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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
Fright Night (1984)
Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) has a problem. His next-door neighbor, the suave, sophisticated, and undoubtedly wealthy antique dealer Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. He lives with a huge, lumbering manservant (Jonathan Stark), and Charlie sees him carrying what looks to be a coffin out from their creepy Adams Family-style home to the waiting van outside. All this while watching his favorite creature feature host, Peter Vincent (the late Roddy McDowall) on "Fright Night," host bad vampire movies while trying to get some nookie from his girlfriend Amy (a young Amanda Bearse).
You're Next - A Movie Review
Stay away from the windows. Someone is out there! You’re Next is a 2011 film. The Davidson family gets together for dinner. Except, it’s not the happy evening they were hoping for. Attacked by mysterious killers wearing ominous masks, one family member unexpectedly fights back.
Marielle SabbagPublished about a year ago in HorrorHalloween Ends - Movie Review
"What on earth did I just watch?!" Is what I told myself upon leaving the cinema. Halloween Ends completely missed the charm of the original movie. What was once a very simple, straight to the point slasher, where a unstoppable killer storms through Haddonfield on a murderous rampage is now a convoluted romantic thriller about Laurie's grand daughter, Alison, falling for a bad boy psychopath! I'm not even kidding you folks, Halloween Ends focuses far more on this new character named Corey, who slowly becomes psychotic upon meeting Michael Myers in a creepy sewer. After escaping the infamous serial killer, Corey slowly starts to lose his sanity and essentially becomes a copy-cat killer of The Shape, only he has an even cheaper Halloween mask from the local dollar store. What's even worse is just how much screen time is absolutely wasted on this bizarre, yet awful romantic relationship he has with Alison, which honestly takes over the majority of this film's run time! I swear to you this is the actual plot and it's not at all scary.
Joseph Roy WrightPublished about a year ago in HorrorManos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Produced and directed by a fertilizer salesman, Manos: The Hands of Fate is a film so lacking in any merit, that, to attribute to it the designation of being an actual film in the traditional sense may be overstating things. It's more like an absurd fever dream experienced after eating a heavy Mexican dinner.
Bloodfreak! (A.K.K Blood Freak!)
Blood Freak (or maybe Bloodfreak!) is a movie so wretchedly, abysmally awful it should be in a Museum of the Celluloid Atrocities. It's essentially a movie about a biker (director/ producer "Steve Hawkes" who looks like the bastard offspring of Johnny Cash and Elvis) who goes to a party with some freewheeling hippie chick, gets a lecture from her born-again sister, gets a job at a "poultry farm" (I thought those were mainly for chickens, but all we see are turkeys, which seems somehow appropriate, given this picture) and then eats a turkey or chicken meal wrapped in aluminum that causes him to hallucinate he has a giant bird's head. (I'm not making this shit up. Go, watch the film, and see for yourself.)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Halloween is fast approaching. Arrive it will, like a stereotypical witch on a broomstick, in just a few days. I've taken the liberty to revisit a few cinematic friends this month. One of them being the masterful Phantom of the Opera (1925), a definitive adaptation of the Gaston LeRoux gothic mystery classic, made in 1925, silent, and starring the late, great Lon Chaney Sr., the "Man of a Thousand Faces."
Smile - Movie Review
Smile begins strong, it has a creepy setting and story which begins with our main character, Dr. Rose Cotter (played by Sosie Bacon) Visiting mental patient of hers, as she is a psychiatrist. This first patient of hers, he believes a monster is following him, and what I like about this is how ambiguous Smile is, for he is not the one who passes curse onto Rose, it is actually her second patient, Laura Weaver (played by Caitlin Stasey) who is haunted by the demon. So it leaves us wondering whether or not Rose's first patient is just crazy, or if he too is cursed by the demon, this and many other questions are never answered, leaving us in the dark with only the fear of the unknown to comfort us! After Laura's suicide in front of Rose, whilst under possession of the demon, this triggers the demon to attach itself to her and soon a bizarre series of hauntings begin to take place!
Joseph Roy WrightPublished 2 years ago in Horror‘Terrifier 2’ Movie Review
Art the Clown is back in Terrifier 2! This time around, Art (David Howard Thornton) has been brought back to life by dark magic following the events of the first movie. A young woman named Sienna (Lauren LaVera), still struggling with the tragic death of her father years prior, is plagued by nightmares about the infamous Miles County Clown. But when Art begins stalking her and her awkward younger brother, Jonathan (Elliott Fullam) on Halloween night, she’ll have to figure out a way to defeat the killer clown and discover the supposed link between the killer and her family.
Will LasleyPublished 2 years ago in HorrorAt Midnight I'll Take Your Soul!
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul! Is reputedly the first "horror film" produced in Brazil ( beyond maybe some snuff porno loops produced by organized crime and bandied about in urban legends). It's the product of one José Mojica Marins, a.k.a., the legendary "Coffin Joe," a horror filmmaker of no small repute in his homeland, who has been the subject of countless films, television programs, comic books, songs, you name it.
Movie Review: 'Terrifier 2' is the Surprise of 2022
Terrifier 2 (2022) Directed by Damien Leone Written by Damien Leone Starring David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Chris Jericho
Sean PatrickPublished 2 years ago in HorrorReed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Evil Dead' (2013)
Boy, am I SO FUCKING GLAD I had to wait for NINE FUCKING YEARS for this to come out on a streaming service I actually have.
Reed AlexanderPublished 2 years ago in Horror‘Halloween Ends’ Movie Review
Rounding out David Gordon Green’s Halloween sequel trilogy, Halloween Ends picks up four years after the previous two films. Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) has seemingly vanished without a trace, following his prior massacre of the angry mob in Haddonfield. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and working on her memoir. But when Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a troubled young man with a tragic past, begins to take a liking to Allyson, Laurie senses a familiar darkness in him and worries that the boogeyman might still be here after all.
Will LasleyPublished 2 years ago in Horror