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Kairo (aka Pulse, 2001) Movie Review
Especially for a Japanese film, there’s a fine line between becoming another in a long line of Slow Bore Horror films and just being a Horror film. Luckily for my faith in Japanese cinema,...
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Audition (1999) Movie Review
I’ve been hearing filmmaker Takashi Miike’s name for a while now. The man is apparently the biggest thing to come out of Japan since the samurai, and his other movie, Ichi the Killer, is...
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The Beyond (1981) Movie Review
Anyone who plans on watching Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond is advised not to eat beforehand or plan on eating right after the viewing. The Beyond is a Zombies Attack film made by the same...
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Joy Ride (2001) Movie Review
Don’t mess with truckers.” Or at least that’s the lesson of John Dahl’s Joyride, a movie that is part Slasher and part Suspense Thriller. Joyride opens with college freshman Lewis (Paul Walker) in California...
Read More »Prince of Darkness (1987) Movie Review
Writer/director John Carpenter must like Last Stand in a Haunted House movies as much as I do, because almost every single one of the man’s movies meet the criteria for such a movie or...
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The Nameless (1999) Movie Review
Jaume Balaguero’s The Nameless is a stylish psychological thriller that owes more than just a cursory homage to the works of American director David Fincher, who has revolutionize the way films are shot with...
Read More »From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter (2000) Movie Review
The direct-to-video movie, From Dusk til Dawn 3 is the third installment in the From Dusk til Dawn (heretofore known as FDTD) franchise. The original film was written by and co-starred Quentin Tarantino as...
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The Crow 3: Salvation (2003) Movie Review
It’s amazing how a movie with the pedigree of The Crow: Salvation (or Crow 3) could fall so low. The entire franchise (there has been 3 in the series) is based on a comic...
Read More »Tales from the Crypt Presents: The Ritual (2001) Movie Review
The Ritual’s full title is actually Tales From the Crypt Presents: The Ritual, but for brevity’s sake, or perhaps to separate it from the now less-than-profitable TV show of the same name, the producers...
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Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989) Movie Review
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town is, to put it politely, a piece of excrement of a film. Even measuring it by Schlock Horror turd-o-meter, the film is grossly incompetent, badly executed, and laughable. Despite...
Read More »D-Tox (aka Eye See You, 2002) Movie Review
Sylvester Stallone’s new movie, D-Tox is a combination Ten Little Indians and a Slasher movie. A Ten Little Indians movie shares a lot of the conventions of a Last Stand In a Haunted House...
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) Movie Review
My memory of the original Vampire Hunter D, of which Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a sequel to, is a little hazy. The original came out in 1985 and I saw it...
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Night of the Blind Dead (1971) Movie Review
Spanish auteur Amando de Ossorio’s Night of the Blind Dead fits into a subgenre I like to call Schlock Horror. Schlock Horror movies are so bad that they’re…well, they’re just so bad it’s impossible...
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The Thing (1982) Movie Review
There are essentially two types of Last Stand in a Haunted House movie, ones made for teens and ones made for adults. Much of the conventions of a Last Stand in a Haunted House...
Read More »Hellraiser 5: Inferno (2000) Movie Review
Consider the history and current state of the Hellraiser franchise. The franchise began life as a short story by prolific horror novelist turned Hollywood film director Clive Barker, who turned his own story into...
Read More »The Convent (2000) Movie Review
Mike Mendez’s The Convent is a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie, and as such it has all the conventions of the horror subgenre, including: a dumb cheerleader, abusive frat boys, a virgin...
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Zombie (1979) Movie Review
I have a revolving policy when it comes to movie reviews. Depending on the movie in question, I will adjust my review parameters appropriately. Why do I do this? Because I wouldn’t dream of...
Read More »13 Ghosts (2001) Movie Review
Steve Beck’s “13 Ghosts” is yet another modern “re-imagining” of a classic horror film. There has been a flood of such remakes, probably indicating Hollywood’s inability to hire a decent writer to craft an...
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Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) Movie Review
Early in Brian Yuzna’s Faust: Love of the Damned, a doctor experimenting in what she calls “music therapy” to cure psychotic patients goes into the room of one of her patients, a mass murderer...
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Blade (1998) Movie Review
The new trend for horror films, or movies dealing with the traditional creatures of horror films (vampires, werewolves, monsters, etc.) has been, for the last decade or so, to find a new “twist” to...
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