Posts tagged Horror movie reviews
Endless Enterprise: Horror Island (1941)

One never expects to find much present-day relevance in a jolly little whodunnit produced over seventy years ago.

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Dodgy Business: Over Your Dead Body (2014)

The whole business of fiction and reality gets considerably blurry and it’s hard for a regular Johnnie to know what’s what.

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Transparent Affections: Phantasm III - Lord of the Dead (1994)

The audience is treated to spheres in eyeballs, spheres for eyeballs, brains in spheres and, marvel of marvels, golden spheres.

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Subgenre Gluttons: Blood Fest (2018)

Blood Fest addresses a problem that has plagued brainy terror scribes since time immemorial.

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Winning Buffoon: Pet Sematary Two (1992)

Sheriff Gus Gilbert is a man whose contemptible severity gives way to slapstick gold the very moment he dies.

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Quiet Down: Malevolent (2018)

Sewing their mouths shut should have silenced the girls to everyone’s satisfaction but the young Mr. Green decided to really cement the whole business by murdering them as well.

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See-Through Skull: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 - Better Watch Out! (1989)

Monte Hellman is not the first subversive artist to be attracted to the coveted Christmas slasher sequel sub-genre.

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Suburban Survivalism: Better Watch Out (2016)

Luke is a complex little chap whose needs cannot be met with boiled sweets and the latest electronic gaming console.

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Abomination Population: The Food Of The Gods (1976)

If more films were as suitable and culturally enriching for youngsters as this, I would have had a sizable brood of my own by now. 

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Charming Casualties: Gonjiam - Haunted Asylum (2018)

At times, it makes films with less likable murder victims seem hardly worth the trouble.

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Crazy Confidence: The Mad Magician (1954)

One execution is rarely enough to tie things up as neatly as one might like and Don finds his deeply repressed anger suddenly popping out here and there.

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Tryptophantastic: ThanksKilling (2009)

How are we to know what we are most grateful for without first being deprived?

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New Course: Ghost Ship (2002)

I am met with an unprofessional swell of pleasant associations whenever I glimpse the Dark Castle Entertainment logo.

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A Dose of Reality: The Row (2018)

Director Matty Beckerman is able to conjure more verisimilitude than is typically seen in doll-themed collegiate slashers.

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Tuneful Revelry: The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Even with its jaunty name, business at Party Beach is adversely effected by news of mutated, undead gill-men making meals of the locals.

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The Ability to Grow: Another WolfCop (2017)

For any dubious viewers who found themselves asking, “do we really and truly need Another WolfCop,” writer and director Lowell Dean responds strongly in the affirmative.

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Time and Space: A Dark Song (2016)

Like summoning an angel with nothing but chalk and starvation, A Dark Song is impressive in how great an effect it produces with so very little.

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Unconscious Upheaval: The Night Walker (1964)

Even while avoiding “Emergo,” “Perceptio,” “Illusion-O,” and other “O” bearing innovations of his own creation, William Castle is still unable to deny his roots entirely.

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Teenaged Rebellion: Pyewacket (2017)

While some borrow the family automobile without express permission or host a party while the parents are away, Leah invokes a witch named Pyewacket to murder her mother.

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Omen Uptick: City of the Living Dead (1980)

All manner of inconveniences may arise if a burgeoning hellmouth is allowed to blossom, the worst of which being that no living creature shall find peace in death ever again.

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