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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.
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Crawl or Die' (2014)
Uncorked Studios actually managed to produce a low budget film that was pretty fucking good. It's not just good on the curve of being low budget. What I mean is, I'm not being nice because of their shoe string budget. They clearly had nothing to work with and they made it work. I have some complaints, of course, and this movie was by no means perfect, but I'd actually recommend it to all my fellow horror heads.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Annihilation' (2018)
This movie was simply amazing. I can certainly add it to my "must watch" list, and while it's not really in my top 10, I could at least estimate it in my top 15. It has a few minor flaws, but overall, it's a really solid movie up to Hollywood standards (though I sometimes think I give Hollywood too much credit).
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
'Happy Death Day'—A Movie Review . Top Story - January 2019.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Well, that sounds encouraging! But, didn’t I just hear those exact same words yesterday? And the day before? And a week ago? Something is strange! I have been repeating the same day over and over for a whole week now!
By Marielle Sabbag7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Deathgasm' (2015)
This is likely my new favorite horror comedy of the past ten years. Even beating out Tucker and Dale V. Evil and Zombie Land. It was just fan-fucking-tastic. New word of the day kitties..."Cocktopus." Let that swim around in your cranium for a little while. I'm basically just waiting for an excuse to call someone that.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead' (1994)
Eh, I was expecting this to be much worse than it was. Don't get me wrong, it’s bad, but I remember it being dreadful, nigh unwatchable. I mean, Angus always makes every instalment of the Phantasm franchise completely worth it with his presence (rest waiting in the nightmares of children, Angus). I have to say the same with his performance here. Regardless of how bad the movie is, he always stuns with his presentation to the Tall Man.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'They're Watching' (2016)
I'm gonna file this one under good-bad movies. It's supposed to be a horror comedy of sorts, but like Stung from my last review, it’s more like a horror movie with comedy elements. This, however, was not good horror, even for crappy B horror. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the intentional hokey nature, and I'm glad the ending was pretty cheese-ball. But let’s not beat around the bush, this movie was awful, and they knew it was, so they decided to just have fun with it. And you know what? Good for them! This move would have sucked if they tried to take it seriously.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
'13 Cameras' vs. '14 Cameras'
When I initially heard about 13 Cameras, I was intrigued like no other. Yes, I had a slight fear of hidden surveillance, and I like many others got too carried away with research one day and realized it happens more often than not. Therefore, a few years ago when I heard about 13 Cameras, I gave the film a try not knowing what to expect. In all honesty at first, I was not happy with the film. However, as I watched it a second and even a third time, it began to grow on me. I commend Victor Zarcoff on his writing and directing of the film. To say it gave me the absolute creeps is quite the understatement.
By Nicole Renee "ItsFearHerself"7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Spectral' (2016)
Alight, so this movie was pretty fucking decent. I don't know if I can say it's horror... it's definitely got horror elements, and in many ways is like the 80's classic Aliens. Yeah, I'm gonna go with horror. It gave that little bit more than World War Z. You couldn't just replace the "Specters" in this movie with the Taliban and essentially have the same movie. There was a fully developed sense of dread and helplessness that is really needed to define horror. The survival element wasn't in the background, it was ever present and deeply involved in the developing plot.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Doom' (2005)
You know what? I'll fucking say it. Doom wasn't that bad. It was kind of silly at times, definitely had fuck all to do with the video game, and certainly was trying to rip off Aliens, but it was fun. Isn't that all that matters? That the movie is fun?
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Apartment 143' (2011)
*Sigh* You know what's wrong with shaky camera movies? They're lazy. They're trying to make up for a lack of real atmosphere with shitty video and cheap action shots by waving the camera around. It didn't work with The Taking of Deborah Logan, it didn't work with Paranormal Activity, it didn't even work here. It's just bad filming, not a real use of the medium.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
