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Red, White & Blue (2010) Movie Review
Oddly billed as a slacker revenge movie, “Red, White & Blue” is, to be fair, a bit of a hard film to pigeonhole, being a bleak and intense, though impressively grounded and believable tale...
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The Pack (2010) Movie Review #2
The first twenty minutes of writer/director Franck Richard’s atmospheric horror flick “The Pack” (aka “La meute”) are pretty standard stuff, which isn’t a good thing when your audience has seen this stuff a million...
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White: Curse of the Melody (2011) Movie Review
A South Korean horror flick centered around a cursed pop song may not sound like something you’d want to see, but it’s actually much better than you might imagine. Directors Kim Gok and Kim...
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Film Shots: Atrocious, Wreckage, Blood Runs Cold, and Cannibal
ATROCIOUS The found footage subgenre refuses to die, with “Atrocious” arriving as one of the latest attempts to wring what must surely be the last drops of creativity from the tiring form. Written and...
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Liquid Memories (2010) Movie Review
How do I even begin to describe director Jimmy ScreamerClauz’s 2010 animated horror outing “Liquid Memories”? Attempting to do so would be akin to relating the contents of an acid trip to someone who’s...
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World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries (2011) Movie Review
Do we really need another “Zombie Diaries” movie? Better question, do we really need another zombie film cluttering up the IMDB? In between films, comics, novels, television shows, merchandising–the walking dead have lost their...
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MIFFF Short Films Reviews
One of the coolest things about the Maelstrom International Fantastic Movie Festival is the shorts program. There were an absurd number of them, almost fifty, broken up into genre-specific chunks—a fantasy, animation, horror, and...
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MIFFF Review: The Selling (2011)
A big problem with films that present themselves as horror-comedies is that, all too often, they are neither frightening nor funny. In direct opposition to this trend, Emily Lou’s new film “The Selling” succeeds...
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MIFFF Review: Midnight Son (2011)
Almost immediately director Scott Leberecht’s new horror film “Midnight Son” calls to mind George Romero’s 1976 movie “Martin”. Both are ostensibly vampire movies, but vampire movies that tweak the formula and refuse to follow...
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Hellraiser: Revelations (2011) Movie Review
Steven Craven and Nico Bradley head off on a road trip to Tijuana, but things take a strange turn on their tequila fueled getaway. A mysterious vagrant approaches them in a bar, giving them...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Attack the Block, The Bleeding House, and Red State
This edition of “Encapsulated Cinema” focuses on the efforts of three writer/directors, each of whom bring something totally different to the proverbial screen. This list also contains my favorite summer flick thus far this...
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Mysterious Island (2011) Movie Review
“Mysterious Island” from director Chung Kai Cheung (who worked on “A-1 Headline” with Gordon Chan) is probably best described as a supernaturally themed thriller, though this may be pushing things a bit due to...
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Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) Movie Review
Full disclosure: I haven’t enjoyed a “Children of the Corn” movie since 1995. That’s the year director James D.R. Hickox’s “Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest” first hit home video, a film that...
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InSight (2011) Movie Review
“InSight” is a twisty, manipulative, and surprisingly unpredictable thriller from actor/director Richard Gabai, whose credits up to now have been teen-friendly fare like “Popstar”, “Call of the Wild 3D”, and “Motocross Kids”. (You know,...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Atrocious, Exit 33, and The Violent Kind
I’m a big believer in keeping your expectations in check. If you let them run wild, chances are you’re going to end up with a big ol’ meaty wad of bitter disappointment lodged in...
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The Unborn Child (2011) Movie Review
Let’s get one thing straight: Director Poj Arnon’s 2011 supernatural thriller “The Unborn Child” (aka “2002 Unborn Children”) is more of a “scare film” that it is an actual horror movie. Don’t get me...
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Encapsulated Cinema: Gothic and Lolita Psycho, The Coffin, and Black Rat
This edition of “Encapsulated Cinema” finds yours truly trekking through the wonky world of Asian horror. Again. Below you’ll find a smattering of reviews for a handful of flicks, each one representing a different...
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Muckman (2009) Movie Review
Make no bones about it, my friends: “A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell ” director Brett Piper’s 2009 horror/comedy “Muckman” is absolute crap. If anyone says otherwise, they’re probably lying to you. Everything about...
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A Chinese Ghost Story (2011) Movie Review
Ching Siu Tung and Tsui Hark’s 1987 immortal classic of Hong Kong cinema “A Chinese Ghost Story” returns to screens in a new version with “Ip Man” series director Wilson Yip at the helm....
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Open to Midnight (2011) Movie Review
“Open to Midnight” is a Taiwanese ghost film helmed by Lao Jian Hua, who previously had a brush with the supernatural in 2001 with the Stephen Fung starring “Shadow”, and produced by the prolific...
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