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Evidence (2011) Movie Review
Yet more found footage horror arrives in the form of the unimaginatively titled “Evidence”, from director Howie Askins and writer/star Ryan McCoy. With the continuing success/popularity/milking of the genre now having pretty much equalled...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Father’s Day, Bounty Hunters, and Yakuza Weapon
Father’s Day (2011)Canadian filmmakers Astron 6 have done for late night UHF programming what countless others have done for the 70′s grind house scene. The freakishly demented yet thoroughly enjoyable exploitation opus “Father’s Day”...
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Underworld: Awakening (2012) Movie Review
It’s not brain surgery: Kate Beckinsale + skin-tight leather = box office. The irony there is that Beckinsale has always been above the material, but through a series of circumstances (marrying the director, for...
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The Theatre Bizarre (2011) Movie Review
Horror anthologies are a hit and miss affair. While some installments succeed wildly, others invariably fall flat on their face. “The Theatre Bizarre”, the latest in a long and distinguished line of these films,...
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Familiar (2011) Movie Review
From producer Zach Green and writer/director Richard Powell, the duo responsible for the darkly comical genre short “Worm”, comes the wickedly enjoyable short “Familiar”, a film that owes as much to the body horror...
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Sector 7 (2011) Movie Review #2
“Sector 7” is a big budget Korean monster film, charting the struggle between the crew of an offshore oilrig and a man eating horror from the deep. Shot in 3D, the film was directed...
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Sleepwalker (2011) Movie Review
“Sleepwalker” is the latest solo effort from Oxide Pang, one half of the twin brother directorial duo still best known for their hit 2002 ghost story “The Eye”. The film sees him reteaming with...
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The Divide (2011) Movie Review
I like Xavier Gens. I really do. His 2007 horror flick “Frontier(s)” is one seriously horrifying experience, and that’s high praise coming from this impossibly jaded long-time horror fan. However, as much as I...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Kill List, The Innkeepers, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Kill List (2011)If you think you’ve seen everything the hit man genre has to offer, think again. Director Ben Wheatley’s severely unnerving thriller sends its characters on a dark, visceral journey into the clutches...
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Encapsulated Cinema: The Summer of Massacre, Alyce Kills, and Cold Sweat
The Summer of Massacre (2011)“Terror Toons” mastermind Joe Castro’s balls-out insane horror anthology “The Summer of Massacre” is one of the weirdest cinematic rides you can experience without first ingesting scores of illegal narcotics....
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The Lost Home (aka Ladda Land, 2011) Movie Review
The recent popularity of Thai horror continues with “Ladda Land”, directed by Sophon Sakdaphisit, who also helmed the entertaining genre flick “Coming Soon”, as well as scripting Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom’s superb “Shutter”...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Final Destination 5 (2011)
If it ain’t broke, don’t even think about fixing it, seems to be the accepted motto when it comes to horror franchises nowadays. And when it’s finally broke (the box office will help with...
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Sand Sharks (2011) Movie Review
The search for the bottom of the creature feature barrel continues with “Sand Sharks”, a film which explores the long pondered philosophical question as to what would happen if sharks could in fact swim...
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Encapsulated Cinema: 1911, Fright Night, and Boy Wonder
1911 (2011)Am I wrong in saying that I had hoped for something a little stronger from Jackie Chan’s 100th movie? “1911″ feels like cheap Chinese propaganda, a motion picture specifically designed to sing the...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Horror Express (1972)
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas in a Spanish horror film from the writers of “Psychomania”? Thank you, Severin Films, you always know just what I want. This time I’m talking about the...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Fright Night (2011)
Colin Farrell as a blood-sucking vampire? I can dig it. The Irish rogue slaps on a pair of sharp teeth and cranks up the sleazy charm in Craig Gillespie’s remake of the ’80s classic...
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The Road (2012) Movie Review
The thing that I loved the most about “The Echo” director Yam Laranas’ latest supernatural chiller “The Road” is that it’s quiet. Very quiet. Oh-so quiet, even. When the characters have nothing to say,...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead Season 2 Mid-Season Finale (SPOILERS)
THE BELOW REVIEW CONTAINS MUCHO SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YESTERDAY’S EPISODE OF “THE WALKING DEAD”. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Who lives? Who dies? Who gets eaten? And gosh darn it,...
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The Baron (2011) Movie Review
“The Baron” is a Portuguese film shot in retro-modern-scope, in glorious high contrast Black and White, boasting to be “a 2-D film by Edgar Pêra”. One could say that it is modern precisely in...
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Zipangu Fest Review: The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen (1938)
One of the great pleasures of attending film festivals is getting the chance to see the rare and obscure in all their glory, as in the case of “The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious...
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