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Frightfest ’12: The Thompsons, Sleep Tight, and Dead Sushi
THE THOMPSONS (2012) Directorial duo The Butcher Brothers (aka Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) follow up their 2006 family themed vampire flick “The Hamiltons” with “The Thompsons”, offering up more of the same as...
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Frightfest ’12: Nightbreed (The Cabal Cut), Hidden in the Woods, V/H/S, and [REC] 3: Genesis
NIGHTBREED: THE CABAL CUT (1990) “Nightbreed”, directed by cult author Clive Barker and adapted from his own novel “Cabal”, has been a subject of great interest for horror fans ever since 1990, when it...
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SIFF ’12 Review: Game Of Werewolves (2011)
Mixing horror and comedy is a tricky proposition. Leaning too heavily on one element over the other can lead to an imbalance, and too many attempts to synthesize the two genres result in movies...
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BFI London Film Festival Review: The Monk (2011)
French-Spanish production “The Monk” is the third feature from writer director Dominik Moll (“Harry, He’s Here To Help”, “Lemming”), and is an adaptation of the 1796 novel by Matthew Lewis, itself renowned as being...
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Film Shots: Julia’s Eyes, Mother’s Day, and Attack the Block
MOTHER’S DAY (2010) The latest in the never ending stream of (arguably) needless Hollywood horror remakes sees “Saw” franchise director Darren Lynn Bousman serving up an all new version of the 1980 Charles Kaufman...
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Black Bread (2010) Movie Review
“Black Bread” starts of with a scene of such stunning violence—without giving too much away, it involves a sledgehammer and a horse, among a slew of other very nasty things—that it casts a shadow...
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[Rec] 2 (2009) Movie Review #2
Whenever I’m quizzed about the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s creepy 2007 effort “[Rec]” is always one of the first pictures I mention. The film managed to violently worm...
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[REC] 2 (2009) Movie Review
Spanish directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza return for more shaky handheld camera action in “[Rec] 2”, the follow up to their much lauded 2007 genre hit, which provided a much needed shot of...
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Fermat’s Room (2007) Movie Review
The Spanish “Fermat’s Room” is the latest in the enduringly popular puzzle thriller genre, which sees characters trapped and being forced to solve enigmas in order to avoid inventively gruesome fates. Here, writers and...
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Sexy Killer: You’ll Die for Her (2008) Movie Review
Spanish horror has been prominent on the international scream scene of late, with the likes of “REC” and “The Orphanage” offering another alternative to the increasingly bland tide of remakes flowing sluggishly from Hollywood....
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Labyrinth of Passion (1982) Movie Review
“Labyrinth of Passion” is a new Tartan release of an early 1982 effort from internationally acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. The film is a scandalous look at love and sex in early 1980s Madrid...
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The Night of the Sunflowers (2006) Movie Review
One of the residents of a declining little village in northern Spain comes across an ancient cave in the nearby hills. Hoping to revitalize the town through the potential touristic possibilities of a prehistoric...
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Movie Review
The 1930s were a terrible time in Spain. Mired in a vicious civil war that saw both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia use Spain as a practice ground for WWII, the country descended into...
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Horrorfest: 8, uh, 3 Films to Die For! / Reincarnation (2005), The Abandoned (2006), The Gravedancers (2006) Movie Reviews
I would guess that by now most of you caught the frenetic commercials for this unique horror “fest” that appeared to be a scary new ride at Great Adventure. The fest played at only...
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The Deal (2006) Movie Review
“The Deal” was shot mainly (if not entirely) in Spain with, in all likelihood, Spanish money, but stars a couple of somewhat well-known American actors in order to sell the film to American cable...
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The Life aka Yo Puta aka Whore (2004) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) One of the most confusing things about “The Life,” a film fraught with confusion, is what to call it. Upon theatrical release it was called “Yo Puta,” presumably because...
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Cronos (1993) Movie Review
The Mexican movie “Cronos” is undoubtedly one of the better horror films of the 1990s. At times unsettling, at other times moving and compassionate, this is a vampire film that never conforms to any...
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Nobody Knows Anybody (1999) Movie Review
The title of the Spanish film “Nobody Knows Anybody” is probably too appropriate for its own good. The movie, about a lonely man who gets drawn into a dangerous and elaborate game is reminiscent...
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Darkness (2002) Movie Review
The new horror movie “Darkness”, not to be confused with “Darkness Falls” (although both films share similar gimmicks involving darkness), stars Anna Paquin (“X-Men”) as a teen whose family moves into an old house...
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Open Your Eyes (1997) Movie Review
Having seen Cameron Crowe’s American remake of Spaniard Alejandro Amenabar’s “Open Your Eyes” first, it’s inevitable that I would make the mistake of comparing “Open Your Eyes” to “Vanilla Sky” and not the other...
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