“Faster, more intense” may be a term far more notorious for George Lucas’ directing style but it’s also a fitting description for a horror sequel’s
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A Quiet Place Part II (2021) – Review
After a seemingly endless wait where we endured our own (thankfully temporary) dystopia of separation and social breakdown, the sequel to John Krasinski’s majestic horror/thriller
Escape Room (2019) – Review
Any of the twelve of you out there who are crazily desperate for a gore free Saw ripoff can rest easy, because Escape Room exists
Spiral: From The Book Of Saw (2021) – Review
A true horror legacy is the one that stubbornly refuses to roll over onto it’s back and expire no matter how how many years go
Final Destination (2000) – Review
Following in the deep, deep furrow ploughed in the horror genre by the wildly successful, teen-centric Scream movies, Hollywood dutifully continued putting out movies that
Saw (2004) – Review
Any of you out there snorting in derision at the 5-star rating I’ve decided to heap upon James Wan’s legendarily grimy debut needs to to
In The Line Of Fire (1993) – Review
Has there been anyone one else in Hollywood who has managed to encapsulate the notion of the aging hero better than Clint Eastwood? Oh sure,
The Purge (2013) – Review
Regardless of your personal feelings about Blumhouse’s franchise of political psycho-thrillers, you can’t deny they’ve burrowed into the public consciousness to an impressive degree –
Grizzly II: Revenge (2020) – Review
Much like an unkillable creature in the final act of a nature run amock horror/thriller, some animals just don’t know when to stay dead. But
The Purge: Anarchy (2014) – Review
The common consensus concerning the orginal Purge, Blumhouse’s typically political 2013 slasher/thriller, is that it wasted it’s thought provoking premise by restricting it to have
Saw: The Final Chapter (2010) – Review
And so – after a staggering seven movies in seven years – the Jigsaw express finally screeched into its final stop with a flurry of
The First Purge (2018) – Review
After the last, rather tepid, Purge I personally predicted that that special (thankfully fictional) night in America, where everyone puts on overly elaborate head gear
Beneath (2013) – Review
Even if we solely count the various, voracious beasties that thrash and dart beneath the surface of earth’s various oceans, lakes and rivers, the genre
Saw VI (2009) – Review
After the rather drab fifth installment, it seemed like the relentless, annual, murder-machine known as the Saw franchise had finally come to a screeching, grinding
Manhunter (1986) – Review
Long before the TV series loaded with sumptuous food-porn, long before the ever increasing melodrama of the film series and even long before the oscar
Saw V (2008) – Review
At the insane rate the Saw movies were being put out (one a year since 2004!!), it’s frankly amazing the series’ level of quality didn’t
Saw IV (2007) – Review
Another year saw yet another entry from the number one series to stagger bloodied and traumatised from the taboo-humping genre known as Tourture Porn (although
Saw III (2006) – Review
After the release of Saw II had established puppet wielding sadist Jigsaw as the hot horror hero, the minds behind the franchise seemed to have
Saw II (2005) – Review
It may sound a little odd to say, but a franchise sometimes really doesn’t start until the second movie appears. Now, before you point out
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) – Review
By the time 1990 came around, the powers that be decreed that for it’s 30th anniversary, Hitchcock’s seminal, shower slasher deserved a special celebration –
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