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A toe-curling and stomach-churning parable about the addictive power of viral media.
Archive for ‘Reviews’
Mike’s Review: Big Legend (2018)
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The Scariest Things got to check out the World Premiere of this Northwest myth put to film at the Portland Horror Film Festival!
Robert’s Review: Deathgasm (2015)
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Wait… do demons recognize daylight savings?
Eric’s Review: The LaPlace’s Demon (2018)
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Stark, Smart, and Moody clockwork horror that contemplates fate and predictive behavior.
Eric’s Review: Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
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Gonzo, Gory, a little meta, a little offensive, and a big step up for the venerable franchise.
Robert’s Review: Without Name (2016)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Trees. Lots of spooky, spooky trees.
Robert’s Review: Orphan (2009)
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Kids are creepy, but are they horrific?
Robert’s Review: Feral (2017)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
You’re gonna wish it was just lyme disease.
Robert’s Review: Scarecrows (2017)
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Welcome to the stinkiest cornfield in history.
Amy’s Review: The Fear Footage (2018)
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A found footage anthology, complete with a hand-written note of spookiness!
Robert’s Review: Darkness Wakes (2017)
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They’re losing interest. Quick! Get naked!
The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XXV: The Peak and the End of the Golden Age of Horror
Do you like weddings, psychology, inheritances and people talking in Trans-Atlantic accents? Oh… and do you like classic monsters? Then listen in to Episode XXV where we discuss the rise and fall of the first age of Horror movies!
Robert’s Review: A Brilliant Monster (2018)
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This guy’s got more than skeletons in his closet.
Robert’s Review: Dead List (2018)
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“Don’t spend it all in one place” applies to movies, too.
Robert’s Review: From the Dark (2014)
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This ain’t no sparkly vampire.
Mike’s Review: Shock (1977)
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Sometimes, just sometimes, a quiet stay in a bucolic looney bin really helps one’s psyche.
Mike’s Review: The Last Exorcism (2010)
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When a coach, teacher, parent, or peer says “…hey there, that was a really competent job.” Competent? Yeah. Competent. A really condescending term that points to the ultimate in back-handed compliments. It’s not bad, per se, but it ain’t great either. Enter The Last Exorcism. A really competent piece of filmmaking.
Eric’s Review: The Hallow (2015)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A Brooding and beautiful, if fairly straightforward modern Irish horror folktale.
Eric’s Review: Mom and Dad (2018)
*** out of *****
You want to see an off-the-chain Nicolas Cage? Here you go! Go crazy, Nic.
Eric’s Review: The Babadook (2014 ) Including the Pop-up Book flip through.
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Directed by Jennifer Kent.
A keystone film in the new golden age of horror films. A story on how a mother and her troubled son struggle with grief, which spins into fear and then madness.
Amy’s Review: #Screamers (2016)
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A silly premise spread too thin.
Mike’s Review: Asylum of Satan (1972)
★★★out of ★★★★★ In 2013 Steven Speilberg and some other guy named George Lucas stood in front of a group […]
Robert’s Review: Primal Rage (2018)
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Apparently, the woods are full of chatty rednecks and a pervy Bigfoot.
Mike’s Review: The New York Ripper (1982)
★★★out of ★★★★★ Oh Lucio Fulci is there anything you can’t do? Between the hacking, the slashing, the stabbing, the cutting, […]
Eric’s Review: Cooties (2014)
★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★★
Directed by Jonathon Milott and Cary Murnion
The zombie-pocalypse begins in an elementary school playground, and the kids turn on the teachers. Bloody (occasionally) and goofy (sometimes) mayhem (almost) ensues. Shrugs all around.
Mike’s Review: The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
★★.5 out of ★★★★★ Hmmm…this one’s a real puzzler. Playing with time, space, roles, and well, the fundamental tenets of horror. […]
Robert’s Review: Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016)
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Consider it Death’s first apartment.
Eric’s Review: Ghost Stories (2018)
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Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman
A tense and twisty semi-anthology of paranormal de-bunking whose fateful ending makes you rewind the the events of the film when you’re walking out of the theater in this clever British offering.
Robert’s Review: The Sound (2017)
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Pick a plot, any plot! It’s a regular story line buffet!
Eric’s Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
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About a 10 out of 25 on the Scary Meter.
Directed by Babak Anvari
An exotic spin on a familiar tale. It’s a Persian Poltergeist! This genie is not here to grant any wishes.