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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.
Scariest Book-To-Movie Adaptations to Watch This Fall
How many of us bookworms love to see amazing book-to-movie adaptations? I can just picture so many hands in the air. But seriously, after reading an amazing book and later seeing the movie based on it is the best — you cannot deny it. Sure, while reading the book, we already have in our minds what the characters look like from our point of view and not every movie is as exact as the book. But, movie adaptations really give a permanent face to the characters from the books. And sometimes they're very accurate! Yes, I'm admitting it even though I personally love putting faces on characters from books.
By Jacqueline Hanikeh7 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Saw'
As part of a celebration of Halloween weekend, the Everyone is a Critic Movie Review podcast, which I co-host, will be doing a special bonus episode dedicated to the Saw franchise. We will discuss in-depth each of the Saw movies including the brand new Jigsaw, which opens Halloween weekend in theaters nationwide. With that in mind, I am also writing about each of the Saw movies for Horror.Media. Spoiler alert, I am a huge fan of all seven of the previous Saw movies and I am very much looking forward to the debut of Jigsaw. You can get our Saw Bonus episode and every episode of the Everyone is a Critic Movie Review Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or anywhere podcasts are available.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Jigsaw (2017) Review
John Kramer, otherwise known as the Jigsaw killer, has become the most recent iconic horror slasher icon. In 2004, horror fans across the world witnessed the beginning of a legacy that would end up spanning more than a decade. As Freddy and Jason ruled the 80s, and Ghostface ruled the 90s, Jigsaw ruled the 00s.
By Jason Pitts7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 3D'
In what was thought to be the final installment of the Saw films all seemed to finally come clear to me about this oddly brilliant horror franchise. The murderous Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell, is the vengeful Old Testament God and his victims are the sinners being delivered through anguish and deciding whether they will repent and live on or die horribly. Biblical scholars can take issue if they like. It’s a loose metaphor but it fits.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
'Halloween' (1978): An Appreciation
I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil."
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Review of 'Housebound (2014)'
Yeah, this was a pretty cheeky movie. I can appreciate that about horrors that also want to be comedies, though it's very dry humor and isn't for everyone. I think the cast and crew were from New Zealand. I'm not fully positive about that, but they definitely had the dry humor that would typically go with the region.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
H'ween Horrorthon: 'The Shining' (1980)
"I'm not gonna hurt you. Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in! Gonna bash 'em right the fuck in!"— Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance to his on-screen wife, Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Horror
Cursed Movies: 'Poltergeist'
It's that time of year when we think about all things scary and spooky. Many of us love a scary movie, but what happens when the truth behind those movies is scarier than fiction? There are some films that are considered cursed movies. This is when a movie with a spooky premise has several terrible or strange things happen while they are being filmed. This doesn't include any movie that went over budget or didn't make much money even though they had a lot of backing from the studios. This is only movies that are supposed to be scary, and have had some awful things happen to the cast and crew while filming, or even right after! Cursed movies send a chill down your spine and make you rethink taking a role if you are an actor! This will be a first in a series of posts about some very real, and very scary cursed movies
By Lisa Tebrinke7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill'
How does a movie manage to be only 77 minutes long and still feel tedious? By ripping off the Saw franchise minus the wit and the skill? That’s certainly the case that is made by the new horror movie Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill which feels twice as long as it’s barely theatrical release run time. This dimwitted wannabe exploitation horror flick from former God-sploitation director Jared Cohn, director of the equally tedious God’s Club, wants to marry Saw to Herschel Gordon Lewis or Roger Corman but lacks even the skill to match those low budget heroes of the drive-in genre.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Review of 'The Ruins' (2008)
You know, I don't know why I like this movie so much. Maybe because it's not just horror, but survival horror. It has that "brink of madness, human limits tested, sense of dread" that I love so much about zombie movies (when they're done right). Kind of like The Road. That wasn't horror, but it's just an epic long, grueling march, right into the grave. It's just fucking brutal. *cue Nathan Explosion*
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror