Technically speaking, I have never seen Psycho – at least not in the way that rotund blonde botherer Alfred Hitchcock had intended. After all who
Tag: Horror
Phantasm: Ravager (2016) – Review
After the confusing denouement of 1998’s Phantasm: Oblivion, it seemed that Don Coscerelli’s far out horror odessy had finally been laid to rest with no
Phantasm: Oblivion (1998) – Review
It’s a common fact that when your horror franchise continues over an extended period of time the audience tends to shrink until only the faithful
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) – Review
Back in 2017 Netflix knocked out a feisty comedy horror that not only rose about the usual three-star-and-under type of throwaway film that they usually
Phantasm III: Lord Of The Dead (1994) – Review
Back in 1979, indie filmmaker Don Coscerelli realised that to make some money, maybe he should shift his efforts from making family movies like Kenny
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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