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Come Out and Play (2012) Movie Review
Mononymous writer-director Makinov’s 2012 thriller “Come Out and Play” only works if you could never in your wildest dreams consider killing a kid if your life was in serious danger. Call me cold and...
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The Facility (2012) Movie Review
Award winning short film writer director Ian Clark (“Jenny and the Worm”) makes his feature debut with the horror thriller “The Facility”, which arrives now on region 2 DVD via eOne Momentum, having played...
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The Lords of Salem (2012) Movie Review
Rob Zombie has continually been a director whose works have divided the horror community, “House of 1000 Corpses” and “The Devil’s Rejects” having found lovers and haters in roughly equal numbers (his “Halloween” remake...
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New On DVD: Cold Prey 2 (2008)
After battling a crazed backwoods hillbilly, or at least their Norwegian equivalent, and barely escaping with your life, most of us want to take a nice, long break. Maybe a relaxing vacation where we...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Mama (2013)
I don’t know about your mama, but Andres Muschietti’s Mama don’t take you stealing her kids lying down. A surprise hit for Universal when it opened earlier this year, the spookfest “Mama” stars the...
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No One Lives (2012) Movie Review
It’s always fun to keep an eye on the progress of Asian directors in Hollywood, especially when the director in question is someone like Ryûhei Kitamura, Japanese helmer of enduring cult favourite “Versus”. Having...
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Evil Dead (2013) Movie Review #2
Once upon a time, I loved horror movies. Everything about the genre seemed so exciting, so daring. I would line up to see the latest offering in theaters on opening weekend without a hint...
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Evil Dead (2013) Movie Review
When we learned that there was going to be an “Evil Dead” remake, or reboot, or whatever it’s supposed to be, most of us groaned and chalked it up to another unnecessary rehash of...
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The Seasoning House (2012) Movie Review
“The Seasoning House” has been highly anticipated by British genre fans, marking the directorial debut of Paul Hyett, a respected and prolific special effects craftsman who has worked on an impressive number of productions...
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Stitches (2012) Movie Review
There’s a moment in co-writer and director Conor McMahon’s horror/comedy “Stitches” where one of the film’s more obnoxious characters meet his maker at the hands of the titular clown. The death is immediately followed...
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Stoker (2013) Movie Review
There’s always a level of concern when an acclaimed international filmmaker heads to Hollywood for the first time. How often have we witnessed a director who cranks out masterpiece after masterpiece fall flat on...
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New On Blu-Ray: A Nightmare On Elm Street Collection
As a small child I used to accompany my parents on regular treks to the local video store, which oddly enough also served as an ice cream shop. On every run I invariable wandered...
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The Bay (2012) Movie Review #2
When thinking of the director most likely to be churning out a found footage style eco-horror about a particularly nasty strain of parasite, the multiple award winning helmer Barry Levinson, responsible for the likes...
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John Dies At The End (2012) Movie Review
I really wanted “John Dies At the End” to be a better movie than it is. There is so much potential, not only in the source material—the novel of the same name by David...
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Creature Feature Trio: Crawlspace, Silent Hill: Revelation, and Bad Kids Go to Hell
CRAWLSPACE (2012) Hot blonde Eve (Amber Clayton) wakes up in a series of tunnels in some super duper secret Government facility with no memory of how she got there, or why she has a...
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Drive-In Mutants: Savage Streets (1984)
SAVAGE STREETS (1984) Motion Picture Marketing Directed by: Danny Steinmann Starring: Linda Blair, John Vernon, John Dryer, Linnea Quigley The Plot is Afoot! Brenda is the leader of a pack of young girls in...
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Dead Sushi (2012) Movie Review
Let me preface this review by saying that I absolutely adore the work of director Noboru Iguchi. From where I’m seated, the guy is a freaking genius. I don’t care how obsessed he is...
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Two Moons (2012) Movie Review
Pretty much every summer sees a clutch of horror films hitting Korean cinemas, and 2012 was no exception, one of which was “Two Moons” (a.k.a. “The Sleepless”), a chiller revolving around a group of...
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Drive-In Mutants: Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) American International Pictures Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador Starring: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo The Plot is Afoot! When Tom and Evelyn seek to vacation in Spain,...
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And Then You Die (2013) Movie Review
Directors Brian Gaillard and Daniel Murphy and HM&M Films’ nifty slasher “And Then You Die” is a low-budget horror flick that gleefully channels some of the shot-on-video genre flicks perpetrated by the likes of...
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