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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.

Pan's Labyrinth - A Movie Review
Let’s follow Ofelia on her adventures into imagination today. Released to theaters in 2006, Pan’s Labyrinth is a Spanish film about a young girl who escapes reality into her imagination. Ofelia finds herself on a mission. Taking place in Spain in 1944, the terrors of war and her sadistic army officer step-father threatens the lives of everyone around him.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror
100 Horror Films in October 2021: Update One
Spooky month is here! As the pandemic is still raging on and I'm not going out quite as much as normal I thought I might as well try this insane challenge again.
By Angela Nolan5 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: God Told Me To
God Told Me To is a 1976 horror-thriller from legendary B-movie director Larry Cohen and it’s a movie that deserves a chance for a remake. Inside of God Told Me To there is a very good religious based horror movie dying to get out. Sadly, Larry Cohen only found the seeds of that great horror movie and never fully cultivated those seeds into a satisfying final product. What we get instead is a half of an excellent movie and half of a bizarre, outlandish and outright terrible movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Must-See Horror Films Part 7
"It Follows" I love this film. One of the most original horror films I've ever seen, it takes the tired tradition of teen films in which all the sluts die and the virgin lives and reverses it. In this film, in order to live, have sex with someone you don't care about, because they're going to die, unless they have sex with someone they don't care about. And when that person dies, it comes back to get you, so keep on boinking.
By Gene Lass5 years ago in Horror
Must-See Horror Films Part 6
"Blair Witch Project" With found footage films now being a sub-genre of horror, it may be difficult to understand or remember how ground-breaking this film was. I was working in Marlyand at the time, and videos were circulating on-line of snippets of the film. The supposedly found footage from these kids who had disappeared. What they shot had been found in the woods somewhere and assembled, and now there was a documentary about it. The marketing was brilliant. Everyone was under the impression that the film was real. The film was shot with no budget, funded entirely by credit cards, using equipment that was bought from Best Buy and then returned. There was little script, just improvised scenes. This was a film that preyed on primal fears like the unknown, being lost, noises in the dark. This was not for people who wanted jump scares and a reveal of a big scary monster. Those people left feeling like they had been punked. The rest of us were terrified.
By Gene Lass5 years ago in Horror
The Spooky Spectrum: Carrie White from Carrie (1976) (Part 4)
Many Autistic people, including myself, will relate to this scene because we have had so many moments in our lives where we were lied to, tricked, manipulated, gaslighted to only to be made a fool of in front of our peers. One real-life example of this is where an Autistic youth was tricked into participating in the ALS bucket challenge, only to have feces and urine dumped on him by his peers. Carrie can only seem to focus on the people who are mocking her and laughing at her distress over the pig’s blood. When it became clear that Carrie had no one left to turn to in that moment, she flies into a rage and kills everyone in the school including people she considered her allies. When an Autistic person reaches their “breaking point” (also known as a meltdown) it can become very violent and destructive. Of course, meltdowns are never this violent. In Carrie’s case, her meltdown is exaggerated for the perfect climax.
By Kelsey O'Malley5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Night House' Starring Rebecca Hall
The Night House stars Rebecca Hall as Beth, a recently widowed teacher dealing with the aftermath of her husband, Owen’s, suicide. Deeply disillusioned and jaded by her husband’s decision to kill himself, Beth struggles to not be the subject of anyone’s pity. Beth would like little more than to get back to her life and go back to work and put the past behind her but something in her home continues to draw her back toward grief.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
The Spooky Spectrum: Carrie White from Carrie (1976) (Part 3)
During the research scene, Carrie hyper-focuses on the task of researching telekinesis and learns everything that she needs to know. This is also the scene where Tommy Ross asks Carrie out to the prom instead of Sue Snell, his girlfriend. Carrie does not know how to react to this sudden change in Tommy’s behaviour (Remember when Tommy was mocking her earlier?) so Carrie immediately leaves. Carrie is hyper-aware of how her peers perceive her but despite all of this wants to be included or treated as “normal.” Desjardin tries to comfort Carrie after she talks about her anxiety with being asked out by Tommy to the prom. Neurotypicals assume that Autistic people do not understand that they are being bullied, while this is true to a certain extent, that doesn’t mean that Autistics cannot at least get the impression that their existence is not well-received by their peers. Autistics are more than aware that they are treated differently by others, even ones considered “low-functioning” and those are considered the “easy targets.”
By Kelsey O'Malley5 years ago in Horror
Must-See Horror Films Part 5
"Candyman" Clive Barker's other great creation, "Candyman" is about a grad student (Virginia Madsen) investigating the reality behind the urban legend of the Candyman, a hook-handed killer. Thinking it's nothing more than a legend, she inadvertently releases the Candyman, and finds he's even more horrifying than she imagined.
By Gene Lass5 years ago in Horror
Oculus - A Movie Review
Don’t trust the image that you see in the mirror. It’s evil. Released to theaters in 2013, Oculus is a film about two siblings returning to the nightmares of their childhood home. Determined to investigate the terrors behind an old mirror, they have to work hard. Because this mirror is known to play dark tricks, they have to watch their every move.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror
The 8th Night-Best horror movie to watch on Netflix
The 8th Night is a thriller-horror horrible thriller written and directed by Kim Tae-Hyung, then known in Korea as the "Rookie Director.". We'll leave it all to you to find one of the awesome ghost houses on Netflix's list of the best movies. The film relies heavily on the horrors of Korea at this time, with a few horrible children doing horror things and other bad, scary people, but it keeps the plot looking dark and the air full of old doomsday rhetoric and tortured souls destined to save humanity from complete destruction.
By Shreya Poudel5 years ago in Horror
Nightbooks - A Netflix Movie Review
Did you say scary stories? I want you to read a scary story to me every night. Nightbooks was released to Netflix in 2021. Running away from home because he feels misunderstood, Alex is imprisoned by an evil young witch. Intrigued by his interest in writing scary stories, the witch makes a deal with Alex to have him read her a scary story every night.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror