Tag Archives: Foreign Horror

There is nothing more terrifying to a parent than having a child go missing. The haunting fear of unanswered questions preventing closure wreaks havoc on the parents’ lives, doing irreparable damage. Deep in the Wood, a 2015 Italian feature directed by Stefano Lodovichi, realistically reflects this parental nightmare with a …

Ever since Max Schreck starred as Nosferatu back in 1922, vampires have been reimagined and adapted to film for decades. Well-known features and actors such as The Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price, 1964), Fright Night (Chris Sarandon, 1985), The Lost Boys (Kiefer Sutherland, 1987) and Blade (Wesley Snipes, 1998) have …

Take elements of Rosemary’s Baby and Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy, mix in lots of female nudity, toss in one cup of a where-did-so-and-so-disappear-to plot and then put them in a blender at high-speed. What do you get? A far more interesting movie than Left Bank.  Marie (Eline Kuppens) is …

I’m not proud of it, but I’ve always been guilty of judging a movie by its cover. If the cover art isn’t intriguing to me, I usually don’t bother reading the synopsis. The only reason I gave Honeymoon a try was because I really loved the cover and the synopsis …

My love for foreign horror started back in 2003 when I rented the French thriller High Tension (AKA Haute Tension) with a girl I was dating at the time and dying to see if it would live up to the hype. I was taught one major thing from this gem and that was how boundary-less …

Writing a review of a mediocre film can be just as bland as watching one. Such a film does not have admirable elements, but is not so horrible to warrant pulling out the disc, dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire. For this reason, I typically do not …