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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...
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Freeze Me (2000) Movie Review
With “Freeze Me”, I’m reasonably certain writer/director Takashi Ishii is trying to make a statement about the hardships of being a woman in contemporary Japan, but the problem is that the film just isn’t...
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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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Three (2002) Movie Review
The new Asian anthology movie “Three”, in which 3 directors from 3 different countries craft individual tales unrelated to the other 2, should have been called “One”, and the only writer/director who should have...
Read More »Phone (2002) Movie Review
Byeong-ki Ahn’s “Phone” is another in a long line of “Dark Hair Ghost Story” movies, in which a vengeful female spirit, sporting unnaturally long dark hair and unsightly dark, black eyes appear in the...
Read More »Darkness Falls (2003) Movie Review
This exchange of dialogue, and the following brief scene description, is all you need to know about the new Slasher film “Darkness Falls”: Kyle Walsh, Our Hero: “Stay in the light!” Dumb Guy About...
Read More »Halloween 8: Resurrection (2002) Movie Review
I’ve never been all that fond of the “Halloween” franchise. I sort of remember seeing the original, which was made in the late ’70s by horror guru John Carpenter (“The Thing”), and I remember...
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My Little Eye (2002) Movie Review
In what can only amount to cosmic irony, movies have begun to use the popularity of Reality TV as inspiration for their own plot; if Reality TV was meant to satirize real life, movies...
Read More »Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) Movie Review
To say that the filmmakers of “Cube 2: Hypercube” knew what they were doing, or where they were going, would be giving them too much credit. Similar to its original, “Cube 2″ is an...
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