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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987) Movie Review
The first thing you notice about “NOES 3: The Dream Warriors” is the seamless transition from waking scenes to dream scenes. Director Chuck Russell (“Eraser”) handles the camerawork fluidly, which is one of many...
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Movie Review
Granted, the phrase, “Man, that just doesn’t make sense” seems to go hand in hand with a horror franchise about a supernatural killer that haunts and then slaughters teens in their dreams. Then again,...
Read More »Haunted Office (2002) Movie Review
“Haunted Office”, a 2002 offering from Hong Kong, is a horror anthology consisting of 3 episodes set in the same haunted office building. Unlike other anthologies, there isn’t a middleman (e.g. the Crypt Keeper)...
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Down to Hell (1996) Movie Review
Much like the feature length movie that would follow it, the Super 8 short “Down to Hell” needs to be seen to be believed. It’s not that writer/director/camera operator/caterer/janitor Ryuhei Kitamura has created something...
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Nemesis Game (2003) Movie Review
Writer/director Jesse Warn’s “Nemesis Game” is a mild diversion. It’s not bad enough to be useless, but it’s also not quite good enough to surpass average. Wait, does that make sense? Well yes, if...
Read More »Dark Walker (2003) Movie Review
A movie like “Dark Walker” usually prompts me to make mention of its lack of originality. But I won’t do that this time, mostly because I’m convinced director Danny Draven and his writers know...
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The Twins Effect (2003) Movie Review
Using manipulative music in movies is nothing new. Steven Spielberg used to make a living off it. Such is the case with “The Twins Effect”, the new “it” movie from Hong Kong starring two...
Read More »Deadly Species (2003) Movie Review
Ah, the stray piece of hair stuck in the film camera’s loading gate, the first sign of trouble for “Deadly Species” (not that there weren’t any before, natch). When you see a whole sequence...
Read More »Demon Slayer (2003) Movie Review
It probably comes as no surprise that the best thing about “Demon Slayer” is the movie poster, which promises plenty of lovely young women for us to gawk at. The movie itself has a...
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Eternal Blood (2002) Movie Review
I will give co-writer/director Jorge Olguin points for ingenuity and creativity. As to originality — well, there isn’t much of that here in “Eternal Blood”. The Chilean movie is about a group of Goth...
Read More »Webs (2003) Movie Review
There’s nothing wrong with “Webs”, an original Sci-Fi network movie, that another round of rewrites couldn’t fix. For instance, the Crane character played by David Nerman would be written as human instead of just...
Read More »House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) Movie Review
Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses” seems like an appropriate enough title. The movie is essentially about a family of backwoods hillbilly that preys on passing motorists. Their latest prey are four 20-somethings on...
Read More »Dracula 2000 II: Ascension (2003) Movie Review
About 25 minutes into “Dracula 2: Ascension”, Fair Hair Lead Elizabeth (Diane Neal) moans, “Why is this happening?” Well, Lizzie, let’s recap what you’ve done in just the last 10 minutes alone, shall we?...
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Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001) Movie Review
The Zombies Attack genre is a burgeoning one in Japan. I’ve only seen a couple of real zombie movies, including “Junk” and “Wild Zero”. And while “Versus” also featured zombies, it was more chop...
Read More »Code 11-14 (2003) Movie Review
Towards the end of the Serial Killer movie “Code 11-14″, and after the serial killer’s identity has been revealed to the audience, the killer radios leading man David James Elliot (who has since figured...
Read More »Arachnid (2001) Movie Review
As Giant Creatures Attack movies go, Jack Sholder’s “Arachnid” is pretty decent. But as a regular movie regardless of genre, it’s lacking. Starring Chris Potter as Valentine, an ex-military who leads a medical expedition...
Read More »Granny (1999) Movie Review
I like to think that when it comes to Teen Slasher movies I’m a little more lenient than your average movie critic. Given the right ingredients of sex, violence, and gore, I’m usually quite...
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Double Vision (2003) Movie Review
Kuo-fu Chen’s “Double Vision” was written, executed, and intended for international audiences, so maybe this is why the film lacks a more “Asian” feel. Oh sure, the screenplay by Chen and Chao-Bin Su makes...
Read More »Wendigo (2001) Movie Review
Horror movies that put young children in the middle of supernatural events to be terrorized as their parents sit idly by in the next room are nothing new. Although there does seem to be...
Read More »Python 2 (2002) Movie Review
I think it goes without saying that a movie called “Python 2″ is bad. Even for a Straight-to-Video movie, a class of picture that is usually synonymous with the word “bad movie”, “Python 2″...
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