Reviews

Marcus Dunstan’s ‘THE COLLECTOR’ 15 Years Later – Slightly Dated, But Still Fun

The Collector

The Collector, released in 2009, is one of my all-time favorite movies. I am thrilled and honored to get to write an article about it to celebrate its fifteenth (15!) anniversary. I don’t honestly remember its initial release, as it was during a period of my life when I didn’t …

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‘STARVE ACRE’ (2024) – Movie Review

One of my favorite films from the past couple years is Saint Maud, a psychological horror film from Rose Glass which stars Morfydd Clark, who gives a deeply tragic performance as Maud. When I saw the poster awhile back for Starve Acre, and saw it was a folk horror film …

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Doug Sakmann’s ‘PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST’ (2003) / ‘PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST 2’ (2004) – Retro Review

Doug Sakmann and Lloyd Kaufman made this work in 2003. I will admit here that these movies are wrong now. But it’s all so bad that I love it. Watching your heroes die in extreme ways, with minimal CGI, stole my heart. Why was there no more? I don’t precisely …

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‘CURTAINS FOR CHRISTMAS’ (2024) – Movie Review

While the origins of Christmas in July vary from place to place based on temperature and ideology, horror fans don’t get a lot of physical Christmas-based horror in the summer months to sink their teeth into. Enter Curtains For Christmas, the latest horror-comedy from Silver Spotlight Films. Let’s take a …

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George A. Romero’s ‘THE AMUSEMENT PARK’ (1973) – Retro Review

There is not one horror fan in the world who doesn’t know the name George A. Romero. It’s common knowledge that he is a legend. However, he wasn’t just the king of the Zombies; George was so much more, from working with Mr. Rogers to pandemics that make people stone-cold …

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40 Years of Tears: Revisiting ‘THE NEVERENDING STORY’ (1984)

The NeverEnding Story

The most gut-wrenching scene from any 1980s children film has to be from The NeverEnding Story (1984). As a child, watching Artax succumb to the Swamps of Sadness in the film was devastating and left me sobbing hysterically. It is not any better rewatching this scene 40 years later as …

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