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Archive for ‘Reviews’
Robert’s Review: Braid (2018)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A gorgeous, brain scrambling, female-led debut brought you to by cryptocurrency.
Robert’s Review: Ghoul (2018)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Another fun bit of horror straight out of Incredible !ndia.
Eric’s Review: Repulsion (1965)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A definitive portrayal of a descent into madness.
Mike’s Review: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
We’ve always loved horror, it’s just that horror hasn’t always loved us.
Mike’s Review: Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
The art world is a tough nut to crack. The politics, the sexuality, the fortunes, the fame, the critics, the notoriety, the legacy — oh, yeah, and we almost forgot, the art. Art is often a vessel for missing elements in society, wanting, longing, and a respite from the day to day hum/drum attributes of life. Art can subjugate the mundane and keep our darker and more horrifying desires at bay. That is, when art is obeyed and respected. When it’s not…watch out.
Robert’s Review: Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A Scottish, zombie, horror/comedy, Christmas musical! What’s not to like??
Eric’s Review: Mon Mon Mon Monsters! (2017)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
The horror of bullying in many forms, as cannibalistic ghouls battle real monsters: a gang a deviant Taiwanese prep school kids.
Eric’s Review: Berserk! (1967)
A largely forgotten 1967 horror at the circus movie, starring the legendary Joan Crawford as the ringmaster trying to keep her show and her performers, alive during a spate of grisly deaths under the big top.
Mike’s Review: The Green Slime (1968)
Yes. It’s true. Some films are so awesomely bad that they’ve come full circle and are just plain awesomely awesome. And that’s the truth. One such film is the truly underrated and much ridiculed, 1968’s, the Green Slime. I mean the name kind of says it all.
Eric’s Review: Terrified (Aterrados) (2018)
Welcome to the horror movie party, Argentina! Paranormal nastiness infects the whole neighborhood in this bloody South American take on […]
Mike’s Review: You Might be the Killer (2018)
If something is around long enough it’s going to be parodied. There will be barbs, jabs, satire and plenty of loving imitation. Even the tropes and trends that surround a specific genre will get reworked, turned inside out, and devotedly re-re-re-imagined.
Eric’s Review: Below (2002)
A haunted WWII U.S. submarine. A great premise, but in the end: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.
Robert’s Review: Cemetery Man (1994)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A quirky, Italian horror/comedy with its oddball roots in French philosophy.
Mike’s Review: The Witch in the Window (2018)
Many have characterized this film as “Hallmark Horror.” Which is, of course, lazy short hand for the fact that the film has an emotional component and it manages to draw the audience in to a deep and meaningful concern for the main protagonists. Mind you this is not “This is Us” or some other network pablum, but a legitimate exploration of a father/son relationship in the throws of pre-teen puberty — set against HORROR, glorious horror.
Mike’s Review: Slenderman (2018)
There are those films that need no exposition, and there are those that need a-plenty. The 2018 pre-teen fright fest, Slenderman, is a film that requires ample elucidation. Unfortunately, it contains little to none (read: none). While Slenderman does have some partially admirable elements, it also contains a bag-o’-problems.
Mike’s Review: Puppet Master (1989)
★★★ out of ★★★★★ Written by Charles Band and directed by David Schmoeller There’s some things in life that you […]
Eric’s Review: Escape Room (2019)
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Here’s your first major Horror release of 2019, Escape Room: a tricky, well-paced dungeon crawl of a film, and guess what? It’s pretty good.
Robert’s Review: 78/52 – Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Everything you never knew you needed to know about Psycho’s killer shower.
Mike’s Review: Blood Feast (1963)
★★★ out of ★★★★★ Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis There has to be a “first” everything. First to the moon. […]
Robert’s Review: Rare Exports – A Christmas Tale (2010)
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
You better watch out. You better not cry… Santa Claus is coming to town.
Mike’s Review: Leatherface (2017)
★★.5 out of ★★★★★ In 2015, when Leatherface principal filming began, something must have been amiss in the cosmos. There […]
Liz’s Review: Apostle (2018)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ There’s a bible in every room and a purification machine in town square in the Netflix […]
Robert’s Review: New Year New You (2018)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Blumhouse’s first female director hits it out of the park.
Mike’s Review: The First Purge (2018)
★★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★★ It’s almost difficult to characterize this film as fiction. There’s too many ghastly and prescient […]
Eric’s Review: Revenge (2018)
★★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★★
So. Much. Blood. Seriously copious amounts of the red liquid of life gets spilled in this beautifully shot and straightforward thriller.
Mike’s Review: Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)
★★★★.5 out of ★★★★★ This ain’t no Charlie Brown Christmas. Directed by Charles Sellier, Jr. There’s some of those […]
Robert’s Review: Mandao of the Dead (2018)
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Murder, ghosts, and astral projection!
Mike’s Review: Dogged (2017)
★★ out of ★★★★★ A Wicker Man rip-off with some surprising and enjoyable twists and turns. Directed by Richard Rountree. Allegedly Dogged […]
Mike’s Review: Mandy (2018)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A strange and visionary tale of strange visions and a chainsaw fight. Directed by Panos Cosmatos There […]