Continuing with the fun and weird train that director Ken Russell is conducting, I decided to check out one of his more infamous horror pieces, “Lair of the White Worm”. When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences. […]
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Jakob’s Wife is a story of a woman stuck in a failing marriage framed around vampires. When Anne has a chance encounter with a master vampire, she discovers afterwards that she has been bitten. Discovering her newfound sense of purpose as well as an insatiable hunger for blood, her husband Jakob must fight to get
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In speaking of underrated films, one that is on top of the list is Dead Silence. This was one of James Wan’s first films, once again collaborating with Leigh Whanell. This was their attempt to show they can produce something other than the torture porn of Saw, and I say they were successful. The plot
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When director David Cronenberg was entering the era of his prime, he presented to us a vision of a Stephen King story starring Christopher Walken. When a man has an accident and enters a long coma, he awakes sometime later to find out the world has passed him by. But he also comes to find
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Can someone who is a monster actually be worthy of redemption? That is a question that Don’t Breathe 2 answers as it takes the villian from the first movie and makes him into an anti-hero. Following the events from the first film, we see the blind veteran who now has a daughter he adopted and
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Alfred Hitchcock presents a tale of murder and mystery that would become the precipice for the slasher formula for years to come. When a woman steals money from her job and begins to run, she takes shelter at a hotel where her sins catch up to her. So, cinema confession: this was my very first
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There are those horror comedies that are just so out there where you just have to throw logic out the window and just enjoy the ride. Transylvania 6-5000 is an example of one of these movies. The plot follows two reporters are tasked to travel to Transylvania and investigate cases of the appearance of Frankenstein’s
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Director Chris Landon had previously brought us both of the ‘Happy Death Day’ films as well as a few of the later ‘Paranormal Activity’ series, and he returned last year with a new film for Blumhouse titled “Freaky”. Essentially being billed as ‘Freaky Friday the 13th’, the film is simply that. When a serial killer
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With its gratuitous violence and dark themes, The Suicide Squad more than qualifies for a spot on The Gruesome Gazette. For those unfamiliar, Suicide Squad aka Task Force X is from DC Comics and involves supervillians forced to serve in impossible missions. If they complete the mission, they are awarded time off of their sentence.
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