) Movie Review
Apparently scarecrows are the new Inbred Rednecks to low-budget horror filmmakers. Aside from Paul Moore’s “Dark Harvest”, about killer scarecrows that come back from the dead seeking revenge, we also had the South African...
Read More »Shredder (2003) Movie Review
“Shredder” is a pretty idiotic movie. It’s completely random in just about everything it does and there’s no rhyme or reason for why things are the way they are. If there is one solace...
Read More »Bloody Beach (2000) Movie Review
If you were wondering if director In Soo Kim and his five writers (count’em, five) patterned their Teen Slasher “Bloody Beach” after their American counterparts, all you need to do is watch what happens...
Read More »The Record (2000) Movie Review
It’s been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then the makers of “The Record” must adore “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. But while the South...
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003) Movie Review
The Japanese “Juon” series seems to function under the motto: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. From what I’ve read of the franchise (there are four so far), there seems to be no...
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The Locals (2003) Movie Review
The first thing you notice about Greg Page’s “The Locals” is this: cinematographer Bret Nichols has no idea how to light a movie, much less a horror film. Our New Zealand film opens with...
Read More »Dinocroc (2003) Movie Review
Like the Teen Slasher genre, Creatures Attack movies have their own written-in-stone conventions. They are: the Evil Corporation that causes the problem by way of an illegal experiment; the Evil CEO that tries to...
Read More »American Nightmare (2002) Movie Review
Jon Keeyes’ “American Nightmare” is a low-budget horror movie that is surprisingly better than most. Keeyes, who also wrote and directed, falls into that category of horror filmmakers who wears their adoration for the...
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