When it comes to adapting Clive Barker’s works to film, there are those directors who get it right or those who completely miss the mark. The Midnight Meat Train falls in the middle of both. It expands on the original story and presents in the way you expect but then it kind of just falls […]
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During the 80s over in Italy, taboo-breaking horror films were emerging at unprecedented rates. Among the name of filmmakers who were pushing boundaries and putting out some of the most fun content were Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, and Umberto Lenzi (just to name a few). To American Audiences, these names were growing in
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Surely by this point you’re all familiar with the story of ‘The Grudge’. In a house whose history is overwhelmed with violence, hatred, and negativity, the residue from those events continues to linger and interact with anyone who enters the household. It’s a story that was told in the late 90s in Japan, spawned a
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Rob Zombie is back with a nonsensical catchy tune “Shake Your Ass-Smoke Your Grass” off of his latest album The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. The animated video is chock full of horror movie references such as The Exorcist, A Clockwork Orange, Wicker Man, and even Scanners. There is also provocative images and other
Director J.P. Simon has a reputation for his distinctive, disgusting taste. A majority of his directing canon proves to often be an exercise in visceral gore, female nudity, dark humor, and absolutely absurd visual elements. In 1988, he took a more subtle approach to the animal attack genre with “Slugs”. When a bunch of murderous
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During a time when slashers were becoming unoriginal and exhaustive, leave it to the traditional working team of Scott Spiegel & Sam Raimi to be the ones to produce one of the more original entries in the genre. Full of the traditional humor and experimental camera angles we’ve come to love from Raimi himself, this
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The final feature release from the late, great George Romero was the 6th official entry in his ‘Living Dead’ series. After following after massive success with the ‘Night’, ‘Dawn’, & ‘Day’ saga and entering into ‘Land’, and ‘Diary’ territory, George decided to expand his zombie universe with a fresh take that was written in a
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Gasper Noe is a French extreme filmmaker whose direction has a reputation for pushing boundaries and making people uncomfortable. His biggest releases “Irreversible” & “Enter the Void” both showcase some of the hardest material to transcend into visionary art, as well as force the audience to pay witness to extreme acts that are difficult to
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Titane” is a film I cannot stop thinking about. It is intense and attacks a subconscious level of its viewer. What may sound as spoilers ahead only cover the first 20 or so minutes of the film, and I promise the descriptions do no justice to what you are forced to watch. Director Julia Ducourneau
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