Recently I reviewed my new indie horror obsession Grotesque, which features slasher icon in the making Mildred Moyer. Director/writer Brandon Rhiness was kind enough to let me check out Grotesque 2 for review. How does it hold up to the original? Read on for my thoughts. Synopsis Mildred Moyer is …
Read More »Santa’s Watching, Santa’s Waiting: ‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (1984) Revisited – Retro Review
It’s officially the holiday season again, and while normal folks celebrate and get into the Christmas spirit by watching traditional films like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and other Yuletide classics, the Martin household always gets ready by watching the 1984 slasher flick classic Silent Night, Deadly …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie – ‘The Shining’ (1980)
My favorite horror movie may be hands down, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s really not hard to figure out why that is when I go over this Kubrick masterpiece. Jack Nicholson portrays Jack Torrance, a struggling writer, who takes on a position to look after the Overlook Hotel where he …
Read More »Brandon Rhiness’s ‘GROTESQUE’ (2022) – Movie Review
I’m s huge fan of slasher films and I love indie horror so indie slasher are right up my alley. Recently, thanks to a Facebook friend, Matt Skinner, I learned of an indie slasher film known as Grotesque. Grotesque follows anti heroine Mildred Moyer as she gets revenge on everyone, …
Read More »Jorge Grau’s ‘LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE’ (1974) – 50 Years Later
Foreign horror has never excited me. It’s just never been my thing. However; If you can sit through the dialogue trying to create a story. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is the perfect movie to dissect, what makes it so great? Does the storyline make any sense? Kind of, yeah. It …
Read More »Why ‘A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ (1984) Still Haunts Us: Blurring Dreams and Reality
A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed and written by Wes Craven, is the horror film that introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, an iconic slasher character portrayed by Robert Englund, and also put New Line Cinema on the map (it’s nicknamed “The House that Freddy Built” for a reason). Who …
Read More »Mike Flanagan’s ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’ (2019) – 5 Years Later
Some books deserve a film adaptation. Most of those films are directed around Stephen King novels. Many of his writings terrorize people in their sleep. He is the king of nightmares and wears it well from cameos to collaborating with other legends in their field of films. Stephen King has …
Read More »Christopher Bickel’s ‘PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT’ (2024) – Review
Cult movies are slowly making a comeback, and I’m not complaining. There is a certain level of love or hate for movies such as Pater Noster and The Mission Of Light. However, this film speaks volumes to me and my love for the “Satanic Panic” era of horror movies. Is …
Read More »Dusty Austen’s ‘THE BEAST OF WALTON STREET’ (2024) – Movie Review
I’m a big fan of indie horror and creature features, but rarely do the two meet up, mainly due to budgetary constraints. One recent example of the two meeting is The Beast of Walton Street, an indie horror werewolf film with a practical werewolf. I recently had the chance to …
Read More »25 Years Stuck in Escrow Hell: ‘HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL’ (1999) – Retrospective
It’s been 25 years since this haunted house’s doors opened to moviegoers. Inspired by the 1959 film of the same name, House on Haunted Hill is a haunted house film that dares to ask the viewer, “Would you spend the night in a haunted house for $1,000,000?” That is if …
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