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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″...
Read More »The Dead Next Door (1988) Movie Review
If I had to guess, I would say that J.R. Bookwalter, the auteur behind the no-budget zombie opus “The Dead Next Door”, shot his movie with a 8MM film camera. It looks grainy enough,...
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The Crow (1994) Movie Review
James O’Barr’s “The Crow” comic book, which originally ran in the late ’80s/early ’90s as a 4-issue mini-series, was a brilliant and nihilistic story of everlasting love, unrelenting pain, and human nature gone terribly,...
Read More »Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) Movie Review
Joe Chappelle’s “Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula” is not really, well, true. While the movie claims to present the “true” story of a Romanian prince name Vlad who had to fight off...
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Meat Market (2000) Movie Review
I know it’s something of a cheat to call Brian Clement’s zombie opus “Meat Market” a foreign film, since while the film is made by Canadians in (most likely) Canada, it’s not really a...
Read More »Horror Hotline: Big Head Monster (2003) Movie Review
It just doesn’t pay to be a reporter in a horror movie nowadays. Mixing elements of “Ring” with “The Blair Witch Project”, the Hong Kong product “Horror Hotline: Big Head Monster” is not as...
Read More »Dracula 2000 (2000) Movie Review
Only genre fans need bother with Patrick Lussier’s unfortunately titled “Dracula 2000″, about the titular bloodsucker (Gerard Butler) making a comeback in the year (what else?) 2000. The screenplay by director Lussier and co-writer...
Read More »Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2002) Movie Review
Some readers are offended when they see me use the word “dumb” to describe some movies. I guess no self-respecting movie critic would ever use words like “dumb”; I guess I’m supposed to come...
Read More »Phantoms (1998) Movie Review
Adapted by Dean Koontz from his own novel of the same name, “Phantoms” is directed by Joe Chappell, who was rumored (wink wink) to have a hand in directing the troubled “Hellraiser: Bloodline”. The...
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The Breed (2001) Movie Review
Michael Oblowitz, the director of “The Breed”, was last seen trying to survive the Human Dough Boy (or as I like to call him, the Man Formerly Known as Credible Action Star Steven Seagal)...
Read More »How to Make a Monster (2001) Movie Review
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: low-budget filmmakers should not make movies about technology. There is a reason only Hollywood make good movies based around technology — because they have the...
Read More »They (2002) Movie Review
Movies like “They” and the recent “Darkness Falls”, and even the recent Spanish horror film “Darkness”, are the primary reasons why American horror film buffs have had to go to the Japanese for their...
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Subterano (2003) Movie Review
A lot of things about Esben Storm’s “Subterano” puzzles me. The movie is about killer toys that hunt unsuspecting civilians trapped inside an overnight parking garage. But that’s not the most puzzling thing about...
Read More »Turbulence (1997) Movie Review
Big budget Hollywood movies don’t get any more effective than Robert Butler’s 1997 movie “Turbulence”, starring Ray Liotta (“John Q.”) as a psychopath with a propensity for strangling hapless women. After serial killer Weaver...
Read More »Final Destination (2000) Movie Review
Besides proving that cheating Death is easier said than done, the “Final Destination” movies (there have been 2 so far) rebuts the axiom that the sequel can’t be better than the original. While James...
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The Pool (2001) Movie Review
“The Pool” joins the recent spate of German-made Teen Slasher movies to go international. Although the film is made by Germans and set in Prague, and most of the actors are German, the film’s...
Read More »Darkwolf (2003) Movie Review
Here’s a rule of thumb for watching B movies. If a B-movie opens with a scene at a strip club where we’re treated to a generous amount of anonymous female flesh, then you’re in...
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