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
Tag: Horror
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
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
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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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?
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
Phantasm II (1988) – Review
Don Coscarelli may not be a household name when it comes to cinematic purveyors of fright – not as much as John Carpenter and George
The Thing (1982) – Review
John Carpenter very well may be one of the beloved genre filmmakers walking this earth and after a quick glance at his filmography (especially during
Train To Busan (2016) – Review
In many ways, the zombie genre over the last twenty years has behaved much like zombies themselves. Uncontrollably spreading in number like a virus and
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) – Review
Back in 2017, the orginal 47 Meters Down helpfully warned us of the dangers of cage diving when Matthew Modine is running the show and
The Visit (2015) – Review
After a seemingly endless string of movies that turned out to be boring, dopey or just outright awful, it seemed that Hollywood twist fanatic M.
Man-Thing (2005) – Review
Any of you that ever read the magazine Toyfair back in the days of print will no doubt be familiar with the humorous comic strip
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) – Review
After Michael, Jason and Leatherface all had shiny new updates all throughout the noughties (Chucky trailed behind and got one in 2019 whereas Pinhead never
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) – Review
“Vs” movies are nothing new; ever since Frankenstein met the Wolf Man Hollywood has been finding ways to sling two opposing characters from different movies
Pitch Black (2000) – Review
Vin Diesel – arguably in the top three for action’s premier muscular slap-head – boasts quite a few characters in his resume but I’ve always
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