Reviews

Celebrating 95 Years of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

I’m a big horror fan, as you well know. I’ve been watching horror movies since the early ’80s, maybe even a little longer. So how is it that I’ve never seen Nosferatu? I’m not sure. I decided to rectify that oversight by sitting down to watch the movie last night on what just …

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Logan (2017): A Dark Journey’s End

You may be wondering how a Marvel film made it onto a website that primarily reviews horror. That would be due to seriously dark undertone and brutality in Logan that is normally held back in most superhero movies, which warrants its R rating. Thanks to Tim Miller’s smash hit Deadpool …

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King Kong (1933) – Retro Review

Eighty-four years ago, a movie directed by Merian C. Cooper hit the big screen and completely changed the course of American history. That movie was King Kong. What can be said about this masterpiece of a movie? A lot. To this day with remakes, reboots, merchandise and video games, King …

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Black Forest (2015) – Movie Review

When I first received Black Forest in the mail, I had no idea what to expect. I went into this movie nearly blind. All I knew was that Distant Field Productions’s David Briggs had directed it and that there were girls and possible a forest involved in some way. But girls …

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Lavender (2017) – Movie Review

Canadian filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City 2007, Small Town Murder Songs 2010) didn’t have much luck entering the horror field when he made The Last Exorcism II in 2013, a film mostly forgotten by genre fans. Four years later, Gass-Donnelly is back with psychological ghost story Lavender. Did he …

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The Mason Brothers (2017) – Movie Review

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta… well, not always. Written and directed by Keith Sutliff (Tempting Fate 2014), The Mason Brothers shows you the horrors of when things go wrong. In this tale, a quartet of bank robbers, led by Ren Mason (Sutliff), are foiled by a rival …

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BB (2016) – Movie Review

Going into BB, I expected little more than some indie dross cobbled together by a no-talent hack whose abilities were far below those of a troglodyte. But writer/director C.J. Wallis, here making his feature film directorial debut, proved me wrong. Way wrong.  Leah Lamont (Jennifer Mae) needs some money to …

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Invoke – Short Horror Film Review

In horror, you get what you ask for. In writer/director Carlos Omar de Leon’s horror short Invoke, if you say a certain invocation, evil spirit Eliza Braum will come and rip you to shreds. The main premise of the film is that a young woman unleashes an evil spirit into her …

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Paranoia Tapes (2015) – Movie Review

Have you ever seen a horror film that left you feeling very uneasy afterwords? For me, it’s rare for a film to actually leave me feeling queasy after viewing it. Paranoia Tapes is that rare film, and I applaud it for driving such an honest reaction from me!    (Synopsis …

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