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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
Movie Review: 'Midsommar' Is the Best Movie of 2019
Midsommar absolutely wrecked me. Writer-director Ari Aster is a visionary artist, and his vision here is among the most disquieting and disturbing that this reviewer has seen since, no joke, Cannibal Holocaust. I have a controversial opinion of Cannibal Holocaust, I think it is rather brilliant. I have long thought of how amazing it would be to see a great director take on such challenging material. Ari Aster has done that, he’s taken highly subversive ideas and imagery, and applied a master's eye to them, and the result is a stunning work.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Sand' (2015)
All right, this movie got a bad wrap. The way people talk about it, I was expecting full blown Birdemic or even Troll 2. Okay, it was bad, but basically it was bad because the CGI was fucking shit. This is a shoe-stringer from an independent studio. I expect the kind of quality that I'd get out of Gravitas or Uncorked. AND, on the rare occasion those studios produce a gem.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Annabelle Comes Home' Relies on Too Many Jump Scares
Annabelle Comes Home is a unique dichotomy. This is arguably the best that The Conjuring franchise has delivered thus far in terms of tension and intentions and yet, it’s still not very good. Despite offering better characters and a tiny bit more rationale for why villainous ghosts and demons act as they do, Annabelle Comes Home still fails due to an over-reliance on jump scares and a lack of ambition in storytelling.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
'Well That Was a Mistake'; A Bad Movie Review of 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead' (2006, Lloyd Kaufman)
Bad food, zombies, sex, obscene obesity, shit, mindless violence, musical numbers and extremely malicious poultry. Sounds like Mc Donald's on a Friday night, but no it is in fact a brief description of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006, Lloyd Kaufman).
By Craig York7 years ago in Horror
'Child's Play': A Remake Better Than The Original
The first Child's Play film was released in 1988, I will have been two years old at the time. I think I may have actually seen the first Child's Play film when I was only about five or six, of course not very age appropriate, but its knife-wielding main character is an image from old school horror that remained fixed in my mind for many years. That film was a massive box office success at the time, and in traditional Hollywood fashion, it spawned a total of six movie sequels, and a TV series. Each sequel was of varying quality, but for the most part, you didn't watch these for storyline quality, you watched them because of the absurdity behind the idea of a serial killing doll. The general conceit of how the Good Guy doll came to be a murderous psychopath was that the soul of an actual murderous psychopath was able to possess the body of one of these dolls in order to escape an attacker. So the idea of a remake of the original, only two years after the sixth film in the original series was released (Cult of Chucky), was both interesting, and worrying, for fans.
By Steveoswheels7 years ago in Horror
'Get Out' vs. 'Us:' The Peele-Off
In his short directorial career, comedian Jordan Peele has created two hit horror flicks, namely Get Out (which won an Oscar in 2018 for Best Original Screenplay) and 2019s Us, starring Lupita Nyong’o. Both received critical acclaim and touched on similar topics, but ultimately they are very different beasts. So how do they differ, how are they similar, and what is that special Jordan Peele magic?
By Craig House7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Tales of Terror: The Haunted Apartments' (2005)
I stumbled upon this horror gem by typing in "Japanese horror" in YouTube's search bar. That's right, the FULL movie is on YouTube. Tales of Terror: The Haunted Apartments was directed by Akio Yoshida and released in 2005.
By Sabri'A Price7 years ago in Horror
