Category: Horror

The New Mutants (2020) – Review

The X-Men have faced many an obstacle in their long and varied career that includes everything from Magneto’s latest hissy fit to Mojo desperately needing

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Crawl (2019) – Review

Over the last couple of years there’s been an impressive assault on the multiplexs by the Phoenix style resurgence of the killer shark movie. Finally

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Phantasm (1979) – Review

During the 70’s, the horror genre had made huge steps in moving away from the cobwebby old backdrops of Hammer’s various movies thanks to the

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The Host (2006) – Review

Not to be confused with the many other movies out there that’s claimed this admittedly derivative title, Bong Joon-ho’s genre blending monster mash emerged from

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Scream 4 (2011) – Review

The main thing about Ghostface, the munch-faced nom de plume of the five different serial killers who’s fallen before the wrath of post modern “final

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Mr. Vampire (1985) – Review

Sometimes, to REALLY explore what a sub-genre can do, you have to go elsewhere from the norm; not that there’s much normal about the vast

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Scream 3 (2000) – Review

The Scream series has many things which sets it apart from it’s similarly stab-happy, slasher brethren but one of the more radical is that it’s

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Scream 2 (1997) – Review

With the rousing success of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream, a film that attached jumper cables to the nascent slasher genre and juiced it

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Piranha 3DD (2012) – Review

Raucous horror comedies can be a mixed bag at the best of times even though the 80’s had more of it’s fair share of blood

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Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981) – Review

If James Cameron had his way – and to be honest, he usually does – his illustrious filmography of box office breaking, cinematic world building

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Scream (1996) – Review

By the mid nineties the horror genre was practically dead on it’s feet. Not shuffling around zombie dead you understand, but bleeding out, stabbed multiple

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Beyond Re-Animator (2003) – Review

Sometimes, just sometimes, even the decline in quality of a genre franchise isn’t enough to keep you away from a world that you enjoy spending

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Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991) – Review

The many and varied grotesque gallery of characters that populate the horror exploitation genre is ever growing and anyone who’s anyone manages to wring multiple

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Basket Case 2 (1990) – Review

80’s trash overlord Frank Henenlotter made his name in the realms of insanely low budget horror with the gloriously deranged Basket Case, the twisted tale

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C.H.U.D. (1984) – Review

When they focus on matters other than beheadings and bloodshed the horror genre may be the most politically charged type of movie out there (aside

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VFW (2019) – Review

It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a

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The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review

There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when

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Hannibal

Following up Silence Of The Lambs was always going to be a fool’s errand (in BOTH book and movie form) and yet how could Hollywood

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Extra Ordinary (2019) – Review

Maybe it’s my advancing years, but a sub-genre I’ve really found myself gravitating toward is the oddly gentle horror/comedy. Completely unsure of what that means?

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Bride Of Re-Animator (1989) – Review

Sequels to genuine horror originals are a predictably mixed bag and surely only a madman would attempt to follow up the late Stuart Gordon’s magnificent

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