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Vampires (1998) Movie Review
You really have to like Vampire movies in order to appreciate how good and original John Carpenter’s “Vampires” is. And I’m not talking about Fake Vampire movies, where the vampire is of Eurotrash origin...
Read More »Sleeping with the Dead (2002) Movie Review
Although sold as a Supernatural Horror film, the new Jordan Chan movie “Sleeping with the Dead” actually works better as a Drama. For one thing, the supernatural premise behind “Sleeping” is a retread of...
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Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead (1994) Movie Review
Marked most noticeably by the vast improvement in movie special effects circa 1994, “Phantasm 3″ also gets a much-needed boost by way of a coherent screenplay. In “Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead”, franchise...
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Phantasm 2 (1988) Movie Review
If there’s one thing I can say about the “Phantasm” series (and I’ve only seen two so far), it’s this: it is one confusing franchise! The opening of “Phantasm 2″ was so mind boggling...
Read More »Night of the Living Dead (1990) Movie Review
It should be obvious by now that I don’t look at movies like “Night of the Living Dead” and say, “The Hours”, the same way. Some people like to go to the movies to...
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28 Days Later (2002) Movie Review
My reaction to Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” would probably be a lot more positive if I hadn’t just finished watching Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”. I...
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Krai Thong (2001) Movie Review
I’ve been asked why I haven’t reviewed that many movies from Thailand. It’s simple, really. The vast majority of movies from Thailand are just terrible. I mean, really, really bad. The acting, the writing,...
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Event Horizon (1997) Movie Review
“Event Horizon” stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park 3″) as Dr. Weir, a troubled scientist who, along with the salvage crew of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), are sent to salvage an experimental ship called the...
Read More »Hellraiser 4: Bloodline (1996) Movie Review
You know a movie is in trouble when more than one person is credited as director. But when the original director tries to uncredit himself, that trouble has just doubled. Kevin Yagher, whose only...
Read More »Willard (2003) Movie Review
Believe it or not, a film like “Willard” is more difficult for me to swallow not because of its main premise — a man learns to control rats for his own purposes — but...
Read More »Bio Zombie (1998) Movie Review
More “Return of the Living Dead” than “Night of the Living Dead”, the Hong Kong salute to Zombies Attack film “Bio Zombie” is funnier and more effective than you would think at first glance....
Read More »Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000) Movie Review
Let me preface this review by saying that I’ve never seen the original “Blair Witch Project”, the low-budget movie that revolutionized the way films are promoted on the Internet. But from everything I’ve heard,...
Read More »Ax ‘Em (2002) Movie Review
Black people all over the world have always maintained that if everybody in Slasher movies were black, they would all survive because, the theory goes, black people have more common sense than white folk....
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Below (2002) Movie Review
I am sometimes baffled by the choices film studios make, such as shelving the terrific “Salton Sea” but throwing everything including the kitchen sink to push “Final Destination 2″. And yet, sometimes I have...
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Mimic (1997) Movie Review
“Mimic” is essentially a Don’t Mess with Mother Nature movie, with Mira Sorvino’s Doctor Susan Tyler playing the (not-so) Mad Scientist. In an effort to cure a plague that’s killing children by the hundreds,...
Read More »Insaniac (2002) Movie Review
“I was shot on Super VHS, and as a result the film doesn’t look too great. Running at just 80 minutes, “Insaniac” tells the story of Autumn (Robin Garrels, who also wrote the screenplay...
Read More »Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003) Movie Review
In this day and age, when even established Slasher franchises like “Halloween” and “Hellraiser” has to scrape the bottom of video store shelves and basic cable TV just to survive, it’s a mystery why...
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Bloody Mallory (2002) Movie Review
Parts “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and parts “John Carpenter’s Vampires”, the French film “Bloody Mallory” is all goofball. It would be a big mistake to take anything that transpires within the film seriously, mostly...
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The Bunker (2001) Movie Review
I’ve always been more than a little perplexed by movies that require an exclusively American cast to use a “foreign” accent even if the entire movie is in English. I’ve always thought, “Well, if...
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Junk (1999) Movie Review
Do you know who George Romero is? If the answer is Yes, then can you list all 3 titles of Romero’s Zombies Attack trilogy? If you answered Yes to that question as well, then...
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