Posts tagged MostMortem
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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Subgenre Gluttons: Blood Fest (2018)

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

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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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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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Elongated Enigma: Slender Man (2018)

The girls decide that any unholy communion that’s good enough for the boys is good enough for them.

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Momentous Occasion: Halloween H20 - 20 Years Later (1998)

Laurie Strode has transformed, almost butterfly-like, from a traumatized teenager into a fully functional alcoholic.

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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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Uncomfortable Kinship: Summer of Fear (1978)

Though I don’t typically give critical notice to the oxymoronic category of “television movies,” it is hard to pass up a collaboration between Wes Craven and Linda Blair.

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Dermatological Demons: Transformations (1988)

Transformations is a powerful testament to how sincere devotion and access to a flamethrower can conquer any strain of evil.

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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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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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Lumbering Invulnerability: Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988)

Noted fornication opponent Jason Vorhees resumes the sort of violent behavior that powered the franchise through six previous chapters.

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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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Ogling Inward: Evil Toons (1992)

The film’s level of self-awareness indicates that director Fred Olen Ray is gazing not only at breasts but also at himself.

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Synthetic Perspective: Debug (2014)

Jason Momoa, typically known for playing various brooding musclemen, is a merry sight as as an upbeat slasher villain.

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Hard on the Heroine: The Maze (1953)

Despite bad manners and even worse omens, Kitty still tries to discover why her estranged fiancé spends his evenings wandering a topiary maze.

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